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BERKELEY 

IBRARY 

NIVERSITY  OF 
CALIFORNIA 


y 


HISTORY 


OF 


BEDFORD 

New  Hampshire 

Prom  1737 

Being  Statistics  Compiled  on  the  Occasion  of  the 

One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary 

of   the    Incorporation   of    the 

Town,  May  15,   1900 


fie^U^JL}  V),  U, 


PUBLISHED  BY  THE  TOWN 


CONCORD,  N.  H. 

THE  RUMFORD  PRINTING  COMPANY 

1903 


LOAN  STACK 


$3/332; 


Notice   by  the  Publishing  Committee. 

1850. 


The  undersigned,  having  completed  the  labors  assigned  them, 
present  to  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  this  volume,  illustrative  of 
their  past  history.  They  gratefully  acknowledge  the  cooperation  in 
this  work  of  the  citizens  generally,  and  their  cheerful  assistance  in 
collecting  materials,  furnishing  information,  and  fixing  dates.  The 
committee  have  also  availed  themselves  of  the  town  books,  grave- 
yard inscriptions,  records  in  family  Bibles,  ancient  newspaper  and 
manuscript  journals ;  wherever  they  have  resorted  to  published 
works,  they  have  given  credit,  accordingly,  in  the  proper  place. 

If  under  some  heads,  as  the  Centennial  Celebration  and  Geneal- 
ogies, there  may  appear  to  the  reader  to  be  too  much  minuteness  of 
detail,  it  should  be  remembered  that  what  may  now  seem  to  be 
small  items  may  in  fifty  or  one  hundred  years  hence  be  of  incalcula- 
ble importance.  The  only  regret  is  that  such  a  work  was  not  com- 
menced at  an  earlier  period,  when  much  that  is  now  lost  was  within 
the  memory  of  some  living.  After  all  their  endeavors  to  attain 
accuracy  it  is  feared  some  errors  will  be  found  in  dates  and  names, 
as  is  almost  unavoidable  in  a  work  like  the  present.  In  the  order  of 
arrangement,  too,  some  matter  may  seem  to  come  in  anomalously, 
being  introduced  in  one  part,  when  it  properly  belongs  to  another 
part  of  the  volume.  But  it  was  hoped — if  the  important  facts  were 
given — it  would  not  be  viewed  of  much  consequence  whether  they 
were  or  were  not  in  exactly  the  right  section.  But  the  compilation, 
such  as  it  is,  is  commended  to  the  candor  of  the  community. 

Peter  P.  Woodbi  rv. 
Thomas  Savage. 
Y\ttt.t,tam   Patten. 


434 


Notice  by  the  Publishing  Committee. 


In  accordance  with  the  appointment  made  pursuant  to  a  vote  of 
the  town,  the  undersigned  undertook  the  labor  of  preparing  and 
publishing  a  history  of  the  town,  which  should  supplement  that  pub- 
lished in  1851.  Their  effort  has  been  to  produce  a  book  which 
might  compare  favorably  with  the  excellent  work  of  their  predeces- 
sors. The  book  is  intended  to  contain  all  the  facts  stated  in  the 
earlier  edition,  as  well  as  such  additional  items  of  interest  as  have 
arisen  since  the  publication  of  the  former  work. 

They  have  gratefully  to  mention  the  assistance  of  Miss  Mary  E. 
Manning,  Miss  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  Mrs.  Lyman  Kinson,  Miss 
Evelyn  Stevens,  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Woodbury,  and  Mr.  George  C.  Gil- 
more  in  the  preparation  of  some  of  the  articles,  and  to  all  others 
who  have  shown  a  sincere  interest  in  this  work,  they  render  the 
thanks  of  the  town. 

To  Mr.  George  W.  Fowler  of  Pembroke  they  also  desire  to  par- 
ticularly express  their  thanks  for  the  assistance  he  has  rendered  them 
in  their  work. 

The  genealogies  have  been  furnished  in  most  cases  by  representa- 
tives of  the  families  concerned,  and  except  when  specified  were 
compiled  by  Miss  Mary  E.  Manning. 

The  illustrations  are  those  of  the  oldest  houses  in  town,  so  far  as 
the  committee  have  been  able  to  ascertain  the  date  of  their  erection. 
They  are  all  pictures  of  houses  built  prior  to  the  beginning  of  the 
nineteenth  century. 

In  compiling  the  article  on  Fatal  Casualties  the  committee  have 
endeavored  to  enumerate  all  the  events  which  should  properly  be 
described  under  this  head,  still  some  occurrences  may  not  have  been 
related  ;  if  so  the  omission  is  unintentional. 

The  record  of  births,  deaths,  and  marriages  has  been  made  up 
from  the  town  records.  They  have  been  followed  exactly  except  in 
cases  where  they  have  been  known  to  be  incorrect. 


NOTICE   BY    THE   PUBLISHING   COMMITTEE.  V 

The  record  of  the  men  of  Bedford  who  enlisted  in  the  army  from 
other  towns  than  Bedford  is  necessarily  incomplete.  '  So  far  as  is 
possible  all  such  names  have  been  included,  but  there  were  men 
born  and  brought  up  in  Bedford  who  enlisted  elsewhere,  and  whose 
names  the  committee  cannot  now  ascertain.  The  numbers  on  the 
map  are  situated  in  each  school  district  as  follows,  inclusive : 


District  No.  1, 

1-76 

District  No.  6, 

235-277 

2, 

77-108 

7, 

278-314 

3, 

109-147 

8, 

315-348 

4, 

148-198 

9, 

349-389 

5, 

199-234 

10, 

390-410 

The  order  of  arrangement  of  the  present  history  departs  some- 
what from  that  adopted  in  the  former  edition  of  the  book,  but  the 
committee  has  indulged  the  hope  that  the  change  is  in  the  direction 
of  improvement. 

The  services  of  the  committee  have  been  voluntary  and  without 
recompense,  but  the  task  of  compiling  and  arranging  the  matter, 
while  somewhat  arduous,  has  for  the  most  part  proved  exceedingly 
agreeable. 

The  story  of  the  town's  part  in  the  greater  work  of  the  state  and 
nation's  history  is  not  fully,  cannot  be  fully,  told.  It  is  largely  a 
silent  record  of  men  who  cheerfully  and  promptly  performed  then- 
public  and  private  duties  in  a  spirit  of  high  determination  to  do  well 
the  work  they  had  set  their  hands  to  do. 

The  reader  must  be  wise  enough  to  see  between  the  lines  many 
things  which  are  beyond  the  power  of  the  historian  to  portray. 

Conscious  that  full  justice  has  not  been  given  to  the  work  com- 
mitted to  their  care,  they  yet  present  this  book  to  their  fellow-towns- 
men in  the  confident  expectation  that  they  will  be  "  to  its  faults  a 
little  blind,  and  to  its  virtues  very  kind." 

That  this  book  may  be  of  aid  to  coming  generations  in  an  appre- 
ciation of  what  their  fathers  were  and  did,  and  that  to  their  fellow- 
townsmen  it  may  be  a  source  of  interest  and  improvement,  is  the 
hearty  wish  of  the  committee. 

John  A.   Kiddle. 
William  M.  Patten. 
Quixoy  Bakxard. 
Arthur  W.  Holbrook. 
Gordox  Woodbury. 


Table  of  Contents. 


Page. 

Centennial  Celebration          ...                   .                                 1 

Address,  Isaac  0.  Barnes  . 

7 

Festivities  of  the  Occasion 

34 

Letters  Read 

59 

Historical  Notices 

72 

Topography  and  Industries 

72 

Brickmaking 

78 

Fish  and  Wild  Game 

77 

Streams  and  Ponds    . 

79 

Bedford  Men  of  Note 

82 

Indians  on  the  Merrimack 

83 

Early  Settlement 

85 

Origin  of  the  Town  . 

90 

Mason  and  Gorge's  Claim 

95 

First  Proprietors 

• 

100 

Incorporation     . 

105 

The  Proprietors'  Records 

117 

Roads,  Landings,  and  Bridges 

214 

Manchester  &  Milford  Railroad 

220 

Bridges      .... 

221 

Landings  .... 

231 

Piscataquog  Village 

232 

Industries : 

Mills         .... 

. 

238 

Tanneries  and  Cooper  Shops 

247 

Blacksmith  Shops 

248 

Cider  Mills 

250 

Shoemaking 

251 

Stores        .... 

252 

Spinning  and  Weaving 

254 

Pounds         ..... 

266 

Vlll 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


Taverns 

258 

The  Church 

263 

Members,  1850 

264 

Members,  1904 

268 

Notes  from  Records 

271 

Universalist  Society 

274 

Baptist  Society 

.    275 

Ministry 

.  277 

Rev.  John  Houston 

281 

Rev.  William  Pickles 

294 

Rev.  David  McGregore 

298 

Rev.  Thomas  Savage 

311 

Rev.  Arthur  Little 

320 

Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson     . 

321 

Rev.  Daniel  H.  Colcord 

323 

Rev.  Albert  D.  Smith 

323 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Fields 

324 

Rev.  William  C.  Lindsay 

324 

Rev.  Albert  P.  Watson 

325 

The  Meeting-house 

326 

Dedication  of  New  Town  Hall 

337 

Fiftieth  Anniversary  Church  Dedication    . 

354 

One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  Celebration 

355 

Address,  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson 

367 

Graveyards  ..... 

382 

Ministerial  Land  . 

389 

Parsonage  Association 

400 

Presbyterian  Vestry     . 

402 

Bedford  Messenger 

404 

Music  in  Bedford 

405 

Ladies'  Social  Circle     . 

412 

Schools 

417 

List  of  Teachers 

433 

College  Graduates 

446 

Physicians  of  Bedford 

448 

Lawyers  of  Bedford 

462 

The  French  War 

466 

The  Revolutionary  War 

480 

Bedford  Men  in 

498 

War  of  1812 

502 

TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


IX 


Militia 

502 

The  Civil  War     .... 

511 

Bedford  Men  in 

515 

Spanish- American  War 

524 

Extracts  from  Records 

525 

Societies  of  Bedford  : 

Agricultural  Society 

550 

Lyceum  Association  . 

552 

The  Grange 

553 

Lafayette  Lodge  of  Masons 

567 

Golden  Cross  Commandery 

568 

Library 

570 

Slavery  in  Bedford 

573 

Changes  in  Manners  and  Customs 

578 

Early  Settlement  in  Ohio     . 

588 

Changes  in  Occupancy  of  Farms  . 

592 

Fatal  Casualties,  etc.     . 

634 

Longevity    ..... 

645 

Statistics  of  Taxation  . 

648 

Invoice  of  1750 

656 

1801 

658 

1850 

662 

1901 

677 

Population  ..... 

691 

Vital  Statistics : 

Births        .... 

694 

Marriages 

738 

Deaths       .... 

759 

Town-meeting      .... 

783 

Boards  of  Selectmen 

784 

Town  Treasurers 

788 

Constables         .         .         .         . 

789 

Justices  of  the  Peace 

790 

Moderators 

792 

Representatives 

793 

Town  Clerks     . 

794 

Tax  Collectors  . 

794 

School  Boards  . 

795 

Library  Trustees 

796 

Delegates  to  Constitutional  Con 

venti 

311      •. 

796 

TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


Town-meeting: 

Supervisors  of  Check-lists 
Vote  for  Governor     . 

One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniv 

Genealogies  .         . 

Addenda      .... 

The  History  of  1908     . 


ersar 


v  Celebration 


797 
797 
801 
821 
si  9,  1129 
.        1130 


List  of  Illustrations. 


Bedford  Center  from  Bell  Hill 

Frontispiece. 

The  Grain  Rock  . 

■  Op] 

josite 

page  44 

The  Pulpit 

80 

Indian  Rock 

82 

The  Walker  Monument 

86 

The  Old  Meeting-house 

32* 

The  New  Town  House 

338 

The  New  Meeting-house 

357 

The  Old  Graveyard      . 

382 

Center  Graveyard  and  Vestry 

384 

Center  Graveyard — west  view 

3K4 

Joppa  Graveyard 

386 

South  Graveyard 

S88 

Schoolhouses : 

Districts  1  and  2 

4  Hi 

Districts  3  and  4 

422 

Districts  5  and  6 

428 

Districts  7  and  8 

434 

Districts  9  and  10 

440 

Old  Houses : 

Col.  Daniel  Moore  House  i 

md  Moore's  Tavern 

480 

Houston  House  and  Riddle  House     . 

596 

Walker  House  and  Chandler  House  . 

608 

Hoi  brook  House  (Gilchris 

t  Tav 

ern)  and  Joppa 

Store 

626 

Centennial    Celebration 


OF    THE 


TOWN  OF  BEDFORD,  N.  H. 


PRELIMINARY  ARRANGEMENTS. 

Notice  was  given  publicly,  by  advertisement  and  from  the  pulpit, 
that  a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  would  be  held  at  the 
town  house  on  Wednesday,  February  7,  1849,  to  take  into  consider- 
ation the  approaching  19th  of  May,  1850;  which  completed  a  cen- 
tury from  the  incorporation  of  the  town.  Met  according  to  notifica- 
tion. 

Voted,  Samuel  Chandler,  chairman  of  the  meeting,  and  Dr.  P.  P. 
Woodbury,  secretary. 

After  discussing  for  some  time  the  subject  of  the  call,  it  was 
thought  expedient  to  commemorate  the  day  by  a  public  address,  and 
such  other  exercises  as  may  be  thought  best  at  some  future  day. 

Voted,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  by  the  chairman 
to  have  the  subject  brought  before  the  town,  by  an  article  in  the 
warrant  for  the  annual  town-meeting,  in  March  next,  and  address 
the  citizens  on  the  subject  at  that  time.  P.  P.  Woodbury,  Thomas 
Savage,  and  William  Patten  were  appointed  this  committee. 

At  the  annual  March  meeting,  an  article  to  this  effect  having  been 
inserted  in  the  warrant,  the  subject  was  presented,  and  received  with 
the  most  cordial  feelings  by  the  inhabitants,  and  it  was — 

Voted,  That  they  would  celebrate  the  day,  and  that  the  same 
individuals,  P.  P.  Woodbury,  Thomas  Savage,  and  William  Patten 
be  a  committee  to  carry  the  same  into  effect. 

The  committee  met  at  Dr.  Woodbury's,  March*  23d,  1849.  After 
consultation  it  was  agreed  to  direct  the  following  letter : 

Bedford,  March  23d,  1849. 
Isaac  O.  Barnes,  Esq. : 

Dear  Sir :  The  undersigned,  being  a  committee  appointed  by  the 
town  of  Bedford,  at  their  last  annual  town-meeting,  to  carry  into 
effect  the  commemoration  of  the  19th  of  May,  1850, — that  being 
2 


Z  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

one  hundred  years  since  its  incorporation, — we  hereby  respectfully 
invite  you  to  address  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  on  that  occasion. 
The  materials  for  such  an  address  are  abundant. 
Yours  respectfully, 

Peter  P.  Woodbury, 
Thomas  Savage, 
William  Patten. 

Boston,  March  27th,  1849. 
Gentlemen :  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your 
letter  of  the  28d  inst.,  inviting  me  to  be  present  and  address  the 
inhabitants  of  Bedford  on  the  19th  of  May,  1850, — being  the  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  that  town. 

Although  I  am  highly  nattered  by  the  kind  partiality  which  has 
prompted  you  to  extend  to  me  this  invitation,  yet  I  assure  you,  gen- 
tlemen, I  accept  with  great  reluctance  and  very  many  misgivings, 
because  I  am  very  sensible  that  the  committee  could  have  confided 
the  task  to  much  abler  men — natives  of  our  town.  Yet,  under  all 
the  circumstances,  I  am  constrained  to  comply  with  your  request, 
and  will,  if  I  have  the  ability  to  do  so,  be  with  you  on  the  day  pro- 
posed, and  discharge,  as  well  as  I  may,  the  obligation  which  this  call 
imposes  upon  me. 

I  remain,  gentlemen,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Isaac  O.  Barnes. 
Messrs.  P.  P.  Woodbury, 
Thomas  Savage, 
William  Patten, 

Committee. 


MEASURES    PREPARATORY    TO   A    HISTORY    OF    THE 

TOWN. 

CENTENNIAL. 

The  inhabitants  of  Bedford,  male  an  1  female,  are  requested  to 
meet  at  their  town  house,  Monday,  30th  of  April,  next,  at  2  o'clock 
p.  m.,  to  see  what  measures  shall  be  adopted  to  celebrate  the  19th 
May,  1850. 

P.  P.  Woodbury, 
•  Thomas  Savage, 

William  Patten, 

Committee. 

April  30th,  1849.  Met  agreeably  to  notice;  chose  Samuel  Chan- 
dler, Esq.,  president,  and  Dr.  P.  P.  Woodbury,  secretary. 

Individuals  were  appointed  to  prepare  genealogical  and  statistical 
accounts,  as  follows : 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  6 

To  Rodney  McLaughlin  was  assigned  the  history  of  the  Barron 
and  Martin  families. 

Ann  Oit,  history  of  the  Orr  family. 

Isaac  Riddle,  history  of  the  Deacon  Aiken  family. 

Samuel  Chandler,  history  of  the  Smith  family. 

Moody  M.  Stevens,  history  of  the  Moore  and  Elijah  Chandler 
family. 

William  P.  Riddle,  history  of  the  Riddle  and  Aiken  family. 

John  Goffe,  history  of  the  Goffe  family. 

Joshua  Vose,  Jr.,  history  of  the  Vose  family. 

James  Walker,  history  of  the  Walker  family. 

Gardner  Xevins,  history  of  the  Barnes  family. 

P.  P.  Woodbury,  history  of  the  Gordon  family. 

David  Atwood,  history  of  the  Bell  family. 

Cyras  W.  Wallace,  history  of  the  Wallace  family. 

Daniel  Moore,  history  of  the  Burns  family. 

Samuel  Abbott,  history  of  the  Abbott  and  Rand  family. 

The  above  families  were  thus  assigned  because  they  had  become 
extinct  in  town,  or  had  no  representatives  that  would  feel  them- 
selves responsible  without  such  assignment. 

B.  F.  Wallace  was  appointed  to  prepare  a  history  of  Piscataquog 
village.  The  selectmen,  in  connection  with  the  town  clerk,  to  give 
lists  of  town  officers,  representatives,  population,  valuation,  taxation, 
support  of  paupers,  bridges,  etc.  Rev.  Thomas  Savage  was 
designated  to  prepare  a  history  of  the  church  and  ministry,  schools, 
etc.  P.  P.  Woodbury,  table  of  physicians.  James  Walker,  table  of 
attorneys.     Adjourned  to  May  28,  1849. 

May  28th,  1849.  Met  according  to  adjournment.  Chose  P.  P. 
Woodbury,  T.  Savage,  and  W.  Patten  a  committee  to  petition  the 
selectmen  to  have  the  subject  brought  before  the  town  for  their 
action. 

The  subject  was  brought  before  the  town  at  their  next  meeting, 
and  the  town  directed  the  same  committee,  viz.,  Woodbury,  Savage, 
and  Patten,  to  do  what  they  should  think  best  in  regard  to  the  con- 
templated celebration,  calling  meetings,  making  preparations,  etc. 
Also,  the  town  ordered  the  selectmen  to  employ  some  one  to  make 
a  map  of  the  town,  by  actual  survey,  and  have  a  lithographic  im- 
pression of  the  same,  to  be  attached  to  the  contemplated  history  of 
the  town,  by  the  above  committee. 

The  survey  was  made,  and  the  map  drawn  by  B.  F.  Wallace,  ap- 
pearing in  the  history  of  1851. 

At  their  annual  meeting  the  town  also  voted  $800  to  meet  the 
expenses  of  the  publication,  the  money  to  be  refunded  to  the  town 


4  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

after  the  sale  of  the  books.  At  this  meeting,  also,  the  town  still 
directed  the  above  committee  to  procure  and  have  the  necessary 
arrangements  made  for  the  centennial. 

April  28th,  1850.  A  meeting  was  called  by  the  chairman  of  the 
committee,  at  which  meeting  Samuel  Chandler  was  chosen  chair- 
man, and  James  Walker,  secretary.  Immediate  arrangements  were 
made  for  the  celebration. 

The  following  gentlemen  were  chosen  to  act  on  the  occasion : 

President  of  the  Day. 
PETER  P.  WOODBURY. 

Vice-Presidents. 

Thomas  Chandler,  John  McAllister, 

Moody  M.  Stevens,  Theodore  Goffe, 

Samuel  Chandler,  John  Patten, 
John  French. 

Committee  of  Arrangements. 

District  No.    1. — Leonard  C.  French. 

2. — Willard  Parker  and  Daniel  Moore. 

3. — Isaac  Darrah  and  John  Patten. 

4. — John  Adams  and  Adam  Chandler. 

5. — Andrew  J.  Dow  and  G.  W.  Riddle. 

6. — Joseph  H.  Stevens. 

7. — John  Barr. 

8. — L.  C.  French,  2d,  and  Thomas  G.  Holbrook. 

9. — Charles  F.  Shepard. 
10.— John  Goffe. 
11.— Elijah  C.  Stevens. 
12. — Gardner  Nevins. 
13. — Rodney  McLaughlin. 
14. — James  Walker. 
Union   District. — Simon  Jenness. 

The  19th  of  May  coming  on  the  Sabbath,  it  was  concluded  to 
have  the  celebration  on  the  22d.  It  was  further  decided  to  supply 
the  tables  with  meats  and  other  refreshments,  suitable  for  the  occa- 
sion, free  of  expense ;  and,  also,  that  the  several  committees  of 
arrangements  invite  all  the  inhabitants  within  their  respective  dis- 
tricts to  contribute  money  and  provisions  for  the  occasion ;  and 
further,  that  the  committee  of  invitations,  P.  P.  Woodbury,  T.  Sav- 
age, and  W.  Patten,  invite  all  absent  friends  and  natives  of  the  town, 
with  others,  at  their  discretion.  More  than  three  hundred  printed 
cards  of  invitation  were  forwarded,  and  many  more  that  were  writ- 
ten. 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  O 

May  22,  1850.  The  Sabbath  previous  (the  19th)  was  a  pleasant 
and  beautiful  day.  The  Monday  and  Tuesday  following  were  very 
rainy,  but  on  the  morning  of  the  22d,  the  sun  rose  with  all  his  splen- 
dor and  beauty,  the  day  was  remarkably  fine  and  brilliant,  and  this 
is  the  more  worthy  of  note,  as  several  days  after  the  22d  were  rainy, 
causing  the  remark  to  be  made  that  Providence  seemed  to  give  us 
one  delightful  day  among  a  number  that  were  unfavorable.  As 
early  as  8  o'clock  a.  m.  the  people  began  to  assemble.  On  the  Satur- 
day previous,  the  tables,  with  a  platform  for  the  speakers,  elevated 
about  four  feet,  with  an  area  of  twenty  feet  square,  were  arranged 
on  the  common  immediately  south  of  the  town  house.  It  was  ex- 
pected to  attend  the  exercises  of  the  forenoon  in  the  new  Presbyte- 
rian church,  but,  in  consequence  of  the  number  of  people,  nearly 
3,000,  it  was  found  to  be  impracticable.  The  procession  having 
reached  Dr.  Woodbury's,  there  received  the  president  of  the  day, 
vice-presidents,  orator,  chaplain,  and  committee  of  arrangements.  It 
then  made  a  circuit  near  the  church  and  back  to  the  common,  where 
the  company  took  their  appropriate  seats,  attended  with  martial 
music.  The  following  is  the  order  of  procession,  and  of  the  exer- 
cises of  the  day : 

BEDFORD  CENTENNIAL. 
ORDER  OF  PROCESSION. 

The  procession  will  form  precisely  ,at   10  o'clock,   at  the  Presbyterian 

Church. 

Aid.  Chief  Marshal.  Aid. 

Aid.  President  of  the  Day.  Aid. 

Orator,  and  Chaplain. 

Vice-Presidents,  and  Readers  of  the  Charters. 

Committee  of  Arrangements. 

Invited  Guests. 

Citizens  Generally. 


ORDER  OF  EXERCISES. 
I.  Voluntary  from  the  Choir. 
II.  Invocation  and  Reading  of  Scripture. 

By  Rev.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace. 
III.  Hymn.     By  Nathaniel  Greene,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

Read  by  Rev.  James  T.  Woodbury,  of  Acton,  Mass. 

O  God,  who  heard  our  father's  prayer 

For  liberty  and  life, — 
Who  ruled  the  Elemental  war 

And  shielded  them  from  strife— 
To  Thee  we  bend,  to  Thee  we  raise, 
With  grateful  hearts,  the  hymn  of  praise. 


b  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Thou,  whom  our  fathers  fled  to  serve, 

Who  didst  their  steps  sustain, 
"When  they  their  trembling  hearts  did  nerve 

To  seek  this  far  domain — 
To  Thee  their  children  bend,  and  raise, 

With  grateful  hearts,  the  hymn  of  praise. 

God  of  our  fathers,  hear  us  now, 

Incline  Thine  ear,  we  pray, 
And  mercy  to  their  children  show, 

Assembled  here  to-day. 
While  they,  to  Thee,  attempt  to  raise, 
With  grateful  hearts,  this  hymn  of  praise. 

IV.  Reading  of  the  Charter  for  Narragansett  No.  V. 

By  James  W.  Savage,  Esq.,  New  York  City. 
V.  Reading  of  Petition  and  Town  Charter. 

By  D.  B.  French,  Dartmouth  College. 
VI.  Prayer.  By  the  pastor,  Rev.  Thomas  Savage. 

VII.  Psalm  LXXVIII.  Read  by  Rev.  Thomas  Savage. 

(Tune,  "  St.  Martins."     Congregation  will  unite  with  the  choir.) 

Give  ear  ye  children  to  my  law, 

Devout  attention  lend; 
Let  the  instructions  of  m3'  mouth, 

Deep  in  your  hearts  descend. 

My  tongue  by  inspiration  taught, 

Shall  parables  unfold, 
Dark  oracles,  but  understood 

And  own'd  for  truths  of  God, 

Which  we  from  sacred  registers, 

Of  ancient  times  have  known; 
And  our  forefathers'. pious  care, 

To  us  has  handed  down. 

Our  lips  shall  tell  them  to  our  sons, 

And  they  again  to  theirs— 
That  generations  yet  unborn 

May  teach  them  to  their  heirs. 

Thus  shall  they  learn  in  God  alone, 

Their  hope  securely  stands— 
That  they  may  ne'er  forget  his  works, 

But  practice  his  commands. 

VIII.  Address.  By  Hon.  Isaac  O.  Barnes,  of  Boston. 
IX.  Original  Hymn.     By  Miss  Stevens,  of  Bedford. 

Read  by  Rev.  Stephen  T.  Allen,  of  New  York  City. 
(Tune,  "Lisbon.") 

Roll  back,  thou  tide  of  time, 

Nor  let  thy  pace  be  slow, 
To  place  us  where  our  fathers  stood 

A  hundred  years  ago. 

Theirs  was  a  thorny  way, 

A  rugged  path  they  trod ; 
Theirs,  too,  a  noble  courage  was, 

To  dare  so  wild  a  road. 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  I 

Heroic,  brave,  and  true, 

In  heaven  alone  their  trust, 
Our  fathers  faced  a  savage  foe, 

Nor  deemed  the  act  unjust. 

The  dark  and  deepening  shade 

Of  forests  bending  low, 
O'er  hill  and  dale  was  densely  spread 

A  hundred  years  ago. 

To-day  with  grateful  hearts 

Their  memories  we  recall- 
Commemorate  departed  worth, 

To  God  ascribing  all. 

X.  Benediction.  By  Rev.  Samuel  Abbott,  of  Antrim,  N.  H. 

ADDRESS. 

BY    HON.    ISAAC    O.    BARNES. 

This  is  an  occasion  of  unusual  interest  to  all  of  us.  It  is  an  im- 
portant epoch,  not  only  in  the  history  of  our  town  corporation,  but 
of  the  nation,  and  even  of  the  world,  which  can  scarcely  be  passed 
in  silence,  or  regarded  indifferently.  It  is  a  point  of  time  when  all 
seem  inclined  to  pause  and  review,  as  carefully  and  as  much  as  it 
may  be  done  the  events  of  the  past. 

The  end  of  the  present  year  completes  a  period  of  one  hundred 
years,  comprising  the  last  half  of  the  eighteenth  and  the  first  half  of 
the  nineteenth  centuries;  and  it  may  be  well  said  to  have  been  infi- 
nitely more  eventful  than  any  other  equal  portion  of  time  since 
the  apostolic  age.  One  hundred  years  ago  Europe — enlightened, 
refined,  intellectual  Europe — had  scarcely  emerged  from  barbarism. 
George  II  sat  upon  the  throne  of  England.  The  bloody  massacre 
of  Culloden  had  just  been  enacted,  and  had  released  the  then  new 
House  of  Hanover  from  further  fear  of  the  return  of  the  Stuarts. 
Louis  XV  reigned  in  France,  Pope  Benedict  in  the  Eternal  City. 
Elizabeth  was  empress  of  Russia.  Philip  V  was  king  of  Spain,  and 
Frederick  the  Great  and  Theresa,  ruled  with  despotic  sway  in  Aus- 
tria and  Germany. 

The  population  of  Great  Britain  was  not  half  as  large  as  that  of 
the  United  States  is  now.  The  whole  number  of  British  colonial 
subjects  on  this  continent,  including  those  upon  the  adjacent  islands, 
was  less  than  three  millions.  There  was  no  such  nation  as  the  United 
States ;  there  were,  instead,  a  few  feeble  and  unimportant  English 
colonies,  made  up  of  exiles  from  the  mother  country,  having  tied 
hither  to  escape  persecutions  the  most  cruel,  vindictive,  and  unnat- 
ural. These  colonists  were  still  struggling  with  poverty,  and  still 
alarmed  by  constant  incursions  of  the  yet  unconquered  savage. 
The  Canadas  and  Louisiana  belonged  to  the  French.  That  adroit  and 
ambitious  nation  had  long  before  established  a  line  of  missionary 
stations  from  the  gulf  of  the  St.  Lawrence  to  the  falls  of  St.  Mary's, 


8  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

and  thence  to  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi.  The  Jesuits  were  em- 
ployed as  their  agents, — an  order  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  most 
efficient  and  most  faithful  to  their  engagements.  It  is  true,  at  that 
time,  the  mission-house  had  declined  and  given  place  to  the  military 
garrison;  but  the  subsequent  conduct  of  the  savage,  along  the 
French  frontier,  proved  but  too  clearly,  that  he  had  been  taught  to 
hate  the  English,  and  stimulated  to  the  most  ferocious  deeds  of  cru- 
elty on  our  borders.  The  treaty  of  Aix-la-Chapelle,  concluded  only 
two  years  before  in  1748,  while  it  was  said  to  have  secured  only  a 
"  hollow  peace "  to  Europe,  really  afforded  no  safety  whatever  to 
the  British  colonists  here. 

A  hundred  years  ago,  the  New  Hampshire  troops  had  just  returned 
gloriously  triumphant  from  the  capture  of  Louisburg.  A  Ports- 
mouth merchant,  William  Vaughn,  had  planned  this  expedition ; 
George  Whitefield,  the  celebrated  English  preacher,  then  in  this  state, 
had  furnished  this  motto  for  the  flag  of  the  New  Hampshire  regi- 
ment, viz. :  "  Nil  desperandum  Christo  tluce."  It  was,  in  fact,  a 
religious  and  an  anti-Catholic  crusade.  So  were  all  the  inter-colo- 
nial wars  in  which  our  fathers  were  engaged  on  this  continent.  Hith- 
erto, England  had  been  a  second-rate  power ;  now,  since  the  death 
of  Louis  XIV  the  splendor  of  the  court  of  St.  Cloud  began  to  pale ; 
the  relative  strength  of  the  two  kingdoms  had  just  been  subjected 
to  a  severe  test, — the  French  had  failed  to  restore  Charles  Edward, 
the  grandson  of  the  renegade  James,  to  the  throne  of  his  ancestors ; 
Catholic  supremacy  on  the  island  of  Great  Britain  was  at  an  end. 
Soon  the  great  struggle  on  this  continent  between  these  mighty 
antagonists  was  to  come ;  the  tempting  prize  was  all  the  rich  alluvial 
lands  in  the  great  valley  of  the  Mississippi.  It  was  soon  to  be  de- 
cided, once  and  always,  whether  the  French  and  Catholicism,  or  the 
English  and  Protestantism,  were  to  be  in  the  ascendant,  and  control 
the  destinies  of  this  nation'. 

A  hundred  years  ago  Washington  was  a  youth,  just  old  enough 
to  be  enrolled  in  a  military  train-band ;  the  elder  Adams  was  not 
enough  of  a  boy  to  labor  in  his  father's  shop ;  Jefferson  was  a  mere 
child,  and  Madison  and  Monroe  were  unborn.  A  hundred  years  ago 
and  Wolfe  and  Montcalm  were  yet  to  fall  in  deadly  strife  before 
Quebec ;  the  French  were  to  be  routed,  to  lose  the  mastery  of  the 
Canadas  and  Louisiana,  and,  finally,  a  footing  upon  the  Western 
continent. 

A  hundred  years  ago  and  Louis  XVI  and  the  hapless  Marie 
Antoinette  were  yet  to  fall  under  the  axe  of  the  guillotine.  Robes- 
pierre, Marat,  and  Danton  were  yet  guiltless  of  the  blood  of  their 
countrymen.  Napoleon  and  Wellington  were  not  yet ;  the  fields  of 
Marengo,  of  Austerlitz,  and  Waterloo  had  no  bloody  celebrity. 

A  hundred  years  since,  and  our  colonies  had  not  felt  the  oppres- 
sion and  encountered  the  hatred  of  the  mother  country.  The  battles 
of  Lexington,  Bunker  Hill,  Saratoga,  Trenton,  and  Yorktown  were 
yet  to  be  fought.     Our  own  Stark  had  not  yet  won  immortality  at 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  9 

Bennington ;  nor  had  our  Langdon,  Pierce,  Poor,  Cilley,  Sullivan, 
and  last,  though  not  least,  our  own  townsman,  John  Orr,  and  hosts 
of  others,  yet  earned  the  meed  of  praise  which  is,  and  ever  will  con- 
tinue to  be,  awarded  to  their  patriotism  and  their  valor.  And  less 
than  half  a  hundred  years  since,  this  county  of  Hillsborough  could 
not  boast  of  the  heroic  achievements  of  the  gallant  but  now  lamented 
McXeil,  nor  the  fearless  Miller.  Xor  could  Ave  speak  of  the  fresher 
laurels  which  have  just  been  gathered  by  the  younger  Pierce,  and  by 
another  son,  as  brave  and  as  chivalrous  as  the  best  of  them,  Bowers, 
of  Xashua. 

But  to  come  to  the  subject  which  to-day  more  particularly  claims 
our  attention. 

A  hundred  years  ago  there  were  residing  within  the  limits  of  this 
town,  then  known  as  Xarragansett,  No.  5,  some  fifty  familes,  com- 
prising from  two  hundred  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  souls. 

These  families  were  scattered  along  the  hillside,  hid  away  in  the 
sunny  nook,  by  the  meadow  patch,  or  buried  among  the  dark  pines 
on  the  border  of  the  great  river  which  forms  our  eastern  boundary. 
They  were  an  honest,  industrious,  frugal,  faithful,  and  pious  people. 
Principally  foreigners,  or  of  immediate  foreign  extraction,  they  came 
here  for  the  enjoyment  of  civil  and  religious  liberty.  In  their  own 
country,  they  could  not  lift  up  their  voices  in  praise  and  thanksgiv- 
ing to  that  Omnipotent  Being  from  whose  boundless  beneficence 
comes  every  good  and  perfect  gift ;  they  could  not  bow  down  in 
humble  adoration  of  their  Creator,  unless  these  acts  were  performed 
after  the  strict  formulas  of  the  Church  of  England.  They  must  have 
suffered  here  for  many  years,  all  the  privations  incident  to  a  frontier 
life,  and  yet  finding  out  as  they  did  gradually  the  resources  and 
capabilities  of  the  country,  they  must  have  cherished  strong  hopes 
for  the  future.  Alas !  such  is  the  inevitable  fate  of  man  that  no  one 
of  them  can  be  here  to-day  to  see  their  anticipations  confirmed  or 
their  hopes  justified.  Xo  living  soul  of  all  who  rejoiced  together 
when  the  civil  authorities  granted  the  prayer  of  their  petition  for  an 
act  of  incorporation,  giving  them  a  new  name  and  enlarged  powers 
and  importance  as  a  people, — not  one  living  soul  of  all  of  them  is 
left  to  join  with  us  this  day  in  mutual  congratulations  for  the  suc- 
cessful issue  of  that  embryo  effoi*t  at  self-government.  The  prime- 
val rocks  indeed  remain ;  here  and  there  a  sturdy  oak  of  the  olden 
time  still  stretches  forth  the  same  branches  which  sheltered  our 
fathers  from  the  summer's  sun,  and  which  have  so  far  defied  the 
wintry  blast.  The  placid  Merrimack  still  glides  gently  by  us,  but  no 
man,  no  woman,  no  animated  being  that  had  ever  floated  on  its  sur- 
face or  laved  in  its  waters,  is  alive  to-day  to  render  thanks  for  this, 
among  the  thousands  of  Heaven's  blessings,  which  have  been  be- 
stowed upon  us. 

"  Where  are  the  birds  that  sweetly  sang, 
A  hundred  years  ago? 
The  flowers,  that  all  in  beauty  sprang, 
A  hundred  years  ago? 


10  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

The  lip  that  smiled, 

The  eyes  that  wild 

In  flashes  shone 

Soft  eyes  upon,— 
Where,  oh,  where,  are  lips  and  eyes, 
The  maiden's  smile,  the  lover's  sighs, 

That  were  so  long  ago? 

"  Who  peopled  all  the  city's  streets 
A  hundred  years  ago? 
Who  filled  the  church  with  faces  meek, 
A  hundred  years  ago? 

The  sneering  tale 
Of  sister  frail, 
The  plot  that  worked 
Another's  hurt, — 
Where,  oh,  where,  are  the  plots  and  sneers, 
The  poor  man's  hopes,  the  rich  man's  fears, 
That  were  so  long  ago? 

"  Where  are  the  graves  where  dead  men  slept 
A  hundred  years  ago? 
Who,  whilst  living,  ofttimes  wept, 
A  hundred  years  ago? 
By  other  men, 
They  knew  not  then, 
Their  lands  are  tilled, 
Their  homes  are  filled,— 
Yet  nature  then  was  just  as  gay, 
And  bright  the  sun  shone  as  to-day, 
A  hundred  years  ago." 

I  abstain  at  this  time,  purposely,  from  attempting  anything  like  an 
outline  even  of  a  history  of  this  town,  because  that  task  has  been 
appropriately  assigned  to  a  committee  of  your  citizens,  and  we  all 
anticipate  great  pleasure  in  soon  being  able  to  avail  ourselves  of  the 
result  of  their  labor  and  research. 

I  may  be  permitted,  however,  to  say  as  much  as  this,  that  the  ter- 
ritory was  granted  by  the  "  Great  and  General  Court "  of  Massachu- 
setts, not  far  from  one  hundred  and  twenty  years  ago.  Included  in 
the  same  grant  was  land  enough  for  six  other  townships.  This  grant 
was  made  to  the  soldiers  who  had  served  in  King  Philip's,  or  the 
Narragansett,  War,  and  to  their  surviving  heirs-at-law.  In  June, 
1733,  it  seems,  these  grantees,  in  number  about  eight  hundred  and 
forty,  met  on  the  town  common  in  Boston  for  the  purpose  of  divid- 
ing equitably  the  property  thus  given  to  them.  They  formed  them- 
selves into  seven  separate  societies,  and  each  society  organized  and 
chose  an  executive  committee  to  look  after  its  interests.  One  of 
these  societies  was  composed  of  such  of  the  grantees  as  resided  prin- 
cipally in  Boston,  Koxbury,  Dorchester,  and  in  that  neighborhood. 
These  executive  committees  afterwards,  namely,  on  the  17th  of 
October,  1733,  met  by  appointment  in  Boston.  The  numbers  of  the 
several  townships,  from  number  one  to  number  seven,  were  placed 
in  a  hat,  and  Colonel  Thomas  Tileston  of  Dorchester,  one  of  our 
committee,  drew  No.  5,  known  as  Souhegan-East  before  that  time. 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  11 

It  embraced  all  the  land  now  within  the  limits  of  Bedford,  and  also 
that  part  of  Merrimack  north  of  the  Souhegan  river. 

If  this  grant  was  the  price  of  patriotism,  it  was  an  act  of  tardy 
justice  to  the  parties  to  be  rewarded,  for  the  Xarragansett  War  had 
long  since  ended.  The  treacherous  and  vindictive  Philip,  of  Mount 
Hope,  had  been  hunted  down  and  destroyed  sixty  years  before.  The 
dreadful  massacre  of  the  young  men  at  Bloody  Brook,  and  the  ter- 
rible penalty  afterwards  indicted  upon  the  savages  at  Turner's  Falls, 
were  even  then  tales  of  other  times.  But  whatever  was  the  motive 
or  the  cause  of  this  grant  from  Massachusetts,  this  was  the  origin  of 
Bedford.  With  very  few  exceptions  the  original  proprietors  of  this 
town  sold  out  their  interest  in  it  at  an  early  period.  They  never 
came  here  to  reside  permanently.  And  I  believe  it  would  be  dim- 
cult  to  find  to-day  more  than  two  or  three  families  in  the  whole 
town  who  are  directly  descended  from  any  of  the  grantees  of  Xar- 
ragansett, Xo.  5.  I  know  of  but  two.  One  is  the  Chandler  family,  who 
are  the  lineal  descendants  of  Zachariah  Chandler,  Esq.,  of  Roxbuiy. 
Mass. ;  and  the  other,  the  family  of  Gardner  Xevins,  who  are  the 
descendants,  by  the  mothers  side,  from  John  Barnes  of  Hingham, 
Mass.  The  town  was  named  by  Governor  Wentworth,  no  doubt,  in 
honor  of  His  Grace,  the  fourth  Duke  of  Bedford,  then  secretary  of 
state  in  the  government  of  His  Majesty,  George  II.1 

Who  were  its  first  inhabitants?  What  was  their  origin?  And 
what,  if  any,  were  the  peculiarities  of  their  character  and  condition  ? 

I  have  preferred  that  a  general  answer  to  these  inquiries  should 
occupy  much  of  the  space  assigned  to  me  upon  this  occasion,  rather 
than  to  enter  upon  the  discussion  of  topics  which,  however  they  may 
befit  the  time  and  place,  belong  much  more  appropriately  to  others. 

In  the  first  place,  then,  almost  the  entire  population  of  Bedford 
was.  at  the  time  of  its  incorporation,  of  Scottish  descent.  There 
were  a  few,  and  but  very  few,  families  from  the  colony  of  Massachu- 
setts, and,  of  course,  of  English  extraction.  There  may  have  been 
also  one  or  two  Irish  families  of  pure  Milesian  blood.  And  there 
were  some  African  slaves.  Of  this  last  description  of  persons  there 
were  in  this  town,  as  shown  by  the  official  records  at  the  commence- 

1  For  the  gratification  of  persons  curious  in  such  matters,  it  may  be  stated  that  the 
name  Bedford  is  said  by  certain  very  early  authorities  to  be  derived  from  a  Saxon 
word  signifying  "  beds,  or  inns  upon  a  ford."  The  situation  of  the  very  ancient  and 
important  town  of  the  same  name  in  England,  on  both  sides  of  the  river  Ouse,  prob- 
ably contributed  to  this  interpretation  of  the  word.  Later  writers  say  it  was  de- 
rived from  "  Buda,"  or  "  Beda,"  which  means  a  petty  king.  The  people  of  Bedford, 
in  England,  adopt  the  latter  as  the  true  origin  of  the  name  of  their  town.  It  may  be 
added  that,  although  Governer  Wentworth  may  have  given  the  name  to  this  town, 
yet  it  is  altogether  probable  that  the  inhabitants  themselves  first  suggested  it,  in 
honor  of  the  noble  Duke  who  had  for  a  long  time  most  faithfully  and  honorably  ad- 
ministered the  government  of  the  island  from  which  their  immediate  ancestors  had 
emigrated.  The  Duke  of  Bedford  held  the  office  of  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  for 
many  years.  The  Bedford  family,  or,  perhaps  we  should  say,  the  Russell  family,  is 
one  of  the  oldest,  and  ever  has  been,  and  is  now,  one  of  the  first  families  among  the 
English  nobility.  The  present  Duke  Francis  has  never  been  very  actively  engaged 
in  political  affairs,  yet  he  is  a  man  of  great  energy  of  character  and  enterprise,  and 
will  leave  to  his  descendants  vast  and  valuable  estates,  redeemed  and  improved  by 
his  industry  and  his  genius,  as  well  as  a  name  worthy  his  noble  ancestry.  His  son 
and  only  child,  William,  Marquis  of  Tavistock,  is  now  heir  to  the  Dukedom.  Lord 
John  Russell,  the  present  prime  minister  of  England,  is  a  vounger  brother  of  the 
Duke  of  Bedford. 


12  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ment  of  the  Revolution,  ten.  But  a  large  majority  of  the  people  of 
those  who  made  the  first  openings,  run  the  lines,  marked  the  trees, 
petitioned  Governor  Wentworth  and  his  council  for  an  act  of  incor- 
poration on  the  10th  of  May,  1750,  built  the  first  meeting-house  and 
the  first  schoolhouses,  and  first  dragged  a  seine  in  the  Merrimack  for 
shad  and  salmon, — of  those,  in  short,  who  first  came  here  with  a 
fixed  and  settled  purpose  to  abide  permanently  and  to  make  this 
place  their  home, — trace  their  origin  to  /Scotland.  They  are  some- 
times called  /Scotch-Irish.  The  reason  for  this  peculiar  designation 
will  soon  appear.  It  is  true  that  nearly  all  this  class  of  settlers,  or 
their  fathers  and  mothers,  came  to  this  country  directly  from  the 
great  northern  province  of  Ulster,  in  Ireland.  Yet  they  were,  nev- 
ertheless, not  Irishmen.  No  Irish  blood  ran  in  their  veins.  The 
two  races  Avere,  and  are,  entirely  distinct ;  as  unlike  as  it  is  possible 
they  can  be,  with  the  same  general  features  and  the  same  color. 
They  were  no  more  Irishmen  than  is  a  Connaught  or  Munster  man, 
who  works  upon  our  railways,  a  yankee ;  no  more  than  is  the  Euro- 
pean or  American  missionary  or  merchant,  who  takes  up  his  resi- 
dence at  Macao,  Hong  Kong,  or  at  the  factories  around  Canton,  a 
Chinaman.  The  Scotch  and  the  Irish  are  as  dissimilar  as  possible  in 
their  manner  of  life,  their  habits  of  thought  and  action,  and  espe- 
cially in  their  forms  of  religious  worship  and  in  their  religious  creed. 
The  Scotch  are  zealous  Protestants  and  Presbyterians ;  the  Irish  as 
zealous  Roman  Catholics.  The  Scotch  were  the  besieged  and  the 
Irish  the  besiegers  at  Londonderry.  One  party  fought  desperately 
at  the  Boyne,  Limerick,  and  Aithlone  for  William,  and  the  other  as 
desperately  for  James  II.  To  this  general  rule  there  are,  to  be  sure, 
some  rare  exceptions.  There  were  Irishmen  who  joined  the  party 
supporting  William  and  Mary,  and  they  have  been  denounced  as 
traitors  and  heretics  for  it  ever  since  by  their  countrymen.  I  sup- 
pose there  were  also  Roman  Catholic  Scotchmen,  though  I  think  it 
would  have  been  difficult  to  have  found  many  of  the  latter  who  pro- 
fessed the  faith  of  St.  Peter  at  or  near  the  time  of  the  last  English 
Revolution.  The  Protestant  Irish  are  known  to  this  day  by  the 
term  of  "  Orangemen."  But  this  name  was  not  applied  to  them 
until  many  years  after  William,  the  Prince  of  Orange,  had  ceased  to 
govern  England  and  to  exist.  The  bitter  prejudices  and  hatred 
which  have  been  engendered  in  the  old  country  between  the 
Orangemen  and  the  Catholic  Irish  have  never  abated  to  this  day. 
And  we  have  frequent  occasion  to  lament  the  intemperate  and 
foolish  broils  which  so  often  occur  between  them,  even  in  this  coun- 
try, where  both  parties  are  at  full  liberty  to  consult  their  own  tastes 
and  their  own  consciences,  as  to  the  manner  of  their  religious  wor- 
ship or  their  religious  belief. 

But  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  were  neither  Orangemen  nor 
Catholic  Irishmen.  They  were  Presbyterians  and  Scotchmen, 
names  which  are  almost  synonymous.  Born  and  educated  among 
these  people,  if  I  cannot  say  exactly  with  Byron,  "  I  am  half  a  Scot 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  13 

by  birth,  and  bred  a  whole  one,"  I  can  appreciate  the  sentiment  of 
the  generous-hearted  Jenny  Deans,  when  she  said  to  her  country- 
man, the  Duke  of  Argyll,  referring  to  her  dress,  which  was  the 
national  costume,  as  she  was  suing  through  his  influence  for  the  par- 
don of  her  unfortunate  and  condemned  sister,  "I  thought  your 
Grace's  heart  would  warm  to  the  tartan." 

I  can  never  forget  that  my  earliest  and  most  intimate  friends  and 
associates  claim  a  common  fatherland  with  Bruce  and  with  Burns ; 
that  they  could  speak  of  the  wild  highland  chiefs  as  of  their  own 
"  kith  and  kin ; "  that  they  could  talk  of  John  Knox  as  the  founder  of 
their  church;  that  the  "Cotter's  Saturday  Night"  was  their  poetry; 
that  Sir  Walter  Scott  and  the  authors  of  "  Douglas  "  and  the  "  Gen- 
tle Shepherd  "  were  as  much  their  countrymen  as  if  they  had  lived 
on  the  same  side  of  the  Atlantic. 

I  can  never  forget  how  readily,  in  the  dreamy  days  of  our  youth, 
we  could  transport  ourselves,  in  imagination,  to  that  cold  but  roman- 
tic region  of  Britain,  "  where  not  a  mountain  lifts  its  head  unsung ; " 
that  we  could  climb  over  the  Pentland  and  Grampian  Hills,  fly  over 
the  "  peak  of  Ben  Lomond,"  take  a  sail  upon  Loch  Katrine,  inspect 
the  ramparts  and  battlements  of  Castles  Stirling  and  Dunbar,  search 
the  rooms  in  Holyrood  House,  And  the  blood-stains  of  Rizzio,  de- 
plore the  fate  of  the  unfortunate,  perhaps  the  guilty,  Mary,  and 
repeat  with  the  poet, — 

"  She  was  a  woman,  and  let  all 
Her  faults  be  buried  with  her." 

We  did  more  than  this.  We  stole  away,  again  and  again,  into  that 
fairyland,  which  the  belief  in  the  supernatural  has  for  ages  firmly 
established  in  Scotland ;  there  we  danced  with  witches  and  war- 
locks, and  consorted  with  brownies,  kelpies,  and  water- wraiths,  or, 
under  the  guidance  of  the  great  poet  of  nature,  we  hied  away  to  the 
castle  of  Macbeth,  became  familiar  with  the  "  weird  sisters,"  "  the 
white  spirits  and  black,  red  spirits  and  gray,"  who  first  seduced  the 
Scottish  Thane,  by  fair  promises  and  deceitful  predictions  into  mur- 
dering his  kinsman  and  his  sovereign,  and  then,  like  the  arch  fiend 
they  served,  left  him  in  his  extremity  miserably  to  perish,  the  vic- 
tim of  his  own  and  his  wife's  wicked  ambition.  We  could  see,  as 
palpably  as  could  the  guilty  assassin  himself,  the  air-drawn  dagger 
that  informed  him  of  the  "  bloody  business "  upon  which  he  was 
intent.  We  beheld  also  the  ghost  of  Banquo,  whose  ugly  visage 
and  ill-timed  visit  so  marred  the  feast  and  frightened  the  host  from 
his  propriety.  We  saw  "Birnamwood  come  to  Dunsinane,"  and 
heard  the  last  agonizing  cry  of  the  dying  tyrant. 

We  could  scarcely  fail  to  be  reminded  of  the  national  character  of 
our  friends  and  neighbors  by  listening  to  their  songs.  It  is  true 
there  was  no  Wilson,  nor  Sinclair,  nor  Dempster  to  sing  them ;  yet 
I  assure  you  "  John  Anderson,  my  Jo,"  has  been  given  here  with 
great  effect,  we  being  the  judges.  How  often  has  our  boyish  patriot- 
ism been  aroused  by  Bruce's  "  Farewell ; "   the  sentiment  of  the 


14  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

"  Banks  and  Braes  of  Bonny  Doon,"  has  been  felt  and  appreciated 
here,  as  well  as  the  "  Farewell  to  Ayershire,"  and  "  Flow  Gently, 
Sweet  Afton ; "  no  flower  was  ever  so  sweet  as  the  "  Flower  of  Dura- 
blain,"  as  we  have  had  it,  with  its  sweeter  accompaniments.  And 
Avas  there  ever  sung,  or  said,  a  nobler  sentiment  than  "A  man's  a  man 
for  a'  that,  and  a'  that." 

Need  any  one  be  told  who  composed  the  church  and  congregation 
here,  when  he,  who  ministered  so  many  years  at  the  altar,  who  sol- 
emnized the  marriage  contracts,  who  officiated  at  the  holy  rites  of 
baptism,  who  lifted  up  his  hands  in  prayer  at  the  bedside  of  the 
sick  and  the  dying,  was  none  other  than  a  lineal  descendant  of  that 
Highland  clan,  whose  name  he  bore,  and  who  "  ever  scorned  to  turn 
their  backs  on  friend  or  foe."     And  of  whom  the  song  says, — 

"  While  there's  leaves  in  the  forest  and 
Foam  on  the  river, 
MacGregor,  despite  them,  shall 
Flourish  forever." 

Again  the  Caledonian  characteristics  appeared  as  we  saw, 

"  On  a  winter's  night,  our  granum  spinnin', 
To  make  a  web  of  good  fine  linnen." 

But,  alas !  many  of  us  are  compelled  to  acknowledge  that  these 
youthful  remembrances  are  fading  out,  that  we. have 

"  Wandered  mony  a  weary  foot, 
Sin'  auld  lang  syne," 

and  that  we  are  only  too  happy  to  avail  ourselves  of  an  occasion 
like  the  present,  to  come  home  and  say,  "We  cannot  but  remember 
that  such  things  were,  and  that  they  were  most  precious  to  us." 

As  for  myself,  I  adopt  with  all  my  heart,  and  assume  as  my  own, 
the  answer  of  the  noble  Duke  to  the  affectionate  Jenny  Deans,  be- 
fore referred  to,  "  MacCullum  More's  heart  must  be  cold  as  death 
when  it  does  not  warm  to  the  tartan." 

Our  earliest  inhabitants  were,  then,  Scotch  in  their  origin ;  but 
they  were  called  Scotch- Irish.  Let  us  turn  back  to  the  written 
history  of  this  peculiar  people  and  see  what  we  can  learn  of 
them.  We  must  commence  as  early  as  the  reign  of  James  I,  in 
1603.  Elizabeth,  his  immediate  predecessor,  had  carried  out,  dur- 
ing her  time,  the  rigorous  and  unrelenting  policy  of  her  father, 
Henry  VIII,  in  harassing  and  persecuting  her  Catholic  subjects, 
and  especially  the  Irish  portion  of  them.  By  this  means  the 
spirit  of  rebellion  was  fostered,  not  subdued,  in  that  unfortunate 
island.  James  had  not  seen  the  end  of  the  second  year  of  his  reign 
before  he  was  called  upon  to  crush  the  conspiracies  of  Tyrone  and 
Tyrconnel  of  Ulster,  and  soon  to  put  down  the  rebellion  of  O'Dog- 
herty  and  others.  These  conspirators  and  rebels,  having  either  fled 
from  their  country  or  having  been  slain  in  the  several  contests  in 
which  they  were  engaged,  a  very  large  section  of  the  province  of 
Ulster,  covering  six  counties,  equal  to  a  half  a  million  of  acres,  re- 
verted to  the  crown. 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  15 

It  became  very  important  to  James  to  repeople  this  deserted  ter- 
ritory, not  only  with  loyal  subjects,  but  with  those  of  the  Protestant 
faith. 

For  the  early  history  of  the  Scotch-Irish,  both  while  they  were  at 
home  and  since  then  emigration  to  America,  I  am  greatly  indebted 
to  Dr.  William  Henry  Foote,  of  Virginia,  who  has  very  recently 
given  to  the  world  two  large  volumes,  one  entitled  "  Sketches  of 
North  Carolina,"  and  the  other  "  Sketches  of  Virginia,"  both  of 
which  are  filled  with  highly  interesting  matter,  chiefiy  touching  the 
history  of  the  Presbyterians,  who  came  to  this  country  at  a  very 
early  period.  He  says  "  that  in  the  fulfilment  of  this  design,"  that 
is,  in  furnishing  Ulster  province  with  Protestants,  "he  [James] 
planted  those  colonies  from  which,  more  than  a  century  afterwards, 
those  emigrations  sprang,  by  which  western  Virginia  and  the  Caro- 
linas  were  in  a  great  measure  peopled."  He  might  have  included, 
also,  Londonderry,  Bedford,  New  Boston,  Antrim,  Peterborough, 
and  portions  of  the  inhabitants  of  many  other  towns  in  this  state,  as 
well  as  of  many  towns  in  Massachusetts  and  Vermont.  "The 
project  of  James,"  he  goes  on  to  say," was  grand  and  attractive,  and 
in  its  progress,  to  complete  success,  formed  a  race  of  men,  law-lov- 
ing, law-abiding,  loyal,  enterprising  freemen ;  whose  thoughts  and 
principles  have  had  no  less  influence  in  moulding  the  American 
mind  than  their  children  to  make  the  wilderness  blossom  as  the 
rose." 

The  king  seems,  very  naturally,  to  have  selected  his  own  country- 
men, the  Scotch,  as  far  as  he  could,  to  take  possession  of  these 
vacant  lands  which  were  now  desolate,  overrun  with  wood  and  in- 
fested with  noisome  wild  beasts.  But  the  Scotch,  needy  as  they 
were,  very  reluctantly  complied  with  the  wishes  of  their  sovereign  ; 
so  forbidding  was  this  Irish  province,  in  all  its  aspects,  that  it  was 
deplored  as  a  calamity  to  be  compelled  to  remove  thither ;  and  it 
was  often  sneeringly  and  reproachfully  said  of  the  unfortunate  or 
the  guilty,  "  Ireland  will  be  your  latter  end."  In  1626  it  began  to 
improve  rapidly ;  an  unusual  religious  excitement  having  prevailed 
throughoiit  the  province,  attracted  the  attention  of  the  Presbyte- 
rians of  Scotland,  and  many  ministers  and  their  congregations 
hastened  to  Ireland,  where,  by  their  labors  and  unwearied  efforts, 
they  ultimately  helped  to  lay  the  foundation  of  the  Irish  Pres- 
byterian Church.  One  of  the  immediate  results  of  this  revival 
was  the  establishing  of  the  Antrim  Monthly  Meeting,  which  after- 
wards came  to  be  a  very  interesting  and  important  religious  associa- 
tion. The  province  of  Ulster  contrasts  very  favorably  with  any 
other  portion  of  Ireland  to  this  day.  The  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Ireland  lately  addressed  a  letter  to  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  the  same  church  in  the  United  States,  in  which 
they  say,  "  that  in  Ulster,  where  their  principles  are  more  widely 
disseminated,  the  recent  visitation  of  the  famine  and  pestilence  was 
much  less  severe  than   in  those  provinces  in  which  the  Roman  sys- 


16  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

tern  still  unhappily  maintains  its  degrading  and  paralyzing  ascenden- 
cy." Macaulay  says  "  that  whoever  passes  from  a  Roman  Catholic  to  a 
Protestant  county  in  Ireland,  finds  that  he  has  passed  from  a  lower 
to  a  higher  grade  of  civilization ; "  and  this  is  confirmed  by  the 
statements  of  all  observing  travelers.  In  1631,  having  heard  of  the 
success  of  their  Puritan  friends,  the  Independents,  or  Separatists, 
who  had  settled  at  Plymouth  eleven  years  before,  and  learning  also 
that  the  Salem  settlement,  then  three  years  old,  was  prosperous,  the 
Presbyterians  of  Ulster,  anxious  to  escape,  if  possible,  from  the  injus- 
tice of  the  perfidious  Charles  II,  whose  reign  had  just  commenced, 
began  to  make  preparations  to  remove  to  America.  Agents  were 
appointed,  who  proceeded  to  London  to  procure  a  passage  to  New 
England ;  but  for  some  reasons,  unexplained,  the  project  was  de- 
feated for  a  time.  Soon  after  this  "  they  sent  over  an  agent  who 
pitched  upon  a  tract  of  land  near  the  mouth  of  the  Merrimack  river, 
whither  they  intended  to  transplant  themselves."  This  fact  is  stated 
by  Cotton  Mather.  The  expedition,  which  was  undertaken  in  pur- 
suance of  the  report  of  this  agent,  failed  as  we  shall  see ;  but  it  is 
more  than  probable  that  this  was  the  cause  of  the  settlement  of  our 
Londonderry,  nearly  a  century  afterwards,  for  we  find  the  Ulster 
emigrants,  who  landed  in  Boston  and  Portland  in  1718,  immediately 
inquiring  for  lands  on  the  Merrimack  river,  and  there  they  did  ulti- 
mately settle  and  remain. 

But  the  attempt  to  reach  New  England,  which  was  made  in  1636, 
failed.  The  vessel',  which  sailed  from  Loch  Fergus,  a  port  very 
near  Belfast,  in  Ireland,  on  the  9th  of  September,  was  one  hundred 
and  fifty  tons  burthen ;  she  received  on  board  one  hundred  and 
forty  emigrant  passengers,  and  her  name  was  the  Eagle  Wing.  Four 
of  her  passengers  were  distinguished  preachers, — Blair,  Livingston, 
Hamilton,  and  McClelland.  Among  others  on  board  there  were 
families  of  the  name  of  Stuart,  Agnew,  Campbell,  Summerville,  and 
Brown.  She  was  bound  to  New  England.  She  was  following 
directly  and  immediately  in  the  track  of  the  Mayflower.  Her  pas- 
sengers were  to  have  settled  upon  the  Merrimack,  our  Merrimack 
river.  The  Eagle  Tfring  never  reached  her  port  of  destination ;  but 
we  will  allow  one  of  her  passengers,  the  Rev.  John  Livingston,  to 
give  us  the  reasons  for  her  failure.  "  We  had,"  he  says,  "  much  toil 
in  our  preparation,  many  hindrances  in  our  outsetting,  and  both  sad 
and  glad  hearts  in  taking  leave  of  our  friends ;  at  last  we  loosed 
from  Loch  Fergus,  but  were  detained  sometime  by  contrary  winds 
in  Loch  Regan,  in  Scotland,  and  grounded  the  ship  to  look  for  some 
leaks  in  the  keel ;  yet,  thereafter,  we  set  to  sea,  and,  for  some  space, 
had  fair  winds,  till  we  were  between  three  and  four  hundred  leagues 
from  Ireland,  and  no  nearer  the  banks  of  Newfoundland  than  any 
place  in  Europe.  But,  if  ever  the  Lord  spoke  by  his  winds,  and 
other  dispensations,  it  was  made  evident  to  us  that  it  was  not  his 
will  that  we  should  go  to  New  England,  for  we  met  with  a  mighty 
heavy  rain  from  the  north-west,  which  did  break  our  rudder,  which 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  17 

we  got  mended  by  the  skill  and  courage  of  Captain  Andrew  Agnew, 
a  godly  passenger,  and  tore  our  foresail,  five  or  six  of  our  champlets, 
and  a  great  beam  under  the  gunner's  room-door  broke ;  seas  came  in 
over  the  round-house,  and  broke  a  plank  or  two  on  the  deck,  and 
wet  all  that  was  between  the  decks ;  we  sprang  a  leak,  that  gave  us 
seven  hundred,  in  the  two  pumps,  in  the  half-hour  glass.  Yet  we 
lay  at  hull  a  long  time,  to  beat  out  the  storm,  till  the  master  and 
company  came,  one  morning,  and  told  us  that  it  was  impossible  to 
hold  out  any  longer,  and  although  we  beat  out  that  storm,  we  might 
be  sine,  in  that  season  of  the  year,  to  forgather  with  one  or  two 
more  of  that  sort,  before  we  could  reach  Xew  England." 

The  account  goes  on  to  state  "that  amidst  all  the  fears  and  dan- 
gers, the  most  part  of  the  passengers  Avere  very  cheerful  and  confi- 
dent ;  yea,  some,  in  prayers,  expressed  such  hopes,  that  rather  than 
the  Lord  would  suffer  such  a  company,  in  such  sort,  to  perish,  lie 
would  put  wings  to  our  shoulders  and  carry  us  safe  ashore."  Sev- 
eral of  the  passengers  were  sickly;  an  aged  person  and  one  child 
died ;  one  child  was  born  on  shipboard.  It  was  baptized  by  Mr. 
Livingston  and  called  "  Seaborn."  After  a  long  and  most  anxious 
consultation,  with  a  fervent  prayer  to  Almighty  God  for  wisdom  to 
direct  them,  the  passengers  agreed  to  yield  to  the  earnest  solicita- 
tions of  the  master.  The  ship  was  put  about,  and  reentered  the 
harbor  of  Loch  Fergus  on  the  3d  of  November,  having  been  absent 
about  eight  weeks. 

The  Eagle  Wing  left  the  shores  of  Ireland,  as  did  the  Mayflower 
those  of  Holland,  with  the  same  high  purpose  of  finding  a  new 
habitation,  where  there  was  "  freedom  to  worship  God."  The  May- 
flower succeeded  in  reaching  this  continent,  though,  it  is  said,  through 
the  treachery  of  her  master,  at  a  point  very  distant  from  that  to 
which  she  was  destined.  The  Eigle  Wing  was  compelled  by  stress 
of  weather  to  return  again  to  the  land  of  religious  intolerance. 

The  company  of  pious  and  devoted  ministers,  and  their  congrega- 
tions, who  left  Ulster  in  this  vessel  with  flattering  hopes  for  the 
future,  and  who  returned  disheartened  and  cast  down,  had  yet,  in 
the  Providence  of  God,  a  great  work  entrusted  to  their  agency. 
"  This  company  of  men,"  as  Dr.  Foote  says,  "  were,  subsequently, 
the  efficient  agents  in  the  hands  of  God  of  embodying  the  Presbyte- 
rians of  Ireland,  of  spreading  their  principles  far  and  wide,  and  mar- 
shaling congregation  after  congregation,  whose  industry  made  Lister 
blossom  as  the  rose.  It  was  better  that  God's  wise  Providence  sent 
them  back  to  Ireland,  and  shut  them  up  to  the  work — and  last,  it 
was  best  of  all,  that  they  laid  the  foundation  of  that  church,  which 
may  claim  to  be  the  mother  of  the  American  Presbyterian  Church, 
the  worthy  child  of  a  worthy  mother." 

We  must  now  leave,  for  a  while,  this  little  group  of  passengers, 
who  composed  the  freight  which  the  Eagle  Wing  was  too  feeble  to 
bear  across  the  broad  Atlantic,  during  the  autumnal  gales  of  1686. 
We  are  obliged  to  leave  them  in  bad  company,  and  under  circum- 


18  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

stances  most  inauspicious  ;  for  we  leave  them  to  the  tender  mercies 
of  the  faithless  Charles  I ;  to  the  uncertain  and  dangerous  discretion 
of  the  shrewd,  ambitious  and  unforgiving  Oliver  Cromwell ;  to  the 
reckless  and  shameful  profligacy  of  Charles  II ;  and  to  the  knavery 
and  stupidity  of  the  bigoted  James  II.  Meanwhile,  we  must  hasten 
to  the  consideration  of  some  passages  in  their  subsequent  history 
immediately  connected  with  their  actual  emigration  to  this  coun- 
try. 

Pass  on  with  me  now  for  the  space  of  fifty-two  years,  from  1636 
to  1688.  James  II,  the  great-grandson  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots, 
whom  Elizabeth  may  almost  be  said  to  have  murdered  from  envy, 
and  the  son  of  Charles  I,  who  perished  on  the  scaffold  because  he 
kept  faith  with  no  party,  had  abdicated  the  throne  of  England.  He 
had  previously  sent  his  wife,  Mary  of  Modena,  and  his  infant  and 
only  son,  to  France.  All  his  relatives  had  deserted  him.  Even  Ms 
daughter,  Anne,  and  her  husband,  the  Prince  of  Denmark,  had  fled 
from  his  palace  in  the  night.  He,  himself,  having  seized  the  great 
seal  of  state,  stole  from  his  bedchamber  at  early  dawn,  hastened  to  a 
boat,  in  readiness  for  him,  and  threw  the  seal  into  the  Thames,  and 
escaped  down  that  river.  After  some  further  difficulties  and  delays, 
he  reached  Paris  in  safety.  His  eldest  daughter,  the  offspring  of 
his  first  wife,  and  her  husband,  William  of  Orange,  were  now  pro- 
claimed jointly  king  and  queen  of  England. 

James,  being  in  France,  was  urged  and  entreated  by  the  Catholic 
Louis  to  return  to  Ireland,  from  which  he  had  lately  heard  reports 
favorable  to  his  cause,  and  to  make  a  struggle  to  regain  his  crown. 
He  at  last  complied,  though  with  great  reluctance,  and  being  pro- 
vided with  twelve  thousand  French  troops,  a  train  of  artillery,  and  a 
supply  of  money,  he  landed  in  Kinsale,  Ireland,  in  March,  1689. 
Stopping,  for  a  very  short  time,  at  Dublin,  he  hastened  to  the  north 
of  Ireland,  to  our  Ulster,  with  his  foreign  allies,  and  sat  down  before 
Londonderry,  then  in  a  state  of  siege. 

You  will  pardon  me,  I  feel  assured,  for  recalling  to  your  recollec- 
tions some  of  the  incidents  connected  with  the  "  siege  of  Derry," 
when  you  reflect  upon  the  important  bearing  which  it  had  upon  the 
character  and  destinies  of  our  Presbyterian  friends  in  the  north  of 
Ireland,  and  their  posterity  here  and  elsewhere. 

I  confine  myself  to  Graham's  account  of  it.  On  the  3d  of  Decem- 
ber, 1688,  an  alarm  was  spread  throughout  the  island  that  the  Cath- 
olic Irish  had  determined  to  rise  and  murder  indiscriminately  the 
Protestants  on  the  next  Sabbath.  The  messenger,  who  carried  this 
news  to  Derry,  reported  that  on  his  way  he  had  passed  the  Catholic 
troops,  and  that  their  advance  guard  was  close  upon  the  city.  All 
was  consternation  and  dismay.  There  were  no  military  preparations 
for  defense.  The  citizens  ran  together,  each  eagerly  and  anxiously 
inquiring  what  could  be  done.  Many  advised  to  open  the  gates  and 
give  their  invaders  an  honorable  reception.  A  few,  bolder  and  with 
better  judgment,  insisted  that  the  gates  should  be  shut  and  that  the 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  19 

soldiers  should  be  resisted  to  the  death.  Among  these  were  the 
Rev.  James  Gordon,  of  Clondormet,  and  Horace  Kennedy,  one  of 
the  sheriffs.  At  length  there  assembled  a  group  of  the  "appren- 
tices "  to  the  manufacture  of  linen  (a  large  business  at  that  time  in 
Derry).  These  spirited  apprentice  boys  heard  the  discussion  of  the 
public  authorities  and  perceived  the  danger  to  which  the  city  was 
exposed.  The  soldiers  began  to  cross  the  river  and  approach  the 
walls  of  the  town.  A  few  of  the  leaders  of  the  apprentices  imme- 
diately seized  the  keys,  and  rushing  to  the  gates  shut  them  in  the 
face  of  the  enemy. 

The  siege  was  now  commenced.  The  entire  space,  inclosed  within 
the  walls,  was  only  two  thousand  feet  in  its  longest  diameter  and 
six  hundred  in  its  smallest.  And  yet  there  were  shut  up  in  this 
city,  twenty-seven  thousand  persons,  who  were  doomed  to  endure 
for  eight  long  months,  famine  and  pestilence,  constant  exposure  to 
the  fire  from  the  enemy's  batteries,  and  all  the  concurrent  horrors 
which  the  imagination  can  conceive  to  exist  under  such  circumstances. 
So  feeble  did  the  defenses  of  the  city  appear  to  De  Rosen,  the  French 
officer  who  came  over  with  James,  when  he  first  saw  it,  that  he 
exclaimed  with  a  disgusting  oath,  that  "his  men  should  bring  it  to 
him  stone  by  stone."  The  French  general  was  mistaken, — he  knew 
little  of  the  determined  energy  of  the  men, women,  and  apprentice  boys, 
with  whom  he  had  to  contend.  Exasperated,  at  length,  that  no  offer 
to  capitulate  was  made,  he  resorted  to  the  brutal  expedient  of  col- 
lecting froni  Belfast  (distant  a  hundred  miles  from  Derry)  and  its 
neighborhood  over  four  thousand  men,  women,  and  children  of  the 
Protestant  party,  without  regard  to  condition,  robbed  them  of  then- 
food  and  clothing,  and  drove  them  like  so  many  cattle  under  the 
walls  of  Derry  to  perish  in  view  of  their  friends. 

To  prevent  this  inhuman  and  barbarous  destruction  of  life,  the 
authorities  of  Derry  erected  a  gallows  on  the  walls  of  the  town,  sent 
to  «De  Rosen  for  a  priest  to  confess  the  prisoners  (some  of  them  dis- 
tinguished French  officers),  assuring  the  general  that  they  should  be 
hung  one  by  one,  until  there  were  no  more  to  execute,  unless  he  per- 
mitted the  multitude  under  the  walls  to  depart.  This  retaliatory 
measure  produced  the  desired  effect.  The  Belfast  people  were  re- 
leased, but  not  till  hundreds  had  perished  from  starvation  and  ex- 
posure. In  all  the  agony  and  despair  of  these  unfortunate  beings, 
while  held  by  the  infamous  order  of  De  Rosen,  there  was  none  of 
them  but  what  urged  their  friends  within  the  walls  to  hold  on  and 
hold  out,  and  not  to  yield  in  sympathy  to  the  sufferings  of  those  on 
the  outside.  But  I  must  not  continue  these  horrible  details.  It 
suffices  to  say,  that  after  having  been  reduced  to  the  extremity  of 
eating  horseflesh,  of  feeding  upon  dogs,  cats,  rats,  and  mice,  and 
when  at  last  there  remained  but  half  a  pint  of  meal  to  a  man  per 
day,  when  the  soldiers  began  to  glare  upon  the  citizens  and  upon 
each  other  with  the  famished  look  of  starving  cannibals,  the  long 
hoped  for  relief  came.     The  ships  of  King  William  hove  in  sight 


20  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

with  men  and  supplies.  The  siege  was  raised,  the  array  departed, 
but  not  until  the  Catholic  party  had  lost  nine  thousand  of  their  sol- 
diers and  more  than  two  hundred  of  their  officers. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  find  in  the  whole  history  of  modern  war- 
fare an  example  of  such  endurance,  of  so  much  personal  suffering,  of 
such  devotion  to  the  cause  in  which  they  were  engaged,  as  was  ex- 
hibited by  these  resolute  Presbyterians  in  the  defense  of  their  homes 
and  their  religion,  at  the  siege  of  Deny. 

The  vast  importance  to  the  cause  of  Protestantism  and  the  Eng- 
lish government,  of  the  successful  defense  of  this  fortress,  will  be 
appreciated  when  it  is  understood  that  James  anticipated  its  speedy 
reduction,  and  had  made  his  arrangements  to  cross  directly  over  to 
Scotland,  join  the  infamous  Claverhouse,  make  a  rapid  descent  upon 
England,  and  drive  his  son-in-law,  William,  back  to  his  native  Nas- 
sau. The  names  of  these  apprentice  boys  who  so  nobly  shut  the 
gates,  and  thus  defeated  the  ultimate  purposes  of  the  besieging 
party,  as  Graham  says,  "  deserve  to  be  preserved  in  letters  of  gold." 
Many,  very  many,  of  their  descendants  are  now  to  be  found  in  this 
country.  They  are  known  to  be  in  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Indiana, 
here  in  New  Hampshire,  and  doubtless  in  many  other  states  of  the 
Union.  The  leaders,  and  more  prominent  of  these  young  men, 
were  William  Crookshanks,  Robert  Sherrad,  Daniel  Sherrad,  Alex- 
ander Irwin,  James  Stewart,  Robert  Morrison,  Alexander  Conning- 
ham,  William  Cairns,  and  Samuel  Harvey. 

Never  were  a  people  more  unfortunate,  after  all  their  efforts,  than 
were  these  brave  Presbyterians.  They  had  held  the  troops  of  James 
in  check,  while  they  defended  successfully  the  last  stronghold  of 
King  William  in  Ireland,  and  until  Claverhouse  had  been  attacked 
and  destroyed  in  Scotland.  They  had  freely  mingled  their  blood 
with  the  waters  of  the  Boyne.  They  had  consecrated  the  "  billowy 
Shannon,"  that  "  river  of  dark  mementos,"  by  the  sacrifice  upon  its 
banks  of  their  dearest  friends,  before  the  gates  of  Limerick  a«nd 
Aithlone.  They  had,  in  short,  expelled  James  and  his  allies  from 
the  land,  and  were  looking  with  great  confidence  for  something  like 
tolerance  in  religious  belief  and  religious  worship  from  William  of 
Nassau  and  his  Protestant  wife.  But  they  were  doomed  to  the 
sorest  disappointment,  and  ultimately  became  so  disgusted  with  the 
calculating  and  selfish  policy  of  William,  his  unreasonable  and  unjust 
demands  of  rents  and  tythes,  as  well  as  with  the  exactions  and  per- 
secutions of  the  Anglican  church,  which  now  came  to  be  regarded 
by  them  as  little  better  than  the  Roman  Catholic,  that  they  deter- 
mined, once  and  forever,  to  abandon  their  country  and  seek  refuge 
in  the  wilds  of  America. 

The  tide  of  emigration  now  began  to  flow  towards  this  country. 
"  Shipload  after  shipload "  sailed  from  Ulster  with  better  success 
than  had  attended  the  Eagle  Winy.  These  vessels  reached  our 
shores  in  safety,  and  the  descendants  of  the  immigrant  passengers, 
whom  they  bore  hither,  may  be  counted  to-day  by  the  thousands 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  21 

and  tens  of  thousands  on  the  broad  fields  of  Pennsylvania,  in  Vir- 
ginia, in  the  Carolinas ;  in  every  portion  of  the  sunny  South.  Away 
across  the  mountains,  in  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Indiana,  and  every- 
where in  the  mighty  West ;  and  here  among  our  own  granite  hills, 
and,  indeed,  in  greater  or  less  numbers,  throughout  the  entire  Union ; 
the  same  conscientious,  determined,  unyielding,  persevering  men  and 
women,  as  were  their  fathers  and  mothers,  who  sacrificed  every 
earthly  comfort  in  defense  of  that  cause,  the  nearest  and  dearest  to 
their  hearts,  the  principles  of  the  religion  of  Calvin  and  Knox. 

The  first  Presbyterian  minister  who  came  to  America  was  Francis 
Mackemie,  and  the  first  Presbyterian  church  on  this  continent  was 
gathered  by  his  exertions  in  Accomac  county,  in  Virginia.  He  as- 
sisted, also,  in  organizing  churches  in  Maryland.  The  precise  time  is 
not  known,  but  it  must  have  been  just  at  the  close  of  the  seventeenth 
century.  His  name  indicates  his  origin.  He  also  was  from  Ulster, 
and  Scotch-Irish.  Mather  says  there  were  "  Presbyterian  ministers 
residing  in  New  England  before  Mackemie's  time."  But  if  there 
were  such  ministers,  they  very  soon  adopted  the  "  Congregational 
form  of  discipline."  We  know  of  no  earlier  churches  of  the  Pres- 
byterian denomination  in  New  England  than  that  in  Londonderry, 
in  this  state,  which  commenced  with  the  town  itself  in  1719;  and 
the  Federal  Street  church,  in  Boston,  gathered  in  1727,  the  members 
of  both  of  which  came  from  the  same  common  stock,  the  Scotch- 
Irish  in  Ulster.  The  Congregational  form  of  government  was 
adopted  in  the  Federal  Street  church  in  1786.  It  is  the  same  church 
over  which  Dr.  Belknap,  the  historian  of  New  Hampshire,  was  set- 
tled in  1787,  and  subsequently  the  late  celebrated  Dr.  Charming, 
and  is  now  under  the  pastoral  care  of  Dr.  Gannett. 

Mackemie's  churches  were  certainly  organized  more  than  twenty 
years  before  either  of  these.  Mackemie  was  ordained  at  Lagan,  Ire- 
land, as  early  as  1682.  He  went  first  to  Barbadoes,  and  thence  to 
Virginia  and  Maryland.  He  at  one  time  officiated  as  minister  in  the 
church  which  he  had  assisted  to  organize  at  Snowhill,  in  Worcester 
county,  Md.  He  was  a  man  of  extraordinary  intellectual  powers, 
and  was  universally  beloved  by  the  people  of  his  charge.  Irving 
Spence,  Esq.,  in  his  letters  on  the  early  history  of  Presbyterianism, 
says,  "  The  memory  of  no  gospel  minister  was  ever  held  in  higher 
honor  by  an  American  congregation  than  that  of  Mackemie  at 
Snow-Hill.  Tradition  has  made  a  record  of  his  many  excellencies, 
and  one  generation  has  uttered  his  praises  in  the  ears  of  its  succes- 
sor, and  you  may  ever  yet  hear  its  echo."  In  the  village  of  Reho- 
both,  Md.,  near  the  Virginia  line,  there  is  at  this  day  a  Presby- 
terian church  organized  in  the  time  of  Mackemie.  Dr.  Foote,  to 
whom  I  am  indebted  for  this  sketch  of  the  father  of  Presbyterianism 
in  America,  says,  "  You  may  find  now  in  Accomac,  Virginia,  a  con- 
gregation of  Presbyterians,  rising,  Phenix-like,  from  the  ashes  of 
those  who  heard  Mackemie  preach  and  pray." 

Mackemie  revisited  his  native  country  in  1704,  and  induced  other 


22  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Presbyterian  ministers  to  come  and  settle  in  this  country.     Two  of 
these  ministers  were  McNish  and  Hampton. 

Mackemie  assisted  in  foraiing  the  first  Presbytery  in  America,  at 
Philadelphia,  probably  in  1705;  though  the  first  leaf  of  the  records 
of  that  body  is  missing,  and  the  precise  time  cannot  now  be  known. 
The  first  Presbytery  in  New  England  was  formed  in  Londonderry, 
N.  H.,  April  16,  1745,  by  John  Morehead  of  Boston,  James  McGre- 
gors of  Londonderry,  and  Robert  Abercrombie  of  Windham,  with 
an  elder  from  each  of  these  churches.  The  first  Synod  in  New 
England  was  formed  at  Seabrook,  N.  H.,  May  31,  1775 ;  the  first 
meeting  of  this  Synod  was  held  at  Londonderry,  N.  EL,  September 
4,  1775.  It  was  composed  of  three  Presbyteries,  namely,  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Salem,  the  Presbytery  of  Londonderry,  and  the  Presby- 
tery of  Palmer ;  the  church  of  Bedford  was  represented  there  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Houston,  and  belonged  to  the  Presbytery  of  Palmer. 

In  1706,  Mackemie  and  his  friend  and  fellow-laborer,  Hampton, 
commenced  a  journey  from  Virginia  to  Boston.  On  their  way  they 
stopped  in  New  York  to  pay  their  respects  to  Lord  Cornbury,  then 
the  governor  of  that  province ;  they  were  treated  courteously,  and, 
upon  invitation,  dined  with  his  excellency  at  the  castle.  Afterwards 
they  were  invited  to  preach  by  some  Presbyterians  settled  in  New 
York,  and  they  did  preach;  Mackemie  in  the  dwelling-house  of 
William  Jackson,  in  Pearl  street,  and  Hampton,  on  the  same  day,  at 
Newton,  Long  Island.  For  this  they  were  both  arrested  by  Thomas 
Cardale,  sheriff,  on  a  warrant  signed  by  Lord  Cornbury,  charging 
them  with  having  taken  it  upon  them  to  preach  in  a  private  house, 
vrithout  having  obtained  a  license  for  so  doing,  contrary  to  the 
known  laws  of  England ;  and  being  likewise  informed  that  they 
were  gone  into  Long  Island  with  intent  there  to  spread  their  perni- 
cious doctrines  and  principles,  to  the  great  disturbance  of  the  church 
by  law  established ;  and  directing  the  sheriff  to  bring  the  bodies  of 
Mackemie  and  Hampton  to  Fort  Anne.  They  were  both  arrested 
and  imprisoned  in  the  fort ;  indicted  by  the  grand  jury,  and  after 
suffering  a  long  confinement  were  brought  to  trial.  The  prose- 
cuting attorney  called  four  witnesses  who  had  heard  Mackemie 
preach ;  but  the  defendant  told  him  they  need  not  be  sworn.  "  1 
own,"  said  Mackemie,  "  the  matter  of  fact  as  to  preaching,  and  more 
than  these  gentlemen  could  declare  on  oath ;  for  I  have  done  noth- 
ing therein  of  which  I  am  ashamed  or  afraid,  but  will  answer  it  not 
only  before  this  bar,  but  before  the  tribunal  of  God's  final  judgment.'" 

Attorney. — You  own  then  that  you  preached  and  baptized  a  child 
at  William  Jackson's  ? 

Mackemie. — I  did. 

Attorney. — How  many  hearers  had  you  ? 

Mackemie. — I  have  other  work  to  do,  Mr.  Attorney,  than  to  num- 
ber my  auditory  when  I  am  about  to  preach  to  them. 

Attorney. — Were  there  above  five  hearing  you? 

Mackemie. — Yes,  and  five  to  that. 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  23 

Attorney. — Did  you  use  the  rites  and  ceremonies  enjoined  by  and 
prescribed  in  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  by  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land ? 

Jfackemie. — No ;  I  never  did,  nor  ever  will,  till  I  am  better  satis- 
fied in  my  conscience. 

The  trial  proceeded,  and,  in  spite  of  all  the  efforts  of  Cornbury 
and  his  officers,  they  were  both  acquitted  by  the  petit  jury  and  set 
at  liberty,  not,  however,  till  they  had  been  compelled  to  pay  an  exor- 
bitant bill  of  costs. 

Would  any  one  believe  now,  without  evidence  which  cannot  be 
impeached,  that  such  a  scene  as  this  was  exhibited  in  Protestant 
New  York,  under  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  not  one  hundred  and 
fifty  years  ago,  while  in  Catholic  Maryland  a  man  might  live  in 
peace,  whether  Jew,  Mohammedan,  or  Pagan, — whether  Atheist, 
Deist,  or  Polytheist,  provided  he  neither  molested  his  neighbor  nor 
endangered  the  public  morals.  The  truth  is,  that  "great  moral 
cataclysm  of  the  Reformation,"  as  it  was  called,  so  far  as  all  the 
Tudors  and  Stuarts  were  concerned,  from  Henry  VIII  to  Anne, 
amounted  substantially  to  this  and  nothing  more, — it  was  a  transfer 
of  spiritual  power  from  Rome  to  London;  from  the  Vatican  to  St. 
James' ;  from  the  pope  to  the  monarch  of  England.  Protestantism 
was  a  matter  of  convenience  merely  to  the  crown.  Elizabeth  is  said 
to  have  married  Protestantism  and  to  have  taken  its  name ;  but,  it 
is  added,  "most  of  the  court  Protestantism  of  her  time  was  of  a 
damaged  character."  It  was  assumed  that  the  sovereign  of  Great 
Britain,  whoever  it  might  chance  to  be,  man  or  woman,  boy  or  girl, 
was,  jure  divino,  the  head  of  the  church;  from  whom  emanated,  and 
in  whom  centered,  all  spiritual  power,  and  all  ecclesiastical  authority ; 
the  head  of  the  church  and  of  the  state  was  one  and  identical.  The 
immediate  government  of  the  church  was  committed  to  the  bishops, 
the  lordly  prelatical  bishops,  as  they  were  called  by  the  Puritans, — 
the  higher  order  of  the  clergy.  The  Anglican  church,  thus  consti- 
tuted, became,  as  it  was  fitly  denominated,  the  "  queen,  mistress,  or 
nothing,"  and  withal  was  a  ti'emendous  political  engine  with  which 
to  govern  and  control  the  nation.  Henry  VIII  wielded  this  power 
with  a  frightful  energy ;  "  he  burned  as  heretics  those  who  avowed 
the  tenets  of  Luther,  and  hung  as  traitors  those  who  owned  the 
power  of  the  Pope."  He  required  unconditional  submission  to  his 
authority,  as  self-constituted  head  of  the  church.  His  successors, 
down  to  the  period  of  which  we  are  treating,  at  least,  followed  his 
example  so  far  as  they  had  the  ability,  and  circumstances  would 
permit. 

To  this  church  organization  and  this  form  of  church  government, 
the  Presbyterians  dissented  from  the  beginning,  toto  coelo.  They 
never  could,  nor  ever  did,  admit  but  one  Great  Head  of  the  church, 
the  Saviour  of  the  world.  They  never  could,  nor  ever  did,  admit  the 
unscriptural  assumption  of  different  grades  of  the  clergy.  They 
never  could,  nor  ever  did,  admit  the  right  of  the  mother  church  to 


24  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

prescribe  the  forms  of  prayer  and  supplication  which  should  be 
offered  at  the  throne  of  our  Heavenly  Father. 

For  this  non-conformity  to  the  will  of  the  bishops  they  have  been 
hunted  down,  like  wild  beasts  among  their  native  mountains ;  they 
have  been  chained  to  the  seashore  at  low  water,  and  left  to  drown 
by  the  sure  reflux  of  the  tide ;  they  have  been  subjected  to  the  ex- 
cruciating torture  of  the  "  iron  boot,"  or  to  the  still  more  exquisite 
and  horrible  pains  of  the  thumbkin.  For  this  non-conformity,  in 
matters  purely  of  conscience,  they  have  "  suffered  extremities  that 
tongue  cannot  describe,  and  which  heart  can  hardly  conceive,  from 
hunger,  nakedness,  lying  in  damp  caves  and  in  the  hollow  clefts  of 
naked  rocks,  without  shelter,  covering,  fire,  or  food."  They  fell  by 
the  hand  of  the  assassin ;  were  slaughtered  by  thousands  in  battle. 
They  have  been  fastened  together,  like  dogs  in  leaches,  and  driven 
as  a  spectacle  through  the  country.  People  have  been  put  to  death  for 
daring  even  to  speak  to  them  in  their  distress.  Fathers  have  been 
persecuted  for  supplying  the  wants  of  their  children,  and  children 
for  nourishing  their  parents ;  husbands  for  harboring  their  wives, 
and  wives  for  cherishing  their  husbands.  In  all  these  trials,  suffer- 
ings, privations,  tortures,  and  even  in  the  agonies  of  death  itself,  they 
were  sustained  by  their  own  approving  consciences,  by  a  steady  and 
unshaken  reliance  upon  the  promises  of  God,  and,  above  all,  by  the 
great  example  of  the  patient  endurance  of  Him  who  died  for  us  all 
on  Mount  Calvary.  These  men  and  women  had  subscribed  the 
national  "  solemn  league  and  covenant,"  that  "  copious  and  poetical 
creed,"  that  great  declaration  of  the  independence  of  the  church. 
They  had  proclaimed  their  eternal  separation,  in  spiritual  matters, 
from  the  civil  government  of  the  land ;  and  like  the  fathers  ■  of  this 
American  republic,  they  had  pledged  their  lives,  their  fortunes,  and 
all  that  was  dear  to  them  to  the  fulfilment  of  these  sacred  engage- 
ments. 

Were  the  descendants  of  such  a  people,  and  especially  was  Francis 
Mackemie,  one  of  the  most  talented  and  able  and  conscientious  of 
their  sons,  to  be  deterred  by  the  threats  or  hindered  by  the  malice 
of  a  petty  colonial  governor,  from  fulfiling  his  mission  of  preaching 
the  gospel,  in  its  simplicity  and  truth,  upon  the  continent  of  America  V 

But  the  time  was  very  soon  to  arrive  when  neither  Lord  Cornburv. 
nor  the  government  of  Virginia,  nor  the  legislative  or  executive 
power  of  any  of  the  colonies,  nor  all  of  them  combined,  could  hinder 
or  prevent  the  free  and  unrestrained  promulgation  of  the  doctrines 
of  Presbyterianism  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land. 
This  church  was  about  to  arise,  and  in  her  strength  to  stand  boldly 
forth  and  assert  her  rights  and  defend  her  doctrines.  The  people 
were  beginning  to  gather  around  her  ministers,  and  to  listen  with 
more  interest  and  increased  attention  to  their  instructions.  Soon 
some  of  her  ablest  advocates  and  most  eminent  teachers  were  to  take 
the  field ;  soon  was  to  arise  the  first  of  that  series  of  "  Log  Colleges," 
which  afterwards  proved  of  incalculable  advantage  to  the  church 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  25 

and  to  the  people,  as  the  nurseries  of  sound  learning  and  piety; 
soon  were  to  appear  the  Tennents,  father  and  sons,  the  Blairs,  that 
"Apostle  of  Virginia,"  Samuel  Davis,  our  own  Macgregors,  the 
Smiths,  Stanhope,  and  a  host  of  other  able  and  popular  preachers 
and  "men  of  mark."  The  Presbyterian  faith  and  its  legitimate 
fruits  came  to  be  better  understood  and  more  highly  appreciated, — 
the  immediate  government  of  every  church  by  elders,  chosen  by  its 
own  members,  the  perfect  equality  of  the  clergy,  those  spiritual  judi- 
catories, the  church  session  or  consistory,  the  Presbytery  or  classis, 
the  Synod  and  the  general  assembly,  rising  regularly  and  gradually 
one  above  another,  each  exercising  only  such  powers  as  are  specially 
delegated  by  its  own  legitimate  constituency,  and  all  operating  as  a 
system  of  checks  and  balances  upon  each  other,  present  to  the  mind 
a  model  of  republicanism  which  it  would  be  difficult  to  excel  in 
framing  a  civil  code,  based  upon  the  representative  principle,  for  any 
people. 

Permit  me  now  for  a  moment  to  turn  to  another  and  a  very  large 
and  interesting  division  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  United 
States ;  I  mean  the  accessions  which  have  been  made  to  its  numbers 
directly  from  Scotland. 

The  great  influx  of  Scotch  emigrants  to  this  country  began  in 
1747.  It  was  the  year  which  followed  the  battle  of  Culloden.  It 
is  hardly  necessary  to  repeat  a  very  familiar  historical  account  of  the 
ill-advised  efforts  of  Charles  Edward,  the  grandson  of  James  II, 
who  so  ingloriously  fled  from  his  kingdom  sixty  years  before,  to  re- 
gain for  his  family  the  crown  which  his  ancestor  had  so  foolishly 
and  so  basely  lost. 

"With  a  few  friends,  a  few  stands  of  arms,  and  very  little  money 
or  means,  this  enthusiastic  young  prince  landed  in  Scotland,  on  the 
16th  of  July,  1745.  A  portion  of  the  Highland  clans,  and  some 
others  from  an  inherent  principle  or  impulse  of  loyalty  for  the  legit- 
imate heir  to  the  crown,  and  some,  perhaps,  from  a  mere  spirit  of 
adventure,  rallied  around  his  standard.  At  his  first  appearance, 
wild  and  impracticable  as  his  scheme  seemed,  to  the  Sober  and  judi- 
cious, he  occasioned,  nevertheless,  much  excitement.  It  will  occur 
to  you  at  once  that  this  is  the  same  personage  referred  to  in  the  popu- 
lar song  of  the  times,  which  was,  "  Who'll  be  king  but  Charlie  ?  " 
George  II,  then  king  of  England,  became  alarmed  at  the  progress  of 
Charles  Edward,  and  his  followers,  and  sent  the  Duke  of  Cumber- 
land, with  an  army,  to  chastise  the  invader,  and  to  punish  his  rebel- 
lious subjects  in  the  north.  The  hostile  parties  met  at  Culloden, 
near  Inverness,  in  Scotland.  The  party  of  the  Pretender  was  totally 
defeated,  the  principal  escaping  barely  with  his  life.  Cumberland 
pursued  the  fallen  foe  with  unnecessary,  with  even  brutal,  severity, 
killing  in  cold  blood  the  unfortunate  adherents  to  Charles,  and  burn- 
ing their  houses  over  their  heads.  He  received  the  name  of  "  the 
butcher  "  on  account  of  the  atrocities  of  which  he  was  then  guilty. 
He  earned  many  of  his  prisoners  to  London.     Many  were  publicly 


26  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

executed  as  a  warning  to  the  rest  of  the  king's  subjects.  The  offend- 
ers were,  however,  so  numerous  that  George  II  at  length  changed 
his  course  towards  them,  and  granted  a  general  pardon  upon  the 
condition  that  they  would  first  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  him 
and  his  house,  and  then  emigrate  to  the  plantations. 

Preferring  expatriation  to  an  ignominious  death  they,  of  course, 
availed  themselves  of  the  royal  clemency.  Soon  they  began  to  land 
on.  the  shores  of  America.  The  first  important  settlement  which 
they  made  was  on  the  Cape  Fear  river  in  North  Carolina.  This 
settlement  proved  to  be  a  very  valuable  acquisition  to  the  Presbyte- 
rian church,  and  ultimately  to  the  country.  Industry,  frugality, 
intelligence,  and  consequently  correct  moral  deportment,  were  then 
as  now,  characteristics  of  the  Scotch.  These  qualities  belonged 
eminently  to  the  Cape  Fear  settlement.  They  were  strict  conscien- 
tious Presbyterians.  They  had  taken  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  their 
king.     It  was  the  condition  of  their  pardon. 

It  will  not  then  be  thought  so  wonderfully  at  variance  with  the 
standard  of  morality  if  many  of  these  people  are  found  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  War  of  the  Revolution  too  reluct  at  taking  arms 
against  the  government  they  had  so  solemnly  sworn  to  support.  Nor 
will  it  be  considered  so  uniformly  an  offense  altogether  unpardona- 
ble, if  they  are  at  first,  found  to  raise  their  voices  and  their  arms  in  the 
cause  of  their  anointed  sovereign.  When  we  censure,  with  our 
accustomed  severity,  all  those  who  did  not  heartily  unite  at  the  out- 
set, with  the  popular  party  of  '75,  we  must  remember  that  these 
Scotchmen,  of  all  the  rest  of  the  world,  had  the  best  reason  to  dread 
the  very  name  of  civil  war  and  revolution.  Besides,  the  course  then 
adopted  was  unquestionably  with  many  of  them,  the  result  of  an 
irrepressible  feeling  of  loyalty,  as  well  as  sense  of  religious  obliga- 
tion to  keep  faith  with  the  government  which  protected  them.  Does 
it  become  us  to  stigmatize  with  opprobrious  epithets  all  those  pious 
and  conscientious  persons,  clergymen  and  laymen,  who  fled  the 
country,  or  who  refused  to  lend  their  aid  to  the  Revolutionary  party 
in  our  incipient  struggle  with  the  mother  country  ?  Is  it  not  much 
more  charitable  and  abundantly  more  rational  to  suppose  that  many 
of  them,  our  own  countrymen  as  well  as  the  Scotch,  acted  from  high 
moral  and  religious  principle? 

We  had  a  remarkable  instance  of  political  defection  very  near 
home  ;  our  first  minister,  the  Rev.  John  Houston,  refused  to  sub- 
scribe to  the  Association  Test.  He  was  the  only  man  in  the  town 
who  did  not  pledge  himself,  body  and  soul,  to  the  cause  of  freedom. 
Let  us,  before  we  utterly  condemn  his  course,  look  for  a  single  mo- 
ment at  the  circumstances  attending  his  acts.  He  was  alone  in  his 
views ;  nobody  sustained  him,  not  a  single  member  of  his  church  or 
congregation ;  look  at  him  when  the  doors  of  his  church  were  shut 
upon  him,  when  he  was  forbidden  ever  again  to  ascend  to  the  sacred 
desk  ;  when  the  officers  arrested  him,  and  required  bonds  for  his 
detention  within  the  limits  of  the  county ;  when  he  was  spurned  by 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  27 

his  former  friends ;  when  all  the  insults  of  an  excited  and  indignant 
people  were  cast  upon  his  defenceless  head, — and  then  say,  in  can- 
dor, whether  he  probably  endured  all  this  simply  because  he  was  an 
enemy  to  a  republican  form  of  government,  or,  rather,  whether  he 
was  not  acting  under  the  belief  that  he  was  forbidden,  by  one  whose 
commands  he  dared  not  disobey,  to  resist  and  levy  war  upon  the 
"  powers  that  were  ?  "  Let  us  be  kind,  let  us  be  charitable ;  let  us 
at  least  be  just  to  the  memory  of  our  long  since  departed,  sincere, 
but  sadly  mistaken  spiritual  guide  and  minister  in  holy  things.  He 
has  gone,  as  have  the  early  settlers  on  Cape  Fear  river,  and  thou- 
sands of  others,  who  fell  into  the  same  error,  to  their  final  account. 
And  we,  who  have  been  made  happy  in  the  triumph  of  liberty,  in 
the  overthrow  of  despotism,  in  the  glorious  results  which  have  suc- 
ceeded the  efforts  which  they  opposed,  after  all,  feebly  and  ineffec- 
tually, can  afford  to  forget  and  forgive.     NU  mortuis  nisi  bonum. 

I  am  strongly  tempted,  even  at  the  hazard  of  your  reproof  for 
trespassing  too  long  upon  your  kind  indulgence,  to  introduce  a  sin- 
gle Scotch  Presbyterian  emigrant,  who  came  here  as  late  as  '.75  and 
joined  her  friends  in  North  Carolina,  a  woman,  one  whose  name  has 
adorned  the  pages  of  history  and  of  romance,  and  has  been  rendered 
immortal  by  the  best  pen  that  ever  described  Scottish  scenery  or 
Scottish  character, — she  is  none  other  than  Flora  MacDonald. 

Go  with  me,  in  imagination,  to  an  island  called  South-Uist,  one  of 
the  Hebrides,  near  the  western  shore  of  Scotland.  There  we  shall 
find,  hid  away  in  a  cavern  by  the  seaside,  the  prince,  Charles  Edward, 
just  escaped  from  the  hot  pursuit  of  the  soldiers  and  spies  of  the 
Duke  of  Cumberland,  after  the.  disasters  of  Culloden.  He  is  here, 
under  the  care  of  the  Laird  of  Clanranald,  though  in  imminent  peril, 
every  moment,  of  falling  into  the  hands  of  his  enemies,  who  have 
pursued  him  like  blood  hounds,  and  are  now  searching  the  island  for 
his  hiding-place.  Various  expedients  have  been  devised  to  effect  his 
safe  removal.  In  the  midst  of  anxious  deliberation  among  his 
friends,  Flora  MacDonald,  a  relative  of  Clanranald,  accidentally 
arrived  on  a  visit.  A  young  lady  just  returned  from  Edinburgh, 
where  she  had  been  to  be  educated,  beautiful,  kind-hearted,  and 
devotedly  attached  to  the  cause  of  Charles.  Her  father  was  dead. 
Her  mother,  who  had  married  a  second  time,  lived  on  the  neighbor- 
ing Isle  of  Skye,  where  Flora  was  born,  and  where  was  then  her 
home.  , 

A  romantic  scheme  was  now  proposed  for  the  deliverance  of  the 
Pretender.  This  was,  that  he  should  put  on  the  dress  of  an  Irish 
serving-woman,  and  leave  for  the  Isle  of  Skye  in  the  company  of  a 
female.  Flora  was  requested  to  take  the  principal  part  in  this  peril- 
ous enterprise.  Such  was  her  zeal  for  her  fallen  though  still  her 
"  rightfu'  lawfu' "  prince  and  heir  to  the  throne,  that  she  consented. 
With  the  utmost  difficulty  the  party  escaped  in  the  night  in  a  boat, 
the  prince  attired  as  a  female  servant,  and  assuming  the  name  of 
Betsey  Burke,  with  nothing  but  the  feeble  arm  and  woman's  wit  of 


28  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Flora  MacDonald  for  his  protection.  They  encountered  a  storm  of 
much  severity  during  the  navigation  of  that  fearful  night.  At  early 
dawn  the  next  morning,  they  attempted  to  land  at  Point  Weternish, 
on  Flora's  home  island.  They  were  suspected  by  some  soldiers,  who 
fired  upon  their  little  bark.  They  retreated,  and  soon  gained  the 
shore  at  another  place  in  safety.  Here  again,  in  another  seaside 
cave,  this  young  man,  the  object  of  so  much  solicitude,  was  carefully 
secreted,  while  Flora  hastened  to  procure  food  and  relief  for  him. 
By  the  advice  of  her  friends,  as  soon  as  they  were  refreshed,  Flora, 
still  accompanied  by  Charles,  in  the  dress  of  Betsey  Burke,  made  all 
haste  to  reach  the  town  of  Kingsburg,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
island,  a  distance  of  twelve  miles,  which  they  performed  on  foot  that 
day.  The  danger  was  now  considered  past,  the  prince  was  saved. 
At  parting  he  kissed  his  fair  guide  and  said  to  her :  "  Gentle,  faith- 
ful maiden,  I  entertain  the  hope  that  we  shall  yet  meet  in  the  royal 
palace."  But  they  never  met  again.  The  poor,  broken-hearted  prince 
was  doomed  to  die  in  obscurity.  Flora  was  soon  after  arrested  and, 
with  many  others  who  had  participated  with  her  in  this  bold  and 
romantic  adventure,  carried  to  London  and  imprisoned  in  the  Tower 
on  a  charge  of  aiding  and  abetting  attempts  against  the  life  of  King 
George  II. 

During  her  imprisonment  many  of  the  English  nobility  became 
interested  in  the  fate  of  this  high-spirited  and  noble-hearted  girl. 
Learning  that  she  was  a  Presbyterian,  and  of  course  not  a  partisan  of 
the  Pretender,  whose  life  she  had  saved  by  her  courage  and  her 
sagacity,  the  king  was  prevailed  upon  to  pardon  her.  She  was 
sent  back  to  her  native  island,  literally  loaded  with  the  richest 
presents.  She  was  married  four  years  after  her  release  to  Allen 
MacDonald,  and  continued  to  reside  in  the  Isle  of  Skye.  She  be- 
came the  mother  of  a  numerous  family,  and  in  1775  came  to  this  coun- 
try and  settled  in  North  Carolina.  The  time  of  her  arrival  here  was 
unfortunate  for  her ;  the  Revolution  had  but  just  begun.  Her  kins- 
man, Donald  MacDonald,  who  had  been  an  officer  in  the  '45  of  her 
favorite  Charles,  and  who  had  taken  the  oath  of  allegiance  to 
George  II,  and  emigrated  to  save  his  life,  was  already  a  military 
officer  in  this  country,  in  the  king's  service,  by  the  appointment  of 
the  governor  of  North  Carolina.  Flora  MacDonald  was  therefore 
at  once  surrounded  by  such  influences  as  to  induce  her  to  lend  her 
aid  to  the  royal  party  in  the  Carolinas.  Her  friends,  including  her 
husband,  who  opposed  the  patriots,  were  soon  defeated  as  disastrously 
as  they  had  been  at  Culloden.  After  much  suffering,  great  priva- 
tions, and  pecuniary  loss,  she,  with  her  family,  left  our  shores  for 
the  place  where,  thirty  years  before,  she  had  bid  farewell  to  Prince 
Charles.  She  had  hazarded  her  life,  first  for  the  House  of  Stuart, 
and  then  for  the  House  of  Hanover,  and  she  had  the  best  reasons 
for  saying,  with  the  good-natured  Mercutio  in  the  play,  "A  plague 
o'  both  the  houses."  She  was  an  exemplary  woman  in  all  the  rela- 
tions of  life,  modest,   gentle,  and   retiring  in   her  manners,  and  Dr. 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  29 

Foote  says:  "Her  memory  will  live  in  North  Carolina  while  noble- 
ness has  admirers  and  romantic  self-devotion  to  the  welfare  of  the 
distressed  can  charm  the  heart,"  and  adds  :  "Massachusetts  has  her 
Lady  Arabella,  Virginia  her  Pocahontas,  and  North  Carolina  her 
Flora  MacDonald." 

I  ought  to  mention  the  fact,  in  this  connection,  that  in  the  old 
north  state,  to  this  day,  the  original  character,  habits,  and  even  the 
language  of  the  Scotch  are  preserved  and  continued,  with  less  of 
change  than  in  any  other  part  of  the  United  States.  In  some  of  the 
churches  in  the  presbytery  of  Fayetteville,  the  gospel  is  still  preached 
in  the  native  tongue  of  the  Highlanders,  the  Gaelic. 

It  was  in  Fayetteville  where  Flora  AlacDonald  resided  for  some 
time.  Her  house,  which  had  become  an  object  of  great  interest  to 
visitors,  was  unfortunately  destroyed  a  few  years  ago,  by  fire. 

I  cannot  forego  the  pleasure  of  referring  to  one  other  Presbyterian 
heroine,  who  has  been  connected  with  events  of  a  much  more  recent 
date,  and  the  account  of  whose  courage  and  intrepid  conduct  I  have 
very  lately  received  from  her  own  lips,  much  more  in  detail  than  I 
can  now  repeat  it.  Franklin  Chase,  our  consul  at  Tampico,  just 
after  the  battles  on  the  Rio  Grande,  received  peremptory  orders  to 
leave  the  town  and  Mexican  territory  in  six  hours,  and  not  to  dis- 
obey, upon  the  peril  of  his  life.  The  order  was  in  direct  violation  of 
the  treaty  between  the  two  countries;  yet,  from  the  revengeful  char- 
acter of  the  people,  he  knew  it  would  be  executed  to  the  letter.  He 
was  largely  engaged  in  trade.  All  his  property  consisted  of  a  house, 
and  a  store  tilled  with  valuable  goods.  He  prepared,  of  course,  to 
leave  all ;  but  his  wife,  Ann  Chase,  refused  to  go  with  him.  He 
entreated  and  commanded  her,  but  to  no  purpose.  At  length,  tear- 
ing himself  away,  he  was  enabled  to  reach  an  American  sloop  of 
war  lying  in  the  offing,  just  in  season  to  comply  with  the  tyrannical 
order  of  the  Mexican  general.  Mrs.  Chase  was  now  left  alone. 
There  was  not  an  American  in  the  place.  She  was  surrounded  by 
excited  and  bitter  enemies,  a  defenceless  woman.  But  she  did  not 
falter  or  flinch,  or  droop  in  despondency.  She  was  equal  to  the 
emergency.  She  soon  began  to  make  preparations  to  effect  the  sur- 
render of  the  town  to  the  naval  forces  of  the  United  States,  then 
cruising  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  She  engaged  certain  Mexican  pilots 
to  give  her  the  exact  soundings  over  the  bar  at  the  mouth  of  the 
river  on  which  the  city  stands.  With  the  aid  of  this  information, 
and  an  old  English  chart,  she  constructed  a  plan  of  Tampico  and  its 
neighborhood.  She  then  contrived  to  open  a  correspondence  with 
the  commodore  of  the  American  fleet.  She  was  earned  herself  in  an 
open  canoe,  rowed  by  two  Indians,  twenty  miles  to  sea  in  the  night, 
to  the  commodore's  ship.  She  there  furnished  him  with  the  plan 
already  prepared,  and  made  arrangements  to  raise  a  signal  in  the 
town  when  the  proper  time  should  arrive  for  a  safe  landing.  She 
returned  unobserved  and  unharmed,  and  immediately  set  to  work  to 
redeem  her  pledge  to  the  commodore.     One  bright  morning  soon 


30  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

after,  to  the  litter  astonishment  and  dismay  of  the  Mexicans,  she  was 
seen  on  the  highest  point  of  the  roof  of  her  dwelling-house,  her  arm 
encircling  and  sustaining  a  flagstaff  from  which  floated  in  the  breeze 
the  American  stars  and  stripes. 

In  vain  the  people  shouted  to  her  and  threatened  her  with  instant 
death  if  she  persisted  in  maintaining  her  position.  She  replied,  in 
her  accustomed  calm  and  collected  manner :  "  You  can  do  me  but 
little  harm ;  you  can  only  rob  me  of  a  few  short  years  of  life  by  any 
death  you  can  inflict.  I  have  raised  this  flag  of  my  country  over  my 
house,  and  here  it  shall  remain.  I  have  taken  my  stand  under  its 
folds,  and  it  shall  be  my  shroud  if  I  perish  upon  this  roof."  And 
there  she  did  remain,  until  relieved  by  a  detachment  of  officers  and 
men  from  the  American  squadron,  accompanied  by  her  husband. 
The  result  is  well  known.  The  Mexicans  became  alarmed,  panic- 
stricken,  and  finally  fled  in  all  directions.  The  town  was  completely 
deserted  before  a  single  boat  had  landed.  Mrs.  Chase  alone,  had  put 
to  rout  the  inhabitants,  soldiers  and  ail,  and  was  sole  mistress  of 
Tampico. 

For  this  daring  and  brilliant  exploit  she  deserved,  and  has 
received,  the  highest  commendations,  the  praise  and  the  thanks  of 
the  people  of  the  United  ,States.  The  city  of  New  Orleans  pre- 
sented to  her  a  splendid  service  of  plate.  The  ladies  of  Cincinnati 
sent  her  a  beautiful  flag.  Others  have  honored  her  by  forwarding  to 
her  swords,  firearms,  and  even  pieces  of  artillery,  in  token  of  respect 
for  this  deed  of  heroism. 

It  is  almost  impossible  to  disconnect  in  our  own  minds  such  a 
female  from  all  that  is  masculine,  ferocious,  and  passionate.  Yet,  if 
you  should  ever  have  the  good  fortune  to  meet  this  lady,  you  will 
find  her  quiet,  modest,  and  retiring,  intelligent,  kind,  and  benevolent, 
a  pious,  devoted  Presbyterian,  and  just  the  last  person  one  would 
have  selected  at  first  sight,  for  the  warlike  service  in  which  she  was 
involved. 

It  is  hardly  necessary  for  me  to  add  that  she  is  descended  from 
the  same  stock  we  have  considered  so  much  to-day,  that  she  is  one 
of  the  very  best  of  that  people  who  are  "  brave  as  they  are  gentle, 
and  gentle  as  they  are  brave."  She  is  Scotch-Irish ;  her  parents  are 
of  Londonderry,  on  the  Foyle,  and  she  is  related  in  no  very  distant 
degree,  to  the  noble  house  of  the  Red  Douglas. 

We  had,  but  a  few  months  since,  here  in  our  midst,  an  eminent 
and  striking  example  of  the  high  moral  and  intellectual  qualities  of 
the  Scotch-Irish  character  in  a  female,  a  native  of  this  town,  one 
whose  presence  we  sadly  miss  now.  It  is  true,  she  had  never 
endured  the  horrors  of  a  beleaguered  town,  she  had  saved  no  fallen 
prince  from  an  untimely  death;  she  had  captured  no  city.  No 
emergency  ever  occurred  connecting  her  name  with  any  perilous  or 
romantic  adventure.  She  was  no  heroine  in  the  common  accepta- 
tion of  the  term.  Hers  was  a  life  of  calm,  quiet,  steady,  but  earnest 
devotion  to  one  great  end  and  purpose,  namely,  the  moral,  religious, 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  31 

and  intellectual  culture  of  the  youth  of  her  time.  In  this  cause  she 
labored  and  toiled,  in  comparative  obscurity,  to  be  sure,  for  the  last 
fifty  years.  It  is  perhaps  praise  enough  to  say,  that  at  the  time  of 
her  death  she  could  undoubtedly  have  summoned  around  her  more 
well  instructed  pupils  than  any  female  of  her  age  in  New  England. 

There  are  few  natives  of  Bedford  who  came  upon  the  stage  since 
the  commencement  of  the  present  century,  who  do  not  remember 
with  grateful  affection  the  valuable  instruction,  the  kind  advice,  the 
pious  and  excellent  precepts  and  example  of  Ann  Orr.  Who  of  us 
does  not  feel  to-day  that  we  should  experience  an  additional  thrill 
of  pleasure,  if  we  were  able  once  more  to  cluster  around  our  kind- 
hearted,  strong-minded  and  sensible  old  school-mistress,  take  her  by 
the  hand,  and  ask  of  her  the  continuance  of  the  approbation  and  the 
blessings  which  she  bestowed  upon  us  when  we  were  her  "  boys." 

But  this  cannot  be.  She,  too,  has  left  us.  She  sleeps  on  yonder 
rising  ground,  never  to  awake  until  all  are  summoned,  the  teacher 
and  the  taught,  the  master  and  the  pupil,  the  learned  and  the  igno- 
rant, the  wise  and  the  foolish,  to  render  a  final  account  to  the  great 
Judge,  whose  name  she  told  us  to  reverence,  and  whose  example  she 
prayed  we  might  imitate. 

Presbyterianism,  that  is  the  government  of  the  church  by  elders, 
and  the  utter  negation  of  all  prelatical  power  in  ecclesiastical  affairs, 
dates  very  far  back-  It  was  found,  according  to  Dr.  Miller,  among 
the  simple-minded  Paulicians  in  the  seventh  century.  It  was  the 
church  government  of  the  Albigenses,  and  of  the  Waldenses,  includ- 
ing the  Bohemian  Brothers.  It  can  be  traced  even  to  the  syna- 
gogues of  the  Jews,  before  the  Saviour's  advent.  It  has  been  sus- 
tained by  the  most  eminent  believers  in  Christendom.  By  Luther 
and  Melancthon  and  Bucaer,  in  Germany.  By  Favel,  Calvin,  and 
others,  in  France  and  Geneva.  By  Zuingle,  in  Switzerland.  By 
Peter  Martyr,  in  Italy.  By  A.  Lasco,  in  Hungary.  By  Junius  and 
others,  in  Holland,  and  by  a  decided  majority  of  the  enlightened  and 
pious  friends  of  the  Reformation,  in  England. 

Here  it  is  comparatively  modern  and  new.  We  derive  it  from 
Scotland,  its  "homestead,"  in  Great  Britain,  and  principally  through 
the  Scotch-Irish  of  Ulster,  although  we  are  largely  indebted  to  the 
Scotch,  the  Huguenots,  and  the  Hollanders  for  many  professors. 

We  must  not  forget  that  it  first  began  on  this  continent,  with 
Francis  Mackemie,  only  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  on  a  nar- 
row strip  of  land  between  the  Chesapeake  and  Delaware, — that  then, 
hardly  venturing  to  show  its  face  in  the  light  of  day,  it  was  seen 
begging  of  the  cavaliers  of  Virginia  for  a  license  to  assert  its  doc- 
trines ;  that  it  was  punished  by  imprisonment  in  Xew  York,  and 
spurned  by  the  church  of  England  as  "a  religion  not  fit  for  a  gen- 
tleman." 

The  Separatists,  Independents,  or  Congregationalists,  as  they  are 
now  everywhere  known,  had  occupied  all  the  ground  in  Xew  Eng- 
land long   before    Presbyterianism   made   its  appearance.     Carver, 


32  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Bradford,  and  Stand  ish  came  one  hundred  years  before  MacGregore, 
Corn  well,  and  Boyd.  The  Speedwell  had,  indeed,  been  driven  back 
by  the  tempests  of  the  ocean,  like  the  Eagle  Wing,  but  the  May- 
flower had  weathered  the  storms  and  brought  with  her  to  our  own 
shores  the  representatives  of  one  great  division  of  the  Puritans  of 
Great  Britain.  These  men,  the  "  Pilgrim  Fathers,"  had  established 
a  spiritual  democracy,  under  the  name  of  Congregationalism,  a  sys- 
tem of  church  government  which  originated  here,  and  with  them, 
and  which  so  well  accorded  with  the  prevailing  sentiment  of  the 
times,  that  it  was  almost  univei'sally  accepted  in  the  New  England 
colonies.  Republican  Presbyterianism  had,  therefore,  to  seek 
another  field  for  her  labor.  That  field  she  found  in  the  vast  terri- 
tory of  the  middle,  southern,  and  ultimately,  of  the  Avestern  and 
southwestern  states.  The  progress  and  relative  condition  of  the  two 
systems  may  be  learned  very  readily,  by  consulting  the  religious  sta- 
tistics of  the  country.  In  1848  there  were  in  the  United  States 
3,584  Presbyterian  churches,  only  eleven  of  them  being  in  Xew 
England,  and  nine  of  that  eleven  in  New  Hampshire,  the  other  two 
in  Massachusetts.  There  were  2,672  ordained  ministers,  and  prob- 
ably 900  licentiates  and  candidates,  and  279,782  communicants. 
There  were  at  the  same  time,  stated  upon  the  same  authority,  not 
far  from  1,500  Congregational  churches ;  the  Presbyterians  exceed- 
ing them  by  2,084.  Of  these  1,500  churches,  more  than  1,000  were 
in  New  England.  The  number  of  Congregational  ministers  was 
about  1,350,  against  3,572  ministers  and  licentiates  of  the  Presby- 
terian church,  the  balance  in  favor  of  the  latter,  being  2,222.  The 
Congregational  communicants  are  stated  at  180,000,  being  nearly 
100,000  less  than  those  of  the  Presbyterians  at  the  same  time.  This 
estimate  of  the  Congregational  churches  and  ministers  does  not  in- 
clude those  which  have  rejected  what  are  called  the  doctrines  of  the 
Reformation,  better  known  as  Unitarian.  The  churches  of  this  last 
description  are  nearly  all  cod  fined  to  Massachusetts,  where  Congre- 
gationalism first  began.  1  believe  there  is  no  instance  where  a  Pres- 
byterian church  has  directly  and  openly  adopted  the  faith  and  forms 
of  Unitarianism.  The  Federal  Street  church  in  Boston,  which  was 
the  second  Presbyterian  church  ever  organized  in  New  England, 
and  which  was  successively  under  the  pastoral  care  of  Morehead  and 
Annin,  two  zealous  disciples  of  Knox  and  Calvin,  might  seem  to  be 
an  exception.  But  the  members  of  that  church  voted  to  change, 
and  did  change,  the  form  of  its  government  to  that  of  Congrega- 
tionalism, before  it  became  Unitarian. 

In  view  of  this  very  imperfect,  brief,  and  hasty  sketch  of  the 
origin,  progress,  character,  and  success  of  Presbyterianism  in  New 
England  and  throughout  the  United  States,  which  has  been 
attempted  to-day,  who  is  prepared  to  estimate  the  value  of  the 
labors,  the  sacrifices,  and  the  sufferings  of  its  early  founders  ?  Who 
does  not  perceive  and  acknowledge  the  vast  importance  of  the  mis- 
sion of  the  Scotch-Irish  to  our  shores?     Failing  in  their  first  attempt 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  33 

to  reach  us,  from  physical  causes  altogether  above  and  beyond  then- 
control,  they  hastened  back  upon  that  JEagle  Wing,  which  proved  too 
frail  to  sustain  them  in  the  wider  transatlantic  flight  which  they 
meditated,  not  to  repair  and  relit  for  a  second  voyage  the  feeble 
craft  in  which  they  had  hazarded  their  lives,  but  to  lit  and  prepare 
themselves,  their  countrymen,  and  then  posterity  for  the  great  work 
which,  although  postponed  for  a  time,  they  foresaw  must  sooner  or 
later  devolve  upon  them.  That  work  was  to  raise  the  standard  of 
their  religion  in  the  vast  wilderness  of  America.  Hither,  in  God's 
own  time,  they  came,  bringing  with  them  what  was  better  than  silver 
and  gold,  their  habits  of  untiring  industry,  of  frugality,  and  strict 
economy ;  bringing  with  them  that  unconquerable  energy  of  charac- 
ter which  overcomes  all  opposition ;  bringing  with  them  minds 
enlightened  and  enriched  by  the  best  learning  of  the  age,  and  a  re- 
ligious profession  and  a  faith  drawn  from  the  Bible  and  tested  by 
the  sufferings  and  the  martyrdom  of  thousands  of  its  converts. 
With  such  habits,  and  with  such  moral  and  religious  principles,  they 
could  not  fail  of  success. 

But  the  length  to  which  these  remarks  have  extended,  admonishes 
me  that  it  is  time  to  dismiss  the  subject  and  to  take  my  leave.  Still, 
I  would  linger  at  the  parting,  hesitate  upon  the  farewell.  Standing, 
as  I  do,  in  the  midst  of  the  friends  of  my  youth,  my  schoolmates, 
and  the  playmates  of  my  childhood,  each  face  and  each  familiar 
name  associated  with  some  of  the  dearest  recollections  of  my  life,  I 
would,  before  we  part,  gladly  recount  with  you  some  of  the  events 
and  revive  some  of  the  scenes  with  which  we  were  so  familiar  in  our 
earlier,  younger,  and  brighter  days.  I  would  run  with  you  again 
over  the  green  fields  to  cull  the  wild  flowers,  or  stray  away  into  the 
pastures  to  gather  the  mountain-laurel,  which  blooms  upon  our  native 
land  as  it  blooms  nowhere  else.  I  would  ascend  the  highest  hill  for 
a  broader  gaze  upon  the  bright  horizon  which  encircles  us.  I  would 
plunge  into  the  forest,  or  loiter  along  the  meadow  brook,  or  I  would 
launch  with  you  the  light  boat,  for  a  sail  upon  the  clear  bosom  of  the 
ever-flowing  Merrimack.  Or,  we  could  go  back,  if  we  would,  in 
imagination,  to  our  childish  gambols.  We  could  join  in  the  sportive 
mirth  of  a  Thanksgiving  evening,  or  rejoice  in  the  holy-day  pastimes 
of  the  general  election  and  the  Fourth  of  July.  We  might  revisit 
the  old  schoolhouse,  and  once  more  con  over  those  sometimes  irk- 
some but  always  most  important  tasks  of  elemental  learning,  which 
have  so  often  puzzled  and  perplexed  us. 

Would  we  not,  if  we  had  the  time,  recall  some  of  the  scenes  of 
the  severe  daily  toil  of  our  fathers  ?  We  might  drive  "  the  team 
afleld  "  again ;  and  even  put  our  hands  to  the  plow  once  more.  It 
would  do  us  no  harm.  It  was  the  honest  and  healthful  employment 
by  which  they  who  brought  us  into  life,  earned  their  and  our  daily 
bread.  Or,  in  the  stillness  of  the  sacred  Sabbath  morning,  we  might 
assemble  at  the  old  meeting-house  and  listen  to  him  who  was  com- 
missioned to  bear  the  message  of  peace  to  the  upright  in  heart,  and 


34  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

dencmnce  with  fearful  indignation  the  unrighteous  and  the  disso- 
lute. 

We  would  recross  the  threshold  of  the  dear  old  cottage,  where 
first  the  light  of  heaven  was  revealed  to  our  wondering  eyes, — where 
we  were  nurtured  and  sustained  by  the  fondness  of  a  father,  and 
where  every  wish  was  anticipated,  and  every  want  supplied  from 
that  overlioAving  fountain  of  kindness — a  mother's  love — which 
never  fails  but  with  the  latest  pulsation  and  the  last  breath  of  her 
with  whom  it  dwells.  And  would  we  not,  sad  and  sorrowful  as 
might  be  the  duty,  repair  once  again  to  that  hallowed  spot  of  earth, 
"  where  heaves  the  turf  in  many  a  mouldering  heap," — the  common 
burial-ground  of  our  kindred  and  our  friends;  and,  kneeling  sol- 
emnly and  prayerfully  around  the  grave  of  a  venerated  father,  or 
bending  in  unabated  grief  over  the  ashes  of  a  sainted  mother,  should 
we  not  find  consolation  in  the  belief  that  their  spirits,  though  released 
from  the  body,  still  lingered  around,  to  hold  communion  with  our 
own, — that  they  may  still  be  the  unseen  guardian  angels  to  shield 
and  protect  us  in  all  our  trials  and  temptations  while  we  live,  and  to 
beckon  us  to  a  happy  immortality. 

But  I  am  unwilling  to  ask  your  further  forbearance,  and  I  will 
only  beg  leave,  in  conclusion,  using  the  language  of  an  eminent 
English  poet,  to  repeat  a  sentiment  to  which  1  am  certain  all  hearts 
will  respond  with  the  most  cheerful  alacrity: 

"  There  is  a  land,  of  every  land  the  pride, 
Beloved  by  heaven,  o'er  all  the  world  beside; 
There  is  a  spot  of  earth  supremely  blest, 
A  dearer,  sweeter  spot  than  all  the  rest. 
Here  woman  reigns;  the  mother,  daughter,  wife, 
Strews  with  fresh  flowers  the  narrow  way  of  life; 
Around  her  knees  domestic  duties  meet, 
And  fireside  pleasures  gambol  at  her  feet. 
Where  shall  that  land,  that  spot  of  earth,  be  found? 
Art  thou  a  man?  a  patriot?  look  around! 
Oh,  thou  shalt  find,  howe'er  thy  footsteps  roam, 
That  land  thy  country,  and  that  spot  thy  home." 

FESTIVITIES  OF  THE  OCCASION. 

The  exercises  having  been  performed,  according  to  the  order,  a 
short  recess  took  place,  after  which,  the  large  assembly  partook  of 
the  collation  prepared,  a  blessing  having  been  first  implored  by  Rev. 
Isaac  Willey  of  Goffstown.  The  duties  of  the  table  being  con- 
cluded, the  president  of  the  day  introduced  the  free  and  social  ser- 
vices of  the  afternoon  with  some  suitable  remarks.  In  this  short 
preliminary  address,  he  gave  some  brief  sketches  of  the  principal 
pioneers  of  Bedford,  such  as  Walker,  Patten,  Goffe,  and  others,  and 
the  foremost  of  her  sons  who  entered  the  Revolutionary  army  imme- 
diately upon  hearing  of  the  battle  of  Concord,  as  did  John  Orr  and 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBKATION.  35 

others.  As  there  will  be  brief  biographical  notices  of  individuals, 
embodied  in  the  following  history,  it  will  be  unnecessary  here  to 
anticipate  this  part  of  the  volume ;  only  one  or  two  interesting  allu- 
sions by  the  president  will  be  given. 

Having  spoken  of  one  of  the  first  settlers,  Mr.  Robert  Walker,  he 
said : 

I  introduce  to  you  his  only  surviving  son,  Robert  Walker,  now  in 
the  89th  year  of  his  age.  He  says  he  has  nothing  to  present  to  you 
but  his  gray  hairs.  I  will  endeavor  to  speak  a  word  for  him.  In  the 
Revolutionary  war,  the  Tories  of  New  Boston  were  contemplating 
burning  Washington  and  his  contemporaries  in  effigy,  calling  it 
"  burning  the  pope."  The  Whigs  of  the  same  place  were  determined 
to  oppose  them,  and  they  sent  down  to  good  old  Bedford  for  some 
smart,  active  men  to  come  and  help  them — and  this  is  one  of  the 
lads  that  went.1 

Alluding  to  the  late  Miss  Ann  Orr,  he  said : 

At  our  first  meeting  to  make  appointments  for  the  centennial,  she 
was  with  us,  and  had  the  second  appointment  made,  that  to  get  the 
history  of  the  Orr  family.  This  she  accomplished  in  good  style. 
She  had  a  desire  to  see  this  occasion.  She  was  the  mother  of  teach- 
ers in  this  vicinity.  It  is  rare  to  find  the  person  who  was  born  and 
educated  in  Bedford,  for  the  last  half  century,  but  that  has  been 
under  her  instruction  more  or  less. 

The  president  also  spoke  of  the  Hon.  John  Orr,  one  of  the  wor- 
thies of  Bedford : 

He  was  for  many  years,  an  elder  of  the  church,  justice  of  the 
peace  and  of  the  quorum,  senator  of  the  third  district,  Councilor  of 
Hillsborough  county,  and  many  years  a  representative  from  Bedford. 
His  parents  died  when  he  was  very  young.  I  will  give  you  his  char- 
acter, by  relating  an  aneccote  he  related  to  the  Sabbath  school  at  its 
first  formation  in  May,  1818.  He  says :  "  I  was  bound  out  to  Deacon 
Robert  Walker,  a  farmer,  until  I  should  become  twenty-one  years  of 
age.  I  thought  my  master  and  my  mistress  were  too  severe.  After 
working  hard  all  day  I  had  to  go  after  the  cows.  The  cows  went 
where  they  pleased.  One  had  a  bell  on,  which  was  of  great  service 
to  me.  On  one  occasion  I  was  treed  by  a  bear,  up  in  the  woods,  back 
of  the  schoolhouse  we  are  in,  and  I  should  have  had  to  stay  all 
night,  vei'y  likely,  had  not  a  girl  [Rebecca  Henderson]  run  home  and 
informed  Mr.  Walker,  who  came  and  relieved  me.  But  the  worst 
thing,  and  for  what  I  disliked  them  the  most,  was,  they  made  me  get 
verses  in  the  Bible  and  repeat  them  to  them.  This  I  did  not  like, 
and  I  thought  I  would  not  stay,  but  would  run  off.  One  afternoon 
I  started  and  ran  some  time  until  I  was  tired.     I  then  sat  down  on  a 

'Names  of  the  individuals  who  went  to  New  Boston:  Captain  Thomas  McLaugh- 
lin, Zaccheus  Chandler,  John  Patten,  James  Walker,  Robert  Walker,  Griggs  Goffe, 
Joseph  Goffe,  James  Grier,  William  Moor,  Nathaniel  Martin,  and  Josiah  Gordon. 


36  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

log  and  began  to  think  what  I  should  say  when  I  should  get  where  I 
was  going.  They  Avould  not  believe  me.  They  knew  Deacon  Walker 
was  a  good  man.  I  began  to  think  about  the  Bible  I  had  studied, 
and  this  is  the  text  of  Scripture  that  came  into  my  mind,  '  Servants, 
be  obedient  to  your  masters,'  not  only  to  the  good  and  gentle,  but  to 
the  froward.  I  knew  the  Bible  said  right.  I  was  ashamed  of  my 
conduct.  I  got  up  from  off  the  log,  turned  my  steps  home,  and 
worked  out  my  time.  I  think  Deacon  Walker  was  just  the  man  I 
ought  to  have  had.  I  think  if  anything  ever  did  me  any  good  it  was 
studying  the  word  of  God.     I  believed  it  then,  and  I  believe  it  now." 

Colonel  John  Goffe  was  a  man  of  some  consequence  in  his  day. 
He  was  the  only  son  of  John  Goffe,  Esq.,  who  was  the  son  of  John 
Goffe  of  Boston,  and  probably  a  grandson  of  Major-General  William 
Goffe,  who  left  England  in  1660 — one  of  the  judges  who  condemned 
King  Charles  I.  Colonel  John  settled  at  the  mouth  of  Cohas  brook, 
the  outlet  of  Massabessic  pond,  at  the  Merrimack  river,  about  three 
miles  below  Manchester  city.  His  occupation  in  early  life  was  hunt- 
ing, which  was  the  most  delightful  and  profitable.  He  is  named 
Hunter  John  in  some  of  the  old  deeds.  He  was  frequently  in  the 
French  war,  in  1756.  He  directed  a  letter  to  Governor  B.  Went- 
worth,  showing  the  necessity  of  sending  more  troops  about  the  fron- 
tier, where  he  then  was,  doing  military  duty  on  the  Contoocook  and 
Penacook.  He  was  the  representative  of  the  town  of  Bedford  and 
Amherst,  and  while  in  that  capacity  at  Portsmouth,  in  1777,  he 
directed  a  most  thrilling  letter  to  his  son  John,  the  major. 

The  letter  was  then  read. 

The  president  then  announced  the  first  regular  toast : 

19th  of  May,  1750.  Ever  to  be  remembered  by  the  descendants  of  Bed- 
ford ;  the  petitioners  on  that  day  received  a  charter  of  incorporation 
whereby  they  could  support  their  religion,  which  was  that,  and  that  only, 
they  petitioned  for. 

Responded  to  by  Hox.  Horace  Greeley,  of  New  York  city : a 
Although,  Mr.  President,  I  had  no  intimation  till  an  hour  ago  that 
I  should  be  expected  to  speak  on  this  occasion,  and  certainly  could 
not  have  expected  to  speak  to  the  sentiment  we  have  just  listened  to, 
yet  I  gladly  avail  myself  of  your  invitation.  And  although  I  feel 
that  the  entire  subject  which  engages  our  thoughts  this  day  has 
been  fully  discussed  and  well  nigh  exhausted  by  our  orator,  while 
the  topic  suggested  by  this  sentiment  has  received  the  amplest  jus- 
tice at  his  hands,  I  shall  not  fear  that  my  words,  though  they  seem 
but  a  feeble  repetition  of  his,  will  fall  on  impatient  or  unwilling  ears. 
You  need  not  be  told  that  the  century  which  has  elapsed  since  this 
town  was  first  settled  has  been  crowded  with  astonishing  and  memo- 
rable events ;  that  the  event  which  we  are  here  met  to  commemorate 
carries  us   back   to   the  days  of   Franklin's  mechanical   thrift  and 

Horace  Greeley  was  born  just  over  the  line  of  Bedford,  in  Amherst,  the  school 
he  attended,  and  the  better  portion  of  his  father's  farm,  being  in  Bedford,  where  he 
resided  during  a  portion  of  his  early  years. 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  37 

Washington's  boyhood ;  that  in  1750,  this  fair  land  of  ours  was,  all, 
but  a  thin  belt  on  its  Atlantic  border,  a  vast,  unbroken  wilderness, 
the  haunt  of  savage  beasts  and  savage  men ;  that  men  now  live,  in 
whose  childhood  the  woodman  plied  his  axe  and  the  ploughman 
turned  his  furrow  on  the  soil  of  this  town  in  imminent  peril  of  the 
Indian's  deadly  rifle-shot ;  and  that  the  mother  and  her  babes  in  the 
primitive  homes  of  Bedf ord,  trembled  with  no  unfounded  terror  when 
the  nightfall  brought  not  back  to  them  the  husband  and  father  who 
had  left  them  in  the  morning  to  pursue  his  daily  avocation.  Nor 
need  I  speak  to  you  of  the  birth,  the  growth,  the  maturity,  during 
the  century  whose  close  we  celebrate,  of  those  great  principles  of 
civil  and  religious  freedom,  for  lack  of  which  the  world  had  suffered 
and  sorrowed  through  so  many  years.  The  American  and  the 
French  revolutions,  so  unlike  in  their  features  and  results,  are  the 
two  great  political  events  of  the  past  century,  each  shedding  a  bright 
though  a  peculiar  radiance  on  the  great  truths  respecting  the  rights 
of  opinion,  of  a  voice  in  the  election  of  rulers  and  the  enactment  of 
laws,  of  the  sanctions  and  limitations  of  power,  and  of  the  absolute 
freedom  of  worship,  which  constitute  the  fundamental,  inalienable 
rights  of  man.  "  The  rights  of  man !  "  a  phrase  now  familiar  as 
household  words,  but  sounding  strangely  in  the  ears  of  the  people, 
the  toiling  masses,  of  a  single  century  ago.  But  now  those  words 
have  a  power  unbounded  by  the  actual  enjoyment  of  free  institu- 
tions. At  their  sound,  the  thrones  of  despotism  totter  at  Vienna  and 
reel  in  Paris ;  even  the  dreary  ice  palaces  of  Russia  begin  to  confess 
its  power.  No  one  can  reasonably  doubt  that  the  last  century  has 
accomplished  more  than  all  its  predecessors  for  the  establishment  of 
the  great  vivifying  principle  that  civil  and  religious  freedom  is  the 
inalienable  right  of  all  mankind. 

So,  too,  in  physical  science.  The  steam  engine,  the  steamboat,  the 
steamship,  the  locomotive,  the  railway,  the  electric  telegraph,  are  a 
few  among  the  achievements  of  the  century  beginning  with  1750. 
And  how  completely  have  they  transformed,  or  are  destined  to  trans- 
form, the  whole  industrial  and  social  condition  of  man !  A  century 
ago,  the  journey  hence  to  New  York  would  have  required  a  fort- 
night, and  have  subjected  the  adventurous  traveler  to  great  discom- 
fort and  peril.  But  I  did  a  day's  work  yesterday  in  New  York,  and 
must  do  another  in  that  city  before  closing  my  eyes  to-morrow ;  such 
are  the  wondrous  facilities  of  modern  travel.  That  the  telegraph 
has  annihilated  space  is  no  metaphor,  when  a  message  sent  from 
Halifax  at  noon  of  to-day  may  have  reached  St.  Louis  two  hours 
before  noon  of  this  same  day.  The  time  is  rapidly  approaching  when 
a  vote  taken  in  congress  at  dark  will  be.  announced  in  that  day's 
evening  papers  at  San  Francisco,  some  hours  earlier  (by  the  sun  or 
the  clock)  than  it  will  appear  to  have  occurred.  Measured  by  events 
rather  than  almanacs,  it  is  long  enough  since  those  few  pioneers  from 
Londonderry  bravely  ventured  across  the  Merrimack  and  began  to 
let  daylight  into  the  woods  of  what  is  now  Bedford. 


38  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

The  founding  of  New  England,  the  history  of  New  England,  the 
people  of  New  England,  and  especially  the  Puritan  and  Presbyterian 
ancestry  of  New  England,  have  properly  been  the  theme  of  your 
orator.  1  will  not  trespass  on  a  field  so  well  trodden  before  me, 
even  though  plainly  invited  by  the  sentiment  you  have  asked  me  to 
respond  to.  Yet  I  may  with  just  pride,  as  a  son  of  New  England, 
bear  testimony  to  the  character  she  has  imprinted  on  her  children 
who  have  migrated  to  other  regions,  who,  impelled  by  her  rugged 
soil  and  crowded  homes,  have  wandered  away  in  pursuit  of  fame,  or 
fortune,  or  larger  scope  for  usefulness,  or  opportunity  to  sow  and 
reap  in  thankfulness  the  harvest  of  humble  but  contented  toil.  I 
have  found  them  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Superior  and  on  the  great 
rivers  of  the  West.  I  have  met  them  as  representatives  of  the  fur- 
therest  West  and  South  in  the  grand  council  of  the  nation.  Go 
where  you  will  on  this  continent,  and  if  you  find  activity  and  thrift, 
be  sure  there  are  sons  of  New  England  not  far  from  you,  and  that 
they  are  not  idle  or  inefficient.  Visit  the  whaler  in  the  Pacific,  the 
packet  ship  at  Canton,  the  mining  "  gulch  "  in  California,  or  the  lead 
"  diggings  "  of  the  upper  Mississippi,  and  you  will  find  sons  of  New 
England  in  all,  and  wherever  they  constitute  half  the  population, 
you  may  safely  assume  that  it  is  not  in  position  the  lower  half.  If 
they  dig  few  canals  or  grade  few  railroads,  they  yet  cause  many 
to  be  dug  and  graded,  and  show  how  the  desired  result  may  be 
surely  attained  with  the  smallest  expenditure  of  labor.  And 
although  all  communities  have  their  unworthy  members,  of  whom  a 
part  will  find  a  change  of  residence  advisable,  and  although  jealousy 
and  conscious  inferiority  in  intelligence,  industry,  or  morality  have 
excited  in  many  quarters  a  hostility  to  the  "  Yankees,"  which  tries 
to  hide  its  envious  impulses  beneath  a  mantle  of  contempt,  yet  I 
venture  to  say  that  there  is  no  part  of  the  Western  world,  where  the 
Puritan  race  is  known,  in  which  the  assurance,  "  I  am  descended 
from  the  first  colonists  of  New  England,"  is  not  a  passport  to  confi- 
dence and  consideration.     So  may  it  be  to  the  end  of  time  ! 

What  nobler  testimony  than  this  could  1  bear  to  the  faith  of  New 
England, — so  distinguished  by  reverence  for  God  and  independence 
of  the  power  of  man  ?  What  could  I  say  for  that  faith  which  her 
innumerable  churches  and  schoolhouses,  her  teachers,  missionaries, 
and  martyrs  will  not  have  said  before  me"?  The  common  schools  of 
our  vast  country,  so  rapidly  increasing,  are  grafts  from  hardy  Pur- 
itan stock.  The  graduates  of  these  thickly  clustered  schoolhouses 
are  teaching  throughout  the  continent.  The  Rock  of  Plymouth  is 
not  merely  the  corner-stone  of  our  gigantic  edifice  of  civil  and  re- 
ligious freedom ;  from  it,  as  from  the  rock  smitten  by  the  divine 
lawgiver  of  old,  gush  the  streams  which  still  gladden  and  vivify  the 
liberties  of  the  world.  The  marriage  of  order  to  liberty — of  loyalty 
to  freedom — had  its  earliest  exemplifications  on  the  soil  of  New 
England,  and  her  town-meetings  are  to  this  day  the  most  orderly 
and  striking  examples  of  practical  democracy  in  the  world.     Who 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  39 

does  not  see  that  the  independent  congregation,  choosing  its  own 
pastor  and  settling  its  own  creed,  is  the  block  whereon  the  township 
has  been  molded — that  it  is  to  the  existence  of  "  a  Church  without  a 
Bishop"  that  we  are  indebted  for  "a  State  without  a  King"? 
Whatever  the  faults  of  the  primitive  faith  of  New  England,  I 
have  never  heard  it  accused  of  quenching  the  innate  aspiration  for 
liberty,  nor  of  paralyzing  the  arm  raised  in  resistance  to  despotism 
and  tyranny.  And  in  an  age  so  pervaded  and  electrified  by  the 
spirit  of  change, — an  age  of  movement^  progress,  revolution, — of 
change  from  which  creeds  and  theologies  are  not  exempted,  let  us 
rejoice  in  the  assurance  that  the  God  of  our  fathers  still  rules  over 
the  universe,  and  that  faith  in  His  being,  His  goodness,  His  wisdom, 
His  omnipotence,  is  not  and  cannot  be  supplanted  nor  superseded 
by  any  device  of  man ;  that  error  is  transient  and  truth  immutable ; 
that  the  more  signally  man  triumphs  over  brute  nature,  the  nearer 
he  is  brought  face  to  face  with  the  uncreated  cause ;  and  that  when 
continents  shall  have  been  girdled  and  rivers  enslaved  by  the  genius 
of  man,  he  must  still  bow  in  humble  reverence  at  the  footstool  of 
his  Creator,  and  recognize  that  no  elevation  above  the  lower  beings 
can  lessen  the  infinite  distance  which  separates  him  from  the  Great 
Father  of  All,  nor  limit  his  absolute  dependence  on  God.  And  so, 
as  knowledge  shall  increase,  and  science  extend  her  dominion,  and 
intellect  multiply  her  triumphs,  our  race  shall  more  and  more  recog- 
nize its  helplessness  in  the  hands  of  Omnipotence,  and  turn  to  the 
faith  of  our  fathers  for  guidance  and  solace  through  life  and  assur- 
ance in  death  of  a  radiant  and  blissful  immortality. 

The  president  then  announced  the  second  regular  toast : 

19th  May,  1850.  Thanks  to  God,  our  religious  institutions  are  still  with 
us,  and  we  most  earnestly  pray  they  may  be  the  first,  and  above  all 
other  things,  supported  by  us  and  our  posterity. 

Responded  to  by  Rev.  Mr.  Davis  of  Amherst : 

I  respond  with  pleasure  to  a  sentiment  which  so  expresses  the  real 
desire  of  my  heart,  and  the  more  so  because  I  may  be  regarded  as 
representing  another  denomination.  I  have  always  rejoiced  in  the 
delightful  harmony  subsisting  between  the  Presbyterian  and  Con- 
gregational churches  of  Xew  Hampshire.  \Ve  have  heard  much  to- 
day of  the  trials  and  privations  of  the  early  Scotch  settlers  in  this 
country.  In  the  history  of  then*  conflicts,  we  had  a  repetition  of  the 
same  adherence  to  religious  convictions — the  same  faith  in  God  and 
in  God's  word — which  so  marked  the  planting  of  the  Puritan 
churches.  I  have  listened  with  delight  to  the  eloquent  remarks  of 
the  gentleman  who  has  preceded  me,  but  I  wish  to  hold  up  more 
distinctly,  the  great  thought  that  the  movement  which  resulted  in 
the  settlement  of  these  Presbyterian  townships  was  a  religious 
movement.  The  persons  engaged  in  it  possessed  a  living  faith  in 
God's  word,  and  their  desire  and  prayer  was  that  then  children 
might  enjoy  the  same  blessing.  For  this  reason  they  prized  the 
catechism,  the  Sabbath,  and  an  educated  ministry,  and  they  placed 


40  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

little  reliance  on  any  other  means  of  religious  training.  Herein  is 
the  secret  of  the  virtues  of  their  descendants. 

The  generations  that  grew  up  under  their  tuition  were  well  in- 
structed in  the  doctrines  of  the  Bible.  I  cannot  properly  illustrate 
the  value  of  then  example  in  each  of  the  particulars  now  suggested 
without  encroaching  on  the  time  which  may  be  better  occupied  by 
others.  As  much  has  been  said  of  Scotland  and  the  kirk,  I  may  be 
permitted  to  add,  that  we  are  not  only  indebted  foi  the  use,  but 
somewhat,  also,  for  the  excellence  of  the  catechism,  to  Presbyterians. 
The  catechism,  as  you  know,  was  made  in  England,  yet  the  Scotch 
had  a  hand  in  it,  as  one  anecdote  will  show.  It  appears  that  in  the 
composition  of  the  catechism,  the  Westminster  divines  first  agreed 
upon  a  list  of  questions  to  which  answers  were  to  be  furnished  after- 
ward. Having  agreed  upon  the  questions,  the  framing  of  the  an- 
swers went  on  quite  smoothly,  until  they  came  to  the  fourth, 
"  What  is  God  ?  "  Numbers  proposed  replies,  or  amendments  to  the 
replies,  but  every  attempt  to  describe  or  define  the  author  and  the 
object  of  worship  failed  to  satisfy  the  assembly;  they  were  evi- 
dently brought  to  a  stand  in  their  labors,  when  one  of  the  Scotch 
commissioners,  Alexander  Henderson,  "  Clarwn  et  venerobile 
nomen"  modestly  rose  and  read  that  incomparable  definition  begin- 
ning, "  God  is  a  Spirit,"  etc.,  which  was  unanimously  adopted  as  the 
answer  of  the  question.  Henderson  and  his  associates  made  other 
contributions  to  this  work,  which  had  done  so  much  to  impart  pre- 
cision and  spirituality  to  our  conceptions  of  God  and  the  doctrines 
of  religion. 

In  regard  to  the  estimation  in  which  these  Presbyterian  churches 
have  held  the  ministry,  I  am  constrained  to  say  that  their  example 
has  furnished  a  constant  reproof  to  the  innovations  and  changes 
which  so  extensively  prevail  in  other  congregations. 

Permanence  in  the  ministry  is  an  element  of  strength.  In  its  in- 
fluence on  the  community,  it  is  closely  allied  to  reverence  and  those 
order-loving  virtues — contentment,  perseverance,  and  the  thrift  of 
Godliness — which  make  a  happy  and  united  population.  Most  of  our 
churches  are  taking  sorrowful  lessons  in  another  direction.  A  few 
days  since,  the  speaker  entered  on  the  seventh  year  of  his  ministry. 
With  the  recurrence  of  the  anniversary  of  my  settlement,  my 
thoughts  naturally  turned  back  to  the  fathers  and  brethren  who  in- 
ducted me  into  the  sacred  office.  Of  the  ten  settled  pastors  of  this 
immediate  vicinity  then  present,  one  only  continues  in  the  same 
field  of  labor ;  that  one,  is  this  brother  before  me,  so  esteemed 
and  beloved  as  your  pastor.  In  commendation  of  the  better  usage 
of  the  Presbyterian  churches,  I  conclude  with  an  invocation  of  con- 
tinued spiritual  blessings  on  the  pastors  who  keep  then  flocks  and 
the  flocks  that  keep  their  pastors. 

Several  songs  were  prepared  by  natives  of  Bedford,  to  be  sung  at 
the  table,  but  were  omitted  for  want  of  time.     As  they  are  not  dis- 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  41 

creditable  to  the  Bedford  muse,  they  are  inserted.     The  following  is 
one  of  them : 

SONG. 

Here  we  meet,  a  gath'ring  number, 

Hovering  round  the  festive  board; 
Near  to  where  our  fathers  slumber, 

Ever  to  be  long  rever'd. 
Youth's  elastic  step  is  bounding, 

Hoary  age  is  moving  slow; 
While  hills  and  dales  and  all  surrounding, 

Speak  one  hundred  years  ago. 

The  wild  flow'r  blossom'd  on  the  mountain, 

Snuff 'd  its  fragrance  in  the  breeze; 
While  below,  the  gushing  fountain 

Murmured  'neath  the  forest  trees. 
Naught  was  seen  but  flowery  wildwood, 

When  the  stormy  winds  did  blow  ; 
These  our  fathers  in  their  childhood 

Saw  one  hundred  years  ago. 

But  how  changed  the  situation 

Since  the  lapse  of  many  years; 
Forests,  faltering,  lose  their  station, 

Sink,  and  verdant  fields  appear. 
Now  the  white  man  scales  the  mountains, 

Wandering  ever  to  and  fro, 
By  the  red  man's  lakes  and  fountains, 

His,  one  hundred  years  ago. 

See  the  high  and  cloud-capp'd  steeple, 

Mutely  stand  and  gaze  around— 
See  the  enterprising  people, 

Listening  to  the  gospel's  sound. 
All  but  bids  us  think  who  gave  it, 

Who  such  seed  did  early  sow, 
Calling  upon  us  to  save  it, 

Sown,  one  hundred  years  ago. 

To  our  fathers,  who  did  sever 

This,  our  home,  from  forests  wild, 
Be  our  grateful  thanks  forever, 

On  their  monumental  pile. 
Let  us  ne'er  forget  their  trials, 

As  they  stemm'd  the  tide  of  woe, 
Glorying  in  the  hand  that  brought  them 

Here,  one  hundred  years  ago. 

The  president  then  announced  the  third  regular  toast: 

Ow  Parents — Long,  long  left  us,  gone  to  reap  their  reward  of  glory — with 
gratitude  we  remember  them ;  may  we  ever  practice  their  virtues,  and 
teach  them  to'our  children  by  precept  and  example. 

Responded  to  by  Rev.  Mr.  Clakk,  of  Manchester : 
Mr.  President :  Were  an  apology  admissible  on  an  occasion  like 
the  present,  I  should  certainly  offer  one  and  instantly  retire".  I 
sincerely  regret  that  the  sentiment  to  which  I  am  called  upon  to 
respond  was  not  put  into  the  hand  of  a  son  of  New  Hampshire  ;  I 
am  her  son  only  by  adoption.     And  yet,  I  natter  myself,  I  am  b}r  no 


42  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

means  a  stranger  to  such  feelings  as  are  yours  to-day.  It  is  my 
proudest  boast  that  I  am  descended  from  a  New  England  ancestry ; 
yes,  sir,  that  the  blood  of  the  man  who  stood  by  the  side  of  Miles 
Standish,  on  board  the  Pilgrim  ship  (I  refer  to  the  mate  of  the  ship) 
flows  through  my  veins.  I  trust  I  shall  be  pardoned  for  so  boasting 
while  moved  by  such  associations  as  these. 

The  sentiment  just  proposed,  Mr.  President,  reminds  me  of  the 
debt  of  gratitude  we  owe  our  ancestors,  and  the  obligation  Ave  are 
under  to  emulate  their  virtues,  we  and  those  avIio  may  come  after  us ; 
and  who,  sir,  of  all  this  assembly,  does  not  respond  to  that?  Who 
has  not  felt  his  heart  beating  with  pride  as  he  has  listened  to  the 
eloquent  portraitures  of  our  ancestors,  by  the  gentlemen  on  my  right  ? 
And  who  is  not  impressed  with  a  deeper  and  more  abiding  sense  of 
obligation,  in  the  regard  suggested,  by  the  sentiment  I  have  the 
honor  to  propose  ?  If  any,  let  him  think  of  the  privileges — civil, 
religious,  literary — he  enjoys  as  the  result  of  the  labors  of  those 
ancestors.  Let  him  remember  their  steady  perseverance  amid  diffi- 
culties which  would  have  disheartened  common  men ;  let  him 
remember  their  calm  endurance,  patient  resignation,  and  triumphant 
faith,  virtues  which  were  never  before  more  beautifully  illustrated. 
Let  him  call  to  mind  that  such  a  band  of  adventurers,  so  heroic  and 
high-minded,  were  landed  upon  no  other  shore.  But,  Mr.  President, 
I  must  not  anticipate  what  remains  to  be  said  by  other  gentlemen 
near  me.  I  can  only  express  the  conviction,  from  what  I  have  seen 
and  heard  to-day,  that  if  the  forms  of  those  noble  fathers  and  moth- 
ers are  not  here,  much  of  their  spirit  remains.  Believe  me,  sir,  that, 
although  their  dust  mingles  with  the  clod  of  the  valley,  their  influ- 
ence lives. 

"  The  Pilgrim  Spirit  has  not  fled, 

It  walks  in  noon's  bright  light— 
And  it  watches  the  bed  of  the  glorious  dead 

With  the  holy  stars  by  night— 
And  it  watches  the  bed  of  the  brave  who  have  bled, 

And  shall  guard  this  ice-bound  shore,  , 

Till  the  waves  of  the  Bay,  where  the  Mayflower  lay, 

Shall  foam  and  freeze  no  more." 

Be  it  ours  to  cherish  them  in  grateful  remembrance,  to  copy  their 
virtues  and  emulate  their  example,  that  we  may  at  last  reap  a  like 
reward  of  glory  with  them. 

The  president  then  announced  the  fourth  regular  toast : 

The  Emigrants,  and  Guests  of  Bedford.  We  greet  you  welcome  to  our  town, 
and  our  festive  board.  Pleasant  and  profitable  to  meet  as  relations, 
friends,  and  acquaintances.  It  is  the  first  time  and  the  last  we  shall  ever 
meet  on  such  an  occasion  in  Bedford. 

John  Atwood,  Esq.,  of  Albany,  New  York,  responded,  and  closed 
with  a  complimentary  remark  to  his  old  neighbors  of  Bedford,  which 
called  out  Rev.  Mr.  Savage. 

Mr.  Savage  addressed  a  few  remarks  to  those  represented  by  the 
gentleman  who  had  just  spoken — natives  of  Bedford — who,  after  a 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  43 

long  absence,  had  come  up  to  this  centennial  festival.     They  had  not 
forgotten  old  Bedford.     They  revisited  the  scenes  of  their  childhood. 

"  They  all  had  run  about  these  braes, 
And  sat  beneath  this  vine— 
And  blessings  on  the  golden  days 
Of  auld  lang  syne." 

But  great  changes  have  taken  place.  The  mountains,  the  hills, 
the  valleys,  were  the  same.  But  where  were  the  men  of  other 
days?  The  speaker  alluded  to  the  fact  that  he  had  known  their 
fathers.  Many  of  them  were  living  when  he  first  came  to  preach  in 
the  town.  He  spoke  of  the  venerable  members  of  the  Session,  long 
since  gone.  He  spoke  of  the  length  of  his  ministry  in  Bedford, 
about  twenty- five  years,  and  of  himself  as  only  the  third  settled  min- 
ister since  the  foundation  of  the  church,  a  hundred  years  ago, — a 
circumstance  creditable  to  the  people,  to  say  nothing  of  the  pastors. 
There  was  an  interval  of  thirty  years  between  Mr.  Houston  and  Mr. 
McGregor.  He  said  the  more  he  had  been  led  to  investigate  the 
history  of  Bedford,  the  more  he  was  impressed  with  the  idea  that  he 
had  been  laboring  among  a  people  that  were  nobly  descended.  The 
two  Pattens,  Matthew  and  Samuel;  the  two  AYalkers,  James  and 
Robert ;  Colonel  Goffe,  and  others,  who  settled  the  town,  lived  long 
enough  to  put  their  names  to  the  Association  Test  (it  was  here  read), 
which,  at  the  commencement  of  the  Revolution,  was  circulated 
through  the  provinces  for  signers,  thus  enjoying  the  double  privilege 
of  being  pioneers  in  the  settlement  of  the  country,  and  also  of  giving 
their  influence  to  establish  its  independence. 

He  begged  leave  to  be  somewhat  personal  and  to  speak  of  him- 
self, or  rather  of  his  ancestry,  in  connection  with  Bedford.  He  had 
found  in  the  historical  researches  he  had  been  obliged  to  make,  facts 
that  very  much  deepened  the  interest  he  felt  in  the  place  where  he 
had  so  long  labored.  The  town  was  one  of  those  granted  for  ser- 
vices in  the  Narragansett,  or  King  Philip's  war.  His  first  American 
ancestor,  Major  Thomas  Savage,  commanded  the  Massachusetts 
forces  in  that  war.  He  found  the  name  of  his  son,  as  one  of  the 
grantees  on  the  proprietors'  records,  and  of  his  grandson,  Habijah 
Savage,  on  the  town  records,  among  the  non-resident  taxpayers,  as 
late  as  1760  or  '70.  He  concluded  with  commending  the  Mends 
who  had  united  with  us  on  this  occasion  to  the  favor  of  God,  and 
with  the  hope  that  all  might  be  prepared  to  meet  in  "  the  city  which 
hath  foundations,  whose  builder  and  maker  is  God." 

The  president  then  announced  the  fifth  regular  toast : 


41  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Tfw  changes  of  one  hundred  years.  The  woolen  and  linen  wheels  for  the 
cotton  mills  and  spinning  jennies  are  not  more  wonderful  than  the  horse's 
two  days'  journey  to  Boston,  with  wooden  panniers,  with  a  tub  of  butter  on 
either  side,  or  both,  filled  with  linen  cloth  and  thread,  to  the  steam  engine 
and  the  telegraph  wires. 

The  president,  to  show  the  result  of  the  changes,  related  an  anec- 
dote of  Hon.  Matthew  Patten,  first  judge  of  probate  of  Hillsborough 
county  under  the  constitution,  representative  to  the  general  court  in 
November  27,  1756,  going  to  Londonderry  to  know  when  the  general 
court  would  sit.  On  the  30th,  he  set  out  for  Portsmouth,  went  as 
far  as  Alexander  McMurphy's,  in  Londonderry,  and  received  the 
account  that  the  general  court  had  adjourned  till  Tuesday,  the  14th 
of  December  next. 

To  exhibit  the  contrast  between  the  past  and  the  present  more 
strikingly,  the  pi'esident  said  he  had  a  note,  received  that  morning 
from  Washington  city.  It  was  a  telegraphic  communication  from 
his  brother,  Judge  Woodbury.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  des- 
patch which  the  president  read  : 

Washington,  D.  C,  May  22d,  1850,  9  o'clock  a.  m. 
P.  P.  Woodbury,  Esq.  : 

Dear  Sir:  We  have  no  news  here  this  morning  except  fair 
weather,  warm  disputes  about  the  Galphin  claim,  and  wrangling  over 
the  compromise  report.  The  supreme  court  expects  to  adjourn  the 
first  of  June. 

Truly  yours, 

Levi  Woodbury. 

To  the  fifth  sentiment  Key.  C.  W.  Wallace  responded  as 
follows : 

Mr.  President :  I  wish  to  express  my  gratitude  to  you  for  calling 
upon  me  to  respond  to  this  sentiment.  Ministers  are  sometimes 
accused  of  wandering  from  the  text.  With  the  theme  before  me  I 
shall  be  exposed  to  no  such  liability.  The  field  is  so  broad  I  can 
scarcely  pass  beyond  it.  A  century!  What  changes,  how  many, 
how  great,  have  transpired  within  the  period  of  its  passing  years ! 
One  hundred  years  ago,  and  had  we  assembled  on  this  spot,  how 
\inlike  the  present  had  been  the  prospect  around  us !  These  hill- 
sides, now  clad  in  all  the  freshness  of  spring,  and  giving  such  prom- 
ise of  reward  to  the  toil  of  the  husbandman,  were  then  covered  with 
the  primeval  forest.  There  roamed  the  wild  bear  and  bounded  the 
timid  deer,  and  fresh  behind  him  was  the  trail  of  the  Indian,  as  he 
retreated  before  the  march  of  civilization.  Then,  highways  were 
mere  bridle  paths.  The  timber  of  yonder  sanctuary,  now  forsaken 
because  of  its  age,  was  then  growing  in  the  forest,  and  the  multi- 
tudes who  have  since  worshiped  God  within  its  walls,  were  then 
mostly  unborn. 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBKATION.  45 

From  this  spot  where  we  are  now  assembled,  the  trees  had  been 
then  probably  removed,  a  few  patches  and  narrow  fields  had  been 
reclaimed.  All  the  rest,  these  hills,  these  valleys,  now  fresh  in  the 
promise  of  a  speedy  harvest,  all  was  then  an  unbroken  wilderness. 
How  changed !  If  we  cast  our  eyes  over  a  wider  circuit,  we  behold 
changes  greater  far,  and  vastly  more  important,  than  these.  Our 
admirable  system  of  common  schools,  though  established  by  our 
Puritan  fathers  when  they  first  landed  on  these  shores,  have  really 
gone  into  practical  operation  in  most  parts  of  the  country  within  the 
last  one  hundred  years.  Owing  to  the  sparseness  and  paucity  of  the 
population,  the  means  of  education  were  extremely  limited  at 
the  time  of  which  we  speak.  The  district  schoolhouse,  with  its  ses- 
sion of  a  few  weeks  in  the  year,  stood  at  an  inconvenient  distance 
from  many  of  the  people.  The  academy  was  a  rare  curiosity,  stand- 
ing in  some  remote  village,  resorted  to  by  a  few  only  of  the  hardy 
sons  and  ruddy  daughters  of  that  day,  while  the  college  withheld  its 
more  than  golden  blessings  from  all  except  a  very  limited  number  of 
the  sons  of  wealth.  Now,  how  changed !  The  schoolhouse  stands 
beside  every  church,  and  at  every  cross-road.  The  high  school  is 
found  in  every  village,  and  the  college  opens  its  treasures  to  all  who 
have  energy  to  dig  in  its  hidden  mines.  A  hundred  years  have  wit- 
nessed an  amazing  advance  in  the  mechanic  arts.  Then  the  plough 
was  a  rude  machine,  furnished  at  a  greater  cost,  and  worked  by 
double  the  strength  required  for  the  same  purpose  at  the  present 
day.  Then  the  strength  of  woman's  foot  turned  the  wheel,  the  skill 
of  her  fingers  the  thread,  and  the  power  of  her  arm  drove  the 
shuttle  ;  now  the  river  is  turned  from  its  bed  and  made  to  spin  and 
weave  in  making  its  passage  to  the  sea.  Then  upon  the  saddle  and 
pillion  our  grandfathers  and  grandmothers  jogged  lovingly  along ; 
but  all  these  have  passed  away,  and  the  chaise  and  coach,  and  cush- 
ioned railcar  have  taken  their  place.  The  mechanic,  what  has  he 
not  done?  He  has  made  lire  and  water  and  the  winds  of  heaven 
perform  the  work  of  man.  He  has  leveled  mountains  and  leaped 
rivers.  The  old  world  he  has  laid  alongside  the  new,  and  the 
heathen  nations  he  has  brought  to  our  doors.  He  is  the  pen  of  a 
ready  writer  to  the  author  and  historian,  and  the  gift  of  tongues  to 
the  missionary  of  the  cross. 

After  glancing  at  the  progress  of  philanthropy,  and  adverting  to 
the  subject  of  war,  slavery,  benevolent  and  religious  institutions,  and 
civil  government,  the  speaker  alluded  to  some  changes  that  were  not 
improvements,  and  proceeded  to  speak  of  the  physical  deterioration 
observable  at  the  present  day.     In  this  respect,  he  said  : 

The  women  of  the  present  day  are  feeble  representatives  of  the 
past,  and  each  generation  seems  to  become  weaker.  I  have  been 
told  that  my  grandmother,  of  precious  memory — and  well  do  I 
remember  her  when,  at  the  age  of  threescore  and  ten,  she  moved 
with  a  firm  step  through  the  house,  the  windows  shaking  at  the  tread 


46  HISTOKY   OF   BEDFORD. 

of  her  foot — I  have  been  told  that  when  at  the  age  of  eighteen  or 
twenty,  she  would  take  a  load  of  linen  thread,  of  her  own  manufac- 
ture, and  start  from  Londonderry,  her  native  town,  and  travel  to 
Boston,  a  distance  of  forty  miles,  and  back,  in  three  days.  Mr. 
President,  there  are  other  changes,  more  recent,  to  which  I  might 
advert.  I  stand  amid  the  sepulchres  of  my  fathers,  I  behold  the 
faces  of  those  who  were  the  companions  of  my  youth  and  the  solace 
of  my  riper  years ;  many  friends  have  I  found  in  this  world,  but 
none  truer  than  the  companions  of  my  boyhood,  whose  names  were 
the  first  written,  and  will  be  the  last  to  fade  from  the  tablet  of  my 
memory. 

The  earth  may  perish,  the  heavens  like  a  vesture  may  be 
changed,  the  sun  may  grow  dim  with  age ;  but  the  God  of  our  fath- 
ers is  our  God,  we  come  to  the  same  throne  of  grace,  sprinkled  with 
the  same  atoning  blood,  and  drink  at  the  same  unfailing  fountains, 
and  seek  the  same  eternal  heaven. 

The  president  then  announced  the  sixth  regular  toast : 

The  Orator  of  the  Day.  If  our  hornet  and  Barnes  appear  as  well  a  century 
to  come  as  they  do  to-day,  posterity  will  have  no  reason  to  be  ashamed  of 
their  inheritance. 

Hon.  Isaac  O.  Barxes  spoke  briefly  on  the  subject  of  education. 

The  president  then  announced  the  seventh  regular  toast : 

England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  our  mother  countries  ;  their  united  blood 
produces  the  best  of  stock,  defying  the  world  for  competition. 

Rev.  James  T.  Woodbury,  of  Acton,  Mass.,  spoke  very  amusingty 
in  responding  to  this  sentiment : 

I  know  not,  exactly,  why  I  am  called  upon  to  support  this  senti- 
ment, except  that  your  committee  of  arrangements  have  somehow 
got  an  impression  from  my  long  and  intimate  acquaintance  with  the 
people  of  Bedford,  and  my  love  and  respect  for  them,  that  I  am  a 
native  of  the  town.  Well,  whether  native  or  not,  I  am  so  much 
pleased  with  the  proceedings  here  to-day  that  I  have  not  the  least 
objection  to  being  considered  such,  though  perhaps  you  may  have. 
I  am  much  of  the  mind  of  the  honest  Irishman,  who,  on  being 
asked  how  he  liked  America,  replied,  "  Indeed,  sir,  I  like  it  entirely, 
and  I  have  concluded,  on  the  whole,  to  make  it  my  native  country." 
Good  blood,  good  blood,  in  old  Bedford;  no  better  in  the  world. 
Just  such  as  you  might  expect  from  such  an  origin,  and  from  such  a 
mixture.  If  one  sort  of  blood  is  any  better  than  another,  I  think, 
from  the  specimens  of  the  stock  that  we  have  seen  here  to-day,  we 
may  prove  yours  as  good  as  the  best.  You  have  feasted  us  richly, 
mind  and  body ;  we  have  had  eloquent  prose,  good  poetry,  viands, 
and  music,  beauty,  literature,  and  religion.  Your  fathers  !  no  better 
men  ever  lived  than  your  fathers.  You  never  need  be  ashamed  of 
them ;  only  see  to  it  that  they  never  need  be  ashamed  of  you.  Who 
loved  their  God,  or  who  loved  their  country,  any  better  than  they ! 
Are  the  colonies  oppressed,  taxed  without  being  represented;  they 
put  in  the  mild,  respectful,  but  decided  remonstrance.     Is  this  course 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  47 

persisted  in  by  the  king  and  parliament,  and  the  blood  of  their  broth- 
ers shed  at  Lexington  and  Concord, — they  fly  to  arms,  they  take  the 
field  in  open  resistance,  they  get  the  news  the  same  day,  they  are  up 
all  the  next  night,  baking  bread,  mending  and  making  clothes,  and 
start  before  light  the  very  next  morning  for  the  seat  of  war.  They 
rendezvous  at  Medford,  the  headquarters  of  then  friend  and  neigh- 
bor with  whom  they  had  fought  in  the  old  French  war,  twenty  years 
before — General  John  Stark.  And  at  the  next  encounter  with  the 
redcoats,  on  Bunker  Hill,  the  17th  June,  they  are  there,  behind  the 
rail  fence ;  and  there  they  could  stand  fire  from  British  men-of-war 
in  Mystic  river,  and  the  battery  on  Copp's  Hill,  not  discharging  a 
musket  till  they  could  see  the  white  of  every  man's  eye,  and  then, 
my  life  for  it,  they  shot  down  their  full  share  of  the  thousand  and 
fifteen  British  killed  and  wounded  that  day.  Bedford  was  well  rep- 
resented at  Bunker  Hill,  not  in  building  the  monument,  but  in  fight- 
ing the  battle.  And  the  secret  of  the  indomitable  courage  of  our 
Revolutionary  fathers  was  this:  They  were  men  of  God,  men  of 
prayer ;  they  went  into  battle,  like  "  The  Ironsides  "  of  the  great 
Oliver,  in  1649,  from  off  their  knees,  and  so  they  conquered.  They 
were  Presbyterians,  stiff  sort  of  men,  but  we  are  determined  to  love 
them  none  the  less  for  that.  They  loved  their  God  and  then  coun- 
try, they  loved  the  Bible  and  the  sanctuary,  the  Sabbath  and  Sab- 
bath school.  And,  on  that  rainy  Sabbath  in  1818,  when  the  first 
Sabbath  school  was  organized  in  Bedford  in  that  old  square  school- 
house  that  stood  yonder,  no  wonder  old  Lieut.  John  On- — Hon. 
John  Orr — was  there ;  it  was  just  like  him  to  be  there.  The  same 
set  of  feelings  that  led  him  to  Bennington  battle,  where  he  was  shot 
down  and  made  a  cripple  for  life,  led  him  to  that  schoolhouse  that 
rainy  Sabbath  to  organize  a  Sabbath  school — love  of  God  and  love  of 
God's  word,  and  love  of  country.  A  lame  old  man,  but  not  lame 
enough  or  old  enough  to  stay  at  home  from  meeting  a  rainy  Sab- 
bath. Religion,  religion  in  its  best  form,  was  the  grand  leading 
characteristic  of  the  fathers  and  mothers  of  Bedford ;  may  it  be  of 
their  posterity.  He  was  there,  and  not  as  a  silent  spectator ;  he 
stood  up  and  warmly  exhorted  those  then  children,  mere  little  boys 
and  girls,  to  study  the  Bible  and  obey  the  Bible.  Now,  John  Orr, 
Ave  hope,  is  in  heaven,  but  these  then  little  children  are  the  fathers 
and  mothers  in  Israel,  eminent  ministers  of  the  gospel,  lawyers,  phy- 
sicians, merchants,  and  statesmen.  And  these  men  were  not  pecu- 
liar to  Bedford,  they  were  the  Puritans  of  New  England.  We  will 
ever  thank  God  that  such  men  lived,  and  that  he  sifted  the  king- 
doms of  the  earth,  and  the  best  of  them,  too,  that  he  might  with 
such  seed  plant  this  land. 

The  president  then  announced  the  eighth  regular  toast : 

Our  Posterity.     May  this  day  be  remembered  one  hundred  years  hence  by 
our  descendants  who  shall  then  be  on  the  stage  of  action. 

Responded  to  by  Dr.  Leonard  French,  of  Fitchburg,  Mass. : 

He  alluded  to  the  fact  that  Bedford  was  the  native  place  of  him- 


48  HISTOKY   OF   BEDFOKD. 

self  and  his  parents,  and  long  the  residence  of  his  grandparents,  of 

one  of  whom,  on  the  maternal  side,  it  was  also  the  place  of  nativity. 

His  address  was  short,  but  the  very  fact  that  his  connections  of  the 

same  name   constitute  a  large  proportion  of  our  population  gave 

interest  to  his  remarks. 

The  president  then  announced  the  ninth  regular  toast : 

The  Scotch-Irish.  They  left  the  north  of  Ireland,  braved  the  dangers  of 
the  ocean  and  came  to  these  western  wilds  to  enjoy  their  religion  and  lib- 
erty. May  their  offspring  appreciate  such  noble  virtues,  and  cherish  them 
as  a  rich  legacy  handed  down  from  their  forefathers. 

Johx  Aiken,  Esq.,  of  Andover,  Mass.,  responded  to  this 
sentiment : 

I  cannot  so  far  trespass  on  the  patience  of  the  good  people  here 
assembled  as  to  make  a  speech  at  this  late  horn*,  and  yet  I  cannot 
refuse  to  answer  to  my  name  when  called.  With  great  pleasure  I 
heard,  Mr.  President,  of  your  proposal  to  celebrate  this  anniversary, 
and  with  great  pleasure  have  I  come  up  hither  to  unite  with  you  in 
commemorating  the  virtues  of  our  honored  ancestors.  And  yet,  this 
is  not  an  unmingled  pleasure.  An  absence  of  thirty  years  has  made 
me  a  stranger  in  my  native  town,  where  I  once  knew  every  man, 
woman,  and  child.  The  men  whom  in  my  youth  I  respected  and 
revered  are  gone,  all  gone,  with  one  or  two  exceptions,  and  the 
young  men  of  that  day  are  the  old  men  of  the  present.  Of  the  boys 
of  my  own  age  but  few  remain,  and  they  as  well  as  myself  so 
changed  that  we  scarcely  recognize  each  other.  Yet,  sad  as  these 
changes  are,  I  rejoice  to  be  here,  that  I  may  unite  with  you  in  testi- 
fying our  respect  for  our  venerated  ancestors.  Our  friend  who  has 
addressed  us  to-day  has  uttered  in  our  hearing  many  names  which 
we  delight  to  honor,  and  I  will  not  attempt  to  repeat  what  has  been 
so  much  better  said  by  him.  This,  however,  I  will  say,  that  we  are 
largely  indebted  to  the  character  of  our  grandmothers,  many  of 
whom  were  large-hearted,  noble  women  of  rare  energy,  intelligence, 
and  worth. 

Some  three  years  ago  it  was  my  good  fortune,  Mr.  President,  to 
visit  the  home  of  my  ancestors,  in  the  north  of  Ireland.  Belfast  is 
a  flourishing  and  beautiful  city,  the  center  of  the  linen  trade,  and 
surrounded  by  a  country  of  surpassing  beauty.  The  soil  is  fertile 
and  highly  cultivated,  and  clothed  through  nearly  the  whole  year 
with  a  freshness  of  verdure  which  in  our  climate  we  can  see  only  for 
a  single  month.  And  then  the  fields  are  small,  containing  from  one 
half  acre  to  three  or  four  acres  each,  and  all  surrounded  by  green 
hedges.  Lands  for  cultivation  there  rent  for  £3,  that  is  $15,  per 
acre  annually.  Of  course,  farms  must  be  small  and  very  productive 
to  justify  such  a  rent.  But,  you  will  ask,  how  did  the  peojue  look '? 
They  were  a  fine-looking,  intelligent  people,  in  general,  well  and 
comfortably  clothed,  and  dwelling  in  neat,  commodious,  and  tasteful 
habitations.     In  most  respects  they  strongly  resemble  their  brethren 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBEATIOX.  49 

the  Scotch,  and  like  them  are  Protestants,  and  generally  Presby- 
terians. The  superiority  of  this  portion  of  the  island  over  other  por- 
tions, of  equal  natural  fertility,  but  under  a  Catholic  population,  is 
most  marked  and  striking.  I  took  occasion,  while  at  Belfast,  to  look 
into  the  business  directory  of  that  and  the  neighboring  counties,  and 
was  gratified  to  find  there  many  of  the  familiar  names  of  my  own 
native  town.  But  I  will  not  trespass  further,  and  end  as  I  began,  in 
giving  utterance  to  my  cherished  and  profound  veneration  for  the 
character  of  my  ancestors,  the  Scotch-Irish. 

The  president  then  announced  the  tenth  regular  toast : 

Broun  Bread.     May  the  hale  yeomanry  of  old  Bedford  never  despise  the 
hearty  and  substantial  food  of  their  ancestors. 

Response  by  Hox.  C.  E.  Potter,  of  Manchester : 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen :  I  know  not  why  I  should  have  been 
called  upon  by  the  president  to  respond  to  this  sentiment,  unless  it 
be  that  he  thought  from  my  somewhat  healthy  appearance  I  was 
fond  of  that  most  sweet  and  nourishing  food,  brown  bread.  [Presi- 
dent:  That  is  the  very  reason  why  I  called  upon  the  gentleman;  his 
size  and  build  show  that  he  was  bred  upon  brown  bread.~\  Well, 
Mr.  President,  I  plead  guilty  to  the  allegation,  and  have  yet  to  learn 
that  it  is  food  unpalatable  or  unhealthy.  In  fact,  Mr.  President, 
brown  bread  was  the  very  staff  of  life  to  our  forefathers.  It  was 
their  dependence  in  the  time  of  scarcity.  At  all  times  its  common 
use  gave  them  the  healthy  cheek  and  the  strong  nerve.  Dyspepsia 
and  gout  were  unknown  to  them.  This  fact  was  owing  to  their 
simple  and  healthy  food.  The  loaf  of  brown  bread  and  that  other 
homely  but  healthy  Xew  England  dish,  the  pot  of  baked  beans,  were 
upon  every  table ;  and  were  they  oftener  seen  at  the  present  time 
upon  our  tables,  there  would  be  less  of  dyspepsia,  gout,  and  other 
prevalent  diseases  of  the  day.  The  gentleman  from  Manchester, 
who  has  preceded  me  (Rev.  Mr.  Wallace),  has  remarked  upon  the 
difference  in  health  betwixt  our  forefathers  and  then-  posterity; 
there  is  a  marked  difference,  especially  in  the  health  of  the  females. 
Xeed  we  wonder  at  the  fact?  We  are  learning  to  consider  the 
homely  but  healthy  fashions  and  fare  of  our  forefathers  as  old- 
fashioned  and  vulgar.  Different  fashions  and  habits  bring  different 
tastes.  This  is  true  of  our  food,  strikingly  so  as  to  bread.  The 
wheaten  loaf  has  taken  the  place,  in  some  places  exclusively,  of  the 
loaf  of  brown  bread.  Xow,  it  is  well  known  that  prisoners  and 
others  have  subsisted  for  months  upon  brown  bread  and  water,  and 
it  is  stated  as  a  fact,  by  men  who  have  tried  the  experiment,  that  a 
dog  will  die  in  forty  days  if  kept  upon  flour  bread  and  water.  If 
flour  bread  and  water  will  kill  a  dog  in  forty  days,  can  we  wonder 
at  the  ill  health  of  the  people  of  the  present  time,  who  partake  so 
often  and  so  freely  of  the  wheaten  loaf  ?  The  fact  is,  Mr.  President, 
our  females  are  learning  to  forget  how  to  make  the  substantial, 
healthy,  brown  loaf  and  other  homely  fare  of  our  ancestors,  and 
while  thus  learning  are  becoming  acquainted  with  modern  luxuries 


50  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

of  the  table,  and  their  sure  accompaniment,  ill  health.  To  them  in 
an  especial  manner  would  I  commend  your  sentiment :  "  The  loaf  of 
brown  bread.  May  the  hale  yeomanry  of  old  Bedford  never  despise 
the  hearty  and  substantial  food  of  their  ancestors."  But,  Mr.  Presi- 
dent, I  need  not  further  descant  upon  the  loaf  of  brown  bread ;  its 
virtues  are  becoming  world-renowned.  Famished  Ireland  has 
learned  its  virtues,  through  the  generous  sympathies  of  America,  and 
the  inimitable  pen  of  Carlyle  has  introduced  its  sweets  to  the  people 
of  England  and  the  Continent.  But,  Mr.  President,  whence  comes 
corn  bread?  It  is  well  for  us  on  this  occasion,  and  on  this  ground, 
to  make  this  inquiry.  Corn  bread  was  the  gift  of  the  Indians  to  our 
ancestors.  Indian  corn  is  still  the  distinctive  name  of  that  maize 
found  in  extensive  culture  and  use  among  the  natives  of  this  coun- 
try. The  receivers  of  that  gift  have  become  the  lords  of  the  soil,  but 
where  are  the  givers  ?  These  questions,  upon  this  occasion,  and  on 
this  ground,  are  replete  with  interest.  A  century  has  passed  since 
the  incorporation  of  this  town.  What  changes  in  the  country  and 
in  the  men  of  this  country  has  a  century  brought  about !  Here  we 
see  a  most  striking  feature  in  the  progress  of  civilization.  Savage 
life  falls  before  it  like  stubble  before  the  raging  fire.  This  very 
town,  whose  centennial  birthday  we  now  celebrate,  but  little  more 
than  a  hundred  years  since  was  the  home  of  the  Indian.  Here  they 
found  plenty.  The  moose,  the  deer,  the  bear,  the  beaver,  and  the 
otter  frequented  the  banks  of  the  adjacent  rivers ;  the  trout,  the 
shad,  and  the  salmon  filled  their  clear  waters,  and  the  wild  Indian, 
as  free  as  wild,  sported  his  birch  canoe  upon  their  surface.  In  short, 
this  neighborhood  was  the  wry  paradise  of  the  Indian.  This  was 
the  home  of  Passaconnaway,  or  the  Child  of  the  Bear,  brave  and 
generous,  the  enemy  and  the  friend  of  the  English.  Here,  too, 
ruled  Wonalanset,  his  son,  the  mild  pupil  of  Eliot.  The  fierce  war- 
rior, whose  character  was  so  changed  by  Christianity  that  he  was 
called  "  Wunnelanshonat,"  or  "  one  breathing  soft  words,"  and  who, 
rather  than  join  with  the  Indians,  his  countrymen,  in  a  war  against 
the  English,  retired  to  Canada  with  his  family  and  friends.  Here, 
too,  was  the  home  of  his  successor,  the  fiercer  warrior,  John  Hog- 
kins,  or  Kancamagus,  the  grandson  of  the  renowned  Passaconnaway, 
the  destroyer  of  Cocheco  and  the  avenger  of  his  people's  wrongs 
upon  Major  Waldron.  Here  the  powerful  Bashaba  held  his  court 
and  ruled  the  neighboring  nations  with  as  despotic  sway  as  the  mod- 
ern czar,  Avhile  myriads  of  his  subjects  in  war  and  in  peace  looked 
upon  his  face  with  fear  and  trembling. 

But  where  are  they  ?  Bashaba  and  subject  are  alike  gone  from 
the  land.  Nothing  remains  to  tell  of  then*  existence  but  the  beauti- 
ful names  they  gave  to  the  striking  natural  objects  around  us.  Our 
people  have  shown  good  taste  in  retaining  these  Indian  names,  as 
expressive  as  beautiful.  On  the  north  flows  the  sparkling  Piscata- 
quog,  the  great  hunting  place  of  the  Indians,  as  the  name  implies, 
Piscataquog  meaning  "  the  great  deer  place,"  being  derived  from  the 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  51 

Indian  words,  Pos  (great),  Attuck  (deer),  and  Alike  (place).  On 
the  east  rolls  the  current  of  the  majestic  Merrimack,1  giving  employ- 
ment to  tens  of  thousands  of  busy  people  by  its  unlimited  power, 
expressed  by  its  name,  Merrimack  being  derived  from  the  words 
Merruh  (of  strong  current)  and  Alike  (place),  with  the  letter  m 
thrown  in  for  the  sake  of  the  sound.  On  the  south  is  the  slow 
meandering  Souhegan,  or  Souheganash,  as  it  was  anciently  and 
properly  written,  derived  from  the  Indian  words  Souheke  (a  plain) 
and  nash,  the  termination,  denoting  the  plural  of  inanimate  nouns. 
Souheganash,  then,  means  "  The  Plains,"  very  expressive  and  appro- 
priate, as  the  "  Souhegan  "  is  literally  the  River  of  the  Plains.  On 
the  west  is  the  beautiful  lake,  "Baboosuck,"  which  should  be  writ- 
ten Papoosuck,  the  Pennacooks  having  no  B  in  then*  dialect.  And 
how  expressive  this  name,  Papoosuck  being  applied  to  a  double  lake 
or  two  lakes  formed  together  by  a  narrow  strait,  and  the  word  being 
derived  from  Papooeis  (a  child)  and  suck,  the  termination,  denoting 
two  or  more,  and  meaning,  "  The  Twins  "  or  the  "  Two  Children." 
Then,  still  further  west  towers  the  Monadnock,  a  mountain  most 
beautifully  named,  the  word  being  derived  from  Manit  (the  Great 
Spirit)  and  auke  (place),  and  meaning,  The  place  of  the  Great 
Spirit.  Then,  a  little  to  the  north,  rises  the  beautiful  mountains,  the 
Uncanoonucks,  or  Wunnunnoogunash,  as  the  word  should  be  writ- 
ten. This  word  is  formed  from  the  two  words,  Wunnunnoogun  (a 
breast)  and  nash,  the  termination,  denoting  the  plural  of  inanimate 
nouns,  as  before  suggested,  and  means  The  Breasts,  a  name  strik- 
ingly appropriate,  as  every  one  will  testify  who  shall  gaze  upon 
these  beautiful  specimens  in  our  mountain  scenery. 

But,  Mr.  President,  pardon  this  digression ;  I  could  not  fail  to  no- 
tice these  beautiful  Indian  names,  appropriated  to  natural  objects  so 
intimately  connected  with  your  town,  as  specimens  of  the  Indian 
language;  a  language,  permit  me  to  say,  natural,  poetical,  philo- 
sophical, and  euphonious. 

But,  Mr.  President,  before  I  close  I  wish  to  set  history  right  as  to 
one  subject  that  has  been  much  talked  of  here  to-day.  The  original 
charters  of  this  town  have  been  exhibited  and  read.  One  from 
Massachusetts,  in  1733,  granting  this  township  by  the  name  of  Sou- 
hegan East,  and  one  from  New  Hampshire,  in  1750,  incorporating 
the  township  by  the  name  of  Bedford.  These  charters  have  been 
shown  and  are  claimed  as  the  first  grants  of  the  lands  in  this  ancient 
township.  This  is  a  mistake.  Almost  a  century  prior  to  these 
grants,  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  made  a  grant  of  a  portion  of 
these  very  lands  to  the  Bashaba,  Passaconnaway.  In  1662,  Passa- 
connaway  presented  a  petition  to  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts, 
praying  for  a  grant  of  lands  at  Amoskeag.  The  original  petition  is 
preserved  in  the  archives  of  Massachusetts.     The  signature  to  this 

'Judge  Potter  differs  from  some  others  as  to  the  etymology.  They  make  it  read 
"  Sturgeon."  (See  Allen's  Centennial  Address,  Merrimack.)  The  judge  is  probably 
correct,  however,  as  the  Indian  word  meaning  sturgeon  is  Kopposh,  which  word  has 
no  sound  in  common  with  Merrimack.— Ed. 


52  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

petition  is  written  thus:  Papisseconeway.  How  humiliating,  that 
this  old  and  once  powerful  prince,  the  rightful  owner  of  all  this 
domain,  should  be  compelled  to  ask  a  portion  of  his  birthright 
from  men  who  had  no  more  right  to  the  land  than  the  pirate  or  the 
robber  has  to  his  plunder. 

The  following  year  the  humble  petition  of  King  Passaconnaway 
is  listened  to,  and  in  the  very  great  liberality  of  the  legislature  of 
Massachusetts,  three  miles  in  length  on  either  side  of  the  river,  of 
the  Sagamore's  own  land,  is  granted  him !  This  land  was  located 
above  Brenton's  land,  and  included  the  north  parts  of  Litchfield  and 
Merrimack  and  the  south  parts  of  Manchester  and  Bedford  border- 
ing upon  the  Merrimack.  This  was  the  fishing  and  planting  place 
of  the  Bashaba,  Passaconnaway.  Here  lived  his  descendants,  till  the 
progress  of  civilization  swept  them  from  the  land.  The  hearths  of 
their  wigwams  are  still  shown  upon  your  intervales,  and  there  the 
collection  of  little  mounds  show  that  the  bones  of  many  of  them  are 
commingling  with  their  native  earth.  Mr.  President,  I  present  the 
claim  of  Passaconnaway  and  his  people.  1  do  not  propose  to  sue 
out  a  writ  of  ejectment  against  you  or  my  friends,  Messrs.  Chandler, 
Patten,  Walker,  and  others,  to  dispossess  you  of  your  fine  farms  ; 
but  I  present  their  claim  for  justice  to  their  memories ;  this  I  know 
you  will  be  most  happy  to  accord.     At  least,  you  will  be  pleased 

"  That  their  memory  liveth  on  your  hills, 
Their  baptism  on  your  shore; 
Your  everlasting  rivers  speak 
Their  dialect  of  yore. 
"  That  Monadnock  on  his  forehead  hoar, 
Doth  seal  the  sacred  trust; 
Your  mountains  build  their  monuments. 
Though  ye  give  the  winds  their  dust." 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  I  close  with  this  sentiment, 
—  The  Pennacook  Indians.1  Our  farms  occupy  their  hunting  and 
planting  grounds  ;  our  villages  and  cities,  the  sites  of  their  wigwams ; 
our  factories,  their  fishing  places, — we  inherit  their  birthright  with- 
out even  a  mess  of  pottage  ;  may  we  do  tardy  justice  to  their  mem- 
ories by  according  to  them  those  virtues  our  forefathers  were  unwil- 
ling to  acknowledge. 

The  shining  lights  and  worthies  of  Bedford,  past  and  present, 
were  celebrated  in  the  following  "Metrical  Rhapsody,"  written  for 
the  occasion  by  George  Kent,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  and  read  by  the  Rev. 
J.  T.  Woodbury,  of  Acton,  Mass. : 

1  This  tribe  of  Indians,  inhabiting  the  Merrimack  intervales  and  fishing  grounds, 
from  Lowell  (formerly  Pawtucket,  or  the  "  forks  ")  to  Concord  (formerly  Pennacook) 
was  a  warlike  and  powerful  tribe.  They  had  forts  at  Pawtucket  and  at  Pennacook, 
and  repulsed  the  dreaded  Mohawks  in  a  battle  at  the  latter  place.  The  tribe  took 
its  name  from  "  Pennacook,"  which  means  the  crooked  place,  being  derived  from 
the  Indian  words  Pannikqua  (crooked)  and  auke  (place).  Any  one  acquainted  with 
the  remarkable  windings  of  the  Merrimack,  through  the  intervales  of  Concord,  will  at 
once  see  the  appropriateness  of  the  name. 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION. 

A  hundred  years  !    What  hopes  and  fears 

Are  crowded  in  its  pages— 
What  scenes  to  thrill,  of  good  or  ill, 

In  glancing  down  the  ages! 
Than  Scottish  stock,  not  Plymouth  Rock, 

Can  boast  of  nobler  scions— 
Whose  mixture  good,  of  Irish  blood, 

Speaks  true  Scotch -Irish  "  lions." 

Not  lions  they,  which,  in  our  day. 
Might  pass  for  "just  the  dandy  "— 

But  stern  old  stuff,  in  aspect  rough, 
Yet  always  shrewd  and  handy. 

From  Ulster's  coast,  a  valiant  host, 
The3r  cross'd  the  deep  blue  waters, 

And  refuge  found,  on  Yankee  ground- 
Sires,  mothers,  sons,  and  daughters. 

In  faith  severe,  they  lov'd  good  cheer- 
In  mien  sedate,  were  merry,— 

Their  jokes  to  crack  were  never  slack, 
When  settled  down  in  Derry. 

As  true  off-shoots  of  Nuffield  roots, 
Our  homestead  branch  was  planted— 

In  Bedford's  name,  of  honor'd  fame, 
Our  charter'd  town  was  granted. 

Hither  our  Macs  had  made  their  tracks, 
Our  Orrs,  and  Goffes,  aud  Pattens— 

Their  housewives,  too,  of  good  "true  blue, 
Undeck'd  with  silks  or  satins, 

No  taste  had  they  for  fine  display. 
Or  modern  street-yarn  spinning— 

Their  handiwork— with  them  no  shirk- 
Was  making  finest  linen. 

But  not  alone  is  raiment  shown, 

As  proof  of  skill  well  noted— 
In  lesser  arts  they  bore  their  parts, 

To  industry  devoted. 
Viands  well  cooked  are  not  o'erlooked, 

In  summing  up  their  story — 
Haggis  and  Brose,  in  days  like  those, 

Spoke  well  the  housewife's  glory. 

Our  "  men  folks,"  too,  were  tough  as  yew, 

To  honest  thrift  attending— 
Year  in  and  out,  with  labor  stout, 

Fit  recreation  blending. 
To  Derry  Fair,  both  late  and  air, 

Our  quota  full  would  muster, 
There  once  a  year,  with  hearty  cheer, 

Where  kith  and  kin  might  cluster. 

Not  men  on  stilts— but  clad  in  kilts, 

Scotch  bonnets,  and  the  tartan— 
Whose  courage  tried  was  well  allied 

To  bravery  of  the  Spartan. 
But  deeds  of  blood  were  not  their  mood, 

Or  scenes  of  rude  commotion — 
Wrestle  and  race  found  best  a  place 

To  "kittle  up  their  notion." 


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54  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 


Brave,  stalwart  men,  Souhegan's  glen 

Could  boast  from  earliest  founding— 
Our  country's  rolls,  which  proves  men's  souls, 

Show  ardent  zeal  unbounding. 
ORR'S  honor'd  scars,  which  bloodier  wars 

Might  fail  to  more  than  rival, 
Did  but  attest  the  patriot  zest 

With  which  were  found  to  strive  all. 

With  many  a  Riddle,  no  "  second  fiddle  " 

We  play'd  to  towns  around  us— 
While  with  More  head,  it  might  be  said, 

Some  years  have  always  found  us. 
Aiken  to  Burns,  allied  by  turns 

To  Moors,  and  Woods,  and  Walkers— 
With  Barrons  bold,  as  may  be  told, 

Though  Little  known  as  talkers. 

Our  Bells  could  sound  a  note  profound, 

If  CalVd  well  to  the  duty— 
Fitly  our  Barnes  can  spin  his  yarns, 

In  measure  just  to  suit  ye. 
Smith,  ancient  name,  well  known  to  fame, 

Vose,  Gordon,  Chandler,  Taggart, 
Wallace  and  Dole,  all  swell  the  roll, 

In  which  we  are  no  braggart. 

We  had  our  Craig,  and  many  a  Sprague, 

And  Rand,  a  painter  noted— 
Could  find  a  Page  for  many  a  Gage, 

'Mongst  others  we  have  quoted. 
Nevins  and  Barr  were  also  "  thar," 

With  now  and  then  a  Parker— 
The  town  could  boast  of  quite  a  host, 

If  any  would  remark  her. 

Old  "  Strawberry  Hill  "  had  quite  a  fill, 

And  "  Squog  "  was  not  found  wanting— 
And  "  Joppa"  west  could  show  its  best, 

With  proper  ground  of  vaunting. 
Not  to  o'erlook  Foster,  Holbrook, 

Or  fail  where  proud  to  show  man— 
We  well  may  claim,  of  legal  fame, 

'Squire  Wilkins,  and  'Squire  Bowman. 

The  Pulpit,  too,  has  had  a  few— 

Though  not  in  number  mickle— 
Dispensing  truth  to  age  and  youth, 

Since  days  of  Father  Pickle. 
Memory  will  claim  McGregor's  name, 

And  Houston's,  from  time's  ravage, 
While  love  can  still,  with  right  good  will, 

Turn  trustingly  to  Savage. 

A  further  store  in  Swett,  Gilmore, 

French,  Woodbury,  and  Colley, 
We  might  recount  to  large  amount — 

But  more  to  add  were  folly. 
At  home,  abroad,  we're  on  record 

In  states  throughout  the  Union— 
If  proved  by  works,  no  quips  or  quirps 

Will  bar  us  full  communion. 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  55 

Then  hail  the  day,  whose  natal  ray 

Lights  up  our  happy  faces! 
To  freedom  true  we  pledge  our  due, 

Throughout  all  times  and  places.    ■ 
To  friends  still  dear  we  send  good  cheer, 

However  wide  their  roaming— 
In  each  full  heart  they'll  find  a  part 

At  every  evening  gloaming. 

The  president  then  announced  the  eleventh  regular  toast : 

The  Ladies  of  Bedford.  Ever  prompt  and  energetic  in  every  undertaking 
of  a  worthy  and  commendable  character. 

James  O.  Adams  of  Manchester  spoke  in  response  to  the  senti- 
ment: 

This,  Mr.  President,  is  not  according  to  the  programme.  It  is 
not  quite  the  entertainment  we  anticipated.  I  came  here,  upon  the 
invitation  of  your  committee,  to  be  a  looker  on  and  a  listener,  that  I 
might  make  a  record  of  the  exercises  of  the  day,  not  once  expecting 
to  be  called  on  to  unseal  my  lips.  You,  and  your  fellow-citizens 
have  left  your  common  vocations,  have  laid  aside  all  party  feelings 
and  sectional  interests,  and  assembled  here  to  pay  the  tribute  of 
grateful  remembrance  to  your  ancestors,  to  give  to  each  other  and 
the  world  the  assurance  that  your  fathers'  mantles  and  your  fathers' 
spirit  have  descended  to  their  children,  and  that  you  will,  this  hour, 
kindle  anew  the  fires  of  patriotism  upon  the  altar  of  your  hearts. 
You  have  met  as  the  members  of  your  youth  and  your  veneration 
for  the  silent  dead,  whose  virtues  were  not  entombed  with  their 
ashes.  It  is  a  family  gathering,  and  no  strange  voices  should  be 
mingled  with  the  familiar  words  uttered  hei'e  to-day. 

But,  Mr.  President,  if  I  am  an  "outsider,"  and  have  no  right  by 
birth,  residence,  or  domestic  relation  of  any  kind  to  be  a  participator 
in  this  celebration,  I  am  happy  to  say  that  I  am  not  a  stranger  to 
the  subject  of  the  sentiment  upon  which  you  have  taken  the  liberty 
to  call  me  up.  The  merits  of  the  ladies  of  Bedford,  whether  they 
be  called  to  perform  the  duties  of  the  kitchen,  or  to  adorn  the  par- 
lor, whether  they  give  instruction  in  the  school-room,  or  administer 
charity  to  the  poor,  cannot  fail  to  be  acknowledged.  It  has  been 
my  good  fortune  often  to  meet  with  them,  here  in  then  rural  homes, 
and  in  their  new  residences,  in  our  busy  city  across  the  river,  and  I 
should  be  unpardonable  did  I  not  confess  the  truth  of  the  sentiment. 
We  are  accustomed  to  regard  man  as  the  only  rightful  possessor  of 
greatness,  and  to  award  to  him  all  the  glory  and  heroism,  though  in 
her  retirement,  where  the  eye  of  the  world  may  not  behold  her, 
woman  may  endure  and  accomplish  tenfold  more  for  the  good  of 
humanity.  The  greatness  of  benevolence  is  her  boon,  her  empire 
is  that  of  the  heart.  It  is  for  her  to  bear  joy  and  consolation  to 
those  around  her,  to  spread  peace  and  happiness  around  her  dwell- 
ing. She  may  not  be  seen  abroad,  except  by  her  works  of  love ; 
her  name  may  not  be  recorded  on  the  page  of  the  world's  great 
achievements,  and  she  may  go  down  to  the  grave  with  none  living 


56  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

to  breathe  her  praise  but  the  hearts  of  her  home  and  the  friends  of 
her  little  hamlet ;  but  above  the  praise  of  human  lips,  greater  than 
the  honor  which  time  (jan  give,  nobler  than  the  recompense  of  he- 
roes, will  be  her  reward. 

SONG. 
Written  for  the  occasion  by  a  young  lady. 

Old  Bedford  may  boast  of  her  farmers,  mechanics, 

Her  doctors,  her  lawyers,  her  ministers,  too, 
In  purpose  unshaken  as  pillars  of  granite, 

Right  onward  their  course  is,  with  strength  ever  new. 

Pass  on,  sons  of  Bedford,  press  on  in  your  glory; 

Pass  on!  deck  your  brows  with  the  bright  wreaths  of  fame, 
Generations  unborn  will  rejoice  at  your  story, 

For  History  just  waits  now  to  take  down  each  name. 

'Pass  on,  sons  of  Bedford,  pass  on  in  your  greatness, 
True  greatness,  the  offspring  of  goodness  and  truth; 

"Pass  on,"  is  the  watchword,  let  none  plead  the  lateness, 
Let  none  linger  listless,  because  of  his  youth. 

Pass  onward,  rise  upward,  the  prize  is  appearing, 
The  goal  is  in  sight  now,  press  forward  ye  brave, 

Secure  the  bright  gem  in  the  prospect  that's  nearing, 
And  honor  immortal  shall  rest  o'er  each  grave. 

VOLUNTEER  SENTIMENTS. 

Several  volunteer  sentiments  were  given  to  the  president,  and 
many  others  were  ready  to  be  given  had  time  permitted.  We  have 
been  able  to  collect  a  few  for  publication. 

By  Hon.  Thomas  Chandler.  "May  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  pre- 
sent to  the  second  centennial  a  more  full  genealogical,  chronological,  and 
historical  table  than  the  first  centennial  can  give  to  the  second." 

By  C apt.  William  Patten.  "  The  Inhabitants  of  Bedford.  When  they 
celebrate  the  second  centennial  day,  may  they  look  back  with  pleasure  on 
us  who  celebrate  the  first,  while  we  hope  to  be  celebrating  the  praises  of 
God,  eternal  in  the  heavens." 

By  Adam  Chandler,  Esq.  "  The  22d  of  May,  1850.  A  day  ever  to  be 
remembered  by  those  present,  inasmuch  as  it  calls  to  our  minds  in  a  most 
striking  and  vivid  view,  the  feelings,  principles,  and  integrity  of  purpose 
which  governed  our  ancestors  a  hundred  years  ago." 

By  Mr.  James  F.  Moore.  "  Our  Fathers.  Dear  to  us  in  life,  sacred  to 
our  memories  in  death;  while  we  venerate  their  names,  and  cherish  their 
virtues,  may  we  also  emulate  their  Christian  examples." 

By  James  Walker,  Esq.  "  The  Ladies  of  Bedford.  Like  their  ancestor 
mothers,  industrious,  modest  and  generous,  ready  to  feed  the  hungry  and 
clothe  the  naked,  well  may  we  rise  up  and  call  them  blessed." 

SONG. 

Here  prowled  the  wolf,  the  hunter  roved, 

The  red  man  sang  the  song  he  loved, 
Resolved  and  firm  he  stood  unmoved, 

Nor  dreamed  of  future  woe; 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  57 

These  broad  green  lands  from  east  to  west, 

From  north  to  south  he  once  possessed, 
Nor  was  the  savage  all  unblessed 

A  hundred  years  ago. 

"Alas!  for  them,  their  reign  is  o'er, 

Their  fires  are  out  on  hill  and  shore, 
The  wild  deer  bounds  for  them  no  more," 

A  broken  thing  their  bow. 
The  white  man's  plough  turns  up  their  grounds, 

And  through  their  woods  his  axe  resounds, 
Beside  their  rills  the  lambkin  bounds; 

Shall  we  exult?  No!  no! 

We  turn  us  to  the  pilgrim's  cause, 

We  venerate  its  sacred  laws, 
'Tis  one  that's  gained  high  heaven's  applause, 

Doth  heaven's  inscription  bear. 
Ah!  would  we,  if  we  could,  forget 

To  whom  we  owe  a  sacred  debt? 
No!  never,  we'll  revere  them  yet, 

Those  names  to  memory  dear. 

'Twas  here  our  noble  fathers  strayed, 

'Twas  here  they  worshiped,  here  they  prayed, 
And  here  their  mould'ring  forms  are  laid; 

O!  peaceful  be  their  rest! 
You  scarce  perceive  the  rising  mound, 

Yet  each  is  consecrated  ground, 
By  each,  devotion  lingers  round, 

Blest  be  their  ashes,  blest. 

And  now  the  heritage  is  ours, 

This  goodty  land,  these  sunny  bowers, 
These  hills  and  valleys,  fruits  and  flowers, 

The  flocks  and  waving  grain; 
The  stately,  towering  forest  trees, 

The  noble  waters,  sporting  free; 
All,  all  the  beauty  eye  can  see, 

In  this,  our  wide  domain. 

"OUR  FATHER'S  HOME." 

(These  verses  will  be  read  with  interest  by  one  who  should  visit  the  "  Old  Grave 
Yard  "  in  the  east  part  of  Bedford.) 

Stranger!  step  lightly  on  the  dead, 

That  slumber  'neath  the  clod, 
The  place  where  lies  the  pilgrim's  head 

Now  present  with  his  God. 

Look  round  thee— view  the  sunken  grave, 

The  tombstone  drooping  low, 
The  vestige  of  departed  brave, 

One  hundred  years  ago. 

How  silent  all  around  thee  stand, 

Death's  stillness  reigns  around, 
No  inmate  here  can  burst  the  bands 

Until  the  trumpet  sounds. 

Lone  wanderers  of  a  hundred  vears, 

They  calmly,  sweetly  sleep. 
Shed  not  the  warm  and  bathing  tears, 

For  they  can  never  weep. 


58  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

Lock'd  in  death's  cold  and  last  embrace, 
Though  flowers  above  may  bloom, 

Their  form  has  left  not  e'en  a  trace, 
These  inmates  of  the  tomb. 

But  surely  this  is  not  their  end, 
Let's  look  beyond  the  gloom, 

There  smiles  and  roses  sweetly  blend, 
That  is,  that  is,  their  home. 

HYMN. 

Tune— America. 

God  of  our  fathers!  Thou 
Wilt  deign  to  bless  us  now, 

While  here  we  wait; 
Father's  who've  passed  away, 
Their  noble  deeds  to-day 
With  grateful  hearts  we  may 

Commemorate. 

Thanks  be  to  God  alone 
That  them  he  made  his  own 

Peculiar  care: 
Them,  who  with  prayer  and  might 
Sought  freedom,  truth,  and  right, 
And  left  its  glorious  light 

For  us  to  share. 

They  every  danger  dared, 
They  every  trial  shared, 

And  murmured  not; 
Our  pleasant  homes  so  dear, 
To  them  looked  dark  and  drear, 
And  by  their  sufferings  here, 

Were  dearly  bought. 

Great  God!  Thy  gracious  hand, 
Upheld  the  Pilgrim  band, 

When  sorely  tried; 
Thou  didst  our  fathers  bless, 
May  we  Thine  aid  possess, 
In  works  of  righteousness 

Be  Thou  our  guide. 

When  circling  years  have  fled, 
And  numbered  with  the  dead 
'  The  hosts  around; 
When  children's  children  fill 
Our  place  o'er  vale  and  hill, 
O  may  Thj'  blessing  still 
With  them  abound. 

SONG. 

We  love  our  town,  our  good  old  town, 
We  fear  no  rude  oppressor  ; 

To-day  her  hundredth  birthday  is, 
And  many  come  to  bless  her. 

'Tis  true,  ours  is  a  sterile  soil, 
A  land  of  hills  and  granite; 

Yet  plenty  crowns  the  social  board. 
Our  peace,  there's  none  can  scan  it. 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  59 

We  love  her  hills,  her  rugged  hills, 

Which  flocks  and  herds  are  crowning, 
Her  rural  shade,  her  merry  rills, 

Her  stately  forests  frowning. 

We  cull  the  flowers  that  sweetly  bloom 

Beside  her  peaceful  fountains, 
Loading  the  air  with  scent  more  pure 

Than  currents  from  the  mountains. 

Though  noble  are  her  forest  trees, 

And  beautiful  her  waters, 
More  noble  are  her  gallant  sons, 

More  beautiful  her  daughters. 

We  contemplate  the  present  good 

With  heartfelt  joy  and  gladness; 
But  when  we  muse  upon  the  past, 

Our  joy  partakes  of  sadness. 

The  church  yard  yonder,  "  cold  and  drear," 

Can  tell  the  mournful  story; 
Our  fathers  now  are  sleeping  there, 

Remain,  their  deeds  of  glory. 

There  molder,  too,  our  youthful  ones, 

To  them  our  tears  are  given. 
Transplanted  were  those  flowers  from  earth, 

To  bloom  more  sweet  in  heaven. 

The  following  letters  were  received  from  distinguished  individuals 

by  the  committee  on  invitations,  in  answer  to  an  invitation  to  be 

present  and  unite  with  us  on  this  occasion.     The  committee  deem  it 

expedient  to  insert  them  verbatim. 

Peter  P.  Woodbury, 

Thomas  Savage, 

William  Patten, 

Committee. 

Washington  City,  May  6th,  1850. 

Gentlemen :  I  have  just  received  your  polite  invitation  to  attend 
the  coming  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Town  of  Bedford,  on  the 
22d  inst.  Few  things  would  be  more  gratifying  than  to  accept  this 
invitation,  but  the  pressure  of  my  official  duties  here  till  after  that 
date  must  prevent  it. 

Well  may  the  sons  of  such  Fathers  as  first  settled  the  county  of 
Hillsborough  celebrate  the  event  with  grateful  hearts.  They  were  a 
hardy  race,  accustomed  to  dangers,  inured  to  toil,  and  devoted  to 
civil  and  religious  liberty.  But  what  distinguished  them  from 
almost  every  free  people  who  preceded  them  and  their  co-patriots  in 
planting  civilization  in  the  wilderness,  was  their  wonderful  foresight 
as  to  the  means  necessary  to  preserve,  no  less  than  build  up  liberty. 
They  soon  saw  that  education  and  religion,  widely  diffused  among 
them,  could  alone  be  relied  on  permanently  for  these  great  purposes. 
The  village   schoolhouse   and   the  village    church,  therefore,  soon 


60  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

became  the  ornament  of  every  settlement,  and  have  served  to  nurse 
luxuriantly  all  the  free  principles  and  free  institutions  which  have 
ever  since  distinguished  the  county  where  I  am  proud  to  have  been 
born. 

In  whatever  quarter  of  the  globe  man  may  be  maddened  by 
oppression  to  break  his  chains,  he  must  remember  that  to  remain 
long  free  from  them,  intelligence  must  be  cultivated  among  the 
people  so  as  to  know  the  true  extent  both  of  their  rights  and  duties, 
and  religion  be  disseminated  with  all  her  sacred  sanctions,  so  as  to 
make  all  respect  what  is  right  in  others  and  uphold  the  laws  and  the 
order  of  society. 

May  the  town  of  Bedford  see  many  more  Centennials  distinguished 
like  this  by  these  rich  blessings. 

Respectfully, 

Levi  Woodbury. 

Rutland,  Vt.,  May  17th,  1850. 

Dear  Sir:  The  invitation  of  your  Committee  to  the  Centennial 
Celebration  of  the  settlement  of  Bedford  next  week  has  been  duly 
received,  and  for  the  favor  please  accept  my  thanks.  I  have  antici- 
pated much  happiness  in  being  present  on  the  occasion  and  reviving 
my  pleasant  remembrances  of  my  native  town.  All  my  associations 
with  Bedford,  both  the  place  and  the  people,  are  delightful.  Noth- 
ing ever  occurred  to  mar  them.  There  I  passed  the  sunny  days  of 
my  childhood  and  youth.  There  dwelt  my  nearest  kindred  and 
many  whom  I  have  ever  regarded  as  friends ;  and  I  cannot  give  a 
truer  utterance  to  my  wishes  for  the  town  than  by  saying,  "  Peace 
and  prosperity  be  within  thee." 

I  regret  to  say  that  imperative  duties  will  prevent  my  attendance. 
The  distance,  though  considerable,  would  not  stand  in  the  way  if 
other  circumstances  did  not  forbid.  As  it  is,  my  best  wishes  shall 
be  with  you.  The  occasion,  I  doubt  not,  will  be  alike  interesting 
and  instructive.  And  while  many,  especially  of  the  fathers,  whom  1 
once  respected  and  revered  will  not  be  present,  I  rejoice  to  believe 
that  their  places  are  occupied  by  others  who  are  acting  well  their 
parts  for  the  good  of  the  church  and  of  mankind. 

Accept  the  assurance  of  my  heartfelt  interest  in  the  welfare  of 
your  Committee  personally,  and  of  all  the  good  people  of  Bedford. 
May  their  sun  not  go  down,  neither  their  moon  withdraw  itself. 
May  they  be  as  the  house  of  David,  which  waxed  stronger  and 
stronger. 

With  kindest  regards, 

1  am  very  truly  and  respectfully  yours, 

S.  Aiken. 


Amherst,  N.  H.,  May  13th,  1850. 
Gentlemen:   I  am   honored  with  your   invitation   to  attend   the 
Centennial  Celebration  at  Bedford  on  the  22d  inst.,  but  the  frosts  of 


CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  61 

seventy-seven  years  caution  me  in  language  not  to  be  misunderstood, 
to  avoid  the  excitement  and  fatigue  attendant  on  such  meetings. 
These  town  celebrations,  especially  where  they  go  back  to  the  first 
inroads  made  upon  the  forest  by  civilized  man,  have  ever  been  pecu- 
liarly interesting  to  me.  I  love  to  hear  from  their  small  beginnings, 
their  progress  in  population,  in  agriculture,  in  wealth  and  literature. 
I  love  to  recur  to  the  hardships  and  self-denial  with  which  the  early 
settlers  had  to  struggle,  and  compare  these  conflicts  and  privations 
with  the  ease,  comforts,  conveniences,  and  resources  of  those  who 
succeeded  them.  These  things  in  a  town  like  Bedford,  distinguished 
as  she  now  is  in  her  husbandry,  in  her  schools,  in  the  respectable 
and  substantial  character  of  her  yeomanry,  in  her  wealth  and  gen- 
eral improvement,  impart  an  animating  and  instructive  lesson  to 
posterity. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  some  scholar,  and  I  know  none  more  tit 
than  the  orator  you  have  selected,  will  undertake  the  task  of  writing 
and  publishing  a  minute  history  of  the  town,  from  the  clearing  the 
first  field  within  its  limits  to  its  present  high  state  of  improvement, 
from  the  planting  of  the  acorn  to  the  oak  in  its  full  maturity  and 
widespread  dimensions,  giving  also  a  concise  account  of  the  worthies 
and  distinguished  men  of  the  town  who  have  been  gathered  to  their 
fathers.  Such  a  history,  I  am  confident,  would  be  well  received  by 
the  public  and  amply  remunerate  its  author.  If  your  celebration 
shall  have  no  other  effect  than  to  produce  such  a  result,  it  will  not 
have  been  in  vain,  but  positively  useful. 

I  am,  Gentlemen,  with  great  respect  for  the  inhabitants  of  Bed- 
ford, and  for  you,  their  Committee, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

C.  H.  Atiiertox. 


Detroit,  May  16th,  1850. 

Gentlemen :  I  regret  exceedingly  my  inability  to  accept  your  kind 
invitation  to  be  present  at  your  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  settle- 
ment of  the  good  old  town  of  Bedford.  It  would  have  afforded  me 
great  pleasure  to  meet  my  old  friends  upon  that  occasion,  but  circum- 
stances beyond  my  own  control  will  prevent.  The  ashes  of  the  dead, 
as  well  as  the  loved  faces  of  the  living,  attract  me  strongly  to  my 
native  town,  and  that  attachment  I  find  increasing  each  day  of  my 
life.  Permit  me,  in  conclusion,  to  offer :  "  The  Town  of  Bedford, — 
may  her  descendants  (widely  scattered  through  the  land)  never  dis- 
honor their  paternity." 

Be  pleased  to  accept,  for  yourselves  and  associates,  my  kind 
regards,  and  believe  me,       Truly  yours, 

Z.  Chaxdler*. 


Key  West,  May  7,  1850. 
Gentlemen :  On  the  4th  instant  I  received  your  kind  letter  of  invi- 
tation to  be  present  at  the  Centennial  Celebration  which  the  inhabit- 


62  .     HISTOEY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ants  of  Bedford  contemplate  holding  on  the  22d  of  the  present 
month.  It  would  certainly  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  present  on 
that  interesting  occasion,  but  business,  as  well  as  the  great  distance 
between  us,  will,  I  fear,  prevent. 

Having  been  absent  from  my  native  town  for  many  years,  I  could 
not,  were  I  personally  present,  contribute  much  to  the  interest  of  the 
occasion.  As  a  son  of  Bedford,  I  shall  always  remember  her  with 
great  interest,  and  rejoice  in  her  prosperity  and  fame.  1  could  do 
little  more  than  give  my  early  and  youthful  impressions  of  that 
noble  race  of  men  whom  the  American  Revolution  left  in  Bedford. 
That  Revolution  has  been  called  "  the  times  that  tried  men's  souls.'''' 
I  would  alter  this  to  " the  times  that  purified  men's  soids"  for  a 
sense  of  common  danger  destroyed  their  selfishness,  and  an  ardent 
desire  of  liberty  elevated  and  liberalized  their  minds.  In  those  days 
men  thought  and  acted  from  a  common  impulse,  and  rejoiced  in  a 
common  victory. 

Not  a  single  Tory  ever  lived  in  Bedford.  Almost  all  capable  of 
bearing  arms,  at  some  period  or  other  of  the  Revolution  gave  them- 
selves up  to  the  service  of  their  country.  The  strongest  evidence  of 
Toryism  that  was  ever  found  in  the  town,  as  I  have  often  heard  the 
old  patriots  say,  was  the  fact  that  old  priest  Houston,  in  his  extreme 
age,  did  not  omit  from  his  formal  prayer  the  mention  of  the  king 
and  queen  quite  as  soon  as  the  young  and  warm  bloods  desired. 
"  There  were  giants  in  the  land "  in  those  days.  The  times  made 
the  men ;  and  the  men  were  inspired  to  be  ready  and  equal  to  the 
times.  My  earliest  recollections  are  busy  with  the  old  Soldiers — the 
big  and  generous-hearted  men  who  had  seen  and  loved  Washington. 
Does  any  one  seek  the  cause  why  men  were  better  in  those  days 
than  at  present  ?  It  may  be  found  in  the  fact  that  in  modern  times 
the  general  desire  of  wealth  makes  men  selfish,  and  selfishness  is 
opposed  to  all  excellence. 

The  limits  of  a  common  letter  are  wholly  inadequate  to  discuss  the 
traits  of  individual  character ;  and  yet,  it  was  the  happy  blending  of 
individual  character  that  rendered  the  Revolutionary  inhabitants  of 
Bedford  a  race  to  be  remembered  and  revered.  There  was  a  great 
similarity  between  the  people  of  Bedford  and  Peterborough.  They 
had  a  common  origin,  they  were  tried  in  the  same  school  of  afflic- 
tion, and  rejoiced  over  the  same  deliverance.  There  was  a  rivalship 
among  many  of  them  in  pleasantry,  in  wit,  and  in  sententious  say- 
ings. Their  virtues  bore  a  Roman  stamp,  and  truth  was  inculcated 
among  them  as  indeed  one  of  the  cardinal  virtues. 

Some  characters  doubtless  shone  more  brightly  than  others,  as 
they  were  contemplated  from  this  or  that  particular  point  of  view. 
But  there  were  some  traits  common  to  the  whole  population.  They 
nearly  all  possessed  a  severe  virtue,  a  laborious  industry,  and  cheer- 
ful and  contented  minds ;  they  had  received  little  or  no  advantages 
from  schools ;  they  were  self-taught.  If  they  had  not  the  polish  of 
the  Grecian  marble,  they  possessed  the  strength  and  solidity  of  their 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  63 

native  granite.  I  shall  long  remember,  and  who  wall  ever  forget,  the 
vigorous  intellect  and  Roman  character  of  John  Orr,  the  excellent 
hearts  and  gentlemanly  deportment  of  the  Chandlers,  the  Riddles, 
the  Pattens,  the  Aikens,  the  Moors,  the  Walkers,  the  Wallaces,  and 
others.  Memory  calls  up  the  laborious  and  sterling  French,  the  face- 
tious McLaughlin,  the  kind  William  Parker,  the  feeling  McQuestion, 
the  venerable  Major  Goffe,  and  the  talented  and  keen-witted  Nathan 
Barnes.  But  I  call  on  other  memories  to  complete  the  list,  for  mine 
will  not  extend  half  through  the  catalogue.  Among  the  excellent 
self-made  men  of  that  age,  I  cannot  omit  to  mention  one  who  admit- 
ted me  early  to  his  friendship  and  disclosed  to  me  the  treasures  of 
his  mind.  There  never  was,  perhaps,  a  more  perfect  character  in  the 
town — a  man  who  more  strictly  observed  the  golden  rule,  more  free 
from  selfishness,  or  more  full  of  the  milk  of  human  kindness — than 
David  Patten,  Esq.  None  ever  heard  censure  from  his  lips,  while  he 
ever  acted  the  peacemaker  among  those  at  variance ;  he  was  noble 
by  nature,  and  a  Christian  by  practice ;  he  abounded  in  charity,  and 
the  Christian  graces  adorned  his  life.  Scarcely  his  inferior  in  any 
particular  that  constituted  the  good  neighbor  and  the  good  man  was 
the  beloved  Thomas  Wallace,  who  was  called  to  his  reward  in 
middle  life.  Others  of  a  later  generation  have,  I  trust,  filled  the 
places  of  the  choice  ones  who  have  all  been  summoned  to  their 
reward.  When  I  revisit  my  native  town  I  see  but  few  faces,  here 
and  there,  that  remind  me  of  my  youth,  while  almost  all  are  strange 
to  my  sight  and  admonish  me  that  time  has  passed,  and  that  I  am 
growing  old.  I  fear,  gentlemen,  you  will  think  that  this  letter 
smacks  of  the  garrulity  of  age.  I  close  with  the  wish  that  the  youth 
of  Bedford  may  know  what  their  ancestors  have  been,  and  imitate 
their  virtues. 

With  great  respect,  gentlemen,  I  remain, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

A.  Gobdox. 


Amherst,  May  21,  1850. 
Gentlemen :  Your  polite  invitation  to  attend  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  on  the  22d  inst.  was  duly 
received,  and  until  to-day  I  fully  expected  to  be  present  on  that  very 
interesting  occasion.  With  extreme  regret  I  now  find,  however,  that 
pressing  duties  will  require  my  attention  elsewhere  at  that  time.  It 
only  remains  to  tender  my  sincere  thanks  for  the  honor  of  your  kind 
remembrance,  and  may  the  day  selected  to  welcome  your  returning 
kindred  and  friends  prove  as  fair  and  beautiful  as  I  am  certain  their 
greeting  will  be  cordial  and  their  entertainment  brilliant  and 
interesting. 

With  great  respect, 

Your  obd't  servant, 

Francis  P.  Fitch. 


64  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Franklin,  May  16,  1850. 
Gentlemen :  I  acknowledge  with  grateful  emotion  the  receipt  of 
your  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  your 
town  on  the  22d  instant,  and  have  to  express  in  reply,  my  regret 
that  illness  in  my  family  does  not  allow  me  to  entertain  the  hope  of 
meeting  you  on  that  interesting  occasion.  Time  tries  all  things. 
Results  developed  during  the  course  of  the  past  century  must  form 
a  noble  eulogy  upon  the  characters  and  wisdom  of  the  early  settlers 
of  your  territory,  and  an  instructive  illustration  of  the  power  of  re- 
ligious principle  and  free  mind  to  bless  a  community  and  the  world. 
May  the  sweetest  influences  rest  upon  the  scenes  and  enjoyments  of 
your  festival. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

Wm.  T.  Savage. 


Nashville,  May  16,  1850. 
Gentlemen :  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your 
invitation  to  attend  the  Centennial  Celebration  at  Bedford  on  the  22d 
inst.  It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  present  on  so  interest- 
ing an  occasion,  but  I  regret  to  say  that  imperative  professional 
engagements  compel  me  to  forego  that  gratification. 
I  am,  most  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

C.  G.  Atheetox. 


Lowell,  Vt.,  May  15,  1850. 
Gentlemen  :  Your  invitation  requesting  my  attendance  at  the  Cen- 
tennial Celebration  Wednesday,  22d  May  inst.,  is  in  hand,  and  I 
must  say  that  nothing  would  give  me  more  jfleasure  and  satisfac- 
tion than  to  be  present  on  such  an  occasion.  That  old  and  long- 
cherished  town  that  gave  me  birth,  and  where  I  spent  the  first  and 
most  delightful  part  of  my  life  ;  the  place  where  I  first  learned  to 
lisp  the  endearing  name  of  father,  mother,  brother,  and  sister ;  the 
place  where  my  first,  best,  and  purest  impressions  were  made  con- 
cerning the  reality  of  another  and  better  world,  to  which  so  many 
dear  kindred  and  friends  are  gone,  will  ever  be  dear  to  my  heart. 
As  I  cannot  be  present,  I  send  my  good  wishes  and  prayers  for  all 
kindred  and  Mends,  for  their  present  and  eternal  happiness.  May 
union  of  brotherly  love  and  fraternal  affection  fill  every  heart,  and 
may  all  bosoms  glow  with  gratitude  to  the  Giver  of  all  good. 

Yours,  &c, 

Nathan  Walker. 


18  Wall  St.,  New  York,  May  18,  1850. 
Gentlemen  :  Your  favor  of  the  15th  of  April,  ultimo,  inviting  me 
to  participate  with  you  in  your  Centennial  Celebration  on  the  22d 


'       CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  65 

instant  has  been  duly  received.  I  have  delayed  an  answer  until  this 
late  moment  in  the  hope  of  being  able  to  accept  it.  Present  appear- 
ances indicate,  however,  that  professional  engagements  here  will 
prevent  me  from  so  doing. 

I  need  not  assure  you  that  I  feel  the  highest  interest  in  your  cele- 
bration, and  although  absent  in  person,  my  heart  will  be  with  you. 
The  occasion  is  one  well  calculated  to  awaken  in  every  son  of  old 
Bedford  interesting  reminiscences. 

The  township  system  of  New  England  is  one  of  the  peculiar  fea- 
tures of  her  well-marked  character.  It  is  a  social  as  well  as  a  politi- 
cal institution.  It  is  conceded  to  be  the  most  perfect  model  of  an 
absolute  democracy  now  extant.  It  might  be  added  that  a  happy 
social  equality  nowhere  finds  so  perfect  a  manifestation.  Especially 
is  this  true  of  Bedford.  Social  as  well  as  political  equality  has 
always  reigned  there.  Overgrown  wealth  and  squalid  poverty  are 
generally  unknown.  You,  in  a  measure,  realize  that  happy  medium 
of  condition  which  political  philosophers  have  always  described  as 
the  "  condition  precedent "  of  a  model  Republic  in  a  golden  age. 

But  every  town  gathering,  of  the  kind  you  propose,  has  its  own 
peculiar  interest.  Every  town  is  more  or  less  a  community  by  itself, 
and  as  such  has  a  distinctive  character.  My  recollection  of  Bedford 
is  that  it  is  different  from  Merrimack,  for  instance,  as  New  Hamp- 
shire from  New  Jersey.  Each  town,  also,  has  its  own  town  origin, 
its  town  history,  its  town  biography,  and  its  peculiar  town  institu- 
tions and  politics,  to  lend  distinctness  and  individuality  to  its  town 
character. 

I  cannot  imagine  anything,  Gentlemen,  which  would  be  more  de- 
lightful than  to  participate  with  the  assembled  inhabitants  of  my 
native  town  in  discussing  and  rescuing  from  oblivion  her  ancient 
story,  her  original  settlement,  her  doings  in  the  Revolution  and  in 
the  War  of  1812,  her  contributions  to  the  Army  in  men  and  money, 
her  prominent  citizens  now  dead,  her  growth,  her  emigration,  and 
everything  worthy  of  note  in  her  history.  I  know  that  the  story 
would  be  one  of  which  Old  Bedford  might  well  be  proud.  I  feel  it 
to  be  an  honor  that  as  one  of  her  sons  I  am  entitled  to  your  invita- 
tion. The  recollections  which  such  an  occasion  suggests,  the  old 
localities,  the  streams,  the  woods,  the  green  hills,  the  old  Church  and 
the  adjoining  burying- ground,  where  sleep  my  own  kith  and  kin, 
and  those  well  remembered  faces  which  used  to  give  vitality  to  those 
scenes,  neither  time  or  distance  can  ever  obliterate  from  my  mind. 
I  cherish  them  as  the  sacred,  golden  links  which  tie  me  to  vouth 
and  home,  and  I  can  truly  say  of  my  native  town  in  the  words  of 
another, — 

**  Where'er  I  roam,  whatever  lands  I  see, 
My  heart  untrammeled,  fondly  turns  to  thee." 

With  the  sincerest  good  wishes  for  the  success  of  your  Celebration 
I  remain,  Verv  truly  yours, 

P.  T.  Woodbury. 


66  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

Elmira,  N.  Y.,  May  20,  1850. 

Gentlemen :  I  had  designed  leaving  this  morning  to  attend  the 
Centennial  Celebration  of  the  settlement  of  Bedford,  to  which  I  am 
invited  by  your  kind  note  of  the  15th  ult.,  but  owing  to  business 
engagements  which  I  hoped  to  have  been  able  to  postpone,  I  find  at 
this  late  hour  that  it  will  be  entirely  impracticable  for  me  to  leave 
home. 

I  need  not  not  say  that  it  would  have  afforded  me  great  gratifica- 
tion to  have  met,  on  so  interesting  an  occasion,  the  remnant  of  the 
fathers  with  whom  I  passed  my  earliest  years,  and  to  have  taken  by 
the  hand  those  of  my  contemporaries  in  age,  who  remain  to  fill  the 
places  of  many  of  those  fathers  long  since  gone  down  to  the  tomb. 
To  the  stern  and  uncompromising  virtues  which  characterize  the 
Scotch-Irish,  who,  I  believe,  were  pioneers  in  the  settlement  of  the 
town,  is  no  doubt  attributable  the  permanent  prosperity  of  their 
descendants,  and  that  large  share  of  social  happiness  which  pervades 
the  homes  of  those  who  have  staid  beneath  the  paternal  roof-tree, 
unseduced  by  the  restless  spirit  of  adventure  which  has  lured  abroad 
so  many  of  the  sons  of  New  England. 

Permit  me,  therefore,  to  give  you  the  following  sentiment :  The 
Scotch-Irish — in  war  they  can  furnish  a  Stark, — in  peace  a  Benja- 
min Orr. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be, 

Very  respectfully,  your  obed't  servant, 

Ariel  S.  Thurston. 


Boston,  May  11,  1850. 
Gentlemen :  Your  polite  invitation  to  attend  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  the  town  of  Bedford,  N.  H.,  is  as  undeserved  as  it  was 
unexpected  to  me.  I  regret  that  weighty  reasons,  not  under  my 
control,  prevent  my  personal  attendance  on  an  occasion  which  will 
mark  the  improvement  and  record  the  physical  and  mental  progress 
of  your  municipality.  Having  passed  that  way  within  a  few  years,  I 
feel  confident  that  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  for  these  hundred 
years  have  been  up  and  doing  whatever  their  hands  have  found  to 
be  done  ;  and  a  long  and  intimate  acquaintance  with  then  spiritual 
guide  in  these  latter  days  assures  me  of  their  mental  advancement. 
Such  means  and  appliances  continued  for  a  hundred  years  to  come 
will  light  a  light  which  cannot  be  hid  under  a  bushel  or  in  the  shad- 
ows of  the  hills,  but  must  be  set  on  a  candlestick  or  on  the  mountain 
tops,  enlightening  all  around,  which  is  the  sincere  desire  of  a  New 
Hampshire  boy  of  the  Hillsborough  stamp. 
Your  invited  guest, 

Isaac  P.  Osgood. 


West  Buxton,  May  8,  1850. 
Gentlemen :  I  have  received  your  invitation  to  be  present  at  your 
contemplated  Centennial  Celebration  on  the  2  2d  inst.    Few  occasions 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBBATION.  67 

would  afford  me  greater  pleasure  than  to  be  present  with  you  on 
that  day,  but  age  and  distance  will  prevent.  I  wish  you,  on  that 
day,  all  the  happiness  and  satisfaction  such  an  occurrence  is  calcula- 
ted and  designed  to  produce. 

I  am,  gentlemen,  respectfully, 

Your  friend  and  servant, 

Charles  Coffin. 


Ann  Arbor,  May  16,  1850. 

Gentlemen :  I  received  your  polite  invitation  to  attend  your  cele- 
bration of  the  22d  inst.,  and  it  is  with  no  small  degree  of  .regret  that 
I  inform  you  that  it  will  be  impossible  for  me  to  be  present  on  that 
occasion.  Whether  present  or  absent,  in  person,  be  assured  my  heart 
will  be  with  you ;  for  who  can  fail  to  feel  an  interest  in  the  welfare 
of  his  native  land — the  home  of  his  fathers — the  happy  scenes  of  his 
childhood  ?  Who  can  but  wish  himself  present  on  such  an  occasion 
as  the  one  you  celebrate  on  the  22d  inst., — an  occasion  of  intense 
interest  to  us  all  ? 

As  we  look  back  on  the  last  century,  and  cast  a  thought  forward, 
we  can  but  faintly  imagine  what  changes  and  improvements  may 
take  place  in  even  half  that  length  of  time.  It  is  beyond  the  reach 
of  human  calculation.  Only  let  the  onward  progress  of  the  present 
day  continue  for  the  next  half  century,  and  what  shall  we  become,  or 
rather  what  shall  we  not  become  ?  Had  I  time  and  talent  to  enlarge 
upon  this  thought  much  interest  might  be  awakened  on  a  subject  of 
such  importance.  But  I  leave  it  to  those  better  qualified  to  think 
and  write  than  I  can  pretend  to. 

Yours,  with  great  respect, 

Geo.  S.  McAllaster. 


Ann  Arbor,  May  3,  1850. 
Gentlemen:  Your  note  of  the  15th  ult,  inviting  me  to  attend  the 
Centennial  Celebration  on  the  22d  inst.,  was  duly  received,  and  in 
reply  I  can  only  say  that  notwithstanding  the  good  old  town  of  Bed- 
ford is  not  the  place  of  my  nativity,  yet  it  would  afford  me  great 
pleasure  to  be  present  on  that  interesting  occasion.  Business  about 
that  time  calls  me  in  another  direction,  so  that  it  will  not  be  in  my 
power  to  meet  you  on  that  day.  But,  Gentlemen,  you  will  have  my 
best  wishes,  and  I  remain, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Reuben  P.  Gibson. 


Manchester,  May  1,  1850. 
Gentlemen :   I  have  received  your  invitation  to  be  present  at  the 
Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Town  of  Bedford,  on  the  22d  inst.     I 
very  much  regret  that  an  unavoidable  absence  from  my  home,  will 


68  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

probably  deprive  me  of  the  pleasure  of  attending.  The  happy  idea 
(original  I  think  with  you)  of  making  this  celebration  the  occasion 
of  collecting  and  committing  to  the  press,  the  history  of  your  town 
and  of  its  early  inhabitants,  will  add  permanent  importance  and  value 
to  the  natural  interest  of  such  a  meeting.  I  hope  many  of  our  towns 
may  emulate  the  example  of  Bedford.  You  have  my  heartiest 
Avishes  that  the  day  and  all  its  incidents  may  be  agreeable,  and  that 
they  may  afford  to  all  interested,  present  and  absent,  the  most  pleas- 
ing recollections. 

Very  respectfully,  Yours,  &c, 

Samuel  D.  Bell. 


Weston,  Vt,  June  8,  1850. 
Gentlemen:  Your  invitation  to  attend  the  Centennial  Celebration 
at  Bedford  on  the  22d  ult.,  forwarded  by  my  brother,  I  received  a 
week  previous.  It  was  a  matter  of  deep  regret  to  me  that  I  could 
not  attend.  Just  at  that  period,  my  time  and  attention  were  so 
occupied  in  preparation  to  remove  my  family  to  this  place,  that  I 
could  not  accept  your  invitation  without  very  serious  inconvenience. 
The  address,  with  all  the  historical  reminiscences  you  have  collected, 
I  expect  will  be  published,  and  thus  many  interesting  facts  and  cir- 
cumstances will  be  secured  from  oblivion.  To  every  native  of  Bed- 
ferd  this  must  be  an  interesting  little  volume.  As  a  record  of  events 
from  the  earliest  settlement  of  the  town,  it  will  no  doubt  be  interest- 
ing to  our  successors  at  the  close  of  another  century.  That  the 
inhabitants  of  Bedford  may  seek  first  the  kingdom  of  God  and  his 
righteousness,  and  enjoy  the  promised  consequent  prosperity,  is  my 
earnest  desire  and  prayer. 

With  high  respect  and  esteem,  Yours, 

John  Walker. 


Haverhill,  May  13,  1850. 

Gentlemen :  Your  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration to  be  holden  on  the  22d  inst.,  is  received,  for  which  you  will 
please  accept  my  grateful  acknowledgments.  It  would  give  me 
much  pleasure  to  revisit  the  scenes  of  my  boyhood  on  that  occasion, 
but  I  regret  to  say  that  business  of  an  urgent  nature  will  prevent  my 
attendance.  It  is  long  since  I  visited  my  native  town,  and  doubtless 
many  changes  have  occurred ;  yet,  although  many  once  familiar  faces 
would  be  no  longer  there  to  greet  me,  I  would  gladly  receive  the 
friendly  grasp  of  the  few  who  remain.  My  heart  will  ever  cherish 
the  memory  of  the  early  home,  and  be  assured  I  shall  be  with  you  in 
spirit  on  your  coming  Festival. 

In  closing,  permit  me  to  offer  one  sentiment :  The  Tree  of  Liberty, 
which   grew  on   my  native  soil.1     As  that,  although  but  a  barren 

1  Alluding  to  a  tree  on  the  Bell  place,  in  the  top  of  which  was  inserted,  in  the  time 
of  the  Revolution,  a  liberty  pole;  and  the  old  saying  was,  If  the  tree  lives,  American 
liberty  will  nourish.  The  tree  did  live  until  some  late  owner  of  the  place  cut  it  down. 
— Editor. 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION.  69 

trunk,  put  forth  branches  and  expanded  till  it  became  a  lofty  and 
magnificent  tree,  so  may  the  liberty  of  which  that  was  the  emblem 
continue  to  flourish  and  extend  till  all  the  nations  of  the  earth  shall 
be  Free. 

Yours,  respectfully, 

Jacob  Bell. 


Beloit,  Wis.,  May  13,  1850. 
Gentlemen :  It  would  be  in  vain  I  should  attempt  to  express  the 
gratification  derived  from  your  invitation  to  meet  with  and  make 
one  of  your  number  in  celebrating  the  Centennial  day  of  the  town 
in  which  I  was  born,  and  in  which  I  lived  more  than  one  half  of  that 
period  of  time.  Inclination  is  strongly  in  favor  of  attending,  and 
none  could  enjoy  the  occasion  and  the  company  we  should  expect  to 
meet  with,  better  than  myself  and  family.  But  the  pressure  of  busi- 
ness at  this  season  will  render  it  impossible 

Yours,  truly, 

Daniel  Gordon. 

The  following  notices  of  the  occasion  are  extracted  from  the  pub- 
lic journals  of  the  day.     The  following  is  from  the  Boston  Post : 

Bedford  is  near  Manchester,  as  near  as  the  Merrimack  river  will 
permit  it  to  be.  It  contains  about  2,000  inhabitants,  and  boasts  of 
fourteen  district  schools,  one  private  academy,  and  but  one  organized 
church — the  Presbyterian  church,  founded  by  the  original  settlers, 
who  came  here  from  Ulster  in  the  North  of  Ireland,  because  the 
pudding-headed  house  of  Guelph  did  not  know  enough  to  permit 
them  to  perform  their  preaching,  praying,  marrying,  christening,  and 
burying  according  to  the  Presbyterian  forms,  as  carried  over  to 
Ireland  from  Scotland  some  century  before.  The  present  pastor,  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  is  only  the  third  who  has  presided  over  the 
ministrations  of  the  church  from  its  foundation,  and  judging  from 
his  well-knit  frame  and  general  appearance,  and  the  activity  and 
energy  displayed  by  him  to-day,  I  should  say  that  there  is  still  good 
twenty  years  of  hard  parochial  work  in  him.  There  has  been  a 
TJniversalist,  and  is  now  a  Baptist  society,  but,  at  present,  the  Pres- 
byterians alone  sustain  public  worship.  Agricultural  pursuits  are 
favorable  to  steadiness  in  religious  principles,  and  there  is  very  little 
business  other  than  farming  carried  on  in  Bedford,  except  at  a  point 
or  two  on  the  line  of  the  river,  where  marks  of  a  new  people  and 
new  notions  are  discoverable. 

The  celebration  was  a  "town  affair,"  provided  for  by  the  voters 
in  town  meeting  assembled,  and  nearly  every  native  resident  able  to 
move  about  to°k  part  in  it,  together  with  some  hundreds  who  had 
gone  forth  to  seek  their  fortunes  elsewhere,  but  had  returned  on  this 
appropriate  occasion  to  see  then-  relatives  and  exchange  kindly  greet- 


70  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ings  with  the  friends  and  companions  of  their  youth.  Everything 
was  conducted  with  decent  simplicity,  and  serious  yet  social  pro- 
priety. 

At  11  o'clock,  a  procession  was  formed  in  front  of  the  meeting- 
house, underlie  direction  of  Gen.  William  P.  Riddle,  as  chief  mar- 
shal. Full  six  hundred  ladies,  from  blooming  misses  of  fourteen  to 
venerable  grandmothers,  led  the  van.  Then  came  a  good  band,  fol- 
lowed by  about  a  thousand  of  the  men  and  hardy  lads  of  Bedford. 
A  march  of  an  eighth  of  a  mile  brought  them  to  the  spot  prepared 
for  the  ceremonies  of  the  day,  where  eight  long  and  loaded  tables 
gave  notice  of  a  substantial  collation. 

For  the  managers  and  distinguished  guests,  a  platform,  decorated 
with  evergreens  and  other  tasteful  ornaments,  had  been  erected,  and 
there  the  main  work  of  the  jubilee  was  performed. 

Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  president  of  the  day,  conducted  the  pro- 
ceedings with  great  tact  in  a  most  successful  manner,  putting  things 
through  by  daylight,  keeping  the  ball  in  motion,  omitting  nothing- 
set  down  in  the  programme,  nor  hurrying  or  slightingly  disposing  of 
any  part  thereof.  He  had  occasion  to  make  several  explanatory  ad- 
dresses, and  the  pithy,  courteous,  and  lively  way  in  which  he  handled 
these  incidental  items  contributed  essentially  to  the  good  humor  of 
the  celebration,  as  well  as  to  the  despatch  of  business. 

The  New  York  Tribune  thus  speaks  of  the  celebration  : 

Centenary  of  Bedford,  N.  H.  The  people  of  Bedford,  New 
Hampshire,  celebrated  the  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of 
their  town,  on  Wednesday,  22d  inst.  The  day  was  fair  and  bright 
— the  only  clear,  warm,  rainless  day  for  some  weeks — and  the  attend- 
ance of  some  two  thousand  citizens  and  ex-citizens  gave  a  deep  inter- 
est to  the  celebration.  Several  had  traveled  hundreds  of  miles  to 
attend,  though  obliged  by  stress  of  business  to  start  directly  from  the 
ground  on  their  homeward  journey. 

Bedford  was  first  settled  something  more  than  a  hundred  years 
ago  by  pioneers  from  the  great  central  hive  of  Londonderry,  N.  H., 
which  had  been  settled  some  twenty  or  thirty  years  before,  by  a  col- 
ony of  Scotch-Irish  Presbyterians,  who  received  grants  of  lands  there 
in  consideration  of  their  signal  services  in  the  cause  of  Protestant 
ascendency  in  the  memorable  siege  of  Londonderry,  the  battle  of 
Boyne  Water,  and  other  struggles  in  Ireland,  between  the  adherents 
of  William  III  and  James  II  respectively.  It  was  chartered  in  1750 
by  George  II,  and  named  after  the  then  duke  of  Bedford,  a  minister 
of  state  and  ancestor  of  Lord  John  Russell,  now  Premier.  Bedford 
lies  on  the  west  side  of  the  Merrimack  river,  opposite  old  London- 
derry, now  divided  into  three  or  four  townships,  one  of  which  (Litch- 
field) intervenes  between  the  present  town  of  Londonderry  and  the 
river.  With  Nashua  some  fifteen  miles  south,  and  Manchester  on 
the  northeast — the  two  being  the  chief  seats  of  manufactures  in  New 
Hampshire — Bedford  remains  constant  to  its  primitive  agricultural 


CENTENNIAL  CELEBKATION.  71 

pursuits,  to  its  Presbyterian  faith  (in  the  main),  and  to  its  simplicity 
of  manners  and  purity  of  morals.  The  soil,  though  in  good  part 
strong,  is  hard  and  rocky,  except  some  fertile  intervale  on  the  Merri- 
mack and  two  or  three  tributaries.  Lately,  the  growth  of  Manches- 
ter begins  to  overflow  in  dwellings  on  the  Bedford  side  of  the  river, 
increasing  the  population  and  wealth  of  the  town  without  changing 
its  general  character.  Its  main  aspects  have  scarcely  altered  in  thirty 
years,  and  the  dwellings  scattered  within  sight  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  in  its  centre,  are  about  as  many  as  they  were  then, — say  forty 
in  all. 

Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury  (brother  of  Judge  Levi)  presided  at  the 
celebration,  and  a  most  interesting  historical  discourse,  illustrative  of 
the  origin  and  settlement  of  the  town,  and  of  the  North  of  Ireland 
Scotch-Irish  race,  and  their  extensive  migration  to  this  country  dur- 
ing the  former  half  of  the  last  century,  was  read  by  Isaac  O.  Barnes, 
late  Marshal  of  Massachusetts,  a  native  of  this  town.  Many  of  the 
facts  therein  embodied  are  fading  from  the  memories  of  even  the 
descendants  of  that  hardy,  God-fearing,  man-defying  race,  and  will 
be  read  with  vivid  interest  by  thousands. 

The  first  clergyman  of  the  town,  Rev.  John  Houston,  was  the  only 
man  in  it  who  took  the  side  of  Great  Britain  in  the  commencement 
of  the  Revolutionary  struggle.  Though  previously  beloved  and  es- 
teemed, and  a  most  worthy  and  devoted  Christian,  he  was  dismissed, 
and  treated  as  a  public  enemy.  A  large  portion  of  the  able-bodied 
citizens  were  in  the  first  American  army  that  beleaguered  Boston  and 
fought  at  Bunker  Hill ;  nearly  or  quite  half  of  all  who  could  handle 
a  musket  were  with  Stark  at  Bennington  and  with  Gates  at  Saratoga. 
Col.  (afterwards  Gen.)  Stark  lived  and  died  on  his  farm  just  north  of 
the  Bedford  line.  Matthew  Thornton,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  lived  and  died  just  south  of  Bedford. 

Robert  Walker,  son  of  the  first  settler  of  the  town,  was  present  at 
the  celebration,  aged  87.  The  second  wife  of  the  Missionary  New- 
ell, and  several  others  who  have  been  eminent  in  religious  efforts, 
have  been  born  here.  Some  six  or  eight  Presbyterian  clergymen, 
natives  of  Bedford,  were  present  and  took  part  in  the  exercises  of 
Wednesday.  And  when  the  whole  congregation  rose  to  join  in 
singing  the  seventy- eighth  Psalm,  according  to  an  ancient  version 
and  to  a  venerable  tune,  the  resemblance  to  a  gathering  of  Scottish 
covenanters  of  the  olden  time,  as  described  by  Scott,  among  others, 
was  very  vivid  and  striking. 


Historical  Notices  of  Bedford. 


TOPOGRAPHY  AND  INDUSTRIES. 

Bedford,  lying  in  the  east  part  of  Hillsborough  county,  N.  II.,  is 
situated  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Merrimack  river,  in  latitude  42°50/. 
Originally  it  was  bounded  on  the  north  by  Goffstown,  but  in  conse- 
quence of  the  addition  to  the  city  of  Manchester  in  1853  of  that 
part  of  the  town  known  as  Piscataquog  village,  it  would  be  proper 
to  say  that  it  is  now  bounded  north  by  the  city  of  Manchester  and 
by  Goffstown,  east  by  Manchester  and  the  Merrimack  river,  south 
by  the  town  of  Merrimack,  and  west  by  Amherst  and  New  Boston. 
The  Merrimack  river,  which  supplies  the  water  power  for  Manches- 
ter, Lowell,  and  Lawrence,  has  a  fall  of  thirty-three  and  one  half 
feet  between  the  foot  of  Merrill's  falls  in  Manchester  and  Crom- 
well's falls  in  Merrimack,  nearly  all  of  which  is  within  the  limits  of 
Bedford.1 

The  town,  as  originally  laid  out  in  1733,  contained  28,778  acres. 
The  area  of  the  town  on  January  1,  1901,  was  16,935  acres,2  and  is 
represented  on  the  map  nearly  in  the  shape  of  a  square.  Various 
portions  of  the  original  township  have  been  set  off  to  adjoining 
towns  from  time  to  time,  since  its  original  survey.  We  shall  refer 
to  the  details  later. 

From  Bedford  Center  to  Amherst  is  eight  miles ;  to  Manchester, 
four  miles;  to  Concord,  twenty-one  miles;  to  Nashua,  thirteen 
miles  ;  to  Boston,  fifty-two  miles. 

The  northwest  corner  of  the  town  lies  near  the  base  of  the  Unca- 
noonuc  mountains.  The  easterly  part,  bordering  upon  the  Merri- 
mack river,  is  a  pine  plain  with  some  very  productive  intervals.  In 
the  west  part  of  the  town  the  land  is  uneven  and  abounds  in  stone, 
but  the  soil  is  warm  and  strong.  The  southern  part  is  noted  for  its 
abundant  supply  of  clay,  suitable  for  brick  yards.     Years  ago,  from 

1  Report  of  General  Thorn,  United  States  Engineer  Corps,  to  General  Wright,  Chief 
Engineer. 

2  These  areas  were  carefully  determined  from  official  maps  by  Harrie  M.  Young,  of 
the  city  engineer's  office,  in  Manchester. 


HISTOEICAL   XOTICES   OF    BEDFORD.  73 

twenty  to  thirty  brick  yards  were  in  operation  during  a  single  season, 
millions  of  brick  having  been  made  here  in  a  single  year.  Lowell 
and  Lawrence,  Mass.,  and  Nashua  and  Nashville,  N.  H.,  have  been 
supplied  with  brick  from  these  yards.  Clay  was  also  found  on  the 
Gordon  farm  near  the  center  of  the  town,  and  brick  were  once  made 
there,  as  the  term,  "  brick  yard  field,"  still  applied  to  one  of  the 
fields  of  this  farm,  abundantly  testifies.  There  was  also  a  yard  on 
the  Joseph  Patten  farm,  and  John  Shirley  made  brick  there.1 

For  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  century  brickmaking  was  an 
important  business  in  this  town.  During  this  period  the  city  of 
Lowell  sprang  into  existence.  The. construction  of  its  great  factories 
was  constantly  going  on,  and  many  of  them  were  built  of  Bedford 
brick. 

Col.  William  Moore,  of  this  town,  took  the  contract  to  furnish  the 
Lowell  mill  builders  a  quantity  of  brick  each  year.  Though  making 
many  brick  himself,  still  he  was  glad  to  have  his  townspeople  aid 
him  in  filling  his  contract  by  putting  their  brick  with  his.  In  this 
way  the  business  prospered  for  twenty-five  or  thirty  years. 

The  brick  were  hauled  to  the  Reed's  Ferry  landing,  on  the  Mer- 
rimack, in  a  two- wheeled  cart  with  a  yoke  of  oxen  and  a  horse,  1,000 
to  a  load,  placed  on  boats  and  sent  down  the  river  to  Lowell.  It  is 
said  that  one  day's  record  showed  150,000  brick  hauled  to  and  sent 
down  the  river,  but  this  was  by  special  effort  because  of  urgent 
demand. 

This  business  not  only  gave  employment  to  the  many  workers 
about  the  brick  yards,  but  made  an  excellent  market  for  the  wood 
owned  by  the  near-by  farmers,  as  large  quantities  were  consumed 
every  year  in  burning  the  brick  kilns. 

After  the  Nashua  and  Concord  railroad  was  opened,  in  1842,2  the 
brick  business  in  this  town  gradually  declined,  as  rich  clay  beds 
were  located  near  the  railroad  at  Hooksett  and  other  places.  The 
cost  of  transportation  was  much  less  from  these  more  favored  locali- 
ties, and  thus  Bedford  brick  makers  were  forced  out  of  business  by 
competition. 

The  last  brick  kiln  burned  in  town  was  made  by  Col.  Daniel  Par- 

'This  statement  is  made  upon  the  authority  of  the  town  history  published  in  1851.— 
Eds. 

'The  Concord  railroad  was  opened  for  travel  September  1,  1842.  An  old  resi- 
dent, now  70  years  of  age,  vividly  remembers  his  first  view  of  a  train  of  cars. 
He  had  gone,  with  an  older  brother,  to  Merrimack  to  purchase  a  pair  of  boots  at 
Anderson's  store.  While  engaged  in  making  their  selection  the  cars  were  sud- 
denly heard  approaching.  Instantly  the  boots  were  dropped  and  a  hasty  run 
made  for  the  railroad,  where  they  arrived  just  in  season  to  see  the  cars  leave  the 
station.    To  the  boy  of  eleven  this  seemed  the  greatest  wonder  he  had  ever  seen. 


74  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ker  about  1877.  David  R.  Leach,  who  had  been  a  leading  manu- 
facturer of  brick  in  Bedford,  removed  to  Hooksett  and  carried  on  a 
successful  business  there.  The  farms  owned  by  the  late  Col. 
Daniel  Parker,  George  H.  Wiggin,  Sr.,  John  McAfee,  Ephraim  C. 
Hardy,  Wilson  Blood,  and  William  Moore  (now  owned  by  Thomas 
Burns)  had  rich  deposits  of  good  brick  clay,  which  then-  owners 
turned  to  good  account.1 

In  mineralogy  the  town  abounds  in  a  great  variety  of  specimens. 
Iron  ore  is  found  at  different  places,  and  in  several  varieties.  Sul- 
phurate of  iron,  embedded  in  common  granite,  and  red  oxide  of  iron 
combined  with  aluminum  are  common.  Black  lead,  pyrites,  copper, 
schorl,  hornblende,  epidote,  talc,  mica  (black,  yellow  and  green), 
gneiss,  and  crystallized  quartz  are  found  here.  Carbonate  of  lime 
(marble)  is  found  in  a  chasm  at  the  west  part  of  the  town,  on  the 
David  Stevens  farm.  Some  fine  specimens  of  amethyst  were  found 
on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Mr.  William  Schwartz,  in  the  west  part 
of  the  town.  A  detached  piece  of  plumbago  was  found  by  Mr. 
Samuel  Adams  on  the  Deacon  John  French  farm,  in  Joppa,  in  1900. 

Granite  quarries  have  been  opened  at  different  times  and  in 
various  places  in  town.  For  many  years  the  quarry  on  the  farm  of 
William  Riddle,  Esq.  (now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mr.  T.  A.  Lane), 
was  worked  to  good  profit.  From  this  place  the  Boston  and  Lowell 
Railroad  company  obtained  much  of  the  stone  for  the  headers  and 
sleepers  upon  which  their  track  was  at  first  laid,  and  here  the  Con- 
cord and  Nashua  Railroad  company  obtained  the  stone  to  build  the 
piers  and  abutments  of  the  bridge  over  the  Merrimack  river  at 
Goffe's  Falls.  Hence  also  great  quantities  of  granite  have  been  car- 
ried to  Manchester  and  Nashua  for  building  purposes.  The  under- 
pinning for  the  meeting-house  was  taken  from  this  quarry  and  cut 

1  Clay  and  sand  for  brickmaking  were  first  cut  and  mixed  with  shovels  in  a  bed 
constructed  of  plank  for  that  purpose.  Later  the  machinery  called  a  "pug  "  mill 
was  used.  It  was  a  simple  and  somewhat  crude  affair,  but  remained  in  commission 
in  the  greater  number  of  New  England  yards  for  more  than  100  years.  It  consisted 
of  a  white  oak  shaft,  set  perpendicularly  in  a  box  four  feet  square,  with  an  iron 

f;udgeon  at  the  bottom  where  it  turned.  The  box  was  made  of  plank  and  was  about 
our  feet  high.  On  one  side,  at  the  bottom,  was  a  slide  door  about  eight  inches  in 
depth,  through  which  the  ground  clay  was  forced,  ready  to  be  "  struck  "  into  brick. 
Imbedded  in  the  shaft  horizontally  were  twenty-four  iron  knives,  placed  in  rows  of 
six,  and  six  inches  between  the  rows.  These  knives  were  two  and  one  fourth  inches 
wide  and  one  half  an  inch  thick,  drawn  down  to  an  edge  on  the  cutting  side. 
Below  the  iron  knives,  affixed  in  the  shaft  in  similar  rows,  were  eight  wooden 
knives,  made  thicker  for  the  purpose  of  forcing  the  mixture  through  the  door  at 
the  side.  These  knives  were  as  long  as  would  turn  in  the  box.  From  the  outside 
of  the  box  extended  wooden  pins  to  within  half  an  inch  of  the  shaft,  and  just 
above  each  row  of  knives,  for  them  to  cut  against.  At  the  top  of  the  box  was  a 
plank  cover  to  keep  the  clay  mixture  confined.  A  sixteen-foot  sweep  was  pro- 
vided, to  which  the  horse  was  attached  for  power.  The  clay  was  mixed  with 
sand  as  it  was  put  into  the  box,  the  proportion  varying  according  to  the  quality 
of  the  clay,  but  generally  about  one  twelfth  of  the  mixture  was  of  sand. 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  75 

by  Mr.  Benjamin  F.  Riddle.  A  quarry  was  also  opened  about  1800 
on  the  farm  of  Mr.  Solomon  Manning,  and  has  been  worked  for  some 
one  hundred  years.  The  granite  is  regarded  as  of  an  unusually  good 
quality.  The  underpinning  for  the  houses  now  occupied  by  Robert 
Dunlap  and  John  Gilman  Vose,  also  for  the  Robert  M.  Shirley  house 
in  Goffstown,  was  obtained  here  previous  to  1825.  On  Mr.  Freeman 
R.  French's  farm,  near  the  center  of  the  town,  a  quarry  was  opened 
about  1875,  and  the  stone  from  there  used  in  building  operations  in 
West  Manchester.  The  stone  used  in  the  windmill  tower  in  the 
burying-ground  came  from  this  quarry. 

The  town  was  originally  covered  with  the  dense  forests  which 
characterized  all  the  wilderness  in  New  Hampshire.  But  none  of 
this  original  growth  now  remains  save  a  small  piece  of  about  ten 
acres  on  a  lot  near  the  highlands,  so  called,  forming  part  of  the  farm 
of  the  late  Samuel  Chandler.  The.  forest  trees  of  Bedford  are  of 
quite  an  extensive  variety ;  the  principal  are  white,  red,  and  black 
oak,  walnut,  chestnut,  maple,  birch,  pine,  and  hemlock. 

At  the  hearing  before  the  commissioners  who  were  considering 
the  application  made  in  1895  for  a  charter  to  build  the  Manchester 
and  Milford  railroad,  it  was  stated  that  there  were  then  standing  in 
Bedford  about  twenty  to  twenty-five  million  feet  of  merchantable 
lumber  and  from  300,000  to  400,000  cords  of  wood. 

In  the  season  of  autumn  the  woods  present  a  singularly  diversified 
and  beautiful  aspect,  the  blended  hues  and  rich  colors  of  the  foliage 
delight  the  eye  of  the  spectator,  and  seem  to  give  an  air  of  cheerful- 
ness to  the  decline  of  the  year.  The  mountain  laurel  or  spoon  hunt, 
abounds  here  in  June  and  July,  giving  to  the  town  the  appearance 
of  one  continued  flower  garden.  The  botanical  name  of  the  bush  is 
Kalmia  Latifolia;  the  leaf  is  wide  and  leather-like,  and  the  shrub 
bears  some  remote  affinity  to  the  magnolia,  being,  like  that,  an  ever- 
green.    It  is  also  called  calico  bush. 

Of  the  Avhite  oak,  great  quantities  of  timber  and  plank  have  been 
obtained  in  former  years  for  ship  yards  and  conveyed  to  Medford 
and  Charlestown,  Mass.,  by  means  of  the  Merrimack  river  and 
Middlesex  canal ;  Newburyport  has  also  had  great  supplies  of  oak 
and  pine  from  this  town. 

When  the  Concord  and  New  Hampshire  Central  railroads  were 
chartered  in  1835  and  1845,  respectively,  the  locomotives  used  wood 
as  fuel.  From  that  time  until  about  1880,  when  they  began  to  use 
coal,  there  was  a  strong  and  steady  demand  for  cord  wood.     This 


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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


was  met,  in  part,  by  the  export  from  our  town  of  an  enormous  quan- 
tity. The  late  George  W.  Riddle  was  for  many  years  engaged  in 
this  business,  and  bought  for  and  sold  to  the  railroads  a  large  part 
of  their  supply. 

But  the  chestnut,  of  late,  has  exceeded  all  the  other  trees  in 
demand  for  the  market,  vast  supplies  having  been  transported  for 
sleepers  for  the  various  railroads  in  the  adjacent  country,  and  quan- 
tities have  been  used  for  electric  poles.  Mr.  Riddle  was  engaged  in 
this  business  also. 

With  regard  to  staple  commodities  to  which  attention  has  been 
paid,  the  hop  formerly  employed  a  great  many  of  our  farmers. 
Some  years  ago  there  was  a  production  in  this  article  of  100,000 
pounds.  But  the  hop  industry  has  been  transplanted  from  Bedford, 
and  there  is  now  nothing  of  the  kind  here. 

About  the  year  1800,  Mr.  William  Campbell,  of  Wilmington, 
Mass.,  emigrated  to  Bedford  and  settled  on  a  farm  adjoining  Deacon 
Phineas  Aiken's.  The  farm  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mr.  Sol- 
omon Manning.  Campbell  set  out  and  cultivated  the  first  hop  yard 
in  town,  and  probably  the  first  in  the  state.  He  brought  the  roots 
from  Wilmington.  The  article  at  that  time  being  high,  he  realized 
fifty  cents  per  pound.  The  raising  of  hops  became  very  profitable, 
and  almost  every  farmer  was  induced  to  enter  into  the  growing  of 
this  production,  until  Bedford  became  the  largest  hop-growing  town 
in  New  England,  and  continued  so  until  about  1836,  when  the  plant 
was  so  extensively  cultivated  throughout  the  country  that  the  price 
declined,  and  nearly  every  farmer  in  town  abandoned  the  cultiva- 
tion. Some  probably,  about  this  time,  were  also  dissuaded,  from 
scruples  as  to  its  bearing  on  the  cause  of  temperance.  The  average 
price  of  hops  from  1806  to  1850  was  about  13£  cents  per  pound.1 

It  appears  from  the  inspection  books  of  Gen.  William  P.  Riddle 
that  there  were  raised  in  the  town  of  Bedford,  in  1833,  97,320 
pounds  of  hops,  the  average  price  of  which  in  Boston,  for  that  year, 
was  16 \  cents  per  pound,  making  an  amount  of  $15,571.20.  It  may 
be  asked,  Have  the  farmers  of  Bedford  realized  so  large  a  sum  of 
money  for  any  other  crop  during  any  single  year  of  the  last  century  ?  2 
Still,  such  is  the  uncertainty    of  the  article  that,  taking  one  year 

1  An  old  resident  relates  that  hops  from  this  town  were  carried  to  Albany,  N.  Y., 
by  ox  teams  in  the  winters  of  1814,  '15,  and  '16,  on  sleds.  One  prominent  farmer 
went  with  six  or  eight  teams  in  a  string,  with  boys  to  assist  in  driving.  After  the 
hops  were  sold,  one  half  or  more  of  the  oxen  were  disposed  of,  two  teams  being 
retained  to  draw  home  the  empty  sleds. 

2  This  question,  raised  in  1850,  is  effectively  answered  by  the  figures  given 
farther  on  in  this  chapter  as  to  the  present  production  of  milk,  apples,  and  gar- 
den produce,  etc. 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  77 

with  another,  it   may  be  questioned  whether   there  are  not   other 
articles  more  safe  for  the  grower. 

FISH  AND  WILD  GAME. 

Fish  in  former  years  was  a  great  source  of  supply  to  the  wants  of 
the  inhabitants.  It  was  an  old  saying,  "  We  hope  meat  will  last  till 
fish  comes,  and  fish  will  last  till  meat  comes."  Hunting,  also, 
afforded  some  supplies  at  an  early  period.  Such  entries  as  the  fol- 
lowing are  not  uncommon  in  the  Patten  diary  : 

1757,  Jan.  5.  Went  a  hunting.  6th.  Hunted  in  company  with 
William  McDowell,  Samuel  Cochran,  John  Little,  and  Thomas  Mc- 
Laughlin, and  got  a  deer  a-piece.  8th.  Bought  two  hind  quarters  of 
venison  from  Samuel  Richards,  44  lbs.  weight,  at  Is.  6d.  per 
pound,  amounting  to  £3  6s.,  old  tenor.  11th.  Went  a  hunting,  and 
helped  kill  a  yearling  buck,  with  Thomas  Kennedy.  12th.  Killed 
a  doe  fawn  and  yearling  buck. 

The  same  year  we  find : 

June  7th.  Shared,  at  the  setting  place,  three  salmon  and  part  of 
another. 

Some  now  (1850)  living,  have  seen  fifty  or  sixty  salmon  taken  at  a 
haul.  It  was  a  kind  arrangement  of  Providence  that  in  the  pressing 
wants  of  the  early  settlement,  there  should  be  such  a  supply  of  fish 
and  game. 

The  first  noted  place  of  fishing  in  this  part  of  the  country  was  at 
Amoskeag  falls.  The  place  next  in  importance  was  at  Cohas 
brook,  the  outlet  of  Massabesic  pond  into  Merrimack  river.  Vast 
quantities  of  river  fish  of  various  kinds  were  taken  at  these  places 
annually  until  the  river  was  obstructed  by  mill-dams  and  canal  locks. 
Hundreds  of  people  resorted  hither  in  the  fishing  season  to  catch 
and  buy  fish,  such  as  alewives,  lamper-eels,  shad,  and  salmon.  The 
ale  wives  were  generally  taken  by  a  scoop-net.1  The  eels  were  taken 
by  an  eel-pot  of  wicker  work,  set  generally  in  the  falls.  Shad  and 
salmon  were  taken  by  the  scoop-net  and  seine,  the  net  being  put  in 
the  falls  and  swift  water,  and  the  seine  drawn  in  the  river.  The 
first  enactments  of  the  legislature,  respecting  the  taking  of  fish,  were 
for  Cohas  brook.  Regulations  were  made  that  a  pass  or  vacant 
space  should  be  left  for  the  fish  to  go  through  the  dam.  The  Hill 
seine  was  drawn  near  the  mouth  of  the  Piscataquog.  The  Parker 
seine  was  drawn  on  the  same  ground.     The  Griffin  seine  was  drawn 

!The  fish  by  this  name  is  so  abundantly  supplied  with  bones,  and  was  so  com- 
mon an  article  of  diet,  that  current  report  at  the  time  declared  that  in  the  spring 
people  could  not  get  their  shirts  off  without  help,  because  of  the  bones  that  stuck 
out  like  porcupine  quills. 


78  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

at  the  head  of  Smith's  falls,  on  the  east  side  of  the  river.1  The 
Patten  seine  was  drawn  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  at  the  head  of 
Smith's  falls.  These  two  last  seines  fished  on  the  same  place,  but 
drew  in  on  opposite  shores.  The  Nutt  seine  drew  on  the  opposite 
side,  against  Crosby's  brook,  at  the  head  of  Smith's  falls,  against 
Patterson  rock.  At  this  seine  (1762),  at  one  haul  of  the  net,  2,500 
shad  were  taken.  About  the  same  time,  at  the  Carthagenian  seine, 
drawn  on  the  east  side  of  Carthagenian  island,  and  opposite  Thomas 
Chandler,  Esq.'s  land,  1,500  shad  were  taken  at  one  haul  of  the  net. 
There  was  also  Caratunk  seine  at  the  head,  and  Sky  seine  at  the 
foot,  of  Walker's  falls,  on  the  west  side.  Quantities  of  fish  were 
taken  by  fly  nets  during  the  summer  and  after.  Shad  and  salmon 
were  scooped  up  by  the  scoop-net.  This  was  carried  on  at  the  head 
of  the  above-named  island.  It  would  seem  incredible  what  quanti- 
ties of  fish  once  filled  these  waters.  The  smaller  kind  were  used  to 
manure  the  land,  as  is  now  (1850)  the  case  in  Connecticut,  along  the 
Sound.  In  one  instance,  a  man  diving  into  the  river  to  disentangle 
the  net  caught  a  shad  in  his  hand  as  he  rose.2 

There  were  regular  fishing  companies  ;  twelve  men  would  work  a 
seine,  at  an  expense  of  about  $120  for  twine,  lead,  ropes,  cord,  etc., 
with  boats  and  oars.  Sometimes  shares  were  sold  as  high  as  twenty 
or  thirty  dollars  each ;  generally,  they  were  worth  from  five  to 
twelve  dollars.  The  fishing  season  commenced  at  the  opening  of 
the  apple-tree  blossoms.  Fishermen  observe  the  phenomena  of 
nature. 

The  local  situation  of  Bedford  so  near  to  important  manufacturing 
centers  early  drew  the  attention  of  farmers  toward  raising  the  more 
perishable  articles  of  household  consumption  for  the  market,  almost 
at  their  doors.  The  advantage  which  they  enjoy  in  this  direction  is 
superior  to  that  of  most  towns.  There  is  a  constant  demand  for 
milk,  butter,  cream,  eggs,  chickens,  vegetables,  and  small  fruits  of  all 
kinds,  which  can  be  furnished  at  profitable  figures  by  our  people. 

1  Griffin's  falls  take  their  name  from  the  drowning  there  of  one  Griffin  and  his 
wife.  They  lived  on  the  east  side  of  the  river.  Mrs.  Griffin  was  Susannah,  daugh- 
ter of  Major  John  Goffe.  She  and  her  husband  had  come  over  to  a  funeral  at  the 
house  of  Captain  Dole  (now  occupied  by  Melvin  P.  Kilton),  and  returning  had  in 
the  canoe  with  them  Griffin's  brother  Theophilus,  known  commonly  as  Orf  Griffin. 
He  was  an  old  soldier  of  the  French  war,  and  was  somewhat  given  to  over- 
indulgence in  stimulants.  People  have  said  that  it  was  his  custom  when  under 
this  influence,  to  swim  home  from  Piscataquog  village  as  a  method  of  regaining 
his  equilibrium.  At  the  funeral  at  Captain  Dole's  his  grief  so  overcame  him  that 
on  the  way  home  he  overturned  the  canoe,  and  his  brother  and  his  brother's  wife 
were  drowned.    Theophilus,  however,  was  not. 

8  To  shew  how  plenty  Fish  was  once  Perhaps  it  maybe  deemed  worthy  of  notis 
that  in  the  year  1810  John  G  Moore  being  employed  in  Amoskeag  Mills  had  occa- 
sion to  Cross  the  falls  evry  morning  in  so  doing  he  discoverd  and  caught  a 
salmon  each  morning  for  six  morning  in  succession.— From  an  old  Manuscript. 


HISTORICAL  NOTICES   OF  BEDFORD.  79 

In  January,  1901,  there  were  running  into  Manchester  from  Bedford 
twenty-three  wagons  daily,  on  regular  routes,  for  the  supply  of  milk 
to  customers.  These  wagons  carried,  on  an  average,  150  quarts  of 
milk  each.  It  is  estimated  that  the  quantity  of  milk  supplied  at  the 
door  daily  to  the  peddlers  amounted  annually  to  1,259,250  quarts. 
About  an  equal  amount  is  carried  to  the  city  by  those  who  produce 
it.  From  these  figures,  we  estimate  the  value  annually  of  the  milk 
production  of  Bedford  at  $76,500.  Accurate  statistics  as  to  the 
amount  and  value  of  the  production  of  butter,  eggs,  milk,  vegetables, 
and  small  fruits  are  not  obtainable,  but  we  have  estimated  that  they 
represent  $100,000  of  wealth  exported  annually  from  the  town.1 

While  the  native  forests  are  fast  falling  before  the  woodman's 
axe,  attention  ought  to  be  more  directed  to  the  cultivation  of  shade 
and  ornamental  trees,  both  in  the  center  of  the  town  and  on  the  road- 
sides. Some  young  men  have  already  (1850)  engaged  in  this  laud- 
able work.  On  the  common,  near  the  town  house,  William  R. 
Woodbury,  son  of  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  set  out  two  or  three  elm 
trees  in  1843,  and  in  1847  Mr.  Charles  H.  Kendall  set  out  maple 
trees  on  the  common,  also  those  that  surround  the  Presbyterian 
meeting-house  on  the  west  and  north.2 

There  are  five  considerable  streams  of  water  in  Bedford :  Riddle 
brook,  M'hich  rises  near  the  foot  of  the  Uncanoonucs,  in  Goffstown, 
flows  southerly  into  the  town  of  Merrimack,  where  it  empties  into 
Baboosic  brook.  A  tributary  of  the  stream  rises  in  the  easterly  part 
of  the  town,  flows  southwesterly  and  empties  into  Riddle  brook  on 
the  farm  of  Mr.  Thomas  S.  Burns.  The  mills  at  Bedford  Center, 
now  operated  by  Mr.  Frederick  Holbrook  and  formerly  owned  by 
Mr.  S.  C.  Damon,  were  originally  located  on  this  stream,  because  of 
the  water  power  developed.  The  use  of  steam  has  since  become 
necessary.  The  brook  takes  its  name — Riddle  brook — from  the  fact 
that  the  stream  was  first  dammed  and  the  power  utilized  by  Gawn 
Riddle  in  1754.  Possibly,  however,  this  may  have  been  done  before 
this  by  some  one  who  had  to  cross  it  in  high  water.  In  the  westerly 
part  of  the  town  Shepard's  brook,  rising  in  the  farm  of  Mr.  W.  S. 
Gage,  flows  southerly  and  also  empties  into  Baboosic  brook.8     On 

1  In  1894  a  canvass  was  made,  showing  the  production  of  selected  apples  in  town 
that  year  of  between  11,000  and  12,000  barrels.  This  was  considered  an  unusual 
yield. 

*The  trees  on  the  south  side,  near  the  line  of  land  belonging  to  Nelson  Fosher, 
were  set  out  in  the  course  of  the  improvements  made  in  the  church  and  church 
yard  during  the  years  1898  and  1899. 

*  Moses  Gage,  father  of  W.  S.  Gage,  was  known  as  the  mountain  justice,  for  the 
reason  that  he  was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  also  that  his  farm  was  so  hilly.  A 
man  and  his  wife  applied  to  him  for  a  divorce,  saying  that  if  he  was  enough  of  a 


80  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  farm  of  Mr.  George  Shepard  the  stream  is  dammed  and  power 
developed  for  a  sawmill.  Ice  is  cut  on  this  pond  for  most  of  the 
people  in  that  part  of  the  town. 

Sebbin's  pond,  in  the  southeast  part  of  the  town,  is  somewhat  of  a 
natural  curiosity.  Strictly  speaking,  there  are  three  ponds  or  divi- 
sions of  water  which  appear  to  be  united  by  their  waters  beneath  an 
extensive  bog  which  floats  on  the  surface  and  rises  and  falls  with  the 
water.  The  ponds  taken  together  are  about  eighty  rods  in  diameter, 
and  abound  with  different  kinds  of  fresh-water  fish.1  The  outlet  of 
this  pond  is  known  as  Sebbin's  and  as  Darrah's  brook,  and  flows 
southeasterly,  emptying  into  the  Merrimack  river.  The  Crosby 
brook,  known  sometimes  as  Wallace's  brook,  has  several  sources,  the 
main  branch  rising  in  Bedford,  near  Barr's  Corner.  Thence  it  flows 
in  an  easterly  and  southerly  direction  through  Crosby  meadow,  and 
empties  into  the  Merrimack  river  about  two  miles  south  of  the  mouth 
of  the  Piscataquog,  in  the  farm  formerly  of  Thomas  Rundlett,  at  the 
foot  of  Smith's  falls.  Chandler's  brook,  which  rises  in  the  central 
part  of  the  town,  flowing  almost  due  easterly,  empties,  after  but 
a  short  course,  into  the  Merrimack.  During  a  part  of  its  course,  the 
Pulpit  brook  flows  from  New  Boston  into  Bedford,  and  out  again 
into  Amherst.  From  Amherst  it  returns  to  Bedford,  there  uniting 
with  Baboosic  brook  and  forming  the  mill-pond  at  Swett's  mills. 

These  streams  were  used  in  times  past,  and  to  some  slight  extent 
are  still  used,  to  operate  sawmills  and  grist-mills,  but  under  the  head 
of  "  Mills  "  the  subject  will  be  dealt  with  further. 

There  are  some  objects  of  natural  curiosity  worthy  of  note.  On 
the  west  line  of  Bedford,  near  Chestnut  hills,  on  the  farm  of  Clinton 
French,  is  a  vast  fissure  or  opening  in  a  mighty  mass  of  rock,  appa- 
rently made  by  some  convulsion  of  nature.  Over  the  precipice  thus 
formed  is  a  fall  of  water  some  two  hundred  feet  into  the  gulf  below. 
Here  are  found  several  excavations  in  the  solid  rock,  sufficiently 
large  to  contain  several  persons.  One  of  them,  bearing  a  resemblance 
to  a  pulpit,  has  given  the  name  to  the  place.  At  the  bottom  there  is 
always  a  small  pool  of  water,  where  in  the  hottest  day  the  warmth 
of  the  sun  scarcely  penetrates.  As  one  stands  on  the  verge  of  this 
tremendous  precipice,  emotions  of  sublimity  will  be  awakened,  and 
any  lover  of  nature  who  should  have  leisure  on  a  pleasant  day  would 
find  himself  well  paid  by  a  visit  to  this  wild  and  romantic  spot. 

justice  to  marry  people  he  could  unmarry  them.    The  mountain  justice  willingly 
assented,  but  said  he  could  not  grant  their  wishes  just  then,  he  had  no  "blanks." 
i  April  21,  1764.    I  went  a  fishing  at  Seabin's  pond  and  catched   13  pickerel.— 
Matthew  Patten's  Diary. 


THE   PULPIT. 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES    OF   BEDFORD.  81 

Clinton  French  built  a  road  from  his  house  to  the  Pulpit,  eleven 
sixteenths  of  a  mile  in  length,  to  accommodate  the  public,  charging 
a  small  fee  for  the  same.  Summer  boarders  for  miles  around  visit 
this  grand  work  of  nature  every  summer.  In  some  seasons  there 
have  been  as  many  as  two  thousand  visitors. 

A  very  interesting  and  wonderful  natural  curiosity,  in  the  shape  of 
a  huge  granite  boulder,  is  found  about  one  half  mile  below  the  Pul- 
pit, on  the  Enoch  Gage  farm. 

The  large  rock  is  situated  on  a  thickly  wooded  knoll  which  has 
since  been  cleared  of  underbrush  and  trees.  The  moss-covered 
boulder  is  fifteen  feet  high  and  forty  feet  in  circumference,  by  actual 
measure.  It  is  nicely  balanced  on  three  flat  ledge  stones.  On  the 
south  side  of  the  rock  is  an  opening  large  enough  to  admit  an  ordi- 
nary person  by  stooping.  The  cavity  widens  on  the  inside,  being 
eight  feet  long  and  six  feet  high.  The  walls  of  this  miniature  cave 
are  fantastically  grooved  and  hollowed  out.  It  looks  like  the  work 
of  water.  The  Pulpit  brook  flows  only  a  few  feet  from  the  base  of 
the  hill  on  which  the  boulder  rests. 

On  the  inside  of  the  cave  is  a  stone  seat,  with  arms  at  the  sides 
and  a  hollow  for  the  head  rest.  This  stone  chair  was  a  favorite 
place  for  the  Indian  medicine  men  to  fast  and  listen  to  the  voice  of 
the  Great  Spirit.  A  number  of  years  ago  some  men  endeavored  to 
overturn  the  boulder,  but  were  unsuccessful.  An  old  resident  of 
Bedford  remembers,  when  a  boy,  of  hearing  various  stories  connected 
with  Indian  rock. 

Holbrook  hill  is  the  highest  land  in  town.  The  land  upon  which 
the  Holbrook  residence  stands  is  several  feet  higher  than  the  top  of 
the  Weston  observatory,  in  Manchester.  From  this  hill  a  fine  view 
can  be  had.  Immediately  nox*th  are  the  Uncanoonucs  ;  in  the  west 
tower  Crotchet  mountain,  Joe  English,  and  the  Lyndeborough  moun- 
tains ;  to  the  southwest  stands  Wachusett,  while  prominent  places  in 
Massachusetts  and  Maine  are  in  plain  view.  The  next  highest  land 
of  the  town  is  "  Ledge  hill,"  now  owned  by  G.  A.  King.  Other  high 
points  are  Tolford  hill,  Joppa  hill,  Phillips  or  Bancroft  hill,  Beard 
hill,  Bell  hill,  Morrill  hill,  and  Strawberry  hill. 

Bedford  is  probably  unsurpassed  as  a  farming  town  by  any  in  the 
county.  Its  soil  has  been  cultivated  by  the  hardy  race  which  sprang 
from  the  union  of  Scotch,  Irish,  and  English  pioneers  who  first 
tamed  this  wilderness,  a  race  noted  for  the  resolute  and  reliable  qual- 
ities that  make  a  sturdy,  robust,  and  unusually  intelligent  people. 


82  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

For  the  most  part,  they  are,  and  always  have  been,  farmers.  But, 
until  the  separation  in  1853  of  Piscataquog  village  from  the  town, 
and  its  addition  to  Manchester,  a  large  commercial  business  was  car- 
ried on  here. 

Among  the  Bedford  men  of  note  in  times  past,  we  might  mention 
Judge  Matthew  Patten,  Col.  John  Goffe,  and  his  son,  Major  Goffe, 
Col.  Daniel  Moore,  Capts.  James  Aiken  and  Thomas  McLaughlin, 
Hon.  John  Orr,  and  John  Patten,  all  patriots  of  the  Revolution.  One 
of  the  firmest  patriots  of  Bedford  was  James  Martin.  He  was  mem- 
ber of  the  provincial  congress  in  1775.  He  was  one  of  the  first,  if 
not  the  first,  who  established  an  iron  foundry  in  New  Hampshire. 
This  was  in  1776,  and  he  offered  to  supply  the  army  with  any 
amount  of  cannon  shot  the  committee  might  see  fit  to  order.  Then, 
at  a  later  period,  Hon.  Benjamin  Orr,  a  representative  in  congress 
and  a  distinguished  lawyer  in  Maine ;  Hon.  John  Vose,  a  state 
senator,  and  for  thirty-two  years  the  distinguished  preceptor  of 
Atkinson  and  Pembroke  academies ;  Hon.  Thomas  Chandler,  a  rep- 
resentative in  congress  and  a  noted  farmer.;  his  nephew,  Hon. 
Zachariah  Chandler,  for  many  years  United  States  senator  from 
Michigan,  and  secretary  of  the  interior  in  the  cabinet  of  President 
Grant;  Hon.  Joseph  Bell,  a  distinguished  lawyer  in  Boston,  and 
president  of  the  senate  of  Massachusetts ;  John  Rand,  Esq.,  a  painter 
of  note  in  London,  England,  and  one  of  the  few  to  whom  Queen 
Victoria  sat  for  her  portrait ;  Prof.  Joseph  E.  Worcester,  the  noted 
philologist,  and  Rev.  Isaac  Orr,  inventor  of  the  "air-tight  stove," 
were  all  sons  of  Bedford.  Bedford  also  claims  Horace  Greeley  as 
her  son,  although  the  place  of  his  birth  was  Amherst.  When  he 
was  a  very  small  child  his  father  and  mother  moved  to  what  is 
known  as  the  Band  farm,  now  owned  by  the  estate  of  Charles 
H.  Woodbury.  He  learned  to  read  by  the  light  of  the  open  fire  on 
the  kitchen  hearth  of  the  Gordon  house,  and  perhaps  that  will 
account  for  the  gift  he  possessed  of  reading  a  book  whether  it  was 
held  upside  down  or  sideways,  as  well  as  in  the  usual  way. 

Bedford  was  named  in  honor  of  John  Russell,  duke  and  earl  of 
Bedford,  marquis  of  Tavistock,  and  Baron  Howland  of  Streatham, 
who,  at  the  time  (1750),  was  one  of  the  two  secretaries  of  state  in 
the  government  of  King  George  II,  and  who  was  naturally  in 
correspondence  with  Benning  Wentworth,  governor  of  the  prov- 
ince of  New  Hampshire  at  the  time.  He  was  born  in  1710,  and 
died  in  1771.     Hillsborough  county  takes  its  name  from  Wills  Hill, 


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HISTORICAL  NOTICES   OF  BEDFORD.  83 

Viscount  Fairford,  earl  of  Hillsborough  and  marquis  of  Downshire, 
who  was  born  in  1717  and  died  in  1793.  In  1763  he  was  first  com- 
missioner of  trade  and  plantations,  and  in  1768  secretary  of  state  for 
the  colonies. 

INDIANS  ON  THE  MERRIMACK. 

In  the  history  of  the  towns  bordering  on  the  Merrimack  a  notice 
of  the  aboriginal  inhabitants  forms  an  important  part.  That  part  of 
this  town  lying  along  the  Merrimack  was  a  favorite  haunt  of  the  red 
man,  who  was  once  the  sole  tenant  of  this  western  wilderness.  To 
the  Indians  of  the  coast,  the  men  of  the  interior  were  known  as 
Nipunks,  or  fresh-water  Indians.  Among  themselves  they  were 
divided  into  numerous  tribes  of  various  names,  and  scattered  over 
the  territory  comprising  Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  and 
northern  Massachusetts.  They  all  acknowledged  the  power  and 
control  of  the  Penacooks,  and  were  members  of  the  confederacy  of 
which  that  powerful  tribe  was  the  head,  and  Passaconaway  the  lead- 
ing sachem.  The  Penacook  Indians  inhabited  what  is  now  Con- 
cord, and  the  country  for  many  miles  above  and  below  on  the 
Merrimack  river,  and  the  Indians,  the  traces  of  whose  settlement  are 
still  visible  on  the  banks  of  the  river,  in  this  town,  no  doubt  belonged 
to  this  tribe.  They  ranged  the  banks  of  the  Merrimack  in  quest  of 
fish  and  game,  which  then  greatly  abounded.  The  head  of  an  arrow, 
or  fragment  of  a  human  skeleton,  is  still  (1850)  occasionally  thrown 
up  in  the  sand  or  uncovered  by  the  plough,  the  last  traces  of  a  race 
that  hunted  and  fished  on  these  waters. 

Their  numbers  gradually  decreased,  and  the  poverty  of  the  sur- 
vivors became  so  great  that,  May  9,  1662,  Passaconaway  petitioned 
the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  at  length,  setting  out  his  growing 
needs  and  his  inability  to  meet  them.  He  asked  for  a  grant  of  land. 
Accordingly,  the  province  granted  him  a  strip  three  miles  in  length 
and  a  mile  and  a  half  in  width,  on  either  side  of  the  Merrimack. 
This  included  two  islands  in  the  river,  and  probably  comprised  the 
territory  about  Goff's  Falls,  for  Passaconaway  had  a  residence  on 
Carthagena  island,  opposite  the  farm  of  the  late  Samuel  Chandler. 

On  the  bank  of  the  Merrimack  river,  opposite  Goff's  Falls,  is  a 
spot  of  ground  about  ten  rods  long  and  four  rods  wide,  which  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  an  Indian  burial-place.  It  was  an  open  space, 
and  entirely  cleared,  when  the  first  settlers  first  explored  the  coun- 
try.    The  surface  of  the  bank  is  about  forty  feet  above  the  river. 


84  HISTOBY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Human  bones  at  various  times  have  been  washed  from  the  bank.  In 
the  summer  of  1821,  Dr.  P.  P.  Woodbury  and  Dr.  Freeman  Piddle 
obtained  a  part  of  three  skeletons  from  this  place.  Some  of  the 
bark  in  which  they  were  deposited  remained.  One  of  them  appeared 
to  have  been  put  in  the  ground  in  a  sitting  posture.  All  their  heads 
lay  toward  the  south.  One  was  supposed  to  be  a  female.  The  hair 
was  entire,  and  was  done  up  in  a  bunch  on  the  back  part  of  the 
head,  in  a  manner  not  unlike  that  practised  at  the  present  day.  The 
skeletons  were  sent  to  Paris,  by  Dr.  Woodbury,  for  anatomical 
investigation. 

Goff's  Falls  and  Amoskeag,  or  Namaske,  in  the  Indian  dialect, 
were  among  the  principal  residences  of  the  great  sachem  Passacona- 
way.  Here,  no  doubt,  he  held  his  councils,  here  he  swayed  the 
scepter  of  his  power.  His  dominions  appear  to  have  been  very 
extensive,  reaching  on  both  sides  of  the  Merrimack  up  to  its  sources, 
and  eastward  to  the  Piscataqua  river. 

Unlike  Philip,  Passaconaway  was  friendly  to  the  English.  His 
friendship,  however,  might  have  been  from  motives  of  policy.  He 
saw  the  English  must  ultimately  prevail,  and,  therefore,  to  use  the 
language  of  Gookin,  "this  old  sachem  thought  it  his  best  prudence 
for  himself  and  posterity  to  make  a  firm  peace  with  the  English  in 
his  time,  and  submitted  to  them  his  land  and  people,  as  the  records 
of  Massachusetts,  in  New  England,  declare,  which  peace  and  good 
correspondency  he  had  and  maintained  all  his  life,  and  gave  express 
command  to  his  son  that  he  should  inviolably  keep  and  maintain 
amity  and  friendship  with  the  English,  and  never  engage  with  any 
of  the  Indians  in  a  war  against  them." 

By  his  persuasion  it  is  possible  that  the  great  "  apostle  of  the 
Indians,"  Eliot,  may  have  been  induced  to  visit  these  places  in  the 
fishing  season,  when  the  Indians  assembled  in  great  numbers  at  the 
different  falls  in  the  river,  to  meet  the  incoming  tide  of  fish  as  they 
came  up  every  year.  In  a  letter  to  a  friend  in  England,  dated  Octo- 
ber 29,  1649,  he  writes,  "  I  had,  and  still  have,  a  great  desire  to  go  to 
a  great  fishing-place,  Namaske,  upon  the  Merrimack  river."  Rev. 
Mr.  Allen,  who  has  given  this  letter  more  at  large  in  his  Merrimack 
Centennial,  expresses  his  opinion  that  Namaske  may  be  Amoskeag ; 
and  for  this  there  is  some  confirmation  in  the  fact  that,  one  hundred 
years  ago,  Amoskeag  was  spelled  Namaskeag,  as  appears  from  Hon. 
Matthew  Patten's  journal,  where  the  place  is  often  mentioned.  It 
might  possibly  have  been  Goff's  Falls,  near  to  the  great  burying- 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  85 

place,  but  it  is  not  material.  It  is  an  interesting  thought,  and  not 
improbable,  that  the  great  "  apostle  of  the  Indians  "  was  once  heard 
amid  these  then  uncultivated  forests,  proclaiming  to  the  aborigines 
the  way  of  salvation. 

Wannalancet,  son  and  successor  to  Passaconaway,  was  a  convert 
to  Christianity,  and  also  a  steadfast  friend  to  the  English.  Of  this 
chief,  Gookin  relates  the  following  anecdote,  perfectly  in  keeping 
with  the  Indian  character:  Once,  on  his  return  from  a  destructive 
war,  he  called  on  Rev.  Mr.  Fiske,  at  Chelmsford.  Among  other 
inquiries  the  chief  wished  to  know  of  Mr.  Fiske  whether  Chelmsford 
had  suffered  much  during  the  war.  Being  informed  that  it  had  not, 
and  that  God  should  be  thanked  for  it,  he  replied,  "  And  me  next." 

We  now  approach  the  period  of  the  first  settlement  of  the  town 
by  white  men.  The  country  was  then  a  wilderness,  and  it  required 
men  of  strong  arms  and  women  of  stout  hearts  to  be  the  pioneers  in 
such  an  enterprise,  for  wild  beasts  roamed  where  now  are  cultivated 
farms  and  smiling  orchards.  As  early  as  the  winter  of  1735,  a  man 
by  the  name  of  Sebbins  (or  Sibbins ;  the  name  is  spelled  according 
to  its  pronunciation,  and  may  be  a  corruption  of  the  real  name) 
came  from  Braintree,  Mass.,  and  spent  the  winter  in  making 
shingles,  and  the  spot  he  selected  for  this  purpose  was  south  of  the 
old  graveyard,  between  that  and  Sebbins'  pond,  on  the  north  line  of 
a  piece  of  land  that  was  owned  by  the  late  Isaac  Atwood.  In  the 
spring  of  the  year  he  drew  his  shingles  to  Merrimack  river,  about  a 
mile  and  a  half,  on  a  hand  sled,  and  rafted  them  to  Pawtucket  Falls, 
now  Lowell.  The  pond  already  noticed,  and  a  large  tract  of  land 
around  the  same,  still  goes  by  his  name.1 

In  the  fall  of  1737  the  first  permanent  settlement  was  made  by 
Robert  and  James  Walker,  brothers,  and  in  the  following  spring  by 
Matthew  and  Samuel  Patten,  brothers,  and  sons  of  John  Patten,  and 
soon  after  by  many  others.  The  Pattens  lived  in  the  same  hut  with 
the  Walkers,  until  they  built  one  of  then-  own  near  where  Joseph 
Patten  used  to  live.  They  commenced  their  first  labors  near  the 
bank  of  the  Merrimack,  on  a  piece  of  ground  known  as  Patten's 
field,  about  forty  rods  north  of  Josiah  Walker's  barn.  The  Walkers 
were  immediately  from  Londonderry,  N.  H.  The  Pattens  never 
lived  in  Londonderry,  though  they  belonged  to  the  company ;  they 
were  immediately  from  Dunstable.     The  father,  John  Patten,  with 

'Sibbins  was  lost.  No  one  ever  knew  what  became  of  him.  A  visitor  to  his  camp 
found  a  steer  and  a  dog  almost  starved.  They  supposed  that  their  owner  had 
been  accidentally  drowned  in  one  of  the  bogs  which  surround  the  pond. 


86  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

his  two  sons,  Matthew  and  Samuel,  landed  at  Boston,  stopping  there 
but  a  short  time ;  thence  they  came  to  Chelmsford,  and  thence  to 
Dunstable,  where  he  stayed  till  he  came  to  Bedford.  The  second 
piece  of  land  cleared  was  on  the  Joseph  Patten  place,  the  field  south 
of  the  first  pound,  where  the  noted  old  high  and  fiat  granite  stone 
now  stands.  The  first  grain  threshed  in  Bedford  was  threshed  on 
this  stone.  Quilts  were  hung  up  around  the  stone,  to  keep  the  grain 
from  scattering. 

With  few  exceptions,  the  early  inhabitants  of  the  town  were  from 
the  north  of  Ireland,  or  from  the  then  infant  settlement  of  London- 
deny,  N.  H.,  to  which  they  had  recently  emigrated  from  Ireland. 
Their  ancestors  were  of  Scotch  origin.  About  the  middle  of  the 
seventeenth  century  they  went  in  considerable  numbers  from 
Argyleshire,  in  the  west  of  Scotland,  to  the  counties  of  Londonderry 
and  Antrim,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  from  which  in  1718  a  great 
emigration  took  place  to  this  country.  Some  arrived  at  Boston,  and 
some  at  Casco  bay,  near  Portland,  which  last  were  the  settlers  of 
Londonderry.  Many  towns  in  this  vicinity  were  settled  from  this 
colony ;  Windham,  Chester,  Litchfield,  Derryfield,  Bedford,  Goffs- 
town,  New  Boston,  Antrim,  Peterborough,  and  Acworth  derived 
from  Londonderry  a  considerable  proportion  of  their  first  inhabitants. 

"  Many  of  their  descendants,"  says  Rev.  Dr.  Whiton,  in  his  His- 
tory of  the  State,  "  have  risen  to  high  respectability,  among  whom 
are  numbered  four  governors  of  New  Hampshire,  one  of  the  signers 
of  the  declaration  of  independence,  several  distinguished  officers  in 
the  Revolutionary  war  and  in  the  last  war  with  Great  Britain, 
including  Stark,  Reid,  Miller,  and  McNeil;  a  president  of  Bowdoin 
college,  some  members  of  congress,  and  several  distinguished  minis- 
ters of  the  gospel." 

President  Everett,  in  his  Life  of  General  Stark,  thus  notices  the 
colony : 

These  emigrants  were  descended  from  the  Scotch  Presbyterians 
who  in  the  reign  of  James  were  established  in  Ireland,  but  who,  pro- 
fessing with  national  tenacity  a  religious  belief  neither  in  accordance 
with  the  popular  faith  in  Ireland  nor  with  that  of  its  English  mas- 
ters, and  disliking  the  institutions  of  tithe  and  rent,  determined  to 
seek  a  settlement  in  America.  The  first  party  came  over  in  1718, 
and  led  the  way  in  a  settlement  on  Merrimack  river.  They  were 
shortly  succeeded  by  a  large  number  of  then*  countrymen,  who 
brought  with  them  the  art  of  weaving  linen,  and  first  introduced  the 
culture  of  the  potato  into  this  part  of  America,  and  furnished  from 
then  families  a  large  number  of  the  pioneers  of  civilization  in  New 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF    BEDFORD.  87 

Hampshire,  Vermont,  and  Maine,«and  some  of  the  most  useful  and 
distinguished  citizens  of  all  these  states. 

These  quotations  will  not,  it  is  hoped,  be  thought  superfluous, 
when  it  is  considered  how  large  a  proportion  of  the  early  inhabitants 
of  the  town  were  of  Scottish  origin.  They  were,  as  they  are  justly 
represented  in  the  address  of  Colonel  Barnes  at  the  celebration  of 
the  centennial  of  the  town's  incorporation,  a  well-principled,  frugal, 
hardy,  and  industrious  people,  who  brought  with  them  a  sound 
attachment  to  religious  institutions. 

And  it  is  interesting  to  notice  the  similarity  between  the  pilgrims 
of  Plymouth  and  the  emigrants  from  the  north  of  Ireland,  as  respects 
the  motives  which  led  them  to  emigrate.  It  was  no  worldly  ambi- 
tion, it  was  no  unhallowed  thirst  of  gain,  that  in  either  case  appears 
to  have  led  these  hardy  men  to  leave  the  comforts  and  endearments 
of  their  native  land,  and  come  to  this  westei'n  wilderness ;  it  was,  we 
may  believe,  in  both  cases,  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  rights  of  con- 
science and  religious  privileges  that  they  came  across  the  Atlantic 
and  settled  down  in  these  forests. — Historical  Sketch  of  Bedford, 
by  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  1840. 

Scenes  and  incidents,  no  doubt,  occurred  in  ancient  times  amid 
these  localities,  the  actors  in  which  belonged  to  another  race,  scenes 
and  incidents  which  no  tablet  has  ever  recorded,  and  which  no  tra- 
dition has  transmitted.  The  following  authentic  account  may  be  a 
specimen  of  many  that  have  passed  into  oblivion : 

At  a  very  early  period  James  and  Robert  Walker,  brothers,  were 
engaged  in  manufacturing  turpentine  from  pitch-pine  trees,  on  the 
east  side  of  the  Merrimack  river,  opposite  the  farm  of  Mr.  Josiah 
Walker.  It  was  their  summer  business ;  they  cleared  a  field, 
planted  corn,  and  erected  a  camp  near  then*  field,  in  which  to  sleep 
and  do  their  domestic  work.  One  Saturday  two  tribes  or  bands  of 
Indians  came  to  their  camp,  and  some  of  them  wished  to  leave  their 
guns  in  the  camp  over  night  in  order  to  keep  them  dry,  which 
request  was  granted.  They  afterward  went  down  to  the  river,  near 
the  mouth  of  Spring  brook,  and  encamped.  Early  the  next  morn- 
ing one  of  the  Indians  was  heard  coming  in  great  haste,  and  wanted 
his  "  baskeag "  (gun),  which  they  let  him  have.  He  was  hardly 
gone  when  another  came  on  a  similar  errand ;  they  asked  him  what 
he  wanted  to  do  with  his  gun,  which  he  seemed  so  anxious  to  get. 
He  replied,  "  The  other  Indian — he  go  shoot  me ;  me  kill  him,"  and 
as  they  had  delivered  one  of  them  his  gun,  they  thought  they  would 
accommodate  the  other  likewise.  The  two  brothers  Walker  dressed 
themselves  and  went  down  where  they  could  overlook  the  encamp- 


00  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ment  unperceived  by  the  Indians,  expecting  to  be  spectators  of  an 
Indian  battle.  The  first  object  that  met  then-  view  was  two  Indians 
in  a  sitting  posture,  with  their  guns  pointing  at  each  other,  at  the 
distance  of  two  or  three  rods.  They  remained  in  this  position  some 
time,  apparently  with  the  intention  of  trying  each  other's  courage. 
At  length  one  dropped  his  gun,  sprang  to  his  feet,  and  extended  his 
hand  toward  the  other,  who  immediately  performed  a  similar  move- 
ment, and  the  expected  battle  was  avoided.  The  tribes  during  this 
time  were  placed  in  the  order  of  battle,  with  knives,  tomahawks,  and 
bows  and  arrows,  placed  on  logs  and  other  convenient  places,  ready 
for  immediate  use  in  case  of  necessity.  It  were  well  if  modern  duels 
ended  as  amicably. 

There  were  three  or  four  garrisons,  or  blockhouses,  in  the  town, 
to  which  the  inhabitants  might  resort  in  case  of  danger,  during  the 
Indian  hostilities  excited  by  the  French.  One  of  these  was  at  Mr. 
Robert  Walker's,  in  the  north  part  of  the  town,  on  the  place  of  the 
late  Mr.  Jesse  A.  Walker.  Another  was  on  the  place  lately  owned  by 
Theodore  A.  Goffe,  Esq. ;  also  one  on  the  Patten  place,  and  still  anoth- 
er, it  is  supposed,  on  the  place  of  Mr.  Josiah  Walker.  It  was  a  time 
of  danger,  and  the  inhabitants  were  constantly  on  then:  guard,  but  the 
town  was  never  attacked  by  hostile  Indians.  When  at  work,  it  is 
said,  they  would  keep  one  man  posted  as  a  sentinel,  and,  if  practi- 
cable, they  would  work  but  one  day  in  the  same  field.  Although  the 
town  escaped,  yet  individuals  belonging  to  it  were  sometimes 
exposed.  In  one  instance  a  man  was  killed.  In  1745,  James 
McQuade  and  John  Burns  went  to  Penacook  (Concord)  to  purchase 
corn  for  their  families,  and  had  proceeded  on  then  return  home  as 
far  as  Suncook  (Pembroke),  when  they  were  fired  upon  by  a  party 
of  Indians  who  lay  in  ambush  awaiting  then  return.  McQuade  was 
shot  dead,  but  Burns  made  his  escape  by  running  in  a  zigzag  direc- 
tion, which  baffled  the  fire  of  the  pursuers,  and  he  arrived  in  safety 
to  his  family.  It  is  related,  in  addition,  that  McQuade's  mother  soon 
after,  let  one  of  the  neighbors  have  some  beans  which  were  brought 
along  in  a  bag,  and  a  ragged  bullet  was  found  among  them. 

There  is  a  traditionary  story  of  Mr.  Robert  Walker,  that  relates  he 
started  one  Sunday  morning  in  good  season  to  go  to  Londonderry  to 
meeting  and  to  see  his  intended,  who  resided  there.  As  he  left  his 
garrison,  on  horseback,  he  discovered  a  trail  of  Indians  in  the  dew, 
from  behind  the  barn  through  the  hemp  yard  to  the  road.  He  kept 
a  sharp  lookout,  and  on  coming  near  the  river  he  heard  a  cracking 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES    OF   BEDFORD.  0^ 

in  the  wood.  He  kept  the  same  pace  till  a  turn  in  the  road  near  by, 
when  he  put  spurs  to  his  horse  and  heard  no  more  of  them.  He  sup- 
posed they  were  watching  his  movements  in  order  to  waylay  him. 
He  came  home  another  route  through  Litchfield. 

The  following  incident,  among  others,  has  been  handed  down : 
One  day  Robert  Walker  and  Matthew  Patten  went  out  in  the  month 
of  March  to  hunt  for  bears  near  Uncanoonuc  hills.1  Finding  none, 
they  concluded  to  return  home,  and  as  they  were  retracing  their 
steps  they  came  across  a  catamount  track.  The  track  being  along 
their  way,  they  followed  it  on  till  it  turned  off,  and  they  followed  it 
no  further.  Just  then  Walker's  dog  took  the  track,  and  they  had 
not  gone  far  before  they  heard  the  dog  bark.  Walker  says, "  There, 
my  dog  has  treed  the  vermin,  and  if  I  don't  shoot  him  he  will  kill 
my  dog."  Patten  tried  to  persuade  him  off,  but  in  vain.  He  found 
the  catamount  crouched  on  the  limb  of  a  tree,  swinging  his  tail  back- 
ward and  forward,  evidently  meditating  a  spring  upon  the  dog.  He 
leveled  his  gun  and  fired.  The  ball  took  effect  just  below  the  ear, 
broke  his  neck,  and  he  fell  dead.  It  was  said  the  tail  was  long 
enough  to  girt  and  tie  in  a  bow  knot  around  the  body.  Robert 
Walker  was  said  to  be  a  very  stout,  robust  man,  as  appears  from  the 
following  circumstance  that  is  related :  He  was  once  at  Amoskeag 
falls,  when  a  man  and  his  wife  undertook  to  cross  over  from  Derry- 
field  side.  The  man,  not  being  a  good  oarsman,  went  down  stream. 
The  canoe  ran  on  a  rock  and  stuck  fast,  which  prevented  them  from 
going  over  the  falls.  There  they  were,  within  sight  of  a  number  of 
persons,  but  no  one  ready  to  give  assistance.  At  length  Walker 
stripped  himself,  swam  to  the  rock,  placed  the  canoe  bows  up  stream, 
seated  the  man  and  woman  near  the  middle  of  the  canoe,  and  then 
with  almost  superhuman  strength  shoved  the  canoe  off,  springing 
into  it  at  the  same  time,  and  taking  his  paddle  brought  them  safe  to 
the  shore,  to  the  great  joy  of  themselves  and  all  the  spectators. 

This  Robert  Walker  came  from  his  uncle  Stark's  (father  of  Gen. 
John  Stark),  in  Londonderry,  where  he  had  been  living,  and  joined 
his  brother  James  in  his  camp  on  the  bank  of  the  Merrimack,  making 
turpentine  and  cultivating  corn  in  summer,  and  hunting  wild  game 

1  About  the  year  1807  or  8  a  bear  was  discovred  on  the  Island  at  Amoskeag  falls  by 
some  person 'in  search  of  Chesnutt  it  being  on  Sunday  most  of  the  men  in  the 
neighbourhood  had  gon  to  church  alarm  soon  spread  through  the  Town  the  People 
rushed  from  the  Church  in  great  hast  and  ware  soon  in  pursuit  of  his  Bearship 
Jerry  Ray  one  of  the  number  being  very  anxious  to  Capture  animil  grappled  him 
mounted  his  back  when  M  Bear  not  liken  his  rider  took  him  by  one  arm  with  his 
teeth  and  would  probibly  taken  of  his  arm  had  not  James  Young  rendered  immeadet 
assistance  the  Bear  was  finally  Captured  Killed  Dresed  and  portion  of  the  flesh 
Carried  to  the  hous  of  Samuel  P  Kidder  Esq  and  Coked  all  the  people  in  the  vicinity 
being  invited  to  partake  of  the  feast.— From  an  old  Manuscript. 


90  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

in  winter.  They  soon  came  over  this  side  the  river,  and  for  a  time 
they  occupied  the  same  house  and  cultivated  the  same  farm.  It  is 
the  farm  known  as  that  of  Lieut.  Josiah  Walker.  Later,  James 
removed  to  what  was  known  as  the  Jesse  Walker  farm,  afterward 
part  of  the  farm  belonging  to  the  late  William  McAllister.  But  the 
bears  and  catamounts  were  so  numerous,  and  at  night  made  so  much 
noise  about  his  house,  that  he  could  not  stay.  He  said  his  bull  was 
able  to  keep  them  off  only  by  climbing  to  the  top  of  the  ledge  near 
the  barn  and  pawing  and  bellowing  all  night  long.  So  he  exchanged 
farms  with  his  brother,  returning  to  the  river  farm,  while  Robert 
Walker  tried  the  bears.1  When  the  house  he  built  was  removed  in 
1870,  a  human  skeleton  was  found  under  the  eaves  of  the  roof. 
How  it  came  there  no  one  could  explain  at  the  time,  or  has  ever 
been  able  to  explain.  In  the  field  near  the  river,  on  the  site  of  the 
first  house  erected  by  the  Walkers,  their  descendants  have  erected  a 
stone  tablet  to  mark  the  spot  where  the  first  settlement  of  the  town 
was  made. 

ORIGIN  AND  SETTLEMENT  OF  THE  TOWN. 

In  giving  some  account  of  the  origin  of  the  township,  it  will  be 
necessary  to  call  the  attention  of  the  reader  to  the  first  general 
Indian  war,  which  occurred  in  1675.  It  was  a  war  between  the 
settlers  of  the  province  of  Massachusetts  and  the  Narraganset 
Indians,  and  was  known  as  "  King  Philip's  war."  It  was  attended 
with  great  distress  and  cruelties ;  many  towns  in  Massachusetts  suf- 
fered exceedingly,  but  the  enemy  was  at  last  scattered  and  King 
Philip  slain.  Hutchinson,  in  his  History  of  Massachusetts,  thus 
relates  the  slaughter:  "Philip  fled  from  one  swamp  to  another, 
divers  times  very  narrowly  escaping,  losing  one  chief  counselor  after 
another.  His  uncle  and  sister,  and  at  last  his  wife  and  son,  were 
taken  prisoners.  Being  reduced  to  this  miserable  condition,  he  was 
killed  August  12,  1676,  as  he  was  flying  from  a  pursuing  party  out 
of  a  swamp  near  his  residence,  at  Hope,  now  Bristol,  Rhode  Island. 
One  of  his  own  men,  whom  he  had  offended  and  who  had  deserted 
to  the  English,  shot  him  through  the  heart.     Instead  of  the  scalp,  he 

1  Samuel  and  John  Moor  went  to  Gofftown  a  hunting  one  winter  after  they  had 
ben  out  through  the  Day  they  came  to  Butterfleld  Place  and  found  a  lot  of  hunter 
theare  and  they  gut  to  Bating  on  Samuel  and  John  head  to  see  witch  was  the  best 
gunner  and  thare  Mark  was  a  Large  snow  Ball  to  shoot  at  Distance  19  rods'  John 
was  to  fire  first  and  Burred  the  bignus  of  the  Ball  in  the  side  of  the  snow  Ball 
than  Samuel  was  to  fire  but  he  said  was  now  use  for  he  Could  not  beat  it  nor  any 
the  rest  of  them  but  they  sad  he  should  try  he  fired  and  Did  the  same  as  John. 
—From  an  old  Manuscript. 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES    OF   BEDFORD.  91 

cut  off  his  right  hand,  which  had  a  remarkable  scar,  well  known  to 
the  English,  and  which  was  exhibited  as  a  curiosity."  Many  of  the 
Indian  chiefs  were  executed  at  Boston  and  Plymouth.  The  people 
were  greatly  exasperated,  every  person  in  the  two  colonies  having 
lost  a  relative  or  near  friend,  but,  adds  the  historian,  "  this  does  not 
excuse  the  cruelty."  The  cause  of  this  exterminating  war  was,  in 
fact,  the  encroachments  of  the  English  upon  the  Indians.  With  the 
shrewdness  and  sagacity  of  an  Indian,  Philip  no  doubt  saw  that  in 
this  way  his  people  must  melt  away  before  the  white  man.  As  a 
matter  of  curiosity,  it  may  not  be  out  of  place  to  give  an  authentic 
letter  from  King  Philip  to  Prince,  of  Plymouth,  with  the  original 
spelling  and  expression,  exactly  as  given  by  Gookin  in  his  account  of 
the  Indians : 

King  Philip  desire  to  let  you  understand  that  he  could  not  come 
to  the  court,  for  Tom  his  interpreter  has  a  pain  in  his  back,  that  he 
could  not  travel  so  far,  and  Philip's  sister  is  very  sick.  Philip  would 
entreat  the  favor  of  any  of  the  magistrates,  if  any  English  or  Engians 
speak  about  any  land,  he  pray  you  to  give  them  no  answer  at  all. 
This  last  summer,  he  maid  the  promies  with  you,  that  he  would  not 
sell  no  land  in  7  years  time,  for  that  he  would  have  no  English 
trouble  him  before  that  time — he  has  no  forget  that  you  promise 
him.  He  will  come  a  sune  as  posible  he  can,  to  speak  with  you,  and 
so  I  rest  your  very  loving  friend, 

Philip,  dwelling  at  Mt.  Hope  neck. 
To  the  much  honored  Governor, 
Mr.  Thomas  Prince,  dwelling  at  Plymouth. 

This  letter  from  Philip  to  Prince  was  written  before  the  war, 
probably  about  1660  or  '70. 

There  had  been  a  long-drawn-out  dispute  between  the  govern- 
ment of  the  province  of  Massachusetts  and  that  of  New  Hampshire, 
as  to  the  boundary  which  separated  the  two. 

Massachusetts  claimed  that  under  her  charter  of  1629,  her  north- 
erly line  was  three  miles  north  of  the  head  waters  of  the  Merrimack, 
and  ran  through  Lake  Wmnipiseogee.  Xew  Hampshire,  claiming 
under  the  grant  to  Mason  and  Gorges  in  1622  and  under  the  subdivi- 
sion of  the  territory  made  by  the  grantees  in  1629,  declared  that  its 
south  line  ran  west  from  the  mouth  of  the  Merrimack. 

The  details  of  the  dispute  are  not  necessarily  a  part  of  this  his- 
tory, but  the  question  itself  has  a  singular  bearing  on  the  origin  of 
our  town.  After  the  appointment  of  many  boundary  commissions 
by  both  the  provinces,  the  line  of  division  remained  undetermined. 


92  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

However,  the  people  living  within  the  debatable  territory  were  natu- 
rally much  excited  on  the  subject.  Many  of  them  were  claimed  and 
taxed  by  both  provinces,  with  the  result  that  most  of  them  so  situ- 
ated refused  to  do  service  or  pay  taxes  anywhere.  By  1708  the  diffi- 
culty had  become  serious.  New  Hampshire  named  a  committee  to 
meet  a  similar  committee  from  Massachusetts.  When  they  met, 
Massachusetts  renewed  her  claim  to  the  Winnipiseogee  boundary- 
The  New  Hampshire  men,  after  pointing  out  that  in  1677  Massachu- 
setts had  abandoned  the  Winnipiseogee  boundary  claim,  refused  to 
consider  it,  and  so  reported  to  the  general  assembly  of  the  province. 
The  truth  is,  the  province  of  Massachusetts  did  not  desire  to  have 
the  boundary  settled.  With  Massachusetts  claiming  a  large  portion 
of  the  territory  of  New  Hampshire,  and  that  claim  unsettled,  the 
chances  were  that  the  two  provinces  would  remain  under  one  gov- 
ernor at  a  handsome  salary  and  many  perquisites.  Land  speculators 
also  were  obtaining  grants  of  the  best  lumber  and  tillage  lands  in 
New  Hampshire.  The  interests  of  New  Hampshire  were,  of  course, 
opposed  to  this.  Our  people  desired  an  independent  government, 
believing  that  permanent  occupation  of  the  land  would  bring  greater 
prosperity,  and  desiring  that  New  Hampshire  lands  should  be 
secured  to  New  Hampshire  people.  In  1719  .commissioners  were 
again  appointed  to  settle  the  boundary,  but  again  they  met  in  vain. 
Then  New  Hampshire  appealed  to  the  king,  in  council,  for  an  order 
settling  the  question,  and  went  on  to  put  people  in  possession  of  the 
disputed  territory,  granting  Chester  and  Londonderry  to  the  actual 
settlers  there.  These  same  towns  had  been  repeatedly  granted  by 
Massachusetts,  but  since  the  grants  had  been  made  to  speculators, 
the  lands  had  not  been  settled  by  the  grantees,  but  were  in  the  pos- 
session of  others.  Alarmed  at  this  attitude,  and  fearing  the  outcome 
of  the  appeal  to  the  king,  Massachusetts  changed  her  policy  and 
began  to  grant  the  lands  in  question  to  their  actual  settlers.  If  she 
lost  jurisdiction  over  the  lands,  her  people  would  still  have  the  fee  in 
the  soil.  In  1725,  Penacook,  now  Concord,  was  granted  to  Massa- 
chusetts settlers  from  Andover,  Bradford,  and  Haverhill,  and  other 
towns  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  disputed  line.  About  the 
same  time,  it  was  proposed  in  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  to 
grant  a  range  of  towns  from  the  Merrimack  to  the  Connecticut, 
under  the  pretense  of  having  a  line  of  settlements  on  the  frontier  as 
a  protection  against  the  Indians — in  reality,  to  secure  the  lands  to 
the  people  of   that  province.     Massachusetts  also  proposed  a  new 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES    OF   BEDFORD.  93 

commission  to  settle  the  boundary.  New  Hampshire  declined,  say- 
ing, "We  have  appealed  to  the  king,  and  will  abide  his  decision." 
It  was  thereupon  decided  by  Massachusetts  to  immediately  secure  the 
lands  to  settlers  from  Massachusetts,  and  the  services  of  men  long 
dead  were  used  as  a  pretext.  Douglass^  in  his  Summary,  Historical 
and  Political,  etc.,  of  the  British  Settlements  in  America,  has  this 
to  say : 

About  the  middle  of  the  last  century  the  general  assembly  of 
Massachusetts  was  in  the  humor  of  distributing  the  property  of  much 
vacant  or  province  land,  perhaps  in  good  policy  and  forethought,  to 
secure  to  the  Massachusetts  people  by  possession  the  property  of  part 
of  some  controverted  lands. 

Our  assembly  at  that  time  were  in  such  a  hurry  to  appropriate 
vacant  lands  that  several  old  towns  were  encouraged  to  petition  for 
an  additional  township,  and  when  they  were  satiated  the  assembly 
introduced  others  by  way  of  bounty  to  the  descendants  of  the  sol- 
diers in  the  Indian  war  of  King  Philip,  so  called,  in  1675,  and  these 
were  called  Narraganset  townships,  and  others  to  the  soldiers  in  Sir 
William  Phipps'  expedition  into  Canada,  1690,  which  were  called 
Canada  townships. 

Upon  the  meeting  of  the  grantees  of  the  Narraganset  townships, 
it  was  found  that  their  numbers  were  greater  than  had  been  sup- 
posed, amounting  in  all  to  840  persons.  They,  therefore,  petitioned 
the  legislature  for  an  additional  grant  of  land,  "  so  that  every  sixty 
claimants  might  have  a  township  of  six  miles  square."  Upon  this 
petition,  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  in  1732  granted  them  five 
townships,  so  that  every  120  claimants  should  have  a  township  six 
miles  square.  The  governor  did  not  approve  of  this  act,  but  in 
April  of  the  next  year  a  similar  petition  was  presented  and  the  fol- 
lowing act  was  passed : 

At  a  Great  and  General  Court  or  Assembly,  for  his  Majestie's 
Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  begun  and  held  at  Boston,  upon 
Wednesday,  the  Thirty-first  of  May,  1732,  and  continued  by  adjourn- 
ment to  Wednesday,  Fourth  day  of  April  1733  and  then  met. 

April  26,  1733. 

A  petition  of  a  Committee  for  the  Narragansett  Soldiers,  showing 
that  there  are  the  number  of  Eight  Hundred  and  Forty  Persons, 
entered  as  officers  and  soldiers  in  the  late  Narragansett  War.  Pray- 
ing that  there  may  be  such  an  addition  of  Land  granted  to  them,  as 
may  allow  a  Tract  of  six  miles  Square  to  each  one  hundred  and 
twenty  men  so  admitted. 

In  the  House  of  Representatives,  Read,  and  Ordered  that  the 
Prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted,  and  that  Major  Chandler,  Mr. 


94  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Edward  Shove,  Col.  Thomas  Tileston,  Mr.  John  Hobson,  and  Mr. 
Samuel  Chandler,  (or  any  three  of  them,)  be  a  Committee  fully 
avithorized  and  empowered  to  survey  and  lay  out  five  more  Tracts  of 
Land  for  Townships,  of  the  Contents  of  Six  miles  Square,  each,  in 
some  of  the  unappropriated  lands  of  this  Province ;  and  that  the  said 
land,  together  with  the  two  towns  before  granted,  be  granted  and 
disposed  of  to  the  officers  and  soldiers  or  their  lawful  Representa- 
tives, as  they  are  or  have  been  allowed  by  this  Court,  being  eight 
hundred  and  forty  in  number,  in  the  whole,  and  full  satisfaction  of 
the  Grant  formerly  made  them  by  the  General  Court,  as  a  reward 
for  their  public  service.  And  the  Grantees  shall  be  obliged  to 
assemble  within  as  short  time  as  they  can  conveniently,  not  exceed- 
ing the  space  of  two  months,  and  proceed  to  the  choice  of  Commit- 
tees, respectively,  to  regulate  each  Propriety  or  Township,  which  is 
to  be  held  and  enjoyed  by  one  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  Grantees, 
each  in  equal  Proportion,  who  shall  pass  such  orders  and  rules  as 
will  effectually  oblige  them  to  settle  Sixty  families,  at  least,  within 
each  Township,  with  a  learned,  orthodox  ministry,  within  the  space 
of  seven  years  of  the  date  of  this  Grant.  Provided,  always,  that  if 
the  said  Grantees  shall  not  effectually  settle  the  said  number  of  fam- 
ilies in  each  Township,  and  also  lay  out  a  lot  for  the  first  settled  min- 
ister, one  for  the  ministry,  and  one  for  the  school,  in  each  of  the  said 
townships,  they  shall  have  no  advantage  of,  but  forfeit  then  respec- 
tive grants,  anything  to  the  contrary  contained  notwithstanding. 
The  Charge  of  the  Survey  to  be  paid  by  the  Province. 
In  Council  read  and  concur'd. 

Consented  to,  J.  Belcher. 

A  true  copy  of  Record  : 

Examined,  Per 

Simon  Frost,  Dep.  Secretary. 

It  is  hereby  Certified,  that  by  an  order  of  the  Great  and  General 
Court,  pass'd  the  eighteenth  of  April,  1734,  Seven  years  from  the. 
first  of  June,  1734,  was  allow'd  the  Narraganset  Claimants. 

Attest:  Simon  Frost,  Dep.  Secretary. 

By  referring  to  the  Proprietors'  Book  of  Records,  it  will  be  found 
the  above  conditions  of  the  grant  were  complied  with,  as  respects, 
provisions  for  the  gospel,  though  a  minister  was  not  settled  till  after 
the  act  of  incorporation.1 

These  seven  towns  were  laid  out  immediately,  and  were  desig- 
nated as  Narraganset  townships  No.  I,  II,  III,  etc.  Narraganset 
townships  Nos.  Ill,  IV,  V,  and  VI  were  located  in  this  immediate 
neighborhood.  Narraganset  No.  Ill  was  also  called  Souhegan  West, 
and  was  situated  on   the   north  side  of   Souhegan  river.     It  was 

'There  appears  to  be  no  evidence  that  sixty  families  were  settled,  or  that  a 
"learned,  orthodox  ministry"  was  established  within  seven  years  of  the  date  of 
the  grant,  but  it  is  evident  that  earnest  efforts  were  made  toward  meeting  the 
conditions,  which  undoubtedly  satisfied  the  grantors. 


HISTOKICAL   NOTICES    OF   BEDFORD.  95 

incorporated  by  the  name  of  Amherst,  in  1760.  Xarraganset  Xo. 
IV  was  located  on  the  west  side  of  the  Merrimack,  at  Amoskeag 
falls.  It  was  laid  out  to  120  grantees,  living  in  forty-one  towns  in 
Massachusetts.  It  is  curious  to  notice  that  Xo.  I  was  in  Maine,  now 
called  Buxton ;  Xo.  II  in  Massachusetts,  now  called  Westminster ; 
Xo.  Ill  was  Amherst,  or  Souhegan  West ;  Xo.  IV 1  adjoined  Hat- 
field, Mass. ;  Xo.  V  was  Bedford,  or  Souhegan  East ;  Xo.  VI  was 
Templeton,  Mass. ;  Xo.  VII  was  Gorham,  Me. 

Since  the  Indian  war  a  considerable  time  had  elapsed — more  than 
fifty  years — and  many  of  the  officers  and  soldiers  who  served  in  that 
expedition  were  dead.  Of  the  120  persons  to  whom  this  township 
was  granted,  only  twenty  veterans  were  living  in  1733;  All  the 
grantees  or  their  representatives  assembled  on  Boston  common 
June  6,  1733,  at  which  time  they  divided  themselves  into  seven  dis- 
tinct societies,  of  120  persons  each,  and  entitled  to  one  of  these 
townships.  From  each  society,  three  persons  were  chosen  as  a  com- 
mittee, who,  on  October  17,  1733,  assigned  the  several  townships 
among  their  respective  societies.  Of  the  individuals  to  whom  this 
township  was  assigned,  fifty-seven  belonged  to  Boston,  fifteen  to 
Roxbury,  seven  to  Dorchester,  two  to  Milton,  five  to  Braintree,  four 
J.o  Weymouth,  thirteen  to  Hingham,  four  to  Dedham,  two  to  Hull, 
one  to  Medfield,  five  to  Scituate,  and  one  to  Xewport,  R.  I.  Of  the 
original  proprietors  upon  the  book  of  records,  which  is  preserved 
with  the  town  books,  very  few  became  settlers,  the  greater  part  dis- 
posing of  their  claims  to  those  who  became  occupants  of  the  soil. 

There  were  but  two  of  the  original  grantees  who  came  to  take  up 
their  lands  in  the  town,  Zachariah  Chandler,  of  Roxbury,  Mass.,  who 
signs  his  name  on  the  record  as  in  right  of  his  wife's  father,  Thomas 
Bishop,  and  John  Barnes. 

MASOX  AXD  GORGES  CLAIM. 

The  town  Xarraganset  Xo.  5,  thus  granted  by  the  province  of 
Massachusetts  as  part  of  their  unappropriated  lands,  was  included, 

'No.  IV  was  originally  at  the  falls  of  Amoskeag,  on  the  Merrimack,  and  embraced 
the  present  town  of  Goffstown.  In  1736  the  proprietors  of  this  township  requested 
of  the  general  court  liberty  to  take  up  their  land  elsewhere,  and  in  1737  the  court 
granted  them,  instead  of  the  land  at  Amoskeag,  a  tract  at  Quabbin,  now  Green- 
wich, in  the  county  of  Hampden,  Massachusetts,  and  another  tract  west  of  Hatfield, 
in  the  same  county,  both  to  contain  six  miles  square,  or  23,040  acres.  In  July,  1739,  the 
general  court  accepted  the  report  of  a  committee  granting  to  the  proprietors  of 
township  No.  IV  15,779  acres  at  Quabbin,  and  7,261  acres  west  of  Hatfield,  making 
23,040  acres.  In  1739  the  proprietors  complained  of  ponds,  swamps,  etc.,  in  these 
tracts,  and  the  general  court  added  3,500  acres  to  the  grant  west  of  Hatfield. 
The  lands  west  of  Hatfield  were  included  within  the  township  of  Chesterfield,  and 
after  that  was  divided  part  of  them  were  in  Chesterfield  and  part  in  Goshen, 
though  most  of  them  are  in  Greenwich.— Taken  from  foot  note  in  1851  edition, 
History  of  Bedford. 


96  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

however,  within  the  limits  of  the  territory  which  had  been  conveyed 
many  years  before  to  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges  and  John  Mason.  In 
the  year  1622,  James  I  had  granted  to  these  two  men  a  large  tract 
of  land  of  vague  and  uncertain  dimensions,  out  of  his  New  England 
territories.  The  vagueness  and  uncertainty  were  natural  enough,  in 
view  of  the  fact  that  no  maps  or  survey  of  this  part  of  the  world  had 
been  made  up  to  this  time,  but  when  in  1629  he  chartered  the  prov- 
ince of  Massachusetts  bay,  its  boundaries  were  so  wide  that  they 
included  part  of  the  territory  formerly  granted  to  Gorges  and  Mason. 
In  1733  Gorges  and  Mason  had  long  been  dead.  The  claim  to  their 
lands  had  passed  to  John  Tufton  Mason,  a  great-grandson  of  the 
grandson  of  the  original  grantee  of  that  name.  He  in  turn  sold  this 
claim  to  a  company  known  as  the  "  Proprietors  of  the  lands  pur- 
chased of  John  Tufton  Mason,  Esq.,  in  the  province  of  New 
Hampshire." 

The  story  of  the  Masonian  claim,  as  it  was  called,  is  a  romantic 
and  interesting  one,  and  we  might  digress  for  a  moment  to  insert  it 
here. 

The  title  to  land  discovered  for  the  first  time  by  any  explorer 
belongs  by  the  law  of  nations  to  the  sovereign  of  the  discoverer.  In 
accordance  with  this  law,  the  result  of  the  discoveries  and  voyages, 
of  exploration  made  by  John  Smith  and  Sebastian  Cabot  along  the 
coast  of  New  England  lodged  the  title  to  the  land  they  discovered 
in  the  crown  of  England. 

During  the  reign  of  James  I,  a  grant  was  made  to  two  of  his  sub- 
jects jointly.  Their  names  were  John  Mason  and  Sir  Ferdinando 
Gorges.  The  date  of  this  grant  was  1622.  Of  course,  the  king  and 
his  advisers  had  no  accurate  knowledge  of  the  geography  of  the 
land  granted.  It  was  a  vast,  unexplored,  unchartered  wilderness.  A 
few  prominent  headlands  on  the  coast  had  been  noted,  and  here  and 
there  the  explorer  had  marked  the  spot  where  some  river  entered 
the  ocean.  But  the  interior  was  then  entirely  unexplored.  A  great 
deal  of  confusion  arose  in  the  early  title  to  these  lands  because  of 
these  facts,  for  grants  of  territory  comprised  in  these  discoveries 
were  made  by  the  king  from  time  to  time  to  different  people  and 
different  companies,  and  in  many  cases  the  boundaries  of  the  lands 
granted  conflicted. 

As  we  have  said,  Mason  and  Gorges  in  1622  received  a  grant  of 
all  the  land  between  the  Merrimack  and  the  Sagadahoc  (Kennebec) 
rivers.     In  1629  they  agreed  to  divide  their  land,  and  the  Piscataqua 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  97 

river  was  taken  as  the  dividing  boundary.  Mason  received  the  west- 
ern portion,  or  that  which  would  include  New  Hampshire,  and 
Gorges  the  eastern,  or  Maine.  Mason  died  about  1635,  leaving  his 
grant  of  land  in  the  new  world  to  the  oldest  son  of  his  daughter  and 
to  the  latter's  issue  forever.  On  failure  of  issue,  title  was  to  pass  to 
the  other  sons  of  his  daughter,  in  the  order  of  their  birth,  thus  estab- 
lishing what  the  law  called  "  an  entail."  The  grant  came  in  time, 
and  by  this  course,  to  Robert  Tufton,  a  descendant  of  the 
original  John  Mason,  and  in  his  honor  he  added  the  name 
Mason  to  his  name,  and  was  called  Robert  Tufton  Mason. 
From  him  the  grant  descended  to  his  sons,  John  and  Rob- 
ert, and  they,  in  order  to  break  the  entail,  joined  in  a  con- 
veyance to  one  Samuel  Allen.  The  date  of  this  was  about  1690. 
Robert  Tufton  Mason  and  his  sons  had  not  been  in  possession  of  the» 
territory  granted  for  some  years,  inasmuch  as  it  had  been  claimed  by 
Massachusetts  as  being  within  the  bounds  of  the  territory  granted  to 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  company  in  1629.  When  Samuel  Allen 
became  the  purchaser  of  the  grant  he  renewed  the  efforts  which  his 
predecessors  in  title,  the  Masons,  had  been  making  for  some  sixty 
years,  to  obtain  absolute  possession  of  his  property.  In  1679,  per- 
haps for  the  purpose  of  further  complication,  there  had  been  created 
the  province  of  New  Hampshire,  by  letters  patent  of  the  king.  The 
territorial  limits  of  the  new  province  included  those  of  the  Masonian 
grant  and  of  territory  claimed  by  Massachusetts,  as  well  as  some 
other  territory  lying  to  the  north  and  west  of  it,  not  previously 
granted.  The  authorities  of  the  new  province  became  immediately 
interested  to  have  the  boundaries  of  their  jurisdiction  definitely 
established.  Samuel  Allen's  son,  who  had  inherited  his  father's 
property,  joined  in  this  effort,  but  one  John  Tufton  Mason,  a  son  of 
that  Robert  Tufton  Mason  who  with  his  brother  had  sold  to  Samuel 
Allen,  now  endeavored  to  have  that  sale  annulled,  claiming  that 
under  the  law  of  entail,  his  father  and  uncle  could  not  convey  title  to 
the  land  in  fee,  but  could  sell  only  their  life  interest  in  it.  The  divi- 
sion of  the  Masonian  grant,  which  took  place  in  1629,  described  the 
bounds  of  the  western  portion  of  the  territory  as  a  line  running  up 
the  middle  of  the  Piscataqua  river  for  sixty  miles  from  its  mouth  to 
its  (supposed)  head  waters,  and  for  the  same  distance  up  the  Merri- 
mack river.  The  western  boundary  was  a  line  connecting  these  two 
northerly  points.  John  Tufton  Mason  had  not  established  his  claim 
that  the  sale  by  his  father  and  uncle  to  Samuel  Allen  was  invalid, 


98  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

when  he  died,  in  1718.  His  son,  however,  another  John  Tufton 
Mason,  carried  on  the  litigation  after  his  father's  death.  Massachu- 
setts recognized  his  claim,  whether  for  the  purpose  of  further  com- 
plicating matters  and  so  annoying  the  New  Hampshire  authorities 
(for  there  was  considerable  jealousy  between  the  two  provinces),  or 
for  the  purpose  of  enlarging  the  boundaries  of  her  territory  to  the 
north,  jand  purchased  of  him  for  £500  all  the  land  he  claimed 
between  the  mouth  of  the  Merrimack  river  and  an  east  and  west  line 
to  Pawtucket  Falls  (now  Lowell).  This  they  did,  on  condition  that 
he  go  to  England  and  champion  their  contention  as  to  where  the 
boundary  line  between  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire  should 
now  be  run.  Mason  then  offered  to  sell  the  balance  of  his  claim  to 
the  New  Hampshire  authorities  for  £1,000.  They  delayed  accepting 
,  it.  Meanwhile  the  boundary  between  Massachusetts  and  New 
Hampshire  was  established  by  an  order  in  council  in  1740.  It  ran 
from  a  point  three  miles  north  of  the  mouth  of  the  Merrimack  river 
to  a  point  three  miles  due  north  of  Pawtucket  Falls,  then  on  a 
straight  line  due  west  to  New  York. 

Impatient  at  the  delay  of  the  New  Hampshire  authorities  in  pur- 
chasing his  claim,  Mason  now  sold  it  to  twelve  men  who  were  known 
as  the  Masonian  proprietors,  for  £1,500.     This  was  in  1746. 

The  names  of  the  original  Masonian  proprietors,  and  the  amount 
of  their  interest,  was  as  follows :  Theodore  Atkinson,  three  fifteenths ; 
Mark  Hunkins  Wentworth,  two  fifteenths ;  each  of  the  following, 
one  fifteenth  :  Richard  Wibird,  John  Wentworth  (son  of  Mark,  the 
governor),  George  Jaffrey,  Nathaniel  Meserve,  Thomas  Packer, 
Thomas  Wallingford,  Jotham  Odiorne,  Joshua  Pierce,  Samuel 
Moore,  John  Moffatt. 

The  determination  of  the  boundary  line  between  Massachusetts 
and  New  Hampshire  made  it  logical  for  the  Masonian  proprietors  to 
run  their  southerly  line  upon  that  boundary  for  sixty  miles  from  the 
coast,  that  being  the  closest  approach  to  the  bound  given  in  the 
original  charter  (running  from  the  mouth  of  the  Merrimack  for 
sixty  miles  to  its  head  waters), — and  which  carried  it  as  far  west  as 
the  town  of  Rindge ;  then,  at  the  end  of  that  sixty  miles,  to  run  north- 
easterly to  meet  the  line  coming  up  the  Piscataqua,  sixty  miles  from 
its  mouth.  This  territory  included  Bedford,  and  although  actually 
west  of  the  Merrimack,  the  town  thus  came  within  the  claim  of  the 
Masonian  proprietors.  With  them,  therefore,  the  proprietors  of  Nar- 
raganset  No.  V  had  to  treat,  as  then  records  briefly  show. 


HISTORICAL  NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  99 

To  insure  a  good  title  to  the  lands  granted  them  by  the  province 
of  Massachusetts,  it  was  necessary  for  the  grantees  to  extinguish 
whatever  claim  to  them  might  rest  with  the  Masonian  proprietors. 
Application  was  accordingly  made,  with  the  following  result : 

Province  of  Neic  Hampshire : 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Lands  purchased  of  John 
Tufton   Mason,  Esq.,  in  the  Province  of  Xew  Hampshire,  at  the 
Dwelling-house  of  Sarah  Priest,  widow,  in  Portsmouth,  in  said  Prov- 
ince, on  the  ninth  day  of  November,  1748,  by  adjournment: 

Voted, — That  the  rights  of  the  original  Proprietors  of  Souhegan- 
East,  otherwise  called  Xarraganset,  No.  5,  be  and  hereby  are  con- 
firmed to  them,  according  as  they  have  been  already  surveyed  and 
laid  out,  excepting  and  reserving  only  seventeen  shares  or  Rights,  as 
according  to  said  laying  out;  the  particular  rights  or  Shares  so 
excepted  and  reserved,  to  be  determined  and  ascertained  hereafter ; 
but  that  the  particular  rights  and  shares  of  Maj.  Edward  White,  and 
the  Rev'd  Doctor  Ebenezer  Miller,  be  not  among  the  excepted  and 
reserved  rights  as  aforesaid,  but  that  their  said  rights  and  shares 
among  said  Proprietors  as  aforesaid,  be  hereby  granted  and  con- 
firmed to  them,  then-  heirs  and  assigns. 
Copy  examined, 

Per  George  Jaffrey,  Prop.  CVJc. 

The  following  paper,  as  explanatory  of  the  last,  may  be  intro- 
duced, though  the  date  carries  us  beyond  the  present  period : 

Province  of  New  Hampshire: 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  lands  purchased  of  John 
Tufton  Mason,  Esq.,  in  Xew  Hampshire,  held  at  Portsmouth,  in  said 
Province,  on  the  seventh  day  of  December,  1750 : 

Voted, — That  the  proposed  reserved  seventeen  shares  in  Sou- 
hegan-East,  (so  called,)  otherwise  called  Xarraganset,  Xo.  5,  be 
drawn  for  at  this  meeting,  and  that  the  particular  home-lots  as  here- 
tofore surveyed  and  laid  out  by  the  claimers  under  the  Massachusetts 
Government,  that  shall  be  drawn  by  any  particular  person  or  per- 
sons, shall  be  to  the  respective  person  by  whom  drawn,  and  to  whom 
entered,  to  have  and  to  hold  the  same  in  severalty,  to  them,  their 
heirs  and  assigns  respectively,  forever.  And  that  the  other  divisions 
in  said  Tract  of  land,  as  heretofore  surveyed  and  laid  out,  as  afore- 
said, belonging  unto  the  home-lots  respectively,  shall  be  to  the  said 
persons,  respectively,  who  draw  the  teaid  home-lots,  to  have  and  to 
hold  the  same,  in  severalty,  to  them,  then  heirs  and  assigns,  forever, 
in  the  same  manner,  and  upon  the  same  conditions  as  they  hold  in 
severalty  the  sundry  tracts  or  parcels  of  land  voted  to  be  held  in  sev- 
eralty by  a  vote  passed  by  said  Proprietors  at  a  meeting  by  them 
held  on  the  25th  day  of  July,  1750. 

Pursuant  to  the  above  vote,  the  following  draft  of  the  said  seven- 
teen shares  reserved  in  Souhegan-East,  (so  called,)  otherwise  called 


100  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

Narraganset,  No.  5,  were  voted  to  be  recorded  in  the  following  man- 
ner, as  they  were  drawn  at  this  meeting : 

Drawn  to.  Howe-lots. 

1st,  Theodore  Atkinson,  Esq.,  No.  39,  on  Merrymack. 
2d,  Messrs.  Meserve,  Blanchard, 

Green  and  March,  No.   61,  on  Merrymack. 

3d,  John  Moftit,  Esq.,  No.  89,  on  Merrymack, 

4th,  John  Kinge,  No.  76,  "             " 

5th,  John  Wentworth,  Jr.,  Esq.  No.  83,  "             " 

6th,  George  Jaffrey,  Esq.,  No.  20,  on  Babosook. 

7th,  Mark  H.  Wentworth,  Esq.,  No.  41,  on  Merrymack. 

8th,  Thomas  Parker,  Esq.,  No.  95,  "             " 

9th,  John  Ordiorne,  Esq.,  No.  69,  "             " 

10th,  William  Parker,  Esq.,  No.    1,  "             " 
11th,  Mary  Moor  and  Daniel 

Pierce,  Esq.,  No.  79,  "             " 

12th,  Matthew  Lacimon,  Esq.,  No.    1,  on  Piscataquog. 

13th,  Joshua  Pierce,  Esq.,  No.  66,  on  Merrymack. 
14th,  Samuel,  Sally  and  Clement 

March,  Esq.,  No.  75,  "             " 

15th,  Thomas  Wallingford,  Esq.,  No.  17,  "   Babosook. 

16th,  Richard  Wibird,  Esq.,  No.  31,  "   Merrymack. 
17th,  Jno.  Tomlinson,  and  John 

Tufton  Mason,  Esq.,  No.  35,  "             " 
A  true  Copy  of  record, 

as  attested  by,  Geo.  Jaffrey,  Prop.  CVh. 
Portsmouth,  May  1st,  1796. 

Transcribed,  June  15,  1796. 

It  may,  perhaps,  seem  to  some  readers  superfluous  to  introduce 
papers  of  this  kind,  but  it  should  be  remembered  that  to  the  future 
antiquary  or  historian  they  may  have  great  value.  The  Proprietors' 
Book  of  Records,  preserved  in  the  archives  of  this  town,  is  becoming 
(1850)  quite  a  relic  of  antiquity.  It  is  bound  in  parchment,  and  is 
in  a  good  state  of  preservation.  They  held  their  meetings  in  Bos- 
ton, at  "  Mr.  Luke  Vardy's,"  also  "  at  the  house  of  Peletiah  Glover, 
at  the  sign  of  the  three  horse-shoes,  near  the  Common." 

One  vote  of  the  proprietors  may  be  given,  showing  they  had  some 
regard  for  the  religious  welfare  of  their  township  :  "  Feb.  15th,  1748. 
Voted, — That  one-third  of  the  time,  Preaching  shall  be  to  accom- 
modate the  inhabitants  at  the  upper  end  of  the  town ;  one  other 
third  part,  at  the  lower  end  of  the  town ;  the  last  third,  about  Straw- 
berrie  hill ; — all  in  such  houses  as  said  committee  shall  think  proper 
for  each  part  of  the  inhabitants."  The  committee  referred  to  were 
some  of  the  settlers  of  the  place. 

As  we  have  already  stated,  the  people  who  received  title  to  these 


HISTORICAL  NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  101 

wild  lands  (as  they  then  were)  had  no  desire  to  settle  on  them,  but 
sold  them  either  to  those  who  were  already  there,  or  to  men  who 
desired  to  move  into  the  frontier  and  hew  out  a  home.  It  was  by 
these  immigrants,  therefore,  to  whom  we  have  already  referred,  that 
our  town  was  mainly  settled  in  the  first  place. 

(Grantees  of  Bedford,  1757.) 
(Mass.  Archives,  Vol.  115,  p.  844.) 

In  Obedience  to  and  Order  inserted  in  Publick  Print  That  the 
several  Clerks  of  the  respective  Townships  be  and  they  are  hereby 
directed  to  deposit  attested  Copies,  under  Oath,  of  all  the  Original 
Grants  that  have  been  Made  Within  these  thirty  years  past,  together 
With  a  List  of  the  Names  of  the  Grantees,  &  who  have  fulfilled  the 
Conditions  jof  their  Grants  into  the  secretarys  Office  by  the  Last  day 
of  March  upon  pain  of  the  Displeasure  of  the  Court  &c. 

This  May  therefore  Certifie  that  the  Lowest  Narraganset  Town- 
ship on  Merrimack  River  No.  5  bounded  East  on  Merrimack  River, 
South  on  Sowbeeg  (or  sowhegan)  River,  West  partly  on  salem  Nar- 
raganset, or  otherwise  Called  sowhegan  West,  partly  on  that  which 
some  have  Called  New  Boston,  bounded  North  on  that  which  some 
have  Called  shovestown.  Granted  by  the  General  Court  of  the 
Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  to  120  men.  Whereof  60  were 
to  settle  in  such  time  as  was  then  set.  the  said  town  hath  been  all 
Laid  Out  in  3  divisions  beside  meadow  Each  division  Except  the 
first  hath  123  Rights  Laid  Out  Viz.  One  for  Each  proprietor,  One 
for  the  first  Minister,  One  for  the  Ministry,  &  One  for  the  school,  the 
Meadow  Lotts  are  all  Laid  Out  &  Numbred,  Each  meadow  Lott 
Coupled  With  some  One  of  the  third  division  Except  such  Lotts  in 
the  third  division,  as  have  meadow  in  them,  the  Lotts  througout 
the  town  are  all  drawn,  &  most  of  them  on  Record.  There  is 
twenty  Acres  Laid  out  to  build  a  Meeting  house  on,  there  is  120 
acres  Granted  by  the  proprietors  to  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  Our 
Proprietors  Treasurer  And  120  Acres  to  Captain  Joseph  Blanchard, 
he  to  Erect  a  Good  sawmill  &  a  Good  Corn-mill,  there  is  also  suit- 
able provision  Made  for  ways,  I  am  informed  there  is  about  60  fam- 
ilies setled  in  the  town :  but  no  minister  setled,  nor  Meeting  house 
built,  the  Late  War  hath  been  some  discouragement,  since  the 
Town  hath  been  Reckoned  in  New-hampshire  Government,  it  is 
divided  not  far  from  the  Middle,  &  some  addition  Made  to  the  south 
end,  &  Erected  into  a  township  And  some  addition  to  the  North 
end,  &  that  also  made  a  township. 

There  are  17  Gentlemen  belonging  to  New-hampshire  Which 
some  Call  Lord  proprietors,  Which  pretend  the  Land  is  theirs,  yet 
have  Confirmed  the  Rights  of  the  original  proprietors,  as  the  Lots 
have  been  already  Laid  out  &  surveyed.  Excepting  and  reserving 
only  17  Rights  or  shares  as  According  to  said  Laying  out,  the  par- 
ticular Rights  or  shares  to  be  determined  &  ascertained  hereafter. 

here  is  a  true  Coppy  of  their  Vote  transcribed 


102  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Province  of  New  Hampshire : 
At  a  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Lands  Purchased  of  John 
Tufton  Mason  Esqr  in  the  Province  of   New  Hampshire  held  at 
Portsmouth  in  said  Province  by  Adjournment  on  the  Ninth  day  of 
November  anno  Domini  1748 

Voted  That  the  Rights  of  the  Original  Proprietors  of  souhegan 
East,  Otherwise  Called  Narraganset  No.  5  on  Merrimack  River,  be 
and  are  hereby  Confirmed  to  them  according  as  the  said  Lots  have 
been  already  surveyed  and  Laid  Out,  excepting  and  reserving  only 
seventeen  shares  or  Rights  as  according  to  said  Laying  Out ;  the 
Particular  Rights  or  shares  so  Excepted  and  Reserved  to  be  deter- 
mined and  ascertained  hereafter :  but  that  the  Particular  Rights  and 
shares  of  Major  Edward  White  and  the  Reverend  Doctor  Ebenezer 
Miller  be  not  among  the  excepted  and  Reserved  rights  as  aforesaid, 
but  that  their  said  Rights  &  shares  among  said  Proprietors  surveyed 
as  aforesaid,  be  hereby  Granted  and  Confirmed  to  them  their  Heirs 
and  Assigns. 
Copy  of  Record 

attest  Geo  :  Jeffrey  junr  Prop™  Clerk 

At  a  Proprietors  Meeting  of  the  Narraganset  Town  No  5  at  the 
house  of  Mr  Samuel  Knealand  in  Boston,  &  met  accordingly  on  ye 
80th  Day  of  October  1734  at  ten  a  Clock  in  the  forenoon  and  Chose 
the  Honoble  Samuel  Thaxter  Esqr  Moderator  of  said  meeting — 

Then  they  Proceeded  to  Draw  the  setlers  Lotts  as  they  were 
Marked,  the  Even  numbers  were  setlers  and  the  Odd  were  non 
setlers. 

on  pescataquog 
No  1  Governour  Belcher  Esq.         2  James  Davenport 

on  Merrimack 
No 


1  Jacob  Griggs 

5  Samuel  Hollis 

2  John  Plimton 

6  James  yates 

3  Habijah  savage 

7  Israel  Hubbard 

4  Thomas  simpkins 

8  Addington  Davenport  Esqr 

9  Richard  Bill 

51  John  Pay  son 

10  John  Dorrill 

52  Samuel  Pollard 

11  John  Richards 

53  Samuel  Wads  worth 

12  Thomas  Daws 

54  Owen  Harris 

13  William  Dinsdell 

55  Henry  Wilson 

14  Richard  Foster 

56  Thomas  Viccos 

15  Jabez  Hunt 

57  Joseph  Briggs 

16  Thomas  Bernard 

58  Samuel  Lyon 

17  Thomas  Holbrook 

59  Jonathan  Gay 

18  Benjamin  Dyer 

60  Moses  Ayers 

19  William  Clark  Esqr 

61  Thomas  Jefferies 

20  Joseph  Thorn 

62  Gamaliel  Roggers 

21  Samuel  Gill 

63  Gideon  Terril 

22  Paul  Dudley  Esqr 

64  Ebenezer  Jones 

HISTORICAL   NOTICES    OF   BEDFORD. 


103 


23  EdmondWeld 

24  David  Evans 

25  Thomas  Beatle 

26  George  Talbott 

27  John  Baker 

28  John  Barns 

29  Shadrach  Thayer 

30  Ebenezer  Williams 

31  John  Wilson 

32  Henry  Timberlake 

33  James  Townsend 

34  Sarah  Perkins 

35  Alford  Butler 

36  John  Morey 

37  Isaac  Hatch 

38  John  Langley 

39  Joseph  Prince 

40  Samuel  Gile 

41  Silence  Allen 

42  Benjamin  Williams 

43  William  Davenport 

44  Edward  White 

45  Robert  Vose 

46  Joseph  Savel 

47  Ebenezer  Williams 

48  Nathanael  Good  wine 

49  Samuel  Miller 

50  John  Arnoll 

93  Ephraim  More 

94  Joseph  Gardner 

95  Benjamin  Bates 

home 

1  John  Burrill 

2  samuel  Belcher 
No  3  David  Jacobs 

4  samuel  Linkhorn 

5  Ebenezer  Hartshorn 

6  John  Leach 

7  sarah  Warren 

8  samuel  Williams 

9  John  Gridley 
10  John  Nelson 

I  am  inclined  to  believe 


65  samuel  Gurnet 

66  Cap'  Ebenezer  Horr 

67  Joseph  Benson 

68  Henry  Leadbetter 

69  Jonathan  Proutt 

70  Rebeccah  Abbott 

71  Thomas  Tilestone 

72  Benjamin  smith 

73  Madam  Levingston 

74  Benjamin  Turner 

75  samuel  Fisk 

76  John  Lane  for  Ephraim 

77  samuel  Bass 

78  William  Oglebe 

79  Caleb  stedman 

80  Zechariah  smith 

81  Benjamin  swain 

82  John  Lane 

83  John  Mears 

84  William  Dean 

85  John  Tuckerman 

86  Thomas  Waymouth 

87  John  Rice 

88  Andrew  Oliver 

89  Jonathan  AVilliams 

90  John  Triscott 

91  Edward  Tyng 

92  Israel  Vicary 

96  Zechariah  Chandler 

97  John  Ruggles 

98  Benjamin  Langdon 
lots  on  Babbosick 

11  Benjamin  Bicknall 

12  John  Chamberlin 

13  samuel  Thaxter 

14  John  Gridley 

15  Rebeccah  Hannors 

16  William  Hasey 

17  John  Cutler 

18  Thomas  Baker 

19  James  Pitts 

20  Ephraim  Colburn 
there  Was  One  Lot  Laid  out  for  the 

Minister  &  One  for  the  school,  in  the  first  Division,  between  the 
fifty  seventy,  &  fifty  Lots  on  Merrimack  River  but  they  are  not 
Xumbred  &  Recorded,  as  i  Can  find,  so  that  i  fear  they  Will  be 
Lost.  The  first  Minister,  the  Ministry,  &  school  Lots,  in  the  second 
&  Third  Division  are  as  followeth 


104 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


second  Division 


Third  Division 


16th  )  58 

Minister  Lots  No.  -.  qth  >  "9th  Range  upland  meadow  „~  Ministry 


10th 


59 


Ministry  Lots  No.  1 ..  th  >9  Range  upland  meadow    ^  School 

21st  )  60 

school  Lots  No.      99  d  r  0th  Range  upland  meadow   st>  First  Minister 

I  have  No  Account  who  are  setled  in  the  Town  :  but  by  Word  of 
Mouth,  according  to  that  account,  their  names  follow 


John  Moor  Robert  Gilmore 

John  Goff  Esq1-  Paterson 

Thomas  Chandler  Macdugal 

mr  Woods  Bushnal 

samuel  Vose  now  setling 
Eleazer  Lyon  Robert  Gilmore 

widow  Farmer  Thomas  Farmer 

Widow  smith,  once  Capt.  lovels  widow 


William  Henry 
John  Tom 
James  Mathas 
Thomas  Barus 
William  Awls 
Robert  Read 
William  Cor  well 
Deacon  Orr 
Richard  Macalister 
Robert  Walker 
John  Little 
John  Maglotherin 
Matthew  Patten 


James  Canady 
James  Moor 
John  Burns 
Thomas  Viccary  jun 
William  Arbuckle 
David  Thompson 
Benjamin  Smith 
Widow  Maquade 
Goyn  Riddle 
Jonathan  Lyon 
Forgos  Canady 
Noah  Thare 
samuel  Patten 


Thomas  Meglotherin 
David  smith 
James  Walker 
Lieu4  Moses  Barron 
Thomas  Viccary 
John  Robie 
Andrew  Walker 
Capt  John  Chamberlin 
John  Moreland 

Wallice 
James  Moor  the  Miller 
samuel  miller 
Robert  Mecormick 
Garret  Rowen 
John  Maquig 
William  Moor 
Hugh  Riddle 
James  Little 
John  Bell 

Lin 
James  Macknite 


Patrick  Taggard 
I  am  informed  there  are  four  sawmills  irr  the  Town  and  two  Corn 
Mills.     I  Cannot  inform  Who  have  Performed  the  setling  Condi- 
tions, any  Otherwise  than  I  have  Done.     Humbly  offered 
Milton  march  25  1751  samuel  Wadsworth  Proprietors  Clerk 

Suffolk  ss.  Boston  26th  March  1751 

Mr  Samel  Wadsworth  appeared,  &  made  solemn  Oath  that  the  fore- 
going Return  is  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  just  &  true 

Before  me  Thos  Hubbard  J.  Pac8 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF  BEDFORD. 


105 


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P7an  of  JPcdf-yi 


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iy  tk  *  nec-Ve  l-nt-In  -f+t- 


Entred  &  Recorded  According  to  the  Original  Plan  on 
the  back  of  the  Charter  the  21st  May  1750 

pr  Theodore  Atkinson  Secry 

(Taken  from  Masonian  Papers,  N.  H.  State  Papers,  Vol.  27.) 
The  origonal  Proprietors  names  in  the  Narragansett   Township 

N°  five  Now  Bedford  whose  Rights  were  drawn  by  the  Proprietors 

of  Mr  Masons  Right  as  they  are  Recorded  in  the  Proprietors  Book 
N°  39  home  lott  Joseph  Prince  Drawn  by  Col0  Atkinson 
N°  61  Thomas  Jafferies  Drawn  by  Meserve  Blanchard  Green  and 

March 

N°  89  Jonathan  Williams  drawn  by  Mr  Moffat 

N°  74  Benjamin  Turner  drawn  by  John  Rindge 

N°  83  John  Mears  drawn  by  John  Went  worth  junr 

N°  20  on  Babusuck  Ephraim  Colburn  drawn  by  George  jaffrey 

N°  41  Silence  Allen  drawn  by  Mark  Hunking  Wentworth 

N°  95  Benjamin  Bates  drawn  by  Thomas  Packer 

N°  69  Jonathan  Prout  drawn  by  jotham  Odiorne 

N°  1  Jacob  Griggs  drawn  by  William  Parker 

N°  79  Caleb  Steadman  drawn  by  Mary  Moor  and  Daniel  Peirce 

N°   1    on    Piscataquog    Governor    Belchard    drawn    by   Mathw 

Livermore 

N°  65  Samuel  Gurnet  drawn  by  Joshua  Peirce 

N°  75  Samuel  Fisk  drawn  by  Solly  and  March 

N°  17  on  Babusuck  John  Cuttler  drawn  by  Thomas  Wallingford 

No  31  John  Wilson  drawn  by  Richard  Wibird 

No  35  Alford  Buttler  drawn  by  Tomlinson  and  Mason 

copy  of  the  original  Proprietors  names  as  they  stand  Recorded  to 

the  several  home  lotts  above  Numbered 

V  Mathw  Patten  Prop™  clerk 

INCORPORATION. 

A  few  years  after  the  first  settlement,  the  inhabitants  petitioned 
to  be  incorporated,  and  in   1750  the  town  which  had  been  called 


106  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Souhegan  East  or  Narraganset  No.  5  was  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  Bedford. 

It  received  the  name  in  honor  of  the  then  duke  of  Bedford,  to 
whom  we  have  heretofore  referred. 

The  south  bound  of  the  town  granted  as  Souhegan  East  had  been 
the  Souhegan  river  or  a  portion  of  it,  as  appears  from  the  proprie- 
tors' map  and  from  the  town  charter  itself.  The  Proprietors'  Book 
of  Records  also  shows  the  following  article  acted  on : 

At  a  General  meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Narragansett 
Town  No.  5  meet  at  Mr.  Luke  Vardys  in  Boston  Wednesday  the 
Eighteenth  Day  of  June  1740  at  ten  o'clock  forenoon  4th  to  see 
whether  the  Proprietors  Will  Vote  any  more  money  for  finishing 
the  Highway  between  Piscataquog  and  Souhegan 

Voted  3s  4d  be  added  to  the  former  3s  4d  Raised  for  that  end.  Y* 
Mr  Robert  Walker  to  do  said  work  &  those  y4  are  delinquents  in  ys 
Case  to  be  proceeded  with  according  to  Law  as  to  yr  Lots  the  first 
38  4d  to  be  paid  down  into  the  Treasurers  hands  &  the  other  when  ye 
work  is  don. 

This  would  indicate  that  the  proprietors  or  the  inhabitants  had 
built  a  road  as  far  south  as  Souhegan  river,  and  as  far  north  as  Pis- 
cataquog river. 

When,  however,  the  town  was  incorporated,  the  south  bound  of 
the  incorporated  territory  extended  only  to  a  line  drawn  east  and 
west  through  a  "  point  three  miles  north  of  the  bridge  over  the  Sou- 
hegan river  at  John  Chamberlain's  house."  The  strip  between  the 
Souhegan  river  and  the  south  line  of  Bedford,  when  Bedford  was 
Souhegan  East,  was  added  to  the  town  of  Merrimack,  apparently 
without  opposition  from  the  town  of  Bedford,  although  the  settlers 
of  what  was  then  the  town  of  Bedford  seem  to  have  expended  some 
money  in  building  a  road  and  a  bridge  on  this  territory.  This  strip 
was  three  miles  wide  from  north  to  south,  and  four  and  one  half 
miles  long  from  east  to  west. 

There  seems  also  to  have  been  a  difference  between  the  inhabit- 
ants of  Souhegan  East,  or  Narragansett  No.  5,  known  now  as  Bed- 
ford, and  those  of  Souhegan  West,  or  Narragansett  No.  3,  known 
now  as  Amherst,  as  to  where  the  division  line  ran  between  them,  for 
in  the  Proprietors'  Book  of  Records  we  find  the  following  entry: 

We,  the  subscribers,  being  committees  chosen  by  the  Proprietors 
of  the  Townships  of  Narraganset  No.  3  and  No.  5,  respectively,  to 
set  and  establish  the  line  between  the  said  township,  so  far  as  they 
join  (part  of  which  has  been  disputed  a  number  of  years,)  and  hav- 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  107 

ing  met  in  the  month  of  December,  1766,  and  was  disappointed  by  a 
great  snow  falling  after  we  met,  which  caused  us  to  break  off  at  that 
time.  We  met  again  the  latter  end  of  the  next  March,  and  began  at 
a  heap  of  stones  on  the  North  bank  of  Souhegan  River,  being  the 
corner  of  Messers  Wilson's  and  Ushers  land,  being  well-known  and 
allowed  to  be  the  Southwest  corner  of  said  No.  5,  and  the  Southeast 
corner  of  said  No.  3,  and  from  thence  we  run  about  one  and  one- 
half  degrees  West,  makeing  proper  allowance  to  make  our  com- 
passes quadrate,  and  continued  said  course  as  far  Xorth  as  to  be  East 
from  the  Northeast  corner  of  said  No.  3,  being  a  large  heap  of 
stones,  well-known  and  allowed  to  be  the  corner,  and  we  came  out 
about  40  rods  distant  to  the  East,  with  set-off  from  said  heap  of 
stones,  and  running  the  line  Westward,  as  far  as  the  Southwest  cor- 
ner of  said  No.  5,  being  a  beach  tree,  marked  with  the  number  of 
stones  laid  to  the  foot  of  the  same,  and  found  that  from  said  heap  of 
stones  to  the  said  beach  tree  is  a  line,  well  marked  and  accordingly 
in  our  said  capacity  we  agreed  and  established  the  same  to  be  the 
line  on  that  part  between  said  No.  3  and  No.  5,  and  finding  the 
snow  very  deep  in  the  back  woods,  we  broke  off  at  that  time,  when 
straithing  the  line  within  the  said  Northeast  corner  of  said  No.  3, 
and  that  at  the  bank  of  Souhegan  River,  where  we  first  began,  and 
we  met  again  in  January,  1771,  and  began  at  the  said  heap  of  stones 
on  the  bank  of  said  Suhegan  River  and  run  North  three  degrees 
West  by  one  of  our  compasses,  which  carried  a  straight  line,  to  said 
Northeast  corner  of  said  No.  3,  and  found  the  same  line  antiently 
marked  with  a  number  of  corner  bounds  of  lots  of  said  line,  said  line 
being  the  line  claimed  by  the  proprietors  of  said  No.  5,  and  have 
perambulated  and  new-marked  said  line,  and  do  in  our  said  capaci- 
ties agree  and  establish  the  said  line  as  we  found  the  same  was  for- 
merly run,  and  marked,  and  now  perambulate  and  new-marked  by 
us  to  be  the  line  between  the  said  townships  of  No.  3  and  No.  5,  and 
finds  that  the  line  running  from  the  said  heap  of  stones  on  the  bank 
of  the  River  aforesaid,  as  formerly  claimed  by  the  proprietors  of  said 
No.  3,  interferes  into  the  land  of  said  No.  5,  and  is  not  a  proper 
point  to  run  a  straight  line  between  the  said  heap  of  stones  on  the 
bank  of  the  River  aforesaid,  and.  the  Northeast  corner  aforesaid,  And 
that  the  said  line  claimed  by  the  proprietors  of  said  No.  3,  extends 
no  farther  North  than  the  North  end  of  the  home  lots  or  first  divi- 
sion in  said  No.  3,  and  that  from  the  North  end  of  said  home  lots  to 
the  Northeast  corner  of  said  No.  3  aforesaid,  the  corners  of  the  divi- 
sion of  lots  in  said  No.  3  are  on  the  fine  which  runs  straight  between 
the  corners  of  said  townships  which  we  have  now  perambulated  and 
new-marked. 

Witness  our  hands,  this  25th  day  of  January,  A.  D.,  1771. 

Moses  Barran,          \  Committee  for 
Andrew  Bradford,  j          No.  3. 
Samuel  Patten,        } 
Samuel  Vose,  >-  Committee  for 

Matthew  Patten,     )         No.  5. 


108  HISTOKY   OF   BEDFOffcD. 

The  foregoing  settlement  of  the  line  between  the  townships  was 
voted  accepted  at  the  Proprietors'  Meeting,  held  the  third  day  of 
January,  1774. 
A  true  record, 

Attest, 

Matthew  Patten, 

Proprietors'  Clerk. 

"With  the  growth  of  the  city  of  Manchester,  it  became  apparent 
that  the  village  which  had  grown  up  at  the  northerly  part  of  Bed- 
ford belonged  more  properly  to  the  city  than  to  the  town. .  Accord- 
ingly, petition  was  made  at  the  general  session  of  the  legislature  in 
1853,  to  have  this  part  of  the  town  of  Bedford  cut  off  from  Bedford 
and  added  to  Manchester.  The  legislature  granted  the  petition,  and 
appointed  P.  T.  Abbott  at  Manchester,  J.  H.  Stevens  and  Charles  H. 
Moore  at  Bedford,  as  the  committee  to  make  the  division.  Their 
report  is  appended : 

We  began  at  Northeast  corner  of  Bedford  on  the  bank  of  the 
Merrimack  river  it  being  a  southerly  line  said  Manchester  at  stone 
marked  B  &  M.  which  is  established  as  the  corner  bound,  the  line 
then  runs  North  Eight  and  one  half  degrees  west  five  rods  to  a  stone 
sixty  six  rods  to  a  stone  marked  B  &  M.  thence  South  one  and  a 
half  degrees  East  five  -rods  to  a  stone  marked  B  &  M.  which  is 
sunken  in  middle  of  the  road,  thence  North  88f  degrees  west  One 
hundred  and  sixty  rods  to  a  stone  marked  B  &  M.  thence  North  2£° 
degrees  East  35  rods  to  a  stone  marked  B  &  M.  at  the  Boynton  road 
so  called,  thence  same  course  147.  rods  to  a  stone  marked  B  &  M.  at 
the  Meeting  house  road  so  called,  thence  same  course  161  rods  to  a 
stone  marked  B  &  M.  at  the  Worthley  road  so  called,  thence  same 
course  66  rods  to  a  stone  marked  B  &  M.  standing  in  the  wall,  thence 
westerly  by  the  wall  28  j  rods  to  a  stone  marked  B.  &  M  &  G.  which 
is  established  as  a  corner  standing  in  the  wall — 
November  A  D  1855. 

P.  T.  Abbott, 

Com,,  of  Manchester. 
J.  H.  Stevens, 
Charles  H.  Moore, 
Selectmen  of  -Bedford. 

SOUHEGAN  EAST  VESTED  WITH  TOWN  PRIVILEGES. 

April  11,  1748. — Gov.  Wentworth  informed  the  Council  of  "  The 
situation  of  a  number  of  persons,  inhabiting  a  place  called  Souhegan- 
East,  within  this  Province,  that  were  without  any  township  or  Dis- 
trict, and  had  not  the  privilege  of  a  town  in  choosing  officers  for 
regulating  their  affairs,  such  as  raising  money  for  the  ministry,"  &c. 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  109 

Upon  which,  his  Excellency,  with  the  advice  of  the  Council,  Mas 
pleased  to  order  that  the  above-mentioned  persons,  living  at  s'd 
place,  be  and  hereby  are  empowered  to  call  meetings  of  the  s'd 
inhabitants  at  which  meeting  they  may,  by  virtue  hereof,  transact 
such  matters  and  things  as  are  usually  done  at  town  or  Parish  meet- 
ings within  this  Province,  such  as  choosing  officers,  raising  money 
for  paying  such  charges  of  the  s'd  inhabitants,  as  shall  be  voted  by  a 
majority  present  at  any  such  meeting.  Provided,  nevertheless,  that 
nothing  herein  contained,  shall  be  construed,  deemed,  or  taken  as  a 
grant  of  the  land,  or  Quieting  any  possession.  And  that  this  order 
may  be  rendered  beneficial  to  the  s'd  inhabitants,  tis  further  ordered, 
that  Capt.  John  Goffe,  Jun'r,  call  the  first  meeting,  by  a  written  noti- 
fication, posted  up  at  a  public  place  amongst  the  inhabitants,  fifteen 
days  before  the  time  of  the  s'd  meeting,  in  which  notification  the 
matters  to  be  transacted  are  to  be  mentioned ;  and  after  that,  the 
Selectmen  may  call  meetings,  and  are  to  follow  the  rules  in  so  doing, 
that  are  prescribed  by  law,  for  Town  and  Parish  meetings.  This 
Vote  to  continue  and  be  in  force  till  some  further  order  thereon,  and 
no  longer. 

CHAPTER   GRANTED  TO    SOUHEGAN    EAST,  IX    1750. 

At  a  Council  holden  at  Portsmouth  according  to  his  Excellency's 
Summons,  on  Friday,  May  the  18th,  1750: — Present: — Ellis  Huske, 
Theodore  Atkinson,  Richard  "VVibird,  Samuel  Smith,  John  Downing, 
Samuel  Solley,  and  Sampson  Sheaffe,  Esquires : — A  petition  signed 
Samuel  Miller,  William  Moore,  and  others,  presented  by  John  Goffe, 
Esq.,  and  Mr.  Samuel  Patten,  praying  for  a  charter  of  Incorporation 
of  the  inhabitants  of  a  place  called  Souhegan-East,  in  this  Province, 
being  read,  and  Joseph  Blanchard,  Esq.,  in  behalf  of  the  town  of 
Merrimack,  also  at  the  same  time  appearing,  and  the  parties  being 
heard  on  the  said  Petition,  and  agreeing  where  the  line  should  run, 
in  case  his  Excellency,  with  the  advice  of  the  Council,  should  think 
proper  to  grant  the  Petitioners  a  Charter  of  Incorporation.  Mr. 
Goffe  and  Patten,  upon  being  asked,  declared  that  the  sole  end  pur- 
posed by  the  petitioners,  was  to  be  incorporated  with  privileges  as 
other  towns,  by  law,  have  in  this  Province. 

Upon  which  the  Council  did  unanimously  advise  that  his  Excel- 
lency grant  a  Charter  of  Incorporation,  as  usual  in  such  cases. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  petition  before  mentioned : 


110  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

PETITION   FOR   INCORPORATION. 

To  his  Excellency,  Benning  Wentworth,  Esq.,  Governor  and  Com- 
mander-in-Chief of  his  Majesty's  Province  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  to  the  Honorable,  his  Majesty's  Council,  assembled  at  Ports- 
mouth, May  10,  1750. 
The  humble  Petition  of  the  subscribers,  inhabitants  of  Souhegan- 
East,  so-called,  Sheweth,  That  your  Petitioners  are  major  part  of 
said  Souhegan ;  that  your  petitioners,  as  to  our  particular  persuasion 
in  Christianity  are  generally  of  the  Presbyterian  denomination :  that 
your  petitioners,  through  a  variety  of  causes,  having  been  long  des- 
titute of  the  gospel,  are  now  desirous  of  taking  the  proper  steps  in 
order  to  have  it  settled  among  us  in  that  way  of  discipline  which  we 
judge  to  tend  most  to  our  edification ;  that  your  petitioners,  not 
being  incorporated  by  civil  authority,  are  in  no  capacity  to  raise 
those  sums  of  money,  which  may  be  needful  in  order  to  our  proceed- 
ing in  the  above  important  affair.  May  it  therefore  please  your 
Excellency,  and  Honors,  to  take  the  case  of  your  petitioners  under 
consideration,  and  to  incorporate  us  into  a  town  or  district,  or  in 
case  any  part  of  our  inhabitants  should  be  taken  off  by  any  neigh- 
boring district,  to  grant  that  those  of  our  persuasion,  who  are  desir- 
ous of  adhering  to  us  may  be  excused  from  supporting  any  other 
parish  charge,  than  where  they  conscientiously  adhere,  we  desiring 
the  same  liberty  to  those  within  our  bounds,  if  any  there  be,  and 
your  petitioners  shall  ever  pray,  &c. 

Samuel  Miller,  John  McLaughlin, 

William  Moor,  William  Kennedy, 

John  Riddell,  Fergus  Kennedy, 

Thomas  Vickere,  John  Burns, 

Matthew  Little,  Gerard  Rowen, 

James  Moor,  John  McQuige, 

John  Tom,  Patrick  Taggart, 

James  Kennedy,  John  Goffe, 

Robert  Gilmoor,  John  Orr, 

Richard  McAllister,  John  Moorehead, 

Jaines  Walker,  .  James  Little, 

John  Bell,  Robert  Gilmoor,  Senior, 

John  McLaughlin,  Senior,  David  Thompson, 

Thomas  Chandler,  James  McKnight, 

John  McDugle,  Hugh  Riddell, 

Samuel  Patten,  Daniel  Moor, 

Alexander  Walker,  John  Clark, 

Gan  Riddell,  Robert  Walker, 

Benjamin  Smith,  Matthew  Patten. 

These  are  to  certify,  that  we,  the  above  subscribers,  do  commission 
John  Goffe,  Esq.,  and  Mr.  Samuel  Patten,  to  present  this  petition,  in 
order  to  obtain  incorporation  for  us,  according  to  their  instructiona 
from  us,  the  subscribers. 
(Dated,)  May  10,  1750.  James  Little,  Clerk. 


HISTORICAL  NOTICES   OF  BEDFORD.  Ill 

Province  of  New  Hampshire. 
George  the  Second,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  of  Great  Brittain, 
France,  and  Ireland,  King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c. 

To  all  to  whom  these  Presents  shall  Come, 

(L-S°  «„,_ 

Whereas,  Our  Loyal  Subjicks,  Inhabitants  of  a  Tract  of  Land, 
within  Our  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  aforesaid,  Lying  At  or  near 
A  Place  called  Sow-Hegon,  on  the  West  side  of  the  River  Mem- 
mack,  Have  Humbly  Petitioned  and  Requested  to  Us,  That  they 
may  be  Encted  and  Incorporated  into  A  Township,  and  Infranchized 
with  the  same  Powers  and  Privileges  which  other  Towns,  within 
Our  sd  Province,  and  Law  Have  and  Enjoy,  and  it  appearing  to  Us, 
to  be  Conducive  to  the  General  good  of  Our  said  Province,  as  well 
as  of  the  Inhabitants  in  Particular,  By  maintaining  good  Order,  and 
Encouraging  the  Culture  of  the  Land,  that  the  same  should  be  done, 
Know  Ye,  Therefore,  That  We,  of  our  Especial  Grace,  certain 
Knowledge,  and  for  the  Encouragement  and  Promoting  the  good 
Purposes  and  Ends  aforesaid,  By  and  with  the  Advice  of  Our  Trusty 
and  well  beloved  Benning  Wentworth,  Esq.,  Our  Governour  and 
Commander  In  Chief,  And  of  Our  Council  for  sd  Province  of  New 
Hampshire,  Have  Encted  and  Ordained,  And  by  these  Presents,  for 
Us,  Our  Heirs  and  Successors,  Do  will  and  Ordain  that  The  Inhabit- 
ants of  a  Tract  of  Land,  aforesaid,  Or  that  shall  Inhabit  and  Improve 
thereon  hereafter,  Butted  and  Bounded,  as  follows,  (Viz :)  Begining 
at  a  place  three  Miles  North  from  the  Bridge  over  Sow-Hegon  River, 
at  John  Chamberlain's  House,  and  thence  to  Run  East,  by  the 
Needle,  to  Merrimack  River,  to  a  Stake  and  Stones,  and  to  extend 
that  Line  West,  until  it  Intersect  a  Line  Known  by  the  name  of  the 
West  Line  of  Sow-Hegon  East,  and  from  thence  to  Run  North,  Two 
Degrees  West,  about  three  Miles  and  an  half  to  a  Beach  Tree, 
marked,  called  Sow-Hegan  West,  North  East  corner,  thence  South, 
Eighty  Eight  degrees  West,  by  an  old  Line  of  marked  Trees  to  a 
Chestnut  Tree,  marked,  from  thence  North,  Two  Degrees  West,  Two 
miles,  to  an  Hemlock  Tree,  marked,  called  the  North  West  Corner  of 
said  Sow-Hegon  East,  thence  East,  by  the  Needle  to  Merrimack 
River,  to  a  Stake  and  Stones,  thence  Southerly,  as  Merrimack  River 
runs,  to  the  Stake  and  Stones  first  mentioned.  And  by  these  Pres- 
ents, are  Declared  to  be  a  Town  Corporate,  and  are  hereby  Encted 
and  Incorporated  into  a  Body  Pollitick  and  a  Corporation,  to  have 
Continuance  forever,  by  the  Name  of  Bedford,  with  all  the  Powers 
and  Authorities,  Priviledges,  Immunities,  and  Infranchizes,  to  them 
the  said  Inhabitants,  and  then  Successors  for  Ever,  Always  reserving 
to  us,  Our  Heirs  and  Successors,  All  White  Pine  Trees  growing  and 
being,  Or  that  shall  hereafter  Grow  and  be,  on  the  sd  Tract  of  Land,, 
fit  for  the  Use  of  Our  Royal  Navy,  reserving  also  the  power  Of 
dividing  the  sd  Town,  to  Us,  Our  Heirs  and  Successors,  when  it  shall 


112  HISTORY   01* 


BEDFORD. 


appear  Necessary  and  Convenient  for  the  Benefit  of  the  Inhabitants 
thereof.  It  is  to  be  understood,  and  is  accordingly  Hereby  Declared, 
that  the  private  Property  of  the  Soil  is  in  no  manner  of  way  to  be 
affected  by  this  Charter.  And  as  the  several  Towns,  within  Our 
said  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  are  by  the  Laws  thereof,  Enabled 
and  Authorized  to  Assemble,  and  by  the  Majority  of  Votes  to  Choose 
all  such  Officers  as  are  mentioned  In  the  said  Laws,  We  do  by  these 
Presents,  Nominate  and  Appoint  John  Goffe,  Esq.,  to  Call  the  first 
Meeting  of  the  said  Inhabitants,  to  be  held  within  the  sd  Town,  at 
any  time  within  thirty  days  from  the  Date  hereof,  Giving  Legal 
Notice  of  the  Time,  Place  and  design  of  Holding  such  Meeting ; 
After  which,  the  Annual  Meeting  in  sd  Town,  shall  be  held  for  the 
Choice  of  Town  Officers,  &c,  for  ever,  on  the  last  Wednesday  in 
March,  annually. 

In  Testimony  Whereof,  We  have  caused  the  Seal  of  Our  sd  Pro- 
vince to  be  hereunto  affixed.  Witness,  Benning  Wentworth,  Esq., 
Our  Governour  and  Commander  In  Chief  of  Our  sd  Province,  the 
nineteenth  Day  of  May,  In  the  Year  of  Our  Lord  Christ,  One  thou- 
sand Seven  hundred  and  Fifty.  B.  Wentworth. 

By  His  Excellency's  Command, 
with  Advice  of  Council. 

Theodore  Atkinson,  Secretary. 

Prov.  of  N~.  Hamps. 
Entered  and  recorded  in  the  book  for  Charters,  the  21st  day  of 
May,  1750. 

Per  Theodore  Atkinson,  Secretary. 


George,  the  Second,  By  the  Grace  of  God,  of  Great  Britain, 
France  and  Ireland,  King  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c. 

To  all  to  whom  these  Presents  shall  come, 
(L.  S.) 

Greeting : — 

Whereas,  by  our  Charter,  bearing  Date  the  second  Day  of  April, 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord  Christ,  one  Thousand  seven  Hundred  and 
Forty-six,  and  in  the  nineteenth  year  of  his  Present  Majesty's  Reign, 
We  did  Incorporate  a  Certain  Town  in  our  said  Province,  by  the 
Name  of  Merrymac,  by  such  Boundaries,  with  such  Priviledges,  and 
under  such  Limitations,  as  are  Expressed  in  the  said  Charter,  the 
Quantity  of  Land  Therein  being  About  Eight  Thousand  Acres.  And 
Whereas,  the  Inhabitants  Thereof  have  Lately  represented  to  Us, 
that  the  said  Land  is  very  mean  and  ordinary,  and  Therefore  Inca- 
pable of  supporting  such  a  number  of  Inhabitants,  as  will  enable 
them  to  support  the  Charge  of  a  Town,  Without  a  Further  Addition 
of  Land  and  Inhabitants.  Wherefore,  they  Humbly  Pray  that  an 
addition  may  be  made  to  the  Town  of  Merrymac,  on  the  northerly 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  113 

side  Thereof,  of  a  Tract  of  Land  of  about  three  miles  in  Breadth, 
and  about  four  miles  and  an  half  in  Length,  which  .being  tho't  for 
the  benefit  of  our  said  subjects,  and  for  the  Mutual  advantage  of  The 
Whole  Inhabitants,  We  Do  by  These  Presents,  By  and  with  the 
advice  of  our  Trusty  and  well  Beloved  Benning  Wentworth,  Esq., 
our  Governor  and  Commander-in-Chieff  and  of  our  Council  for  said 
Province  of  New  Hampshire,  Will  ordain,  that  a  Certain  Tract  of 
Land,  in  Breadth  about  three  miles,  and  in  Length  about  four  miles 
and  a  half,  Bounded  as  follows,  (Viz :)  Beginning  at  a  Place  three 
miles  North  of  the  Bridge  over  Souhegan  River,  at  John  Chamber- 
lin's  house,  and  from  Thence  to  Run  East  by  the  needle  to  Merry- 
mac  River,  and  to  extend  that  Line  West,  from  the  place  Three 
miles  north  from  the  Bridge  aforesaid,  until  it  intersects  a  line  on  a 
point  north  by  the  needle,  from  the  Northwest  Corner  Bound  of  the 
Town  of  Merrymac,  Therefore,  Incorporated  to  Bound  Westerly  on 
that  line,  and  on  Merrimac  River  Easterly,  and  on  Souhegan  River 
southerly,  shall,  and  hereby  is,  annexed  to,  and  united  with  the  said 
Town  of  Merrymac,  with  all  the  Inhabitants  that  are  or  shall  be 
thereon,  and  that  the  same  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  Incorporated  with 
the  said  Town,  with  the  respective  Inhabitants  that  are,  or  shall  be, 
on  each  of  the  afors'd  Parcells  of  land,  and  is  hereby  Declared  to  be 
one  Intire  Corporation  or  Body  Politick,  by  the  Name  of  Merrymac, 
to  Go  in  succession  forever,  with  all  the  Priviliges,  Powers,  Fran- 
chizes  and  Imunities  that  any  other  Town  Within  this  Province,  has, 
holds,  or  enjoys  by  Law,  Excepting  as  hereafter  Excepted : 

To  Have  and  to  Hold  to  the  sd  Inhabitants,  and  their  successors, 
forever,  only  hereby  Reserving  All  White  pine  trees  that  are  Grow- 
ing, or  shall  hereafter  Grow  thereon,  to  his  Majesty's  use  ;  Reserving 
also,  the  Power  of  Dividing  the  sd  Town,  when  it  shall  be  tho't  nec- 
essary, to  us  or  to  our  successors,  forever,  In  Testimony  Whereof, 
We  Have  caus'd  the  Seal  of  our  said  Province  to  be  hereunto 
Affixed.  Witness,  Benning  Wentworth,  Esq.,  our  Governor  and 
Commander-in-Chief  of  our  said  Province,  the  first  day  of  June,  and 
the  twenty-third  year  of  His  Majesty's  Reign,  Anno  Domini,  one 
Thousand  seven  Hundred  and  fifty. 

B.  Wentworth. 

By  His  Excellency's  Command, 

with  the  advice  of  the  Council, 

Theodore  Atkinson,  Secretary. 

Province  of  New  Hampshire. 
Entered  and  Recorded  in  the  book  of  Charters,  the  5th  day  of 
June,  1750. 

Theodore  Atkinson,  Secretary. 
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114  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Province  of  New  Hampshire. 

By  the  Hon.  John  Wentworth,  Esqr.,  Surveyor  General  of  all  and 
singular,  His  Majesty's  Woods,  within  all  and  every  His  Majesty's 
Colonies  and  Plantations  on  the  Continent  of  America. 

To  Samuel  Blodget,  of  Goffstown,  in  the  said  province, 
(L.  S.)     Esq. : 

Whereas,  His  Majesty,  by  his  royal  Commission,  dated  the  16th 
day  of  July,  1766,  hath  been  graciously  pleased  to  appoint  me  Sur- 
veyor General  of  all  his  Majesty's  woods  in  North  America,  with 
power  to  appoint  deputies  and  under  officers  to  carry  the  said  ser- 
vice effectually  into  execution : 

I  do,  therefore,  by  virtue  of  Authority  vested  in  me  by  said  com- 
mission, appoint  and  depute  you,  the  said  Samuel  Blodget,  to  be  one 
of  my  assistant  deputies,  to  preserve  the  King's  woods  from  trespass 
or  waste,  and  to  put  in  execution  all  the  acts  of  Parliament,  and 
Statutes  enacted  for  that  purpose,  and  to  do  and  perform  all  acts  and 
things  whatsoever,  to  the  said  office  appertaining,  in  the  following 
Districts,  viz : — Goffstown,  Bedford,  Weare,  Pembroke,  Allenstown, 
Bow,  Dunbarton,  Merrimac,  Amherst,  Litchfield,  Chester,  Concord, 
Boscawen,  Hopkinton,  New  Boston,  Sanbornton,  New  Salisbury, 
Canterbury,  Methuen,  Wilton,  Peterborough,  Temple,  Plymouth, 
New  Chester,  Alexandria,  New  Britain,  Meredith,  Lyndborough, 
Henneker,  New  Amesbury  and  Cambden,  all  in  the  aforesaid  Pro- 
vince ;  and  also,  Haverhill,  Andover,  Dracut,  Chelmsford  and  Ips- 
wich, in  the  Province  of  Mass.  Bay;  Hereby  authorising  and 
requiring  you,  the  said  Sam.  Blodget,  to  forbid  and  prevent,  by  all 
lawful  means,  the  violation  of  said  acts,  and  to  seize  and  Mark  for 
his  Majesty's  use,  all  pine  timber  that  you  may  find  cut  and  hauled 
from  the  King's  woods,  without  license  first  had  and  obtained  from 
me,  and  all  offenders  as  aforesaid,  to  prosecute  and  punish,  as  to  law 
and  justice  appertains.  And  you,  the  said  Sam.  Blodget,  are  hereby 
required  to  return  to  me  an  exact  account  of .  your  proceedings 
herein,  quarterly,  from  this  date,  or  oftener,  if  occasion  shall  require, 
and  for  your  encouragement  to  exert  yourself  with  diligence  and 
fidelity  in  the  duties  of  the  said  office,  you  will  receive  such  compen- 
sation for  your  services  as  your  merit  shall  appear  to  me  to  deserve, 
out  of  the  fines  and  forfeitures  only,  that  may  acrue  or  be  levied  by 
your  means.  This  warrant  to  be  in  force  during  pleasure  only. 
Given  under  my  hand  and  seal,  at  Portsmouth,  the  11th  day  of 
Februray,  1772. 

J.  Wentworth. 

Samuel  Blodgett,  Esq.  : 

To  be  Assistant  Deputy  Surveyor  of  the  woods. 

In  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  charter  granted  May  19, 1750, 
Colonel  Goffe  was  instructed  to  call  a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  for 
the  purpose  of  electing  officers  and  of  doing  other  acts  and  transact- 


HISTORICAL   NOTICES   OF   BEDFORD.  115 

ing  other  business  such  as  towns  may  lawfully  transact.  They  so 
met  and  organized,  as  appears  elsewhere,  and  continued  to  hold 
annual  meetings.  But  it  was  not  until  1763  that  the  proprietors  of 
the  lands,  in  their  capacity  as  proprietors,  were  called  together  in 
Bedford. 

Up  to  that  time  their  meetings  had  been  held  in  Boston.  After 
that,  so  long  as  there  is  any  record,  their  meetings  were  held  in  Bed- 
ford.1 By  the  terms  of  the  call  for  the  meeting  we  are  forced  to  the 
inference  that  title  to  the  land  of  the  town  had  been  gradually  pass- 
ing from  the  various  individuals  in  the  Massachusetts  towns  who  had 
received  it  from  the  Massachusetts  government  into  the  hands  of 
the  settlers  who  were  actually  on  the  land,  during  the  years  from 
1733  to  1763,  until  by  the  latter  date  the  actual  settlers  outnumbered 
the  non-resident  owners. 

The  call  is  appended,  and  it  is  noticeable  that  "  part  of  the  town 
of  Merrimack  "  is  included  with  "  Souhegan  East  or  Narragansett 
Township  No.  5,  alias  Bedford."  This  must  refer  to  the  strip  three 
miles  wide  and  four  and  one  half  miles  long  extending  to  a  line 
drawn  east  and  west  through  "  a  point  three  miles  north  of  the 
bridge  over  the  Souhegan  river  at  John  Chamberlain's  house." 

Province  of  New  Hampshire,  WhereAs,  Applycation  hath  this 
day  been  made  to  me,  the  subscribers,  one  of  His  Majesties  Justices 
of  the  Peace  of  said  Province,  by  the  owners  and  proprietors  of 
more  than  one-sixteenth  part  of  the  township  of  Souhegan-East,  or 
Narraganset  township  No.  5,  alias  Bedford,  and  part  of  the  town  of 

1  Proprietors  Petition  from  Provincial  Papers,  Vol.  9. 

To  His  Excellency  Benning  Wentworth  Esq'  Govt  &c  These  Hont>'  these  Majesties 
Councel  And  house  of  Represe™  in  General  assembly  Convened  at  Portsmouth  the 
13th  day  of  July  1756,  the  Inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford  in  the  province  of  New 
Hampshire  Most  Humbly  Sheweth 

That  the  Proprietors  of  Narragansett  Township  No  5  Alias  Bedford  and  part  of 
Merrymac  have  not  had  a  prop™  meeting  for  several  years  and  that  the  clerk  of  said 
propriety  has  been  Dead  some  space  of  time  and  there  is  no  Commitee  in  the  pro- 
priety to  Call  proprietors  meetings  These  Consequences  whereof  tend  much  to  your 
petitioners  Damage 

That  there  was  Land  Reserved  by  the  prop™  in  their  Survey  of  the  said  town  for 
highways  and  inasmuch  as  roads  Cannot  be  made  on  all  the  said  land  so  reserved  we 
are  obliged  to  Lay  out  roads  Elsewhere  and  for  want  of  a  prop"  meeting  Legally 
Called  The  power  of  Disposal  of  said  reserved  land  Cannot  be  given  to  the  town 
which  if  it  were  we  might  change  with  those  persons  who  have  their  land  Cut  in  town 
roads  who  ought  to  have  a  proper  Satisfaction  for  their  land  so  vacant  and  would 
thereby  prevent  the  town  paying  a  Considerable  of  money  yearly 

Wherefore  we  pray  that  your  Excellency  and  hon™  would  take  the  premises  in 
consideration  and  Grant  us  an  order  to  Call  a  prop™  meeting  of  Narragansett  town- 
ship No  five  and  your  petitioners  shall  ever  pray 

(Signed)  Math"  Patten 

By  vote  of  the  town 


In  council  July  15, 1756 
Read  &  ordered  to  be  sent  Down  to  the  Hon"4  House 

(Signed)  Theodore  Atkinson  Secy 

This  petition  being  read,  ordered  that  it  be  Dismissed 

(Signed)  A.  Clabksen,  Clerk 


116  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

Merrimack,  in  the  Province  aforesaid,  to  call  a  meeting  of  said  own- 
ers and  Proprietors,  This  is,  therefore,  to  Notify  and  Wabx  all 
the  owners  and  proprietors  of  the  township  aforesaid  to  meet  at  the 
house  of  Mr.  James  Walker  on  Tuesday,  the  26th  day  of  April, 
instant,  at  12  o'clock,  at  noon,  to  act  and  vote  on  the  following 
articles,  viz  : 

1.  To  choose  a  Moderator. 

2.  A  Proprietors'  Clerk,  and  to  empower  him  to  demand  and 

receive  the  Proprietors'  Books,  papers  and  plan,  and  to  sue 
for  the  same  if  the  person  or  persons  in  whose  hands  they 
are  shall  refuse  to  deliver  the  same. 

3.  To  agree  on  a  method  to  call  Proprietors'  Meeting  for  the 

future,  before  April  2,  1763. 

(Signed)  Johx  Goffe. 

N.  B.     The  above  meeting  was  to  have  been  held  the  24th  day  of 
last  January,  at  the  above  place,  but  by  reason  of  the  difficulty  of 
travelling  the  proprietors  could  not  be  notified. 
A  true  record. 

Matthew  Patten, 

Proprietors'  Clerk. 

No  difficulty  was  had  in  obtaining  the  proprietors'  book  and  plan. 
Deacon  Jonathan  Willia'ms,  of  Boston,  wrote  to  Matthew  Patten, 
the  new  proprietors'  clerk,  that  he  would  willingly  surrender  them, 
and  so  Mr.  Patten  was  instructed  "  to  go  and  get  them  at  the  pro- 
prietors' expense." 


The  Proprietors'  Records. 


The  original  Record  Book  of  the  Proprietors  has  been  in  the 
custody  of  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  several  years.  Its  contents  are 
of  so  much  interest  in  connection  with  the  early  history  of  the 
community  that  a  complete  copy  is  here  given,  except  that  the  lots 
have  been  uniformly  reduced  in  scale  one  half,  that  the  larger  might 
be  brought  within  the  printed  page.  It  will  be  noticed  that  there 
is  no  record  of  meetings  from  1748  to  1763.  A  petition  given  in 
the  previous  chapter  shows  that  in  1756  there  had  been  no  meeting 
for  several  years,  that  the  office  of  clerk  had  been  vacant  for  some 
time  by  reason  of  death,  and  there  was  no  one  with  authority  to  call 
a  meeting,  urgent  need  for  which,  it  was  represented,  existed. 
If  any  meetings  were  held  later  than  this  record  shows,  it  is  not 
known  at  this  late  date. 

The  last  record  made  therein,  is  signed  Matthew  Patten,  clerk. 
In  the  warrant  for  the  annual  town-meeting  for  1827,  there  was  an 
article  "  To  see  if  the  town  will  pay  David  Patten,  Esq.,  his  claim 
against  the  Proprietors  of  this  town  for  services  as  clerk,  that  the 
records  of  said  Proprietors  may  be  lodged  in  the  Town  Clerk's 
office."  This  would  indicate  either  that  David  Patten  had  succeeded 
Matthew  as  clerk,  or  that  acting  as  his  father's  legal  representative, 
he  was  endeavoring  to  collect  something  due  for  services ;  also  that 
the  Town  was  desirous  of  securing  the  records  for  preservation. 

The  article  was  "dismissed,"  but  at  a  special  town-meeting  in 
April  of  the  same  year,  Thomas  Chandler  (then  senator  from  Dis- 
trict No.  3)  and  Ebenezer  French  (representative)  were  appointed 
a  committee  for  the  town  "to  petition  the  legislature  [for]  authority 
to  call  a  meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  Bedford,  and  that  part  of 
Merrimack,  known  as  Narragansett  No.  5,  to  choose  a  clerk  and 
dispose  of  the  Proprietary  Records." 

Senator  Chandler  offered  the  petition  in  the  senate  June  18, 
1827,  but  it  is  not  to  be  found  among  the  manuscript  of  the  session 
in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state.     The  petition  was  referred 


118  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

to  the  judiciary  committee.  On  June  21,  "in  relation  to  said  peti- 
tion," Mr.  Plumer  of  that  committee  reported  a  bill  entitled  "An  act 
relating  to  Proprietary  matters,"  which  was  read  twice  by  unan- 
imous consent  and  then  passed  without  delay.  It  was  through  it, 
undoubtedly,  that  the  town  secured  undisputed  possession. 
The  act  provided : 

That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  in  this  state,  not  being 
a  Proprietor's  clerk,  nor  being  the  clerk  of  any  town,  having  in  his 
or  her  possession  the  proprietary  records  or  any  part  thereof,  of  any 
town  in  this  state,  so  connected  with  the  proprietary  records  of  any 
other  town  or  place  that  they  cannot  be  separated  therefrom  with- 
out injury,  to  deposit  all  such  records,  either  in  the  office  of  the 
town  clerk  of  some  of  the  towns  first  incorporated,  to  which  such 
records  may  relate,  or  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,1  within 
three  months  after  the  jiassage  of  this  act,  or  within  three  months 
from  the  time  such  records  may  hereafter  come  to  his  or  her  posses- 
sion, on  penalty  of  forfeiting  the  sum  of  $100,  to  the  use  of  any 
person  who  may  sue  for  the  same,  to  be  recovered  in  an  action  of 
debt. 

BOSTON  June  6th  178S  two  clock  in  the  Afternoon  at  a  meeting  of 
the  Narraganset  grantees  meet  by  Adjournment  in  ye  Common  of 
the  Town  of  Boston. 

Voted  that  the  grantees  alowed  by  the  General  Court  amounting 
to  the  number  of  Eight  hundred  and  forty  in  the  wholl  be  Divided 
into  Seven  distinct  Societies  each  Society  to  consist  of  one  hundred 
and  Twenty  of  the  Said  Grantees  which  Society  shall  be  Jntitled  to 
one  of  the  Townships  granted  to  the  Narraganset  Soldiers  &c : 
That  one  of  the  Said  Societys  shall  Consist  mostly  of  the  Propritors 
belonging  to  the  Town  of  Boston  Roxbury  Dorchester.  Milton 
Brantree.  Waymoth.  Hingham  Dedham.  Stoughton.  Brookline. 
Neadham.  Hull  Medfield  Scittuate  Newpoart  New  London  Provi- 
dence 

Voted  that  Con.11  Thomas  Foylston  Mr  Jonothan  Williams  and  Capt 
Joseph  Ruggels  be  A  Committee  for  ye  Said  Society 
Voted  that  each  of  ye  Several  Committees  for  the  Respective 
Societies  now  chosen  be  directed  and  Jmpowered  to  take  A  List  of 
the  Society  for  which  they  are  Appointed  and  to  Joyn  with  the 
Other  Committees  in  Afsigning  the  Towns  to  each  Society  &ac : 
and  also  to  Afsemble  the  Grantees  of  their  Respective  Societys  to 
Chuse  a  Clerk  and  Committees  from  time  to  time  to  manage  and 
Transact  any  affairs  that  may  be  thought  needful  and  make  such 
rules  and  Orders  as  may  be  Proper  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  Society 
and  bringing  forward  the  Settlement  of  the  Township  that  shall  be 
af  signed  them  as  afore  Said. 
Voted  that  any  two  of  the  Committee  for  each  Society  be  Jmpow- 

1  The  depositary  designated  by  an  act  of  1826. 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  119 

ered  to  Act  or  transact  any  affair  for  ye  good  of  the  Society  they  are 
chosen  for 

Voted  that  all  Past  and  the  Present  Charges  of  this  meeting  be  Paid 
by  the  wholl  Society. 

Voted  that  the  Report  of  the  Committee  chosen  Yesterday  (to 
examin  the  late  Committees  accounts  and  all  former  accounts)  be 
excepted  and  the  Money  Due  being  One  Hundred  and  Thurty  nine 
Pounds  eleven  Shillings  and  eight  Pence  be  Paid  Accordingly  to 
the  Severial  Persons  to  whom  it  is  Due 

Voted  that  Deacon  Jona  Williams  of  Boston  be  Treasurer  of  the 
wholl  Narraganset  Society  or  grantees  and  it  is  further  Ordered  and 
Voted  that  the  Severial  Societies  Pay  then-  Propotinable  Part  of  the 
one  hundred  and  thurty  nine  Pounds  eleven  Shillings  and  eight 
Pence  (Due  from  y*  wholl  Society)  to  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams 
of  Boston  Treasuer  and  by  him  to  be  Repayd  to  the  late  Committee 
to  whom  it  is  Due  to  Discharge  y*  Said  Debt 

Voted   that   y**  Charges  of  this  meeting  being  seven  Pounds   ten 

Shillings  and  Six  Pence  be  Paid  by  the  Severial  Societies  to  the 

Treasuer  in  the  same  method  that  the  Other  Debts  are  to  be  Paid  in 

An  Abstract  from  ye  Vots  of  the  Narraganset  grantees 

Past  by  them  at  their  meeting  on  6th  and  7th  June  1733 

Attest  Sam11:   Kneeland    Cle:   to  y8   grantees 

Boston  Octbr:  17th:  1733  the  Seven  Committees  of  ye  Narraganset 

grantees  met  at  Boston  and  agread  to  call  ye  Towns  granted  them 

Number  one.  two.  and  on  to  Seven  and  Voted  that  the  Towns  be 

asigned  as  by  lot  they  ware  Drawn  Viz  to  Con11.  Thomas  Tilston 

and  Company  No  five  Sowheagan  East 

An  Abstract  from  ye  Vots  of  ye  Comt,s :  meeting 
Attest  Sam11  Kneeland  Cle :  to  the  grantees 
A  List  of  the  Narragansett  grantees  for  the  Town 
Number  Five 

Boston         His  Excellency  JONATHAN  BELCHER  Esqr  for  his 
Father  Andrew  Belcher  Esqr 
William  Clark  Esqr  for  ye  Hens  of  Doctr  John  Clark 
The  Hens  of  Richard  Way 
William  Dinsdell  for  his  Father  William 
Sarah  Warren  for  hur  Husband 
Benjamen  Swain  for  his  Father  Henry 
Jsaac  Prince's  Hens 
The  Heirs  of  Doctf  John  Cuttler 
The  Heirs  of  Benja  Williams 
Daniel  Allin  for  his  Father  Nicolas 
The  Heirs  of  Henry  Timberlake 
The  Hens  of  Jeremiah  Tay 
The  Hens  of  Thomas  Weymoth 
The  Hens  of  John  Arrnold 
Sam11 :  Kneeland  for  his  Grandfather  Sam11 :  Polard 


120  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Benja  Bicknerd  for  his  Father  Sam11 : 

The  Heirs  of  Jacob  Grigs 

John  Gridley  for  his  Father  Joseph 

John  Nelson  Alive 

Peres  Savages  Hens 

James  Lendals  Heirs 

Thomas  Plimblys  Hens 

John  Gridley  for  his  Grandfather  John  Mors 

John  Ruggles  for  his  Father  Ruggles 

Sam11  Kneeland  for  John  Friscot 

Rebekah  Hannan  for  hur  Father  Daniel  Mathewes; 

Benja :  Dyer  for  his  Father  Benja  Dyer 

Edward  Ting  for  his  Father  Edward  Ting 

John  Leach  for  his  Father  John  Leach 

John  Chamberlan  for  his  Father  Henry 

Benja  Landon  for  his  Father  David 

John  Lain  for  his  Father  Joshua 

Rebeckah  Foster  for  hur  Father  Edward  Weden 

Sarah  Perkins  for  Joshua  Hewes 

Thomas  Daws  for  his  Father  Ambros 

Zachariah  Gurney  Alive 

Addington  Davenport  Esqr  for  his  Uncle  Capt  Daven- 
port 

Thomas  Hunt  Alive 
X     Joseph  Wadsworth  Esq1"  for  his  Father  Capt  Wadsworth 

Owen  Harris  for  his  Wifes  Father  Petter  Bennet 

Simon  Rogers  for  his  Father  Gamaliel 

John  Tuckerman  Alive 

Richard  Bill  for  his  Father  Richard 

William  Hacy  for  his  Grandfather  William 

John  Richards  for  his  Father  John 

Jonathan  Williams  for  his  Wifes  Father  Capt  Mandsley 

William  Manley  Alive 

John  Mears  Alive 

Ephraim  Moor  for  his  Father  Caleb 

Daniel  Oliver  Esqr  for  his  Uncle  Capt  James  Oliver 

Hugh  Calder  for  his  Wifes  Father  John  Hands 
Thomas 

&  John  Simkins  for  his  Father  Pilgrim 

Nath11.  Goodwin  for  his  Father  John 

Thomas  Beedle  for  his  Father  Thomas 

Moses  Ayers  for  his  Father  George  Ripley 
X     John  Moors  for  his  Father  Thomas  X 

Thomas  Barnard  for  his  Father  Thomas 

Roxbury      John  Wilson  for  his  Wifes  Father  Joseph  Goad 
Paul  Dudley  Esqr  for  Joseph  Dudley  Esqr 
Henry  Wilson  for  his  Father  Paul  Wilson 
Caleb  Stedman  for  his  Uncle  John  Watson 


THE   PROPRIETORS'    RECORDS. 


121 


Sara11.  Lyon  for  his  Father  William 

Edward  Dorr  for  his  Wifes  Father  Thos.  Howley 

John  Payson  for  his  Father  John 

Joseph  Scot  for  his  Father  John 

Zechariah  Chandler  for  his  Wifes  Father  Thos  Bishop 

Edmond  Weld  for  his  Father  Thomas  Weld 

John  Baker  Alive 

Zechariah  Smith  for  his  Wifes  Uncle  Thomas  Hencher 

Sam11  Williams  Alive 

John  Baker  for  his  Brother  Thomas 

John  Morey  for  his  Father  Thomas 

Dorches-      Thomas  Tileston  for  his  Father  Timothy 
ter  Hopstill  Humphry  Alive 

Thomas  Davenports  Heirs 
Ebenezer  Williams  Alive 
The  Heirs  of  Henry  Ledbetter 
Ebenezer  Jones  for  his  Father  Samuel 
Richd  Davenpoart  for  his  Uncle  William 

Milton  Samuel  Miller  for  his  Brother  John 

The  Heirs  of  Thomas  Vose 

Brantree      Samuel  Bafs  Alive 

Samuel  Whitt  for  his  Wifes  Father  Samuel  Bingley 
Thomas  Coplin  for  his  Father  Thomas 
Thomas  Holbrook  Alive 
The  Heirs  of  Thomas  Bingley 

Waymoth    Samuel  Hollis  for  his  Father  John 

Nicholas  Phillips  for  his  Wifes  Father  William  Savell 
John  Burrill  Alive 
X     Gidon  Ferrel  for  John  Whitmarsh 

Hingham     Joseph  Thorn  Alive 

Sam11  Thaxter  Esqr  for  his  Brother  Thomas 

John  Jacobs  for  his  Father  John 

Sam11  Gurnet  for  his  Father  Frances 

Sam11  Gill  Alive 

John  Langley  for  his  Father  John 

Sam11  Lincoln  for  his  Father  Sam11 

Ephraim  Lain  for  his  Father  Ephraim 

The  Heirs  of  Nath11  Beal 

The  Heirs  of  Benja  Bates 

The  Heirs  of  Cornelius  Cantebury 

Jsreal  Vickrey  for  his  Father  Vickrey 

John  Arnolds  Heirs 

Dedham       Samuel  Gill  Alive 

Ephraim  Colburn  for  Sam11  Colburn 


122  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Jeremiah  Gay  for  his  Father  Jonathan 

The  Heirs  of  William  Dean  who  Dyed  at  Lebanon 

Stoughton   George  Talbot  for  his  Father  Petter 

Brooklyn     Benja  Whites  Heirs 

Joseph  Gardner  for  his  Brother  Samuel 

Neadham     John  Rice  Alive 

Hull  Joseph  Benson  for  his  Father  Joseph 

Thomas  Vickars  for  John  Bull 

Medfield      John  Plympton  for  his  Father  John 

Scituate       Samuel  Hatch  Alive 

John  Proute  for  his  Father  Richard 

Jsrael  Hoburt  Alive 

Benja  Turner  for  his  Wifes  Fatha :  Wm  Hawkins 

Joseph  Brigs  Heirs 

Newport      Jethro  Jeffrys  Hens 

Newlondon  Madm  Livingston  for  hur  Uncle  Sam11.  Knight 

Providence  David  Evans  for  his  Father  David  Evans 
John  Jacts  Alive 

A  True  Copy  Attest  Sam11.  Kneeland  Cle :  to  the  grantees 

Att  a  Legal  meeting  of  The  proprietors  of  a  Narragansett  town 
which  proprietors  belongs  to  the  towns  after  Named  to  witt  Bofton 
Roxbury  Dorcheftor  Milton  Branterry  Weymouth  Hingham  Ded- 
ham  Stoughton  Brooklyn  Needham  Hull  Medfield  Scittuate  New- 
port Newlongdon  &  Providence :  :  Meet  at  the  Houfe  of  mr  Luke 
Verdys  in  Bofton  on  the :  16th :  Day  of  auguft :  1733  at  one  of  the 
Clock  after  noon :  and  Chofe  Coro1 :  Thomas  Tileftone  Moderator  of 
said  Meeting  and  Likewife  Chofe  Jofeph  Ruggles  Proprietors  Clark 
&  Deacon  Jonathan  Williames  proprietors  Treafuer :  and  the  said 
Ruggles  and  Williams  :  was  at  the  same  time  sworn :  To  the  faith- 
full  discharge  of  each  of  there  offices :  By  The  Honoble :  Samuell 
Thaxter  Efqr.  Then  twas  Voted  that  the  Committee  Chofen  the :  6th 
Day  of  June  Laft  on  the  Common  in  Bofton :  To  wTitt  Coro1 :  Thomas 
Tilesftone  Deacon  Jonaan :  Williames  &  Jofeph  Ruggles  with  The 
addision  of  Deacon  John  Jacobs  &  Cap* :  John  Ruggles  shall  be  a 
Committee  &  to  call  meetings  for  the  Future  until  further  order  a 
Korum  of  them  agreeing.  Then  Twas  Voted  That  each  proprietor 
shuld  pay  the  Sum  of  Six  Shillings  to  pay  our  paft  Charges  into  the 
/Hands  of  Deacon  Jonathan  Williames  Treafuer.  Att  a  meeting  of 
the  proprietors  of  a  Narragansett  Town  Number  :  5  :  at  ye  Houfe  of 
Mr  Sam1  Kneeland :  Jn  Bofton  on  ye  :  5th  :  Day  of  June :  1734  :  Jn 
ye  firft :  Place  Chofe  Coro1  Thomas  Tileftone  moderator :  Then  twas 


THE  PROPRIETORS'  RECORDS.  123 

motioned  wheather  there  shuld  be  a :  Committee  now  Chofen  to  lay 
out  the  township :  into  Lotts  &  Voted  in  the  affirmitive :  That  five 
shuld  be  Chofen  any  three  to  be  a  Korum : :  To  witt  Coro1  Sam1 : 
Thaxter  Efqr.  Coro1:  William  Dudly :  Efqr:  Cap':  Edward  White 
Mr  Robert  Vofe  and : — Jofeph  Ruggles  &  that  the  Committee  Shall 
be  impowered  :  To  imploye  a  Surveyor  &  Chainmen  to  Lott  out  the 
Township  into  Lotts— Voted  That  the  Lotts  now  to  be  Laid  out  is 
to  be  between  Twenty  &  forty  acres  as  the  :  Committee  shall  think 
fitt.  Considering  the  Quallity  of  the  Said  Land  :  Voted  that  Each 
proprietor  shall  pay  ye  Sum  of  Twenty  Shillings  :  To  the  Treafuer 
Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  to  pay  our  paft  arreedges  &  towards : 
laying  out  ye  lotts  of  y*  townfhip  :  This  meeting  is  ajourned  or  Con- 
tinued to  the  firft  Monday  of  October:  Next  at  two  of  the  Clock  in 
ye  afternoon  at  the  same  place  which  is  the  Seventh  Day  of  the  faid  : 
month  &  ajourned  accordingly : — :  Bofton  October  :  7th  :  1734  :  the 
proprietors  of  the  Xarraganfett  Town  No  :  5  :  on  ajournment  of  a 
meeting  from  June  :  5th  :  1734  :  — 

Resolved  &  agreed  That  the  Committee  formerly  Chofen :  To  witt 
Coro1:  Thomas  Tileftone  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  &  Jofeph 
Ruggles  with  the  addiftion  of  William  Dudly  Efqr  &  Mr  Xathanell 
Goodwine  Be  a  Committee  to  Draw  a  warrant  for  a  meeting  of  fd 
proprietors  on  the  :  30th :  day  of  This  inftant  October  at  ten  a  Clock 
in  the  forenoon  at  Mr  Sam1  Kneelands  to  Draw  Lotts  &  Maney 
other  things  included  in  fd  warrant 

Att  a  proprietors  meeting  of  The  Xarraganfett  Town  Xo :  5 :  att  ye 
Houfe  of  Mr.  Sam1  Kneelands  Jn  Bofton :  &  meet  accordingly  on  y* 
:  30th:  Day  of  October:  1734  :  at  ten  a  Clock  in  y*  forenoon  and 
Chofe  The  Honoble :  Samuell  Thaxtor  Efqr  moderator  of  faid  meet- 
ing :  Then  The  Question  was  put  wheather  Thay  would  Chofe 
another  Clerk  &  it  pafsed  in  Y1  Xegitive :  • :  The  Question  was  put 
whether  There  Shuld  be  anything  Paid  To  the  Settlers  from  The 
non  settlers :  Voted  that  something  shuld  be  allowed  by  the  non 
settlers  to  The  Settlers :  Voted  That  every  other  Lott  allready 
Laved  out  in  fd  townfhip  shall  be  marked  for  a  Settlers :  Lott : 
Voted  That  five  pounds  shall :  Be  payed  by  each  non  settler  to  the 
settlers :  within  five  years  from  the  Courts  Grant :  • :  Voted  That 
The  Treafuer  Dean :  J  onaan :  Williams :  Shall  Draw  for  all  That  has 
paid  &  ant  prefent  at  fd  meeting : — 

Voted :  Whereas  There  is  severall  Lotts  not  Drawn  Thay  Shall  be 
put  of  in  a  Paper  &  the  Committee  to  be  Xow  Chofen  Shall  fet  a 
time  for  ye  perfons  to  Draw :  &  if  thay  Dont  appear  ye  proprietors  to 
admitt  others  in  there  Rume. 

Then  Thay  Proceeded  to  Draw  the  Settlers:  Lotts 
as  thay  ware  marked :  The  Even  Xumbers  ware  set- 
tlers and  the  odd  teas :  non  settlers  : — 


124 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


1 — No :  Governer  Belcher  Ef qr : 
2 — No :  James  Davenport : — : 
:  on  Pescataquogg 


:  on  Merrimack  River : 

-  1 — No :  Jacob  Griggs 

-  2 — No :  John  Plymton 

-  3 — No :  Habijah  Savadge  Efqr : 

-  4 — No :  Thomas  Simpkins : 

-  5 —         Samuell  Hollis : 

-  6 —         James  Yeats : 

-  7- —         J  serall  Hubbard : 

-  8 —         Addington  Davenport  Efqr 

-  9—         Richard  Bill: 
-10—         JohnDorrill: 
-11 —         John  Richards : 
-12 —         Thomas  Daws : 
-13—         William  Dinsdell : 
-14 —         Richard  Fofter : 
-15 —         Jabez  Hunt: 

-16 —         Thomas  Bernard 
-17 —         Thomas  Hoolbruke : 
-18 —         Benjamin  Dyer : 
-19—         William  Clark  Efqr : 
-20—         Jofeph  Thorne : 
-21 —         Samuel  Gill : 
-22—         Paul  Dudly  Efqr : 
50 — John  Arnoll: 
51 — John  Payfon : 
52— Sam1  Pollard : 
53 — Samuell  Wadsworth : 
54 — Owen  Harris : 
55     Henry  Willfon : 
5(3 — Thomas  Viccos  : 
57 — Jofeph  Briggs : 
58 — Samuell  Lyon : 
59 — Jonathan  Gay : 
60 — Mofes  Ayers : 
61 — Thomas  Jefferies : 
62 — Gamaliall  Rogers : 
63— Gidion  Terrill : 
64 — Ebenezer  Jones : 
65 — Samuell  Gurnet : 
66 — Capt  Ebenezer  Dorr : 
67 — Jofeph  Benfon : 
68 — Henery  Leadbutter : 
69 — Jonathan  Proutt : 
70 — Rebeccah  Abbott : 
71— Thomas  Tilef tone: 


23— Edmond  Weld 

24 — David  Evans : 

25 — Thomas  Beattle  : 

26— George  Talbutt : 

27— John  Baker: 

28 — John  Barns : 

29 — Shaderick  Thayer  : 

30 — Ebenezer  Williams : 

3 1— John  Willfon: 

32 — Henerey  Timberlake 

33 — .James  Townsend : 

34 — Sarah  Perkins : 

35— Alford  Butler : 

36 — John  Morey : 

37 — Jsaac  Hatch : 

38 — John  Langley: 

39 — Jofeph  Prince  : 

40— Sam1  Gile : 

41 — Silence  Allin : 

42 — Benja"  Williames : 

43 — William  Davenport : 

44 — Edward  White  : 

45— Robert  Vofe : 

46— Jofeph  Savell : 

47 — Ebenezr  Williams : 

48 — Nathan1  Good  wine : 

49— Sam1  Miller : 

83 — John  Mears: 

84 — William  Dean : 

85     John  Tuckerman : 

86 — Thomas  Waymouth : 

87 — John  Rice : 

88 — Andrew  Oliver : 

89 — Jonathan  Williames : 

90— John  Triscott : 

91 — Edward  Tying : 

92 — Jsarell  Vicary : 

93 — Ephiram  More  : 

94 — Jofeph  Gardner : 

95 — Benjamin  Bates : 

96 — Zachirah  Chandler : 

97 — John  Ruggles : 

98 — Benjamin  Langdon: 

Babbofuck  Home  Lotts: 
—1st— John  Burrill : 
:  2 :  Samuel  Belcher : 
:  3  :  David  Jacobs : 
—  4 — Samuel  Linkhorn : 


THE  PROPRIETORS'  RECORDS.  125 

72 — Benjamin  Smith:  —  5 — Fergas  Hartshon : 

73 — Maddam  Levingfton :  —  6 — John  Leach : 

74 — Benjamin  Turner:  —  7 — Sarah  Warren: 
75 — Samuell  Fisk :  :  8 — Samuel  Williames : 

76 — John  Lane  for  Ephiram :  —  9 — John  Gridley : 

77 — Samuell  Bafs :  — 10— John  Nelfon : 

78 — William  Ogelbe  — 11 — Benjamin  Bicknal: 

79 — Caleb  Stedman :  — 12 — John  Chamber lin : 
80 — Zacheriah  Smith :  :  13 :  Samuel  Thaxter  : 

81 — Benjamin  Swain  :  :  14  :  John  Gridley : 

82 — John  Lane :  — 15 — Rebeccah  Hannors : 
Babbofuck  Still : 


:16:  No  William  Hafey: 
:  17:  No  John  Cuttler: 


18:  No:  Thomas  Baker: 
19  :  No :  James  Pitts. 
20 :  No :  Ephirani  Colbourn. 
Att  Three  a  Clock  afternoon  meet  on  ajournment  from  the  fore- 
noon :  Voted  That  there  shall  be  a  Committee  now  Chofen  to  man- 
adge  the  prudenshall  affaires  of  the  town  five  in  Number :  Coro1. 
Samuell  Thaxtor  Efqr :  Coro1.  William  Dudly  Efqr :  Coro1.  Thomas 
Tilestone  Deacon  Jonathan  Williames  and  Mr :  Nathannel  Good- 
wine.  Voted  that  the  Lotts  not  Drawed  are  to  be  manadged  by  y8 
Committee  above  :  motioned  whether  that  This  Committee  shuld 
Lott  out  ye  remainder  of  the  Townfhip  Directly  &  it  pafsed  Jn  the 
negitive :  Voted  that  the  Committee  Chofe  are  to  draw  up  &  con- 
clude aboute  any  disputes  arif eing  Jn  said  society  &  to  offer  it  to  the 
proprietors  from  time  To  Time :  This  Committee  is  to  aurdett  & 
receive  &  allow  the  accompts  of  Charges  &  Expences  and  make 
report :  That  this  Committee  shall  from  time  To  Time  upon  applica- 
tion made  by  five  of  the  Proprietors  or  more  Call  meetings  for  the 
future  Giving  Legall  warning :  Voted  that  when  ye  plan  of :  of  the 
Town  is  sent  it  shall  be  left  in  y8  Hands  of  The  Treaf uer  Deacon 
Jonathan  Williames : 


Att  a  Legall  meeting  of  The  proprietors  of  No:  5th :  att  Mr  Luke 
Verdys  at  ten  a  Clock  in  ye  forenoon  on  the  :  14th :  Day  of  May 
:  1735 :  Jn  the  firft  place  Chofe  The  Honourable  Sam1  Thaxter  Efqr: 

moderator  of  faid  meeting : 

Voted  That  their  shall  be  a  sofisent  Cart  Bridge  Built  over  Sou- 
ghegon  River  that  the  Committee  joyn  with  other  Towns  that  will 
joyn  with  us  in  the  affair :  Voted  That  their  be  a  Committee  Chofe 
to  manepge  y6  affair :  Voted  that  the  Committee  allready  Chofen  is 
ye  Comtce :  or  any  Three  of  them  to  manedge  ye  fd  affair :  Voted 
that  their  Shall  be  a  sutetable  High  way  laved  through  yc  town  For 
the  Benifit  of  our  town  &  other  towns  by  ye  Committe :  Voted  That 
the  Committee  be  desired  to  make  a  strick  Jnquiery  whether  their 
was  any  former  Grants  Granted  To  any  Perticular  Perfons  in  this 
Townfhip :  &  make  a  Report  of  the  same  to  faid  proprietors  at  the 
ajourment  of  said  proprietors  meeting :    Voted  that  the  Committee 


126  •  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Be  desired  to  inquier  into  the  surconiftances  of  the  Building  of 
mills  what  be  moft  benifi  shall  for  the  Good  of  the  and  make  Report 
of  ye  same  at  the  ajourment  of  said  meeting :  Voted  that  this  meet- 
ing is  ajourned  or  Continued  to  the  Second  wendensday  ye  Eleventh 
of  June  next  at  the  same  place  at  ten  a  clock  in  The  forenoon: 
&  ajourned  accordingly  : — : — : 

Att  a  meeting  on  the  :  11 :  Day  of  June  :  1735:  from  ajourment 
from  the  14th :  Day  of  May  :  1735 :  meet  accordingly  voted  That 
their  shall  be  a  Good  &  sofisent  Cart  Bridge  Built  over  Soughegon 
River  &  another  Cart  Bridge  over  Baboofuck  Brook  :  Voted  that  as 
soon  as  may  be  then*  shall  be  another  Divifion  of  Lands  layed  out : 
Voted  that  There  shall  be  one  hundred  acres  of  Land  layed  out  to 
Each  proprietors  share  in  two  fifty  acre  Lotts  :  the  Committee  for 
this  purpofe  is  Coro1 :  Sam1 :  Thaxtor  Efqr :  Coro1 :  Will1"  Dudly 
Efqr:  Coro1:  Thomas  Tileftone  Capt  Edward  White  &  Cap': 
Jofeph  Ruggles  or  any  Three  of  Them :  &  then  ajourned  to  three 
Clock  &  meet  accordingly :  in  The  afternoon :  Voted  that  one  hun- 
dred &  Twenty  acres  of  Land  be  granted  to  Cap1 :  Joseph  Blancher 
of  Dunftable  out  of  said  Township :  Jn  one  place  according  to  the 
Committees  agreement.  The  said  Cap' :  Blancherd  is  to  errect  a 
Good  saw  mill  on  Soughegon  River  in  such  time  as  ye  Committee : 
Shall  agree  where  fd  sawmill  shall  goe  &  Likewife  a  Good  Corn  mill 
to  be  set  up  &  Goe  on  said  River :  when  said  Committee  shall  agree : 
&  Likewife  a  yard  not  exceeding  three  acres  of  Land  adjouning  to 
fd  saw  mill  spott  as  the  Committee  shall  agree  and  so  how  long  said 
mill  shall  Goe  upon  said  Blancherds  Coft :  &  likewife  that  ye  Com- 
mittee is  to  lay  out  said  :  120 :  acres  &  sawmill  yard :  when  ye  Com- 
mittee Goes  up  next  to  lay  out  one  hundred  acres  to  each  Proprietor 
in  two  Lotts  or  sooner  &  ye  fd  Committee  is  impowered  to  enter 
into  proper  Covenants  and  agreements  with  the  said  Cap'  Blancherd 
to  ye  faithfull  Performance  of  every  of  ye  above  said  articles :  The 
Committee  Chofe  for  that  work  &  servifs  is  the  same  Committee 
chofe  in  the  forenoon  to  witt  Coro1 :  Sam1 :  Thaxtor :  Coro1 :  Willi"1 : 
Dudley :  Cap' :  Edward  White :  Coro1 :  Thomas  Tileftone  &  Jofeph 
Ruggles :  Voted  that  The  Committee  is  to  see  that  all  the  Lotts  all- 
ready  Layed  out  are  to  be  Run  through  &  likewife  all  The  Lotts  now 
to  be  Layed  out  is  to  be  run  through  and  properly  Bounded  on  every 
Part: 

Voted  that  Twenty  Shillings  Be  payed  by  Every  proprietors 
share  forthwith  to  the  proprietors  Treafuer  Deacon  Jonathan  Will- 
iames  to  pay  our  paft  Charges  &  towards  The  laying  out  the  second 
Divifion  of  Lotts :  :  He  accounting  for  the  same :  Voted  That  the 
Committee  above  fd  are  impowered  to  agree  with  Proper  perfons 
To  Build  a  Good  &  sofisent  Cart  Bridge  over  Soughegon  River  & 
one  over  Baabufock  Brooke  like  unto  the  same. 


Att  a  Legall  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  No.  5 :  Jn  Bofton  on 
The  22nd:  Day  of  December  :1736:  Att  The  Houfe  of  mr  Luke 


THE   PROPRIETORS'    RECORDS.  127 

Verdys  Jn  holder  at  Ten  a  Clock  in  ye  forenoon  of  f d  Day :  in  the 
firft  Place  Chofe  The  Honourable  Samuell  Thaxtor  Efqr  moderator : 
Voted  That  The  proprietors  proceed  Forthwith  on  The  Bufinefs 
inCluded  in  ye  advertifement  for  said  meeting:  Voted  That  the 
proprietors  Chofe  a  Committee  to  Lay  before  the  Society  &  Then 
To  The  Generall  Court  something  to  oblidge  The  settlers  to  perform 
There  Settlements  in  due  feafon:  To  witt  Coro11:  Dudley  Coro11: 
Thaxtor :  Coro11 :  Tilestone  mr  Andrew  Oliver :  and  Cap' :  Edward 
White :  The  Laft  article  in  the  warrant  Conserning  a  small  Jsland 
in  Merrimack  River  For  giveing  or  Granting  it  to  Coro11 :  Tileftone 
Efqr:  Voted  in  the  Xegitive:  Voted  That  Deacon  Jonathan 
Williames  Treafuer:  be  allowed  for  his  Good  services  To  said 
Society  in  Land  a  reafonable  allowance  That  the  wholl  Committee 
Receive  the  Treafurs  accompts  and  make  Report  Thereof  to  said 
Society: 

Voted  That  no  man  shall  Draw  his  Two  fifty  acre  Lotts  before 
he  has  Payed  The  money  included  Jn  said  advertifement  to  Deacon 
Jonathan  Williames:  Treafuer:  Then  Ajourned  To  half  an  hour 
after  Two  a  Clock  at  the  same  place  &  ajourned  accordingly :  Then 
thay  meet  accordingly  at  The  Time  &  place  within  mentioned  & 
Drew  their  two  fifty  acre  Lotts  in  the  second  Divifion  &  are  as. 
f  ollowes : 

minister  Lotts  Xo :  16th  >  9th  Range 
19    f 


ministrv  Lotts :  No :  10th  ):  9th :  Range 
11    i 


Scool  Lotts :     :  Xo :  218t )  :  9th  Range : 

22  r 


John  Willfon :     :  Xo :  22nd  | :  10th :  Range : 
Xo:  18     >  :  11 :  Range: 


Ephiram  Lane     Xo :  23rd  \  :  10th  :  Range  : 
Xo:  19    }  :11th:  Range: 


Jofeph  Savell     Xo  :  26th  )  :  10th  :  Range  : 

27 


Robert  Vofe     Xo  :  27th  \  :  11th  :  Range 
:  3rd  j  :  12th  :  Range 


William  Dinsdell  )  :  Xo  :  26,h  )  :  11th  :  Range 
Edward  White :    j  :  Xo  :     l8t  j  :  12th  :  Range 


128  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

John  Langly :  | :  No  :     7th  \  :  8th  :  Range  : 
:  No  :   218t  j  :  6th :  Range  : 


John  Rice 


:  \  :  No  :     7th  )  :  9th  :  Range  : 
j  :  No  :  22nd  }  :  7th  :  Range  : 


Jofeph  Briggs  :  \  :  No  :     8th  j  :    8th  :Range  : 
'    No:   20th  j  :11th: Range: 


Ebenezer  Williams :  |  No :  10th  :  j    8th  Range  : 
j  No :22nd:  [11th Range: 


Benjamin  Swain  :  }  No  :     11th  }  :  8th :  Range 
William  Hicklin  :  )  No  :    23rd  j  11th  :  Range 


John  Triscott :  \  No  :  12th  | :  8th :  Range 
No  :  24th  j  11    :  Range 


James  Davenport :  )  No  :  1st  j  :  8th  :  Range 

j  No  :  2nd 


Sarah  Warren  :    j  No  :  3rd  [  :  8th  :  Range  : 
Furgus  Kanady  :  j  No  :  4th 


Jofeph  Gurney  :  )  No  :    5th "):  8th  :  Range 
j  No  :  16th  j" 


Samuell  Kneeland  :    |  No  :  17th  | :  8th :  Range 
for  Sam  :  11  Pollard  :  j  No  :  18th 


Ephiram  Colebourn  )  No  :  1st  | :  1st :  Range 

j  No :  2nd 


Jserall  Vicker :  | :  No  :  13,h  :  j  :  9th :  Range 

\  :  No  :    3rd  :  j  :  1st  :  Range : 


Samuell  Miller  :  \  :  No  :  14th  :  \  :  9th :  Range  : 
:  No  :    4th  :  j  :  1st :  Range  : 


Benjamin  Williames :  }  :  No  :  15th  :  )  :  9th :  Range  : 
:  No  :     5  :  j  :  1st :  Range  : 


George  Talbutt :  >  :  No  :  8th :  )  :  lBt :  Range : 
\  :  No  :  9th  :  j 


THE   PROPRIETORS'    RECORDS.  129 

Thomas  GUI :  )  :  No :  10th :  )  :  1st :  Range  : 


|  :No: 

}:No: 


11th:  I" 


Olford  Buttler  *>  :  No  :  11th  :  >  :  5th:  Range 


| :  No  :  11th  :  ) 
j"  :  No  :  15th  :  \ 


Jonathan 


Williams  | :  No :    l6t :  )  :  7th :  Range : 
)  :No:  12th:  [:5th:  Range: 


Efqr 
Thomas  Tileftone ">  :  No  :  23rd : ")  :  5th :  Range : 

| :  No :  24th  :  j : 


Samuell  Wadstvorth 


)  :  No  :  19th  :  \  :  5th  Range 
J" :  No  :  14th  :  j  : 


John  Gridley :    )  :  No  :    8th  :)  :  6th  Range 
Robert  Patten :  j  :  No  :  17th  :  \  : 


John  Don-ill : ")  :  No  :    6th  :)  :  6th  Range 


| :  No  :    6th  :  ) 
J  :  No  :  19th  :  } 


John  Leach :  )  :  No  :  12th  :  ">  :  6th  Range 
j  :  No  :  13th  :  \ 


Silence  Allin  :  | :  No  :  18m  :  \  :  7th  Range  : 
[  :  No  :  19,h  :  j 


Jerimiah  Gav :  )  :  No  :  25th  :  \ :  5th  Range : 
:  No  :     3rd  :}  :  6th  Range 


John  Cuttler :  )  :  No  :  9th  :  >  :  2nd  Range : 


\  :  No  :  9th  : ) 
j  :  No  :  7th  :  \ 


)  :  No  :  4th  : ) 
j" :  No  :  5th  :  j" 


Benjamin  Langdon :  ^  :  No  :  4th  :  ^  :  3ri1  Range  : 
10 


130  •  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Thomas  Holbrooke : )  :  No  :    9th  )  :  6th  Range : 
| :  No  :  16th  j  : 


Judge  Davenport :  \ :  No  :  14th  ")  :  7th  Range 
j  :  No  :  16th  f : 


Henery  Leadbutter :  \  :  No  :  20th  >  :  8th  Range : 

j" :  No  :  21st  \ 


Edward  Ting :  ")  :  No  :  13th  }  :  7th  Range : 
j  :  No  :  15th  j  : 


\ 


John  Lane :  )  :  No  :  l6t  >  :  9th  Range 

■    No  :  2     C 


Thomas  Daws :  I  :  No  :  8th  )  :  9th  Range : 

j  :  No  :  9th 


John  Plimpton  : )  :  No  :  26th  >  :  9th  Range : 

j :  No  :  27th  \ 


Richard  Bill  Efqr:  )  :  No  :  3rd  )  :  9,h  Range 

No  :  4th 


Jonathan  Prouty :  \ :  No  :  26th  :  )  :  8th  :  Range 

No  :  27th  :  \ : 


Ebenezer  Jones :  )  :  No  :  5th  :  )  :  9th  :  Range : 

j  :  No  :  6th  :  j 


John  Burrill :  )  :  No  :  17th  :  )  :  7th  :  Range 


)  :  No  :  17th  :  >  :  7th  :  Range 
| :  No  :  19th  :  \ :  8th  :  Range 


Sanmell  Bafs :  )  :  No  :  18th  :  )  :  5th  :  Range: 


)  :  No  :  18th  :  ) 
j  :  No  :  22nd :  ( 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  131 

Ebenezer  Williams :  >  :  No  :  3rd  :  | :  7th  :  Range : 
J" :  No  :  4th  : 


Andrew  Oliver :  ):  No  :  4th  :  | :  2nd  :  Range 
\ :  No  :  2"d :  ]" 


John  Hollis :  { :  No  :  10th  ):  6th  :  Range : 


| :  No  :  10th  1 
J:  No:  15th.) 


Jofeph  Benfon : )  :  No  :    1st  )  :  6th  :  Range 
J  :  No  :  11th  J 


Jofeph  Scott :  )  :  No  :  5th  : ")  :  7th  :  Range : 
\  :  No  :  6th  :  j 


Samuell  Kneeland  :  )  :  No  :  2nd  :  \  :  3rd  :  Range 
For  John  Mears :      )  :  No  :  3rd  :  )  : 

Edward  Dorr :  )  :  No  :  10th  :  \  :  3rd  :  Range : 

j  :  No 


8th 


John  Richards :  »  :  No  :  8th  :  )  :  7th  :  Range 
j" :  No  :  9th  :  j  : 


Zachirah  Chandler  :  | :  No  :  16,h  :  )  :  5th  :  Range 
| :  No  :  17th  :  | 


Thomas  Baker: ")  :  No  :  6th  :  | :  2nd  :  Range 

| :  No  :  3'd  :  j 


John  Gayfon :  )  :  No  :  4th  :  | :  6th  :  Range  : 


)  :  No  :  4th  :  | 
j  :  No  :  2nd :  j 


SamueU  Guile :  | :  No  :  20th  :  | :  7th  Range 
:  No:  21st 


132  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Edward  White : ")  :  No  :  22nd  :  \  :  8th  :  Range 
J" :  No  :  23,d  :  j  : 


Thomas  Bernard :  j  :  No  :  J. 9th  :  )  :  10th  Range: 
:No:    8th:  j:  11th  Range: 


)  :No  : 
j" :  No-. 


Rebeckah  Hannaks : )  :  No  :  14th  )  :  4th  Range 

4th 


Samuell  Seward :  ")  :  No  :  25th  :  >  :  4th  Range : 
J  :  No  :  26th  :  j" : 


Caleb  Stedman : )  :  No  :  31st :  |:  4th  Range 
J" :  No  :  30th :  j 


Henery  Willfon :  )  :  No  :  10th  : )  :  4th  Range 

'    No  :  22nd 


John  Baker :  )  :  No  :  28th  :  >  :  4th  Range : 
j  :  No  :  29th  :  J" 


Samuell  Williams :  {  :  No  :  24th  :  *>  :  9th  Range : 
J  :  No  :     1st:  j":  5th  Range: 


John  Morey :  I :  No  :  15th  :  )  :  11th  :  Range 
\  :  No  ;  13th  :  f 


Shadrick  Thayer :  \ :  No  :  14th  :  )  :  10th  :  Range 
j  :  No  :    2nd:  j:  11th:  Range 


Samuell  Thaxtor  Efqr  :  )  :  No  :  6th  : ')  :  10th  :  Range : 

j  :  No  :  3rd  :  j  :    5th  :  Range : 


David  Jacobs :  )  :  No  :  7th  :  >  :  10th  Range : 
I  :  No  :  2',d :  j  :    2nd  Range : 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  133 

Benjamin  Bates  :  ):  No  :  17th  :  )  :  10th :  Range : 
i  :  No  :    7th  :  j  :  11  :  Range : 


Richard  Abbutt : )  :  No  :  16th  : )  :  4th  Range 
j" :  No  :    5th  :  f  : 


Thomas  Plimley : )  :  No  :  12th  :  )  :  10th  :  Range 
>  :  No  :    4th  :  j  :  11th  :  Range 


Henery  Timberlake :  \  No  :  10th  :  )  :  10th  Range 
No  :    7th  :}  :    7lh  Range 


Richard  Fofter  :  )  :  No  :  13th  :  )  :  4th  Range  : 
f  :  No  :    3rd 


Jabez  Hunt :  | :  No  :  16,h  :  {  :  11th  Range 
j  :  No  :  12       j  : 


Gamaleal  Rogers :    )  :  No  :    1st :}  :  10<h  Range 
I  :  No  :  10,h :  J  :    5th  Range 


William  Herfev:  { :  No  :  ll'1'  :  )  :  4th  :  Range : 
j  :  No  :    1st  :  j  : 


John  Tuckerman:  \ :  No  :  13,h  : )  :  10th  :  Range 
j  :  No  :    3r''  :  f  :  11th  :  Range 


Ephiram  More :  )  :  No  :  6th  :  )  :  11th  :  Range : 
[:No:  8th:  j  :  10th  :  Range: 


Ebenezer  Hartshorn  :):  No  :  11th  :):  10th  :  Range 
j  :  No  :    6th  :} :    5th  :  Range 


Nathaniel  Good  wine : "}  :  No  :  5tfl  :  »  :  10th  :  Range : 
(:  No  :4th:  J:    5th  :  Range: 


134  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

John  Arnald : ")  :  No  :  18th  :  »  :  10th  :  Range 
Oglebe  :  j  :  No  :    5th  :  J  :  11th  :  Range 


Paull  Dudley  Efqr : )  :  No  :  12th  :  >  :  4th  :  Range 

j" :  No  :    2nd  :  \  : 


John  Barns : )  :  No  23rd  :  1  :  4th  :  Range : 
} :  No  24th  :  j 


Samuell  Garnett:  | :  No  :  3rd  :  1  :  10th  :  Range : 

}  :  No  :  8th  :  [  :    5th  :  Range : 


Jofeph  Gardner:  I  :  No  :  15th  :  )  :  10th  :  Range 
I :  No  :    l8t  :  J  :  11th  :  Range 


Samuell  Lyon:  )  :  No  :  20th  :  1  :  10th  :  Range : 
}:No:    9th:}:  11th:  Range: 


William  Grenleaf e :  \  :  No  :    9th  :)  :    8th  :  Range 
[  :  No  :  218t  :  j" :  11*  :  Range : 


William  Clark  Efqr :  1  :  No  :  13th  :  ):    8th  :  Range : 
f :  No  :  25th  :  f :  11th  :  Range 


Jofeph  Prince : ")  :  No  :  6th  :  )  1st  Range 


)  :  No  :  6th  :  ] 

\  :  No  :  7    :  } 


John  Nelfon :  {  :  No  :  218t  :  )  5th  Range  : 
}  :  No  :    lpt  :  j  3rd  Range : 


Mofes  Ayers  : ")  :  No  :  10th  : ")  7th  Range : 
j  :  No  :  20th  :  \  9th  Range 


Samuell  Hufe :  )  :  No  :  11th  :  )  7th  Range 
j" :  No  :  12th  :  J" 


THE   PROPRIETORS'    RECORDS.  135 

Samfon  Stoddard :  )  :  Xo  :  28th  : )  8th  Range  : 
Owen  Harris:  ( :  Xo  :  29th  :  \ 


Jserall  Hubbard  :  1  :  Xo  :  23rd  :  }  9,h  Range 
J  :  Xo  :  25    :  [ 


Benjamin  Bignall :  )  :  Xo  :    7th  :  )  6th  Range 
J  :  No  :  18th  :  j 


Thomas  Jefferys :  )  :  Xo  :  24th  : )  8th  Range : 
j  :  Xo  :  25th  :  \ 


Efqr: 
Governer  Belcher  }  :  No  :    8th  :  >  2nd  Range : 
j  :  Xo  :  11th  :  j" 


Zachiriah  Smith :  )  :  No  :    9th  :  \  10th  Range 
\  :  Xo  :  14th  :  j  11    Range 


Samuell  Belcher :  {  :  Xo  :  20th  :  {  4th  Range: 
For  Bedle :         )  :  Xo  :  21st  :  j 


Jacob  Griggs  :  )  :  Xo  :  17th  : ")  4th  Range: 
J  :  No  :    6th  :  } 


Jsaac  Hatch : )  :  Xo  :  2nd  :  )  10th  Range  : 
j  :  Xo  :  9th  :  {    5th  Range  : 


James  Pitch  :  }  :  Xo  :  18th  : ")  4th  Range  : 
J:  No:    7th:) 


Samuell  Linkhorn  :  >  :  Xo  :  26th  : ")  5rh  Range  : 
j" :  Xo  :  27th  :  \  4    Range  : 

Coro11 :  Savadge,  Efqr  :  {  :  Xo  :  14th  :  )  6th  :  Range : 
}  :  No  :    8     :  j  4th  :  Range  : 


136  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Edmund  Weld:  )  :  No  :  16th  :)  10th  :  Range 
\  :  No  :    9th  :  \    4th  :  Range 


Maddam 


Levingftone : )  :  No  :  6th  :  \  3rd  :  Range 

1  :  No  :  7th  :  S 


Thomas  Simkins :  J  :  No  :  17th  :  (  11*  :  Range  : 

\  :  No  :  25Ul  :  \  10Ul  :  Range  : 


Josiah  Dean : )  :  No  :  24th  :  i  10th  :  Range  : 
j  :  No:  11th  :\  11th  :  Range  : 


Jofeph  Thron : )  :  No  :    6!h  : )  8th  Range : 
I  :  No  :  17th  :  i  9th  Range : 


Nathan11  Tufts  : )  :  No  :  216t  :  /  10th  Range : 
S  :No  :  10th :S  11th  Range: 


James  Yates :  t  :  No  :  4th  : }  10lh  Range : 
i'  :  No  :  5th  :  S     5th  Range : 


Richard  Davenport :  >  :  No  :  2nd  :  {  :  7th  Range : 

I  :  No  :  7th  :  I  : 


Solomaman  Kneeland  :  £  :  No  :  28th  :  i  :  11th  Range: 
&  Solom11  Kneeland  Junr :  {  :  No  :    2nd :  ^  :  12th  Range : 


Benjamin  Dyer :  ^  :  No  :    5th  : )  :  6th  Range 
S  :  No  :  20th  :  [ 


And  then  ajourned  or  Continued  said  meeting  to  To  morrow 
mourning  at  nine  a  Clock  forenoon  &  ajourned  accordingly  at 
The  same  place  :  Bofton  December  :  23rd :  1736 :  By  ajour- 
ment  from  December  :  22nd  :  1736  :  &  meet  accordingly  :  and 
ajourned  to  half  an  horn-  after  two  a  Clock :  in  the  afternoon  &■ 
ajourned  accordingly :  and  Then  meet  according  to  time  &  Place  : 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  137 

Voted  That  the  Committee  be  discreafinary  accordingly  Requefted 
to  put  a  desire  in  to  the  Generall  Court  for  Xo  :  5 :  That  the  settlers 
be  obliged  to  Settle  said  Lands  according  to  ye  Courts  Grant :  and 
The  non  settlers  pay  Their  money :  The  Honorable  Coro1  Thaxter 
reported  from  the  Committee  That  their  was  not  time  to  prepare  any 
thing  to  Be  layed  before  ye  Society  aboute  oblideing  The  Settlers  & 
non  settlers  to  fullfill  ye  proprietors  Votes :  Therefore :  Voted  that 
it  may  be  left  discrefanary  To  said  Committee  :  :  :  Voted  That  their 
is  a  Grant  of  Land  in  said  Xarraganfett  Townfhip  Xo  5  :  To  Deacon 
Jonathan  Williams  Treafuer  one  Hundred  &  Twenty  acres  of  Land 
to  be  layed  :  out  by  The  Committee  for  laying  out  land  together  in 
The  vacant  Land :  :  Voted  That  the  said :  Deacon  Jonthan  Williames 
shall  be  for  the  future  subject  To  pay  his  proportion  of  Charges  that 
shall  arife  and  become  Due  from  The  proprietors  in  Fullfilling  The 

Courts  Grant 

— Voted  That  Two  :  Fifty  acre  lotts  to  each  Propretor  as  not  yet 
Drawed  be  left  in  the :  Hands  of  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  &  plans 
of  each  Lotts  :  &  for  the  proprietors  Clark  Jofeph  :  Ruggles  to  see 
them  Drawed  &  rightly  enterred  in  ye  Records  : 
— Att  a  Legall  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  The  Xarraganfett  town 
No  5  :  Jn  Bofton  on  Wednesday  The  first  Day  of  June  :  1737 :  at 
The  Houfe  of  Mr  Luke  Verdvs  in  holder  at  ten  a  Clock  forenoon : 
Chofe  The  Honoble :  Sam1:  thaxter  Efqr:  Moderator— Chofe  The 
HonobIe  Will™  Dudly  proprietors  Clark  for  ye  occation :  Chofe :  Jon- 
athan Williames  Treafuer :  &  Sworne  accordingly  :  Chofe  Mr  Andrew 
Oliver  one  of  the  Committee  for :  Calling  meetings  &c :  Voted  That 
the  settling  Lotts :  Be  settled  &  condistions  performed  with1"  one 
year :  Before  the  the  Courts  time  perfixed  for  settlement :  Voted 
that  non  settlers  be  obliged  to  pay  their  five  Pounds  within 
two   years    from   this   time   into :   the :    Treaf uers    Hand8   for    the 

settlers   

Jn  The  fourth  article  Jn  the  advertifement :  was  to  agree  upon  what 
is  further  nefsasary  to  be  don  relateing  To  ye  lands  ordered  to  be 
layed  out  for  the  late  treafuer  Williames  : 

To  be  left  to  the  Committee  To  Do  what:  

is  proper  Therein 

Voted  That  The  Committee  within  Six  months  From  This  Time 
be  fully  impowered  &  Directed  to  Dispofe  of  Thofe  lotts  the  pro- 
prietors whereof  shall  Xeglect  &  Refufe  to  appear  &  Draw  there 
respective  Lotts  haveing  notice  given  them  hereof  in  Three  months 
next  hereafter  &  That  the  Committee  Give  Public  notis  of  The  sale 

of  such  Lotts: : 

Where  as  The  proprietors  of  The  Townfhip  Granted  To  The  narra- 
ganfett Souldiers  Xo  5 :  Did  give  &  Grant  :  120 :  acres  to  the 
Treafuer  of  Society  viz :  mr  Jonathan  Williames  since  Deceafed  in 
Consideration  of  his  being  Treafuer  &c  and  in  as  much  as  his  fon 
Jonathan  Williams  has  bin  sence  his  Father  Deceafed  Elected  in  his 
Stead  Treafure  of  Said  Society  &  much  of  The  Bufsinefs  not  finifhed 


138 


HISTORY   OF    BEDFORD. 


&  The  sd  prefent  Jonathan  Williames  muft  be  at  The  Trubell 
Thereof  as  well  as  Do  The  necefary  future  work  of  a  Treafuer 
Therefore :  and  upon  This  Consideration  it  is  agreed  &  concluded : 
By  The  Committee  appointed  for  This  Purpofe :  That  The  Com- 
mittee for  laying  out  Lands  in  said  Townfhip  Be  impowered  & 
Directed  To  lay  out  ye  said  120 :  acres :  To  The  said  Jonathan  Wil- 
liames Treafuer  to  The  said  society  his  heirs  &  afsignes  :  He  Com- 
plying with  The  Terms  of  That  Grant  &  Payeing  The  Committee 
For  then-  Trubell :  and  The  Clark  is  allfo  hereby  :  Directed  to  Record 
To  The  said  Jonathan  Williames  accordingly :  Dated  This  :  19th : 

September  :  1737  :  

Wm  Dudley : 

Thomas  Tileftone 
Nathannll  Goodwine 


a 

o 
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Att  a  Legall  meeting  of  The  proprietors  of  a  Narraganfett 
Townfhip  No  5 :  Jn  Bofton  The  25th  Day  of  Janur?  : :  1737/8 : 

meet  at  Mr  Luke  Verdys :  at  Teen  a  Clock  forenoon  : 

:  1st :  :  Chof  e  the  Honoble :  Coll :  William  Dudly  moderator : — 
2ndiy  .  .  Chofe  Cap* :  Edward  White  a  Committeeman  Jn  The  Rome 
of  Mr  Andrew  Oliver  who  Refufed  To  serve)  to  call  meetings 
for  the  future  &c  : — 

Voted  whether  thay  will  lay  out  ten  acres  of  Land  more 
near  to  the  saw  mill  to  each  proprietors  share  Voted  Jn  the 

Negitive :  

:  5th :  :  article  Conserning  makeing  y1*  way  Good  between  The  firft  & 
second  Range  Continued  the  Consideration  To  the  next 
meeting :  Voted  That  Mr  Benjamin  Smith  &  Mr  Mofes  Barren 
be  added  to  Coll :  Tilefton :  Cap4 :  Edwd :  White  &  Jofeph 

Ruggles  To  view  fd  way  &  make  report: 

Voted  that  the  Committee  take  effectuall  care  thatnoperfon 
or  perfons  cuts  or  Carry  away  any  timber  or  trees  on  yc 
Common  or  undivided  lands :  without  Leave  first  had  under 
the  Hands  of  ye  major  part  of  said  Committee  who  have 
power  to  permitt  any  proprietor  to  cutt  what  may  be  nefesary 
for  his  own  use  only  &  not  to  sell  or  dispofe  of  to  other 
Perfons  out  of  the  propriety;  and  if  any  perfons  shall 
presume  so  to  do  the  Committee  shall  profecute  in  the  law 
such  perfon  or  persons  : — 

— Att  a  Legall  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  a  Narraganfett 
Townfhip  No  :  5  :    Jn  Bofton  The   :  22nd :  Day  of  Febur1* : 
:  1737/8 :  meet  at  mr  Luke  Verdys  :  at :  Ten  Clock  forenoon : 
1st :  :  Chofe  the  Honoble :  William  Dudlv  moderator  :  :  : 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


139 


:  2ndly :  :  To  Know  whether  they  would  Dispofe  of  any  of  the 
undivided  Land  to  Build  a  meeting  houfe  voted  Jn  The 
Negitive :  Voted  That  the  wholl  land  which  is  undivided  be 
laid  out  as  soon  as  can  be  in  two  Lotts  to  each  proprietors 
share  one  of  meadow  &  the  other  of  upland  :  :  Voted  that 
the  former  Committee  Gits  ye  said  land  layed  out  as  cheape 

as  can  be  both  as  to  survayors  &  chainmen  

Voted  that  the  Committee  shuld  make  report  to  the  Next 
meeting  the  charge  of  a  meeting  Houfe  &  the  Dimenfions  & 
y6  Coft  of  said  houfe  &  how  ye  money  shall  be  raifed  Voted 
that  the  firft  meeting  Houfe  be  erected  on  a  Knole  of 
Common  land  by  three  trees  marked  :  M :  aboute  :  25 :  Rods 
eastward  of  the  Eleventh  Range  where  the  six  Rods  way 
Comes  into  the  Common  between  the  :  9th  :  &  :  10th:  lotts  in 
fd  Eleventh  Range  &  y4  20th :  acres  be  accordingly  Reserved : 

Thereaboute  for  the  publick  ufe  of  the  Town  

To  know  ye  proprietors  mind  if  they  will  Give  leave  To  mr 
John  Chamberlin  To  throw  up  his  right  or  Propriety  &  be 
allowed  to  Take  The  Same  up  elfswhere  near  the  Saw  mill 
voted  in  the  Negitive : 


Decembr :  7th  :  1737  : 

Then  Laid  out  to  mr  Jonathan  Williames  presant  Treasuer  for  the 
proprietors  of  The  Narraganfett  Townfhip :  No  :  5 :  one  hundred  & 
Twenty  acres  of  Land  Jn  said  townfhip  :  Said  Lott  Lyes  at  the 
South  end  of  Range  the  TeDth  Bounds  as  followes  Begining  at  a 
Hemelock  Tree  &  Runs  from  Thence  South  :  137  :  perch  &  :  3 : 
feet  on  Common  Land :  To  a  Stake  &  Heap  of  Stones  Then  runs 
eaft :  146 — Perch  on  Common  Land  to  a  Stake  &  heap  of  Stones : 
Then  Runs  north  :  87 :  perch  &  :  3 :  feet  on  Common  Land  &  :  50 : 


140 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


perch  on  Range  the  Eleventh  to  a  Stake  &  Heap  of  Stones  Then 
Runs  weft :  146 :  perch  on  No  :  1 :  Jn  Rang  Tenth  To  the  Hem- 
lock Tree  first  Named  said  Lott  Hath  a  six  Rood  high  way :  Crofs 
The  Same  at  the  eft  end  layed  out  by  order  of  The  Committee  : 
Laid  down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  perch  to  an  inch  : — Stephen  Hosmer 
Jnr  Survayor — 

This  platt  &  Return  perfented  to  the  Committee  of  The  Townfhip 
above  faid  &  exsepted  yc  same  and  ordered  the  Clark  to  Record 
ye  same :  to  mr  Jonathan  Williames  his  heirs  and  af signes  forever 
Bofton  Decern  :  13th :  1737  :  Jofeph  Ruggles  proprietrs  Oar 
By  order  of  ye:  Committee 


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June  ye :  2nd :  1737 

Then  Laid  out  to  Coll.  Thomas  Tileftone  Efqr 

A  lott  of  Land  Containing  Twenty  &  five  acres  Jn  narraganfett 
Townfhip  No  :  5  :  Jn  The  Lue  of  No  71 :  firft  Divifion  which  was 
mifsed  in  ye  former  laying  out  said  lott  Lyes  Between  Smiths  Land 
&  Souheeg  —  River  mouth  but  not  adjoyning  to  either  :  bounds  as 
followes  Begining :  at  a  Bafswood  Tree  marked  on  The  side  of  Mer- 
rimack River  &  Runs  weft :  :  31 :  Dege :  north  :  80 :  Perch  on  Com- 
mon Land  to  a  Stake.  Then  Runs  south  :  16  :  Degr  weft  :  60 :  perch 
on  Common  Land  to  a  Stake  Then  Runs  eaft :  :  31 :  Degr  South 
:  55 :  perch  on  Common  Land  to  a  Stake  By  The  Side  of  marramack 
River  Then  on  faid  River  :  59 :  perch  and  half  To  The  Bafswood 
Tree  First  named  Laid  out  by  order  of  ye  Committee 

:  pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Jnr :  Surveyor  : 
This  lott  of  land  heretofore  omitted  is  now  allowed  :  and   to  be 
recorded  to  Coll :  Tilestone  accordingly  : 


Dated  this  :  19th  :  Septem  :  1737 


W  Dudley  

Nathal :  Good  wine : 
Thomas  Tileftone : 


THE  PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


141 


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This  Lott  No  :  17th  :  in  The  narraganfett  Town  Xo  :  5 :  Containeth 
fifty  acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  ye  eaft  end  for  a  way 
It  beginneth  at  a  stake  at  ye  south  eaft  Corner  yn  y**  Line  runeth 
weft  by  ye  needle  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  stake  then  north  :  50  :  Rods  to  a 
stake  and  yn  weft  :  166 :  Rodds  to  a  stake  yn  south  :  50 :  Rodds  to 
where  it  firft  began     The  Corners  are  right  angles : 

:  Survayed  by  James  Chandler  : 


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This  plan  describeth  no  :  25  :  Jn  Range  Tenth  Jn  Bofton  Narragan- 
fett Town  No  :  5 :  Being  second  Divifion  Containing  fifty  acres  &  a 
six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  same  said  lott  Bounds  as  followes  Begin- 
ing  at  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  24 :  & 
Runs  from  Thence  north  :  50  :  perch  on  Range  ye  :  11th  :  to  a  stake 
&  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  weft  :  166 :  perch  on  No  :  26 :  To  a 
stake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  south  :  50 :  perch  on  Range  ye 
ninth  to  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  166 :  perch  on 
No  :  24 :  to  y6  firft  Bounds  Laid  out  Jn  ye  year  1736  by  order  of  The 
Committee  Laid  down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  perch  to  an  inch : 
pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Jur  Surveyor : 
The  Two  Lotts  above  ware  Drawn  by  Thomas  Simpkins : 


ict 


This  lot  No  :  7  :  in  y6  narraganfett  Town  No  :  5 :  Containeth  fifty 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  The  eaft  end  for  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  and  ftones  at  The  south  weft  Corner  then  the 


142 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Line  Runeth  north  by  ye  needle  fifty  Rods  to  a  ftake  &  stones  then 
eaft  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  white  oak  Tree  marked  then  fouth  fifty  Rods  to 
a  ftake  &  stones  then  weft :  166  :  Rods  to  whare  it  firft  begun  the 
Corners  are  Right  angles  : 

Survayed  by  James  Chandler : 

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:  This  lott  no  :  2  :  in  ye  seventh  Range  in  ye  narraganfett  Town  no  5 : 
containeth  fifty  acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  ye  eaft  end 
for  a  way  it  begineth  at  a  ftake  &  stones  at  ye  south  weft  Corner 
then  the  Line  runeth  north  by  ye  needle  50  :  Rods  to  a  stake  & 
Stones  then  Eaft  :  166:  Rods  to  a  stake  &  Stones  then  south  :  50: 
Rods  to  an  oake  tree  then  weft  :  166 :  Rods  to  where  it  first  began 
the  Corners  are  Right  angles : 

Survayed  :  James  Chandler  : 
These  two  Lotts  above  ware  Drawn  by  Rechard  Davenport  and  sold 
to  Jacob  Griggs : 


Yl 


UQ: 


This  Lott  No  :  4  :  in  the  Seventh  Rang  in  The  Narraganfett  Town 
No  :  5 :  Containeth  fifty  acres  with  allowance  of  six  Roods  Crofs  The 
Eaft  End  for  a  way  it  begineth  at  a  stake  &  stones  at  ye  south  weft 
Corner  then  The  Line  runeth  north  by  the  needle  fifty  Roods  to  a 
Stake  &  Stones  then  eaft  a  :  166 :  Roods  to  a  stake  &  stones  then 
South  :  50  :  Roods  to  a  stake  &  stones :  Then  weft  :  166 :  Roods  to 
where  it  firft  began :  The  Corners  are  right  anglees : 

Survayed  by  James  Chandler  : 


;  16  fc: 


This  Lott  No  :  3 :  Jn  the  Range  in  the  narraganfett  Town  No  :  5  it 
containeth  fifty  acres  with  allowance  of  six  Roods  Crofs  yc  eaft  end 
for  a  way     it  begineth  at  a  stake  &  stones  at  ye  south  weft  Corner 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


143 


then  the  Line  Runeth  north  by  ye  needle  :  50 :  Roods  to  a  ftake  & 
stonef  Then  eaft  :  166 :  Roods  to  a  stake  &  stones :  Then  north  :  50 : 
Roods  to  a  stake  &  stones  then  weft :  :  166  :  Roods  to  whare  it  firft 
begun  :  The  Corners  are  right  anglees : 

:  Survayed  by  James  Chandler 

above 
Thefe  two  fifty  acre  Lotts  ware  Drawn  by 

:  Ebenezer  Williames : 


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This  lott  No  :  22nd :  in  ye  Narraganfett  town  No :  5  :  Containeth  Fifty 
acres  with  allowances  of  six  Roods  Crofs  ye  eaft  end  For  a  way  & 
six  acres  for  a  way  the  length  of  ye  lott  it  begineth  at  a  Stake  at  ye 
South  west  Corner  then  ye  line  runneth  weft  by  ye  needle  :  166  : 
Roods  to  a  stake  &  yn  :  north  :  50 :  Roods  To  a  stake  then  eaft :  166 : 
Roods  to  a  Stake  then  south  :.50 :  Rods  to  where  it  firft  begun  The 
Corners  are  right  anglees  — 


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This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  10 :  Jn  Range  ye  eighth  in  Bofton  Narra- 
ganfett  town  No  5  :  being  second  Divifion  Containeth  fifty  acres  & 
a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  same :  Said  lott  Bounds  as  followes 
Begines  at  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  ye  Northeaft  Corner  of  No  :  11 : 
&  runs  from  Thence  North  :  50  :  perch  on  Range  ye  ninth  to  a  stake 
&  heap  of  stones  &  runs  weft  :  166  :  perch  on  no  :  9 :  to  a  stake  & 
heap  of  Stones  then  runs  south  :  50 :  perch  on  Range  Seventh  to  a 
stake  &  heap  of  stones  :  Then  runs  eaft  :  166 :  perch  on  No  11 :  To  ye 
firft  Bounds :  laid  out  Jn  ye  year  :  1736 :  by  order  of  ye  Committee : 
Laid  down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  perch  to  inch : 

Pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr 
:  Surveyor : 
Thefe  two  lotts  above  ware  Drawn  by  Ebenezer  Williames 


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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


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This  plan  Discribeth  No  :  18  :  Jn  Range  the  eight  Jn  Bofton  narra- 
ganfett  town  No  :  5 :  Beeing  Second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres  & 
a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  same  said  Lott  Bounds  as  followes 
Begining  at  a  Stake  &  heap  of  stones  &  runs  from  Thence  :  50 : 
Perch  north  on  Range  ye  ninth  to  a  Stake  &  heape  of  Stones  :  then 
Runs  weft  :  166:  Perch  on  No  :  17:  to  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  then 
Runs  south  :  50 :  Perch  on  Range  ye  seventh  to  a  stake  &  heape  of 
stones  then  Runs  eaft :  166 :  Perch  on  No  :  19  To  The  Bound  firft 
named  Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1736 :  by  order  of  ye  Committee  Laid 
down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  perch  to  an  inch  : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Survayor. 


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This  plan  Discribeth  No  :  17  :  Jn  Rang  ye  eight  Jn  Bofton  narragan- 
fett  town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres  &  a  six 
Rods  wide  way  a  crofs  ye  same  said  lott  Bounds  as  followes  begining 
at  a  stake  &  a  heap  of  stones  &  runs  from  thence  north  :  50 :  perch 
on  Rang  ye  ninth  to  a  pine  tree  then  Runs  weft  :  166:  perch  on 
No  :  16 :  to  a  stake  &  a  heape  of  stones  &  yn  Runs  south  :  50 :  perch 
on  Rang  ye  seventh  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  yn  Runs  east :  166  : 
perch  on  no  :  18 :  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  firft  named  Laid  out 
in  y*  year  :  1736 :  by  order  of  ye  Committee  laid  down  by  ye  scale  40 
perch  to  an  Inch.     Stephen  Hofmer  Jun  Survayor 


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This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  22  :  Third  Divifion  Jn  naraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Lying  Jn  Rang  six  Contains  fifty  six  acres  &  ten  Rods  have- 
ing  a  six  Rods  wide  way  allowed  Crofs  The  eaft  end  of  said  lott 


THE   PROPRIETORS'    RECORDS. 


145 


said  lott  bounds  as  followes  begining  at  a  stake  &  beap  of  stones 
Tbe  soutb  weft  Corner  of  No  :  21 :  &  Runs  from  thence  Eaft  :  155 : 
Rods  on  no  :  21 :  To  a  stake  &  beap  of  stones  tben  Runs  soutb  :  1 : 
Degree  eaft  :  60 :  Rods  on  Rang  Seven  to  a  stake  &  beap  of  stones 
then  Runs  weft  :  156 :  Rods  on  no  :  23 :  to  a  stake  &  beap  of  stones 
then  Runs  northerly  :  60 :  Rods  on  Range  five  to  the  Bound  firft 
mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  ye  year  :  1738  :  by  order  of  y8  Committee  : 
Laid  down  by  a  scale  of  40 :  Rods  to  an  Jncb : 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Survavor 


Thifs  lott  Discribeth  a  medow  lott  no  :  24  :  in  ye  narraganfett  town 

ship  no  :  5  :  it  containeth  :  3 :  acres  &  :  10  :  Rods  &  is  bounded  as  fol- 

loweth  it  Begineth  at  a  stake  at  ye  southwest  Corner  &  runeth  north 

40  Degres  west  :  16 :  Rods  by  2d  Range  to  a  maple  Tree  then  north 

10  :  Degrees  eaft  by  said  Range  :  13 :  Rods  to  an  oake  tree  tben  eaft 

40  :  Degrees  north  by  said  range  :  9 :  Rods  To  an  afh  tree  then  soutb 

30 :  degrees  eaft  by  said  Range  18  Rods  to  a  pine  tree  then  eaft 

11 :  degrees  north  :  15  Rods  to  a  Hemlock  tree  then  south  :  18 :  Rods 

by  no  :  25 :  to  a  stake  then  west  :  23 :  Rods  by  no  :  23 :  to  whare  it 

firft  Began  layed  out  :  1738 :  by  order  of  the  Committee  protracted 

by  a  scale  of  :  20 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch  :  By  James  Chandler  Surveyor : 

The  four  lotts  on  this  leaf  &  plans  which  two  of  them  ware  in  ye  sec- 
ond Divifion  &  two  of  them  in  y*  Third  Divifion  ware  Drawn  by 
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This  lott  ho  :  3 :  in  The  second  Range  in  the  Xarraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Containeth  :  50 :  acres  of  Land  with  allowance  of  Six  Rods 
Crofs  the  eaft  end  for  a  way     it  begineth  at  a  stake  &  stones  in  the 
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146 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


soutliweft  Corner  then  Runetk  north  by  the  needle  :  55  :  Rods  to  a 
ftake  and  stones  then  eaft  :  152  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  &  ftones  then  south 
:  55 :  Rods  :  then  weft :  152  :  Rods  To  whare  it  firft  began  the  Cor- 
ners are  Right  angles : 

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This  Lott  :  no :  6 :  in  the  second  Range  in  the  narraganfett  Town 
No  :  5 :  Containeth  :  50 :  acres  of  land  with  allowance  of  six  Rods 
crofs  the  eaft  end  of  the  lott  for  a  way  it  begineth  at  a  stake  & 
stones  being  ye  southweft  Corner  then  the  line  Runeth  north  by  the 
needle  :  55 :  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones :  Then  eaft  :  152  :  Rods  to  a 
stake~&  stones  then  South  :  55  :  Rods  To  a  stake  &  stones  then  weft 
:  152  :"Rods  to  whare  it  Firft  began  the  Corners  are  right  angles : 
:  Survayed  by  :  James  Chandler  Survayor : 


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This  plan  Discribeth  No  42  :  Third  Divifion  Jn  Narraganfett  Town 
No  :  5  :  Lying  Jn  Rang  Eight  Contains  one  hundred  &  ninten  acres 
&  one  hundred  rods  Beeing  ye  upland  &  meadow  part :  of  faid 
Divifion  haveing  a  six  rods  wide  way  allowed  Jn  The  lott  on  the 
eaft  end  said  lott  Bounds  as  folowes  :  Begining  at  a  stake  &  heap  of 
stones  the  northweft  Corner  of  no  :  41 :  &  runs  northerly  on  Rang 
seven  :  110  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  then  runs  eaft  :  180  :  Rods  on  no  :43 : 
To  a  ftake  then  Runs  south  :  1 :  Degree  Eaft  :  110  :  Rods  on  Rang 
nine  To  a  ftake  then  Runs  weft  :  180  :  rods  on  No  :41 :  to  the 
Bound  firft  mentioned  Laid  out  in  the  year  :  1738  :  by  order  of  y8 
Committee  :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Rods  :  to  an  jnch  — 
pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Survayor  : 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS. 


147 


This  plot  Discribeth  a  medow  lott  no  :  42 :  Jn  The  narraganfett 
Townfhip  no  :  5  :  it  Containeth  :  5  :  acres  &  :  40  :  Rods  &  Boundeth 
as  f  olloweth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at  the  south  west  corner  &  runeth 
north  :  15  :  Rods  by  ye  meadow  to  a  stake  then  eaft  :  60 :  Rods  by  no 
:41 :  to  a  stake  then  southweft  :  17  :  Rods  by  Range  3  :  3  Divifion  to 
.a  maple  Tree  then  weft  :  48 :  Rods  by  no  :  14  :  to  whare  it  first 
Began  thare  is  a  :  2  :  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  it  Layed  out  :  1738  :  By 
order  of  the  Committee  protracted  by  a  scale  of  :  20  :  Rods  to  an 
Jnch  : 

By  James  Chandler  Survayor  : 

The  four  lotts  &  plans  on  ye  leafe  which  two  of  them  ware  second 
Divifion  &  two  of  them  Third  Divifion  was  Drawn  by  Thomas  Baker 
Junr  purchafed  of  his  Father  Thomas  Baker :  — 

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This  Lott  no  :  26  :  in  ye  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5  :  Containeth  Fifty 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  ye  eaft  end  For  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  &  stones  at  ye  northweft  Corner  Then  the  Line 
Runeth  eaft  by  ye  nedle  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  and  stones  then  south 
fifty  Rods  to  a  ftake  &  stones :  then  weft  :  166 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  & 
stones  then  north  fifty  Rods  To  whare  it  firft  Began  the  Corners  are 
Right  angles  — 

Survayed  by  James  Chandler 


148  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

This  Lott  no  :  27  :  in  the  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5  :  Containeth 
Fifty  acres  it  begineth  at  a  ftake  &  stones  at  ye  northweft  Corner 
then  the  Line  Runeth  Eaft  by  the  nedle  :  80 :  Rods  Then  south 
:  100  :  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones  then  weft  :  80  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  & 
stones  then  north  :  100 :  Rods  to  whare  it  firft  began  ye  Corners  are 
right  angels : 

:  Survayed  by  James  Chandler : 


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This  Piatt  Discribeth  the  Lott  no  :  101  :  in  ye  narraganfett  Township 
No  :  5  :  Third  Divifion  it  Containeth  :  102  :  acres  with  allowance  of 
six  Rod  Crofs  it  for  a  way  &  is  Bounded  as  followeth  it  begineth  at 
a  ftake  at  ye  southeaft  Corner  &  Runeth  north  :  32 :  Degrees  Eaft  by 
Baabbusuck  Lotts  :  112:  Rods  to  a  ftake  then  north  :6:  Degrees 
weft :  by  faid  Lotts  to  a  stake  :  7  :  Rods  then  weft  :  183  :  Rods  by  No 
:  102  :  to  a  ftake  then  South  :  105  :  Rods  by  Range  :  5  :  To  a  ftake 
then  eaft  :  125 :  Rods  by  No  :  100  :  to  whare  it  first  Began  Layed 
out  :  1738  :  By  order  of  the  Committe  Protracted  by  a  fcale  of  :  40  : 
Rods  to  an  Jnch  : 

By  James  Chandler  Survayor  : 


This  plan  Discribeth  No  :  77  :  a  meadow  Lott  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
No  :  5  :  Lying  Jn  Rang  Third  of  Second  Divifion  at  ye  eaft  end  of 
no  :  6 :  Contains  two  acres  &  one  hundred  &  Thirty  one  Rods 
Bounds  as  follows  begining  at  a  ftake  ye  South  eaft  Corner  of  No  :  7  : 
Second  Divifion  &  Runs  weft  on  the  same  :  20 :  Rods  &  half  to  a 
stake  then  Runs  south  :  22  :  Rods  on  No  6 :  to  a  stake  then  runs  eaft 
:  20  :  Rods  &  half  on  No  :  78 :  meadow  Lott  to  a  ftake  then  Runs 
north  :  22 :  Rods  on  Rang  Four  to  the  Bounds  Firft  mentioned  Laid 
out  in  the  year  :  1738 :  by  order  of  ye  Committee  :  Laid  Down  by  a 
scale  of  :  28  :  Rods  to  an  Jnch  : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Survayor : 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS. 


149 


Thefe  four  plans  on  this  leafe  two  of  ye  second  Divifion  and  Two  of 
ye  Third  was  Drawn  by  John  Plimpton : 


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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  10  :  Jn  Rang  ye  fourth  Jn  Bofton  Xarra- 
ganfett  Town  No  :  5  :  being  Second  Divifion  Containing  :  fifty  :  acres 
&  a  six  Pods  wide  way  Crofs  the  Lott  said  Lott  Bounds  as  folio  wes 
Begining  at  a  stake  &  stones  The  north  eaf t  Corner  of  no  :  1 1 :  & 
Runs  from  thence  north  :  50  :  perch  on  Rang  ye  fifth  To  a  stake  & 
stones  then  Runs  weft  :  166  :  Perch  on  province  Land  To  a  hemlock 
Tree  then  Runs  south  :  50 :  perch  on  Rang  y  third  to  a  stake  & 
stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  166  :  perch  on  no  :  11 :  To  The  Bound  Firft 
named  Laid  out  in  the  year  :  1738  :  By  order  of  The  Committee 
Laid  down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  perch  To  an  Jnch  :  pr  Stephen  Hofmer 
Junr  Survavor : 


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ganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Containing  Fifty  acres 
-&  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  fame  said  Lott  Bounds  as  fol- 
lowes  Begining  at  a  ftake  &  ftones  y6  north  eaft  Corner  of  No  :  23  : 
&  Runs  from  thence  north  :  50  :  perch  on  Rang  the  fifth  To  a  ftake  & 
heap  of  stones  then  Runs  weft  :  166  :  perch  on  no  :  21 :  To  a  Beach 
Tree  then  Runs  south  :  50  :  perch  on  salem  narraganfett  town  To  a 
ftake  &  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  166 :  on  No  :  23  :  To  the  Bound 
firft  named  Laid  out  Jn  ye  year  :  1736:  by  order  of  ye  Committee 
Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Perch  To  an  Jnch  : 

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150  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  16  :  Third  Divifion  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5  :  Containing  eighty  three  acres  &  nineteen  Rods  Lying  Jn 
Rang  :  4  :  ha  vein  g  a  :  6  :  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  eaft  end  of  ye  same 
Bounds  as  follows  begining  at  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stone  Jn  salem  nar- 
aganfet  Town  Line  which  is  the  north  weft  Corner  of  no  :  15 :  & 
Runs  from  thence  eaft  :  203  :  Rods  on  faid  no  :  15 :  To  a  stake  & 
heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  north  :  1 :  Degree  weft  :  67 :  Rods  on 
Rang  five  To  a  ftake  then  Runs  weft  :  206  :  Rods  on  no  :  17  :  To  a 
stake  Jn  Salem  Line  then  Runs  southerly  :  67 :  Rods  on  sd  Line  To 
The  Bound  firft  mentioned  Laid  out  in  ye  year  :  1738  :  By  order  of 
the  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch  : 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr 

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This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  49  :  a  meadow  Lott  Jnrnaraganfett  Town 
"No  :  5  :  Lying  Jn  a  meadow  Called  great  meadow  Containing  three 
acres  &  Six  Rounds  Bounds  as  follows     Begining  at  a  ftake  Jn  ye 
meadow  beeing  ye  eafterly  Corner  of  no  :  48 :  &  Runs  north  :  28 
Rods  on  no  :  48  :  to  a  ftake  Then  Runs  eaft  :  18  :  Degrees  north  :  5 
Rods  on  no  :  44 :  Third  Divifion  To  a  Burch  then  Runs  eaft  :  43 
Degrees  :30:  minutts  north  :  11 :  rods  on  fd  no  :44:  To  a  popler 
then  Runs  eaft  :  9  :  Degrees  north  :  3  :  Rods  and  a  half  on  fd  no  :  44  : 
To  a  ftake  yn  Runs  south  :  32  :  Rods  &  half  on  no  :  50 :  a  meadow 
Lott  to  a  ftake  then  Runs  weft  :  18  :  Degrees  South  :  16  :  Rods  & 
half  on  no  :  52  :  &  :  53  :  meadow  Lotts  To  The  Bound  Firft  men- 
tioned    Laid  out  Jn  ye  year  :  1738 :  by  order  of  The  Committee- 
Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  28  :  Rods  To  an  Jnch  :  pr  Stephen  Hof- 
mer Junr  Surveyor  : 

Thefe  four  plans  on  ye  leafe  ware  Drawn   by  Henery  Willfon  & 
Recorded  The  :  23rd  :  of  march  1738/9  : 

pr  me  Jofeph  Ruggles  Propprietors  Clark  : 

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This  Lott  no  :  18  :  in  the  Narraganfett  Town  no  :  5  i  Contain eth  fifty 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  The  eaft  end  for  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  at  The  south  eaft  Corner  then  the  Line  Runeth 
weft  by  The  needle  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then  north  fifty  Rods  to- 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


151 


a  ftake  Then  eaft  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then  south  fifty  Rods  to 
whare  it  firft  began     The  Corners  are  Right  angles : 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  :  no  :  22  :  Jn  Bofton  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5  : 
Jn  Rang  the  :  10th :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres  &  a 
six  Rods  wide  way :  Crofs  the  same  :  said  Lott  Bounds  as  follows 
begining  at  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  &  Runs  north  :  50  :  Perch  on 
Rang  ye  11th:  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  weft  :  166  : 
perch  on  Xo  :  23  :  To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  south  :  50  : 
Perch  on  Rang  the  ninth  To  a  long  stone  &  heap  then  Runs  eaft 
:  166  :  perch  on  no  :  21 :  To  The  firft  Bounds  Laid  out  in  the  year 
:  1736  :  by  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  By  a  scale  of  :  40  : 
perch  To  an  Jnch  :     :  : 

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This  Piatt  Discribeth  the  Lott  no  :  65 :  Jn  the  narraganfett  [Town 
ship  no  :  5 :  3rd  Divifion  it  Containeth  Seventy  acres  with  allowance 
of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  eaft  end  and  four  acres  allowed  for  a  way 
The  Lengeth  of  it  &  Boundeth  as  followeth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at 
the  south  eaft  Corner  &  Runeth  :  67 :  Rods  &  northly  by  Rang 
Third  To  a  stake  then  runeth  weft  :  171:  Rods  by  no  :66:  To  a 
ftake  Then  runeth  south  eaft  :  67  :  Rods  &  a  quarter  by  Range  Firft 
to  a  ftake  then  eaft  :  171 :  Rods  by  no  :  64  :  To  whare  it  first  began 
Laved  out  :  1738 :  by  order  of  The  Committee  Protacted  by  a  scale 
of  :  40  :  Rods  to  an  Jnch  :  By  James 

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This  platt  Discribeth  a  meadow  lot  no  :  37 :  Jn  the  narraganfett 
Townfhip  no  :  5 :  Containeth  :  5 :  acres  &  :  20  :  Rods  &  it  is  Bounded 
as  followeth  it  begineth  at  a  ftake  at  the  south  weft  Corner  &  runeth 
north  :  15  :  Rods  by  meadow  to  a  ftake  then  eaft  :  55  :  Rods  by  no 
:  36:  to  a  ftake  then  south  :  18 :  Degrees  eaft  :4:  Rods  to  a  ftake 
Then  south  :  14 :  Degrees  eaft  :  12  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  then  weft  :  58  : 
Rods  by  no  :  38 :  to  whare  it  firft  began  Layed  out  :  1738 :  By  order 
of  The  Committee  protracted  By  a  scale  of  :  20 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch 
Thare  is  a  Two  Rods  wide  way  a  crofs  it : 

By  James  Chandler  Survayor : 
Thefe  four  plans  on  this  Leafe  was   Drawn   By  John   Ramfy  & 
recorded  the  :  23  :  day  of  march  :  1738/9 : 

— :  pr  me  Jofeph  Ruggles  proprietors  Clark : 


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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  8  :  Jn  Range  The  Eight  Jn  Bofton  narra- 
ganfett Town  no  :  5  :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres  & 
a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  same  said  Lott  Bounds  as  folows 
Begining  at  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of  no 
:  9 :  &  Runs  north  :  50 :  Perch  on  Rang  The  ninth  To  a  ftake  & 
heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  weft  :  166 :  Perch  on  no  :  7 :  to  a  ftake  & 
heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  south  :  50 :  perch  on  Rang  The  seventh 
To  a  ftake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  166 :  Perch  on  No 
:  9 :  To  The  firft  Bound  Laid  out  Jn  ye  year  :  1736 :  By  order  of  The 
Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  PerchTo  an  Jnch : 
pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Survayor : 


This  Lott  no  :  20  :  in  the  narraganfett  town  no  :  5  :  Containeth  Fifty 
acres  of  Land  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  eaft  end  for  a 
way  it  begineth  at  a  ftake  at  the  south  eaft  Corner  Then  The  same 
Runeth  Weft  by  ye  needle  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  stake  Then  north  fifty 
Rods  to  a  ftake  y°  eaft  :  166 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  then  south  fifty  Rods 

to  whare  it  first  began  The  Corners  are  Right  angles 

Surveyed  by  James  Chandler 


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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  :  8 :  Third  Divifion  Jn  naraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Containing  Fifty  Three  acres  &  one  hundred  &  Twelve 
Rods  Lying  Jn  Rang  :  4th :  haveing  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  y6 
eaft  end  of  The  Lott  said  Lott  Bounds  as  folows  Begining  at  a  ftake 
&  heap  of  stones  Jn  Salem  narraganfett  town  Line  beeing  the  north 
weft  Corner  of  no  :  7  :  &  Runs  from  thence  Eaft  :  184  :  Rods  on  Xo 
:  7  :  To  a  maple  Tree  then  Runs  north  19°  weft  :  48  :  Rods  on  Rang 
Five  To  a  ftake  Then  Runs  weft  :  186 :  Rods  on  no  :  9 :  To  a  ftake 
Jn  faid  salem  Town  Line  Then  Runs  southerly  on  said  line  :  48 : 
Rods  To  The  Bound  Firft  mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  y6  year  :  1738 : 
by  order  of  the  Committee :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Rods  to 
an  Jnch: 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr :  Surveyor : 


This  Plat  Discribeth  a  meadow  lott  no  :  15 :  Jn  The  narraganfett 
Township  no  :  5 :  it  Containeth  five  acres  &  is  Bounded  as  followeth 
it  begineth  at  a  ftake  at  the  south  weft  Corner  &  Runeth  north  :  7  : 
Degrees  weft  :  36 :  Rod  by  Rang  :  2d :  :  3d :  Divifion  To  a  ftake  then 
eaft  :  36 :  Rods  by  no  :  16 :  To  a  ftake  Then  south  :  23 :  Rods  by 
meadow  to  a  ftake  Then  weft  :  33 :  Rods  by  no  :  14 :  to  whare  it 
firft  Began  Laved  out  :1738:  By  order  of  The  Committee  Pro- 
tracted by  a  scale  of  :  20  :  Rods  in  an  Jnch : 

By  James  Chandler  Survayor : 

Thefe  four  plans  on  This  leafe  was  Drawn  Bv  Jofeph  Blake  & 
recorded  The  26 :  of  march  :  1739: 

pr  me  Jofeph  Ruggles  Proprietors  Clerk : 


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This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  44 :  Third  Divifion  Jn  narraganfett  town 
no  :  5  :  Lying  Jn  Rang  eight  Contains  ninety  four  acres  &  fifty  two 
Rods  beeing  The  upland  &  meadow  part  of  fd  Divifion  haveing 
allowance  for  Thefe  severall  high  ways  hereafter  mentioned  viz : 
one  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  eaf t  end  of  the  Lott :  allfo  one  six 
Rods  wide  way  from  ye  north  eaft  Corner  of  The  Lott  Runing  weft 
:  56 :  Rods  To  the  way  Comeing  between  Rang  eight  &  Rang  seven 
second  Division  allso  a  Two  Rods  wide  way  from  ye  eaft  end  of  ye 
Lott  up  to  the  meadow  where  it  will  beft  accommodate  people  & 
Round  ye  meadow  so  far  as  the  Lott  Bounds  on  said  meddow  said 
lott  Bounds  as  followes :  Begining  at  a  Burch  &  Runs  eaft  :  126 : 
Rods  on  no  :43:  To  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  northerly  :112: 
Rods  on  Rang  nine  To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  ftones  then  Runs  weft 
:  56 :  on  second  Divifion  lotts  to  a  ftake  &  heap  of  ftones :  yn  south 
:  12 :  Rods  &  a  half  on  Rang  second  Divifion  To  a  stake  &  heap  of 
stones  yn  weft  :  130  :  Rods  on  Rang  eight  aforefd  to  a  ftake  &  heap 
of  stones  yn  southerly  :  60 :  Rods  To  a  ftake  yn  eaft  :  18 :  Degrees 
north  :  12  :  Rods  on  meadow  Lotts  To  a  ftake  yn  northeaftly  :  11 
Rods  on  fd  meadow  lotts  to  a  popler  yn  eaft  :  9  :  degrees  north  :  24 
Rods  on  fd  meadow  lotts  to  a  stake  yn  south  :  8  :  degrees  eaft  :  30 
Rods  to  a  pine  on  fd  meadow  lotts  yn  north  eafterly  :  16  :  Rods  on 
Common  Land  to  a  pine  yn  southerly  :  14 :  Rods  on  sd  Common 
to  a  pine  yn  on  sd  Common  :  15  :  Rods  to  ye  Bound  firft  mentioned : 
laid  out  in  ye  year  :  1738  :  by  order  of  ye  Committee 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Survayor : 

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This  platt  Discribeth   a   meadow  lott  no  :  44 :   in  ye  narraganfett 
Town   ship   no   :  5 :  it  Containeth   :  3 :  acres   &  :  22 :  Rods :  &  is 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


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bounded  as  followeth  it  lyeth  in  no  :  17  :  &  is  2d  Divifion  Jn  Range 
it  begineth  at  a  ftake  at  ye  soutb  weft  Corner  &  runetb  nortb  :  2 
degrees  weft  :  26 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  yn  north  :  24  :  degrees  weft  :  47 
Rods  to  a  ftake  yn  eaft  :  7  :  Rods  by  no  :  43  :  to  a  ftake  yn  south  :  24 
degrees  eaft  :  43 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  yn  south  :  5 :  degrees  eaft  :  14 
Rods  To  a  Tree  then  south  :19:  Degrees  eaft  :19:  Rodds  To  a 
ftake  Then  weft  :  11 :  Rodds  by  no  :  45.:  to  whare  it  firft  Began 
Laid  out  in  the  year  :  1738 :  by  order  of  The  Committee  protracted 
By  a  scale  of  :  20  :  Rodds  to  an  Jnch : 

By  James  Chandler  Surveyor  : 


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This  plat  Discribeth  the  Lott  number  ninty  two  in  ye  Narraganfett 
Township  number  five  Third  Divifion  it  Containeth  ninty  acres 
with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  y6  eaft  end  for  a  way  &  is 
Bounded  as  followeth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  &  stones  at  the  south 
eaft  Corner  &  Runeth  north  ninty  Rods  by  Rang  the  fifth  to  a  ftake 
&  stones  then  west :  166 :  Rods  by  number  ninty  one  to  a  stake  & 
stones  Then  south  ninty  Rods  by  Rang  Third  to  a  ftake  Then  eaft 
:  166:  Rods  by  number  ninty  three  to  whare  it  first  Began  Layed 
out  :  1738 :  By  order  of  The  Committee  protracted  by  a  scale  of 
forty  Rods  to  an  Jnch :  By  James  Chandler 

Surveyor : 


This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  62 :  a  meadow  Lott  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Lying  Jn  &  at  a  meadow  Called  Little  meadow  Beeing  part 
upland  Said  Lott  Contains  Three  acres  Bounds  as  followes  Begining 
at  a  ftake  The  South  weft  Corner  of  no  :  63 :  &  Runs  on  the  Same 
north  :  12 :  Rods  To  a  stake  then  Runs  west  :  49 :  Rods  on  no  :  65 : 
To  a  stake  yn  Runs  South  :  8 :  Rods  on  second  Divifion  upland  to  a 
stake  then  Runs  eaft  :  24 :  Rods  on  third  Divifion  upland  To  a  pine 
Tree  vn  Runs  eaft  :  34 :  Degrees  south  :  8  :  Rods  on  Third  Divifion 
To  a  ftake  Then  Runs  eaft  :  18  :  Rods  on  no  :  61 :  To  The  Corner 
firft  mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1738 :  by  order  of  The 
Committee :  Laid  Down  By  a  scale  of  :  28 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch : 
pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Survayor : 


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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Thefe  four  Plans  on  This  Leaf e  Recorded  The  :  6th :  Day  of  March 
1740/1  and  was  Drawn  by  Ebenezer  Williames : 

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This  Lott  no  :  28  :  in  ye  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Containeth  :  50  : 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  ye  eaft  end  for  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  &  stones  at  y'  south  eaft  Corner  then  ye  Line 
runeth  weft  by  ye  needle  :  142 :  Rods  To  a  stake  &  stones  then 
north  :.  58 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  &  stones  then  eaft  :  142  :  Rods  to  a 
ftake  &  stones  then  south  :  58 :  Rods  to  whare  it  firft  began  the 
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ganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  being  second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres : 
Bounds  as  followes  begining  at  a  ftake  &  Heap  of  stones  ye  north 
eaft  Corner  of  no  :  3  :  &  runs  from  Thence  north  on  Common  Land 
fifty  &  eight  perch  to  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  weft 
:  138 :  perch  Partly  on  Common  Land  &  partly  on  no  :  1 :  To  a  ftake 
&  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  south  on  Rang  The  Eleventh  :  58 : 
perch  To  a  stake  &  a  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  eaft  :  138 :  perch  on 
no  :  3 :  To  The  Bounds  first  named :  Laid  out  in  the  year  :  1736 :  By 
order  of  ye  Committee  Laid  down  By  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Perch  To 
an  Jnch : 

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no  :  5 :  lying  Jn  Rang  six  Containing  sixty  six  acres  and  forty  five 


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Rods  haveing  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  eaft  end  of  the  Lott 
said  lott  Bounds  as  folowes  begining  at  a  ftake  and  heap  of  stones 
the  southwest  Corner  of  no :  23 :  &  Runs  from  Thence  eaft  :  157 : 
Rods  on  no  :  23 :  To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  south  :  1 : 
Degree  Eaft  :  70  :  Rods  on  Rang  seven  To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  f tones 
then  Runs  weft  :  158 :  Rods  on  no  :  25  :  to  a  ftake  &  heap  of  ftones 
then  Runs  notherly  on  Rang  Five  To  The  Bounds  firft  named  Laid 
out  in  the  year  :  1738 :  By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  down  by 
a  scale  of  :  40  :  Rods  To  an  Jnch : 

:  pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Surveyor  : 


This  plat  Discribeth  a  meadow  lott  :  no  :  26  :  in  the  naraganfett 
Township  no  :  5 :  it  containeth  :  3  :  acres  &  10  :  Rods  &  Boundeth 
as  followeth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at  ye  South  west  Corner  &  runeth 
north  :  47  :  Rods  by  no  :  25  :  to  a  ftake  then  eaft  :  11 :  degrees  south 
:  13  :  Rods  by  no  :  76  :  :  3  :  Divifion  to  a  ftake  then  south  :  44  :  Rods 
by  no  :  27  :  to  a  ftake  then  weft  :  12  :  Rods  to  whare  it  first  began 
Laid  out  :  1738  :  by  order  of  ye  Comittee     protracted  by  a  scale  of 

:  20  :  Rods  to  an  Jnch 

:  By  :  James  Chandler  :  Survayor  : 

Thefe  four  plans  on  y8  leafe  belongs  To  Sam"  Griggs  &  Recorded 
The  :  21  :  Day  of  may  :  1739  : 

:  p'  me  Jofeph  Ruggles  proprietors  Clerk  : 


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This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  9  :  Jn  Rang  ye  fourth  Jn  Bofton  Narragan- 
fett  Town  no  :  5  :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Containing  Fifty  acres  & 
a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  same  said  Lott  Bounds  as  followes  : 
Begining  at  a  stake  &  stones  ye  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  8  :  &  Runs 
from  thence  north  :  50  :  Perch  on  Rang  the  fifth  To  a  ftake  &  stones 
then  Runs  weft  :  166  :  Perch  on  Common  Land  To  a  ftake  &  stones 
then  Runs  south  :  50  :  Perch  on  salem  narraganfett  Town  To  a  ftake 
&  stones  Then  Runs  Eaft  :  166  :  Perch  on  :  no  :  8  :  To  The  Bound 
firft  named  Laid  out  Jn  ye  year  :  1736  :  By  order  of  the  Committee  : 
Laid  down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Perch  To  an  Jnch  : 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Surveyor : 


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fett  Town  no  :  5  :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Containing  fifty  acres  &  a 
six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  same  said  lott  Bounds  as  folows  Begin- 
ing  at  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  15  :  & 
Runs  from  Thence  :  50  :  perch  north  on  Rang  ye  11th  To  a  stake  and 
Heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  weft  :  166  :  perch  on  no  :  17  :  To  a  stake 
&  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  south  :  50  :  perch  on  Rang  y**  :  9  :  To  a 
stake  &  heap  of  stones  : :  Then  Runs  Eaft : :  166  :  perch  on  no  :  15  :  To 
The  firft  Bound :  Laid  out  in  ye  year  :  1736  :  By  order  of  ye  Com- 
mittee Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  perch  to  an  Jnch  : 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  32  :  Third  Divifion  Jn  naraganfett  Town 
no  :  5  :  Lying  in  Rang  six  Containing  eighty  Two  acres  haveing  a  six 
Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  Lott  at  ye  eaft  end  :  of  the  same  which 
Lott  is  The  upland  and  meadow  Parts  of  said  :  3  :  Divifion  Bounds 
as  folows  Begining  at  a  stake  the  south  weft  Corner  of  no  :  31  :  & 
Runs  eaft  :  166 :  Rods  on  no  :  31 :  To  a  ftake  and  heap  of  stones 
Then  Runs  south  :  82  :  Rods  on  Rang  seven  To  a  ftake  then  Runs 
weft  :  166  :  Rods  on  no  :  33  :  To  a  Read  oak  Tree  marked  Then  Runs 
north  :  82  :  Rods  on  Rang  Five  to  The  Bound  firft  mentioned  Laid 
out  Jn  the  year  :  1738  :  by  order  of  the  Committee     :Laid  Down  by 

&  fcale  of  :  40  :  Rods  to  an  Jnch : 

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THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


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This  plan  Discribeth  a  meadow  Lot  no  :  32 :  in  The  narraganfett 
Township  no  :  5  :  it  Containeth  Three  acres  &  Ten  Rods  &  is 
Bounded  as  Followeth  it  Begineth  at  a  ftake  at  the  south  weft 
Corner  &  runeth  north  :  16  :  Rods  by  ye  meadow  to  a  ftake  then  eaft 
:  31 :  Rods  by  no  :  31 :  to  a  ftake  then  fouth  :  16  :  Rods  by  Rang  :  3  : 
:  3  :  Divifion  to  a  ftake  then  weft  :  31 :  Rods  by  no  :  33  :  to  whare  it 
firft  began  there  is  a  way  crofs  it  :  2  :  Rods  wide  Layed  out  :  1738  : 
by  order  of  ye  Committee  protracted  by  a  scale  of  :  20  :  Rods  to  an 
Jnch  : 

:  By :  James  Chandler  Survayor : 
Thefe  four  plans  on  y'  leafe  ware  drawn  by  ye  Reved  Habijah  Weld 
<fe  Record  ye  :  23  :  day  of  may  :  1739 : 

pr  Jofeph  Ruggles  proprietors  Clerk  : 


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This  Lott  no  :  13  :  in  The  narragafett  Town  no  :  5  :  Containeth  Fifty 
acres  of  Land  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  eaft  end  for  a 
way  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at  ye  south  eaft  Corner  then-  The  Line 
Runeth  weft  by  the  needle  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  and  stones  Then 
north  fifty  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then  weft  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then 
south  fifty  Rods  to  whare  it  firft  began  The  Corners  are  Right 
angles : 

Surveyed  by  James  Chandler  : 


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This  Lott  no  :  15  :  in  the  narraganfett  town  no  :  5  :  ConXanieth  fifty 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  The  eaft  end  for  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  at  The  southeaft  Corner  Then  the  Line  Runeth 
Eaft  by  the  needle  :  166 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  then  north  fifty  Rods  to 
Si  ftake  Then  eaft  :  166 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then  south  fifty  Rods  to 
whare  it  firft  began     the  Corners  are  right  angles  : 

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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  :  121 :  Third  Division  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Containing  one  hundred  &  sixty  five  acres  haveing  allowance 
for  two  ways  six  Rods  wide  each  one  at  ye  eaft  end  &  one  Crof s  near 
The  middle  even  with  ye  six  Rods  way  at  ye  weft  end  of  the  houfe 
lotts  Jn  ye  second  Teer  :  said  Lott  Bounds  as  followes  begining  at  a 
ftake  The  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  120 :  &  runs  from  thence  north 
ten  Rods  on  Range  second  houfe  Lotts  To  a  pine  Tree  then  Runs 
eaft  :  169  :  Rods  on  faid  houfe  Lotts  To  a  ftake  then  Runs  north 
:  96  :  Rods  on  The  first  Teer  of.  houfe  Lotts  then  Runs  weft  :  160  : 
Rods  on  no  :  122 :  To  a  ftake  Then  Runs  south  :  10  :  Rods  on  Rang 
:  12  :  Second  Divifion  To  a  ftake  then  Runs  weft  :  137  :  Rods  on 
said  :  12 :  Rang  to  a  stake  then  Runs  south  :  89  :  Rods  on  Rang 
eleventh  Second  Division  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  then  Runs 
eaft  :  136 :  Rods  on  no  :  120  :  To  The  Bounds  First  mentioned  Laid 
out  Jn  the  year  :  1738  :  By  order  of  The  Committee  :  Laid  Down 
by  a  scale  of  :  112  :  Rods  To  an  Jnch  : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor : 


This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  91 :  a  meadow  Lott  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5  :  Lying  Jn  Rang  Tenth  Jn  no  :  26 :  Jn  a  meadow  Called  Cros- 
bees  meadow  Contains  Three  acres  haveing  a  six  Rods  way  allowed 
Crofs  y*  eaft  end  of  ye  lott  sd  lott  bounds  as  folowes  begining  at  a 
stake  :  22  :  Rods  north  of  ye  south  eaft  Corner  of  sd  no  :  26 :  &  runs 
north  :  7  :  Rods  &  a  half  to  a  stake  then  Runs  west  &  by  northerly 
:  59  :  Rods  on  no  :  92  :  To  a  stake  then  Runs  South  :  9 :  Rods  &  a 
half  To  a  white  pine  Tree  on  no  :  26  :  Then  Runs  eafterly  :  8  : 
Rods  on  no  :  26 :  To  a  stake  then.  Runs  south  eafterly  :  3 :  Rods 
on  no  :  26 :  To  a  stake  Then  Runs  :  47 :  Rods  on  no  :  26 :  To 
The  Bound  firft  mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  the  year  :  1738  :  by  order 
of  ye  Committe     Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  28 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch: 

pr  Stephen  Hofrner  Junr  Surveyor : 
Thefe  four  plans  on  y8  leafe  was  Drawn  By  Jofeph  Lin  &  Recorded 
February  >27  :  :  1739/40  : 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  8  in  Rang  the  third  in  Bofton  narraganfett 
Town  no  5  Being  fecond  Divifion  Containing  fifty  Acres  With  a  fix 
Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  Lott  faid  Lott  Bounds  as  folows,  Begins  at 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS. 


161 


a  Chefnut  tree  North  eaft  Corner  of  no  7  and  Runs  from  thence  57 
Perch  on  Rang  the  fourth  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  then  Runs 
weft  148  Perch  on  no  9  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  then  Runs 
fouth  57  Perch  on  Rang  the  fecond  to  a  Beach  Tree,  then  Runs  Eaft 
148  Perch  on  no  7  to  the  Cheftnut  Tree  firft  named,  Laid  Out  in  the 
year  1736  by  order  of  the  Corn14  Laid  Down  by  a  fcale  of  40  Perch 
to  an  inch 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  10  in  Rang  the  third  in  Bofton  Narragan- 
fett  Town  no  5,  being  fecond  Divifion  Containing  fifty  acres  with  a 
fix  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  Lott  bounds  as  followeth,  Begins  at  a 
ftake  and  heap  of  stones,  the  north  Eaft  Corner  of  no  9  and  Runs 
North  57  Perch  on  Rang  the  fourth  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones, 
then  runs  weft  148  Perch  on  Common  Land  to  a  ftake  and  Heap  of 
ftones,  then  Runs  fouth  57  Perch  on  Rang  the  second  to  a  beach 
tree,  then  Runs  Eaft  148  perch  on  no  9  to  the  ftake  and  heap  of 
ftones  firft  named,  Laid  out  in  the  year  1736  by  order  of  the  comtt. 
Laid  down  by  a  scale  of  40  Perch  to  an  inch  Ftephen  Hofmer  jun 

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This  plat  Difcribeth  the  Lott  no  103  in  the  narraganfet  Town  no  5  3d 
Divifion  Contain eth  111  acres  with  allowance  of  fix  Rods  Crofs  it  for 
a  way,  and  allowance  for  a  for  a  way  the  Length  of  it  and  is  bounded 
as  followeth  it  begineth  a  ftake  at  the  fouth  eafterly  Corner  and  run- 
eth  north  7  Dgr.  Eaft  by  the  Babufeck  Lots  96  rods  to  a  ftake,  then 
weft  186  rods  by  no  104  to  a  ftake  then  94  rods  by  Rang  5  to  a 
ftake  then  Eaft  177  rods  by  no  102  to  where  it  firft  began  Laid  out 
1738  by  order  of  the  Committee,  protracted  by  a  fcale  of  40  rods  to 
an  inch  By  James  Chandler,  surveyor 

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162 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Thefe  three  Plans  were  Drawn  by  Capn  Ebenezer  Dorr  &  Recorded 
Jan  18,  1748. 

by  Samuel  Wadsworth  Proprietors  Clerk. 


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This  Lot  no  17  in  the  Narraganfet  Town  no  5  Containeth  fifty  acres 
With  allowance  of  fix  Rods  Crofs  the  Eaft  End  for  a  way,  it  begin- 
eth  at  a  ftake  and  ftones  at  the  fouth  weft  Corner  then  the  Line 
Runeth  North  by  the  Needle  fifty  Rods  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then 
Eaft  166  Rods  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then  fouth  fifty  Rods  to  a  ftake 
and  ftones,  then  weft  166  Rods  to  where  it  firft  began  the  Corners 
are  Right  angles 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  19  in  Rang  the  Eighth  in  B  of  ton  Narragan- 
fet  Town  no  5  being  fecond  Divifion,  Contains  fifty  acres,  and  a  fix 
Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  fame,  faid  Lott  Bounds  as  f olows,  .begining 
at  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones  the  North  Eaft  Corner  of  no  20  and 
Runs  from  thence  North  50  Perch  on  rang  the  Ninth  to  a  ftake  and 
heap  of  ftones,  then  Runs  weft  166  Perch  on  no  18  to  a  ftake  and 
heap  of  ftones,  then  Runs  fouth  50  Perch  on  Rang  the  feventh  to  a 
ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  then  Runs  Eaft  166  Perch  to  the  bounds 
firft  named,  Laid  out,  in  the  year  1736  by  Order  of  the  Com"  Laid 
Down  by  a  fcale  of  40  Perch  to  an  inch 

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163 


This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  38  third  Divifion  in  Narraganfett  Town  no 
5  Lying  in  Rang  eight  having  a  fix  rod  wide  way  allowed  Crofs  the 
Eaft  end  of  the  Lott,  faid  Lot  Contains  One  hundred  and  fifteen 
acres,  and  twenty  five  rods,  bounds  as  follows  begining  at  a  ftake 
and  heap  of  ftones,  the  northweft  Corner  of  no  37  and  runs  from 
thence  northeily  110  rods  on  rang  feven  to  a  ftake  then  runs  Eaft 
174  rods  on  no  39  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones  then  runs  fouth  110 
rods  on  rang  nine  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  then  runs  weft  173 
rods  on  no  37  to  the  bounds  firft  mentioned  Laid  out  in  the  year 
1738  by  Order  of  the  Com"  Laid  down  by  a  fcale  of  40  rods  to  an 
inch. 

pr  ftephen  Hornier  junr  furveyor. 
Thefe  three  plans  above  were  Recorded  for  Deacon  Jonathan  "Wil- 
liams of  bofton  feb.  23  1750/1  land  bought  of  mr  fhearjafhub  Bourn 
of  f  cituate 

Recorded  by  Samuel  Wads  worth 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  54  a  Meadow  Lott  in  Xarraganfet  Town  no 
5  Lying  at  and  in  a  meadow,  Called  Little  meadow,  being  ^upland 
fwamp  and  meadow  Containing  feven  acres  and  half,  Bounds  as  fol- 
lows, Begining  at  the  north  weft  Corner  of  Dean  Williams  Farm, 
being  a  hemlock  tree,  and  runs  fouth  103  rods  on  fd  farm  to  a  pine 
tree,  then  runs  weft  24  degrees  north  13  rods  to  a  pine  then  runs 
North  97  rods  and  half  on  no  55  to  a  ftake,  then  runs  eaft  12  rods 
on  Wra  Colwells  Land  to  the  bounds  firft  mentioned. 
Laid  out  in  the  year  1738  by  order  of  the  Com. 
Laid  Down  by  a  fcale  of  28  rods  to  an  inch 

Pr  Ftephen  Hofmer  jun  furveyor 
This  plan  was  Recorded  for  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  of  Bofton 
Feb  23  1750/1  the  Land  bought  of  mr  fhearjafhub  Bourn  of  fcituate. 
Recorded  by  Famuel  Wadfworth  Proprietors  Clerk. 


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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  3  in  Rang  the  12  in  Bofton  haraganfett 
Town  no  5  being  fecond  Divifion,  Contains  fifty  acres,  bounds  as  fol- 
lows, Begining  at  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  and  Runs  north  58 
Perch  on  Common  Land,  to  ftake,  then  Tuns  weft  138  Perch  on  no  2 


164 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  then  Runs  fouth  58  perch  on  Rang  the 
Eleventh,  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones  then  Runs  Eaft  138  Perch  on 
Common  Land,  to  where  we  began,  Laid  out  in  the  year  1736  by 
Order  of  the  Com"  Laid  Down  by  a  fcale  of  40  Perch  to  an  inch. 
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This  Lot  no  27  in  Narraganfet  Town  no  5  Contains  50  acres  with 
allowance  of  fix  Rods  Crof  the  Eaft  end  for  a  way,  it  begineth  at  a 
ftake  at  the  fouth  Eaft  corner,  then  the  Line  Runeth  weft  by  the 
nedle  166  rods  to  a  ftake,  then  north  50  rods  to  a  ftake,  then  Eaft 
166  rods  to  a  ftake,  then  fouth  50  rods  to  where  it  firft  began,  the 
Corners  are  Right  angles. 

furveyed  by  James  Chandler. 


This  Plat  Difcribeth  the  Lot  no  90  in  the  Narraganfet  Townfhip 
number  five  Third  Divif ion  it  Contains  feventy  acres,  with  allowance 
of  fix  Rods  Crof  the  Eaft  end  for  a  way,  it  begineth  at  a  ftake  and 
ftones,  at  the  foutheaft  Corner  and  Runeth  North  1  dgr  weft  feventy 
Rods  by  Range  fifth  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then  weft  166  Rods  by 
number  89  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then  fouth  1  dgr  eaft  feventy  Rods 
by  Rang  the  third  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then  Eaft  166  Rods  by  num- 
ber ninty  one  to  whence  it  firft  began  Layed  out  1738  by  order  of 
the  Committee,  protracted  by  a  fcale  of  forty  rods  to  an  inch.  By 
James  Chandler  furveyor 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  165 

This  plat  Dif cribeth  a  medow  Lot  in  the  naraganfet  townfhip  no  5  in 
great  medow,  it  containeth  three  acres  and  40  rods  and  is  bounded 
as  followeth.  it  begineth  at  a  ftake  at  the  north  weft  Corner  and 
runeth  weft  20  degrees  fouth  by  no  85  12  rods  to  a  pine  tree,  then 
weft  8  Dgr  north  20  rods,  by  no  85  3  Divifion  to  a  pine  tree  then 
fouth  20  Dgr  eaft  by  no  26,  28  rods,  to  a  ftake,  then  eaft  by  5  Dgr 
north  by  medow  to  a  ftake  23  rods,  then  north  27  rods  by  no  8  to 
where  it  firft  began  Laid  out  1738  by  order  of  the  Committee,  Pro- 
tracted by  a  fcale  of  20  rods  to  an  inch  by  James  Chandler  furveyor 
Thefe  4  plans  were  Drawn  by  Lieut  Robert  Vofe  &  Recorded 
April  7  1749 

By  Saml  Wadsworth  Prop  Clerk 

Whereas  The  proprietors  of  The  following  Lotts  :41no:  11th:  14th: 
in  the  third  Divifion  have  not  Complyed  with  the  votef  of  the  pro- 
prietors regularly  afsembled  not  Drawn  their  Lotts  altho  they  have 
been  notified  according  to  Law  :  That  in  Cafe  they  Comply  not  with 
the  said  votes  in  paying  the  paft  Charges  their  Lotts  in  said  Divifion 
would  be  sold  To  The  higgest  bidder  :  &  now  at  a  meeting  of  The 
proprietors  regularly  assembled  it  being  Determined  the  said  Delin- 
quent proprietors  Lotts  shuld  be  sold  accordingly  by  the  Committee 
who  put  the  same  lotts  up  to  sale  &  no  :  11 :  was  Dispofed  of  to 
Mofes  Barron  at  :  17lbs :  10s :  0d :  prife  and  he  to  be  recorded  as  the 
proprietor  thereof  No  :  14  :  to  John  Goffe  at  twenty  three  pounds 
prife  and  he  to  be  Recorded  as  the  proprietor  thereof  and  no  :  43  :  to 
mr  John  Holbrook  at  :  17 Ib :  Pounds  prife  and  the  fd  Holbrook  to  be 
recorded  in  the  Records  as  ye  proprietor  there  of  as  wittnefs  our 
hands  at  the  said  meeting  at  the  Houfe  of  Luke  Vardy  this  :  9th :  of 
Jan'? :  :  1739 : 

:  William  Dudley  — 

:  Sam11  Thaxr 

:  Nath11  Goodwin : 


This  Lott  :  no :  23  :  in  the  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5  :  Containeth  fifty 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  eaft  end  for  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  stake  and  stones  at  the  north  west  Corner  Then  The 
Line  Runeth  eaft  by  The  needle  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  stake  and  stones : 
Then  south  :  50 :  Rods  To  a  stake  and  stones  then  West  :  166  : 
Rods  to  a  ftake  &  stones  Then  north  :  50  :  Rods,  to  whare  it  first 
began     The  Corners  are  Right  angles : 

Surveyed  by  James  Chandler  : 


166 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


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acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  The  eaft  end  for  a  way  and 
six  acres  for  a  way  The  length  of  the  Lott  it  Begineth  at  a  stake 
and  stones  at  The  north  west  Corner  yu  The  Line  Runeth  Eaft  by 
The  needle  :  166 :  Rods  to  a  stake  and  stones  then  South  :  56  :  Rods 
to  a  stake  &  stones  Then  west  :  166:  Rods  to  a  stake  and  stones 
then  north  :  56  :  Rods  to  whare  it  first  began  The  Corners  are  right 
angels : 

Surveyed  by  James  Chandler : 

Thefe  Two  Lots  ware  Drawn  by  Jserall  Hubbard :  and  Recorded 
Auguft  :  5  :  1739 : 

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ganfett Town  no  :  5 :  being  second  Divifion  Containing  fifty  acres 
and  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  y*  Lotts  said  Lott  Bounds  as  follows 
Begining  at  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of 
no  :  8  :  and  runs  from  Thence  north  :  57  :  Perch  on  Rang  The  fourth 
To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  west  :  148  :  Perch  on 
no  :  10  :  To  a  Beech  Tree  then  Runs  South  :  57  :  Perch  on  Rang 
The  second  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  148  : 
Perch  on  no  :  8 :  To  The  stake  and  heap  of  stones  first  named  :  Laid 
out  Jn  the  year  :  1736  :  By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by 
a  scale  of  :  40  :  Perch  To  an  Jnch  : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor : 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS. 


167 


This  Lott  no  :  10  :  in  The  second  Rang  in  the  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5  :  Containeth  :  50  :  acres  of  Land  with  allowance  of  six  Rods 
Crofs  the  eaft  end  of  the  Lott  for  a  way  it  begineth  at  a  stake  & 
stones  which  is  ye  southweft  Corner  of  ye  Lott  Then  the  Line  Run- 
eth  north  by  ye  needle  :  55  :  Rods  To  a  stake  &  stones  Then  eaft 
:  152  :  Rods  a  stake  &  stones  then  south  :  55  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  & 
stones  then  west  :  152  :  Rods  to  whare  it  first  began  : 

Surveyed  pr  James  Chandler  Surveyor : 


This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  37  :  Third  Divifion  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5  :  lying  Jn  Rang  eight  Containing  one  hundred  &  Twenty  Five 
acres  and  Forty  Rods  haveing  a  six  Rods  widetway  Crofs  the  eaft 
end  of  The  Lott  said  lott  Bound  as  folowes  :  Begining  at  a  stake  and 
heap  of  stones  the  north  weft  Corner  of  no  :36:  and. Runs  north 
:  120  :  Rods  on  Rang  seven  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  then  Runs 
Eaft  :  173 :  Rods  on  no  :  38  :  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then 
Runs  south  :  120 :  Rods  on  Rang  nine  To  a  stake  Then  Runs  west 
:  173  :  Rods  on  no  :  36 :  To  the  Bound  Firft  mentioned  :  Laid  out  in 
the  year  :  1738 :  by  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale 
of  :  40  :  Rods  to  an  Jnch  : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor  : 


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This  Plat  Discribeth  a  meddow  lott  in  y*  narraganfett  Township 
no  :  5  :  in  ye  Great  meddow  it  Containeth  two  acres  &  :  110  :  Rods 
&  Bounded  as  folio weth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at  The  northwest  Cor- 
ner &  runeth  west  :  15  :  Degrees  south  :  17  :  Rods  by  meddow  to  a 
stake  then  south  :  28  :  Rods  by  no  :  six  to  a  ftake  :  Then  eaft  :  27  : 
Degrees  north  by  no  :  86 :  :  3d :  Division  :  14  :  Rods  to  a  stake  then 
eaft  :  10  :  degrees  south  :  4  :  Rods  to  a  stake     then  north  :  28  :  Rods 


168 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


by  no  :4:  to  whare  it  began  :  Layed  out  :1738:  by  order  of  The 
Committee :     protracted  by  a  scale  of  :  20  :  Rods  to  an  Jnch. 

:  By  James  Chandler  Surveyor : 
Thefe  four  plans  on  this  leafe  was  a  Right  belonging  to  Samuell 
Belcher  &  purchafed  by  John  Holbrook:  Recorded  ye  :  28:  day  of 
Febury  :  1739/40 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  43  :  Third  Division  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Lying  Jn  Rang  eight  Contains  one  Hundred  and  six  acres 
and  one  hundred  and  six  Rods  Beeing  The  upland  and  meadow  Part 
of  said  Divifion  haveing  a  six  Rods  wide  way  allowed  Crofs  The 
eaft  end  of  The  Lott  said  Lott  Bounds  as  folows  Begining  at  a  ftake 
the  northwest  Corner  of  no  :  42 :  and  runs  northerly  on  Rang  seven 
:  75 :  Rods  To  a  pine  Tree  Then  Runs  northeafterly  :  62 :  Rods  on 
meadow  lotts  Jn  Great  meadow  and  common  Land  To  a  Burch  Then 
Runs  Eaft  :  126 :  Rods  on  no  :44 :  To  a  ftake  and  Heap  of  Stones  : 
Then  Runs  south  7  degrees  eaft  :  102 :  Rods  on  Rang  nine  To  a 
ftake  then  Runs  west  :  180 :  Rods  on  no  :  42  :  To  The  Bounds  First 
mentioned:  Layed  out  in  the  year  :  1738  :  By  order  of  The  Commit- 
tee :  Layed  Down  By  a  scale  of  Forty  Rods  to  an  Jnch  :  • 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Jur  Surveyor : 
This  plan  no  :  43  :  Containing  :  106 :  acres  &  :  106 :  Rods  upland  and 
meadow  was  purchafed  by  John  Holbrook :  at  a  Public  vandue  of 
The  Committee  of  the  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Recorded  Fabeuary 
:28th:  :  1739  :/40  : 

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THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS. 


169 


This  Plan  Discribeth  :no  :  13:  Third  Division  Jn  narraganf ett  Town 
no  :  5  :  Containing  seventy  one  acres  &  Ten  Rods  Beeing  The  upland 
and  meadow  Part  of  said  Divifion  all  which  Lyes  Jn  Rang  :  4th : 
haveing  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  eaft  end  of  sd  Lott  said 
Lott  Bounds  as  folowes  begining  at  a  wild  Cherry  Tree  Jn  Salem 
Town  Line  Beeing  the  north  weft  Corner  of  no :  :  12 :  and  Runs 
from  thence  Eaft  :  194  :  Rods  on  faid  no  :  12 :  To  a  ftake  Then 
Runs  north :  1 :  Degree  weft  :  60  :  Rods  Rand  Five  To  a  ftake  Then 
Runs  weft  :  197  :  on  no  :  14  :  To  a  ftake  and  heap  of  stones  Jn  said 
Salem  narraganfett  Town  Line  Then  Runs  f outherly  :  60  :  Rods  on 
said  Line  To  The  Bound  First  mentioned.  Laid  out  Jn  the  year 
:  1738  :  by  order  of  The  Committee  :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  : 
Rods  To  an  Jnch : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor: 

This    Plan   :  no  :  13 :    Contains  seventy  one  acres  and    Ten   Rods 
:  upland  and  meadow     :  The  Right  Belonged  to  David  Evins  &  Pur- 
chafed  by  John  Holbrooke  :  Recorded  Feb  :  28th:  1739/40  : 
pr  Joseph  Ruggles  proprietors  Clark  : 


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This  Lot :  no :  19:  in  the  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  ConTaineth  fifty 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  eaft  end  For  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  at  ye  south  eaft  Corner  Then  The  Line  Runeth 
weft  by  ye  needle  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then  north  fifty  Rods  to  a 
ftake  Then  eaft  :  166:  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then  south  fifty  Rods  to 
whare  it  firft  began     The  Corners  are  Right  angles : 

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This  plan  Discribeth  no  :  23  :  Jn  Rang  ye  10th  Jn  Bofton  narragan- 
fett Town  no  :  5  :  Beeing  second  Divission  Contains  Fifty  acres  and 
a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  same  said  lott  Bounds  as  folowes 
begining  at  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  and  Runs  north  :  50 :  Perch  on 
Rang  the  eleventh  To  a  ftake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  weft 
:  166 :  perch  on  no  :  24 :  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs 
south  :  50  :  Perch  on  Rang  ye  :  9  :  To  a  stake  and  a  heap  of  stones 


170 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Then  runs  eaft  :  166:  Perch  on  no  :  22:  To  The  firft  Bounds:  Laid 

out  Jn  the  year  :  1736 :  By  order  of  The  Committee 

Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Perch  to  an  Jnch : 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  28 :  Third  Division  Jn  narraganfett 
Town  no  :  5 :  Lying  Jn  Rang/  six  Containing  eighty  Three  acres 
and  sixty  five  Rods  haveing  Two  ways  allowed  Jn  the  same:  one 
six  Rods  wide  Crofs  the  eaft  end  of  The  Lott  and  one  Two  Rods 
wide  Length  ways  on  the  north  side  of  the  Lott  which  Lott  is  the 
upland  and  meadow  Part  of  ye  3rd  Division  Bounds  as  followes : 
Begining  at  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  The  southwest  Corner  of  no 
:27:  &  Runs  on  sd  no  :  27  :  :  162:  Rods  Eaft  to  a  stake  &  yn  Runs 
south  :  1 :  degree  eaft  :  87 :  Rods  on  Rang  Seven  to  a  stake  yn 
Runs  west  :  164 :  Rods  on  no  :  29 :  to  a  pine  Tree  yn  Runs  north- 
erly :  87 :  Rods  on  Rang  five  to  y*  Bound  first  mentioned  Layed 
out  in  ye  year  :  1738 :  by  order  of  ye  Committee  Layed  down  by  a 
scale  of  :  40 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor : 


This  Plan  Discribeth  a  meadow  lott  no  :28:  in  the  narragansett 
Township  no  :  5 :  it  Containeth  :  3 :  acres  &  :  12 :  Rods  and 
Boundeth  as  followeth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at  ye  southwest  Corner 
&  Runeth  north  :  12 :  Rods  by  no  :  27 :  to  a  ftake  then  eaft  :  41 : 
Rods  by  no  :  29 :  to  a  stake  yn  south  :  12 :  Rods  by  meadow  to  a 
stake  yn  west  :  41 :  Rods  by  no  :  22 :  To  whare  it  first  began :  Laid 
out  :  1738  :  by  order  of  The  Committee  protracted  by  a  scale  of  20  : 
Rods  To  an  Jnch  :  by  James  Chandler  Surveyor 
These  four  plans  on  y8  leafe  was  Drawn  by  John  Lane  &  Recorded 
The  :  5th :  day  of  march :  1739/40. 

pr  J  oseph  Ruggles  proprietors  Clark : 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


171 


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This  Plan  Discribeth  :no:  9:  Jn  Rang  the  eight  Jn  Bofton  narra- 
ganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres  & 
a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  same  said  lott  Bounds  as  folowes 
begining  at  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  and  Runs  from  thence  north : 
50 :  Perch  on  Rang  The  ninth  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then 
Runs  weft  :  166 :  Perch  on  no  :  8 :  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones 
Then  Runs  south  :  50 :  Perch  on  Rang  The  seventh  To  a  ftake  & 
heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :166:  Perch  on  no  :  10:  To  The 
Bound  First  named:  Laid  out  Jn  year  :  1736:  by  order  of  The 
Committee :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Perch  to  an  Jnch : 

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This  Lott  no  :  21 :  in  The  narraganfett  Town  No  :  5 :  Containeth 
Fifty  acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  The  eaft  end  for  a 


way:  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at 
Line  runeth  west  by  the  nedle 
fifty  Rods  to  a  stake  then  eaft 
fifty  Rods  to  whare  it  first  began 


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:  166 :  Rods  to  a  stake  then  north 

166:  Rods  to  a  stake  then  south 
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This  Plat  Discribeth  The  Lott  no  :  61 :  in  The  narraganfett  Town 
ship  no  :  5 :  3rd  Division  it  Containeth  sixty  acres  with  allowance  of 
six  Rods  wide  Crofs  the  eaft  end  of  said  Lott:  For  a  way  &  is 
Bounded  as  followeth  it  begineth  at  a  Pine  Tree  at  the  Southeaft 
Corner  &  runeth  north  ox  neck  By  the  needle  fifty  eight  Rods  & 
half  then  Runs  west  :  171:  Rods  by  no  sixty  two  Then  South  39  s 


172 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


east  :  58  :  Rods  and  half  by  Rang  the  first  then  eaft  :  171 :  Rods 
by  no  :  Tenth :  fifth  Rang  second  Division  whare  it  first  began 
Three  of  The  Corners  are  stakes  and  stones:  Layed  out:  1738:  By 
order  of  The  Committee :  Protracted  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Rods  in  an 
Jnch : 

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This  Plat  Discribeth  a  meadow  Lot  no  :  20 :  in  the  narraganf  ett 
Township  no  :  5 :  it  Containeth  :  4  :  acres  &  half  &  Bouneth  as  fol- 
loweth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at  ye  southwest  Corner  and  Runeth 
north  :  9 :  Rods  by  The  2nd  Rang  :  3 :  Division  to  a  pine  Tree  then 
north  :  17 :  degrees  west  :  4 :  Rods  to  a  stake  then  eaft  :  71 :  Rods 
by  no  :  21 :  to  a  stake  then  south  :  12 :  Rods  by  meadow  To  a 
stake  Then  west  :69:  Rods  by  no  :19:  to  whare  it  first  Began: 
Layed  out  :1738:  by  order  of  the  Committee:  Protracted  by  a 
scale  of  :  20 :  Rods  in  an  Jnch :  By  James  Chandler  Survayor : 
Thefe  four  plans  on  ys  leafe  was  Drawn  by  The  Heirs  of  Cap'  John 
Ruggles  :  &  recorded  march  :  7  :  1739/40 : 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  6:  Jn  Rang  The  third  Jn  Bofton  narra- 
ganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  beeing  second  Divifion  Containing :  fifty 
acres  with  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  Lott  &  eight  acres  & 
half  of  Common  meadow  at  the  eaft  end  all  Bounds  as  folowes 
begining  at  a  white  Pine  Tree  The  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  5  : 
and  Runs  from  Thence  north  :  66 :  Perch  on  Rang  The  fourth  To 
a  ftake  Jn  The  meadow  Then  Runs  west  :  148 :  Perch  on  : no:  :  7  : 
To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  runs  south  :  68 :  Perch  on 
Rang  The  second  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft : 
148  :  Perch  on  no  :  5 :  To  The  White  Pine  Tree  first  named  Laid 
out  Jn  The  year  :  1736  :  By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  down  by 
a  scale  of  :  40 :  Perch  To  an  Jnch : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Survayor: 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


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raganfett  Town  no  :  5  :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Containing  Fifty 
acres  with  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  lott  and  a  six  Rods  wide, 
way  length  ways  whare  The  Land  will  beft  acomodate :  said  Lott 
Bounds  af  folowes :  Begining  at  a  stake  Jn  a  meadow,  The  north 
eaft  Corner  of  no  :  6 :  &  Runs  from  Thence  north  :  63  :  Perch  on 
Rang  The  fourth  To  a  Chesnutt  Tree  Then  Runs  weft :  148  :  Perch 
on  no  :  8  :  To  a  Beech  Tree  Then  Runs  south  :  63  :  Perch  on  Rang 
The  second  To  a  ftake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  148  : 
Perch  on  no  :  6 :  To  The  stake  first  named  :  Laid  out  Jn  The  year 
:  173*6  :  By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  : 
Perch  To  an  Jnch : 

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This  Plat  Discribeth  lott  no  :  63  :  in  The  narraganfett  Townfhip 
no  :  5 :  3rd  Division  it  Containeth  :  60 :  acres  with  allowance  of  six 
Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  eaft  end  and  boundeth  as  foloweth :  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  and  ftones  at  the  south  eaft  Corner  and  Runeth 
north  1  :deg:  weft  :  58 :  Rods  and  half  to  a  ftake  and  stones  By 
Rang  3.,d  :  Then  weft :  171 :  Rods  by  no  :  64 :  to  an  oak  Tree  Then 
south  :  1 :  degee  eaft  :  58 :  Rods  &  half  by  Rang  firft  To  a  ftake  and 
stones  Then  eaft :  171 :  Rods  by  no  :  62  :  To  whare  it  first  Began 
Layed  out :  1738 :  by  order  of  the  Committee  :  Protracted  by  a  fcale 
of  :  40 :  Rods  in  an  Jnch : 

:  By  James  Chandler :  Survayor : 


174 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


This  Plat  Discribeth  a  meadow  lott  :  no :  35 :  in  the  narraganfetfc 
Townfhip  no  :  5 :  it  Containeth  :  4 :  acres  and  :  101 :  Rods  and  is- 
bounded  as  followeth  it  begineth  at  a  stake  at  the  south  west  Cor- 
ner &  Runeth  north  :  16:  Rods  by  meadow  to  a  ftake  :  Then  Eaft 
:  43 :  Rod$  by  no  :  34 :  To  a  ftake  Then  south  :  22 :  DegeeB  eaft  by 
Rang  :  3rd  :  :  3rd :  Division  :  17 :  Rods  to  a  stake  Then  weft  :  50  :  Rods, 
by  no  :  36 :  to  whare  it  first  began  Thare  is  a  :  2 :  Rods  wide  way 
Crofs  it  :  Layed  out  :  1738 :  By  order  of  the  Committee  :  Protracted 
by  a  scale  of  :  20 :  Rods  To  an  Jnch  : 

By  James  Chandler:  Surveyor: 
:  Thefe  four  Plans  on  this  Leafe  ware  Drawn  by  Jofeph  Ruggles  : 
Recorded  The  :  18 :  Day  of  march  :  1739/40 : 

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genfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Division  Contains  fifty  acres  and 
a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  lott  said  lott  is  Bounded  as  folowes, 
Begins  at  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  the  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  25  : 
and  runs  from  thence  north  :  50  :  Perch  on  Rang  the  ninth  To  a 
stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  runs  weft  on  no  :  23 :  :  166  :  Perch 
To  a  stake  &  a  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  south  :  50 :  Perch  on 
common  Land  To  a  stake  &  a  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  eaft :  166 : 
Perch  on  no  :  25  :  To  a  stake  &c  firft  named  Laid  out  Jn  the  year 
:  1736  :  by  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  : 
Perch  to  an  Jnch  : 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  25 :  Jn  ye  :  8  :  Rang  Jn  Bofton  narragan- 
fett Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Division  Contains  fifty  acres  and  a 
six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  lott  said  lott  Bounds  as  Folowes. 
Begining  at  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of 
no  :  26  :  and  Runs  from  thence  north  :  50  :  Perch  on  Rang  ye  ninth 
To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  west  :  166 :  Perch  on 
no  :  24 :  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones    Then  runs  south  :  50  :  Rods 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


175 


on  Common  Land  to  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft 
:  166 :  Perch  on  no  :  26  :  To  The  Bound  first  named  Laid  out  Jn  the 
year  :  1736  :  By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of 
:  40  :  perch  to  an  Jnch. 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  6 :  third  Division  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Containing  Fifty  six  acres  and  one  hundred  &  forty  Rods 
lying  in  Rang  :  4th :  haveing  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  eaft  end 
of  The  Lott  said  Lott  Bounds  as  folowes  begining  at  a  stake  & 
heap  of  stones  Jn  salem  narraganfett  Town  Line  Beeing  The  north 
weft  Corner  of  no  :  5 :  and  runs  eaft  :  180  :  Rods  on  no  :  5  :  To  a. 
ftake  then  Runs  north  :  1 :  Degree  west :  52  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  Then 
Runs  weft :  182 :  Rods  on  no  :  7th :  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones :  Jn 
sd  Salem  Town  Line  then  Runs  southerly :  52 :  Rods  on  said  Line  To 
The  Bound  First  named :  Laid  out  Jn  the  year  :  1738  :  By  order  of 
The  Committee  :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Rods  to  an  Jnch : 
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This  Piatt  Discribeth  a  meadow  lott  :no  :13:  in  The  narraganfett 
Town  no  :  5 :  it  Containeth  five  acres  and  is  Bounded  as  foloweth  it 
begineth  at  The  south  weft  Corner  and  Runeth  north  :  5 :  degrees 
eaft  :  16 :  Rods  by  no  :  73 :  and  no  :  74 :  :  3rd :  Division  to  a  stake  then 
north  :  16 :  degrees  west  :  7  :  Rods  to  a  stake  then  eaft  :  33 :  Rods  by 
no  :  14 :  to  a  ftake  then  south  :11:  Degrees  eaft  :26:  Rods  to  a 
stake  then  west  :  36 :  Rods  by  no  :  12 :  To  whare  it  first  began 
:  Laid  out :  1738 :  by  order  of  the  Committee :  protracted  by  a  scale  of 
:  20 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch : 

By  James  Chandler  Surveyor  : 
Thefe  four  plans  on  this  leafe  ware  Drawn  by  Thomas  Jeffers  of 
newport  and  ware  Recorded  The  6:  Day  of  Auguft  :1739  :  pr  Jofeph 
Ruggles:  Proprietors  Clark: 


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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  6  :  Jn  Rang  The  fourth  Jn  B  of  ton  narra- 
ganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Being  second  Divifion  Containing  Fifty  acres 
and  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  same  fd  Lott  Bounds  as  folowes 
Begining  at  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of 
no  :  5  :  and  Runs  from  Thence  north  :  50 :  perch  on  Rang  the  fifth 
To  a  ftake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  west  :  166 :  Perch  on 
no  :  7  :  to  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  south  :  50 :  perch 
on  salem  narraganfett  To  a  ftake  &  stones  Then  runs  eaft:  166: 
perch  on  no  :  5  :  To  whare  wee  Begun.  Laid  out  in  the  year  :  1736 : 
By  order  of  The  Committee :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Perch 
To  an  Jnch : 

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ganfett Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Division  Containing  Fifty 
acres  and  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  The  Lott  said  Lott  Bounds 
as  folowes  Begining  at  a  stake  &  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of 
no  :  18 :  and  Runs  north  :  50 :  Perch  on  Rang  the  fifth  To  a  ftake  & 
stones  Then  Runs  west  :  166 :  Perch  on  no  :  6 :  To  a  stake  and 
stones  Then  Runs  south  on  Rang  The  Third  :  50 :  Perch  to  a  ftake 
&  stones  Then  Runs  eaft :  166 :  Perch  on  no  :  18 :  To  The  Bound 
first  named  Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1736 :  By  order  of  The  Com- 
mittee    Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Perch  To  an  Jnoh : 

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This  Plan  Discribetk  no  :  27 :  Third  Divifion  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5  :  Lying  Jn  Rang  six  and  Contains  seventy  seven  acres  and  half 
haveing  a  six  Rods  wide  way  allowed  Crofs  The  eaft  end  of  The 
Lott  said  Lott  Bounds  as  folowes  Begining  at  a  stake  and  heap  of 
stones  The  south  weft  Corner  of  no  :  26 :  and  Runs  on  fd  :  26  :  eaft 
:  160  :  Rods  To  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  south  :  1 : 
Degree  eaft :  80 :  Rods  on  Rang  seven  To  a  f take  Then  Runs  weft 
:  162  :  Rods  on  no  :  28 :  To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs 
northerly  :  80 :  Rods  on  Rang  Five  To  The  Bound  Firft  mentioned 
Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1738 :  By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid 
Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Rods  To  an  Jnch : 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  51 :  a  meadow  Lott  Jn  Great  meadow  Jn 
narraganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Containing  Four  acres  Bounds  as  Fol- 
owes :  Begining  at  a  ftake  The  south  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  52 :  a 
meadow  Lott  and  Runs  north  eafterly  :  28 :  Rods  on  no  :  43  :  Third 
Divifion  To  a  white  pine  Tree  Then  Runs  northerly  :  24 :  Rods  and 
half  on  a  Common  Lott  To  a  pine  Tree  Then  Runs  west :  18 :  De- 
grees south  :  24 :  Rods  and  half  on  no  :  50  :  a  meadow  Lott :  To  a 
ftake  Then  Runs  south  on  no  :  52 :  :  29 :  Rods  To  The  Bound  Firft 
mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1738:  by  order  of  The  Com- 
mittee :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  28 :  Rods  to  an  Jnch 

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corded The  :  19 :  of  march  :  1739/40 : 

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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :118:  Third  Division  Jn  narraganfett 
Town  no  :  5 :  Containing  one  hundred  and  Fourty  one  acres  and 
eighteen  Rods  Beeing  The  upland  and  meadow  part  of  sd  Division 
haveing  allowance  for  a  six  Rods  wide  way  on  The  eaft  side  of  The 
Lott  next  The  Heads  of  houfe  Lotts  Jn  Rang  second  said  Lott 
Bounds  as  folowes  Begining  at  a  stake  The  north  eaft  Corner  of  no 
.:  117  :  aDd  Runs  from  Thence  north  :  167 :  Rods  on  the  second  Teer 
of  Houfe  Lotts  To  a  ftake  then  Runs  weft  :  140 :  Rods  on  no  :  119 : 
to  a  ftake  Then  Runs  south  on  Rang  :  11 :  second  Divifion  :  167  : 
Rods  To  a  ftake  Then  Runs  eaft :  140  :  Rods  on  no  :  117  :  To  The 
Bound  firft  mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1738 :  By  order  of 
The  Committee  :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  56:  Rods  To  an  Jnch: 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Surveyor : 

This  plan  was  Drawn  by  Jacob  Griggs :  Recorded  The  :  20  :  of 
march  :  1739/40: 

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This  Plan  Difcribes  no  1  Jn  Bofton  narraganfett  Town  in  Rang  the 
Eighth  Being  fecond  Divifion  Containing  fifty  acres  and  a  fix  Rod 
wide  way  Crofs  the  fame,  faid  Lott  Bounds  as  folows,  Begins  at  a 
maple  Tree  the  North  Eaft  Corner  of  no  2  and  Runs  from  thence 
north  50  perch  on  Rang  the  ninth  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones, 
then  Runs  weft  166  Perch  on  Province  Land  or  fhoves  Town,  to  a 
ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  then  runs  fouth  50  perch  on  Rang  the 
7th  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  then  runs  eaft  166  Perch  on  no 
2  to  the  Bound  firft  named.  Laid  out  in  the  year  1736  by  Order  of 
the  Comtt  Laid  Down  by  a  fcale  of  40  Perch  to  an  inch 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  2  in  Rang  the  Eighth  in  Bofton  Narragan- 
fett Town  no  5  Being  fecond  Divifion,  Contains*  fifty  acres,  and  a 
fix  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  fame  faid  Lott  Bounds  as  folows, 
begining  at  a  ftake  and  heap  of  ftones,  the  North  Eaft  Corner  of  no 
3  and  Runs  North  50  Perch  on  Range  the  ninth  to  a  maple  tree 


THE   PROPRIETORS     RECORDS. 


179 


then  Runs  Weft  166  Perch  on  no  1  to  a  ftake  and  heap  of  f tones, 
then  Runs  Eaft  166  Perch  on  no  3  to  the  bound  firft  named.  Laid 
out  in  the  year  1736  by  order  of  the  Comtt.  Laid  Down  by  a  fcale 
of  40  Perch  to  an  inch 

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This  Plat  Difcribeth  a  medow  Lott  no  17  in  the  narraganfet  Town- 
fhip  no  5  it  Containeth  five  acres,  and  Boundeth  as  followeth  it 
Begineth  at  ftake  at  the  fouthweft  Corner,  and  Runeth  north  7 
degrees  weft  13  rods  by  2d  Range  3d  Divifion  to  a  pine  tree,  then 
weft  35  degrees  north  10  rods  to  a  ftake,  then  eaft  52  rods  by  no  18 
to  a  ftake,  then  fouth  19  rods  by  medow  to  a  ftake  then  weft 
39  rods  by  no  16  to  where  it  firft  began.  Layed  out  1738  by 
order  of  the  Committee.  Protracted  by  a  fcale  of  20  rods  to  an 
inch,  by  James  Chandler  furveyor 

Thefe  three  Plans  above  Were  Drawn  by  James  Davenport  and 
Recorded  January  4,  1748/9 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  :  15  :  Third  Divifion  Jn  narraganfett  town 
no  :  5  :  Containing  eighty  seven  acres  on  hundred  &  fifty  six  Rods 
Lying  Jn  Rang  :  4  :  Bounds  as  folowes  Begining  at  a  ftake  &  heap 
of  stones  Jn  salem  narraganfett  Town  Line  Beeing  the  north  weft 
Corner  of  no  :  14 :  &  Runs  eaft :  200  :  Rods  on  sd  no  :  14  :  To  a  small 
Pine  thence  Runs  north  :  1 :  Degree  weft :  72  :  Rods  on  Rang  fifth 
To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  weft  203  :  Rods  on  no  :  16 : 
To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  Jn  Salem  Line  then  Runs  southerly  on 
sd  salem  Town  Line  :  72 :  Rods  To  The  Bound  First  mentioned 
Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1738 :  By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid 
Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40  :  Rods  To  an  Jnch : 

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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  48 :  a  meadow  Lott  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5  :  Lying  Jn  a  meadow  Called  Great  meadow  Containing  Two 
acres  &  one  hundred  Rods  Bounds  as  folowes  Begining  at  a  stake 
Jn  the  meadow  &  Runs  north  on  a  meadow  Lott  :  28 :  Rods  To  a 
ftake  Then  Runs  eaft :  18 :  Degrees  north  :  15  :  Rods  &  Half  on  no 
:  44 :  Third  Division  To  a  stake  then  Runs  south  :  28  :  Rods  on  no 
:  49 :  To  a  ftake  :  said  no  :  49 :  Beeing  a  meadow  Lott  Then  Runs 
weft  :  18  :  Degrees  south  :  15 :  Rods  and  half  on  no  :  53  :  and  another 
meadow  Lott  To  The  Bound  First  mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  The  year 
:  1738 :  by  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  28 : 
Rods  to  an  Jnch : 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Survayor : 

Thefe  ware  Drawn  by  Habijah  Savadge  Efqr  and  ware  Recorded 
the  :  24th :  Day  of  : march:  1739/40  pr  Jofeph  Ruggles  proprietors 
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This  Plan  Describeth  no  :  20 :  Jn  Rang  The  fourth  Jn  Bofton  nar- 
raganfett  Town  no  :  5  :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Containing  fifty 
acres  and  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  Lott  said  Lott  Bounds  as 
folowes  Begining  at  a  ftake  and  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of 
no  :  21 :  and  Runs  from  Thence  north  :  50 :  Perch  on  Rang  the  Fifth 
To  a  ftake  and  stones  Then  Runs  weft :  166 :  Perch  on  no  :  19 :  To 
a  ftake  &  stones  Then  Runs  south  on  Rang  The  Third  :  50 :  Perch 
To  a  ftake  &  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  166:  Perch  on  no  :  21 :  To 
The  Bound  Firft  named :  Laid  out  Jn  the  year  :  1736:  By  order  of 
The  Committee :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Perch  to  an  Jnch : 
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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  :  21 :  Jn  Rang  The  fourth  Jn  Bofton  narra- 
ganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Contains  Fifty  acres 
and  a  six  Rod  wide  way  Crofs  The  Lott  said  Lott  Bounds  as  fol- 
owes  Begining  at  a  ftake  &  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner  of  no 
:  22  :  &  Runs  from  thence  north  :  50 :  perch  on  Rang  the  fifth  to  a 
ftake  and  stones  then  Runs  west :  166 :  Perch  on  no  :  20  :  To  a  ftake 
&  stones  then  Runs  south  :50:  perch  on  Rang  the  Third:  Jn 
Part  &  part  on  salem  narraganfett  Town  to  a  Beech  Tree  then 
Runs  eaft  :166:  Perch  on  no  :22:  To  The  Bound  Firft  named 
:  Laid  out  Jn  the  year  :  1736 :  By  order  of  The  Committee :  Laid 
Down  By  a  scale  of  :  40  :  perch  To  an  Jnch  : 

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no  :  5 :  Containing  one  hundred  &  Thirty  acres  &  sixty  eight  Rods 
haveing  allowance  for  a  six  Rods  wide  way  on  the  ends  of  The 
Houfe  Lotts  said  Lott  Bounds  as  folowes  begining  at  a  stake  the 
north  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  51 :  and  Runs  north  eaft  :  130  :  Rods  on 
the  Houfe  or  Home  Lotts  To  a  stake  Then  Runs  north  :  72 :  Rods 
on  the  Houfe  Lotts  to  a  stake  Then  Runs  west  :  160 :  Rods  on  no 
:  54 :  To  a  ftake  Then  Runs  south  :  164  :  Rods  on  Third  Divifion 
To  a  stake  Then  Runs  eaft  :  72  :  Rods  on  no  :  51 :  To  The  Bound 
First  mentioned :  Laid  out  in  The  year  :  1738 :  By  order  of  The 
Committee :  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  56 :  Rods  To  an  Jnch : 
pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Survayor : 

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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


This  Plat  Discribeth  a  meadow  Lott  no  :  43 :  in  the  narraganfett 
Township  no  :  5 :  it,  Containeth  three  acres  &  :  12 :  Rods  &  is 
Bounded  as  followeth  it  Lieth  in  no  :  17 :  2 :  Division  in  Rang  :  9 : 
it  Begineth  at  a  stake  at  the  southeaft  Corner  &  Runeth  north  :  18 : 
Rods  to  a  ftake  then  eaft :  26:  Rods  by  no  :  16:  second  Division  to  a 
ftake  then  south  :  18 :  Rods  to  a  stake  then  west :  26  :  by  upland 
&  no  :  44 :  a  meadow  Lott  to  whare  it  first  Began :  their  is  a  two 
Rod  wide  way  Crofs  it :  Layed  out :  1738  :  By  order  of  The  Com- 
mittee :     Protracted  by  a  scale  of  :  20 :  Rods'to  an  Jnch : 

By  James  Chandler  Surveyor : 

These  four  plans  on  This  Leafe  ware  Drawn  By  Sam11  Belcher  of 
Cambridge  &  was  the  Right  of  Thomas  Beedle  purchafed  of  him  & 
was  Recorded  The  :  8  :  of  aprill  :  1740 :  pr  Jofeph  Ruggles  proprie- 
tors Clark : 


This  Lott  no  :  18  :  in  the  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Containeth  Fifty 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  eaft  end  For  a  way  it 
begineth  at  a  ftake  &  stones  at  the  south  west  Corner  then  the  Line 
Runeth  north  by  the  needle  Fifty  :  6 :  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones  then 
eaft :  166 :  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones  then  south  fifty  :  6:  Rods  to  a 
ftake  and  stones  weft  :  166 :  Rods  to  whare  it  first  began  thare  is 
allowance  of  six  acres  in  it  for  a  way  The  Lenghth  of  the  Lott  The 
Corners  are  Right  angles : 

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acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  Eaft  end  for  a  way  it  be- 
gineth at  a  stake  &  stones  at  The  south  west  Corner  Then  The 
Line  Runeth  north  by  the  needle  fifty  Rods  To  a  stake  &  stones 
Then  eaft  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  and  stones  then  south  Fifty  Rods 
Then  west :  166:  Rods  to  whare  it  first  Began  The  Corners  are 
Right  angles : 

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This  Plan  Decribeth  no  :  57 :  Third  Division  Jn  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Contains  :  236 :  acres  &  :  86  :  Rods  haveing  a  six  Rods  wide 
way  allowed  on  ye  eafterly  side  of  ye  lott  on  ye  head  of  ye  first  Teer 
of  Home  Lotts  allfo  haveing  Four  meadow  Lotts  To  be  taken  out 
which  are  allowed  for  which  Contains  :  14 :  acres  &  :  108 :  Rods- 
Lying  near  the  South  eafterly  Corner  of  the  Lott  &  Libery  is  to  bee 
For  People  To  Come  To  their  meadows  with  Teems  or  other  wife 
Dowing  Leaft  Damage  sd  Lott  no  :  5 :  Jncludes  moft  of  Sebens. 
Pond  sd  Lott  Bounds  as  folowes  Begining  at  a  stake  The  north 
eaft  Corner  of  no  :  56 :  &  Runs  north  :  261 :  Rods  on  the  first  Teer  of 
home  Lotts  To  a  stake  then  Runs  west  :  160 :  Rods  on  no  :  5  :  and 
meeting  houfe  Lott  &  then  Runs  south  :  261 :  Rods  on  third  Divi- 
sions then  Runs  eaft  :  161 :  Rods  on  no  :  56:  To  The  Bound  first 
mentioned  Laid  out  Jn  ye  year  :  1738 :  by  order  of  the  Committee : 
Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  46 :  Rods  To  an  Jnch : 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  65 :  a  meadow  Lott  Jn  naraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Lying  Jn  &  at  a  meadow  Called  Little  meadow  Beeing  part 
upland  Contains  Three  acres  &  one  hundred  <fc  eight  Rods  Bounds 
as  folowes  Begining  at  a  stake  the  south  west  Corner  of  no  :  64  :  & 
Runs  on  the  same  north  :  12 :  Rods  to  a  stake  Then  Runs  west :  49: 
Rods  on  no  :  67 :  To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  south  :  12 : 
Rods  on  second  Division  Land  To  a  stake  Then  Runs  eaft 
:  49 :  Rods  on  no  :  62  :  To  The  Bound  First  named  Laid  out  Jn  the 
vear  :1738  :  by  order  of  The  Committee     Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of 

28 :  Rodds  To*  an  Jnch 

pr  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor : 

Thefe  four  Plans  on  this  Leafe  was  Drawn  by  John  Allen  &  was 
Recorded  Aprill  :  24 :  1740 : 

pr  Jofeph  Ruggles  Proprietors  Clerk  : 


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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  7  in  Rang  the  fixth  in  Bofton  Narraganfett 
Town  No  5  Being  fecond  Divifion,  Containing  fifty  acres,  and  a  fix 
Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  fame,  faid  Lott  Bounds  as  folows,  Begining 
at  a  ftake  &  heap  of  ftones  Northweft  Corner  of  no  6  and  runs  from 
thence  North  50  Perch  on  Range  the  feventh,  to  a  ftake  and  heap 
of  ftones,  then  Runs  Weft  166  Perch  on  no  8  to  a  ftake  and 
ftones,  then  Runs  fouth  50  Perch  on  Rang  the  fifth  to  a  ftake  and 
heap  of  ftones,  then  Runs  Eaft  166  Perch  on  no  8 :  to  the  Bound 
firft  named,  Laid  out  in  the  year  1736  by  Order  of  the  Com".  Laid 
Down  by  fcale  of  40  Perch  to  an  inch : 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no  18  in  Rang  the  fixth  in  Bofton  Narraganfett 
Town  No  5  being  fecond  Divifion  Containing  fifty  acres  and  a  fix 
Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  fame,  faid  Lot  Bounds  as  folows,  Begins 
at  a  ftake  and  ftones,  the  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  17  and  Runs  from 
thence  north  50  Perch  on  Rang  the.  7th  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then 
Runs  Weft  166  Perch  on  no  19  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then  Runs 
fouth  50  Perch  on  Rang  5th  to  a  ftake  and  ftones,  then  Runs  Eaft 
166  Perch  on  no  17  to  the  bounds  firft  named.  Laid  Out  in  the  year 
1736  by  order  of  the  Com".  Laid  Down  by  a  fcale  of  40  Perch  to  an 
inch. 

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This  Plan  Difcribeth  no,  10  Third  Divifion  in  Narraganfett  Town 
no  5  Containing  Fifty  four  acres  and  144  rods  being  upland  and 
Meadow,  part  of  faid  Divifion  all  which  Lyes  in  Range  4th  having 
allowance  for  a  fix  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  Eaft  end  of  faid  Lott, 
faid  Lott  Bounds  as  folows,  Begining  at  a  ftake,  in  falem  narragan- 


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fett  Line,  being  the  Xorthweft  Corner  on  no  9  and  Runs  from  thence 
Eaft  188  rods  on  no  9  to  a  ftake,  then  Runs  North  1  Degree  weft 
48  rods  on  Rang  five  to  a  ftake,  then  runs  weft  190  rods  (Thrice 
Crofsing  Babofsett  Brook)  on  no.  11  to  a  white  oak  Tree,  then  Rim- 
ing foutherly  on  falem  Town  Line  48  rods  to  the  Bounds  firft  men- 
tioned. Laid  out  in  the  year  1738  by  Order  of  the  Com"  Laid  Down 
by  a  f cale  of  40  Rods  to  an  inch,  pr  ftephen  Hofmer  jun.  furveyor. 
Thefe  3  Plans  were  Drawn  by  Jonathan  Kilton,  and  fold  to  Increafe 
fumner  and  Recorded  January  5  1748/9  by  famuel  Wadfworth  Pro- 
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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  :  13  :  Jn  Rang  ye  :  10 :  Jn  Bofton  naragan- 
fett  Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres  and  a 
six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  ye  same :  said  lott  Bounds  as  followes 
Begins  at  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  ye  north  eaft  Corner  of  no  :  12  : 
and  Runs  from  Thence  north  :  50 :  Perch  on  Rang  The  :  11 :  To  a 
ftake  &  a  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  weft  :  166 :  Perch  on  no. :  14  : 
To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  south  :  50 :  Perch  on  Rang 
the  :  9 :  to  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones :  Then  Runs  eaft  :  166  :  Perch 
on  no  :  12:  To  the  firft  Bound  Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1736:  by 
order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  fcale  of  :  40 :  Perch  to  an 
Jnch: 

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This  Lot  no  :  3 :  in  The  Eleventh  Rang  in  ye  narraganfett  Town 
no  :  5 :  Containeth  fifty  acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rodds  Crofs  the 
eaft  end  for  a  way  it  begineth  at  a  ftake  at  ye  south  eaft  Corner 
then  the  Line  Runeth  weft  by  y*  nedle  :  166 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  then 
north  to  a  ftake  :  50  :  Rod  :  then  eaft  :  166  :  Rods  to  a  ftake  then 
south  fifty  Rodds  to  whare  it  firft  began  the  Corners  are  Right 
angles : 

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This  Plan  Dif  cribeth  no  :  9 :  Third  Divifion  Jn  naraganfet  Town 
no  :  5  :  Containing  fifty  four  acres  &  forty  eight  Rods  Beeing  the 
upland  &  meadow  part  of  said  Divifion  all  which  is  sitewate  Jn  Rang 
:  4 :  Haveing  allowance  for  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  eaft  end 
of  The  Lott  all  which  Bounds  as  followes  Begining  at  a  stake  Jn 
salem  naraganfett  Town  Line  Beeing  The  north  weft  Corner  of 
Rang  :  8 :  &  Runs  from  thence  eaft  :  186 :  Rods  on  no  :  8 :  To  a  stake 
Then  Runs  north  :1:  Degree  weft :  48 :  Rods  on  Rang  Five  Then 
Runs  weft  :  188  :  Rods  on  no  :  10 :  to  a  ftake  Jn  fd  Salem  Town 
Line  then  Runs  southerly  on  faid  Line  To  The  Bound  firft  men- 
tioned Laid  out  Jn  The  year  :  1738  :  by  order  of  The  Committee: 
Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  Rods  To  an  Jnch : 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Surveyor  : 

Thefe  Three  plans  on  This  &  The  oppofite  Leafe  was  Drawn  by 
John  Tuckeman  which  was  his  Fathers  Right :  Recorded :  The  six- 
tenth  Day  of  Februry:  1740/1:  pr  me  Jofeph  Ruggles  proprietors 
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ganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Beeing  second  Divifion  Contains  fifty  acres 
and  a  six  Rods  wide  way  Crofs  the  fame :  said  lott  Bounds  as 
follows  Begins  at  a  stake  and  heap  of  stones  The  north  eaft  Corner 
of  no  :  9 :  and  Runs  from  Thence  north  :  50 :  Perch  on  Rang  the 
:  11 :  To  a  ftake  &  heap  of  stones  then  Runs  west :  166:  Perch  on 
no  :  11 :  To  a  ftake  &  Heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  south  :  50  :  Perch 
on  Rang  the  :  9 :  To  a  stake  &  Heap  of  stones  Then  Runs  eaft  :  166 : 
perch  on  no  : 9:  To  The  firft  Bound:  Laid  out  Jn  the  year  :  1736: 
By  order  of  The  Committee  Laid  Down  by  a  scale  of  :  40 :  perch  To 
an  Jnch : 

pr  Stephen  Hofmer  Junr  Surveyor : 
John  Tuckerman : 


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This  Lott  no  :  7 :  in  the  narraganfett  Town  no  :  5 :  Containeth  :  50  : 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  the  eaft  end  for  a  way  and 
six  Rodds  the  Length  of  The  Lott  for  a  way  allfo  it  begineth  at  a 
ftake  and  stones  in  The  south  weft  Corner  of  y"5  lott  Then  The  Line 
Runeth  north  by  The  needle  :  56 :  Rods  to  a  stake  and  f tones  then 
eaft  :  166 :  Rods  to  a  ftake  &  stones  Then  south  :  56 :  Rodds :  Then 
weft  :166:  Rodds  to  whare  it  firft  began  The  Corners  are  Right 
angles : 

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This  Piatt  Difcribeth  The  Lott  sixty  four  in  the  narraganfett  Town- 
fhip  no  :  5 :  3rd  Divif  ion  it  Containeth  :  65 :  acres  &  Boundeth  aa 
followeth  it  Begineth  at  a  stake  &  stones  at  ye  southeaft  Corner  and 
Runs  north-  :  1 :  Degree  weaft  :  63 :  Rodds  to  a  ftake  &  stones  on 
Rang  Third  then  Runeth  weft  :  171 :  Rodds  by  no  :  65 :  to  a  ftake 
Then  south  :  1 :  Degree  eaft  :  63 :  Rods  by  Rang  firft  to  an  oake 
Tree  then  eaft  :  171 :  Rodds  by  no  :  63:  to  where  it  began  Thare  is 
allowance  of  six  Rodds  Crofs  the  eaft  end  for  a  way  Laid  out 
:  1738 :  by  order  of  The  Committee  :  Protracted  by  a  fcale  of  :  40 : 
Rodds  in  an  Jnch : 

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This  platt  Discribeth  a  meadow  lott  no  :  36 :  Jn  the  narraganfett 
Townfhip  no  :  5 :  it  Containeth  :  5 :  acres  &  is  Bounded  as  followeth 
it  begineth  at  a  ftake  at  the  south  weft  Corner  and  Runeth  north 
:  16 :  Rodds  by  meadow  to  a  ftake  Then  eaft  :  50 :  Rodds  by  no  :  35 : 
to  a  ftake  Then  south  :  22 :  Degrees  east  by  Rang  :  3 :  Third  Divi- 
fion  :  17 :  Rodds  to  a  ftake  Then  weft  :  55 :  Rods  by  no  :  37 :  to 
whare  it  firft  Began  Layed  out :  1738 :  by  order  of  The  Committee  : 
Protracted  by  a  scale  of  :  20 :  Rodds  to  an  Jnch : 

By  James  Chandler  Survayor : 

Thefe  four  Plans  on  This  and  ye  oppofite  leafe  was  Drawn  by  John 
Tuckerman  The  Right  was  purchafed  of  Henery  Timberlake : 
Recorded  The  seventh  Day  of  Feberuary  :  1740/1  pr  Jofeph 
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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  2  Jn  Range  The  6th  in  Boston  Naraganset 
Town  no  5  Being  ye  second  Devision  contains  fifty  acres  &  a  six 
Rod  wide  way  Crofs  The  same  said  Lott  Bounds  as  follows  Begins 
at  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  The  North  East  corner  of  no  1  &  Runs 
from  Thence  North  50  Perch  on  Rang  The  7th  To  a  oak  Tree 
Then  Runs  West  166  Perch  on  No  3  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones 
Then  Runs  South  50  Perch  on  Rang  The  5th  To  a  stake  &  heap  of 
stone  Then  Runs  East  166  Perch  on  no  1  To  The  Bound  first 
named  Layed  out  Jn  The  year  1736  by  order  of  The  Com"  Laid 
Down  by  a  scale  of  20  Perch  To  an  Jnch- 


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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  4  Jn  Range  The  6th  Jn  Boston  Nara- 
genset  Town  No  5  Being  second  Devifion  contains  50  acres  &  a  six 
Rod  wide  way  crofs  The  same  said  Lott  Bounds  as  follows  Begining 
att  a  oak  Tree  The  North  east  Corner  of  no  3  &  Runs  from  Thence 
north  50  Perch  on  Rang  ye  7th  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stons  Then 
Runs  West  166  Perch  on  No  5  To  a  stake  &  heap  of  stons  Then 
Runs  south  50  Perch  on  Rang  the  5th  Then  Runs  east  166  Perch 
on  No  3  To  a  oak  Tree  first  named  Layd  out  Jn  The  year  1736  by 


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order  of  The  Comitte  Layd  Down  by  a  scale  of  40  Perch  To  an 

Jnch 

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This  Piatt  Discribeth  The  Lott  Number  Ninty  Three  in  The  Narra- 
ganset  Township  No  5  Third  Division  and  itt  Containeth  one  hun- 
dred acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  The  East  End  for 
a  way.  and  Boundeth  as  follows  it  begineth  att  a  stake  &  stons  att 
The  south  east  Corner  &  Runeth  North  one  hundred  Rods  by  Rang 
five  To  a  stake  Then  West  166  Rods  by  No  92  To  a  stake.  Then 
south  one  hundred  Rods  by  The  3d  Rang  To  a  stake  Then  East  166 

Rods  by  No  94  To  whence  itt  first  began :  Layd  out  1738 

By   order   of   The   Com"6   Protracted   by   a   scale   of   forty   Rods 

To  an  Jnch 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  No  63  a  Medow  Lott  in  Narraganset  Town- 
ship No  5  Lying  in  &  att  a  medow  called  Little  medow  being  Part 
of  itt  upland  containing  Three  acres  bounds  as  follows,  begining 
att  a  stake  The  north  East  corner  of  No  60  &  Runs  North  12  Rods 
on  No  55  To  a  stake.  Then  Runs  west  10  Rods  on  No  64  To 
a  stake.  Then  Runs  south  12  Rods  on  No  62  To  a  stake.  Then 
Runs  East  40  Rods  on  No  1  61  &  60  To  The  bounds  first 
mentioned.     Layd  out  in  The  year  1738  by  order  of  The  Com,te : 

Layd  .Down  by  a  scale  of  28  Rods  To  an  Jnch pr  Stepa 

Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor 

These  four  Plans  were  Drawn  by  Deacon  John  Payson 

pr  Harbottle  Don*  Proprietors  Clerk 

Recorded  May  25 — 1743 


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This  Lot  No  18  is  in  The  Narraganset  Town  No  5  containeth  50 
acres  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  Crofs  The  East  end  for  a  way  itt 
begineth  at  a  beach  Tree  markt  att  The  North  west  Corner  Then 
The  Line  Runeth  east  by  The  nedle  166  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones 
Then  south  50  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones :  Then  west  166  Rods  to  a 
stake  &  stones  Then  north  50  Rods  to  whare  it  first  began  The 

Corners  are  Right  angles 

Surveyed  by  James  Chandler  Surveyor  : 


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This  Lot  no  22  in  The  Narraganset  Town  No  5  containeth  fifty 
acres  of  Land  with  allowance  of  six  Rods  crofs  The  Eaft  End  for 
a  way.  it  begineth  att  a  beach  Tree  in  The  northwest  Corner  Then 
The  Line  Runs  East  by  The  nedle  166  Rods  to  a  beach  Tree 
markt.  Then  Runs  south  50  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones  Then  west 
166  Rods  to  a  stake  &  stones.  Then  50  Rods  north  to  where  it 
first  began  The  corners  are  Right  angles. 

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This  Plan  Discribeth  no  55  Third  Divifion  in  the  Narraganfet  Town 
No  5  Contains  130  acres  &  132  Rods  having  a  six  Rod  wide  way 
allowed  on  The  east  end  of  The  Lott  on  The  head  of  The  first  Teer 
of  houfe  Lotts  allfo  a  two  Rod  wide  way  on  The  north  side  of  The 


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said  Lott  bounded  as  followes.  beginning  at  a  stake  The  north  east 
Corner  of  No  54  &  Runs  north  138  Rods  on  The  first  Teer  of  house 
Lotts  to  a  stake  then  Runs  west  160  Rods  on  No  5#  to  a  stake  & 
heap  of  stons  Then  Runs  south  138  Rods  on  Third  Divifion  to  a 
pine  tree.  Then  Runs  east  160  Rods  on  No  54  To  The  bound  first 
mentioned     Laid  out  in  The  year  1738  by  order  of  ye   committe 


Layd  down  by  a  scale  of 
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This  Plat  Discribeth  a  medow  Lot  No  47  in  The  narraganset  town 
ship  No  5  it  contains  3  acres  and  26  Rods  &  Lyeth  in  No  20  <fc  21 
second  Divifion  &  9th  Range  it  is  bounded  as  followes.  it  begineth 
at  ye  south  west  Corner  &  Runeth  north  24  Rods  to  a  stake  then 
west  43  Degrees  north  26  Rods  to  a  stake  Then  north  43  Degrees 
west  4  Rods  to  a  stake  Then  east  9  Rods  by  No  46  to  a  stake 
then  south  43  Degrees  east  4  Rods  to  a  stake  Then  west  11  Rods 
by  No  7  to  whare  it  first  began  there  is  a  two  Rod  wide  way  cros 
it  Layd  out  1788  by  order  of  ye  Committe  Protracted  by  a  scale  of 
20  Rods  to  an  inch. 

By  James  Chandler  Surveyer : 

Thefe  four  Plans  were  Drawn  by  Sam11  Bafs  in  his  own  Right  come 
by  his  father  Sam11  Bafs 

Pr  Harbottle  Dorr 

Proprietors  Clark: 
Recorded  Jan  29  1743/4 


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This  plan  Discribeth  No  4  in  Range  ye  Third  in  Boston  Narragan- 
set Town  No.  5  being  second  Divifion  containing  fifty  acres  with  a 
six  Rod  wide  way  cros  the  same  said  Lott  bounded  as  follows 
begins  att  a  stake  &  heap  of  stones  ye  north  east  Corner  of  No  3  & 


192 


HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 


Runs  from  Thence  north  57  Perch  on  Range  ye  4th  To  a  Chesnut 
Tree  Then  Runs  weft  148  Perch  on  No  To  a  black  oak  Tree 
Then  Runs  South  57  Pearch  on  Range  ye  second  To  a  maple  Tree 
Then  Runs  east  148  Pearch  on  No  3  To  ye  stake  &  heap  of  stones 
first  named.  Layd  out  in  ye  year  1736  by  order  of  The  Com" 
Layd  Down  By  a  scale  of  4  Perch  To  an  Jnch 
pr  Stephen  Hosmore  Jun 

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This  plan  Discribeth  No  5  in  Range  ye  Third  in* Boston  Narragan- 
fett  Town  No  5  being  second  Division  containing  fifty  acres  &  a  six 
Rod  wide  way  crofs  ye  said  Lot,  Bounds  as  follows,  begins  att  a 
Chestnut  Tree  ye  North  East  Corner  of  No  4  &  Runs  from  Thence 
57  Perch  on  Range  ye  fourth  to  a  white  pine  Tree  Then  Runs  West 
148  Perch  on  No  6  to  a  stake  &  heap  of  stons  Then  Runs  south 
57  Rods  on  Range  ye  second  To  a  black  oak  Tree  Then  Runs 
East  148  Perch  on  No  4  to  The  Chestnutt  Tree  first  named  Layd 
out  in  ye  year  1736  by  order  of  The  Com"  Layd  Down  by  a  scale 

of  20  perch  To  an  inch 

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This  Plat  Discribeth  The  Lott  No  82  in  ye  Narraganset  Town  No  5 
3d  Divifion  &  it  contains  fifty  eight  acres  &  half  with  allowance  of 
six  rod  cros  ye  east  end  for  a  way  &  four  Rods  in  ye  Length  of  itt 
for  a  way  alfo  &  is  Bounded  as  follows  it  Begineth  at  a  stake  & 
stons  at  ye  South  east  Corner  &  Runeth  north  Eighty  four  Rods  by 
Range  eighth  second  Divifion  to  a  black  birch  then  west  123  Rods 
by  No  81  to  a  stake  &  stons  then  south  eighty  four  Rods  by  Range 
ye  3d  3d  Divifion  to  a  stake  &  stons     Then  east  123  Rods  by  No 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  193 

83  to  whence  it  first  began     Layd  out  1738  By  order  of  ye  Comtt 

Protracted  by  a  scale  of  40  Rods  to  an  Jnch 

By  James  Chandler  Surveyor 


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This  Plat  Discribeth  a  medow  Lot  No  39  in  ye  Narraganfett  Town- 
ship No  5  it  contains  5  acres  &  58  Rods  &  is  bounded  as  follows  it 
begineth  at  a  stake  at  ye  south  west  Corner  &  Runeth  North  13 
Rods  by  medow  to  a  stake  then  east  62  Rods  by  No  38  to  a  stake 
then  south  77  Degrees  east  7  Rods  by  Range  3d  3d  Divifion  to  a 
birch  Tree.  Then  south  9  degrees  East  7  Rods  to  a  stake  then 
west  67  Rods  by  no  40  to  whence  it  first  began  There  is  a  two 
Rod  wide  way  acros  it  Layd  out  1738  by  order  of  ye  Comtt  Pro- 
tracted by  a  scale  of  20  Rod  to  an  Jnch : 

By  James  Chandler  Surveyor 

Thefe  four  plans  were  Drawn  by  Benja  Landon  in  his  own  Right 
recorded  Sept  21st  1744 :  pr  Harbottle  Dorr  Proprietors  Clerk: 

At  a  Legal  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Township  No  5  of 
Narraganfett  met  at  Luke  Vardys  inholder  in  Bofton  the  24  of  Jan- 
uary 1738/39  at  Ten  a  Clock  forenoon  &  met  accordingly  in  the 
firft  place  Chofe  Col.11  Thomas  Tileftone  Efqr  Moderator  2dly 
voted  that  Every  proprietor  That  as  he  Draws  fhall  pay  into  the 
hands  of  the  Treafuery  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  towards  the  De- 
fraying paft  Charges.  Viz  Three  Pounds  Ten  fhillings.  The  Eight 
article  To  Know  Whether  Robert  Walker  fhall  have  the  17th  Lott 
without  Drawing  Voted  in  the  Negative.  The  Minifters,  Miniftry 
&  fchooll  Lotts  Voted  as  they  are  Marked  on  The  Lift  in  the  Third 
Divifion  Voted  whether  that  ye  feventh  Claufe  Where  ye  Meetings 
are  to  be  held  for  the  future  pafsed  in  ye  affirmitive  &  voted  that 
they  fhall  be  held  in  Bofton 

Voted  Whether  ye  Meeting  houfe  fhall  be  Built  forthwith,  &  it 
pafsed  in  ye  negitive.  Voted  Whether  then-  fhall  be  any  money 
raifed  for  preaching  yu  ys  year  &  pafsed  in  ye  affirmitive.  Voted 
that  their  fhall  be  paid  Ten  fhillings  each  proprietors  fhare  to  pay 
for  preaching  for  ye  future.  *. 

6th  article  To  Know  if  any  money  shall  be  raifed  &  paid  for  Rec- 
tifying the  way  from  fouhegan  river  to  pifcataquog  River.  Voted 
yl  Twenty  pounds  be  allowed  for  y*  End.  Voted,  that  Robert 
Walker  is  to  fee  ye  way  mended  above  exprefsed  as  far  ye  Twenty 
pounds  Goes,  no  trubel  to  be  payed  for. 
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194  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

Voted  that  ye  Lotts  not  Drawed  fhall  be  Left  in  the  hands  of 
Deacon  Jonath  Williams  Treafurer  &  upon  ye  paying  three  pounds 
Ten  f hillings  they  fhall  Draw  &  be  entered  with  the  Clerk  Jofeph 
Ruggles. 

At  a  Legal  Meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Narraganfett  Town  No 
5  meet  on  ye  26th  of  feptemr  1739  at  Ten  a  Clock  forenoon  at 
mr  Luke  Yerdys 

1  Chofe  Thomas  Tileftone  Efqr  Moderator 

2  Whether  to  Build  a  new  Meeting  houfe  forth  with  &  pafsed  in 
the  negitive 

6th  ly  to  Chufe  a  Committee  to  pafs  upon  yc  Treafurers  accounts, 
agreed  to  Chufe  three  as  an  awrditt  to  witt  famll  Wadf worth,  Enf ign 
John  Holbroke  &  mr  Ebenezer  Williams,  &  to  make  report  at  three 
a  Clock  afternoon  on  faid  day 

7th  ly  referred  to  the  afternoon  &  ye  moderator  ajourned  y1  meet- 
ing to  three  a  Clock  afternoon. &  ajourned  accordingly 

31y  to  see  whether  ye  proprietors  will  allow  any  more  money  to 
repair  ye  way  between  f ohegan  ■&  pif  cataquog,  Voted  in  ye  negitive 

41y  Conferning  ftaking  out  ye  way  pafsed  in  the  negitive 

51y  Conferning  ye  Cattle  Carried  on  fd  Land,  Voted  in  ;y*  negitive 

8  Whether  the  non  fettlers  will  allow  ye  fettlers  any  farther 
encouragement,  voted  in  ye  Negitive. 

7thly  Voted  That  Ebenezer  Jones  paying  Samuel  Jones  Twenty 
pounds  by  a  note  under  hand  &  Likewife  paying  the  Reft  of  the 
Heirs  their  Equal  parts  of  ten  pounds  Then  famuel  Jones  Right  is 
fettled  upon  Ebenezr  Jones  above,  by  Confent  of  famuel  Jones, 
Voted  in  the  affirmitive 

Bofton  Jan?.  9th  1739/40 
Meet  at  mr  Luke  Verdys  at  ten  a  Clock  forenoon,  1st  place  Chofe  the 
Honble  Sam1  Thaxter  Efqr  Moderator,  artle  3  Voted  y'  yy  would 
Raife  money  for  preaching  among  ye  people  on  fd  Townfhip  while 
the  firft  of  next  June,  Voted  that  live  fhillings  be  paid  by  each  pro- 
prietors fhare  for  faid  ufe,  Voted  to  Chufe  a  Committe  to  witt  fam 
Barron  Lt  John  Goff  Thomas  Vickery  &  yy  to  Draw  out  y*5  money 
out  of  the  Treafury  &  to  render  an  account  of  yr  fo  Doing  Whether 
yy  will  raife  money  forthwith  to  build  a  meeting  houfe,  voted  in  y® 
negitive 

4  article  to  know  if  y*  proprietors  will  add  any  thing  to  the  five 
pounds  to  the  fettlers  Voted  in  the  negitive.  5th  ly  nothing  Done 
as  to  cattle  going  in  ye  woods  Voted  in  the  negitive.  6th  article 
Voted  to  Chufe  a  Committe  to  mark  out  ye  High  way  from  fough- 
egan  to  pefcatequog  &  to  make  proper  alterations,  the  major  part  of 
the  former  committee  to  do  faid  work  was  y8  y4  made  a  return  of 
f  d  way 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  195 

A  Coupleing  Lift  of  the  Third  Divifion  in  Narraganfett  Town  No  5 

No  1  meadowed/>Joseph  Benfon  no.  24  upland  Samuel  Griggs  Jun 
No  2  upland  Capt  Jofeph  Prince  no.  26  meadow  f olomon  Kneeland 
No  18  meadow  no.  25  upland  Nathanl  Tuffts 

No  3  upland  Robert  Gilmore  no.  31  meadowThomasWeymouth 
No  19  meadow  James  Rates  no.  26  upland 

no.    4  upland  no.    8  meadow  Thomas  Vickers 

no.  11  meadow  no.  27  upland 

no.  5  upland  Benjamin  Swain  no.  51  meadow/VJacob  Grigs 
no.  12  meadow  William  Hicklyng  no.  28  meadowed  John  Lane 
no.    6  upland  no.  29  meadowed  famuel  Patten 

no.  13  meadow  Thomas  Jeffries  for  Jofeph  Thorn 

no.    7  upland  no.  30  meadowed  Thomas  Moor  for 

no.  14  meadow  Jofeph  Sables  John  Simkins 

no.    8  upland  no.  31  upland  famuel  Kneeland 

no.  15  meadow  Jofeph  Blake          no.  52  meadow  by  James  niclolas 
no.    9  meadowed  John  Tuckerman  no.  32  meadowed  Rev.  Habijah 
no.  10  meadowed  ^Jonathan  Kilton  Weld 

no.  11  meadowed  Mofes  Barron     no.  33  upland  Thomas  Steel  for 

x  Sold  at  the  Vendue  no.  53  meadow  Jofeph  Scott 

no.  12  meadowed  John  Baker        no.  34  upland 
no.  13  meadowed/\Capt.  John         no.  56  meadow 

Holbrook  no.  35  upland 

no.  14  meadowed  John  Goffe         no.  8  meadow/NCapt  George  Talbot 
x  fold  at  the  Vendue  no.  36  upland  Jofeph  Jofselyn  in  ye 
no.  15  upland  no.  4  meadow  right  of  Benj  Bates 

no.  48  meadow/NHabijah  Savage    no.  37  upland  John  Holbrouk 

Efqr  no.  5  meadow  for  Copeland 

no.  16  upland  no.  38  upland  Mr  fharjafhub  Bourn 

no.  49  meadow  Henry  Wilfon        no.  54  meadow     J.  B. 
no.  17  upland  no.  39  upland 

no.  50  meadow  Fargos  Kanady      no.  55  meadow^Samuel  Thaxter 
no.  18  upland  Efqr 

no.  16  meadow  Shadrack  Thayer  no.  40  meadowed 
no.  19  meadowed  no.  41  meadowed 

no.  20  upland  no.  42  meadowed  John  Baker  for 

no.  32  meadowBenjamin Williams  Thomas  Baker 

no.  21  upland  no.  43  meadowed  John  Holbrook 

no.  23  meadow  Samuel  Williams  Sold  at  the  Vendue 

no.  22  upland  famuel  Pollard  no.  44  meadowed  Ebenezer  Will- 
no.  24  meadow  byDavid  mack  cluer  iams  for  Hopeftill  Humphry 
no.  23  upland  no.  45  upland  James  Davenport  for 
no.  25  meadow                                  no.  17  meadow     Thos  Davenport 


196  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

no.  46  upland  John  Crummy  for    no.  65  upland 

no.  42  meadow  John  Gridly  no.  37  meadow  John  Ramfey 

no.  47  upland  Zechariah  Chandler  no.  66  upland 

no.  57  meadow   for  Thomas  Hoi-  meadow  in  the  fame  James 

broke  Townfend 

no.  48  upland  Richard  Way  by     no.  67  upland 
no.  58  meadow       Richard  Abbit  no.  27  meadow  Dr.  John  Cutler 
no.  49  upland  John  Leech  no.  68  upland  John  Kanady 

no.  59  meadow  Zech  Chandler       no.  33  meadow  for  Nath  Goodwin 
no.  50  upland  no.  69  upland 

no.  60  meadow  Governer  Belcher  meadow  in  ye  fame 
no.  51  upland  no.  70  meadowed  Zechariah 

no.  11  Rang  3  upland  no.  71  meadowed      Chandler  for 

no.  44  meadow  Wm  Clark  Efqr 

no.  52  upland  Zechariah  Chandler  no.  72  upland  Mofes  Barron  for 
no.  1  upland  adjoyning  no.  22  meadow   Thomas  Barnard 

no.  45  meadow  for  Jofeph  Gardner  no>  73  upiand  to  James  Townfends 
no.  53  upland  Samuel  Belcher        no.  28  meadow  heirs 

no.  43  meadow     for  Thos  Beedle  no#  74  upland 
no.  54  upland  Will™  Moor  no.  29  meadow  Edward  White 

no.  46  meadow  for  Jofhua  Jacobs  no>  75  upland  Jonathan  Bowers 
a  fmall  ifland  by  no.  34  meadow      for  Vickers 

dumpling  brook  na  76  upland/SJames  Smith 

no.  55  upland  no.  30  meadow      on  Colburn 

&  47  meadow/ASamuel  Bafs  no.  77  upland  Zechariah  Smith 

ifland  in  fcatequog  no.  84  meadow     by  famll  Barron 

river  mouth  no  7g  upland  Hugh  Ridle  for 

no.  56  upland  James  Walker  no.  33  meadow     Ebenezer  Jones 

no.  64  meadowfor Henry  Lebutterno  79  upland  John  Macdugan 
no.  57  uPland  an(j  meadow  in  ye  fame  for  Zechah 

•no.  65  meadow  Dan11  Allen  Chandler 

no.  58  upland  no.  80  upland 

no.  87  meadow  Miniftry  no.  94  meadow/\Jfaac  Hatch 

no.  59  upland  no.  81  upland  Robert  Walker 

no.  90  meadow  fchool  no.  82  meadow    for  John  Langly 

no.  60  upland  no.  82  upland  Benj.  Langdon 

no.  89  meadow  Firft  Minifter         no.  39  meadow 
no.  61  upland  Capt  John  Ruggles  no.  83  upland  John  Moor  for 
no.  20  meadow  Heirs  no.  40  meadow       Richard  Prout 

no.  62  upland  Paul  Dudley  Efqr   no.  84  upland 
no.  21  meadow  by  James  Chandler  no.    1  meadow  Edward  White 
no.  63  upland  no.  85  upland 

no.  35  meadow  Jofeph  Ruggles     no.  10  meadow 
no.  64  upland  no.  86  meadowed  Samuel  Lyon 

no.  36  meadow  Henry  Timberlake 


THE  PROPRIETORS'  RECORDS.  197 

no.  87  upland  mr  Ebenr  Miller       no.  105  upland 

no.    9  meadow    for  famll  Miller,  no.    86  meadow  Benjan  Bowers 

no.  88  upland  Benjn  Smith  no.  106  upland  Famuel  Wadf- 

no.    2  meadow   for  famll  Gurnet       &  meadow  in  ye  fame        worth 

no.  89  upland 

no.    6  meadow  •  no.  107  meadowed 

no.  90  upland  Robert  Vofe  for       no.  108  meadowed  Jofeph  Little 

no.    7  meadow        Thomas  Vofe  for  Arnold  Oglebe 

no.  91  upland  James  Pitts  no.  109  upland 

&  meadow  in  ye  same  no.  81  meadow 

no.  92  upland  Ebenezer  Williams  no.  110  upland/VThomas  Chandler 

no.  62  meadow  no.    72  meadow        on  Benj  Dyer 

no.  93  upland  John  Payfon  no.  Ill  upland 

no.  63  meadow  no.    73  meadow 

no.  94  upland  Robert  Reading  for  no.  112  upland  Edward  White 

no.  66  meadow     Ebenezer  Hartf-  no.    75  meadow  Rebecah  Fofter 

torn  no.  113  upland  Will"1  Moor  for 

no.  95  upland  no.    85  meadow  Owen  Harris 

no.  67  meadow  Thomaas  Daws      no.  114  upland  Sam11  Hues 
no.  96  upland  no.    76  meadow 

no.  68  meadow  Ephraim  Moor       n0-  115  upland 
no.  97  upland  no.    83  meadow  Caleb  Stedman 

no.    8  fecond  Rg  upland  no.  H6  upland  Edward  White  for 

no.  69  meadow  no.    41  meadow        famll  Gill 

no.  98  upland  John  White  no.  117  meadowed  Mathu  Pattin 

no.  70  meadow  famuel  Knealand  for  famll  Guile 

no.  99  upland  no.  118  mead owed/N Jacob  Grigs 

no.  71  meadow  no.  119  meadowed  MarthewLittle 

no.  100  upland  for  Addington  Davenport 

no.    74  meadow/\famuel  Garnet  Efqr. 

no.  101  upland  no.  120  upland  Rebeakah  Hannans 

no.    77  meadow  John  Plimpton     no.    61  meadow 
no.  102  upland  y\  no.  121  upland 

no.    78  meadow  Jonathan  Smith  no.    91  meadowy\ Jofeph  Lin 

on  Rice     no<  122  upland 
no.  103  upland  no.    92  meadowyARichard  Bill  Efq 

no.    79  meadow  Edward  Dorr       n0-  123  upland 
no.  104  upland  no.    88  meadow 

no.    80  meadow 

Thomas  Tilefton  Efqr 

The  Proprietors  with  y\  this  mark  before  their  names,  were  wanting 
in  the  Lift  taken  by  Captn  Jofeph  Ruggles,  &  have  f ince  been  found 
out  &  Recorded  by  famual  Wadf worth  Proprietors  Clerk. 


198  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

At  a  General  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Narraganfett 
Town  no  5  Meet  at  mr  Luke  Vardys  in  Bofton  on  Wendesday  the 
Eighteenth  Day  of  June  1740  at  ten  a  Clock  forenoon. 
l6t  Chofe  The  Honouble  William  Dudley  Efqr  Moderator  &  Then 
ajourned  To  Three  a  Clock  afternoon  &  ajourned  accordingly, 
meet  again  at  the  Time  ajourned  Tp 

2ndiy  To  fee  Whether  they  Will  Proced  to  Build  a  meeting  Houfe 
Voted  in  the  Negitive 

3rd,y  Voted  that  after  Thirty  Days  from  ye  Date  hereof  The  Com- 
mittee fhall  Proceed  to  Difpofe  of  the  Delinqquents  Lotts  that  have 
not  payed  their  Ten  fhillings  firft  Voted  for  preaching  &  their  five 
fhillings  after  Voted  Which  is  fifteen  fhillings  Each  fhare,  to  follow 
the  fteps  of  the  Law  &  Giving  Dues  warning  of  the  fale 
3rdly  to  fee  whether  the  proprietors  will  allow  any  more  money  for 
Preaching  to  the  inhabitants  &  Voted  to  Raife  Ten  fhillings  Each 
fhare  for  Preaching  for  fix  or  feven  months  to  Conae :  ye  Committee 
for  that  Purpofe  is  John  Goff,  Mofes  Barron  and  faml  Patten  &  the 
faid  money  to  be  Raifed  as  the  Law  Directs  after  the  Time  is  out 
for  Preaching 

4th  To  fee  whether  the  Proprietors  will  Vote  any  more  money  for 
finifhing  the  High  way  between  Pifcataquog  &  fouhegan  Voted 
3*-4d  be  added  to  the  former  39-4d  Raifed  for  that  end,  yl  mr  Robert 
Walker  to  do  faid  work  &  thofe  y*  are  delinquents  in  y"  Cafe  to  be 
proceeded  with  according  to  Law  as  to  the  fale  of  yr  Lots,  the  firft 
3B-4d  to  be  paid  down  into  the  Treafurers  hands,  &  the  other  when 
yr  work  is  don 

5th17  To  fee  Whether  the  proprietors  in  Cafe  of  a  warr,  will  Vote 
any  thing  to  fupport  the  inhabitants  now  fetled,  either  as  to  fortifi- 
cations or  fouldiers 

Att  a  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  Narraganfet  Townfhip  No  5 
at  the  houfe  of  mr  Luke  Verdys  in  Bofton  the  18th  of  May  1743 

Thomas  Tileftone  Efqr  was  Chofen  Moderator,  Harbottle  Dorr  at 
the  fame  time  was  Cofen  Clerk  &  was  fworn  to  the  Difcharge  of 
the  Office. 

Then  the  Proprietors  proceeded  to  act  upon  the  feveral  articles 
in  the  notification  1  Voted  that  the  third  article  in  the  notifica- 
tion (for  the  more  effectual  fettlement  of  the  Townfhip)  be  Referd 
to  the  ftanding  Comtte  for  their  Confideration,  they  to  make  report 
(what  they  think  proper  to  be  Done)  at  the  next  meeting 
2ljr  Voated  that  the  Proprietors  will  Raife  money  for  the  Building 
of  a  meeting  houfe 

3ly  Voated  that  a  meeting  houfe  be  built  forty  foot  Long,  &  thirty 
foot  wide,  &  twenty  foot  Pofts. 

4ly  Voated  that  a  tax  of  five  fhillings  Old  Tenor  be  Laid  on  Each 
Right  for  the  foport  of  the  Gofpel  among  the  inhabitants 
5ly  Voated  that  Major  Edward  White,  mr  John  Goff,  &  mr  John 
Chamberlin  be  a  Comtte  to  provide  preaching 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.-  199 

6ly  Voated  that  a  tax  of  thirty  fhillings  old  Tenor  be  laid  on  Each 

Right  towards  building  the  meeting-houfe. 

7ly  Voated  that  then:  be  a  Committee  Chofe  to  manage  the  affair  in 

building   the   meeting-houfe,   Voated   that   Mefsr   Edward   White, 

John  Goff  &  Mofes  Barron  be  the  Comtte 

8Iy  Voated  that  their  be  a  Tax  of  fixteen  fhillings  &  Eight  pence 

Old  Tenor  be  Laid  on  Each  Right  for  the  Raifing  Money  to  Pay 

mr  John  Chamberlin  for  the  Building  of  a  bridge  over  foughheegan 

River  and  that  two  fhillings  &  fix  pence  Old  Tenor  be  Laid  on 

Each  Right  for  the  building  of  the  bridg  over  babusuck  River. 

At  a  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Narraganfet  Townfhip 
No.  5  at  the  houfe  mr  Tho8  Harwood  of  Dunf table  ye  19  of  Octo. 
1743 

1'  Chofe  Tho8  Tylfton  Efqr  Moderator  for  faid  Meeting. 

2ly  Chofe  Mr  James  Davenport  a  Comtte  Man  in  the  Room  of 
Willm  Dudley  Efqr  Dece. 

3Iy  it  was  put  to  Voat,  whether  the  Proprietors  Would  Chufe 
Collectors  to  Gather  the  Taxes,  Voated  in  the  anirmitive  Mefsr 
famuel  Wadfworth  &  mr  John  Chamberlin  Were  Chofen  Collectors 

4ly  the  question  was  put  whether  the  Proprietors  would  Pitch  on 
any  other  Place  then  was  ahead  Voated  to  Erect  the  meeting-houfe 
on  Pafsed  in  the  Negative 

5Iy  it  was  put  to  Voat  whether  the  Proprietors  would  Chufe 
a  Com"  to  preambulate  the  bounds  of  the  Town,  Voated  in  the 
affirmitive,  Voated  that  Mefsr  John  Goff,  Mofes  Barron,  &  Benjn 
Smith  be  the  Comtte  for  that  purpofe 

6ly  it  was  put  to  Voat  whether  the  money  y'  was  Collected  or 
fhould  be  Collected  for  the  building  of  the  Meeting  houfe  be  put 
into  the  hand  of  the  Comtte  already  Chofen  for  y*  purpofe  pafsed  in 
the  Negative.  Voated  that  the  money  be  paid  into  the  hands  of 
the  Proprietors  Treafurer  &  it  was  Voated  y*  the  Treafurer  be 
Directed  to  Draw  an  order  on  the  Collectors  to  Pay  ye  Taxes  for 
building  ye  meeting  houfe  into  y*5  hands  of  mefs  Edward  White, 
John  Goff,  &  Mofes  Barron,  the  Com,le  for  Building  y6  meeting- 
houfe,  they  to  render  an  accnt  to  the  proprietors  of  their  Doings 

7ly  Voated  y*  60  pound  old  Tenor  be  raifed  on  y6  Proprietors  to 
pay  fundry  Debts 

8,y  Voated  yl  the  Charges  of  this  meeting  be  paid  by  whole 
proprietors 

9ly  Voated  that  a  Com."  be  Chofe  to  Difcharge  the  Debts  Due  to 
mr  Luke  Verdy,  mr  Hofmer  ye  furveigher,  &  the  Hens  of  mr  Jofeph 
Ruggles  Decd  (the  former  Clerk)  y'  the  fd  Com.tte  Look  into  the 
Proprietors  Book  of  records  &  Give  Orders  to  the  Prefent  Clerk  to 
Record  fuch  Voats  &  papers  they  fhall  think  proper.  Voated  that 
the  Clerk  be  paid  for  his  fervice  as  clerk 

10  Voated  y'  Mefr  famuel  Wadfworth,  fam11  Bafs  &  fam11  Barron 
be  ye  Comttee  any  two  y*  fhall  agree  be  Valid.     Voated  alfo  y*  y* 


200  ,         HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

faid  Comtte  audit  the  Treafurers  accts  &  make  Report  of  the  Whole 
at  "the  next  Meeting  it  was  alfo  Voated  y*  the  Comttee  be  paid  for 
their  fervice  While  they  are  on  the  affair  at  Bofton,  then  the  Meet- 
ing was  adjourned  without  Day 

P  Harbottle  Dorr  Proprietors  Clerk 

At  a  Meeting  of  fome  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Loweft  Narraganfet 
Town  fhip  on  Merrimack  River  No  5  at  the  houfe  of  mr  Pelatiah 
Glover  at  the  fign  of  the  Three  horfe  fhoes  in  Bofton,  they  acted 
on  the  following  Particulars  on  Wednefday  the  26  of  October  1748 
Viz. 

1  Edward  White  Efqr  was  Chofe  Moderator  for  faid  Meeting 

2  famuel  Wadfworth  was  Chofen  Clerk  in  the  Room  of  mr  Har- 
bottle Dorr  Decd  &  fworn  by  Edward  White  Efqr  to  faid  office 

3  Captn  Ebenezer  Dorr  was  Chofen  a  Committee  man  in  the  Room 
of  Thomas  Tileftone  Efqr  Decd 

4  The  4  &  5  articles  Defered  for  farther  Confederation 

5  Voted  that  the  Proprietors  will  fend  a  Committee  to  New  hamp- 
fhire  to  Wait  upon  the  Governour,  the  Council  or  General  Court, 
to  afk  their  advice,  &  Pray  their  afsiftance,  in  forwarding  the  fettle- 
ment  of  fd  Townfhip,  &  to  enquire  into  the  Claims  of  the  Heirs  or 
Afsignees  of  mr  Mafon  to  faid  Townfhip,  &  Do  what  elf  they  fhall 
think  Proper  for  forwarding  fd  fettlement,  their  Proceeding  to  be 
Laid  before  the  next  meeting  of  the  Proprietors. 

6  Dr  Ebenezer  Miller  was  Chofen  one  of  the  Committee  to  fend  to 
New  hampfhire 

7  Edward  White  Efqr  was  Chofen  one  of  the  Committee  to  fend  to 
New  hampfhire 

famuel  Wadfworth  Proprietors  Clerk 

At  a  Legal  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Loweft  Narraganfet 
Townfhip  on  Merrimack  River  No.  5  at  the  houfe  of  mr  Pelatiah 
Glover  in  Bofton  on  Wednefday  December  7  1748 

1  Edward  White  Efqr  was  Chofen  Moderator  for  faid  Meeting 

2  the  accompt  of  Dr  Miller  &  Major  White  read  &  accepted,  for 
expences  when  they  went  to  New  Hampfhire 

3  Voted  to  ad  two  more  to  the  ftanding  Committee 

4  Docr  Ebenezer  Miller  Chofen  to  be  One  of  the  ftanding  Committee 

5  CaptDJohn  Holbrook  Chofen  to  be  One  of  the  ftanding  Committee 

6  Voted  to  Chufe  a  Committee  to  Profecute  Trefpafsers  on  the 
Proprietors  Rights 

7  Voted  that  the  ftanding  Committee,  be  the  Committee  to  Prof- 
ecute Trefpafsers  (at  the  Coft  of  the  Propriety),  on  any  Lott,  or 
Right  in  the  Townfhip 

8  Voted  that  forty  fhillings  old  Tenor,  be  Raifed  on  Each  Right, 
to  Profecute  in  the  Law,  thofe  that  fhall  Trefpafs  on  the  Right  of 
others 

9  Voted  that  the  Committee  formerly  Chofen,  Viz  mr  famuel  Bafs, 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  201 

Mofes  Barron  &  famuel  Wadf worth  be  ftill  the  Committee  to 
Examin  the  Treafurers  accompts,  notwithftanding  two  of  them  have 
fold  their  Rights 

famuel  Wadfworth  Proprietors  Clerk 

At  a  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Loweft  Narraganfet  Town- 
fhip  on  Merrimack  River  no  5  Legaly  Warned,  &  held  at  the  houfe 
of  mr  Pelatiah  Glover  at  the  fign  of  the  three  horfe  fhoes  in  Bofton 
near  the  Common,  on  Wednefday  February  15  1748/9 

1  the  Revd  mr  Samuel  Brown  was  Chofen  Moderater  for  faid  meet- 
ing 

2  Voted  that  money  fhall  be  Raifed  to  Provide  preaching  for  three 
months 

3  Voted  that  Each  fingle  Right  fhall  pay  twelve  fhillings  for  faid 
Preaching 

mr  Zechariah  Chandler  Difsents  from  the  two  Laft  Votes 

4  Mr  Mofes  Barron,  Samuel  Patten,  &  Thomas  Vicary,  Chofen  a 
Committee  to  provide  preaching  in  faid  Townfhip. 

5  Voted  that  one  third  of  the  time,  Preaching  fhall  be  to  accommo- 
date the  inhabitants  at  the  upper  end  of  the  Town;  One  Other 
third  part,  the  Lower  end  of  the  Town,  the  Laft  third  about  ftraw- 
berrie-hill.  all  in  fuch  houfes  as  the  faid  Committee  fhall  think 
proper  for  Each  part  of  the  inhabitants 

6  Voted  that  Ten  pounds  old  Tenor,  be  Drawn  out  of  the  Treafur- 
ers hands  of  money  that  is  now  in  his  hands,  that  was  paid  in  for 
building  the  Meeting  houfe  to  be  in  part  for  preaching,  faid  Treaf- 
urer  taking  Receipt  of  thofe  that  provide  preaching 

famuel  Wadfworth  proprietors  Clerk. 
Province  of  New  Hampshire 

Whereas  apply  cation  hath  this  day  been  made  to  me  the  subscriber 
one  of  his  Majesty's  Justices  of  the  peace  for  said  Province  by  the 
owners  and  proprietors  of  more  than  one  sixteenth  part  of  the  town- 
ship of  Sowhegan  East  or  Narragansett  Township  No  Five  Alias 
Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrimack  in  the  Province  afore- 
said to  Call  a  meeting  of  said  owners  and  Proprietors  THIS  is  there- 
fore to  Notify  and  Warn  all  the  owners  and  Proprietors  of  the  town- 
ship aforesaid  to  meet  at  the  house  of  Mr  James  Walker  on  Tues- 
day the  twenty  six  day  of  April  Jnstant  at  12  o'clock  at  noon  to  act 
and  Vote  on  the  following  articles  Viz  1  To  chuse  a  Moderator  2 
a  Proprietors  Clerk  and  to  impower  him  to  Demand  and  receive  the 
Proprietors  Books  papers  and  plan  and  to  sue  for  the  same  if  the 
person  or  persons  in  Whose  hands  they  are  shall  refuse  to  deliver 
the  same  3  To  agree  on  Method  to  call  Proprietors  Meetings  for 
the  future  • 

Bedford  April  2d  1763  John  Goffe 

N.  B.  The  above  meeting  was  to  have  been  held  the  24th  of  last 
January  at  the  above  place  but  by  reason  of  the  Difficulty  of  Travel- 
ing the  proprietors  could  not  be  notified 

a  true  record  pr  Mathw  Patten  Proprietors  Clerk. 


202  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Att  a  meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  township  of  Sowhegan  East 
Alias  Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac  held  by  a  Notifi- 
cation from  Col :  John  Goffe  Esqr  held  at  the  house  of  Mr  James 
Walker  in  said  Bedford  on  Tuesday  the  twenty  sixth  day  of  April 
Annoque  Domini  1763 
Voted  Col :.  John  Goffe  Esqr  Moderator 
Voted  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  Proprietors  Clerk 
Voted   That  the  Clerk  demand  the  proprietors   book  papers  and 
Plan  and  make  report  at  the  adjournment  of  this  meeting  if 
he  can 
Voted  That  the  Clerk  do  not  sue  for  the  proprietors  book  papers 

and  Plan  untill  further  Jnstructions 
Voted  That  this  meeting  be  adjourned  untill  Tuesday  the  24th  day 
of  May  next  to  this  place  at  two  of  the  Clock  in  the  after- 
noon 

Tuesday  May  24th  1763  Met  according  to  adjournment  and 
the  Moderator  being  necesfarily  absent  Therefore 
Voted  That  Mr  James  Walker  be  Moderator  Pro  temporary  for  this 

Meeting 
Voted  That  this  meeting  be  farther  adjourned  untill  Tuesday  the 
26th  day  of  July  next  at  two  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to  this 
place 

Tuesday  July  26th  1763  met  according  to  adjournment  and 

the  Clerk  haveing  received  a  Letter  from  Deacon  Jonathan 

Williams  of  Boston  concerning  the  Proprietors  Book  papers 

and  Plan  of  his  Willingnefs  to  Deliver  them  into  whose 

hands  the  proprietors  shall  chose 

Voted   That  Matthew  Patten  Esq'  Proprietors   Clerk  do  receive 

from  the  above  named  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  of  Boston  the 

proprietors  Book  papers  and  Great  Plan  of  the  whole  town  with  the 

several  Divisions  thereon  and  when  received  to  keep  the  same  untill 

farther  order  of  the  propriety  and  that  he  go  to  Boston  to  receive 

them  at  the  Proprietors  cost 

Voted  That  this  Meeting  be  adjourned  untill  Thursday  the  first  day 
of  September  next  at  three  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to  this 
place 

Thursday  September  lFt  1763  met  according  to  adjournment 
Voted  That  the  Method  for  calling  Proprietors  Meeting  for  the 
future  shall  be  in  the  Method  following  (viz)  That  the  owners  of 
one  sixteenth  part  of  said  Propriety  makeing  applycation  in  Writ- 
ing to  the  Proprietors  Clerk  shewing  the  articles  they  woud  have 
incerted  in  said  notification  That  the  Clerk  shal  upon  such  applica- 
tipn  Jsue  out  a  notification  for  a  proprietors  meeting  containing  such 
articles  as  is  set  forth  in  said  supplication  and  shall  be  advertised 
the  same  in  the  New  Hampshire  Gazetee  and  in  one  of  the  Boston 
Publick  Prints  three  weeks  succefsively  before  the  time  of  holding 
said  meeting  at  the  Cost  of  such  supplicators  for  the  speedy  per- 
formance of  the  same  and  that  the  said  charge  shall  be  drawn  out 


THE   PROPRIETORS'    RECORDS.  203 

* 

of  the  Proprietors  stock  by  said  supplycators  afterward  they  receiv- 
ing a  Certificate  from  the  Clerk  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  sum  the 
same  advertising  &c  cost  And  in  Case  of  the  Death  of  the  Clerk  or 
his  Necesfary  Absence  or  refusal  to  call  a  Meeting  as  above  said 
That  then  the  same  Method  shall  be  observed  for  calling  a  proprie- 
tors Meeting  as  is  Now  Directed  by  the  Law  now  in  force  for  call- 
ing Proprietors  Meetings  in  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire 

a  true  record  pr  Mathw  Patten  Proprietors  Clerk 

Pursuant  to  the  method  agreed  on  by  the  proprietors  of  Sowhegan 
East  alias  the  town  of  Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac 
in  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire  are  hereby  Notified  to  meet  at 
the  Dwelling  house  of  Cap'  James  Walker  in  said  Bedford  on  Tues- 
day the  29th  day  of  October  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  fore- 
noon then  and  there  when  met  l8t  To  chuse  a  moderator  2nd  to 
Chuse  a  Commitee  to  Examin  the  Treasurers  Collectors  and  Com- 
mitees  accounts  and  to  make  a  full  settlement  and  prosecute  to 
Recover  if  it  need  be  any  Money  of  said  Proprietors  that  will  be 
found  due  in  any  of  the  aforesaid  Treasurers  Collectors  or  Com- 
mitees  hands  3.  To  chuse  a  Commitee  to  Prosecute  any  person  or 
persons  that  have  or  may  hereafter  committ  any  Trespafs  on  any  of 
the  said  proprietors  Land  or  any  person  or  persons  who  may  hold 
by  pofsefsion  or  otherwise 

4th  To  see  what  Method  the  proprietors  will  Notifie  or  Warn  their 
Meetings  for  the  future 

5th  To  see  how  much  money  the  proprietors  will  Pais  to  Defray 
past  and  future  charges 

6th  To  see  if  the  proprietors  will  sell  any  of  their  lands  and  if  they 
will  to  point  the  land  and  chuse  a  Commitee  to  Do  the  same  7th  To 
chuse  a  Treasurer  in  the  Room  of  Deacon  Jonathan  Williams  of 
Boston  who  Desires  to  Resign  the  same  8th  To  agree  on  a  method 
to  Draw  money  out  of  the  Treasury 

Matthew  Patten  Pro  Clerk 
Bedford  Sept  2d  1765 

a  true  Record  Attest  Mathew  Patten  pro  Clerk 

Att  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  sowhegan  East  alias  the  town  of 
Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac  in  the  Province  of  New 
Hampshire  on  Tuesday  the  29th  day  of  October  A  D  1765  at  the 
house  of  Cap*  James  Walker  in  said  Bedford 
Voted  Deacon  Robert  Walker  Moderator 

Voted  That  the  Method  for  calling  proprietors  meetings  for  the 
future  untill  farther  order  shall  be  by  one  sixteenth  part  of  said  Pro- 
priety makeing  supplication  to  the  Clerk  in  Writing  setting  forth 
the  articles  to  be  acted  on  at  said  meeting  who  shall  Jsue  two  notifi- 
cations the  one  to  be  posted  up  in  said  Bedford  and  the  other  in 
said  Merrymac  in  some  of  the  most  likely  places  to  be  known  by 
said  proprietors  three  weeks  succefsively  before  the  time  of  holding 
said  meeting  and  in  case  that  by  the  Death  of  the  Clerk  or  his  Nee- 


204  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

efsary  absence  then  a  supplication  by  the  aforesaid  number  suppli- 
cating to  any  one  of  his  Majesty's  justices  of  the  peace  for  said  Pro- 
vince And  he  Granting  a  notification  shall  be  posted  up  as  aforesaid 
shall  be  sufficient  Notification  for  holding  meetings 
Voted  That  this  meeting  be  adjourned  untill  Tuesday  the  19th  day 
of  November  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  forenoon  to  this  place 
and  that  Notifications  be  sett  up  imiadiatly  of  the  adjournment  by 
the  Clerk  Tuesday  the  19th  of  November  1765  met  according  to 
adjournment  and  proceeded     And 

Voted  That  this  meeting  be  farther  adjourned  untill  the  first  Mon- 
day in  Decbr  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  forenoon  to  this  place 
Monday  the  2d  of  December  1765  met  according  to  adjournment  and 
proceeded 

Voted  That  Matthew  Patten  Efqr  Lieut  Thomas  Barns  and  Lieut 
Samuel  Patten  be  a  Commitee  to  examin  the  Treasurers  Collectors 
and  Commitees  Accts  and  to  make  a  full  settlement  if  they  judge  it 
necefsary  and  to  sue  and  Recover  any  money  that  may  be  found  in 
any  of  their  hands  for  the  use  of  said  Propriety 
Voted  That  Cap'  Moses  Barron  Cap1  james  Walker  and  John  Bell 
be  a  Commitee  to  prosecute  any  person  or  persons  who  have  or  here- 
after may  Committ  any  Treaspafs  on  any  of  the  proprietors  Lands 
or  any  person  or  persons  who  hold  any  of  their  Land  by  pofsefsion 
or  otherwise 

Voted  That  Col:  John  Goffe  Esqr  Capt  Moses  Barron  and  Matthew 
Patten  Esqr  be  a  Commitee  to  sell  a  piece  of  land  lying  between 
Thomas  Vickeres  and  james  Gillmors  in  the  town  of  said  Merrymac 
which  land  is  the  Proprietors  of  said  sowheagan  East  and  is  not  ap- 
propriated nor  severed,  being  what  is  commonly  called  the  Gore  to 
the  best  advantage  they  can  and  give  a  Deed  or  Deeds  of  the  same 
or  any  two  of  them  and  Render  an  acco*  of  the  profits  ariseing  by 
the  sale  of  the  said  land  to  the  proprietors  when  called  thereto 
Voted  That  this  meeting  be  adjourned  untill  the  first  monday  in 
April  next  at  three  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to  this  place 
Monday  the  2d  of  April  1766  No  persons  attended  the  meeting 
and  no  farther  Transactions  done  in  the  Remaining  articles  of  the 
Notification 

A  true  Record     Attest  Mathw  Patten  Prop  Clerk 

Notice  is  hereby  Given  to  the  Proprietors  of  Sowhegan  East  Alias 
Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac  that  they  meet  at  the 
Dwelling  house  of  Matthew  Little  in  said  Bedford  on  Wednesday 
the  tenth  day  of  December  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in.  the  forenoon 
Then  and  there  when  Met  First  to  Chuse  a  Moderator  2dly  To  see 
if  the  proprietors  will  Chuse  a  Committee  to  settle  the  Proprietary 
line  between  said  Sowhegan  East  and  the  Propriety  of  Sowhegan 
West  No.  3  alias  Amherst  And  to  give  said  Committee  .Instruc- 
tions as  they  shall  think  necefsary  for  that  end  3dly  To  see  if  the 
propriety  will  sell  the  Land  commonly  called  the  school  lotts  and  to 
see  how  the  Money  shall  be  appropriated  and  to  chuse  a  Committee 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  205 

to  do  the  same  Effectualy  to  giveing  deeds  &c  as  the  propriety  shall 
order  or  to  see  if  they  will  have  the  Commitee  already  chosen  to 
prosecute  Treaspafsers  to  prosecute  any  person  or  persons  that  have 
Trespafsed  on  said  lotts  or  to  lease  the  same  as  they  shall  think  best 
allso  to  see  if  they  will  confirm  the  Votes  of  any  former  Meeting 
Bedford  November  17th  1766 

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Att  a  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  sowhegan  East  alias   Bedford 
and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac  in  the  Province  of  New  Hamp- 
shire at  the  Dwelling  house  of  Matthew  Little  in  said  Bedford  on 
Wednefday  the  10th  day  of  December  Annoque  Domini  1766 
Voted     Cap*  Moses  Barron  Moderator 

Voted  to  chuse  a  Commitee  to  settle  the  line  between  this  pro- 
priety and  Amherst  propriety 

Voted  That  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  Lieut  Samuel  Patten  and  Sam- 
uel Vose  be  the  Commitee  to  settle  the  Propriety  line  above  men- 
tioned 

Voted  That  the  above  Committee  proceed  in  conjunction  with  a 
Commitee  from  the  Propriety  of  Amherst  to  settle  said  line  in  the 
manner  following  (Viz)  To  begin  at  a  pine  Tree  standing  (or  where 
it  did  stand)  by  sowhegan  River  the  Corner  of  both  proprietys 
Townships  And  from  thence  Northwardly  agreeable  to  the  Grants  of 
said  towns  and  the  plans  thereof  as  near  as  they  can  obtain  knowledge 
thereof  in  case  any  Dificualty  arise  that  is  not  now  known  That 
then  said  Commitee  make  Report  to  this  propriety  for  farther 
Jnstructions  and  if  none  arise  and  they  make  a  full  and  final  settle- 
ment of  said  line  That  then  they  make  a  Report  of  their  settlement 
to  this  propriety  for  their  acceptance 

Voted  that  this  meeting  be  adjourned  to  the  house  of  John  Bell 
in  said  Bedford  to  the  eighteenth  day  of  January  next  at  ten  of  the 
Clock  in  the  forenoon 

Thursday  January  18th  1767  Met  according  to  adjournment  And 
Voted     that  this  meeting  be  farther  adjourned  untill  monday  the 
ninth  day  of  February  next  at  two  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to 
this  place 

Monday  February  9th  1767  Met  according  to  adjournment 
And 

Voted     That  this  meeting  be  farther  adjourned  to  Wednefday  the 
eighteenth  day  of  March  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  forenoon  to 
the  house  of  Matthew  Little  in  said  Bedford 
Wednefday  March  18th  1767  Met  according  to  adjournment  and 
Voted     That  all  the  Votes  of  this  propriety  be  confirmed  and  stand 
good  and  valid  from  the  2d  day  of  April  1763  to  this  day 
Voted     That  this  Meeting  be  farther  adjourned  to  monday  the  13th 
day  of  April  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  forenoon  to  the  house 
of  John  Bell  in  said  Bedford 


206  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Monday  April  13th  1767  There  was  no  proprietors  attended  and 
nothing  farther  Don  at  the  Meeting 

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Notice  is  hereby  given  to  the  Proprietors  of  the  Narraganf  ett  Town- 
ship No  five  alias  the  town  of  Bedf ord  and  part  of  the  town  of  Mer- 
rymac  in  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire  That  the  meet  at  the 
Meeting  house  in  said  Bedford  on  Monday  the  15th  day  of  April 
next  ensueing  the  Date  at  two  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  Then 
and  there  to  Act  on  the  following  articles  First  To  Chuse  a  Mod- 
erator for  said  Meeting  2d  To  see  if  they  will  Vote  to  Lease  out 
the  Lotts  called  the  school  Lotts  But  properly  known  by  No  21  and 
22  in  the  9th  Rang  for  any  number  of  years  that  shall  be  agreed  on 
And  if  they  do  to  Chuse  a  Commitee  and  impower  them  to  give  a 
Lease  of  the  same  with  .Instructions  Relating  to  Liberty  to  building 
a  saw  Mill  on  said  Lotts  by  the  Leasees  and  improvement  of  said 
lotts  Dureing  the  term  that  may  be  fixed  on  3dly  To  see  if  they 
will  sell  the  Oak  Timber  that  is  on  said  lotts  That  is  fitt  to  saw  into 
Plank  or  staves  And  if  they  do  to  Chuse  a  Commitee  to  do  the 
same  either  at  Vendue  or  private  sale  as  may  be  thought  proper 
And  to  take  care  of  the  profits  ariseing  thereby  for  the  use  of  the 
proprietors  And  if  they  do  not  think  fitt  to  sell  the  timber  on  said 
lotts  to  Rais  money  to  Discharge  the  proprietors  Debt  To  see  if  they 
will  Rais  such  a  tax  on  the  proprietors  as  shall  be  sufficient  to  Dis- 
charge their  Debt  And  to  chuse  afsefsors  Collector  Treasurer  &c 
And  to  agree  on  a  method  for  Drawing  the  money  out  of  said  Com- 
mitee or  Treasurers  hands  as  the  Case  may  be  so  that  those  who 
have  any  demand  on  the  proprietors  may  Receive  their  due 
This  notification  is  Jsued  agreeable  to  the  method  agreed  on  for 
calling  proprietors  meetings 
Bedford  March  28th  1771 

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Att  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Narragansett  Township  No 
five  alias  the  town  of  Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac  in 
the  Province  of  New  Hampshire  on  Monday  the   15th  day  of  April 
1771  at  the  Meeting  house  in  said  Bedford 
Voted  Capt  Moses  Barron  Moderator  for  this  meeting 
Voted     To  lease  out  the  Lotts  No  21  and  22  in  the  9th  Rang 
Voted     To  lease  out  the  privilege  of  Building  a  Mill  on  said  lotts 
for  the  term  of  Twenty  years  if  the  mill  lasts  so  long  on  the  acco1  of 
Natural  decay 

Voted  That  the  men  who  shall  build  Mill  have  the  privilege  of  a 
Road  from  the  Mill  place  to  the  town  road 

Voted  that  the  Leasing  out  of  the  said  lotts  Relating  the  improve- 
ment of  giveing  a  lease  or  leases  and  term  of  Years  be  Discretionary 
with  the  Commitee  who  shall  be  chose  to  lease  the  same 


THE  PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  207 

Voted  That  Cap'  Moses  Barron  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  and  James 
Vose  be  the  Commitee  for  the  purpofes  above  said 
Voted  that  this  meeting  be  adjourned  untill  the  last  Monday  of 
June  next  at  two  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to  this  place 
Monday  June  24th  1771  Divers  of  the  proprietors  met  according  to 
adjournment  but  Cap1  Barron  who  was  the  Moderator  being  dead 
the  proprietors  who  were  present  thought  it  best  to  let  the  Meeting 
die  and  call  a  new  Meeting  to  chuse  a  Commiteeman  in  his  Room  at 
a  Convenient  time. 

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Pursuant  to  a  Request  (to  me  the  subscriber)  of  a  Number  sufficient 
agreeable  to  the  Method  agreed  on  for  calling  proprietors  meetings 
The  proprietors  of  the  Narragansett  Township  no  five  sowhegan 
East  Alias  the  Town  of  Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac 
are  hereby  Notified  That  they  meet  at  the  Dwelling  house  of  the 
Honourable  John  Goffe  Esqr  in  Derryfield  on  Friday  the  28th  Jn- 
stant  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  forenoon  First  to  chuse  a  Moderator 
2<Uy  To  chuse  a  Commiteeman  in  the  Room  and  Stead  of  Cap1  Moses 
Barron  Decd  to  manage  in  conjunction  with  the  other  two  survive- 
ing  Commiteemen  in  the  Leaseing  the  privilege  of  Building  a  saw 
mill  on  the  school  lotts  so  called  and  selling  the  timber  on  them  and 
leaseing  any  part  of  said  lotts  for  improvement  &c  and  to  give  said 
Commitee  such  Jnstructions  Relating  the  same  as  shall  be  thought 
proper  3dly  To  chuse  a  Commitee  man  in  the  Room  and  Stead  of 
said  Cap'  Barron  Decd  to  join  with  the  two  surviveing  Commiteemen 
for  the  sale  of  the  Gore  so  called  on  Merrimack  River  lying  between 
Moses  Vickeres  and  james  Gillmors  4th]y  To  Vote  what  shall  be  done 
with  the  profits  ariseing  by  the  said  Affairs  And  to  chuse  a  Treas- 
urer if  it  shall  be  thought  needful  and  to  fix  a  method  if  the  chuse 
Treasurer  to  draw  the  money  out  of  his  hands 
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Att  a  Meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  Sowhegan  East  Narragansett 
Township  No  5  held  at  the  Dwelling  house  of  the  Honourable  John 
Goffe  Esqr  in  Derryfield  on  Friday  the  28th  day  of  February  AD 
1772. 

Voted  That  Samuel  Patten  be  Moderator  to  govern  this  meeting 
Voted  That  this  meeting  be  adjourned  to  Wednefday  the  18th  day 
of  March  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  forenoon  to  the  house  of 
John  Oit  in  Bedford 

Wednefday  March  18  1772  Met  at  the  house  of  John  Orr  in  Bed- 
ford according  to  adjournment 

Voted  That  this  meeting  be  farther  adjourned  until  Wednefday  the 
25th  day  of  this  Jnstant  March  at  five  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon 
to  the  Dwelling  house  of  John  Bell  in  said  Bedford 
Wednefday  the  25th  day  of  March  1772  met  according  to  adjourn- 
ment and  Voted  That  Col :  John  Goffe  Esqr  be  a  Commiteeman  in 


208  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

the  Room  and  Stead  of  Cap*  Moses  Barron  Decd  to  act  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  other  two  surviveing  Comittemen  in  leasing  out  the 
privilege  of  building  a  saw  mill  on  the  school  lotts  so  called  selling 
the  timber  on  said  lotts  Leaseing  any  part  of  said  lotts  for  improve- 
ment &  as  mentioned  in  the  article  in  the  advertisement 
Voted  That  Lieut  Daniel  Moor  be  a  Commiteeman  in  the  Room 
and  Stead  of  Cap'  Moses  Barron  Decd  to  act  in  conjunction  with  the 
other  two  surviveing  Commiteemen  for  the  sale  of  the  Gore  so 
called  as  Discribed  in  the  advertisement 

Voted  That  the  profits   ariseing   by  leaseing  the  privilege  on  the 
school  lotts  for  a  mill  selling  the  Timber  on  the  same  The  sale  of 
the  Gore  be  for  Dischargeing  the  proprietors  Debts  or  charge  &c 
Voted  Not  to  chuse  a  Treasurer  at  present 

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We  the  subscribers  being  Commitees  chosen  by  the  proprietors  of 
the  Townships  of  Narragansett  No  three  and  No  five  Respectively 
to  settle  and  Establish  the  line  between  the  said  townships  so  far  as 
they  join  (part  of  which  has  been  Disputed  a  number  of  years)  And 
haveing  met  in  the  month  of  December  1766  and  was  disappointed 
by  a  Great  snow  falling  after  we  mett  which  caused  us  to  break  off 
at  that  time  We  met  again  the  latter  end  of  the  Next  March  And 
began  at  a  heap  of  stones  on  the  North  bank  of  Sowhegan  River 
being  the  corner  of  Measurs  Wilsons  and  Ushars  land  being  well 
known  and  allowed  to  be  the  Southwest  corner  of  said  No  five  and 
the  Southeast  Corner  of  said  No  three  And  from  thence  we  Run 
North  about  1£  Degrees  West  makeing  proper  allowance  to  make 
our  Compafsefs  Quadrate.  And  continued  said  Course  as  far  North 
as  to  be  East  from  the  Northeast  corner  of  said  No  three  being  a 
large  heap  of  stones  well  known  and  allowed  to  be  the  corner  And 
we  came  out  about  forty  Rods  Distance  to  the  East  We  then  set  off 
from  said  heap  of  stones  And  Run  the  line  Westward  as  far  as  the 
southwest  corner  of  said  No  five  being  a  Beach  tree  marked  with  a 
number  of  stones  laid  to  the  Root  of  the  same  And  found  that  from 
said  heap  of  stones  to  the  said  Beach  tree  is  a  Good  line  well 
marked  And  accordingly  in  our  said  Capacities  we  Agree  and 
Establish  the  same  to  be  the  line  on  that  part  between  said  No 
three  and  No  five  And  finding  the  snow  very  deep  in  the  back 
woods  we  broke  off  at  that  time  without  straighting  the  line 
between  the  said  Northeast  corner  of  said  No  three  and  that  at  the 
bank  of  sowhegan  River  where  we  first  began  And  We  met  again 
in  January  1771  And  began  at  the  said  heap  of  stones  on  the  bank 
of  said  Sowhegan  River  and  Run  North  three  Degrees  West  by 
one  of  our  compafsefs  which  carried  a  straight  line  to  said  North- 
east corner  of  said  No  three  and  found  the  same  line  antiently 
marked  with  a  number  of  Corner  bounds  of  lotts  on  said  line  said 
line  being  the  line  claimed  by  the  proprietors  of  said  No  five  and 
have  preambulated  and  New  Marked  said  fine  And  do  in  our  said 
Capacities  agree  and  establish  the  said  line  as  we  found  the  same 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  209 

was  formerly  Run  and  marked  And  now  preambulated  and  new 

marked  by  us  To  be  tbe  line  between  the  said  townships  of  No  three 

and  No  five  And  finds  that  the  line  Runing  from  the  said  heap  of 

stones  on  the  bank  of  the  River  aforesaid  as  formerly  claimed  by 

the  proprietors  of  said  No  three  Jnterfers  into  the  Lands  of  said  No 

five  and  is  not  a  proper  point  to  Run  a  straight  line  between  the 

said  heap  of  stones  on  the  bank  of  the  River  aforesaid  And  the 

Northeast  corner  aforesaid  And  that  the  said  line  claimed  by  the 

proprietors  of  said  No  three  Extends  no  farther  North  than  the 

North  end  of  the  home  lotts  or  first  Division  in  said  No  three  And 

that  from  the  North  End  of  said  home  lotts  to  the  northeast  corner 

of  said  No  three  aforesaid  the  Corners  of  the  Division  of  lotts  in 

said  No  three  are  on  the  line  which  Runs  straight  between  the 

corners  of  said  townships  which  we  have  now  preambulated  and 

new  marked. 

Witnefs  our  hands  this  25th  day  of  January  AD  1771 

The  foregoing  settlement  of  the  line  \r  f     "R    •  •  )  Com" 

between  the  Townships  was  Voted  A    -,         T,     -,,.     ,  v for  No 

,-,..,     ^        ,r,  ..  Andrew  Bradford  (    ., 

accepted  at  the  -Proprietors  meeting  )   three 

held  the  3d  of  January  AD  1774  Samll  Patten  J  Comtt 

Samll  Vose  V  for  No 
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Notice  is  hereby  given  to  the  Proprietors  of  the  Narragansett 
Township  No  Five  Sowhegan  East  Alias  the  town  of  Bedford  and 
part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac  That  they  meet  at  the  Dwelling 
house  of  Capt  Daniel  Moor  in  said  Bedford  on  Monday  the  third 
day  of  January  next  at  ten  of  the  Clock  in  the  forenoon  Then  and 
there  when  Met 

First  To  Chuse  a  Moderator  to  Govern  said  Meeting 
2d  To  chuse  a  Committeeman  in  the  Room  and  stead  of  Capt  Moses 
Barron  Decd  to  join  in  conjunction  with  the  other  two  surviveing 
commiteemen  to  take  care  of  the  proprietors  lands  and  prosecute 
any  person  that  have  or  may  Trespafs  on  their  land  or  to  Dismifs 
the  two  already  chose  And  chuse  a  New  committee  for  the  above 
purpofs  if  they  shall  think  that  best. 

3d  To  hear  the  commitees  Report  and  to  pafs  on  the  same  that 
were  chose  to  settle  the  line  between  this  propriety  and  the  pro- 
priety of  Sowhegan  West  or  Narragansett  No  three. 
4th  To  impower  the  commitee  that  were  chosen  to  sell  the  Gore  so 
called  (or  to  chuse  A  committee)  to  sue  for  the  pofsefsion  of  the  said 
Gore  if  those  who  have  any  part  thereof  shall  Refuse  to  Refign  the 
pofsefsion  thereof 

5th  whereas  it  is  suppofsed  by  some  persons  that  there  is  one  home 
lott  lefs  in  Number  on  the  North  side  of  the  Gore  than  is  laid  down 
in  the  plan  of  the  town  Therefore  to  see  if  the  Proprietors  will 
chuse  a  commitee  to  Examin  the  same  and  know  if  there  is  such  a 
mistake  And  if  there  does  appear  to  be  that  mistake  to  impower 
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210  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

the  commitee  that  may   be  chose  for  the  above  purpofse  (if  they 

chuse  one)  To  lay  out  of  the  said  Gore  Equivalent  to  a  home  lott 

by  the  said  Commitees  judgement  to  the  person  who  may  lack  said 

lott 

This  Notification  is  Jsued  agreeable  to  the  Method  agreed  on  for 

calling  proprietors  Meetings 

Bedford  December  20th  1773 

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Att  a  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  Narragansett  Township  No  5 
Alias  Bedford  and  part  of  the  town  of  Merrymac  in  the  County  of 
Hillsborough  in  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire  at  the  house  of 
Cap4  Daniel  Moor  in  said  Bedford  on  Monday  the  third  day  of  Janu- 
ary AD  1774 

Yoted  The  Honourable  John  Goffe  Esqr  Moderator  to  govern  said 
Meeting 

Voted  To  dismifs  the  two  surviveing  Commiteemen  that  were  for- 
merly chosen  to  take  care  of  the  Proprietors  land  and  to  prosecute 
any  trefpaf sers  on  the  same 

Yoted  That  Capt  William  Allds  and  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  and 
Capt  Daniel  Moor  be  a  commitee  to  take  care  of  the  proprietors 
lands  And  to  prosecute  any  person  or  persons  that  have  or  may 
trespafs  on  the  same 

Yoted  That  the  Report  of  the  Commitee  that  ware  chosen  to  settle 
the  line  between  the  Narragansett  Township  No  three  and  the 
propriety  of  this  town  be  accepted  and  the  charge  of  the  said  settle- 
ment by  our  commitee  be  paid  by  the  propriety  of  this  township 
Yoted  That  the  Committee  That  were  chosen  to  sell  the  Gore  so 
called  shall  and  hereby  are  impowered  to  sue  and  prosecute  to  final 
judgment  and  Execution  any  person  or  persons  who  have  any  part 
of  said  Gore  in  pofsefsion  so  as  to  Recover  the  pofsefsion  thereof  for 
the  proprietors 

Yoted  That  the  Honourable  John  Goffe  Esqr  Capt  Daniel  Moor 
and  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  be  a  commitee  to  Examin  the  home  lotts 
North  of  the  Gore  so  called  So  as  to  know  if  there  is  a  lott  lefs 
than  is  marked  on  the  plan  on  the  following  terms  (viz)  That  Moses 
Yickere  Enter  into  Obligation  with  said  Committee  in  Writing  That 
if  on  examination  it  shall  be  found  that  there  are  no  more  Lotts 
Marked  in  the  plan  than  was  laid  out  That  then  the  said  Vickere 
pay  the  cost  of  said  examination  But  if  it  is  found  by  said  examina- 
tion that  there  is  a  lott  more  marked  on  the  plan  than  was  Realy 
laid  out  then  in  that  case  the  propriety  to  pay  the  cost  of  said 
Examination  And  that  the  said  commitee  proceed  and  lay  out  to 
the  said  Moses  Vickere  a  home  lott  of  the  Northerly  side  of  said 
Gore  according  to  their  judgment  haveing  Reference  to  the  Quality 
and  Situation 

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THE  PROPRIETORS'  RECORDS.  211 

Notice  is  hereby  given  That  the  Timber  on  the  Lotts  No  21  and  22 
in  the  9  Rang  commonaly  called  the  school  lotts  That  is  fitt  to  make 
Planks  or  Boards  such  as  we  shall  think  proper  will  be  sold  at  Pub- 
lick  Vendue  to  the  highest  bidder  on  Thursday  the  thirtieth  day  of 
this  Jnstant  Decbr  at  one  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon  at  the  Dwell- 
ing house  of  Mr  John  Orr  in  Bedford  The  conditions  of  sale  will  be 
made  known  at  time  and  place  of  sale 
Bedford  December  18th  1773 

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John  Goffe       V      Committee 
James  Vose     ) 
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The  articles  of  the  Sale  of  the  timber  on  the  lotts  No  21  and  22  in 
the  9  Rang  in  Bedford  are  as  follows  (viz)  The  highest  bidder  to  be 
the  purchaser  The  timber  that  will  be  sold  are  all  white  oak  trees 
of  fifteen  inches  Diameter  and  upwards  two  feet  high  from  the 
Ground  and  all  Red  oak  timber  fitt  to  make  slitwork  The  purchaser 
to  have  free  liberty  to  cut  and  carrie  off  all  such  timber  of  the 
Dimentions  aforesaid  with  liberty  to  clear  Roads  to  do  the  same 
scides  &c  but  not  to  make  any  unecefsary  Wast  And  shall  have 
untill  the  first  day  of  April  AD  1775  to  cut-  and  carrie  said  timber 
off  said  lotts  And  if  any  Deficualty  arises  by  the  town  that  they  sue 
the  purchaser  for  his  cuting  or  carrieing  off  said  timber  That  the 
commitee  in  their  said  Capacity  hereby  Engages  to  take  suit  and 
carrie  it  on  free  of  any  Expence  to  the  said  Purchaser  on  his  giveing 
the  said  commitee  a  power  of  Atorney  at  the  first  commenceing  said 
suit  but  if  he  does  not  and  he  loofses  the  Action  to  Recover  nothing 
off  said  commitee  or  off  the  propriety  That  the  purchaser  pay  two 
Dollars  of  the  price  down  that  the  timber  may  be  sold  for  and  one 
half  of  the  Remainder  in  six  months  from  the  date  and  the  Other 
half  the  first  day  of  July  AD  1775  he  giveing  good  security  for  the 
same 

Bedford  December  30th  1773 

N  B  The  bidds  to  be  in  Hampr  old  Tenr  and  John  Goffe       ^ 
not  lefs  than  Twenty  shillings  at  a  bidd      Mathw  Patten  v  Commitee 
Equal  to  one  shilling  Lawful  Money  james  Vose     ) 

A  true  Record     Attest  Mathw  Patten  Prop™  Clk 

Bedford  December  30th  1773 
Met  according  to  the  time  above  said  agreeable  to  a  Notification  for 
that  end  and  adjourned  the  sale  to  Monday  the  3d  day  of  January  AD 
1774  to  the  house  of  Cap'  Daniel  Moor  in  said  Bedford  at  three  of 
the  clock  in  the  afternoon  Met  according  to  the  said  adjournment 
and  proceeded  to  the  sale  of  said  timber 

The  first  lott  of  timber  that  was  sett  up  was  the  timber  on  the  West 
side  of  the  brook  in  said  lotts  And  was  struck  off  to  William  Cald- 
well of  said  Bedford  for  157  £  Hampr  old  Tenr. 

pr  Mathw  Patten  Vendue  Master 


212  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

The  second  Lott  of  timber  that  was  sett  up  was  the  timber  on  the 
East  side  of  the  Brook  in  said  lotts  And  was  struck  off  to  Matthew 
McDuffie  of  said  Bedford  for  230  £  Hampr  old  Ten' 

p'  Mathw  Patten  Vendue  Master 
A  true  Record     Attest  Mathw  Patten  Prop"  Clerk 

To  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  Proprietors  Clerk  for  the   Township  of 

Sowhegan  East  now  Bedford  and  part  of  Merrymac 

We  the  subscribers  being  owners  of  more  than  the  sixteenth  part  of 

said  proprietors  Jnterest  in  said  township 

Pray  you  would  call  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  said  Township 

of  sowhegan  East  to  meet  at  the  dwelling  house  Zechariah  Chandler 

Jnholder  in  said  Bedford  on  Tuesday  the  Twelveth  day  of  March 

next  at  one  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to  act  on  the  following 

Articles  (viz) 

1st  To  chuse  a  Moderator  to  Regulate  said  meeting 

2d  To  see  if  the  proprietors  will  give  up  the  Lease  they  have  between 

Lieu'  John  Orr  and  them 
3d  To  see  what  the  proprietors  will  do  Relateing  thos  lotts  in  said 

township  that  are  laid  out  but  not  Recorded  to  any  person 
4thiy  t0  gee  what  the  proprietors  will  do  Relateing  to  a  Gore  of  land 

upon  Merrimack  River  that  is  unlaid  out  in  said  township 
5,hly  To  see  if  the  proprietors  will  order  the  old  Commitee  who  were 
chosen  to  settle  with  Deacon  William  the  former  Treasurer  to 
settle  with  him  or  to  chuse  a  new  Commitee  to  settle  with  him 
imediatly   or   others   who   have   any   accounts   against   said 
proprietors 
gtMy  >p0  gee  wnat  the  proprietors  will  do  concerning  paying  the  judg- 
ment the  town  of  said  Bedford  Recovered  against  the  pro- 
prietors concerning  the  school  land 
And  in  so  doing  you  will  oblige  yours  &c 

John   Goffe   for   5   Rights 
Bedford  Febr  12th  1782  James  Walker       2       Do 

James  Martin  3  Do 
Samuel  Vose  1  Do 
James  Vose  1       Do 

Zechariah  Chandler  7  Do 
Bedford  Febr  13th  1782 

Jn  pursuance  of  the  foregoing  Request  1  hereby  notifie  the  proprie- 
tors of  said  Sowhegan  East  to  meet  at  time  and  place  above  men- 
tioned to  act  on  the  foregoing  articles 

Mathw  Patten  prop'6  Clerk 
A  true  Record     Attest  Matthw  Patten  Prop'"  Clerk 

At  a  metting  of  the  proprietors  of  Sowhegan  East  now  Bedford  and 
part  of  Merrymac  held  at  the  Dwelling  house  of  Zechariah  Chandler 
inholder  in  said  Bedford  on  the  12th -day  of  March  AD  1782  in  con- 
sequence of  foregoing  Notification  to  Act  on  the  articles  in  the  fore- 
going Request  at  one  of  the  Clock  in  the  Afternoon  of  said  day 


THE   PROPRIETORS'   RECORDS.  213 

Voted     John  Goffe  Esqr  Moderator  to  Regulate  said  meeting 

Voted     Zechariak  Chandler  Clerk  pro  temporary  who  was  sworn 

Voted     that  this  meeting  be  adjourned  till  Tuesday  the  sixteenth 

day  of  this  Jnstant  at  one  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to  this 

house 

March  19  th  1782  met  according  to  adjournment 

Voted     james  Martin  Moderator  pro  temporary 

Voted     to  chuse  a  Commitee  to  treat  with  the  Selectmen  about  a 

lease  that  is  between  the  proprietors  and  Lieut  Orr  about  giveing 

the  said  lease  to  the  said  Selectmen 

Voted     That  Thomas  Boies  Capt  james  Walker  and  james  Martin  be 

the  Commitee  to  treat  with  the  selectmen  about  said  lease 

Voted     That  said  Commitee  give  up  to  the  said  selectmen  the  lease 

that  is  above  mentioned  which  was  accordingly  done  in  the  said 

meeting  before  all  the  people  present 

Voted     that  this  meeting  be  farther  adjourned  to  the  26th  day  of 

this  Jnstant  at  one  of  the  Clock  in  the  afternoon  to  this  house 

March  26th  1782  met  according  to  adjournment 

Voted     that  the  third  article  in  the  Notification  be  dismissed 

Voted     that  the  south  half  of  the  Gore  so  called  lying  between 

Moses  Vickeres  and  james  Gillmors  be  sold  to  pay  the  judgment  and 

Cost  the  town  Recovered  against  said  proprietors  and  their  other 

debts  and   taxes  it  will  extend  and  that   the    Commitee   formerly 

chosen  to  sell  said  Gore  be  the  Commitee  to  sell  said  half  of  said 

Gore  and  give  a  Deed  or  Deeds  to  the  purchaser  or  purchasers  and 

apply  the  money  ariseing  by  said  Sale  accordingly  and  to  account  to 

the  proprietors  how  the  same  has  been  applied 

Voted     that  the  5th  article  be  dismist 

A  true»Record     Attest  Mathw  Patten  Prop"  Clerk 


Roads,  Landings,  and  Bridges. 


Among  the  first  things  the  proprietors  did  with  their  property 
was  to  bridge  the  streams  and  build  roads.  Accordingly  we  find 
from  the  book  of  records  that 

Att  a  Legall  Meeting  of  The  proprietors  of  No  5  att  Mr.  Luke 
Verdys  at  ten  a  clock  in  ye  forenoon  on  the  14th  day  of  May  1735 : 
Jn  the  first  place  Chose  The  Honourable  Sam1  Thaxter  Esq  Mod- 
erator of  said  meeting. 

Voted  that  their  shall  be  a  sofisent  Cart  Bridge  Built  over  Sou- 
hegan  River :  that  the  Committee  joyn  with  other  Towns  that  will 
join  with  us  in  the  affair  Voted  That  their  be  a  committee  chose 
to  manadge  ye  affair  Voted  that  the  Committee  allready  chosen  is 
ye  comtee  or  any  Three  of  them  to  manedge  ye  said  affairs  "  Voted 
that  their  shall  be  a  Sutetable  Highway  layed  through  ye  town  For 
the  Benefit  of  our  town  &  other  towns  by  ye  Committee  Voted : 
That  the  Committee  be  desird  to  make  a  strick  Inquiery  whether 
their  was  any  former  Grants  Granted  To  any  Perticular  Persons  in 
the  Township  &  make  a  Report  of  the  same  to  said  Proprietors  at 
the  Ajourment  of  said  proprietors  meeting."- 

We  also  find  the  following  entry,  January  25,  1737-38  : 

5th  article  Concerning  making  ye  way  Good  between  The  first 
&  second  Range  Continued  the  consideration  to  the  next  meeting : 
voted  that  mr  Benjamin  Smith  &  mr  Moses  Barren  be  added  to 
Coll  Tileston  Capt  Edwd  White  &  Joseph  Ruggles  To  view  sd  way 
&  make  report 

The  "  way  between  the  first  &  second  Range  "  corresponds  to 
what  we  now  call  the  River  road. 

In  laying  out  the  lots  to  the  various  proprietors  or  their  assignees, 
roads  were  frequently  reserved  out  of  the  grant,  for  instance,  in 
December  13,  1737,  the  proprietors  "laid  out  and  ordered  the  clerk 
to  record  ye  same  to  Mr.  Jonathan  Williames."  Then  follows  a 
description  of  the  lot :  "  Said  lot,  hath  a  six  rood  highway  aCrofs  ye 
same  on  the  eaft  end,  layed  out  by  order  of  ye  Committee."  1 

1  Highways  that  run  north  and  south  on  the  range  lines  were  taken  from  the  east 
ends  of  lots. 


ROADS,   LANDINGS,   AND  BRIDGES.  215 

It  is  manifestly  impossible  to  enter  upon  a  description  of  the 
various  roads  in  town,  when  they  were  built,  or  in  what  respects 
they  have  been  changed  from  time  to  time  since  the  town  was  first 
organized. 

The  most  important  roads,  however,  were  the  North  and  South 
roads,  leading  through  the  town,  and  the  road  known  as  the  County 
road,  which  runs  east  and  west  from  Goffs  Falls  to  Amherst. 
Generally  speaking,  the  North  and  South  roads  still  follow  the 
range  lines,  but  in  some  places  these  have  been  departed  from 
because  of  natural  obstacles.  Range  lines  run  north  and  south; 
lot  lines,  east  and  west. 

The  road  first  voted  to  be  built  by  the  proprietors  was  apparently 
completed  as  it  should  have  been,  but  we  find  that  the  town  had 
considerable  difficulty  with  one  Abraham  Merrill  over  a  road  from 
it  to  Merrill's  ferry.     His  petition  is  on  record  as  follows : 

Prov".  of )    To   the    Honoble :    the   Justices  of  the  General 

New  Hampshire  )  Quarter  Sefsion  of  the  Peace  held  at  Ports- 
mouth Jn  &  for  said  Province  on  the  First  Tuesday  of  March  A  D. 

1769 

The  Humble  Petition  of  Abraham  Merrill  of  Derrifeild  in  said 
Province  yeoman  and  others  whose  names  are  Entered  in  the 
schedule  hereto  annexed  Sheweth  that  your  Petitioners  &  many 
others  Persons  Labour  under  a  Great  Disadvantage  &  Difficulty  for 
want  of  a  Road  Laid  Out  about  Fifty  Rod  in  Length  from  the 
Ferry  Granted  to  the  Said  Abraham  Merrill  by  Benning  Wentworth 
Esq'  Late  Governor  of  said  Province  in  the  year  A  D.  1767.  to  the 
High  Way  that  Lead  from  Bedford  in  Said  Province  to  Amoskeag^ 
Falls  that  for  want  of  a  way  Leading  Directly  to  said  Ferry  Place 
your  Petitioners  are  obliged  to  Travel  themselves  &  Carry  what 
ever  they  want  Transported  Over  said  Ferry  either  half  a  mile 
above  or  below  said  Ferry  Place  and  when  the  River  Over  which 
said  Ferry  is  Stated  is  highest  it  is  Jmpracticable  to  Pafs  or  Repafs 
either  above  or  below  said  Ferry  Place  by  means  whereof  your 
Petitioners  are  often  Jmpeded  &  sometimes  Entirely  hindred  from 
Crofsing  said  Ferry  your  Petitioners  have  Repeatedly  applied  to 
the  Selectmen  of  Said  Bedford  to  Lay  out  a  Way  from  said  Ferry 
Place  to  the  Highway  that  Leads  from  Said  Bedford  to  said  Amos- 
keag  Falls  And  the  Selectmen  of  said  Bedford  have  and  &  still  do 

Refuse  to  Lay  out  any  High  Way  or  Road  there 

Wherefore  your  Petitioners  Humbly  Pray  that  an  High  Way  Four 
Rods  Wide  may  be  Laid  out  to  Said  Ferry  the  High  Way  Leading 
from  Said  Bedford  to  said  Amoskeage  Falls  through  the  Severell 
Lands  of  the  Widow  Godfrey  and  William  Godfrey  her  son  and 
your  Petitioners  as  in  Duty  Bound  shall  ever  Pray 
March  4,h.  1769. 


216 


HISTOEY  OF   BEDFORD. 


At  His  Majesty  Court  of  General  Sefsions  for  the  Peace  Holden  at 
Portum.  march  7th.  1769 

Ordered  by  the  Court  that  the  Selectmen  of  Bedford  be  Served 
with  a  Copy  of  this  Petition  &  Order  of  Court  thereon  &  shew 
Cause  if  any  they  have  why  the  Prayer  of  this  Petition  may  not  be 
granted  Next  Term 

A  True  Copy  att.  H  Wentworth  Cler. 

Jona  Atwood 
Jos.  Hadlock 
Jn°  Patte 
Stephen  Emerson 
Tho6  Eastman 
David  Sargeant 
Abra  Johnson 

and  one  Hundred  others 

A  True  Copy  Att.  H.  Wentworth  Cler. 


Timothy  Worthly ' 
Joshua  Curtis 
John  Worth 
John  Ordway 
Jeremiah  Corlifs 
Andrew  Walker 
Caleb  Atwood 
Thomas  Worth 
Josiah  Brown 
Moses  Quimby 
Jona  Worthly 
Tho  Worthly 
Bond  Little 
Joseph  Hadlock  Junr 
Jere  Johnson 
Daniel  Bayley 


Merrells 
Ferry 


MERRILL'S    FERRY    (1767). 
Province  of  New  Hampshire. 


George  the  Third  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  Great 
Britain  France  &  Ireland,  King  Defender  of  the 
Faith,  &ca 

< — y — «  To  all  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come,  Greeting 

Know  ye  that  We  of  our  Special  Grace  certain  knowledge  &  Mere 
Motion  by  &  with  the  advice  of  our  Trusty  &  well  beloved  Benning 
Wentworth  Esq  our  Cap'  General  Governour  &  Command1  in  Chieff 
in  &  over  Province  of  New  Hampr  in  North  America  Have  Given 
&  granted  &  by  these  presents  for  us  our  heirs  &  Successors  do  give 
&  Grant  with  our  Loyal  &  Most  Faithful  subject  Abraham  Merrell 
of  Derryfield  in  our  yeoman  the  sole  Right  of  keeping  a  Ferry  & 
of  keeping  useing  &  Employing  a  Ferry  Boat  &  Boats  for  the 
Transporting  of  Men  Horses  Goods  Cattle  Carriages  &ca  from  the 
Land  where  he  now  Dwells  a  Cross  Merrimack  River  to  the  oppo- 
site shore  of  Bedford  &  from  Bedford  shore  opposite  his  Said  Land 
unto  Derryfield  aforesaid  To  Hold  the  said  Ferry  &  Priviledges 
of  a  Ferry  with  all  Ferryage  advantages  Emoluments  Perquisites  & 
Profits  thereunto  belonging  unto  him  the  said  Abraham  Merrell  his 


ROADS,   LANDINGS,   AND  BRIDGES.  217 

Heirs  Executors  Administrators  &  Assigns  from  the  Day  of  the 
Date  hereof  for  ever  to  his  &  there  only  proper  use  &  behoof  for 
ever  upon  the  following  condition  viz  that  he  &  they  do  &  shall  at 
all  Times  keep  such  Boats  &  give  such  attendance  &  behave  as  the 
Now  (or  any  hereafter)  Laws  do  or  may  Require  and  as  a  further 
Encouragement  to  the  said  Abraham  MeiTell  in  and  about  the 
premises  We  will  that  none  of  our  loving  Subject  do  presume  to 
molest  or  Interrupt  the  said  Abraham  Merrill  in  his  Said  Ferry  or 
Sett  up  any  other  Ferry  upon  or  across  the  Said  River  Merrimack 
within  the  space  of  Two  Miles  above  or  below  the  ferry  of  the  said 
Abraham  Merrell. 

In  Testimony  whereof  we  have  Caused  the  Publick  Seal  of  our  said 
Province  to  be  hereunto  affixed  wittness  our  Said  Governor  Benning 
Wentworth  Esq  the  28th  Day  of  May  in  the  Seventh  year  of  our 
Reign  Annoq  Domini  1767 

B  Wentworth 
By  his  Excellencys  Comd 

T :  Atkinson  Secy 

When  John  Stark's  troops  went  to  Bennington  in  1777  they 
crossed  to  the  west  bank  of  the  river  on  this  ferry. 

There  was  considerable  trouble  over  this  matter,  for  we  find  that 
Abraham  Merrill  sued  the  town,  as  per  the  accompanying  account : 

An  acco1  of  the  time  and  Money  that  was  Expended  by  the  Select- 
men of  Bedford  Defending  against  Abraham   Merrels  obtaining  a 
highway  in  said  Bedford  on  the  North  side  of  Piscataquog  River  in 
August  and  September  1769 
Aug1.  28th.  the  3  Selectmen  one  day  each. 
29  Mathw.  Patten  finding  Evidence 
30th  Samu1.  Vose  finding  Evidence 
'  31st  the  3  Select=men  summoning  evidences  and  takeing  Depofsi- 
tions  at  Col :  Goffes 

September  2d :  Matthew  Patten  Drawing  and  prepareing  a  plan  of 
the  River  and  highways  for  the  Sefsions  and  going  to  Godfreys  to 
get  their  Mare  to  Ride  down 

4th.  5th.  6th.  7th.  8,h.  9tu.  &  10th  Going  to  attending  the  Sefsions   and 
getting  Home  again 
11th  I  took  home  Godfreys  Mare 

The  outcome  of  the  suit  is  not  recorded.     The  road  in  question 

is  Ferry  street  in  West  Manchester,  running  from  Main  street  to 

Merrill's  ferry,  which  was  just  below  Granite  bridge.     The  County 

•road,  so  called,  was  laid  out  in  1778,  as  appears  by  the  following 

transcript : 

A  transcript  of  the  County  road  so  called,  this  day  by  us  select- 
men.    Beginning  at  the  west  side  of  the  cross  road  at  the  corner  of 


218  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

John  Bell's  fence,  and  then  running  westerly  to  Jacob  McQuade's 
barn ;  Then  west  by  the  north  side  of  Samuel  Paterson's  house  to 
the  top  of  the  hill ;  from  southwestwardly  as  far  as  Robert  Griffins 
house ;  then  something  south  of  west  to  the  bridge  that  is  over  the 
big  brook  so  called,  a  little  below  the  corner  Daniel  Moore's  divi- 
sion :  then  from  thence  southwestwardly  to  a  patch  upon  tree  at  the 
line  between  Bedford  and  Amherst,  at  the  corner  of  Moses  Barnes 
orchard  field,  marked,  MN:  SW:  SP:  IP:  MP:  RW :  HO. 
Said  road  to  be  three  rods  wide.     September  28,  1778. 

This  road  was  built  to  accommodate  travel  from  Portsmouth  by 
Goff's  Falls  to  Amherst.  It  ran  east  and  west,  connecting  the 
two  shire  towns  of  the  counties  of  Rockingham  and  Hillsborough. 
Samuel  Patterson's  place  is  now  known  as  the  Stephen  Goffe 
place.  The  "  big  brook  "  is  Shepard's  brook.  John  Bell's  place  is 
now  Estabrook's. 

THE  WALLACE  ROAD. 

This  road  starts  at  Taggart's  tavern  in  Goffstown  and  runs  south- 
erly. It  enters  Bedford  near  Dunlap's,  continues  southerly  past 
Vose's  corner  to  Riddle's  mills,  thence  past  Moore's  tavern  (now 
Thomas  Burns')  to  the  river  road  in  Merrimack  at  Baboosic  brook. 
The  town  was  involved  in  a  suit  arising  from  an  accident  to  the  stage 
running  from  New  London  to  Nashua  over  this  road.  In  Decem- 
ber, about  1840,  one  of  the  horses  on  the  six-horse  team  slipped  and 
fell  and  was  drawn  the  length  of  Riddle  hill.  The  stage  team  was 
owned  by  James  Riddle  of  Merrimack.  He  sued  the  town  and  ob- 
tained damages.  The  cost  to  the  town  of  the  whole  accident 
amounted  to  $1,200.  In  the  stage  at  the  time  was  a  Mrs.  Mclntire 
coming  from  Goffstown.  She  was  injured,  but  obtained  damages 
from  Mr.  Riddle.  Probably  the  heavy  cost  to  the  town  is  due  in 
part  to  the  damages  she  obtained.1 

The  road  was  laid  out  in  accordance  with  the  following  agree- 
ment: 

Whereas  the  great  road  leading  through  the  westerly  part  of 
Goffstown  on  to  Boston  as  now  traveled  from  the  west  Meeting- 
house in  said  Goffstown  to  Mr.  Jon.  Hay's  in  Merrimac  is  very  far 
from  the  most  direct  course :  And  whereas  a  road  is  in  contempla- 
tion which  will  shorten  the  distance  nerly  one  third  from  Sd.  Meet-  9 
inghouse  to  sd.  Hay's,  commencing  at  Lt.  Jon.  Butterfields  in  said 

'There  were  other  stage  routes  through  here  for  David  Watson's  Concord  Direc- 
tory for  1834  gives  "  a  list  of  stages  which  run  out  of  Concord,  with  the  days  on  which 
they  leave."  In  it  was  this  entry:  "  Every  day  through  Hooksett,  Amoskeag,  Bed- 
ford, Merrimack,  Nashua,  Tyngsborough,  Lowell,  Billerica,  Woburn." 


EOADS,   LANDINGS,   AND  BED3GES.  219 

Goffstown  from  thence  through  Bedford  on  the  most  direct  course 
by  Majr.  William  Moor's  to  said  Hay's :  and  which  contemplated 
road  may  be  traveled  in  any  manner  whatever  not  only  in  about  two 
thirds  the  time  but  with  equal  ease  with  the  old  road. 

Therefore  we  the  undersigned,  living  on  and  near  the  above  con- 
templated road,  having  in  view  not  only  our  private  interest  and 
convenience  but  likewise  the  public  good,  and  that  those  who  are 
not  immediately  interested  therein  may  be  the  more  ready  to  aid 
and  encoui'age  so  important  an  undertaking,  and  also  to  manifest  the 
assurance  that  nothing  shall  be  wanting  on  our  part  to  carry  said 
road  into  effect  when  laid  out,  do  hereby  severally  covenant  and 
agree  each  with  the  other,  that  when  and  in  whatever  manner  a  road 
may  be  laid  out  on  the  most  eligible  the  nearest  said  contemplated 
route,  by  an  impartial  Committee  duly  appointed  for  that  purpose,  we 
will  quitclaim  to  the  proper  authority  for  viewing  the  same  so  much 
of  our  lands  on  said  route  as  said  authority  may  deem  necessary  for 
said  road,  provided  said  road  be  laid  out  within  eighteen  months 
from  the  fifteenth  day  of  December  Anno  Domini  1817. 

And  we  do  further  engag,  that  in  case  a  road  be  laid  out  as  above, 
being  a  free  road,  we  will  pay  in  labor  on  said  road  as  a  donation, 
the  sum  by  us  affixed  to  each  of  our  respective  names,  said  labour  to 
be  subject  to  the  direction  of  an  appraiser  by  the  proper  authority. 

And  we  do  further  engag  as  above  that  if  said  road  be  laid  out  as 
a  turnpike  we  will  purchase  at  least  so  many  shares  therein,  as  will 
amount  to  said  sum,  provided  said  shares  can  be  purchased  to  be 
paid  for  as  above  described. 

And  we  do  further  agree  to  pay  each  our  respective  proportion  of 
the  surveying  planning  and  all  other  necessary  expenses  which  may 
hereafter  arise  in  the  attempt  of,  or  obtaining  said  road,  which  may 
be  by  law  otherwise  disposed  of. 

Goffstown  December  27,  1817. 

William  Riddle  one  hundred  dollars 

William  Moor  Jr.         land  in  Bedford  and  one  hundred  dollars 

Thomas  Wallace  one  hundred  dollars 

John  Orr  one  hundred  dollars 

Isaac  Riddle  one  hundred  dollars 

James  Shirley  one  hundred  dollars  if  the  road  goes  by  my 

house  as  now  troden 

Hugh  Riddle  one  hundred  dollars 

John  Kennedy  twenty  five  dollars 

Isaac  Atwood  fifty  dollars 

Ephraim  Warren  thirty  five  dollars 

Josiah  Gordon  twenty  five  dollars 

Bills 


220  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

THE  NEW  BOSTON  ROAD. 

This  road  starts  from  near  Daggett's  corner  in  New  Boston,  runs 
eastwardly  into  Manchester  at  Milford  street.  It  accommodates  a 
large  section  of  country.  Mont  Vernon,  Lyndeborough,  Amherst,  New 
Boston  use  this  road  to  come  into  Manchester.  There  is  considera- 
ble summer  travel  over  this  road. 

March  10,  1812.  "Voted  to  lay  out  $150.00  in  labor  on  the  road 
complained  of  and  that  one  gallon  of  rum  to  each  $20.00  of  said  sum 
be  furnished  by  the  selectmen  for  the  use  of  the  laborers  portioned 
among  the  several  highway  districts."  (Extract  from  the  town 
records.) 

MANCHESTER  &  MILFORD  RAILROAD. 

The  Manchester  &  Milford  branch  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  rail- 
road, which  passes  through  the  center  of  our  town,  was  the  result  of 
persistent  effort.  Various  unsuccessful  attempts  were  made  to  pro- 
cure a  charter  for  a  road  connecting  Manchester  and  Milford  from 
the  legislature  and  railroad  commissioners.  One  charter  having 
been  secured  was  allowed  to  expire  without  building  the  road.  The 
town  of  Bedford  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  move- 
ment for  securing  this  road,  and  on  March  12,  1895,  the  people 
assembled  in  town-meeting  and  adopted  the  following  resolutions : 
"  Whereas,  a  movement  has  been  made  in  the  present  New  Hamp- 
shire legislature  to  build  a  railroad  from  Milford  to  the  city  of  Man- 
chester, and  thereby  instructed  to  pass  through  this  town,  therefore, 
Voted,  That  in  town-meeting  assembled  we,  the  citizens  of  Bedford, 
do  hereby  approve  of  said  movement,  which  if  consummated  will 
develop  the  resources  of  our  town,  increase  materially  the  values  of 
our  property,  afford  us  facilities  for  reaching  markets  that  are  to-day 
practically  barred  to  us,  and  give  us  accommodations  for  travel  that 
are  to-day  denied  us.  We  believe  such  a  railroad  if  built  will  most 
extensively  develop  the  central  and  southwestern  part  of  the  state, 
and  would  be  a  self-supporting  investment.  This  town  pledges 
itself  to  do  all  within  its  power  to  aid  and  carry  into  operation  such 
a  railroad,  so  much  needed  in  this  part  of  the  state." 

"  Upon  motion  of  Solomon  Manning,  voted,  that  a  committee  of 
two  be  appointed  to  assist  in  locating  said  road.  Solomon  Manning 
and  Stephen  Goffe  were  appointed  on  that  committee." 

The  legislature  referred  to  in  the  above  resolution  failed  to  grant 


ROADS,    LANDINGS,    AND   BRIDGES.  221 

the  desired  charter,  and  the  next  appeal  was  made  to  the  railroad 
commissioners.  A  hearing  was  held,  in  which  the  above  committee 
and  other  citizens  of  the  town  testified  to  the  business  resources  of 
the  town,  the  amount  of  its  productions,  etc.  This  commission  re- 
fused to  grant  a  charter.  The  people  of  the  town  protested  against 
this  decision,  and  later  were  gratified  to  learn  that  the  Boston  & 
Maine  railroad  had  at  last  secured  a  charter  from  the  legislature  of 
1899.  In  March,  1899,  the  town  "Voted  that  Solomon  Manning 
act  as  their  agent  in  laying  out  the  road  within  its  limits  and  locating 
the  station.  Also  voted  that  Stephen  Goffe  be  added  to  this  com- 
mittee." Several  routes  were  surveyed,  but  Mr.  Manning  persevered 
in  his  effort  to  secure  a  survey  through  the  center  of  the  town,  and 
here  the  road  was  finally  located  and  opened  for  traffic  December 
31,  1900. 

The  road  runs  from  a  point  on  the  North  Weare  branch  of  the 
Boston  &  Maine  system,  near  Grasmere  station,  thence  in  the  towns 
of  Goffstown,  Bedford,  Merrimack,  Amherst,  and  Milford,  to  a  junc- 
tion with  the  Wilton  and  Fitchburg  roads  in  Milford  village.  The 
new  track  is  18.54  miles  long,  which,  with  the  old  track  from  Gras- 
mere to  the  Manchester  station,  makes  the  route  23  miles  in  length. 
The  cost  of  construction  was  $190,435.23.  The  work  of  laying  the 
rails  was  begun  May  12,  1900.  Early  in  April,  1901,  the  road-bed 
suffered  greatly  by  the  effects  of  a  hard  storm,  the  washouts  being 
so  extended  that  passenger  traffic  was  suspended  for  three  weeks, 
being  resumed  April  29.  At  the  opening  of  the  road,  two  mixed 
trains  were  run  each  way  daily. 

BRIDGES. 

The  first  bridge  in  town  was  the  bridge  over  Souhegan  river  at 
John  Chamberlain's  house,  ordered  built  May  18,  1743.  On  May 
18,  1743,  the  proprietors  "  voated  that  their  be  a  Tax  of  sixteen 
shillings  &  eight  pence,  old  Tenor  be  laid  on  Each  Right  for  the 
Raising  Money  to  pay  Mr  John  Chamberlain  for  the  Building  of  a 
bridge  over  Souhegan  River  and  that  two  shillings  &  six  pence  old 
Tenor  be  laid  on  Each  Right  for  the  building  of  the  bridge  over 
Babusuck  River."  The  next  was  the  bridge  over  the  Piscataquog 
river,  at  substantially  the  same  place  as  that  now  occupied  by  the 
present  stone  structure. 

From  time  to  time,  however,  this  bridge  had  to  be  repaired,  and 
we  find  that   at  the  town-meeting   held   June    11,    1759,  "voted 


222  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Robert  Walker,  Hugh  Riddle  and  John  Moore  be  a  committee  to 
build  a  bridge  across  Piscataquog  river." 

This  bridge  may  have  been  first  built  by  Mr.  Robert  Walker, 
who,  as  we  have  seen,  was  authorized  by  vote  of  the  proprietors  in 
June,  1740,  "to  finish"  the  highway  between  Piscataquog  and  Sou- 
hegan  or  it  may  have  been  built  for  the  first  time  at  some  prior 
date.  There  seems  to  have  been  some  difficulty  in  getting  this 
bridge  paid  for,  for  we  find  that  at  the  town-meeting  on  April  2, 
1770,  it  was  "voted  to  give  a  person  12  shillings,  lawful  money,  that 
will  collect  the  rate  for  building  the  bridge  over  Piscataquog  river." 
Gan  Riddle  was  chosen  collector,  and  the  assessment  for  building 
the  bridge  was  thirty-one  pounds,  fifteen  shillings,  and  one  penny 
and  two  farthings.  This  was  undoubtedly  reckoned  in  the  paper 
money  of  the  Colony,  and  was  at  a  heavy  depreciation  from  its  face 
value.  Assessments  were  then  made  "According  to  the  value  of 
money  established  by  act  of  Parliament  of  the  6th  year  of  Queen 
Anne,  pursuant  to  her  proclamation."  l 

January  22,  1770,  Major  John  Goffe  was  employed  by  the  town 
to  build  the  second  bridge  over  Piscataquog  river.     It  was  raised 

>  Matthew  Patten's  Diary  has  the  following  entry  under  date  of  Oct.  25, 1765: 

"  Martin's  expenses  and  mine  there  was  £5."  Probably  the  old  tenor  currency. 
The  Spanish  dollar  in  sterling  currency  was  less  than  six  shillings,  in  old  tenor 
twenty-five  shillings,  in  lawful  money,  six  shillings.  On  the  subject  of  currency  we 
find  the  following  in  "  Ames'  Almanac  "  for  1760  : 

"The  old  tenor  bills  which  passed  in  Rhode  Island  and  New  Hampshire  are  pre- 
carious as  to  the  value  in  gold  and  silver.  New  Hampshire  lawful  money  is  fixed  at 
sterling  bills  at  the  rate  of  4s  6d  a  dollar." 

In  the  same  Almanac  Ames  gives  the  origin  of  the  term  "  sterling  "  as  applied  to 
money. 

"The  Germans,  because  of  their  easterly  dwelling  from  the  English,  were  called 
'  Esterlings.'  Some  of  whom  dwelling  in  England,  first  of  all,  stamped  a  pure  coin, 
which  from  them  was  called  '  Esterling '  money,  and  now,  leaving  out  the  initial 
letter  '  E,'  it  is  called  sterling  money." 

Nathaniel  Ames,  whose  almanacs  were  so  celebrated  one  hundred  years  ago,  was 
a  man  of  considerable  note  in  his  day.  In  his  "  Almanac  for  1758"  there  is  a  singu- 
lar prediction,  which  in  a  work  of  this  kind  it  may  not  be  improper  to  transcribe. 

"  The  curious  have  observed  that  the  progress  of  human  literature  (like  the  sun) 
is  from  the  East  to  the  West.  Thus  has  it  traveled  through  Asia  and  Europe  and 
now  is  arrived  at  the  eastern  shore  of  America.  As  the  Celestial  light  of  the  Gospel 
was  directed  here  by  the  finger  of  God,  it  will  doubtless  finally  drive  the  long  night 
of  heathenish  darkness  from  America.  So  arts  and  sciences  will  change  the  face  of 
nature  in  their  tour  from  hence  over  the  Applachian  Mountains  to  the  western 
ocean,  and  as  they  march  through  the  vast  desert,  the  residence  of  wild  beasts  will 
be  broken  up  and  their  obscene  howl  cease  forever.  The  rocks  will  disclose  the 
hidden  gems,  and  the  inestimable  treasures  of  gold  and  silver  be  broken  up.  Huge 
mountains  of  iron  ore  are  already  discovered,  and  vast  stores  are  reserved  for 
future  generations.  This  metal,  more  useful  than  gold  or  silver,  will  employ  mill- 
ions of  hands,  not  only  to  form  the  martial  sword,  and  peaceful  share,  alternately, 
but  an  infinity  of  utensils  improved  in  the  exercise  of  art  and  handicraft  among 
men.  Nature  through  all  her  works  has  stamped  authority  on  this  law,  namely 
1  that  all  fit  matter  shall  be  improved  to  its  best  purposes.'  Shall  not  then  those  vast 
forests  that  teem  with  mechanic  stone,  those  for  structure  be  piled  in  a  great  city, 
and  those  for  sculpture  into  statues  to  perpetuate  the  honor  of  renowned  heroes, 
even  those  who  shall  now  save  their  country. 

"Oh!  ye  unborn  inhabitants  of  America'!  should  this  page  escape  its  destined 
conflagration  and  these  alphabetical  letters  remain  legible  when  your  eyes  behold 
the  sun,  after  he  has  rolled  the  seasons  round  for  2  or  3  centuries  more,  you  will 
know  that  in  Anno  Domini  1758  we  drem'd  of  your  times. 

"NATHANIEL  AMES." 


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July  16,  1770,  and  they  finished  laying  the  plank  December  21, 
1770.  While  raising  the  bridge  six  men  were  thrown  off,  of  whom 
Mr.  Holmes,  Mr.  Dougall,  and  Joseph  Moore  were  seriously  injured, 
the  latter  so  much  so  that  he  died  in  thirty  hours. 

There  seems  also  to  have  been  some  difficulty  in  getting  the  con- 
tractor to  complete  the  job  in  accordance  with  the  ideas  of  the  com- 
mittee in  charge  of  the  work,  for  we  find  this  article  in  the  warrant 
of  June  28,  1770 : 

Whereas  Major  John  Goffe  thinks  he  had  completed  the  building 
of  the  bridge  over  Piscataquog  river  according  to  the  agreement, 
and  the  committee  who  was  chosen  to  accept  the  same  from  him  in 
behalf  of  the  town,  they  state  said  bridge  is  not  finished  according 
to  the  agreement.  Therefore,  to  see  if  the  town  will  accept  said 
bridge  from  him  as  it  is  now,  or  whether  they  will  not  unless  it  is 
better  fitted,  and  if  they  do  not  accept  it  as  it  now  is,  to  point  out, 
apprise,  what  they  think  he  was  to  do  more  than  is  not  done. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  town  "  voted  not  to  act  on  this 
article  in  the  warrant." 

The  bridge  over  the  Piscataquog  river  seems  to  have  been  badly 
injured  in  June  of  1779  for  a  tax  or  assessment  was  specially  laid  in 
that  year  for  the  purpose  of  repairing  the  same. 

In  the  town-meeting  warrant  for  October  22,  1781,  there  was  an 
article  "  To  see  what  method  the  town  will  take  to  repair  the  bridge 
over  the  Piscataquog  river,  it  being  very  much  out  of  repair  and 
dangerous  for  loaded  teams  to  pass  over."  At  this  meeting  it  was 
voted,  "That  Major  John  Goff,  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose  and  James 
Vose  be  a  committee  to  repair  said  bridge."  Voted  to  accept  the 
committee's  account  of  the  charges  for  Piscataquog  river  bridge  last 
fall. 

The  bridge  was  probably  getting  out  of  repair,  for  March  10, 
1783,  "voted  to  choose  a  committee  of  three  persons  to  see  what  is 
advisable  to  be  done  on  Piscataquog  bridge,  and  do  it."  The  com- 
mittee were  James  Wallace,  John  Dole,  and  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose. 

December  26,  1784,  "Voted  Sam  Moore,  Adam  Dickey,  Major 
Goffe  to  be  a  committee  to  take  care  of  Piscataquog  bridge  until 
it  shall  be  rebuilt  and  Lieut.  Sam  Vose,  Mr.  John  Wallace,  and 
Lieut.  Whitefield  Gilmore  to  be  a  committee  to  get  six  string  pieces 
on  the  spot  without  delay  for  rebuilding  Piscataquog  bridge." 

Nov.  17,  1785,  "voted  John  Patten,  Adam  Dickie,  Joseph  Pat- 
ten, Lieut.  John  Orr,  Ensign  John  Riddle  be  a  committee  to  repair 
and  rebuild  the  Piscataquog  bridge  and  build  it  near  the  same 
height  as  the  present  one,  or  as  they  may  see  proper." 


224  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

January  3,  1785,  "  Voted  to  build  the  bridge  over  Piscataquog 
River  where  it  was  before,  that  the  building  of  said  bridge  shall  be 
set  up  at  vendue  to  the  lowest  bidder.  That  what  is  paid  for  build- 
ing said  bridge  shall  be  paid  by  orders  of  the  constable.  That  the 
vendue  of  said  bridge  be  held  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Zach  Chandler  on 
the  24th  inst.  at  one  o'clock.  That  James  Martin,  James  Wallace 
and  Capt.  Samuel  Patten  be  a  committee  to  oversee  the  building  of 
said  bridge.  That  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose  be  vendue  master."  "  Voted 
it  be  built  the  same  height  as  before."  The  building  of  the  bridge 
was  knocked  off  to  Sam  Goffe. 

November,  1795,  "  Chose  a  committee,  consisting  of  Benjamin 
Barron,  Lieut.  John  Riddle,  Lieut.  John  Patten,  John  Orr,  Esq.  and 
Mr.  James  Darrah  to  build  a  new  bridge."  This  committee  was  to 
sell  the  work  to  the  lowest  bidder,  and  the  construction  was  to  con- 
form to  a  plan  exhibited.     The  bridge  to  be  finished  June  1,  1796. 

It  does  not  appear  from  the  minutes  of  the  meeting  who  built  the 
bridge,  but  at  the  meeting  held  March  23,  1796,  the  town  accepted  the 
report  of  the  committee,  which  recommended  to  allow  David  Riddle 
$200  for  extra  work  and  timber  on  said  bridge,  from  which  it  seems 
that  David  Riddle  probably  was  the  builder. 

March,  1806.  Voted  to  vendue  the  rebuilding  of  Piscataquog 
Bridge  to  the  lowest  bidder,  the  builder  to  have  all  the  timber  and 
plank  of  the  old  bridge. 

March  20,  1811,  "voted  that  the  town  proceed  to  build  one  stone 
abutment  at  the  North  end  of  Piscataquog  bridge,  the  present  year. 
Capt.  Thomas  Chandler,  John  Orr,  Esq.,  and  Capt.  Dole  be  a  com- 
mittee for  that  purpose."     $700  was  appropriated. 

March  26,  1812,  Isaac  Riddle,  Samuel  Chandler  and  William 
Moore  were  appointed  a  committee  to  build  the  bridge,  with  the 
middle  piers  built  of  wood,  the  south  abutment  having  been  built  of 
stone  the  year  before,  and  the  whole  to  be  completed  furnished  with 
good  and  substantial  railing,  stringers  and  plank. 

William  Riddle  was  the  builder  of  this  bridge,  which  was  com- 
pleted in  the  summer  of  1813-14.  One  thousand  dollars  was  ap- 
propriated for  the  building  of  the  bridge,  one  half  of  which  was  "  to 
be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  town,  on  the  first  day  of  June, 
1813,  and  the  other  half  by  the  first  day  of  December  following." 

October  17,  1828,  a  committee  was  chosen,  consisting  of  Capt.  Wm. 
Patten,  Col.  Wm.  P.  Riddle,  and  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  Esq.,  to  rebuild 
Piscataquog  bridge.  This  committee  were  authorized  to  draw 
money  not  exceeding  $300,  if  necessary.  Builder,  John  P.  Houston, 
in  1829. 

October  4,  1842,  a  committee  was  chosen  consisting  of  Fred.  G. 
Stark,  James  Walker,  and  Wm.  P.  Riddle,  to  reconstruct  and  rebuild 


ROADS,   LANDINGS,   AND  BRIDGES.  225 

Piscataquog  bridge.  This  is  the  bridge  now  (1850)  in  use.  The 
abutments  on  both  sides  the  river  were  widened,  a  lattice,  similar  to 
the  granite  bridge,  made,  and  the  whole  finished  as  a  bridge  ought 
to  be  in  such  a  thoroughfare  of  travel.     It  was  completed  in  1843. 

In  connection  with  this  subject,  the  following  vote  is  important : 

March  10,  1835.  Voted,  That  any  highway  district,  that  will 
build  their  bridges  with  stone  abutments,  and  cover  the  water  courses 
with  good  substantial  stone  arches,  so  that  the  town  will  not  here- 
after be  called  upon  to  furnish  timber  and  plank,  for  the  repair  of 
such  bridges,  such  district  shall  receive  from  the  town  treasurer,  the 
amount  of  money  such  bridge  would  cost  the  town  for  timber  and 
plank  for  the  term  of  twenty  years.  And  for  the  better  security  of 
the  town,  the  stone  work  of  such  bridge  or  bridges  shall  be  done  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  Selectmen,  for  the  time  being,  or  of  such  com- 
mittee as  the  town  may  choose  for  that  purpose.  And  as  the  split- 
ting and  preparing  stone  for  such  bridges  will  require  some 
stone-tools  and  iron  work,  it  is  further  provided,  that  the  Selectmen 
may  advance  a  part  of  the  money,  at  their  discretion,  to  enable  such 
district  to  prosecute  the  work  to  its  completion.  The  better  to 
enable  the  several  districts  to  judge  whether  they  will  be  able  to 
build  their  bridges  of  stone,  the  Selectmen  are  hereby  ordered,  while 
taking  the  invoice,  the  present  year,  to  estimate  the  yearly  expense 
to  the  town  in  timber  and  plank  for  the  several  bridges  in  town. 

By  the  good  effect  of  this  vote,  the  town  is  not  obliged,  except  in 
a  few  instances,  to  supply  timber  and  plank  for  small  bridges  ;  stone 
arches  and  stone  stringers  having  been  thrown  over  most  of  the 
streams  in  Bedford. 

We  have  no  record  as  to  when  the  County  bridge,  so  called,  was 
built.  This  bridge  is  the  bridge  over  Riddle  brook,  near  the  foot  of 
Patterson  hill,  on  the  County  road.  But  we  find  that  on  Septem- 
ber 5,  1775,  it  was  "Voted  Lieut.  James  Wallace  and  Ensign  John 
Riddle  be  a  committee  to  repair  the  County  Bridge."  A  subsequent 
committee  were  appointed  to  repair  the  bridge,  which  they  did  as 
follows,  as  appears  by  their  report : 

That  about  32  feet  of  the  west  end  and  35  of  the  east  end  of  said 
bridge,  that  is  now  covered  with  plank,  ought  to  be  rebuilt  in  the 
form  of  a  causeway  of  timber  and  earth  to  raise  21  inches  above 
high  water  mark,  that  the  middle  part  of  said  bridge  being  about  93 
feet  in  length,  be  built  in  the  same  form  with  the  present  bridge, 
excepting  that  it  be  covered  with  square  edged  pine  plank,  three 
inches  thick,  15  feet  long,  free  from  sap,  which,  when  laid,  shall  be 
but  21  inches  above  high  water  mark,  when  the  mill  dam  on  the 
school  land  below  is  full. 

Bedford,  March  15,  1797.         John  Orr, 

John  Riddle, 
John  Houfton  Jun', 
A  true  record :     Attest,  Phineas  Aiken,  Toicn  Clerk. 


226  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

It  was  "  voted  to  receive  and  accept  the  Committee's  report,"  and 
the  selectmen  were  "directed  to  call  a  legal  meeting  to  dispose  of 
the  building  of  the  bridge."  At  the  meeting  it  was  "  voted  to  ven- 
due the  building  of  the  bridge  to  the  lowest  bidder,  and  to  assess  a 
isum  sufficient  to  advertise  the  building  of  the  bridge." 

John  Orr,  Esq.,  Lieut.  John  Riddle,  John  Houston,  Jr.,  Ben- 
jamin Barnes,  and  Joseph  Bell  were  the  committee  to  superintend 
the  building  of  the  bridge. 

When  the  Concord  railroad  was  chartered  in  1835  x  it  extended 
its  lines  northwardly  from  Nashua  to  Concord,  and  entered  the  lim- 
its of  Bedford  at  a  point  "  on  a  line  drawn  East  and  West  through  a 
point  three  miles  North  of  the  bridge  over  Souhegan  river  at  John 
Chamberlin's  house,"  and  the  original  intention  Avas  to  "continue 
along  the  westerly  bank  of  the  river  through  the  village  of  Piscata- 
quog  to  the  village  of  Amoskeag,  where  had  been  built  the  canal, 
and  where  were  located  the  first  mills  in  Manchester."  Considerable 
opposition  developed  in  the  course  of  obtaining  their  charter,  and  of 
building  their  road,  and  tradition  has  it  that  Thomas  Chandler,  who 
had  been  member  of  congress,  and  who  kept  a  stage  tavern  on  the 
River  road  at  the  corner  of  the  Meeting  House  road,  so  called,  and 
who  was  a  very  influential  man,  led  the  opposition.  The  reasons  for 
his  opposition  were  that  the  smoke  and  cinders  from  the  locomotive 
and  the  dust  from  the  trains  would  soil  the  wool  of  his  sheep, 
through  whose  pasture  the  Concord  road  proposed  to  lay  their  track. 
Joining  with  other  wise  men  in  the  town,  they  exercised  so  great  an 
influence  that  the  Merrimack  river  was  bridged  at  Goffe's  Falls,  the 
stone  being  taken  from  William  Riddle's  quarry  on  the  Middle  hill, 
and  the  track  went  north  from  there  on  the  east  bank  of  the  river. 
The  Concord  railroad  bridge  was  at  first  a  wooden  structure,2  but  in 
1897  this  was  removed,  and  its  place  taken  by  the  present  steel 
structure.  The  railroad  contemplated  at  the  time  a  change  in  the 
location  of  the  bridge,  and  thought  of  straightening  their  route  by 
continuing  along  the  westerly  bank  of  the  river  a  little  further  to 
the  north,  and  then  crossing  from,  the  west  bank  to  Carthagenia 
island  and  from  Carthagenia  island  to  the  east  bank.  They  feared 
that  the  stone  piers  which  had  sustained  the  former  wooden  struc- 
ture would  not  be  sufficiently  strong  to  sustain  the  more  modern 

1  The  first  train  ran  from  Nashua  to  Manchester  July  4, 1842. 

1  Bernice  Priichard  said  that  the  timbers  of  the  bridge  would  rot  from  the  heart 
out,  and  that  the  outside  would  be  apparently  sound  when  the  inside  was  entirely 
decayed.  The  cause  would  be  the  mist  rising  from  the  falls.  On  boring  into  these 
timbers  when  the  bridge  was  repaired  in  1867  this  was  found  to  be  the  case. 


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steel  structure.  When  they  examined  them,  however,  it  appeared 
that  the  work  had  been  well  done  when  it  was  first  done,  and  the 
location  of  the  bridge  was  not  changed.  The  present  bridge  was 
substituted  piece  by  piece  for  the  old  wooden  bridge,  without  any 
interruption  or  delay  in  train  service,  although  the  work  was  largely 
done  in  mid-winter. 

The  wooden  bridge  was  rebuilt  in  1868,  under  the  direction  of 
Samuel  F.  Patterson.  The  first  bridge  had  been  a  single  track,  and 
one  purpose  in  rebuilding  was  that  it  might  be  made  double  track, 
which  was  done.  For  this,  the  old  piers  were  extended.  The 
work  of  rebuilding  occupied  nearly  six  months,  during  which  time, 
not  a  single  train  was  delayed  by  the  operations.  The  roof  was 
not  put  on  until  1869.  Prior  to  1868  there  was  a  plank  walk  way 
for  foot  passengers,  with  places  made  for  travelers  to  retreat  into 
when  a  train  was  passing.  About  the  time  of  rebuilding  the  bridge 
the  station  was  moved  to  the  east  side  of  the  river  and  the  walk 
way  for  passengers  was  put  upon  the  outside  (east  side)  of  the 
bridge.  In  1899  a  petition  to  the  Boston  &  Maine  railroad  was 
circulated  and  obtained  many  signatures  for  the  location  of  a  station 
at  the  Bedford  end  of  the  bridge,  there  being  no  place  provided  on 
the  steel  bridge  for  passengers  to  cross  on  foot  from  Bedford  to  the 
Goff's  Falls  station  on  the  east  side  of  the  river.  The  petition  was 
granted,  and  the  station  called  Moore's  crossing,  established. 

Just  below  the  point  where  this  bridge  crosses,  Colonel  Goffe 
maintained  a  ferry  for  many  years.  The  site  is  more  commonly 
known  as  Moore's  ferry,  for  the  reason  that  at  Colonel  Goffe's 
death  the  ferry  right  passed  to  his  son-in-law,  Lieut.  John  Moore, 
who  maintained  the  ferry  until  its  abandonment  at  the  time  the 
bridge  refeiTed  to  was  completed. 

The  bridge  over  Riddle's  brook  at  Damon's  mill  was  rebuilt,  and 
the  bridge  carried  to  the  east  about  the  width  of  the  road  at  the 
time  of  the  accident  out  of  which  grew  the  suit  as  related  in  the 
article  on  Roads. 

The  "  early  "  road  from  Bedford  Centre  to  Manchester  ran  northerly 
from  the  Gordon  House  past  the  Atwood  farm,  but  in  1852  the  road 
was  laid  out  across  the  plains,  which  is  known  as  the  Boynton  road. 
It  takes  its  name  from  William  Boynton,  who  occupied  a^  farm  on 
the  plains,  and  who  first  petitioned  for  the  road.  Where  the  road 
crosses  the  Crosby  brook  there  is  a  culvert  and  a  considerable 
embankment.     This    was    washed    out    within    a    few    years    and 


228  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

repaired.     In  1864  it  was  again  washed  out,  as  appears  from  the 
following  extract  from  the  town  records : 

Bedford,  Apr.  23,  1864.  Your  committee,  chosen  to  examine  the 
Boynton  Gulf,  so  called,  having  attended  to  that  duty,  ask  leave  to 
present  the  following  report :  Mean  length  of  fill  is  82  feet ;  mean 
width  of  fill  is  40  feet ;  mean  depth  of  fill  is  20  feet,  which  makes 
303  squares,  from  which  deduct  38  squares  for  stonework,  leaves 
365  squares  to  fill,  which  at  $1.50  per  square  would  he  $398,  say 
$400. 

Stone  work  estimated  at  $200 ;  other  expenses  estimated  at  $200 
making  in  all  $800,  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

L.  C.  French,  2d,  Committee. 

Voted  to  accept  the  report  of  said  committee. 

Voted  that  a  committee  of  two  be  appointed  to  rebuild  the 
bridge  and  repair  the  road. 

Voted  that  said  committee  be  raised  by  nomination,  and  Hugh 
R.  French  and  Leonard  C.  French,  2d,  were  nominated  and  duly 
chosen  said  committee. 

The  embankment  was  again  washed  out  in  1900  at  the  time  the 
railroad  was  being  built. 

There  is  also  a  bridge  over  Crosby's  brook,  just  above  the 
Boynton  bridge,  know  as  the  Wallace  bridge.  It  has  been  repaired 
many  times  at  considerable  expense  to  the  town.  The  present 
structure  is  temporary  and  was  erected  in  1900  at  the  time  of  the 
freshet  at  which  the  Boynton  bridge  was  last  carried  away. 

The  other  bridges  and  culverts  in  town  have  been  built  from 
time  to  time  without  special  vote  by  the  town,  and  so  no  record  is 
obtainable  of  the  date  of  their  construction,  save  in  the  case  of  the 
stone  bridge  on  the  River  road  over  Crosby's  brook,  which  was 
completed  in  1824. 

GOFFE'S   FERRY,    1766. 

(State  Papers,  Vol.  25.)  . 

Province  of  New  Hampshire — 
Goffe's  Ferry 


George  the  Third,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  of  Great  Britain,  France 
&  Ireland,  King  Defender  of  the  Faith  &ca 

To  all  to  whom  These  Presents  Shall  Come  Greeting 

Know  ~ye  that  we  of  our  Special  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge  & 

mere  Motion  (by  &  with  the  advice  of  our  Trusty  &  Well  Beloved 

Benning   Wentworth   Esqr  our   Capt   General  Governor   &   Com- 

mandr  in  Cheif  &  over  Our  Province  of  New  Hampshire  in  North 


ROADS,   LANDINGS,   AND  BRIDGES.  229 

America)  Have  giv'n  &  granted  And  by  the  Presents  for  Us  our 
heirs  &  successors  Do  give  &  grant  unto  Our  Loyal  &  most  faith- 
ful Subject  John  Goffe  of  Derryfield  in  our  said  Prov:  of  New 
Hampshire  Esq'  the  sole  Right  of  Keeping  a  Ferry  and  of  Keeping 
Useing  &  Employing  a  ferry  boat  &  boats  for  the  transporting  of 
Men,  Horses  Goods  Cattle  Carriages  &ca  from  the  Shore  of  Derry- 
field aforesd  where  the  said  John  Goffe's  dwelling  House  now  stands, 
Across  Merrimack  River  to  the  opposite  Shore  of  Bedford,  &  from 
Bedford  Shore  Opposite  his  Said  House  unto  Derryfield  Shore 
aforesd  To  Hold  the  said  Ferry  and  Priviledge  of  a  Ferry,  with  all 
Ferryage  Advantages  Emoluments  perquisites  &  Profits  thereunto 
belonging  unto  him  the  sd  John  Goffe  Esq'  His  heirs,  Executors, 
Administrators  &  Assigns  from  the  Day  of  the  date  Hereof  for  Ever 
to  his  &  their  only  Proper  Use  &  behoof  for  Ever  Upon  the  follow- 
ing conditions  viz1  that  he  &  they  do  &  shall  at  all  time  Keep  such 
boats  &  give  such  Attendence  &  behave  as  the  Now  (or  any  here- 
after) Laws  do  or  may  Require.  And  as  a  further  Encouragement 
to  the  sd  John  Goffe  in  and  about  the  Premises  We  Will  that  none 
of  our  Loving  Subjects  do  presume  to  molest  or  Interrupt  the 
sd  John  Goffe  in  his  sd  Ferry  or  set  up  any  other  ferry  upon  or 
across  the  sd  River  Merrimack  within  the  space  of  Two  Miles  above 
or  below  the  Ferry  of  the  sd  John  Goffe  In  Testimony  whereof  we 
have  Causd  the  Public  Seal  of  our  sd  Prov  to  be  hereunto  affixd  Wit- 
ness our  sd  Governor  B.  Went  worth  Esq'  the  7th  day  of  Novem'  in 
the  7th  Year  of  our  Reign  Anno :  Domini  1766 

B  Wentworth 
By  His  Excellency's  Commd 

T:  Atkinson  Jun.  Secrv 
Province  of  New  Hampshire  7th  Nov  1766 — 
Recorded  according  to  the  Original,  under  the  Province  Seal 

Attest :  T :  Atkinson  Jun  $eery 

GRANITE  BRIDGE. 

(From  Potter's  History  of  Manchester.; 

Granite  bridge  was  built  at  the  head  of  Merrill's  falls,  in  1840. 
The  act  of  incorporation  was  granted  June,  1839.  The  stock  was 
divided  into  one  hundred  shares. 

The  act  of  incorporation  provided  that  when  the  stockholders 
should  have  received  in  dividends  from  tolls  the  cost  of  the  bridge 
and  interest  upon  the  same  at  six  per  cent.,  it  should  become  free. 
The  bridge  was  completed  in  September,  1840,  and  Granite  street, 
extending  from  Elm  street  to  the  bridge,  and  from  the  bridge  west 
to  the  river  road  in  Bedford,  was  built  by  the  corporation  at  the 
same  time  for  the  accommodation  of  travel  to  and  from  the  bridge, 
the  use  of  the  land  for  the  same  being  given  by  the  Amoskeag  Man- 
ufacturing Company  as  long  as  tolls  were  taken  for  passing  the 
bridge,  the  repairing  and  fencing  the  same  being  at  the  expense  of 


230  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  proprietors  of  the  bridge  during  its  use  by  them.  The  experi- 
ment was  a  successful  one  and  proved  that  the  bridge  was  of  great 
public  advantage.  The  tolls  were  one  cent  for  foot  pedestrians  and 
six  cents  for  teams.  An  abstract  from  the  report  of  the  directors  to 
the  legislature,  made  June  19,  1843,  will  show  the  situation  of  the 
corporation  at  that  time : 

"  And  first,  we  consider  the  original  cost  of  our  Bridge,  Toll  House,  and 
Road,  as  the  amount  of  our  capital  stock,  which  amount  was  ascertained 
and  reported  to  the  Legislature  in  June,  1841,  and  was  $10,281.08.  Nine 
thousand  dollars  of  which  had  been  discharged  by  assessments  upon  the 
shares  of  the  stockholders,  and  the  residue  from  the  money  received  for 
tolls.  We  have  paid  out  since  the  bridge  was  completed  for  repairs  and 
other  incidental  expenses,  the  sum  of  $1,393.60,  which,  being  added  to  the 
original  cost  of  the  bridge,  etc.,  shows  a  total  outlay  of  $11,167.58,  exclu- 
sive of  interest. 

"  The  whole  amount  of  money  paid  out  to  the  stockholders  in  dividends 
up  to  this  time  has  been  $2,600.00,  to  which  add  the  balance  of  original 
cost  of  the  bridge,  &c,  which  balance  was  paid  out  of  money  received  for 
toll,  $1,248.88,  and  it  shows  our  total  receipts  to  have  been  $3,848.88,  and 
that  a  balance  is  now  outstanding  against  the  bridge  and  in  favor  of  the 
stockholders  of  $7,825.80  besides  the  interest  upon  the  assessments." 

In  1847  the  public  became  impressed  with  the  belief  that  the 
bridge  should  be  free  according  to  the  conditions  of  its  charter,  and 
measures  were  taken  to  bring  about  this  result.  Petitions  were  pre- 
sented to  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  Manchester  and  the  selectmen 
of  Bedford,  praying  that  Granite  street  should  be  laid  out  over  the 
bridge  and  be  made  a  public  highway.  A  hearing  was  had  upon  the 
petition  before  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  Manchester  on  the  18th 
of  December,  1847,  and  before  the  selectmen  of  Bedford  about  the 
same  time.  The  result  of  the  hearings  was  that  the  highway  was 
laid  out,  and  the  bridge  became  free  upon  the  payment  of  the  sum 
of  -$400  to  the  stockholders.  Thus  free,  the  bridge  became  the 
property  of  Manchester  and  Bedford,  and  to  be  supported  by  them. 
During  the  ice  freshet  of  1851  the  ice  became  obstructed  in  the  eddy 
above  the  New  Hampshire  Central  railroad  bridge,  and  the  water 
rising  some  feet,  the  bridge  was  lifted  from  its  piers  and  carried  off. 
In  the  summer  of  1851  another  bridge  was  built  at  the  expense  of 
the  two  towns.  As  is  often  the  case  with  partners,  they  could  not 
agree  what  kind  of  a  bridge  to  erect,  and  Bedford  built  the  west 
part  in  lattice  Avork,  while  Manchester  built  the  east  half  after 
another  plan.  It  is  believed  that  the  abutments  and  piers  were 
built  of  the  same  kind  of  stone.1  The  bridge  was  built  in  a  sub- 
stantial manner,  upon  stone  piers  laid  in  the  most  approved  style, 
under  the  direction  of  Major  Hiram  Brown.  The  bridge  is  450  feet 
in  length  and  25  feet  in  width,  with  two  driveways  for  teams,  and 
two  walks  for  people  on  foot,  and  is  not  covered.  The  whole  cost 
was  about  $18,000. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  stockholders  in  the  Granite  Bridge 
Corporation,  September  1,  1846 : 

JThe  western  half  of  the  bridge  was  washed  out  in  March,  1896. 


ROADS,   LANDINGS,   AND   BRIDGES.  231 

Daniel  Mack,  Bedford,  20  shares ;  Frederick  G.  Stark,  Bedford, 
16  shares;  Daniel  Watts,  Londonderry,  9  shares;  David  Hamblett, 
Bedford,  8  shares ;  Cyrus  Moore,  Manchester,  8  shares ;  William  P. 
Riddle,  Bedford,  5  shares ;  Priscilla  Rowe,  Bedford,  4  shares ;  Jesse 
Hartwell,  Bedford,  4  shares ;  Betsey  P.  Searle,  Francestown,  8  shares ; 
Silas  Griffin,  Hampstead,  2  shares ;  James  Walker,  Bedford,  2  shares ; 
Adam  Chandler,  Bedford,  2  shares  ;  Jonas  Harvey,  Manchester,  2 
shares ;  William  Riddle,  Bedford,  2  shares ;  John  French,  Bedford, 
2  shares ;  Daniel  Ferguson,  Bedford,  1  share ;  Thomas  Ferguson, 
Bedford,  1  share ;  John  D.  Riddle,  Bedford,  1  share ;  James  Harvell, 
Bedford,  1  share  ;  Isaac  Darrah,  Bedford,  1  share ;  William  Patten, 
Bedford,  1  share ;  David  Worthley,  Goffstown,  1  share ;  Stephen 
Smith,  Manchester,  1  share ;  James  Wallace,  Manchester,  1  share  ; 
Timothy  J.  Carter,  Manchester,  1  share ;  Joseph  Gregg,  New  Boston, 
1  share. 

A  post  road  was  established  by  act  of  congress  April  20,  1818, 
"from  Amherst  by  Goffstown  West  meeting  house,  Dunbarton,  Hop- 
kinton,  Concord,  Isle  Hooksett,  Piscataqua  Bridge  and  Bedford  to 
Amherst."  Also  one  "from  Merrimack  by  Piscataqua  Bridge  to 
Bedford."  May  13,  1813,  "from  Dunstable,  through  Merrimack  by 
Bedford  meeting  house  and  Piscataqua  Bridge  to  Isle  Hooksett." 

LANDINGS. 

In  the  wilderness  the  streams  are  natural  highways,  and  so  when 
the  town  was  first  settled  the  Merrimack  river  formed  a  natural 
means  of  transit  from  North  to  South,  both  for  travelers  and  for  the 
transportation  of  freight.  There  were  various  landings,  so  called, 
upon  the  river  bank  within  the  limits  of  Bedford.  First,  on  the 
Thomas  Chandler  farm,  opposite  to  Carthagenia  island,  known  as 
Basswood  landing ;  one  near  the  mouth  of  Crosby  brook,  and  known 
sometimes  as  Smith's  landing,  and  sometimes  as  Martin's  landing, 
and  as  Dole's  landing,  from  the  names  of  the  various  owners  of  the 
adjacent  farm.     Another,  laid  out  in  1807,  described  as  follows : 

The  transcript  of  a  landing,  beginning  at  the  North  line  of  Mr. 
Joseph  Harvell's  lots,  leaving  four  rods  upon  the  bank  until  the  line 
runs  twelve  rods  down  the  river.  From  thence  to  the  river  as  far 
as  low  water  mark,  for  which  we  award  Mr.  Joseph  Harvell  $40. 

Laid  out  by  us,  the  subscribers,  Selectmen  of  Bedford,  this day 

of 1807.  Samuel  Chandler,) 

John  Holbrook,       v  Selectmen. 
David  Stevens,       ) 

A  true  record,  Attest :     Samuel  Chandler,  Toton  Clerk. 


232  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

In  Piscataquog  village  there  was  a  third,  known  as  Riddle's  land- 
ing, which  lay  between  what  is  now  known  as  Log  street  and  the 
Piscataquog  river.  Inasmuch  as  Piscataquog  village  was  the  chief 
village  of  the  town  until  the  time  of  its  separation  from  Bedford, 
this  was  probably  the  busiest  and  most  important  landing  of  them  all. 

We  append  here  a  sketch  of  its  history,-  taken  from  the  earlier 
book  of  Bedford,  and  which  extends  to  the  time  when  the  village 
ceased  to  be  a  part'  of  our  town,  and  its  history  becomes  a  part  of 
the  history  of  Manchester. 

PISCATAQUOG  VILLAGE. 

Piscataquog  village  lies  in  the  northeast  part  of  the  town  of 
Bedford,  and  now  comprises  two  school  districts,  Nos.  5  and  14,  and 
about  100  dwelling  houses  and  700  inhabitants.  It  was  so  called 
from  the  river  of  that  name,  which  here  empties  into  the  Merrimac. 
The  Piscataquog  river  rises  in  Francestown,  near  the  Crotched 
Mountains,  and  after  a  meandering  course  in  a  south-east  direction, 
having  received  the  waters  of  Pleasant  and  Scoby's  ponds  in  Fran- 
cestown, and,  passing  through  a  corner  of  Lyndeborough  and  thence 
northeast  through  New  Boston,  it  unites  with  its  main  branch,  com- 
ing from  Weare  and  Deering  in  Goffstown ;  and  thence,  by  a  south- 
easterly course  through  Goffstown  and  a  corner  of  Bedford,  it  Hows 
into  the  Merrimac.  It  is  quite  a  rapid  river,  and  affords  many  val- 
uable water  privileges,  some  of  which  have  been  improved  for  saw 
and  grist-mills,  and  other  machinery.  In  the  town  of  New  Boston, 
on  this  stream  and  its  branches,  in  1820,  there  were  more  saw-mills 
than  in  any  other  town  in  the  state.  It  was  noted,  in  the  primitive 
state  of  its  forests,  for  its  beautiful  pine  timber  and  excellent  masts, 
hence  the  origin  of  the  Mast-road  and  the  Mast-landing,  or  rolling 
place,  near  the  mouth  of  this  river.  These  masts,  it  will  be  remem- 
bered, were  mostly  reserved,  especially  the  best,  for  the  king's  spe- 
cial use  in  the  royal  navy;  hence,  the  town  officer  found  in  our  old 
records,  under  the  king,  "  Deer-Keeper,"  whose  duty  was  to  prevent 
the  unnecessary  slaughter  of  deer,  and  preserve  the  King's  timber 
from  common  use. 

The  name  of  the  Piscataquog  is  of  Indian  origin,  and  is  said  to 
signify,  the  place  of  many  deer.  When  the  town  was  first  laid  out 
and  allotted  to  the  proprietors,  Lot  No.  1  on  Piscataquog,  containing 
25  acres,  now  occupied  by  James  Walker,  was  drawn  to  Gov. 
Belcher.  No.  2,  now  belonging  to  the  Amoskeag  Land  and  Water 
Power  Company,  was  drawn  to  James  Davenport.  Between  these 
two  lots  and  the  range  line  at  the  head  of  the  home  lots  extending 
west  from  nearly  where  the  road  now  is,  west  and  south  of  Piscata- 
quog river,  including  the  mill  privilege  and  the  most  thickly  settled 
part  of  the  village,  was  Lot  No.  123  of  the  third  division,  containing 
probably  a  hundred  acres  or  more.     The  records  do  not   state   to 


ROADS,   LANDINGS,    AND   BRIDGES.  233 

whom  it  was  drawn.  Xext,  south  of  that,  extending  from  the  range 
line  to  the  river,  was  lot  Xo.  73,  drawn  to  "  Maddam  Livingston." 
Home-Lot  Xo.  1,  on  the  Merrimac  river,  south  of  the  last  named, 
was  drawn  to  Jacob  Griggs  ;  Xo.  2,  to  John  Plyuqiton  ;  Xo.  3,  to 
Habijah  Savadge,  Esq.;  Xo.  4,  to  Thomas  Sinipkins ;  Xo.  5,  to 
Samuel  Hollis ;  Xo.  6,  to  James  Yeats  ;  Xo.  7,  to  Isi"ael  Hubbard ; 
which  will  probably  be  the  extent  of  the  village,  south.  The  island 
in  the  mouth  of  Piscataquog  was  drawn  in  the  third  division  to 
Samuel  Bass,  as  a  meadow-lot,  and  hence,  probably,  called  Bass 
Island.  At  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  the  township,  in  January, 
1739,  they  voted  to  raise  £20  for  "rectifying  the  way  from  Souhegan 
river  to  Piscataquog  river,"  and  Robert  Walker  was  appointed  a 
committee  to  see  the  money  expended.  It  seems  the  way  was  not 
"  rectified,"  for  in  January,  1740,  they  voted  to  "  chuse  "  a  committee 
to  mark  out  the  highway  between  Souhegan  and  Piscataquog.  At  a 
meeting  in  June  of  the  same  year,  they  voted  to  raise  as  much  more 
(viz.,)  3s.  4d.,  making  altogether  6s.  8d.  on  each  right  in  town  for 
that  end,  and  that  Mr.  Robert  Walker  do  said  work  and  those  who 
are  delinquents  to  be  proceeded  against  according  to  law.  It  is  prob- 
able that  this  road  was  marked  out  and  prepared  for  a  cart-road,  as 
far  as  Piscataquog  river,  at  this  time.  The  manner  of  crossing  riv- 
ers, at  this  time,  was  by  fording  them,  which  was  undoubtedly  the 
case  here,  for  in  1757  we  find  Thomas  Hall  petitioning  for  a  road 
across  Piscataquog.  The  town  however,  when  the  petition  was  laid 
before  them,  refused  to  lay  out  the  road,  and  he  (the  said  Hall)  sued 
the  town  at  the  next  quarter  sessions,  and  obtained  judgment  against 
them  for  costs  and  damage,  a  part  of  which  they  voted  to  pay,  and  a 
part  they  voted  not  to  pay ;  but  a  settlement  was  obtained  at  last. 
The  result  seemed  to  be  that  they  immediately  set  about  building  a 
bridge,  which  was  accomplished  in  the  years  1759  and  1760.  This 
was  the  first  bridge  built  across  the  Piscataquog  at  this  place,  and 
probably  the  first  on  this  river. 

In  1756,  the  road  generally  designated  as  the  mast-road,  was 
known  by  that  name.  How  long  before  it  had  received  that  appel- 
lation, no  records  appear;  but  in  1756,  a  road  was  laid  out  from  the 
mast-road,  "  beginning  at  the  westerly  end  of  the  river  range  of 
home  lots,  (probably  very  near  where  the  road  by  the  Academy 
building  crosses  the  range  line  above  the  McCoy  house,  so  called,) 
and  runs  on  the  said  lots  until  it  comes  where  the  line  of  said  lots 
turns  down  the  hill  to  the  northwest  of  Lieut.  Moor's  house,  (sup- 
posed to  be  a  little  north  of  James  Harvell's  house)  and  thence  on 
the  top  of  the  hill  to  the  west  of  the  swamp,  around  the  same,  along 
between  Robert  Gilmore's  house  and  barn,  to  the  northwest  corner 
of  Xo.  7  home  lot  on  the  river,  from  thence  south  on  the  heads  or 
westerly  ends  of  the  river  home-lots  to  the  north-west  corner  of 
Samuel  Patten's  river  home-lot,  or  Xo.  20,  joining  on  said  lot :  said 
road  to  be  four  rods  wide." 

In  1768,  we  find  the  following  transcript  of  a  road  or  highway 


234  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

laid  out  by  Moses  Barron  and  James  Vose  on  the  16th  day  of  April. 
"  Beginning  at  the  line  of  Bedford  and  Goffstown  where  the  mast- 
road  that  was  last  improved  crosses  said  line,  thence,  as  said  mast- 
road  was  formerly  improved  to  the  hill  next  to  the  mast-rolling  place 
on  Piscataquog  river,  thence  on  the  north  side  of  a  swampy  place  in 
said  mast  road  to  the  said  rolling  place,  thence  down  on  the  south 
side  of  said  Piscataquog  River,  to  the  mouth  of  said  river,  where  it 
empties  into  the  river  Merrymac,  thence  down  said  Merrymac 
about  twenty-five  rods,  or  so  far  as  to  take  in  the  head  of  the  eddy 
in  the  river  next  to  the  mouth  of  said  Piscataquog  ;  the  whole  way 
of  said  road  to  be  four  rods  wide  from  the  top  of  the  upper  bank. 
And  also  another  piece  of  a  highway,  beginning  at  the  highway  at 
the  westerly  end  of  the  first  range  of  house-lots,  and  at  the  north  end 
of  the  road  already  laid  out  on  said  end  of  said  lots,  from  thence 
starting  up  the  ridge  until  it  comes  to  the  old  mast-road  above  laid 
out." 

In  1770,  it  became  necessary  to  rebuild  the  bridge  over  Piscata- 
quog river ;  accordingly,  in  January  of  that  year,  it  was  voted  to 
raise  thirty  pounds  lawful  money  for  that  purpose,  and  that  Major 
John  Goffe  be  the  man  to  build  the  bridge.  The  first  mill,  it 
appears,  was  built  by  Mr.  Davidson,  which  was  swept  away,  and  in 
1775  rebuilt  by  John  Little. 

In  1779,  it  seems  that  Samuel  Moor  owned  the  mills  on  the  Pis- 
cataquog where  the  mills  now  stand.  How  long  before  this  they 
were  built,  is  uncertain,  and  also  by  whom.  At  the  same  time,  the 
ferry  across  the  Merrimac,  just  above  the  rail-road  bridge,  was  called 
Merril's  Ferry,  as  appears  by  the  following  record  of  laying  out  a  road. 

"June  21st,  1779.  The  town  voted  to  lay  out  a  road  from  John 
McKenney's,  by  Thomas  Boies',  James  Stile's,  &c,  to  Moor's  Mill  and 
Merril's  Ferry." 

In  1781  the  Piscataquog  bridge  became  dangerous  or  unsafe  for 
travel,  and  Major  John  Goffe,  Samuel  Vose,  and  James  Wallace, 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  examine  and  make  what  repairs  were 
necessary,  which  they  did,  and  the  bridge  was  not  again  rebuilt  until 
1785,  when  the  building  of  it  was  struck  off  at  vendue  on  the  24th 
of  January  to  Samuel  Goffe.  It  appears  that  the  bridge  was  required 
to  be  built  anew  about  every  ten  or  twelve  years.  It  was  last 
rebuilt  in  1843. 

At  this  time  there  were  but  three  houses  within  the  limits  of  the 
present  village  of  Piscataquog,  and  one  mill :  and  here  the  historian 
may  well  pause  and  look  around  to  find  the  elements  of  its  subse- 
quent prosperity  as  a  business  and  commercial  place.  A  vast  amount 
of  white  and  hard  pine,  and  white  oak  suitable  for  ship-building,  the 
facilities  of  rafting  at  the  mouth  of  the  river,  and  the  increasing 
population  in  the  surrounding  country,  crowned  with  the  recent 
return  of  peace,  permanently  secured  by  the  independence  of  our 
country,  were  the  elements  of  its  prosperity — but  inactive  and  value- 
less, until  acted  on  by  a  motive  power. 


ROADS,    LANDINGS,    AND   BRIDGES.  235 

About  this  time,  viz.,  in  1785,  William  Parker,  in  the  language  of 
his  biographer,  moved  from  Litchfield  into  Bedford,  and  built  a 
small  house  near  where  the  school-house  in  District  Xo.  5  now 
stands,  and  worked  at  shoe-making.  To  his  energy,  enterprise,  and 
perseverance  we  are  indebted  for  the  foundation  of  this  nourishing 
village ;  yet,  as  we  shall  hereafter  see,  others,  emulous  to  ecpial  him 
in  prosperity,  as  they  were  perhaps  equal  in  enterprise,  took  up,  in 
his  declining  years,  and  earned  out  the  great  plan  of  prosperity 
which  he  had  begun. 

The  manufacturing  operations  at  Manchester,  likewise,  have  had  a 
great  influence  in  building  up  the  village ;  especially  that  pai*t  on  the 
north  side  of  the  Piscataquog  river,  which  now  comprises  one  half  of 
the  whole  number  of  dwelling-houses,  is  the  most  compact,  and  bids 
fair  to  increase  more  rapidly  than  the  other  part. 

There  are  now  in  the  village  two  stores,  two  taverns,  one  mill, 
carried  by  water  power,  for  grinding  meal  and  plaster  and  manufac- 
turing lumber,  and  one  steam-mill,  two  school-houses,  and  one  Acad- 
emy and  meeting-house  under  the  same  roof.  Its  proximity  to  the 
growing  city  of  Manchester,  with  which  it  is  connected  by  the  gran- 
ite bridge,  built  in  1840  by  an  incorporated  company,  and  made  free 
by  a  vote  of  the.  town  of  Bedford  and  city  of  Manchester  in  1848, 
renders  it  a  desirable  resort  and  pleasant  retreat  from  the  busy  din  of 
that  city  of  spindles,  and  will  afford  some  of  the  most  pleasant  coun- 
try residences  in  the  vicinity.  The  New  Hampshire  Central  Rail- 
road, intended  to  connect  the  Vermont  Roads,  by  way  of  Clareniont, 
Bradford  and  Henniker,  with  the  Lawrence  Road,  passes  through  the 
heart  of  the  village,  and  by  a  bridge  across  the  Merrimac  connects 
at  present  with  the  Concord,  affording  hereby  increased  facilities  for 
communication  with  all  parts  of  the  county. 

But  let  us  return  to  our  narrative. 

The  business  of  the  place  continued  to  increase,  and  in  1811  "VVm. 
P.  Riddle  opened  a  store  in  the  building  opposite  his  present  resi- 
dence and,  in  company  with  William  Parker,  purchased  the  mills 
then  owned  by  a  Mr.  Dow,  and  commenced  the  lumber  trade  in  good 
earnest,  sending  down  a  vast  amount  of  wood  and  lumber  every  year. 
The  following  year,  1812,  boating  on  the  Merrimac  river  was  first 
extended  up  to  this  place,  which  for  a  number  of  years  was  the  head 
of  navigation  on  the  Merrimac.  During  this  year  Isaac  Riddle,  then 
a  successful  merchant  at  the  centre  of  the  town,  and  Caleb  Stark  of 
Dumbarton,  alike  at  that  time  friends  of  internal  improvements,  con- 
ceived the  design,  in  connection  with  the  recent  improvement  of  the 
river  by  locks,  and  the  Middlesex  Canal,  of  navigating  the  river  by 
boats.  Accordingly  they  built  a  boat  at  Bedford  centre,  and  drew  it 
a  distance  of  three  miles  and  a  half  to  the  Merrimac  river,  with  forty 
yoke  of  oxen,  and  there  launched  it  amid  the  shouts  of  the  multitude 
assembled  to  witness  the  novel  scene,  and  named  it  the  Experiment. 

It  was  loaded  and  navigated  down  the  river,  and  through  the 
Middlesex  Canal,  to  Boston,  where  its  arrival  was  hailed  with  cheers, 


236  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  firing  of  cannon,  and  the  following  announcement  in  the  Boston 
Centinel : 

"Arrived  from  Bedford,  N.  H.,  Canal-Boat  Experiment,  Isaac 
Kiddle,  Captain,  via,  Merrimac  river  and  Middlesex  canal." 

This  introduced  a  new  era  into  the  trade  of  the  place,  by  increas- 
ing the  facilities  of  transportation,  and  reduction  of  freight  on  heavy 
articles.  Previous  to  the  commencement  of  boating,  freight  was 
eighteen  dollars  per  ton ;  but  after  boats  began  to  run,  it  was  at  first 
reduced  to  ten,  and  afterwards  to  four  dollars  per  ton. 

In  1816,  finding  his  business  so  much  increased,  William  P. 
Riddle  built  the  large  store  and  boating-house  at  Piscataquog 
bridge ;  and  in  order  to  facilitate  his  increasing  boating  business, 
in  1818  he  built  the  locks  at  the  mouth  of  Piscataquog,  and  at  one 
time  it  was  seriously  contemplated  to  unite  the  waters  of  the  Merri- 
mac and  the  Connecticut  by  a  canal  up  the  valley  of  the  Piscat- 
aquog. William  Parker,  Isaac  Piddle,  and  Isaac  Riddle  and  sons, 
were  the  principal  ones  engaged  in  boating  until  the  death  of  the 
former ;  after  which,  up  to  the  time  when  the  railroad  was  built, 
boating  was  mostly  carried  on  by  Wm.  P.  Riddle. 

In  1817,  the  firm  of  Isaac  Riddle  &  Sons,  consisting  of  himself 
and  four  sons,  Wm.  P.,  James,  Isaac,  Jr.,  and  David,1  was  formed 
for  mercantile,  boating,  and  manufacturing  purposes,  carrying  on  a 
very  extensive  business  in  various  places,  viz.,  Bedford  centre, 
Piscataquog  village,  Souhegan  village,  Merrimac  and  Boston.  The 
business  of  this  firm  in  this  place,  amounted  in  some  years  to 
$30,000,  supplying  by  way  of  boating  and  trade,  in  conjunction  with 
the  other  stores,  the  towns  of  Goffstown,  Wear©,  Dunbarton*,  Hop- 
kinton,  Warner,  Sutton,  New  London,  Fishersfield,  now  Newbury ; 
and  probably  more  lumber  has  been  boated  and  rafted  from  this 
landing,  than  upon  all  the  rivers  above  Nashua. 

In  1820,  the  year  after  the  toleration-act,  so  called,  was  passed  by 
the  Legislature,  the  inhabitants  of  the  village  took  measures  to  erect 
a  meeting-house,  which  they  did  by  a  joint-stock  company,  dividing 
the  stock  into  shares,  the  principal  part  of  which  was  owned  by 
James  Parker,  Esq.,  and  the  heirs  of  the  late  William  Parker.  The 
building-committee  were  James  Parker,  Jonathan  Palmer,  and 
William  P.  Riddle,  Esqs.  The  house  was  planned  and  the  archi- 
tecture designed  by  Thomas  Kennedy  of  Goffstown,  and  to  the 
present  day  is  considered  one  of  the  most  beautiful  specimens  of 
architecture  in  the  country ;  the  building  of  the  house  was  let  by 
contract  to  Isaac  Heath,  of  Hooksett.  Preaching  was  obtained 
several  months  at  a  time,  for  a  number  of  years,  by  subscription. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Long  and  Rev.  Mr.  Miltimore  at  different  times 
supplied  the  pulpit  very  acceptably  to  their  hearers ;  at  present  it  is 

1  The  cottage  house,  just  north  of  the  river,  marked  "  Mrs.  Lund  "  on  the  sketch, 
at  the  corner  of  So.  Main  and  Winter  streets,  was  first  occupied  in  1826,  by  David 
Riddle,  son  of  Isaac  Riddle,  who  brought  there  his  bride,  Mary  Lincoln,  of  the 
family  of  Lincolns  who  helped  spill  the  tea  into  Boston  Harbor,  and,  a  grand- 
daughter of  Paul  Revere,  the  celebrated  historical  horseback  rider  of  1775. 


ROADS,   LANDINGS,   AND   BRIDGES.  237 

frequently  occupied  for  a  third  service,  Sabbath-school  and  other 
religious  exercises. 

During  this  year,  the  bridge  across  Piscataquog  was  rebuilt,  under 
the  superintendence  of  W.  P.  Riddle. 

The  other  traders  in  the  place  at  different  times  have  been, 
Thomas  Parker,  Riddle  &  Aiken,  Charles  Redfield,  Ozias  Silsbee, 
I.  Riddle  &  Whittle,  Wm.  P.  Riddle,  Parker  &  Palmer,  Kendrick  & 
McGaw,  Jonathan  Palmer,  James  "Walker,  Abbot  &  Melvin,  Aaron 
Gage,  Kidder  &  Rundlett,  Moore  &  French,  William  French, 
French  &  Barr,  William  &  J.  X.  French,  F.  G.  Stark,  James 
Walker,  R.  V.  Greely,  James  Wilson,  A.  W.  Dickey. 

In  1843,  the  meeting  house  was  purchased  by  an  association  of 
gentlemen,  the  upper  part  remodeled,  and  converted  into  con- 
venient rooms  for  an  Academy,  which  has  very  ably  sustained  itself 
without  funds,  under  the  instruction  of  Hiram  Wason,  who  con- 
tinued in  it  about  a  year ;  and  Benjamin  F.  Wallace,  under  whose 
instruction  it  has  been,  since  March,  1845,  with  the  exception  of 
about  a  year,  while  under  the  care  of  the  Rev.  Amos  Abbott. 
A  good  apparatus  has  been  furnished  the  Academy  by  the  liberality 
of  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  the  village.  An  act  of  incorporation 
was  granted  by  the  Legislature  in  1848.  The  present  board  of 
directors  (1850)  consists  of  Hon.  Frederick  G.  Stark,  Esq.,  Jonas  B. 
Bowman,  Esq.,  Gen.  William  P.  Riddle,  and  James  Walker,  Esq. 

This  place  has  been  probably  the  greatest  depository  of  hops,  for 
inspection,  and  boating,  of  any  place  in  this  state, — Gen.  Riddle 
having  inspected  and  forwarded  to  market,  either  by  purchase  or  on 
freight,  four  or  five  hundred  thousand  pounds  in  a  year.  A  great 
number  of  sleepers  have  also  been  furnished  to  various  rail-roads 
in  the  country  from  this  place,  and  even  sleepers  have  been  exported 
by  some  of  the  business  men  of  this  place  to  Cuba,  in  the  West 
Indies. 

Next  to  Mr.  Moor,  a  Mr.  Dow  owned  the  mills  in  this  place ;  they 
were  afterwards  owned  by  Thomas  Parker,  Buzzell  &  Wm.  Parker, 
Wm.  Parker  &  Isaac  Riddle,  until  they  were  again  earned  off  by 
a  freshet.  They  were  rebuilt  by  Kendall  &  Gage,  and  sold  to  David 
Hamblett,  who  carried  on  a  large  business  in  grain,  meal,  plaster, 
and  manufacturing  lumber,  until  his  death,  in  1848;  and  there  is 
still  a  good  amount  of  business  done  there. 


Industries. 


MILLS. 

Before  any  mills  were  erected  in  Bedford,  the  inhabitants  were 
under  the  necessity  of  going  to  Dunstable  to  get  their  grain  ground 
at  Chamberlain's  mill,  at  the  "  Harbor,"  x  south  of  Nashua  village. 
But  at  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors,  held  May  14,  1735,  it  was 
"  Voted  that  the  Committee  Be  Desired  to  inquier  into  the  surcum- 
stances  of  the  Building  of  mills  what  be  most  benefishall  for  the 
Good  of  the  and  make  Report  of  ye  same  at  the  ajourment  of  said 
meeting."  Pursuant  to  this  vote,  John  Chamberlain  erected  mills 
on  the  Souhegan  river,  which  was  then  included  within  the  limits 
of  Narragansett  No.  5,  for  the  grinding  of  corn  and  sawing  of 
lumber.  This  was  the  same  John  Chamberlain  known  in  Merri- 
mack town  records  as  Paugus  John,  for  the  reason  that  there  is 
a  question  whether  or  no  he  was  the  distinguished  member  of  the 
little  band  who  went  from  this  neighborhood  to  Lovewell's  fight 
against  the  Pequaquet  Indians,  to  whom  fell  the  honor  of  killing 
their  chief,  Paugus.  Considerable  newspaper  agitation  of  the  ques- 
tion arises  from  time  to  time,  but  in  the  nature  of  things  the 
question  can  never  be  settled  finally. 

About  1745,  Col.  John  Goffe,  who  used  to  live  at  Derryfield  on 
the  northerly  side  of  the  Cohos  brook  opposite  Goffe's  Falls,  moved 

i  The  "  Harbor  "  is  just  below  Nashua,  about  a  mile  south  of  the  city  hall. 

"  The  project  of  manufacturing  cotton  upon  the  Merrimack  was  started  at  Amos- 
keag  Falls,  in  1809,  by  Benjamin  Prichard  and  Messrs.  Ephraim,  David,  anil  Robert 
Stevens.  Mr.  Prichard  had  been  engaged  in  mill  business  in  New  Ipswich,  where 
also  he  had  to  a  limited  extent  become  acquainted  with  cotton  spinning,  the  first 
mill  or  factory  for  the  manufacture  of  cotton,  built  in  New  Hampshire,  having  been 
built  in  that  town  in  1803. 

"  The  precise  date  of  Mr.  Prichard's  coming  to  this  section  of  the  county  cannot 
be  ascertained;  but  as  be  paid  taxes  in  New  Ipswich  until  1807,  and  paid  his  last  tax 
in  that  year,  it  is  probable  that  he  left  New  Ipswich  sometime  in  1807.  He  first  com- 
menced the  manufacture  of  cotton  in  Bedford  at  what  is  called  the  '  Goffe  Place,* 
occupying  for  that  purpose,  a  small  building  upon  the  west  side  of  the  bridge  which 
he  fitted  up  for  spinning  cotton.  This  building  is  now  (1850)  standing,  is  owned  by 
J.  B.  Bowman,  Esq.,  and  occupied  as  a  lath  mill.  His  machinery  was  purchased  at 
second  hand  of  Mr.  Samuel  Slater,  of  Rhode  Island.  The  machinery  being  old  and 
worn,  did  not  operate  well,  and  the  water  power  was  not  sufficient  through  the  year 
for  more  extended  operations.  The  enterprise  might  be  considered  thus  far  a 
failure,  and  Mr.  Prichard  determined  upon  removing  to  a  more  eligible  location, 
where  he  could  enlarge  his  operations,  and  thus  be  warranted  in  obtaining  better 
machinery.  He  accordingly  obtained  a  privilege  on  the  west  side  of  Amoskeag 
Falls  in  Goffstown,  probably  in  the  early  part  of  1809,  where  he  built  a  small  mill,  in 
connection  with  Messrs.  Ephraim,  David  and  Robert  Stevens."— Potter's  History  of 
Manchester. 


INDUSTRIES.  239 

to  Bedford.  He  occupied  the  farm  known  for  many  years  as  the 
Goffe  farm,  which  included  within  its  limits  a  considerable  portion 
of  what  is  called  Crosby's  brook.  At  its  mouth  he  built  a  forge 
with  a  trip  hammer  and  wrought  ore  into  iron  in  considerable 
quantities.  Iron  ore  to  some  extent  was  transported  to  Billerica 
and  Lowell,  and  other  villages  out  of  town.  Most  of  it  was  obtained 
from  the  swamp  south  of  the  house  formerly  of  John  Parker  on  the 
River  road.  James  Martin,  the  town  deputy  to  the  Provincial 
congress  at  Exeter,  offered  to  furnish  all  the  cannon  balls  which  the 
Continental  army  would  require,  and  so  we  infer  that  in  those  early 
times  a  considerable  amount  of  iron  was  obtainable  in  Bedford  for 
forging. 

The  following  interesting  paper  is  to  be  found  in  the  New 
Hampshire  State  Papers : 

State  of  New  Hampshire,  Hillsborough,  SS. 

Bedford,  Jany  31st,  1791 — We,  the  subscribers  being  the  Select- 
men (or  the  Major  part  of  the  Selectmen,  as  the  case  may  be)  of 
Bedford,  do  hereby  certify  that  James  Martin  of  said  town  has  bona 
fide  made  or  caused  to  be  made  in  his  workshop  within  this  state 
one  hundred  thousand  of  ten  penny  wroat  nails,  since  February  7th. 
1789. 

(Selectmen)  "Will™  Moor 

Stephen  Dole. 

Feby  1791 — Received  an  order  on  the  Treasurer  for  5  £ 

Stephen  Dole. 

The  state  offered  a  bounty  for  every  pound  of  nails  thus  made. 

Colonel  Goffe  also  built  a  grist-mill  on  this  stream,  which  was  re- 
sorted to  by  the  people  of  Goffstown  and  New  Boston.  It  was 
located  east  of  the  River  road,  and  on  the  north  side  of  the  pond 
opposite  the  location  of  the  present  cider-mill.  The  dam  was  the 
farthest  east  of  the  many  dams  on  this  stream.  The  mill  was  ap- 
proached by  the  road  leading  from  the  River  road  east  to  Burns'  or 
Smith's  ferry. 

A  few  years  later  Colonel  Goffe  built  a  sawmill'  on  this  stream, 
but  at  a  different  location.  The  sawmill  was  south  of  the  present 
large  mill  pond  near  the  highway  and  just  west  of  the  River  road. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  Goffe  sawmill  pond,  also  west  of  the 
River  road,  Rev.  Ephraim  Abbott  had  a  mill  for  the  making  of 
jalousies,  or  old-fashioned  wooden  slat  curtains,  that  served  in  lieu 
of  window  shades.  The  mill  was  probably  owned  by  the  Goffes, 
but  carried  on  by  Mr.  Abbott,  who  was  a  Baptist  minister,  and 
was  sometimes  known  as  Priest  Abbott. 


240  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

When  the  Goffe  farm  was  sold  by  Colonel  Goffe's  grandson,  The- 
odore A.  Goffe,  to  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  Esq.,  this  mill  was  included. 
We  find  in  Matthew  Patten's  Diary  the  following  entry : 

January  4,  1755.  Went  to  Major  Goffe's  and  got  one  and  one 
half  bushel  of  rie  ground. 

January  22,  1755.  Went  to  Major  Goffe's  (Major  Goffe  was  the 
Colonel's  son)  and  sawed  two  sticks  of  cherry. 

Opposite  to  the  Goffe  grist-mill — the  first  of  the  mills  on  this 
stream — on  the  south  side  of  the  mill  pond,  Dea.  Richard  Dole 
built  a  fulling  mill  and  dressed  and  colored  homespun  woolen  cloth 
in  great  quantities  there.  The  mill  stood  on  the  site  of  the  mill  now 
used  as  a  grist-  and  cider-mill.  The  grist-mill  was  remodelled  by 
Jonas  B.  Bowman  at  the  time  he  bought  the  Goffe  property,  in  1843. 
Fire  destroyed  it,  and  also  Deacon  Dole's  fulling  mill,  in  1844.1 

1  The  following  interesting  letter  of  reminiscence,  by  Stephen  Ganno  Abbott,  was 
published  in  the  Bedford  Messenger,  June  25,  1884: 

GOFFE'S  MILLS. 

Half  a  Century,  More  or  Less,  Ago. 
My  Dear— well  who? 

Are  there  none  left  of  the  chums  and  schoolmates  of  more  than  half  a  century  ago, 
to  whom  I  can  speak  of  the  old  and  familiar  haunts  around  "  Goffe's  Mills  "  ?  I  can 
recall  not  one.  Possibly,  some  one  may  survive  his  generation  whose  eye  shall 
meet  these  lines.  If  so,  to  you  I  write,  and  our  communion  will,  doubtless,  siir  emo- 
tions not  easily  suppressed  while  we  live  over  again  the  joyous  days  of  our  boy- 
hood. 

"  Len  "  and  "  Bill  "  and  "Jess  "  and  "  Tom  "  and  "  Jim  "  (the  last  were  twins,  you 
know,  and  just  my  age— born  in  1819)  "  Chuck  "  (that  was  Charles)  and  "Thimble" 
(that  was  Thankful)  and  Susan  and  two  or  three  other  little  girls,  all  rejoicing  in  the 
surname  of  Rundlett,  who  lived  in  the  then  straw-colored  house,  now  the  residence 
of  Mrs.  John  McGaw  if  she  still  lives.  Mr.  Rundlett  made  hats— fur  hats.  Our  first 
hats  you  know  came  from  his  shop— fur  hats  made  from  muskrat's  fur,  with  as  much 
hair  as  fur. 

Then  there  was  Joe  (he  was  deaf)  and  Dick  and  Bill  and  Abagail  (of  uncertain 
age)  and  their  father's  name  was  Deacon  Dole.  And  then  there  was  Zach  "Old 
Zach  "  (everybody  knows  him)  and  Sam  and  John.  Their  surname  was  Chandler, 
and  then  there  were  Adam  Gilmore  and  his  sisters  and  John  and  Stephen  Abbott, 
whose  father  made  window  curtains  and  preached  to  sinners.  I  know  of  but  one  of 
them  all  who  is  living— unless  it  is  you— and  he  is  now  with  pen  and  paper  living 
over  again  those  halcyon  days.  The  fathers  and  mothers  are  all  gone  and  most  of 
the  children  have  joined  the  sleeping  generation. 

The  old  brick  school-house  still  stands,  I  believe,  where  we  used  to  study  some 
and  play  more.  The  teachers,  where  are  they?  Hall,  whom  Mace  Moulton  arrested, 
and  dragged  out  of  the  door  for  whipping  Jess;  Spaulding,  now  living  in  Nashua 
(how  I  loved  him,  he  was  so  kind  to  me  in  my  terrible  fever  that  winter) ;  Joy,  was 
he  who  wore  a  blue  suit  with  gilt  buttons,  and  whose  two  stub  fingers  awed  every 
urchin  into  order— to  him  I  owe  more  than  to  all  others  for  my  first  insight  into 
arithmetic,  and  my  first  ambition  for  an  education;  Aiken,  Charles,  I  believe,  the 
dapper  young  man  whom  all  the  scholars  loved.  There  were  others,  whose  names  I 
forget,  but  whose  countenances  remain  as  fresh  as  ever.  Such  were  the  tutors  who 
presided  and  "  taught  the  young  ideas  how  to  fire." 

"  Old  Zach  "  was  a  jolly  fellow,  somewhat  uncouth,  who  joined  in  all  our  sports  and 
we  feared  him  not.  But  his  brothers,  Samuel  and  John,  we  viewed  with  awe  as  they 
came  daily  to  recite  in  Latin.  The3r  were  destined  I  believe  to  the  "cloth,"  but 
both  died  young,  poor  fellows.  Their  father  kept  a  store  a  little  south  of  the 
school-house,  sold  rum  until  the  temperance  reform  started  and  played  the  bass 
viol.  Do  n't  you  remember  how  we  laughed  to  see  him  spit  on  the  pegs  of  his  viol 
to  make  them  stick?  How  many  bottles  and  jugs  of  rum  we  've  carried  out  of  that 
store!  But  the  whole  thing  stopped  when  all  the  neighborhood  signed  the  pledge. 
A  little  north  of  the  school-house  was  "Chandler's  Tavern."  The  proprietor  was 
Zach's  uncle.  He  played  the  fiddle  and  went  to  congress.  What  a  grand  place  of 
resort  that  was!  What  a  home  for  travelers!  What  facilities  were  afforded  there 
during  the  evening  for  gathering  news  from  the  guests!    Only  one  fault  was  found 


INDUSTRIES.  241 

Shortly  after,  William  A.  Rundlett  built  a  mill  for  sawing  shin- 
gles and  clapboards,  grinding  corn,  and  making  cider,  on  the  loca- 
tion of  what  had  been  Deacon  Dole's  fulling  mill.     This  was  after- 

with  that  tavern.    Adam's  wife  was  so  neat  and  nice  and  kept  everything  so  clean 
that  the  teamsters  and  drovers  did  not  dare  to  spit  on  the  bar-room  floor. 

Manchester  is  honored  with  a  scion  of  this  family.  I  remember  Byron  in  his  short 
clothes.  He  was  a  handsome  boy.  How  is  it  with  the  man?  What  a  nice  looking 
young  man  his  father  was!  He  always  appeared  as  though  his  tidy  wife  took  him 
from  the  drawer  every  morning. 

Next  came  John  Goffe's  house,  then  Thomas  Rundlett's  house,  then  Richard 
Dole's,  then  Aunt  Hawse  on  the  bank  of  the  little  brook.  On  the  opposite  bank  was 
the  long  unpainted  house,  the  residence  of  Mr.  Abbott;  a  spot  more  dear  to  my 
heart  than  any  other  on  earth.  The  nut  from  which  grew  the  butternut  tree,  still 
standing,  I  planted.  The  elm  I  "  set  out."  Every  inch  of  the  ground,  every  object 
around  is  sacred  to  my  memory.  I  had  the  weakness  a  few  years  ago  to  sit  down 
and  cry  when  I  saw  a  little  cottage  occupying  the  site  of  the  old  house.  By  the  con- 
sent of  the  good  Irish  madam  I  went  down  into  the  cellar  and  drank  from  the  old 
spring,  but  the  speckled  trout  was  not  there  as  used  to  be.  Across  the  road  was  a 
dam,  on  one  end  of  which  was  uncle  Ody's  sawmill;  on  the  other  end  the  shop 
where  Abbott  made  curtains  and  Kendrick  made  wagons.  The  mills  and  shops  are 
all  gone.  Beautiful  grounds  and  gardens  occupy  the  old  mill  yard.  Uncle  Ody's 
garden  is  the  site  of  a  pretty  cottage.  If  stern  poverty  did  not  interpose,  I  would 
buy  it,  and  spend  the  evening  of  my  days  among  those  sacred  scenes. 
The  old  Goffe  mansion  still  stands.    Where  are  the  occupants? 

"  Uncle  Ody  "  was  a  grand  old  man.  He  was  rich,  but  he  was  odd.  He  ought  to 
have  been  named  "  Uncle  Oddy."  He  had  a  big  heart,  but  a  queer  way  of  showing 
it.  That  little  brook  was  alive  with  trout,  for  the  old  man  allowed  no  one  to  catch 
any  of  the  spotted  trout,  but  did  n't  we  catch  a  good  many  of  them.  How  he  used  to 
chase  us,  take  away  our  lines;  wind  them  up  and  carry  them  home;  and  wasn't  it 
fun  to  slip  into  his  sitting-room  and  flsh  out  a  hook  and  line  from  the  cavernous 
depths  of  his  old  clock  where  he  stored  them.  We  did  not  mean  to  steal  them;  we 
thought  they  were  ours. 

But  the  good  nature  of  the  old  man  never  allowed  him  to  harbor  a  particle  of  ill 
will  for  any  of  our  boyish  tricks.  He  was  nothing  unless  he  was  odd,  and  that  was 
all  he  meant  when  he  did  a  thousand  things  that  nobody  else  would  do,  and  every- 
body understood  him  and  so  seldom  did  anyone  take  offense. 

You  remember  "  Old  Switch  "  (that  was  Mr.  Batcheldor)  who  ran  a  tannery  down 
the  lane  toward  the  grand  old  Merrimack.  That  property  came  in  with  the  Goffe 
estate,  all  of  which  was  purchased  by  Esquire  Bowman,  of  'Squog,  who  built  a  saw- 
mill on  the  site  of  the  old  grist-mill  and  went  into  the  lumbering  business. 

What  stirring  times  those  were!  And  then  down  to  the  "  Landing"  what  glorious 
days  we  spent  in  boating,  fishing,  swimming,  and  watching  the  heavy  laden  canal 
boats  as  they  were  sluggishly  poled  along  the  shore.  And  then  there  was  that 
island,  the  property  of  "Uncle  Ody,"  to  which  he  gave  the  pretentious  name  of 
Carthagenia,  and  where  the  people  celebrated  the  glorious  Fourth  Do  n't  I  remem- 
ber the  severe  flogging  my  father  gave  me  for  stealing  down  there  and  spending 
the  ten  cents  with  which  he  hired  me  to  stay  at  home?  In  those  days  the  river 
was  alive  with  shad  and  salmon  and  the  Ashing  season  was  a  continuous  gala 
day  for  us  boys.  In  these  reminiscences,  we  will  not  forget  the  stage  coaches,  the 
immense  teams,  the  long  droves  of  cattle  and  sheep  and  hogs  and  turkeys,  and  in 
winter  the  long  lines  of  "pods"  (the  two  horse  pungs  of  farmers  going  to  market) 
pre-railroad  means  of  travel,  and  transportation  which  made  the  highway  a  great 
and  active  thoroughfare,  nor  the  almost  daily  squads  of  Irish  plodding  their  way  on 
foot  from  Canada  to  "  Low'l."  "  Could  ye  tell  me  how  fur 'tis  to  Low'l?"  "Last, 
but  not  least "  was  the  great  excitement  of  our  youth — the  enterprise  of  building  a 
city  on  the  sandbank  over  which  we  boys  used  to  wade  barefooted  with  our  flsh 
poles— "  a  city  there\  "  "Pooh,"  "nonsense,"  "folly,"  "all  speculation."  Such 
were  the  ejaculations  of  the  wise  old  heads  on  every  hand,  but  the  city  was  laid  out 
and  the  lots  advertised  for  sale  at  auction.  Everybody  went,  out  of  curiosity,  of 
course,  some  on  foot,  some  with  horses,  some  in  boats,  all  claiming  too  much  sharp- 
ness to  be  caught  in  the  trap.  But  the  excitement  captured  them.  They  bid  and 
bought,  some  paying  the  enormous  price  of  ten  cents  per  foot.  They  returned 
home,  slept  off  the  excitement  and  were  seized  with  a  fit  of  the  blues,  under  the 
taunts  and  jeers  of  those  who  did  not  "  step  in  it."  It  was  not  long,  however,  before 
the  laugh,  as  well  as  the  blues,  came  on  the  other  side,  and  now  stands  the  queenly 
city  of  Manchester  upon  those  sterile  plains,  the  pride  of  the  old  Granite  State,  the 
city  of  spindles,  and  the  home  of  many  of  our  noblest  citizens. 

But  I  must  close  these  reminiscences,  they  multiply  as  I  write,  they  flood  my 
memory  on  which  they  are  imprinted  as  with  the  point  of  a  diamond  and  make  me 
sigh  for  the  days  of  "  Auld  Lang  Syne." 

Just  as  I  have  written  the  last  line  I  recall  the  fact  that  one  of  the  old  company  of 
children  still  lives  in  the  worthy  person  of  Mrs.  Ann  Snow  Houston,  in  Plymouth, 
N.  H.,  and  to  her  I  address  myself  as 

Very  truly,  the  friend  of  our  youth, 

Ganeaux. 

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242  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

wards  owned  by  Freeman  P.Woodbury,  and  is  still  in  use  as  a  grist- 
and  cider-mill. 

Bernice  Prichard  at  one  time  had  an  interest  with  Theodore  A. 
Goffe  in  the  original  Goffe  grist-mill.  He  it  was  who  raised  the 
gate  when  Major  Goffe — son  of  the  colonel  and  father  of  Theodore 
A.  Goffe — was  at  work  in  the  wheel  pit.  The  major  was  at  that 
time  an  old  man,  and  received  an  injury  from  which  he  died  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1813,  aged  eighty-five  years. 

Otis  Batchelder  and  William  Goffe — son  of  Theodore  A.  Goffe — 
had  a  tannery  and  bark  mill  a  few  rods  west  of  the  Goffe  grist-mill, 
and  on  the  north  side  of  the  stream.  The  dam  stood  about  midway 
between  the  dam  erected  for  the  original  grist-mill  and  the  sawmill, 
both  of  which  we  have  described  above. 

At  the  time  of  the  fire  in  1844,  Batchelder  had  sold  out  his  inter- 
est in  the  tannery  to  William  Goffe,  and  it  was  destroyed  to- 
gether with  the  grist-mill  and  the  fulling  mill.  After  the  fire,  the 
privilege  continued  unimproved  until  George  W.  Goffe,  a  grandson 
of  Theodore  A.  Goffe,  erected  a  sawmill  here,  the  privilege  being 
then  the  property  of  his  uncle,  John  A.  McGaw.  He  did  this  under 
lease  from  Mr.  McGaw.  After  it  expired,  Mr.  McGaw's  executors 
did  not  renew  it  and  the  mill  was  removed. 

During  the  ownership  of  Mr.  Bowman  of  the  former  Goffe  sawmill, 
some  improvements  and  alterations  were  made,  and  the  mills  con- 
tiued  in  use  until  1859,  when  the  privilege  was  sold  by  Mr.  Bowman 
to  John  A.  McGaw,  a  son-in-law  of  Theodore  A.  Goffe,  who  re- 
moved the  mill  and  what  was  left  of  its  machinery.  Since  that  time 
the  privilege  has  been  unimproved. 

Just  north  of  John  Parker's  house,  Thomas  Rundlett  had  a  hat 
shop  on  the  west  side  of  the  River  road.  He  made  wool  hats — 
known  as  beaver  hats,  and  the  work  was  done  by  hand.  Andrew 
Savage,  who  lived  nearly  opposite  the  Daniel  Ferguson  place,  made 
wool  hats  also.  He  had  a  sign  out  which  read :  "  A.  Savage 
Hatter." 

Elisha  Lincoln  built  a  sawmill  east  of  the  Gordon  house  on  the 
Crosby  brook.  Sometime  after,  this  mill  was  taken  down  by  Josiah 
Gordon  and  reerected  about  100  rods  north,  near  where  David  At- 
wood's  turning  and  shingle  mill  once  stood  and  where  his  grandson's, 
Webster  Atwood,  cider-mill  now  stands. 

He  was  a  frequent  attendant  at  prayer-meeting,  and  on  one  occa- 
sion joined  with  one  of  his  neighbors  in  quite  an  animated  discus- 


INDUSTRIES.  243 

sion  as  to  whether  there  really  was  any  difference  between  an  all- 
powerful  Saviour  and  an  all-sufficient  Saviour,  he  maintaining  that 
there  was  no  difference,  to  which  his  neighbor  replied,  "  But,  Mr. 
Atwood,  we  all  know  that  you  are  not  an  all-powerful  chairmaker, 
but  you  are,  we  all  agree,  an  all-sufficient  chairmaker." 

Mr.  Atwood's  brother  was  usually  called  "  Railey "  Atwood,  al- 
though his  given  name  was  Isaac.  The  reason  for  the  nickname  was 
his  habit  of  answering  almost  any  question  addressed  to  him  by  the 
preliminary  exclamation,  "  Railey !  railey !  railey ! " 

At  an  early  date,  John  Wallace  built  a  sawmill  on  the  same  stream 
near  where  the  old  road  from  Bedford  Centre  to  Manchester  crosses 
the  brook. 

The  brothers,  Cyrus  Wallace  (afterwards  well  known  as  Father 
Wallace,  for  many  years  pastor  of  the  First  Congregationalist  church 
in  Manchester)  and  Frederick  Wallace,  built  a  turning  mill  near 
where  John  Wallace  had  his  sawmill.  They  also  had  a  paint  shop 
near  by. 

There  was  a  saw  and  grist-mill  near  the  schoolhouse  in  district 
Xo.  6  on  the  same  stream,  built  by  a  Mr.  Boies. 

At  the  head  of  Crosby  meadows,  Samuel  Vose  built  a  mill  at  a 
very  early  date.  There  have  been  as  many  as  eight  mills  in  operation 
at  one  time  on  this  stream. 

As  early  as  1755  there  was  also  a  grist-mill  and  sawmill  on  Riddle's 
brook,  for  we  find  this  entry  in  Matthew  Patten's  journal:  "Feb- 
ruary 14,  1755.  Went  and  hauled  in  the  red  oak  log  I  cut  the  day 
before  and  brought  home  six  boards  from  MacAlesters  mill  and  three 
slips  sawed  out  of  a  slab."  MacAlester's  mill  was  a  few  rods  above 
the  Riddle  mill  pond.  The  Riddle  mill  pond  is  where  Holbrook's 
mill  now  stands. 

The  privilege  of  improving  the  power  from  Riddle's  brook  on  the 
school  lots  was  sold  by  the  town  to  Jacob  McQuaid  and  John  Orr, 
and  Matthew  Patten's  diary  contains  this  entry : 

"March  27,  1772.  I  went  to  Col.  Goffe's  and  James  Vose  and 
drew  a  lease  of  the  privilege  of  building  a  saw-mill  on  the  school 
lotts  to  Jacob  McQuaid  and  John  Orr."  The  dam  was  below  the 
County  bridge  but  has  not  been  in  use  for  many  years. 

This  is  the  location  on  which  about  the  year  1780,  John  Orr, 
Esq.,  built  a  sawmill  (referred  to  above  as  McQuaid's  and  Orr's) 
just  north  of  his  farm  which  is  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Albert  Flint, 
and  about  100  rods  above  the  Smith's  grist-mill.     Above  it  again, 


244  HISTORY  OP  BEDFORD. 

the  Riddle's  had  built  the  grist-  and  sawmill,  for  many  years  known 
as  Riddle's  mills.  The  sawmill  was  run  by  members  of  the 
family,  turn  and  turn  about.  One  week  David  ran  it;  the  next, 
William;  the  next,  Isaac.  This  is  a  good  illustration  of  peace 
and  harmony  in  one  family.  In  1849,  two  brothers,  Charles  and 
Stephen  C.  Damon,  came  from  Amherst  and  located  in  Bedford. 
They  bought  the  lower  mill  on  Riddle's  brook  then  owned  by  Isaac 
Dow.  They  enlarged  and  fitted  it  up  for  a  carriage  manufactory, 
adding  machinery  for  sawing  shingles,  laths,  and  clapboards,  also 
for  turning  out  axe  handles  and  spokes.  They  soon  persuaded  their 
father,  Stephen  Damon,  to  purchase  (1849)  the  saw  or  upper  mill 
thus  giving  them  the  full  control  of  the  water.  He  took  down  and 
rebuilt  the  sawmill  adding  new  machinery  and  an  up  and  down 
saw.  In  1854  Mr.  Damon  the  elder  died  as  the  result  of  injuries 
received  in  the  sawmill.  After  his  death  the  sons  carried  on  both 
mills  until  1856,  when  Charles  the  elder  went  West.  He  returned 
in  1861  and  enlisting  from  Amherst  was  killed  at  Gettysburg. 
Stephen  C.  Damon  put  in  a  circular  saw  and  carried  on  the  business 
of  both  mills  until  1873,  when  he  sold  the  saw  or  upper  mill  to  his 
son-in-law,  James  R.  Leach.  Subsequently  he  bought  this  mill  back 
again  operating  them  both  until  August  18,  1893,  when  the  lower 
mill  was  destroyed  by  fire.  He  then  sold  both  sites  to  Frederick  G. 
Holbrook  who  rebuilt  the  lower  mill  and  has  since  operated  both. 
At  the  lower  mill  a  cider-mill  was  added,  also  machinery  for  match- 
ing and  planing  boards. 

There  was  once  a  mill,  known  as  the  Chubbuck's  mill,  which  was 
located  on  Riddle's  brook  about  a  mile  above  the  MacAlester  mill. 
Mr.  Chubbuck's  granddaughter,  Emily,  achieved  some  fame  as  an 
authoress,  under  the  nom  de  plume  of  Fanny  Forrester,  and  after- 
wards became  the  third  wife  of  the  missionary  Adoniram  Judson. 
The  cellar  of  the  Chubbuck  house  and  the  dam  and  mill  way  of  the 
mill  are  now  visible.  The  farm  has  grown  up  to  wood-lot  and 
pasture. 

Above  the  Chubbuck  mill,  on  the  same  stream  about  one  half  a 
mile,  was  the  Gilmore  mill.  Traces  of  its  foundation '  may  still  be 
seen. 

On  a  branch  of  Riddle's  brook,  Gregg  Campbell  had  a  mill  for 
turning,  boring,  and  sawing  in  the  wheelwright  business.  This  mill 
is  now  known  as  Farley's  mill,  but  the  water  power  has  long  since 
failed,  save  for  a  few  weeks  in  spring  and  fall.  • 


INDUSTRIES.  245 

About  the  year  1778,  Dea.  Benjamin  Smith  built  a  grist-mill 
near  his  house  in  the  south  part  of  the  town  on  the  Riddle  brook. 
This  mill  was  in  operation  in  1818,  and  as  late  as  1830.  The  exact 
point  of  its  location  is  a  few  rods  east  of  where  the  highway  crosses 
the  brook  near  Eddy  W.  Stevens'.  Col.  Daniel  Moore  also  built  a 
sawmill  and  grist-mill  on  the  stream  near  his  house,  known  as 
Shepard's  brook,  about  the  year  1770.  The  mills  stood  west  of  the 
bridge  and  south  of'  Widow  Mary  Parker's.  They  were  taken  down 
about  1805  by  Robert  Wallace,  and  rebuilt  a  few  rods  below  on 
the  east  side  of  the  bridge.  Thomas  Atwood  built  an  addition  to 
them  in  1833,  which  he  used  for  a  cabinet  shop  and  for  making  fur- 
niture and  chairs.     He  afterwards  removed  to  Xunda,  X.  Y. 

About  a  mile  above  these  mills  on  the  same  brook,  the  remains  of 
two  dams  are  to  be  seen.  The  upper  one  was  used  to  store  water. 
The  mill  was  located  on  the  lower  one.  They  belonged  to  a  mill 
whose  ownersip  cannot  now  be  ascertained.  Later  these  mills  were 
owned  and  operated  by  Captain  Hale.  Alfred  Fosdick  utilized  them 
afterwards,  running  the  grist-mill  and  sawmill  and  making  shingles 
there.  He  was  succeeded  in  the  business  by  Bradford  Beal.  These 
mills  were  afterwards  burned.  Sarah  Riddle,  daughter  of  John 
Riddle,  who  afterward  married  Dea.  James  Wallace,  was  employed 
to  tend  the  grist-mill  by  Colonel  Moore.  His  direction  to  Sarah 
was  never  to  take  toll  from  a  widow's  grist  or  from  a  man 
who  brought  his  grain  on  his  back,  "  But,"  said  she,  "  I  always  felt 
vexed  when  two  bushels  of  grain  came  in  one  bag,"  probably 
because  it  was  very  heavy  to  handle. 

Above  these  mills  was  Aiken's  mill,  now  known  as  Shepard's 
mill.  There  were  two  mills.  One  of  them  was  north  of  the  old 
road  leading  to  the  Aiken  place  and  was  used  as  a  sawmill.  The 
other  (now  in  existence)  is  a  few  rods  above  on  the  same  stream 
and  is  conducted  by  George  F.  Shepard  as  a  sawmill.  This  mill 
had  the  first  circular  saw  for  sawing  logs  in  Bedford.  About  one 
and  a  half  miles  above  the  latter  was  a  mill  built  and  owned  by 
Sewall  Stratton,  on  a  privilege  previously  operated  by  Ezra  Baldwin.1 

JEzra  Baldwin  was  a  great  hypochondriac,  and,  as  such  persons  often  are,  was 
noted  for  whimsical  oddities.  Our  manuscript  poem,  from  which  we  have  more 
than  once  borrowed,  gives  him  a  niche  among  its  worthies. 

"  They  used  to  say  the  Gout  and  Spleen  Till  he  began  to  cry  '  Oh  dear  !  ' 

Oft  in  his  company  were  seen  ;  This  made  his  anger  wildly  rise. 

The  only  way  his  friends  could  do,  And  as  he  echoed  forth  his  cries, 

To  break  it  up  and  bring  him  to,  He  quite  forgot  his  hypo  hours 

Was  to  get  him  to  take  a  ride,  Which  all  absorb'd  his  mental  powers. 

Then  leave  the  road  great  way  one  side,  This  remedy,  being  often  tried, 

And  over  theiiillocks  stone  heaps  steer,  Bid  Hypo  stand  as  one  defied." 


246  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Farther  up  the  same  stream  was  a  turning  mill  owned  by  David 
Sprague,  where  bobbins  were  made.  Its  location  was  about  a  third 
of  a  mile  above  Stratton's  mill. 

On  Pulpit  brook,  which  runs  through  Bedford  from  New  Boston 
for  a  short  distance,  southwest  of  Clinton  French's  house,  Foster 
Gage  built  a  sawmill  about  1860.  It  was  operated  by  Clinton 
French  for  a  time,  but  not  much  use  was  ever  made  of  the  privilege. 
The  mill  was  burned. 

The  outlet  of  Sebbens'  pond  is  known  as  Darrah's  brook,  and  near 
where  it  empties  into  the  Merrimack  river  James  Darrah  built  a  saw 
and  grist-mill  not  far  from  where  the  stream  passes  under  the  Con- 
cord railroad  track.  Its  location  may  be  seen  from  the  car  window. 
On  this  same  stream,  about  100  rods  north  on  the  River  road,  William 
Moor  built  a  saw  and  grain  mill,  and  one  Vickere  had  a  turning 
mill  on  this  stream.  Afterwards  Daniel  Ferguson  owned  and  carried 
on  a  saw  and  grist-mill  at  the  same  place.  On  the  same  stream  John 
C.  Ferguson  built  the  dam  and  cider-  and  grist-mill,  which  were 
afterwards  owned  and  operated  by  Thomas  Thorpe  for  a  wool  scour- 
ing mill.  It  was  later  destroyed  by  fire.  On  a  branch  of  this  stream 
near  where  its  crosses  the  back  River  road  on  the  Benjamin  Smith 
place,  Solomon  Gage,  when  he  owned  the  farm,  built  a  dam  and 
sawmill,  but  for  lack  of  water  he  soon  abandoned  the  enterprise. 

Josiah  Walker  built  a  sawmill  on  his  farm  near  the  Merrimack 
river,  in  operation  as  late  as  1850.  The  power  was  furnished  by 
Chandler's  brook.  There  are  some  traces  of  the  dam  yet  to  be  seen. 
William  Patten  built  a  sawmill  200  rods  above  this  mill,  but  it  has 
since  been  removed. 

We  omit  any  extended  reference  to  the  sawmill  near  the  Dea. 
Moody  M.  Stevens'  place,  which  did  a  considerable  business,  for  the 
reason  that  the  town  line,  dividing  Bedford  from  Merrimack,  runs 
through  the  mill.  The  pond  and  the  dam  is  in  Bedford,  but  the 
mill  is  in  Merrimack.  These  mills  are  known  as  Swett's  mills,  origi- 
nally known  as  Aiken's  mills  from  a  son  of  John  Aiken  and  Annis 
Orr.  David  Swett  owned  and  operated  them,  for  sawing  logs  and 
shingles  and  grinding  corn,  for  many  years.  More  corn  was  proba- 
bly ground  in  these  mills  that  in  any  other  mill  in  Bedford.  The 
mills  are  now  owned  by  John  E.  Stowell  and  some  grinding  is  still 
done  there.     The  sawmill  is  no  longer  in  use. 

Benjamin  Baker,  a  famous  maker  of  edge  tools,  had  a  trip  hammer 
and  forge  in  his  shop  just  east  of  the  River  road  on  Chandler's 


INDUSTRIES.  247 

brook.     There  are  a  few  specimens  still  to  be  found  in  town  of  his 
handiwork. 

TANNERIES   AND   COOPER   SHOPS. 

In  the  early  days  every  farmer  was  his  own  butcher,  and,  of 
course,  had  the  skins  of  the  animals  killed  to  be  disposed  of.  Prior 
to  the  Revolution,  James  Aiken  established  a  tannery  on  what  is 
now  known  as  the  McAllaster  farm.  Stephen  French  also  estab- 
lished a  tannery  near  the  present  residence  of  James  Edwards 
French,  his  grandson.  He  had  a  primitive  mill  to  grind  his  own 
bark,  consisting  of  a  heavy  stone  wheel  about  eight  inches  Avide  and 
six  feet  in  diameter.  This  stone  ran  in  a  circular  trough,  with  a 
solid  foundation,  into  which  the  bark  was  put  for  pulverization. 
The  stone  was  propelled  by  horse  power.  After  its  use  for  bark- 
grinding  was  no  longer  needed,  the  stone  was  removed  to  Mr. 
Nathan  Kendall's  blacksmith  shop,  which  stood  just  west  of  the 
parsonage,  and  was  used  for  a  platform  for  setting  wheel  tires. 
This  stone  now  (1902)  covers  the  well  near  the  site  of  the  old  shop. 

Otis  Batchelder  also  had  a  tannery  on  Crosby  brook.  It  was 
afterwards  operated  by  William  Goffe. 

Later,  Phineas  C.  French  had  a  tannery  near  the  junction  of  the 
Wallace  and  Meeting  House  roads  in  the  south  part  of  the  town, 
near  the  Hugh  Riddle  brick  house. 

There  was  a  bark  mill  on  a  branch  of  the  Crosby  brook,  known 
as  the  Bark  Mill  brook,  operated  by  Moses  French,  son  of  Stephen 
French. 

There  was  a  tannery  on  the  east  side  of  the  River  road,  at  the 
spring  hole  opposite  the  Thomas  Chandler  residence,  operated  by 
James  Martin. 

There  was  a  peg  shop  on  Horace  Campbell's  farm  when  John  Orr 
Houston  lived  there.     The  pegs  were  made  by  hand. 

There  was  also  a  peg  shop  on  Holbrook  hill  on  the  Eben  Hol- 
brook  place. 

There  was  a  cooper  shop  earned  on  by  Samuel  Morrison,  located 
across  the  road  from  the  James  Morrison  place,  where  Lyman 
Kinson  now  lives.  He  made  barrels  and  all  kinds  of  packages. 
The  business  was  carried  on  by  him  between  1830  and  1850.  At 
his  death,  in  1851,  the  shop  was  closed.  Deacon  Gardner  Nevens 
was  a  cooper  by  trade  and  had  a  shop  on  his  farm  in  the  Joppa 
district.     He  first  came  to  Bedford  from  Hollis  to  work  in  Deacon 


248  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

John  French's  cooper  shop.  Deacon  John  French  had  a  large  shop 
employing  some  three  or  four  men. 

There  was  also  a  cooper  shop  on  Albert  B.  Corliss'  farm  in  the 
south  part  of  the  town  near  the  Thomas  W.  Moore  place.  The 
building  was  afterward  burned. 

Elijah  C.  Atwood  had  a  cooper  shop  on  his  father's,  Isaac  At- 
wood,  farm.  It  stood  just  below  where  Ervin  R.  French  now  lives, 
on  the  east  side  of  the  road. 

Another  cooper  shop  was  in  Squog,  where  Wallace's  sawmill  now 
Is,  about  1838.  It  was  operated  by  Henry  Farley  who  made  hogs- 
heads, staves,  and  barrels,  and  sent  them  to  Boston  by  boat. 

Cooper  John  Parker  lived  on  Mast  road,  a  few  rods  west  of  South 
Main  street,  and  worked  at  Farley's  shop.  The  shop  belonged  to 
Gen.  William  P.  Riddle.  When  last  seen  he  was  riding  on  a  jack- 
ass ;  the  ass  was  in  a  two-horse  sleigh.  The  shop  was  removed  to 
make  a  place  for  General  Riddle's  sawmill. 

BLACKSMITH  SHOPS. 

James  Houston  was  the  first  blacksmith  in  town.  He  was  a 
brother  of  Priest  Houston.  His  shop  was  located  on  the  Benjamin 
Dowse  (Huskie)  place,  where  he  lived,  raised  his  family,  and  died. 
He  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Samuel,  who  carried  on  the  business 
for  many  years.     In  his  old  age  he  became  blind. 

Mr.  James  Kendall,  brother  of  Nathan  Kendall,  came  from  Litch- 
field and  occupied  a  blacksmith  shop  which  stood  on  the  east  side  of 
the  road  running  south  from  Dowse's  corner  nearly  opposite  where 
the  house  of  Mr.  Corliss  used  to  stand. 

There  was  a  blacksmith  shop  on  John  Bell's  farm,  now  Ester- 
brook's,  where  he  did  considerable  work.  It  was  located  near  the 
junction  of  the  County  road  with  the  North  and  South  road. 

In  the  Centre,  John  Houston,  son  of  Reverend  John,  built  a  black- 
smith shop  where  George  F.  Barnard's  house  now  stands,  just  east 
of  the  Common.  This  was  the  first  blacksmith  shop  at  the  Centre. 
It  was  moved  by  Rufus  Merrill  to  a  spot  north  of  the  town  house, 
about  where  the  present  windmill  stands,  where  it  was  used  for  stor- 
age. It  was  then  removed  to  the  site  of  the  "  Kendall  shop  "  by  Mr. 
Nathan  Kendall,  who  came  from  Litchfield  to  carry  it  on.  On  that 
location  David  Gillis  had  built  a  shop  at  an  early  date  which  had 
burned  down.  After  Mr.  Kendall's  death  the  shop  was  carried  on 
by  Thomas  and  James  T.,  his  sons.     It  was  taken  down  and  rebuilt 


INDUSTRIES.  249 

by  Thomas  Kendall  in  1861.  In  1898  it  was  taken  to  pieces  and 
made  into  a  house  for  John  Welch.  Mr.  Kendall  worked  in  Robert 
Houston's  shop  before  he  bought  and  moved  the  John  Houston  shop. 

Isaac  Kiddle  built  a  blacksmith  shop  south  of  his  house,  near  the 
bars  in  the  potash  field.  Robert  Houston,  son  of  Reverend  John, 
built  a  blacksmith  shop  just  west  of  the  parsonage  lot.  David  Gillis 
worked  there. 

There  was  a  blacksmith  shop  on  the  north  side  of  the  brook,  a 
few  rods  east  of  the  river  road  on  the  Landing  road,  probably  built 
by  the  Goffe's.  Mr.  Peabody  carried  it  on.  After  his  death  it  was 
abandoned. 

There  was  also  a  blacksmith  shop  between  the  Gilmore  place  and 
Dunlap's  on  the  old  road.     John  Holt  carried  it  on. 

John  E.  Mullet  had  a  shop  at  Barr's  corner  on  the  north  side  of 
the  New  Boston  road,  and  the  west  side  of  the  Goffstown  road. 
The  shop  has  not  been  in  use  for  over  forty  years.  It  was  built  by 
subscription  among  the  neighbors  to  induce  Mr.  Mullett  to  locate 
there. 

A  man  named  Hobart  had  a  blacksmith  shop  near  Sprague's  cor- 
ner. It  was  afterwards  owned  by  Clinton  French.  Hobart  used  to 
express  his  views  on  religious  subjects  with  some  freedom  at  town- 
meeting,  late  in  the  afternoon.  He  said  he  was  not  a  Presbyterian, 
nor  a  Unitarian,  or  any  other  arian,  he  was  a  "  nothingarian."  The 
old  shop  was  burned. 

In  the  Joppa  district  Mr.  John  Shepard  had  a  blacksmith  shop 
near  the  store  just  above  Deacon  John  French's  on  the  north  side  of 
the  road. 

Milton  Flint  has  a  blacksmith  shop  where  he  does  his  own  work ; 
and  near  Jenness'  corner,  on  the  North  Amherst  road,  Putnam  Jen- 
kins had  a  shop. 

Charles  Farley,  son  of  Center  Farley,  built  a  blacksmith  shop 
near  his  wheelwright  shop.     It  is  still  in  use. 

Center  Farley  built  a  shop  near  District  No.  1  schoolhouse.  .  It 
was  first  occupied  by  Mr.  Albert  Hill,  afterwards  by  Putnam  Jen- 
kins, now  by  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst.  Wilder  J.  Prince,  and  after 
wards  Walter  Schneider,  carried  on  the  shop  for  a  time. 

Charles  Burns,  son  of  William  Burns,  has  a  shop  on  the  Thomas 
Moor  farm  in  the  south  part  of  the  town  near  the  Merrimack  line. 

There  was  a  potashery  on  the  swamp  east  of  the  John  Davis 
house  on  South  Main  street.  John  Davis  was  a  pensioner  of  the 
War  of  1812. 


250  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

Three  generations  of  the  Smith  family  have  been  basket  makers 
in  Bedford.  The  first  to  locate  there  was  Joseph  B.  Smith  who 
came  to  Bedford  about  1855  and  located  on  the  Solomon  Gage 
place  after  Mr.  Gage  went  West.  His  work  was  largely  for  the 
mills  in  Manchester.  After  his  death,  on  September  5,  1861,  he 
was  succeeded  by  his  son  Benjamin,  who  continued  the  same  busi- 
ness until  he  died  in  March,  1895.  After  this  his  grandson,  George 
W.,  carried  on  the  shop  and  still  continues. 

CIDER-MILLS. 

There  were  a  number  of  cider-mills  in  town  from  the  earliest  days  ; 
most  of  them  were  what  were  called  nutt  mills.  The  apples  were 
poured  into  a  hopper  sloping  into  two  round  pieces  of  hard  wood 
called  nutts  that  revolved  into  one  another  so  closely  as  to  mash  the 
apples  that  came  between.  In  one  nutt  were  cut  mortices,  and  in 
the  other  tenants.  Power  was  furnished  by  a  horse  attached  to  a  long 
sweep  that  turned  the  nutts.  A  small  boy  sat  over  the  sweep  and 
cleared  the  pomace  from  the  revolving  nutts  with  a  forked  stick. 
The  pomace  fell  into  a  trough,  and  it  was  considered  indispensable 
for  it  to  remain  there  over  night  to  give  the  cider  the  proper  color. 
The  next  morning  the  pomace  was  placed  on  the  press  and  built  up 
with  rye  straw  in  layers.  The  screws  of  the  press  were  wooden, 
some  six  or  eight  inches  in  diameter,  and  were  run  down  by  hand 
with  a  long  lever.  The  same  press  was  used  for  baling  hops.  After 
the  first  pressing  was  taken  off  the  cheese  was  "  cut  down."  That 
is,  the  screws  were  raised,  and  with  a  broad  axe  the  edges  of  the 
cheese  were  cut  off  for  three  or  four  inches  and  the  parings  placed 
on  top  of  the  cheese. 

The  screws  were  then  run  down  and  another  quantity  of  cider  ob- 
tained. After  the  second  pressing  the  screws  were  raised,  holes 
punched  in  the  top  of  the  cheese,  and  hot  water  poured  on  and  left 
over  night.  The  next  morning  a  barrel  of  water  cider  could  often 
be  obtained.  When  a  farmer  did  not  own  a  mill,  he  paid  something 
for  the  use  of  his  neighbor's,  a  day  being  set  in  advance  for  that  pur- 
pose. This  was  probably  the  form  of  the  first  cider-mills  in  town. 
There  was  such  a  mill  on  the  Dea.  John  Houston,  Dea.  John  Aiken, 
John  Ban-,  Seth  Campbell,  Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  Samuel  Adams, 
Beard  McAllaster,  George  Hodgman,  Theodore  A.  Goffe,  John  Orr, 
Esq.,  Daniel  Ferguson,  John  Patten,  and  Willard  Parker's  farms, 
and  possibly  others. 


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When  the  Washingtonian  temperance  movement  came,  about  1840, 
some  people,  notably  Robert  Houston  and  William  Patten,  cut  down 
their  apple  trees,  that  they  might  not  contribute  further  to  cider- 
making  and  drinking.  On  the  west  side  of  the  back  River  road,  a 
little  south  of  the  old  graveyard,  the  Chandlers,  who  owned  the  land, 
ploughed  a  furrow  and  put  in  some  apple  pomace.  Their  intention 
was  to  have  an  apple  tree  hedge.  When  the  young  trees  came  up, 
some  one  pulled  up  enough  of  them  to  spoil  the  hedge.  The  remain- 
ing trees  were  then  pruned  for  bearing  and  later  on  as  many  as  four 
or  five  hundred  barrels  of  cider  apples  were  gathered  from  them  in 
a  season.  Some  of  them  are  to  be  seen  to  this  day,  but  the  pines 
have  grown  up  around  them  to  a  large  extent. 

SHOEMAKING. 

The  probabilities  are  that  in  the  early  days  of  the  settlement  each 
man  made  for  himself  and  for  his  family  the  shoes  that  were  needed, 
so  far  as  he  was  able,  and  his  additional  wants  were  supplied  by  trav- 
eling shoemakers,  who  went  from  farm  to  farm  to  do  work  for  the 
family.  Later,  there  were  several  shops  in  town  where  shoes  were 
made  by  hand.  One  was  at  the  Benjamin  Dowse  place  (now  owned 
by  Mr.  Huskie).  There  James  Amherst  Parker  and  James  Rollins 
worked,  but  Mr.  Dowse  was  not  himself  a  shoemaker. 

Chandler  Spofford,  his  son  John  T.  Spofford,  and  John  P.  Connor 
made  shoes  in  the  Gillis  house,  which  stood  where  Sylvanus  Camp- 
bell now  lives.  Later,  Mr.  Spofford  lived  where  Horace  Townsend 
now  lives,  and  carried  on  a  shoemaking  business  there.  John  P. 
Connor  later  lived  where  Mrs.  George  French  lives,  and  made  shoes 
there.  Benjamin  Gage  and  William  Gage  made  shoes  in  the  west 
end  of  the  house  where  Charles  Kendall  now  lives.  Oliver  and 
Charles  Kendall  at  first  worked  there ;  also  later  at  a  shop  nearly 
opposite  the  parsonage.  Other  shoemakers  were  John  Armstrong, 
Joseph  Marshall,  John  Parker,  Greenleaf  Walker,  Abner  C.  Page, 
whose  shop  stood  in  the  southwest  corner  of  Horace  Townsend's 
field  near  the  town  house,  David  Crowell,  who  lived  where  Elmer 
Esterbrooks  now  lives,  and  Allen  Peabody,  who  lived  on  Tolford  hill. 

Daniel  Cain  went  from  house  to  house,  in  the  Avay  above  cited,  to 
make  shoes  for  the  family,  about  ninety  years  ago.  He  lived  where 
Dwelly  Mitchell  used  to  live  on  the  back  River  road,  the  last  house  in 
Bedford.  Thomas  Tay,  called  Tommy  Trip,  was  also  an  itinerant 
shoemaker  in  town. 


252  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Stephen  French  made  shoes  on  the  farm  where  his  grandson; 
James  Edwards  French,  now  lives.  He  also  made  whip  lashes  in 
the  same  shop.  It  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  road  between  the 
present  buildings  and  the  road.  When  Mr.  French  moved  to  the 
farm  occupied  by  his  son,  Phineas  French,  and  now  owned  by  Fred 
A.  French,  he  erected  a  shoe  and  whip  shop,  there  carrying  on  busi- 
ness for  a  time.  The  lashes  were  cut  and  rolled  out  of  ox  hide,  and 
the  braided  lashes  were  made  of  woodchuck  skins.  They  were  made 
up  in  the  winter  and  taken  to  Boston  by  Mr.  French  in  the  spring,  a 
hundred  dozen  to  the  load.  After  Mr  French  moved  to  the  Fred  A. 
French  place,  the  shop  on  the  old  place  continued  to  turn  out  whips 
until  about  1850. 

Shoes  were  so  valuable  in  those  days  that  people  used  to  walk  to 
meeting  barefooted,  carrying  their  shoes  in  their  hands.  A  short 
distance  before  they  came  in  sight  of  the  meeting-house  they  stopped 
and  put  them  on  and  then  continued. 

To  show  the  fine  quality  of  work  done  in  town,  a  case  is  cited  of 
a  man  who  had  a  pair  of  boots  tapped.  After  he  got  them  home,  he 
was  waked  up  by  a  loud  noise  in  the  kitchen  at  night.  He  went 
down  and  what  was  his  surprise  to  find  the  taps  chewing  the  cud. 

STORES. 

The  first  store  in  Bedford  was  probably  in  Piscataquog  village,  but 
Samuel  Chandler  had  a  store  on  the  River  road  at  an  early  date, 
where  he  carried  on  business  for  many  years.  It  was  located  just 
north  of  his  house,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road.  He  ceased  to  carry 
on  his  store  when  the  railroad  went  through,  about  1843. 

There  was  a  store  in  the  Joppa  district.  It  was  first  carried  on  by 
Dea.  John  French.  Gilman  Gardner,  a  one-armed  man,  came  to 
get  a  bottle  of  rum,  so  he  brought  along  two  bottles,  one  of  them 
filled  with  water.  When  the  deacon  had  filled  the  empty  one  with 
rum,  Gilman  asked  him  to  trust  him  for  it. 

"  Can't  do  it,"  said  the  deacon.  "  Can't  do  it." 
"  Well,'.'  said  Gilman,  "  then  you  must  take  it  back." 
So  he  handed  him  the  bottle  filled  with  water,  which  the  deacon 
emptied  into  the  rum  barrel,  while  Gilman  went  on  his  way  rejoicing. 
Deacon  French  ceased  to  keep  this  store  about  1838.  It  was  after- 
wards occupied  by  David  Stevens,  who  had  been  clerk  for  Deacon 
French,  for  many  years.  He  moved  away  in  1848.  Afterwards, 
Stillman  Shepard  kept  the  store,  a  short  time  after  Avhich  it  was 


INDUSTRIES.  253 

closed  as  a  store.  The  building  is  still  standing,  and  is  now  occu- 
pied as  a  house  by  James  Sargent.  There  was  a  hall  over  the  store,, 
with  an  entrance  by  a  flight  of  stairs  on  the  outside  of  the  building. 
Here  singing  schools  and  dancing  parties  were  frequently  held. 

The  principal  store  within  the  limits  of  what  is  now  Bedford  was 
Riddle's  store.  It  was  built  by  Isaac  Riddle  in  1783.  He  had  pre- 
viously kept  a  store  in  his  mother's  house,  the  Gawn  Riddle  house, 
which  stood  where  Deacon  Damon's  noAv  stands.  The  store  build- 
ing was  located  just  south  of  the  Isaac  Riddle  house,  now  occupied 
by  John  A.  Riddle,  on  land  west  of  the  dooryard.  It  was  a  large 
two-story  building,  painted  white,  facing  east.  In  the  upper  story 
was  a  hall  known  as  Washington  hall,  where  dances  and  assemblies 
of  all  kinds  were  held,  and  also  sessions  of  a  high  school.  The 
Riddles  earned  on  an  extensive  business  here,  using  this  store  as 
headquarters,  making  potash  in  the  field  just  opposite,  known  as  the 
"potash  field,"  in  consequence,  and  sending  it  to  Boston.  Later, 
they  ran  a  line  of  boats  on  the  Merrimack  river  and  Middlesex  canal 
to  Boston.  The  canal  followed  a  line  about  parallel  with  the  present 
railroad  track,  entering  Boston  at  Canal  street.  The  Riddles  dealt 
in  country  produce  of  all  descriptions.  They  had  a  branch  store  in 
Piscataquog  village,  carried  on  by  William  P.  Riddle ;  another  in 
the  brick  building  in  Souhegan  village,  where  they  carried  on  also 
an  extensive  manufactory  of  cotton,  nails,  and  wool.  The  mills  were 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1829.  This  business  was  managed  by  James 
Riddle.  There  was  also  a  store  in  Boston,  managed  by  David  Rid- 
dle. The  goods  carried  down  the  river  on  boats  were  consigned  to 
his  store.  The  store  in  Bedford,  occupied  by  Frederick  Wallace  in 
1836-'37,  and  by  O.  L.  Kendall  from  1844-46,  was  taken  down  in 
1850,  and  the  timbers  used  in  building  the  house  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  Granite  and  Turner  streets  in  Piscataquog  village. 

About  1820  a  son  of  Simeon  Chubbuck  and  a  Mr.  McKenny 
started  a  store  on  what  is  now  an  abandoned  road,  leading  from  the 
Wallace  road  to  the  Joppa  road,  near  the  Chubbuck  homestead.  It 
was  maintained  but  a  short  time. 

Oliver  Kendall  also  kept  a  store  where  his  shop  now  stands,  nearly 
opposite  the  parsonage.  He  did  not  open  it  until  after  Riddle's  store 
had  been  removed.  This  was  some  time  early  in  the  50's.  Mr.  Ken- 
dall went  out  of  business  about  1860.  After  he  had  done  so,  George 
W.  Goffe  opened  a  store  in  a  little  building  located  just  west  of  the 
parsonage.     He  had  moved  the  building  from   his   father's,  John 


254  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Goffe's,  farm.  He  bought  the  land  of  Isaac  Riddle.  This  was  in 
1859.  Later  he  sold  the  store  to  James  T.  Kendall,  who  continued 
in  business  there  until  1870. 

About  1869  George  "W.  Goffe  and  Quincy  Barnard  built  the  pres- 
ent store  building  and  carried  on  a  store  there,  as  partners,  for  a 
year.  Then  Mr.  Barnard  sold  his  interest  to  James  T.  Kendall,  and 
the  business  was  continued  under  the  name  of  Kendall  &  Goffe. 
The  partnership  was  dissolved  about  two  years  later,  and  Mr.  Ken- 
dall continued  alone  until  his  death  in  1876.  The  store  was  then 
carried  on  by  his  sons,  George  and  Elmer  E.,  as  agents  for  their 
father's  estate.  George  went  out  of  the  business  in  1885,  moving  to 
Manchester,  and  his  brother  continued  until  1888.  The  business  was 
then  sold  to  James  R.  Leach,  and  he  continued  there  until  1890, 
when  he  sold  out  to  Fred  A.  French,  the  present  occupant. 

Jonathan  Dowse,  brother  of  Benjamin  Dowse,  kept  a  store  where 
Thomas  W,  Moore  now  lives,  in  the  south  part  of  the  town.  He 
also  drove  a  peddler  cart  for  many  years.  The  date  is  not  now  as- 
certainable, but  in  1840  his  canoe  was  borrowed  to  go  to  Concord  in 
the  "  Tippecanoe  and  Tyler  too "  campaign.  He  peddled  candy, 
gingerbread,  oranges,  filberts,  etc. 

Robert  Wallace  kept  a  store  in  the  south  part  of  the  town,  near 
Hale's  mills.  The  building  stood  where  the  late  Wilson  Blood  lived. 
He  sold  supplies  to  the  brickmakers,  as  well  as  keeping  a  general 
store.  He  went  out  of  business,  moving  to  Goffstown,  about  1840. 
He  kept  store  in  Bedford  for  about  forty  years. 

SPINNING  AND  WEAVING. 

One  of  the  characteristic  industries  of  the  early  settlement  must 
have  been  the  spinning  and  weaving  of  linen  thread,  a  knowledge 
of  which  the  settlers  had  brought  from  Londonderry.  There  are 
still  to  be  found  in  town  several  specimens  of  linen  cloth — table- 
cloths, sheets,  etc.,  which  were  made  from  flax  which  was  grown  on 
the  farms,  beaten,  hackled,  spun  into  thread,  and  woven  by  the 
women  of  the  families.  There  are  still  in  existence  two  shirts  which 
Josiah  Gordon's  mother  made  from  linen  raised  and  manufactured 
on  her  husband's  farm,  which  she  cut  and  fitted  for  her  son  when  he 
went  into  the  Continental  army  in  1776.  He  carried  them  in  his 
knapsack  throughout  the  war  and  brought  them  home  when  it  was 
over. 

The  early  inhabitants  raised  some  wool,  carding  it,  spinning  it, 


INDUSTRIES.  255 

dyeing  the  thread,  and  weaving  the  cloth  in  hand  looms,  some  of 
which  are  still  in  existence  in  town.  There  is  one  in  complete 
working  order  on  the  Webster  At  wood  farm. 

Some  of  the  women,  known  as  "  spinsters,"  developed  considera- 
ble skill  as  weavers  and  to  them  the  yarn  was  brought.  Among 
these  we  may  enumerate  Irena  Patten,  daughter  of  Joseph  Patten, 
Hannah  Atwood,  who  was  the  last  one  in  town,  Mary  Bell,  who  was 
a  weaver  of  linsey  woolsey  plaid,  Mrs.  Roby  and  Mrs.  Martin 
(whose  names  were  Smith  before  they  were  married),  and  who  ex- 
celled in  making  cloth  and  weaving  rag  carpets. 

With  the  discovery  of  the  power  loom  and  the  concentration  of 
weaving  into  factories,  all  traces  of  this  former  farm  industry  have 
disappeared. 

Mrs.  Theodore  A.  Goffe  used  to  raise  silk  worms,  feeding  them 
upon  the  leaves  of  mulberry  trees,  planted  for  that  purpose.  From 
the  cocoons  she  spun  thread,  and  knitted  stockings  for  members  of 
her  family  and  others.  The  cocoons  in  their  boxes  were  considered 
a  great  natural  curiosity,  and  were  visited  by  her  friends,  who  ob- 
served them  with  great  interest.  Mr3.  Goffe  also  taught  the  making 
of  wax  flowers,  which  she  skilfully  colored.  Some  specimens  of  her 
work  are  still  preserved  in  the  town,  and  are  highly  prized.  Her 
husband  was  the  first  and  only  Roman  Catholic  in  town  until  a 
recent  period.  He  walked  to  Boston  and  was  admitted  to  the 
church  by  Bishop  Fenwick. 


Pounds. 


By  English  common  law,  a  township,  lordship,  or  village  was 
obliged  to  maintain  a  pound,  or  "  place  of  strength  to  keep  cattle 
which  are  distrained  or  put  in  for  any  trespass  done  by  them  until 
they  are  repleved  or  redeemed." 

Following  the  practice  in  the  old  country,  towns  in  the  colonies 
early  established  their  pounds  and  put  them  in  charge  of  a  pound- 
keeper.  Any  cattle,  swine,  horses,  sheep,  or  other  creatures  doing 
damage  and  at  large  in  a  highway  or  common  were  liable  to  be 
taken  to  the  pound  and  there  kept  at  the  owner's  charge  until 
claimed  and  taken  away  by  him. 

At  the  first  town-meeting  held  in  Bedford,  on  January  the  8th, 
1750,  to  accept  the  charter,  it  was  "  Voted  to  build  a  pound  near 
Samuel  Patten's."  This  pound  was  built  of  logs  and  stood  about 
eight  rods  southwest  of  Samuel  Patten's  house  on  the  second  piece 
of  land  cleared  in  town.  The  last  trace  of  this  rude  receptacle  of 
strays  is  gone,  and  its  location  is  probably  not  within  the  recollec- 
tion of  any  person  now  (1850)  living. 

April  28,  1786,  it  was  "Voted  to  build  a  new  pound  of  stone  on 
the  southwest  corner  of  the  common  by  the  meeting  house,  32  feet 
square  and  7  feet  high.  The  building  committee  were  James  Wal- 
lace, John  Riddle  and  John  Houston,  Jun.  The  committee  to  em- 
ploy such  men  as  will  answer  to  build  said  pound,  and  they  be  paid 
by  order  on  the  Treasurer." 

On  March  28,  1809,  it  was  "Voted  the  selectmen  shall  be  a  com- 
mittee to  fix  the  place  and  vendue  the  building  of  a  new  pound." 
The  location  selected  is  where  the  remains  of  the  enclosure  are  still 
standing,  north  of  Riddle  or  Damon's  mills,  and  near  where  the 
school-house,  known  as  the  "  Stone  Jug,"  used  to  stand.  The  pound 
still  stands  in  a  dilapidated  condition. 

The  present  statute  provides,  "  Every  town  shall  maintain  a  good 
and  sufficient  pound.  If  any  town  neglects  to  do  so,  it  shall  forfeit 
$30  for  each  year  it  shall  be  destitute  thereof  for  the  person  who 
will  sue  therefor,  provided  that  any  town  may  vote  not  to  maintain 


pounds.  25T 

a  public  pound  and  to  dispose  of  any  land  held  by  it  for  that  pur- 
pose." 

Bedford  voted  not  to  maintain  a  pound   at   the  annual  meeting, 
March,  1879,  but  the  land  has  not  been  sold.     Therefore,  stray  cattle 
doing  damage  are  now  confined  by  any  person  interested,  there  be- 
ing no  longer  any  public  enclosure  for  that  purpose. 
18 


Taverns. 


It  is  not  known  exactly  what  was  the  location  of  the  first  tavern 
or  house  of  public  entertainment  in  Bedford.  As  early  as  March  9, 
1806,  we  find  that  Capt.  Thomas  Chandler  was  licensed  as  a 
tavern  keeper,  with  liberty  to  sell  spirituous  liquors.  Prior  to  that 
date,  however,  and  as  early  as  1793,  Samuel  Gilchrist,  who  married 
the  daughter  of  John  Aiken,  moved  to  Bedford  from  Goffstown, 
and  built  the  house  now  occupied  by  Arthur  W.  Holbrook  on  Hol- 
brook  hill,  and  maintained  a  tavern  there.  Whether  or  no  he  kept 
a  tavern  there  earlier  than  that  date  it  is  not  possible  to  ascertain. 
Before  the  railroads  were  built,  houses  of  entertainment  were  neces- 
sary not  only  for  the  passengers  who  went  by  stage  from  Concord  or 
points  north  through  to  Boston,  but  also  for  the  teamsters,  who, 
winter  and  summer,  drove  heavy  loads  on  sleds  or  wheels  to  the 
Boston  market. 

Two  horses  were  called  a  "pod;"  three  a  "spike;"  four,  a 
"  screw,"  and  six,  a  "  team." 

At  one  time  there  were  as  many  as  four  taverns  in  Bedford. 
Piscataquog  village,  or  as  it  is  now  known,  West  Manchester,  was 
then  included  within  the  town  limits.  There  was  Parker's  tavern, 
located  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Log  and  South  Main  streets. 
This  house  was  built  by  William  Parker,  who  kept  tavern  there  for 
many  years.1  Afterwards  the  house  was  occupied  by  William 
Walker,  a  Mr.  Campbell,  a  Mr.  Go  wan,  Ephraim  C.  Hardy,  Moody 
Quimby;  later,  one  Whittaker  bought  half  of  it  from  Mrs.  Harris, 
daughter  of  William  Parker,  and  kept  tavern  there  for  a  time. 
Leonard  W.  Johnson  and  a  man  named  Grout  came  from  Boston 
and  kept  tavern  there ;  then  Cy.  Walker,  son  of  "  old  Cy ; "  then 
one  Francis  Day.  The  last  occupant  was  Mr.  Charles  H.  Wilkins. 
The  house  was  burned  during  his  occupancy,  at  3  :  30  in  the  morning 
of  February  21,  1863.     The  Merrimack  House,  as  it  is  now  called, 

1  As  nearly  as  can  now  be  ascertained,  the  house  first  built  on  the  site  of  the  Parker 
school,  in  1785,  was  moved  to  the  corner  of  Log  and  Main  streets,  enlarged  and  con- 
verted into  a  tavern  and  store,  where  West  India  goods  were  sold.  This  was  1787. 
The  Parkers  lived  on  the  schoolhouse  lot  two  years. 


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was  used  as  a  tavern  after  it  was  moved  and  built  over.  It  formerly 
stood  exactly  where  the  North  Weare  track  now  runs  west  after 
crossing  Main  street.  The  house  was  moved  from  its  location  by 
Columbus  Wyman  in  1849.  It  was  then  owned  by  James  Parker, 
Esq.,  father  of  Dr.  Henry  C.  Parker.  He  sold  it  to  Ben.  Quimby, 
who  was  its  owner  when  it  was  moved. 

Chandler's  tavern  was  first  occupied  by  Zechariah  Chandler,  in 
the  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Foster  Rollins  on  the  River 
road ;  afterwards  the  more  famous  Chandler  tavern  was  kept  by 
Thomas  Chandler,  at  the  corner  of  the  River  road  and  the  Meet- 
ing House  road,  in  the  house  afterwards  occupied  by  Mr.  George 
Foster.  This  tavern  was  known  as  the  White  Horse  Tavern,  from  a 
sign  of  that  description  which  hung  on  a  bracket  from  the  southeast 
corner  of  the  house.  Here  President  Jackson  and  his  cabinet  were 
entertained  when  they  made  their  tour  through  New  England  in 
June,  1833.  Gilman  Palmer  drove  the  stage,'  and  the  party  stopped 
at  Chandler's  for  dinner.  The  party  included  Martin  Van  Buren, 
Lewis  Cass,  Amos  Kendall,  and  Levi  Woodbury. 

The  Moore  tavern  on  the  South  road  from  Bedford  Center  to 
Merrimack  was  kept  by  Col.  William  Moore,  in  the  house  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  Thomas  Savage  Burns.  The  line  between 
Merrimack  and  Bedford  ran  through  the  house.  The  bar  was  in 
Merrimack. 

The  Traveler's  home,  kept  by  Frederick  Wallace,  brother  of  the 
Rev.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace,  was  a  famous  tavern.  It  was  located  at 
the  northwest  corner  of  Milford  and  South  Main  streets  in  West 
Manchester.  It  was  moved  to  its  location  on  wheels  from  the 
Eliphalet  Bursiel  place  (then  the  Thomas  Wallace  place)  in  1838, 
with  eighty-five  yoke  of  oxen.  The  teams  were  from  Bedford  and 
Goffstown.  They  were  three  days  on  the  job.  The  great  number 
of  oxen  were  needed  to  get  up  over  the  hill  at  Wallace's  brook.  A 
man  rode  on  the  spire,  ax  in  hand,  to  clip  the  bow  pin  of  the  ox  on 
the  rear  string  if  he  stepped  off  of  the  stringer  and  fell.  The  bridge 
at  that  time  was  a  low  bridge.  It  has  since  been  raised  and  an  em- 
bankment built. 

After  Mr.  Wallace,  one  Gordon  kept  the  tavern ;  after  him  a  Mr. 
Glines.     There  was  no  hotel  there  later  than  1842. 

These  taverns  were  all  in  use  as  houses  of  entertainment  in  1840, 
but  the  building  of  the  railroad  about  that  time  rendered  them  un- 
profitable, and  they  gradually  disappeared  from  use. 


260  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

About  1827  or  1828  Mr.  Isaac  Riddle  kept  a  tavern  in  his  house 
at  the  Centre.     The  sign  hung  from  the  end  of  the  store. 

There  was  a  tavern  known  as  the  Globe  tavern,  kept  by  Ensign 
Chubbuck.  It  was  probably  one  of  the  first,  if  not  the  very  first 
tavern  in  town.  It  was  situated  on  the  high  land  north  of  Dr. 
Woodbury's,  on  land  owned  by  Freeman  R.  French.  The  field  is 
called  the  "  Globe  Field  "  in  consequence. 

In  addition  to  the  taverns  in  town,  there  were  a  great  many 
other  places  where  liquor  was  sold. 

Under  the  law  as  it  then  read  the  selectmen  could  license  indi- 
viduals to  "  mix  and  sell  for  one  year  or  less." 

Among  those  who  were  so  licensed  we  may  mention  the  follow- 
ing, whose  names  are  taken  from  the  town  records : 

Thos.  Parker,  Joseph  Buswell,  from  March  8,  1793,  to  Sept.  8,  1793. 
Zechariah  Chandler,  Esq.,  1  yr.  from  March  11,  1793. 
Hugh  Moor,  from  July  19,  1793,  to  Mar.  19,  1794. 
John  Patten,  from  Dec.  20,  1793,  to  Mar.  1,  1794. 
Samuel  Gilcrest,  from  Dec.  20,  1793,  to  Mar.  1,  1794. 

Thomas^Seri  j  from  APr"  7'  1794'  to  lst  Wed-  of  Mar-  1795- 
William  Parker,  from  Apr.  7,  1794,  to  lst  Wed.  of  Mar.,  1795. 
Zechariah  Chandler,  from  April  17,  1794,  to  17th  of  April,  1795. 

David  McAfte^  |  from  APr"  17'  1794>  to  lst  Wed-  of  Mar-  1795- 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Mar.  17,  1794,  to  lst  day  of  Mar.,  1795. 
Stephen  Dole,  from  Mar.  17,  1794,  to  lst  day  of  Mar.,  1795. 
Samuel  Chandler,  from  Nov.  19,  1794,  to  lst  day  of  Apr.,  1795. 
David  Hern,  from  Mar.  1,  1794,  to  June  1,  1794. 
Wm.  McAfee  &  David  McAfee,  from  Feb.  17,  1794,  to  Feb.  1,  1795. 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Mar.  6,  1795,  to  Mar.  6,  1796. 

JotTB™ii;  | from  Ma^  l8> 1795' to  Mar-  *■ i796- 

Thomas  Chandler,  from  Feb.  18,  1796,  to  Feb.  18,  1797. 

JotXBusweli;  j  from  Mar-  2'  1796'  to  lst  Wed-  of  Mar-  1797- 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Mar.  2,  1796,  to  lst  Wed.  of  Mar.,  1797. 
Thomas  Chandler,  from  Feb.  27,  1797,  to  Mar.  6,  1798. 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Feb.  28,  1797,  for  eight  months. 

TZmasBParler;  \  from  Mar"  14'  1797'  to  lst  Wed'  of  Mar">  1798" 
Zechariah  Chandler,  from  Mar.  22,  1797,  to  lst  Wed.  of  Mar.,  1798. 
William  Parker,  from  Mar.  22,  1797,  to  lst  Wed.  of  Mar.,  1798. 
Wm.  McAfee,  from  Mar.  22,  1797,  to  lst  Wed.  of  Mar.,  next. 
Samuel  Chandler,  from  Mar.  22,  1798,  to  Mar.  6,  1799. 
Thomas  Parker,  from  Mar.  22,  1798,  to  Mar.  6,  1799. 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Mar.  22,  1798,  to  Mar.  6,  1799. 
William  Parker,  from  Mar.  22,  1798,  to  Mar.  6,  1799. 
Samuel  Chandler,  from  Mar.  20,  1799,  to  lst  Wed.  in  Mar.,  1800. 
William  McAfee,  for  one  year  from  the  6th  day  of  Mar.,  1799. 
George  Claggett,  for  one  year  from  the  25th  day  of  Dec,  1799. 
Jotham  Gillis,  for  one  year  from  the  25th  day  of  Dec,  1799. 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Feb.  16,  1799,  to  Mar.  5,  1800. 
William  Parker,  from  April  2,  1799,  to  Mar.  6,  1800. 


TAVERNS.  261 

Thomas  Chandler,  from  March  12,  1799,  to  1st  Wed.  in  Mar.,  next. 

Zechariah  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  sixth  day  of  Mar.,  1799. 

William  Parker,  from  8th  of  Jan.,  1800. 

Robert  Houston,  from  15th  of  Feb.,  1800. 

Isaac  Riddle,  from  March,  1800. 

William  McAfee,  from  6th  of  March,  1800. 

Thomas  Parker,  from  5th  of  Mar.,  1800. 

Samuel  Chandler,  from  6th  of  Mar.,  1800. 

Amos  Dodge,  from  Dec.  31,  1800,  to  first  Wed.  of  Mar.,  1801. 

Jotham  Gillis,  for  one  year  from  the  3d  of  Jan.,  1801. 

Robert  Houston,  for  one  year  from  the  4th  of  Mar.,  1801. 

Samuel  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  4th  of  Mar.,  1801. 

Zechariah  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  4th  of  Mar.,  1801. 

Isaac  Riddle,  for  one  year  from  the  4th  of  Mar.,  1801. 

William  McAfee,  for  one  vear  from  the  19th  of  Mar.,  1801. 

Amos  Dodge,  from  Mar.  19,  1801,  to  Mar.  4,  1802. 

William  Parker,  from  Mar.  19,  1801,  to  Mar.  4,  1802. 

Capt.  Thomas  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  16th  of  Dec,  1801. 

Jotham  Gillis,  for  one  year  from  the  9th  of  Jan.,  1802. 

William  Parker, 

|eicaRfdhdEhandler'     f  for  oue  ^ear  from  the  23d  of  Mar-  1802- 
William  Parker,  Jr.,   J 

Da^M^ken   (  for  oue  year  from  the  lst  of  June'  1802, 

Jotham  Gillis,  for  one  year  from  the  lst  of  Jan.,  1803. 

Charles  Chubbuck,  for  one  year  from  the  25th  of  Jan.,  1803. 

Stephen  French,  for  one  year  from  the  9th  of  Feb.,  1803. 

Isaac  Riddle,  for  one  year  from  the  22d  of  Mar.,  1803. 

Thomas  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  3d  day  of  Mar.,  1803. 

Zechariah  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  5th  of  Mar.,  1803. 

Capt.  Thomas  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  3d  day  of  Mar.,  1804. 

Stephen  French,  for  one  year  from  the  4th  of  Sept.,  1804. 

John  Houston,  for  three  days  from  the  4th  of  Sept.,  1804. 

Robert  Houston,  for  three  days  from  the  4th  of  Sept.,  1804. 

Thomas  Wallace,  for  three  days  from  the  4th  of  Sept.,  1804. 

Capt.  Thomas  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  the  4th  of  March,  1805. 

Samuell  Roby,  for  one  year  from  the  4th  of  March,  1805. 

Messrs.  Boynton  &  Redfield,  for  one  year  from  the  3d  of  Dec,  1806. 

Capt,  Thomas  Chandler,  from  Mar.  29,  1808,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1809. 

Thos^WalS^:,  \  from  May  U'  1808'  to  the  2d  Tu-  of  Mar-'  1809- 
Jonathan  Palmer,  from  Jan.  21,  1809,  to  the  lst  day  of  Jan.,  1810. 
William  Parker,  from  Mar.  25,  1809,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1810. 
Capt.  Thos.  Chandler,  from  May  15,  1809,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1810. 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Aug.  11,  1809,  to  the  lst  day  of  Apr.,  1810. 

ThSmasi(Whittle,  f  from  Aug'  U'  1809'  to  the  lst  ^  of  Apr"  181°- 
Capt.  Thomas  Chandler,  from  Mar.  29,  1810,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1811. 
William  Parker,  from  Apr.  16,  1810,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1811. 

R™t1Waliacee^,  |  from  Sept'  7'  1810'  to  the  2d  Tu"  of  Mar-'  181L 
Robert  Wallace,  from  May  3,  1811,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1812. 
Capt.  Thos.  Chandler,  from  Mar.  29,  1811,  to  the  12th  day  of  Mar.,  1812. 
Capt.  Thos.  Chandler,  from  Mar.  27,  1812,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1813. 
James  Griffin,  from  Dec.  29,  1812,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1813. 
Isaac  Riddle,  from  Mar.  27,  1812,  to  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,.  1813. 
William  C.  Riddle,  from  Mar  27,  1812,  to  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1813. 
Samuell  Chandler,  from  Jun.  9,  1812,  to  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1813. 
Robert  Wallace,  from  Jun.  12,  1812,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1813. 


262  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Isaac  Riddle,         1 

Jona.  Pabie?16'     f  from  May  17'  1813'  to  the  second  Tu  of  Mar->  ^u- 

Robert  Wallace,    J 

Thos.  &  Sam11  Chandler,  from  Mar.  27,  1813,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1814. 

SnnjRS'kerhandler'  J  from  Jan'  19>  1815>  to  the  2d  Tu-  of  Mar"  1816- 

Samuel  Chandler,  from  Apr.  12,  1815,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1816. 

Thos.  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  Mar.  16,  1818. 

Samuel  Chandler,  for  one  year  from  Mar.  18,  1818. 

Thos.  Chandler,  from  Apr.  3,  1819,  to  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1820. 

Capt.  Saml.  Chandler,  from  Apr.  3,  1819,  to  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1820. 

Jonathan  Dowse,  from  Apr.  3,  1819,  to  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1820. 

wSlfam  PamSrT'  j  from  APr'  3'  1819'  to  the  2d  Tu'  of  Mar-  182°- 
Riddle  &  Foster'  from  Apr.  3,  1819,  to  the  2d  Tu.  of  Mar.,  1820. 

Licenses  were  undoubtedly  issued  of  date  later  than  1820,  but  the 
foregoing  are  all  that  are  found  on  record  in  the  town  books. 


The  Church. 


We  are  accustomed  to  say  that  our  forefathers  came  here  for 
"  freedom  to  worship  God."  That  is  not,  however,  literally  true ;  they 
came  here  to  establish  their  peculiar  form  of  worship  of  God,  and  so 
strongly  were  they  imbued  with  the  idea  that  the  observance  of 
their  peculiar  form  was  essential  to  future  salvation  that  in  Massa- 
chusetts, at  least,  even  citizenship  in  the  colonies  was  made  to  de- 
pend upon  membership  in,  and  attendance  upon,  the  form  of  religious 
worship  there  established.  We  remember  that  Bedford  was  granted 
by  Massachusetts,  but  organized  under  New  Hampshire.  The  grants 
of  land  made  by  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  were  uniformly  upon 
condition  that  the  proprietors  should  maintain  "  a  learned  and  ortho- 
dox ministry,"  and  a  portion  of  the  land  granted  was  reserved  for 
that  purpose.  There  was,  therefore,  no  real  "  freedom  to  worship 
God."  The  settlers  were  not  free  to  worship  God  as  they  chose, 
but  were  obliged  to  do  so  in  accordance  with  the  vote  of  the 
majority.  Bedford  was  no  exception  to  this  rule.  It  differed  from 
other  towns  only  as  to  the  form  of  worship  established.  The 
grantees  were  Congregational ists  and  Englishmen  in  Boston  and  the 
towns  about  there,  but  very  few  of  them  ever  came  to,  or  settled 
upon,  then  lands  in  Bedford.  They  sold  the  titles  to  their  lots  to 
settlers  who  had  come  across  the  river  from  Londonderry  to  take 
up  the  wilderness.  These  settlers  were  almost  without  exception 
Scotch-Irish  by  birth  or  extraction,  and  strongly  attached  to  the 
Presbyterian  form  of  worship.  This  form  they,  therefore,  estab- 
lished at  once.  The  proprietors  or  their  assignees,  the  settlers,  were 
not  only  at  liberty  to  tax  themselves  and  each  other  to  support  the 
particular  form  of  religious  worship,  agreeable  to  the  majority — in 
this  case  the  Presbyterian  form — but  by  the  terms  of  their  grant 
from  Massachusetts  they  were  obliged  to  do  so.  The  identity, 
therefore,  between  church  and  state  was  complete,  and  was  continued 
until  1784,  when  a  clause  in  the  constitution  of  that  year  relieved 
towns  of  the  necessity  of  supporting  the  ministry  by  public  tax, 
although  the  practice  was  continued.     On  December  26,   1819,  an 


264  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

act  of  the  legislature,  passed  in  pursuance  of  that  clause  of  the  con- 
stitution, made  it  illegal  for  the  towns  to  raise  money  to  support  any 
ministry.  The  church,  or  organized  body  of  believers,  is  to  be  con- 
sidered as  having  been  first  begun  in  Bedford  when  it  was  organ- 
ized by  the  Boston  Presbytery  on  August  15,  1749.  Unfortunately, 
the  church  records  have  been  lost  in  part,  but  from  a  summary  in 
the  recent  record  books  we  find  that  the  following  have  served  as 
elders,  it  being  remembered  that  in  the  early  history  of  the  church 
elders  were  chosen  in  town-meeting : 1 

James  Little,  1757-1783;  James  Gilmore,  1757;  Benjamin  Smith, 
1757;  William  Moor,  1757-1789;  James  Moor,  1757;  Silas  Dole, 
1786;  James  Wallace,  1786;  John  Orr,  1786 ;2  John  Craig,  1803- 
1832;  David  McQuesten,  1803-1829;  John  Houston,  1803-1837; 
Phineas  Aiken,  1803;  William  Moor,  1803-1844;  John  Holbrook, 
1804-1834;  Stephen  Thurston,  1817-1833;  John  French,  1817- 
1861;  John  Orr  Houston,  1817;  Richard  Dole,  1817-1848;  Moody 
M.  Stevens,  1817-1870;  Thomas  Atwood,  1832-1838;  Samuel 
McQuesten,  1832-1845;  Daniel  L.  French,  1832-1854;  Daniel 
Mack,  1836-1866;  James  French,  1847-1878;  Phineas  French, 
1847-1865;  William  B.  Stevens,  1859-1861;  Gardner  Nevins, 
1865-1876;  Charles  Gage,  1865-1878;  Elijah  P.  Parkhurst,  1865- 
1878 ;  Jesse  Witherspoon,  1867-1891 ;  Stephen  C.  Damon,  1867 ; 
Hugh  P.  French,  1876-1888 ;  Oliver  R.  Clark,  1876-1883 ;  Free- 
man R.  French,  1876-1900;  Frederick  Hodgman,  1876-1890; 
Nathan  W.  Cutler,  1876-1895;  Frederick  F.French,  1876-1880; 
John  Hodgman,  1876-1880;  Samuel  Gardner,  1878-1883;  Walter 
Gage,  1878;  William  Walker,  1878-1882;  Samuel  P.  Duncklee, 
1883  ;  Jasper  P.  George,  1886-1895;  Jacob  P.  BuswelL  1899. 

The  following  is  a  corrected  list  of  the  members  of  the  church  in 
1850.  The  names  of  those  who  had  been  absent  but  a  short  time 
prior  to  that  date  had  been  retained,  and  the  names  of  those  who 
may  be  still  living  and  appear  not  to  have  removed  their  relation, 
but  have  been  long  absent  and  reside  at  a  great  distance,  are  omitted  : 


David  Atwood,  Thomas  Bursiel,  Leonard  C.  French, 

John  D.  Armstrong,  Daniel  Barnard,  William  French, 

John  Barr,  Nathan  Cutler,  Phineas  C.  French, 

William  Bursiel,  Stephen  French,  John  U.  French, 

1The  year  given  with  each  name  is  the  date  of  election;  a  second  date  with  hyphen 
shows  the  date  when  each  person  ceased  to  act. 

2 1787,  Mar.  14.  "  Voted  that  Wednesday  the  28th  instant  be  set  apart  for  the  elec- 
tion of  elders  and  that  the  Rev'd  Mr.  Hutchinson  be  requested  to  preach  a  sermon 
on  the  occasion  at  10  o'clock  on  said  day  and  moderate  at  said  meeting."  At  a  parish 
meeting  March  28, 1787,  held  for  the  purpose  of  electing  elders,  the  Rev.  Aaron  Hutch- 
inson, moderator,  "Voted  that  seven  new  elders  be  elected— Robert  Alexander,  John 
Orr,  John  Aiken,  Silas  Dole,  James  Wallace,  Jesse  Worcester,  and  Asa  Barnes, 
elders."    No  such  election  is  recorded  in  the  church  books  now  extant. 


THE   CHURCH. 


265 


Frederic  French, 
Solomon  Gage, 
Isaac  Gage,  Jr., 
Samuel  Gardner, 
Abijah  Hodgman, 
Robert  Houston, 
John  Houston, 
Nathan  Kendall, 
Oliver  Kendall, 
Neheruiah  Kittredge, 
Solomon  Manning, 


Margaret  Adams, 
Sally  Adams, 
Elizabeth  Aiken, 
Martha  P.  Anderson, 
Anna  Armstrong, 
Mary  Atvvood, 
Mary  Atwood,  2d, 
Clarissa  Barr, 
Rhoda  Barr, 
Anna  Baldwin, 
Margaret  Chandler, 
Elizabeth  Cada, 
Susan  J.  Clark, 
Mary  J.  Conant, 
Elizabeth  Cutler, 
Submit  Darrah, 
Cynthia  Darrah, 
Charlotte  Dole, 
Nancy  Dow, 
Mary  Dowse, 
Hannah  French, 
Nancy  French, 
Rhoda  French, 
Harriet  N.  French, 
Annis  C.  C.  French, 
Sally  D.  French, 
Lucy  French, 
Isabella  French, 
Almira  N.  French, 
Sarah  R.  French, 
Sarah  French, 
Sophronia  French, 
Dolly  French, 
Nancy  Flint, 
Dolly  Gage, 


Joseph  Manning, 
James  Morrison, 
Samuel  B.  Needham, 
Gardner  Nevens, 
Blanchard  Nichols, 
Benjamin  Nichols, 
Willard  Parker, 
Adam  N.  Patten, 
William  Patten, 
Gawn  Riddle, 
Chandler  Spofford, 

FEMALES. 

Annis  Gage, 
Mary  Gault, 
Nancy  Gardner, 
Dolly  A.  Gage, 
Sally  J.  Gage, 
Anna  Goffe, 
Jane  Goffe, 
Mary  E.  Goffe, 
Ann  J.  Goodwin, 
Sally  Harnden, 
Mary  Harris, 
Hepzebah  Harris, 
Abigail  Hodgman, 
Maria  Hodgman, 
Submit  Holbrook, 
Nancy  Houston, 
Lettice  M.  Houston, 
Elizabeth  Kendall, 
Betsey  R.  Kendall, 
Sophia  Mack, 
Mary  A.  Mack, 
Susan  C.  Merrill, 
Letitia  Merrill, 
Jane  McPherson, 
Fanny  McLaughlin, 
Margaret  McQuesten, 
Hannah  Moore, 
Sybil  Moore, 
Margaret  A.  Moor, 
Hannah  Morrison, 
Eliza  A.  Morrison, 
Jerusha  McLaughlin, 
Sarah  E.  Mullett, 
Jane  Moore, 
Abigail  Needham, 


John  T.  Spofford, 
Brooks  Shattuck, 
David  Stevens, 
Moody  A.  Stevens, 
AVilliam  B.  Stevens, 
John  Shepard, 
Joshua  Vose, 
Joshua  Vose,  Jr., 
Peter  P.  Woodbury, 
Robert  AValker, 
Benj.  F.  Wallace. 


Esther  Nevens, 
Comfort  Nichols, 
Phebe  A.  Noyes, 
Sarah  A.  Paige, 
Mary  Patten, 
Achsah  Patten, 
Clarissa  Patten, 
Hannah  Patten, 
Jane  Parker, 
Anna  Parker, 
Harriet  E.  Putnam, 
Dolly  Riddle, 
Rebecca  Riddle, 
Sarah  Savage, 
Lucretia  Savage, 
Dolly  Sanborn, 
Mary  Shattuck, 
Lucy  Shepard, 
Margaret  Stevens, 
Sally  F.  Stevens, 
Mary  J.  Stevens, 
Abigail  Stevens, 
Eunice  Stevens, 
Mary  Sprague, 
Mary  Vose, 
Maria  Vose, 
Mary  Walker, 
Sarah  Walker, 
Rebecca  Wallace, 
Polly  Wallace, 
Fanny  W.  Wallace, 
Olive  Wallace, 
Margaret  A.  Wallace, 
Eliza  B.  G.  Woodbury. 


266  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

During  the  last  twenty- five  years  (1850),  there  have  been  added 
to  this  church,  by  letter  and  profession,  332  members.  By  death, 
dismission  to  neighboring  churches,  and  emigration  to  the  West, 
united  with  absence  of  any  special  interest  in  religion,  the  number  is 
greatly  diminished.  Notwithstanding  the  endeavor  to  make  the  list 
of  members  correct,  there  may  still  be  some  errors  in  names. 

With  regard  to  the  religious  character  of  the  people  of  this  town, 
it  may  be  remarked,  that  from  the  first  they  have  been  distinguished 
for  their  attachment  to  the  house  of  God.  The  first  settlers  of  the 
town  were  under  the  necessity  of  attending  public  worship  at  Lon- 
donderry. They  performed  the  journey  on  foot,  and  generally  car- 
ried one  or  two  children  with  them — a  distance  of  twelve  miles. 
They  passed  Merrimack  river  in  a  canoe,  or  on  a  raft.  They  did  not 
always  walk,  though,  as  appears  by  the  following  incident :  Mr- 
James  Walker,  one  of  the  brothers  that  first  settled  the  town,  was. 
remarkable  for  his  attachment  to  the  horse,  and  always  kept  the  very 
best  in  his  stable.  One  Sabbath  morning,  while  a  young  man,  he 
mounted  a  beautiful  black  horse,  and  started  for  meeting.  He 
crossed  the  river  at  Goffe's  Falls,  and  there  found  Col.  John  Goffe 
and  wife,  also  about  to  start  for  meeting,  in  Londonderry,  it  being 
the  fashion  in  those  days  to  ride  two  on  a  horse.  Colonel  Goffe's 
daughter,  Esther,  was  then  a  little  girl ,  she  was  crying  to  go  to 
meeting  with  her  parents,  but  they  had  no  way  to  carry  her.  Mr. 
Walker  saw  the  difficulty,  and  said  to  Mrs.  Goffe,  "  Set  her  on  be- 
hind me,  and  I  will  carry  her  to  meeting."  They  soon  had  her 
ready,  and  as  the  colonel  handed  her  up  behind  Walker,  he  said, 
"  She  is  a  little  girl  now,  but  she  may  be  your  wife  yet."  And  in 
fact,  it  turned  out  to  be  so.  That  little  girl  was  grandmother  of 
James  Walker,  Esq.,  of  Piscataquog  village. 

The  following  circumstance  is  related  illustrative  of  the  general 
regard  for  the  sanctuary.  Rev.  Mr.  Houston  and  his  neighbor,. 
Gawn  Riddle,  joined, — their  farms  bordering  on  each  other.  One 
Saturday  they  met,  and  had  some  sharp  and  unneighborly  talk  to- 
gether about  their  fences  and  cattle.  Some  townsmen  were  present 
and  heard  their  altercation.  On  the  next  day  (Sabbath)  Mr.  Riddle 
was  punctually  at  meeting.  Some  of  his  neighbors,  who  had  heard 
the  contest  on  the  day  before,  looked  astonished,  and  said,  "  Mr. 
Riddle,  we  thought  you  would  not  be  at  meeting  to-day  to  hear  your 
neighbor  Houston  preach,  after  having  such  a  quarrel  with  him." 
Said  Mr.  Riddle,  "  I  'd  have  ye  to  know,  if  I  did  quarrel  with  my 
neighbor  Houston  yesterday,  I  did  not  quarrel  with  the  gospel." 


THE  CHURCH.  267 

The  church  has  from  time  to  time  sent  forth  laborers  in  the  vine- 
yard of  the  Lord.  The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  have 
gone  from  Bedford  to  preach  the  gospel: 

Rev.  Joseph  Goffe,1  Millbury,  Mass. 

Rev.  John  Walker,  Vermont. 

Rev.  Silas  Aiken,1  Vermont. 

Rev.  Isaac  Orr,  never  settled. 

Rev.  Albert  F.  Newton,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Wallace,  Manchester. 

Rev.  Daniel  L.  French,  Nelson. 

Rev.  Lemuel  Spofford,  Wisconsin. 

Rev.  Ebenezer  Chase. 

Rev.  Adoniram  Stevens,  son  of  David  Stevens,  settled  out  West. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  members  of  this  church  who  have 
married  ministers : 

Mrs.  Philomela  Thurston  Garret,  previously  second  wife  of 
Samuel  Newell,  late  missionary  in  India. 

Mrs.  Jane  Aiken  Harris,  Dunbarton. 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Chandler  Smith,  Greenfield,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Ann  Orr  Worcester,  Cherokee,  Miss. 

Mrs.  Mary  French  Moore,  Milford,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Harriet  McGaw  M.  G.  Wood,  Concord,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Annis  Orr  McGregore,  Bedford. 

Mrs.  Dolly  Bursiel  Bryant,  South  Africa  (married  a  Patten,  and 
is  living  now  in  Massachusetts). 

Mrs.  Nancy  French  French. 

Mrs.  Polly  Riddle  French,  Nelson. 

Mrs.  Sally  Orr  Chapin,  Greensboro,  Vt. 

Mrs.  Mary  Orr  Miltimore. 

Mrs.  Frances  Savage  House,  daughter  of  Mr.  Savage. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Chandler  Eaton,  now  of  Wilton,  and  Mrs.  Hannah 
Moor  Beckwith,  New  York,  natives  of  the  town,  but  not  members 
of  this  church,  also  married  ministers. 

The  officers  of  the  Bedford  Presbyterian  church,  January  1,  1904, 
were : 

Pastor,  Rev.  Albert  P.  Watson. 

Session,  Stephen  C.  Damon,  Walter  Gage,  Samuel  P.  Duncklee, 
Jacob  P.  Buswell. 

Clerk,  Stephen  C.  Damon. 

Treasurer,  James  R.  Leach. 

General  Manager,  Charles  P.  Woodbury. 

Treasurer  of  Benevolences,  Stephen  C.  Damon. 

1  Deceased. 


268 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Custodians  of  Communion  Service,  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  Stephen 
C.  Damon,  Harriet  M.  Durgin. 

Ushers,  George  IT.  Hardy,  Ernest  A.  Jenkins,  Robert  RursieL, 
Perley  W.  Gage. 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


Jane  At  wood  Barr, 

Thomas  E.  Barr, 

Alice  L.  Barnard, 

Mary  E.  (Gilmore)  Bean, 

Adeline  E.  Brickett, 

Frank  H.  Brown, 

Hannah  S.  Brown, 

Abby  J.  Burns, 

Arthur  E.  Bursiel, 

Charles  E.  Bursiel, 

Mehitable  Bursiel, 

Olive  A.  Bursiel, 

Robert  Bursiel, 

Susie  E.  Bursiel, 

Jacob  P.  Buswell, 

Mary  L.  Buswell, 

Mindie  A.  Buswell, 

Angeline  Campbell, 

Mary  Campbell, 

Susan  Campbell, 

James  W.  Clapp, 

Sarah  J.  (Cutler)  Chase, 

Mary  S.  Currie, 

Robert  Currie, 

Laura  E.  Cutler, 

Mary  F.  Cutler, 

Stephen  C.  Damon, 

Ella  C.  Darrah, 

Fannie  A.  Darrah, 

Nellie  B.  (Chamberlain)  Darrah, 

William  W.  Darrah, 

Emmie  Josie  Dearborn, 

Frank  S.  Dearborn, 

Sabra  J.  (Mudge)  Dearborn, 

Margaret  A.  (Barnard)  Dimick, 

Edward  Dobson, 

Samuel  P.  Duncklee, 

Harriet  M.  Durgin, 

Elmer  S.  Esterbrooks, 

Hattie  L.  Esterbrooks, 

Sophia  Farley, 

Hattie  L.  Ferguson, 

Addie  N.  Fields, 

Amy  N.  Flint, 

Bertha  J.  (Cheney)  Foster, 

Almira  J.  French, 

Augusta  A.  French, 

Ethel  A.  French, 

Ella  L.  French, 

Fred  A.  French, 

Jennie  A.  R.  French, 

Mary  F.  French, 


Jennie  L.  (Shepard)  French, 

Myra  A.  French, 

Lizzie  E.  French, 

William  B.  French, 

Fanny  B.  Fuller, 

James  Fuller  ton, 

Charles  H.  Fulton, 

Herbert  R.  Fulton, 

Minnie  E.  Fulton, 

Robert  Fulton, 

Samuel  W.  Fulton, 

Sarah  E.  Fulton, 

Georgiana  Gaffney, 

Perley  W.  Gage, 

Walter  Gage, 

Abigail  A.  (Patten)  Gault, 

Abbie  Gault, 

Lewis  Gault, 

Mary  J.  (Stevens)  Gault, 

Emma  L.  (Turney)  George, 

Annie  S.  Goffe, 

Maria  L.  A.  Greenough, 

Georgie  D.  (Seavey)  Hanson, 

Lillian  (Kingsley)  Hardy, 

George  H.  Hardy, 

Belle  (Parker)  Henson, 

Julia  (Flint)  Hodgman, 

Nellie  A.  Hodgman, 

Sarah  A.  Hodgman, 

Alonzo  H.  Huntoon, 

Gerda  L.  Huntoon, 

Ernest  A.  Jenkins, 

Allen  F.  King, 

Grace  M.  (Lane)  Kilton, 

George  A.  King, 

Eunice  (Stevens)  Kinson, 

Gertrude  M.  Lane, 

Mary  Francis  Lane, 

Georgie  K.  Leach, 

James  R.  Leach, 

Anstress  (Flint)  Manning, 

Harriet  F.  Manning, 

Julia  L.  Manning, 

Margie  A.  Manning, 

Mary  E.  Manning, 

Mary  H.  (Brown)  Manning, 

Solomon  Manning, 

Charles  H.  Marshall, 

Mary  E.  (Morrison)  Marshall, 

Alice  S.  Matot, 

Minnie  A.  (Stevens)  Melendy, 

William  Melendy,  Jr. , 


THE   CHUltCH.  269 

Orliue  (Flint)  McAfee,  John  Taylor, 

Caroline  A.  Moore,  Mrs.  John  Taylor, 

Hannah  S.  Moore,  Margaret  (Currie)  Tinker, 

Sarah  Elizabeth  Mndge,  Nettie  B.  Tinker, 

Bertha  E.  Parkhnrst,  Annie  R.  Townsend, 

Louisa  P.  Parkhnrst,  Harriet  N.  Turney, 

Ellen  M.  Patten,  James  B.  Turney, 

William  M.  Patten,  N.  Edmund  Vincent, 

Mary  L.  Peaslee,  Alice  S.  Vincent, 

Augusta  W.  Pollard,  Clara  A.  Walker, 

John  W.  Riley,  Ella  D.  Walch, 

Mrs.  John  Sharp,  George  L.  Walch, 

Louise  Sharp,  Wayland  F.  Walch, 

Harry  A.  Shepard,  Lucy  J.  Wallace, 

Sophronia  J.  Shepard,  Edward  B.  Witherspoon, 

Alice  Signor,  G.  H.  Witherspoon, 

Louise  C.  Smith,  Mrs.  G.  H.  Witherspoon, 

Abby  (Nichols)  Spauldiug,  Charles  P.  Woodbury, 

Eveiyn  A.  Stevens,  Charlotte  E.  Woodbury, 

David  Stevens,  Jenny  H.  Woodbury, 

Nellie  A.  Stevens,  Laura  R.  Woodbury, 

Lucy  M.  (Foster)  Stewart,  Martha  R.  Woodbury, 

Elsa  Taylor,  Gordon  Woodbury, 

Flora  E.  Tavlor,  Harriet  A.  Woodbury, 

Jennie  C.  (Nichols)  Taylor,  Sarah  J.  Woods. 

From  the  organization  of  the  town  the  support  of  the  ministry  had 
been  a  town  charge,  but  after  the  Revolution  the  injustice  of  taxing 
men  for  the  support  of  a  ministry  which  did  not  appeal  to  their  con- 
victions became  more  apparent.  Accordingly,  in  1784,  the  state  con- 
stitution, then  adopted,  contained  in  the  Declaration  of  Rights,  Art.  6, 
a  provision  empowering  the  legislature  to  authorize 

The  several  towns,  parishes,  bodies  corporate  or  religious  societies 
within  the  state  to  make  adequate  provision  at  their  own  expense  for 
the  support  and  maintenance  of  public,  Protestant  teachers  of  piety, 
religion,  and  morality ;  provided,  notwithstanding,  that  the  several 
towns,  bodies  corporate  or  religious  societies,  shall  have  the  exclusive 
right  of  electing  their  own  public  teachers,  and  of  contracting  with 
them  for  their  support  and  maintenance,  and  no  person  nor  any  one 
particular  religious  sect  or  denomination  shall  ever  be  compelled  to 
pay  towards  the  support  of  the  teachers  of  another  persuasion,  sect 
or  denomination. 

Under  this  power  the  legislature  acted  and  made  permanent  the 
right  to  raise  money  for  ministry  and  meeting-house,  setting  forth 
the  powers  and  duties  of  towns,  as  the  following,  from  an  act  of 
1792,  attests: 

The  inhabitants  of  each  town  in  this  state,  qualified  to  vote  as 
aforesaid,  at  any  meeting  duly  warned  and  holden  in  such  town, 
may,  agreeably  to  the  constitution,  grant  and  vote  such  sums  of 


270  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

money  as  they  shall  judge  necessary  for  the  settlement,  mainte- 
nance, and  support  of  the  ministry,  schools,  meeting-house,  school- 
houses,  etc. 

Under  it,  from  the  time  of  the  settlement  of  the  Rev.  David  Mc- 
Gregore,  in  1804,  to  the  close  of  his  pastorate,  an  assessment  was 
annually  made,  along  with  the  other  taxes,  to  raise  the  amount 
needed  over  and  above  the  income  from  the  ministerial  land  fund, 
to  make  up  his  salary  of  $400. 

At  the  legislative  session  of  1819,  in  December,  what  was  known 
as  the  "  Toleration  Act "  was  passed.  This  measure  removed  from 
the  clauses  above  quoted  the  words  "ministry"  and  "meeting- 
houses," but  added, 

Provided  that  towns  between  which  and  any  settled  minister 
there  is  prior  to  or  at  the  passing  of  this  act  a  subsisting  contract, 
shall  have  a  right  from  time  to  time  to  vote,  assess,  collect,  and  ap- 
propriate such  sum  or  sums  of  money  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
fulfilment  of  this  contract  and  for  repairing  meeting-houses  now 
owned  by  such  town,  so  far  as  may  be  necessary  to  render  them 
useful  for  town  purposes ;  provided  that  no  person  shall  be  liable  to 
taxation  for  the  purpose  of  fulfilling  any  contract  between  any  town 
and  settled  minister  who  shall,  prior  to  such  assessment,  file  with 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  he  may  reside,  a  certificate,  declaring 
that  he  is  not  of  the  religious  persuasion  or  opinion  of  the  minister 
settled  in  such  town. 

It  provided  further  that  "  each  religious  sect  or  denomination  of 
Christians  "  might  form  societies,  and  having  done  so,  establish  by- 
laws, and  u  have  all  the  corporate  powers  which  may  be  necessary 
to  raise  and  assess  money  by  taxes  upon  the  polls  or  ratable  estate 
of  the  members,"  for  the  support  of  the  ministry  and  maintaining 
houses  of  worship,  and  were  given  all  the  powers  of  town  officers  in 
such  assessment  and  collection. 

By  its  provisions  the  support  of  Mr.  McGregore  continued  to  be  a 
town  charge  during  the  remainder  of  his  incumbency,  but  when 
that  ceased,  the  support  of  his  successor  fell  upon  those  only  who 
were  interested  in  his  preaching  or  in  maintaining  the  Presbyterian 
church. 

The  Presbyterian  society  of  the  town  of  Bedford  had  been  formed 
in  1749,  and  from  that  day  to  this  has  well  sustained  the  religious 
interests  of  the  town.  Later  a  Universalist  society  was  formed, 
and  again  later  a  Baptist  society,  but  these  have  been  disbanded, 
and  since   1849,  there  has  been  but  one  church  in  Bedford,  the 


THE   CHURCH.  271 

Presbyterian.  But  about  the  time  of  Mr.  McGregore's  dismissal,  a 
"  Presbyterian  society "  was  formed  in  accordance  with  the  law  of 
the  state,  and  to  it  the  general  affairs  of  the  church  were  committed. 
There  have  been  several  seasons  of  revival ;  one  under  Mr.  Mc- 
Gregore,  others  under  Mr.  Savage  in  1834,  1842,  1864,  and  two 
under  Mr.  Tyson's  pastorate. 

A  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  was  organized  in  May, 
1874,  and  was  continued  for  a  few  years  as  an  auxilliary  to  the 
church.  The  Sabbath  evening  district  meetings  and  Tuesday  even- 
ing meetings  in  the  vestry  were  conducted  under  its  auspices.  The 
first  organization  was :  President,  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson ;  vice-presi- 
dent, O.  R.  Clark;  secretary,  Mrs.  O.  L.  Kendall;  treasurer,  S.  C. 
Damon ;  auditor,  O.  R.  Clark ;  directors,  Joseph  Gage,  Miss  Martha 
R.  Woodbury,  and  Mrs.  George  M.  French. 

In  1871,  the  envelope  system  for  benevolent  contributions  was 
adopted,  and  has  been  continued  until  the  present  time. 

In  January,  1876,  the  church  adopted  the  rotary  system  of  elder- 
ship, electing  a  full  board  of  twelve  elders  in  three  classes  to  serve 
four  years  each.  In  1876,  the  church  numbered  two  hundred  and 
fifteen  members,  and  the  Sabbath-school  three  hundred.  The 
society  is  entirely  free  from  debt. 

NOTES    FROM    SOCIETY    RECORDS. 

The  following  is  an  abstract  taken  from  the  session  records  since 
1831. 

Prior  to  that  date  the  records  of  the  session  are  missing,  and  the 
town  records  are  the  only  source  of  information. 

June,  1831 — "  Voted  that  the  committee  heretofore  chosen  be 
instructed  to  contract  with  the  Revd  Thos.  Savage  to  remain  with  us 
so  long  as  it  shall  appear  that  he  is  useful  to  this  people  as  a  min- 
ister." 

The  salary  of  Rev.  Thomas  Savage  was  $500  a  year,  raised  by  a 
tax  assessed  upon  the  members  as  town  taxes  are  assessed.  At  first 
the  sum  of  the  assessment  was  $500,  less  the  amount  received  from 
the  town  as  the  society's  portion  of  the  income  from  the  ministerial 
land  fund,  usually  about  $100.  Later  several  residents  paid  an  an- 
nual subscription  instead  of  an  assessed  tax. 

May  2,  1836 — "Voted  to  choose  a  committee  of  four  to  get  the 
minds  of  said  Society  in  regard  to  building  a  Parsonage  House." 

June  4,  1836 — "Voted  that  the  clerk  and  Assessors  draw  a  sub- 
scription paper  to  ascertain  what  amount  of  money  can  be  obtained 
for  Mr.  Savage  at  present." 


272  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

May  1,  1837 — "Voted  to  increase  Mr.  Savage's  salary  one  hun- 
dred dollars  for  one  year." 

Voted  to  dismiss  an  article  "  to  see  if  the  Society  will  raise  money 
by  a  tax  sufficient  to  meet  the  necessary  expense  of  warming  and 
sweeping  the  meeting  house."  At  the  annual  meeting  of  1839,  $30 
was  appropriated  for  the  above  purposes. 

May  4, 1840 — An  article  to  see  if  the  society  will  make  any  altera- 
tion in  the  method  of  warming  the  Meeting  House  was  dismissed. 

July  13,  1840 — Voted  not  to  have  a  committee  to  apply  to  the 
Londonderry  Presbytery  to  dissolve  the  connection  between  this 
people  and  Mr.  Savage. 

May  1,  1848 — Voted  to  appropriate  forty-five  dollars  for  a  double 
bass  viol  and  six  hymn  books,  and  Elijah  C.  Stevens  was  authorized 
to  expend  the  amount. 

May  7,  1849 — Voted  to  appropriate  twenty  dollars  to  purchase 
singing  books  for  the  choir. 

May  9,  1850 — Voted  to  appropriate  Ten  Dollars  for  the  use  of 
the  singers.     Such  an  appropriation  was  continued  in  1851-52. 

May  5,  1851 — Voted  "to  choose  a  committee  of  three  to  seat 
strangers  in  the  house  on  the  Sabbath  and  take  care  of  the  boys 
around  the  stoves  and  in  the  gallery."  Chose  Capt.  Leonard  C. 
French,  Benjamin  Hall,  and  C.  Spofford  such  committee.  Similar 
action  was  taken  at  subsequent  annual  meetings. 

May  1,  1853 — Reverend  Savage's  salary  was  increased  to  $600 
for  this  year. 

May  7,  1855 — Voted  to  dispense  with  the  offices  of  auditors  the 
current  year. 

In  1863  the  raising  of  money  by  taxation  was  abandoned  for  this 
and  the  subsequent  year,  but  was  resumed  in  1865. 

Aug.  30,  1865 — Voted  to  re  pah-  the  bass  viol. 

Dec.  14,  1865 — Voted  to  extend  a  call  to  Rev.  Arthur  Little. 

Feb.  4,  1867 — Voted  to  purchase  a  set  of  singing  books  and 
hymn  books  for  the  choir. 

May  6,  1867— Voted  to  pay  Mr.  Little  a  salary  of  $1,200. 

Mar.  1,  1869 — Voted  to  give  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson  a  call. 

May  3,  1869— Voted  to  pay  Mr.  Tyson  $1,200. 

May  5,  1873 — Voted  to  raise  the  money  needed  by  the  Society 
by  subscription. 

May  6,  1878 — Voted  that  Mr.  Tyson's  stay  with  us  as  pastor  be 
limited  to  six  months,  and  that  the  elders  of  the  church  be  the  com- 
mittee to  inform  him. 

June  17,  1878 — Voted  to  retain  Mr.  Tyson. 

May  5,  1879 — Resolved  that  it  is  the  opinion  of  this  society  that 
they  cannot  pay  Mr.  Tyson  the  coming  year,  and  request  him  to 
resign  his  charge. 

Nov.  20,  1887 — Voted  to  change  the  time  of  holding  the  morn- 
ing service  on  the  Lord's  Day  from  10 :  30  to  11  o'clock  a.  m.  In 
1893  the  horn  of  service  was  changed  to  10  :45. 


THE  CHURCH.  273 

Jan.  2,  1890 — It  was  voted  that  two  young  men  be  appointed  to 
act  as  ushers  during  the  service  on  Sabbath  days  in  the  church. 

Feb.  2,  1890 — Voted  unanimously  to  adopt  the  method  of  con- 
gregational singing  in  the  church  during  the  services  on  each  Lord's 
day. 

Mar.  9,  1890 — It  was  voted  that  the  bass  viol  belonging  to  this 
church  and  society  be  given  into  the  charge  and  care  of  Elder  S.  C. 
Damon. 

May  20,  1890 — A  motion  for  a  meeting  of  the  church  to  with- 
draw from  Boston  Presbytery  was  presented  and  laid  on  the  table. 

1890 — A  bequest  of  Eliza  A.  (Morrison)  Stevens  of  $400  was 
announced,  the  income  to  be  used  to  aid  in  the  support  of  evan- 
gelical preaching  in  Bedford. 

Mar.  29,  1891 — Whereas  it  was  voted  by  this  church  at  its  annual 
meetings  in  1889  and  1890,  that  the  members  of  this  session  per- 
form all  the  duties  usually  devolving  upon  deacons  in  the  manage- 
ment of  financial  affairs,  etc.,  of  this  church,  Therefore 

Hesolved,  That  we  assume  the  title,  for  the  present  and  future 
members  of  this  session,  of  deacons,  and  the  same  may  be  used  upon 
the  records  of  the  session  and  in  other  positions  whenever  needed 
to  designate  such  officers.  This  action  to  be  in  force  on  and  after 
Jan.  1,  1891.     Adopted  April  2. 

Mar.  31,  1892 — Voted  that  the  Trustees  of  Bedford  Public  Li- 
brary have  the  privilege  of  locating  said  library  in  the  chapel. 

Dec.  29,  1892 — After  consideration  at  two  previous  meetings  it 
was  voted  unanimously  to  have  the  church  bell  rung  for  evening 
services  on  the  Sabbath.  A  motion  was  made  at  a  meeting  August, 
1893,  to  discontinue  this  practice,  but  it  was  denied. 

Aug.  3,  1893— A  legacy  of  Dea.  Frederick  Hodgman  (12,000) 
was  announced ;  received  June,  1895. 

Dec.  31,  1895 — Voted  to  change  the  time  of  holding  the  com- 
munion service  from  afternoon  to  morning  in  connection  with  the 
regular  service,  and  that  the  expense  thereof  be  borne  from  the 
treasury  rather  than  from  special  collections. 

The  services  were  held  in  the  town  hall  from  September,  1894, 
for  the  remainder  of  the  year  on  account  of  the  work  of  repairing 
the  church  building. 

December,  1894 — James  W.  Clapp,  Ernest  A.  Jenkins,  Gordon 
P.  Atwood,  and  George  H.  Hardy  were  elected  as  collectors  of 
weekly  offerings.     This  work  had  been  done  previously  by  deacons. 

December,  1897 — Voted  that  the  four  collectors  of  weekly  offer- 
ings should  serve  as  ushers. 

July,  1901 — Voted  that  the  bell  be  rung  thirty  minutes  prior  to 
the  Friday  evening  prayer-meeting. 
19 


'274  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

THE  UNIVERSALIST  SOCIETY. 

The  first  TJniversalist  society  of  Bedford  was  organized  October 
15,  1832,  by  the  adoption  of  a  constitution,  although  the  Book  of 
Records  declared  the  preamble  of  the  constitution  "  Approved  July 
3,  1827."  This  would  seem  to  indicate  that  the  movement  was 
under  consideration  several  years.  The  original  members  were : 
William  McFerson,  Josiah  Walker,  John  G.  Moor,  Moses  Gage, 
John  C.  Mullett,  Thomas  Rundlett,  John  Wilson,  Robert  Dunlap, 
James  Darrah,  Samuel  Barr,  James  Gilmore,  Andrew  Moor,  Samuel 
McAfee,  Thomas  Barr,  Daniel  McCain,  Otis  Batchelder,  William 
Butterfield,  John  Parker,  Samuel  Moor,  John  B.  Wilson,  James 
McFerson,  Samuel  Worthley,  Thomas  Chandler,  Seth  Page,  John 
McAllister  (Unitarian). 

The  first  officers  of  the  society  were :  Moderator,  Thomas  Barr ; 
clerk,  John  McAllister ;  treasurer,  James  Darrah ;  executive  com- 
mittee, Thomas  Rundlett,  Otis  Batchelder,  Daniel  Parker.  - 

It  would  appear  that  everything  in  this  society  was  not  ideal,  as 
this  brief  item  in  the  record  of  the  annual  meeting  of  1835  indicates  : 
"  Voted  to  dismiss  John  Wilson  from  the  rights  and  privileges  of 
this  society." 

The  subscription  for  1832  was  $66.50 ;  for  1833,  $97.34,  of  which 
$16.84  was  from  the  town,  being  undoubtedly  the  members'  portion 
of  the  income  from  the  ministerial  fund,  which  later  came  to  be 
about  $30  a  year.     The  subscription  for  1834  was  $112  ;  1835,  $143. 

In  1835,  it  was  was  voted  to  build  a  "brick  meeting-house,"  and 
John  McAllister,  William  McD.  Ferson,  and  Andrew  Moor  were 
chosen  the  building  committee.  The  meeting-house  was  "not  to 
exceed  40x50  feet  on  the  ground,  and  wall  not  exceeding  16  feet 
high,  and  the  expense  not  to  exceed  $2,000."  The  land  was  bought 
of  Isaac  Riddle,  and  is  the  lot  where  the  parsonage  now  stands. 

The  building  was  completed  and  formally  dedicated  Wednesday, 
July  13,  1836,  Rufus  Merrill,  Thomas  Rundlett,  and  Andrew  Moor 
being  the  committee  of  arrangements  for  the  latter  The  total  cost 
as  given  in  the  report  of  the  building  committee  was  $2,109.15. 
The  sale  of  pe,ws  was  made  by  auction,  August,  1836,  the  highest 
price  being  paid  by  Thomas  Rundlett,  $116  for  two. 

In  1838,  leave  was  given  "one  or  more  of  the  proprietors  of  said 
house  to  build  horse  sheds  on  the  North  or  West  side  on  the  pro- 
prietors grounds." 


THE   CHURCH.  275 

It  was  voted  at  a  meeting  May  21,  1839,  that  "  the  meeting-house 
be  let  to  the  Baptist  Society  of  Bedford  the  coming  year  one-half  of 
the  time  at  the  rate  of  3  ^  on  one-half  the  cost." 

As  early  as  1840  it  was  proposed  to  dispose  of  the  building,  for 
at  a  meeting  of  December  19  it  was  voted  "to  sell  said  house,"  and 
Moses  Gage  was  chosen  to  make  the  sale  "  under  the  following  in- 
structions, that  is  to  sell  said  house  for  $1,500,  or  one-half  of  said 
house  for  $750,  or  rent  said  house  for  one-half  the  time  for  $30  per 
year." 

At  a  meeting  held  March  21,  1846,  the  committee  was  instructed 
to  sell  the  house  at  auction.  The  sale  took  place  April  20,  1846, 
under  the  following  conditions :  Art.  1.  The  highest  bidder  is  the 
purchaser.  Art.  2.  Should  any  dispute  arise  with  respect  to  the 
highest  bidder,  the  house  shall  be  put  up  again.  Art.  3.  The  pur- 
chaser of  the  house  shall  have  the  land  if  they  choose  at  $100. 

The  house  was  struck  off  to  Isaac  Darrah  for  $590,  and  he  chose 
to  take  the  land  at  $100 ;  he  also  bought  the  stove  at  $10. 

The  property  was,  however,  deeded  to  Isaac  Darrah,  Ebenezer 
Holbrook,  Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  Abial  Holbrook,  and  Ralph  Hol- 
brook.  Because  of  the  pew  rights  and  rights  to  seats  in  said  house, 
held  by  John  McAllister,  3 ;  Thomas  Chandler,  1 ;  Samuel  McAfee, 
2 ;  John  G.  Moor,  1 ;  Josiah  Walker,  2  ;  Robert  Dunlap,  1 ;  Moses 
Xoves,  2 ;  John  McConihe,  1 ;  Widow  Robins,  1 ;  and  "  John 
McAllister,  Samuel  McAfee,  Josiah  Walker  and  Moses  Xoyes,  each 
one-fourteenth  part  of  fourteen  pews  not  sold,"  the  sum  of  $260.33 
was  deducted  from  the  sale  price. 

The  division  of  the  money  was  completed  and  the  transactions  of 
the  society  ended  November  26,  1846. 

The  first  settled  minister  was  Rev.  J.  N.  Wilson,  who  came  to 
Bedford  in  1833,  but  preaching  services  had  previously  been  held  by 
Rev.  II.  Beckwith,  who  was  also  in  charge  of  a  church  at  Amoskeag. 
Rev.  F.  A.  Hodgdon  was  settled  in  1834  and  continued  until  1837, 
when  the  society  ceased  to  engage  a  stated  pastor. 

THE  BAPTIST  SOCIETY. 

June,  1835,  a  Baptist  society  was  formed  in  the  town  consisting 
at  the  time  of  32  members.  The  officers  of  the  church  when  organ- 
ized were :  Ralph  and  Ebenezer  Holbrook,  deacons ;  Thomas  G. 
Holbrook,  clerk. 

Preaching  services  were  first  conducted  under  the  auspices  of  this 


276  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

society  by  Rev.  John  Peacock,  who  preached  also  in  Amherst.  The 
first  settled  minister  was  Rev.  George  Evans,  who  was  over  the 
church  in  1838.  He  was  succeeded  by  Horace  Eaton,  who  was  set- 
tled in  1842  and  continued  till  1844.  The  last  pastor  of  the  society 
was  the  Rev.  J.  Upton,  whose  services  ceased  in  1848. 


Ministry. 


The  religion  of  the  first  settlers  was  for  the  most  part  that  of  the 
Church  of  Scotland,  to  which  country  then-  ancestors  originally 
belonged,  and  from  which  they  emigrated  nearly  a  century  before 
then-  children  came  to  America. 

Of  this  church  the  acknowledged  founder  was  John  Knox,1  who 
had  learned  from  Calvin,  in  Geneva,  the  form  of  ecclesiastical  gov- 
ernment that  is  known  as  Presbyterian.  The  Scotch  Kirk,  as  it  is 
called,  was  the  true  child  of  the  Reformation,  being,  from  the  first, 
strongly  opposed  to  the  Church  of  England,  which  was  viewed  by 
them  as  not  having  come  out  from  the  abominations  of  Babylon  the 
great ;  but  only  as  having  shaken  off  a  few  of  the  grosser  corrup- 
tions of  Rome. 

Neither  did  the  followers  of  Knox  sympathize  cordially  with  the 
Puritans,  or  Congregationalists,  as  they  are  now  called.  The  great 
Puritan  principle  of  church  government,  that  every  •  congregation 
ought  to  be  governed  by  its  own  laws,  without  being  subject  to  the 
authority  of  synods,  presbyteries,  or  any  ecclesiastical  assembly 
whatever,  was  a  principle  from  which  the  Presbyterian  dissented. 
This,  however,  was  about  all  the  difference.  "  It  is  in  this,"  says 
Mosheim,  "  their  notion  of  ecclesiastical  government,  that  the  differ- 
ence between  them  and  the  Presbyterians  principally  consists ;  for 
their  religious  doctrines,  except  in  some  points  of  very  little  moment, 
are  almost  entirely  the  same  with  those  that  were  adopted  by  the 
Puritans." 

About  1650,  quite  a  number  went  over  from  Argyllshire,  in  the 
west  of  Scotland,  to  the  counties  of  Londonderry  and  Antrim,  in  the 
north  of  Ireland.  Warmly  attached,  as  might  be  expected,  to  the 
Presbyterian  doctrine  and  discipline,  in  which  the  Church  of  Scot- 
land was  united, — these  Scottish  emigrants  were  exposed  to  the  per- 
secutions in  which  the  Protestants  of  Ireland  were  involved  during 

'The  dwelling-house  of  Knox  is  still  standing  in  Edinburgh.  This  interesting 
relic,  which  has  narrowly  escaped  destruction,  is  now  in  course  of  repair  and  res- 
toration, and  it  is  said  will,  when  completed,  resist  the  ravages  of  time  probably  for 
as  long  as  period  as  has  elapsed  since  the  Reformer's  era.  McCrie's  Life  of  Knox, 
just  republished,  would  be  a  valuable  accession  to  the  family  library. 


278  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  reign  of  Charles  I  and  James  II,  until  1680,  the  period  known 
as  the  British  revolution,  when  William  and  Mary  ascended  the 
throne.  They  then  enjoyed  more  toleration,  but  still,  as  they  dis- 
sented from  the  Church  of  England,  they  were  subject  to  many 
embarrassments,  among  which  not  the  least  was  being  obliged  to 
support  a  minister  of  the  established  religion.  Besides,  they  were 
continually  liable  to  great  hardships  and  dangers,  and  many  of  them 
suffered  in  the  siege  of  Londonderry,  that  memorable  affair  in  1689, 
when  James  II,  with  a  powerful  force  from  France,  made  a  descent 
on  Ireland.     Accordingly  they  resolved  to  emigrate  to  America. 

Springing  from  such  an  origin,  as  did  most  of  the  early  inhabitants 
of  this  town,  it  might  be  expected  they  would  be  decidedly  Presby- 
terian in  doctrine  and  discipline.  That  they  were  so,  appears  very 
early  in  their  petitions  to  be  incorporated  as  a  town,  in  which  they 
say, — "  Your  petitioners,  as  to  our  particular  persuasion  in  Chris- 
tianity, are  generally  of  the  Presbyterian  denomination."  The 
Church  of  Scotland  has  been  prolific  in  great  and  good  men.  From 
her  bosom  have  gone  forth  sons  who  have  been  luminaries  in  the 
church  and  the  world.  Ralph  Erskine,  George  Campbell,  and 
Thomas  Chalmers  are  names  that  will  go  down  with  lustre  to  the 
latest  generations.  It  is  a  church  dear  to  the  hearts  of  multitudes 
now  in  heaven,  and  multitudes  still  on  earth.  The  sacramental  sea- 
sons, the  service  at  the  tables,  adapting  instruction  to  the  old,  the 
middle-aged,  and  the  young  who  took  seats  in  succession,  the  tokens 
that  have  now  disappeared,  but  were  then  solemn,  and  perhaps 
necessary,  the  preparatory  days  and  the  Monday  service,  the 
gathering  together,  when  the  country  was  thinly  settled,  on  Friday 
or  Saturday,  from  different  and  sometimes  distant  towns,  to  hold 
sacred  communion  with  God  and  each  other,  furnished  altogether  a 
most  thrilling  occasion,  and  must  have  had  a  most  happy  religious 
influence  on  those  who  enjoyed  the  privilege.  It  was  not  uncom- 
mon to  go  from  this  town,  and  from  New  Boston,  and  even  Antrim, 
to  Londonderry,  on  these  sacramental  festivals,  which  occurred  only 
twice  a  year. 

The  first  Presbytery  in  New  England  was  constituted  in  London- 
derry, April  16,  1745,  and  was  called  the  "Boston  Presbytery."  It 
was  by  this  body  the  church  in  Bedford  was  organized,  according  to 
the  Presbyterian  form  of  government,  on  August  15,  1749.1     Im- 

i  It  was  composed  of  Rev.  John  Moorhead  of  the  Federal  Street  Presbyterian 
church,  Boston;  Rev.  Robert  Abercrombie,  of  Pelham,  N.  H.,  and  Rev.  David  Mc- 
Gregore,  of  Londonderry,  with  the  congregations  under  their  charge.  The  elders 
who  met  with  them  were:  James  McKean,  Alexander  Conkey,  and  James  Heughs. 


MINISTRY.  279 

mediately  on  the  the  incorporation  of  the  town,  they  turn  their 
attention  to  the  settlement  of  a  stated  ministry.  At  the  first  town 
meeting  after  the  charter,  we  find  the  following  vote :  "  Voted,  That 
the  ministers  be  entertained  at  Sam'l  Patten's,  at  the  charge  of  the 
town." 

A  call  was  given  to  three  candidates  in  succession,  but  without 
any  important  results  : * 

At  a  General  Meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Narragansett 
Town  No.  5  Meet  at  Mr.  Luke  Vardy's  in  Boston  Wendesday  the 
Eighteenth  Day  of  June  1740  at  ten  a  Clock  forenoon,  1st  Chose 
The  Honourbl  William  Dudley  Esq™  Moderator  &  Then  ajourned 
at  Three  a  Clock  afternoon  &  ajourned  accordingly  Meet  again  at 
the  Time  ajourned  To.  2nd'y  To  see  whether  they  AVill  Proceed 
to  Build  a  Meeting  House     Voted  in  the  Negitive. 

3dly  Voted  that  after  Thirty  days  from  ye  Date  hereof  The  Com- 
mittee Shall  Proceed  to  Dispose  of  the  Delinqquents  Lotts  that  have 
not  payed  their  Ten  Shillings  first  voted  for  preaching  &  then  five 
shillings  after  Voted  Which  is  fifteen  Shillings  Each  share,  to  follow 
the  steps  of  the  Law  &  giving  the  warning  of  the  sale. 

3rdIy  to  see  whether  the  proprietors  will  allow  any  more  money 
for  Preaching  to  the  inhabitants  Voted  to  Raise  Ten  Shillings  Each 
share  for  Preaching  for  six  or  seven  months  to  come.  Ye  Commit- 
tee for  that  Purpose  is  John  Goff  Moses  Barron  &  Samuel  Patten  & 
the  said  money  to  be  Raised  as  the  Law  directs  after  The  Time  is 
out  for  Preaching. 

July  26,  1750.  •  "Voted,  There  be  a  call  given  to  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Alexander  Boyd,  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  this  town."  At  the 
same  meeting  it  was  "  Voted.  That  Capt.  John  Goffe,  Dea.  John  Orr,. 
and  Mr.  Hugh  Riddle  are  to  present  a  call  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Alexan- 
der Boyd,  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  this  town,  and  are  commis- 
sioned to  prosecute  the  call  to  the  Presbytery,  and  to  all  intents 
needful  thereto." 2 

They  voted  "  To  act  so  far  as  their  present  circumstances  would  permit  them,  ac- 
cording to  the  Word  of  God  and  constitution  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Scot- 
land, agreeing  with  that  perfect  rule."  At  a  meeting  held  in  Boston,  1746,  this  Pres- 
bytery licensed  its  first  candidate  to  preach  the  gospel.  His  name  was  Daniel 
Mitchell,  a  native  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Edin- 
burgh.   (Hist.  Disc  ,  Rev.  I.  C.  Tyson,  p.  17.) 

1  At  a  meeting  of  the  Presbytery  of  Boston,  held  in  Boston,  Nov.  11,1747,  we  find  the 
first  reference  to  Souhegan  East.  The  following  is  the  minute  upon  the  records  ot 
Presbytery:  "  Upon  application  made  by  Andrew  Cochran  in  ye  name  of  the  inhab- 
itants of  Souheggan  and  Litchfield,  for  Mr.  Mitchell  to  supply  them  for  a  time,  the 
Presbytery  appointed  him  to  supply  them  until  the  second  sabbath  of  March  next." 
At  a  meeting  held  in  Pelham,  June  14,  1748,  Mr.  Mitchell  reported  "  that  he  had 
obe5red  the  appointment  of  Presbytery  and  their  committee." 

There  were  doubtless  other  men  who  supplied  them  before  this,  but  Mr.  Mitchell's 
name  is  the  first  which  appears  in  any  of  the  records— certainly  the  first  sent  them 
by  the  Presbytery.  In  their  application  we  observe  their  attachment  to  Presby- 
terian order  and  their  desire  to  secuie  the  institutions  of  religion  among  them.  Mr. 
Mitchell  was  afterwards  settled  over  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Pembroke,  and 
died  on  December  16, 1776.     (Hist.  Disc,  p.  7.) 

*At  the  same  meeting  of  Presbytery,  at  which  Mr.  Mitchell  reported,  Pelham,  June 
14, 1748,  another  petition  for  supply  was  made  for  "  Swaheggan."  At  the  same  meet- 
ing Rev.  David  McOregore  presented  the  name  of  Mr.  Alexander  Boyd,  a  young 


280  HISTOBY  OF   BEDFORD. 

March  28th,  1753.  "  Voted,  Unanimously,  to  present  a  call  for 
Mr.  Alexander  McDowell,  to  the  Rev'd  Presbytery,  for  the  work  of 
the  ministry  in  this  town."  1 

Oct.  1st,  1754.  "Voted,  To  give  Mr.  Samuel  McClintock  a  call 
to  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  the  town  of  Bedford." 

May  31st,  1756,  "  Voted,  Unanimously,  to  revive  their  former  call 
to  Mr.  Sam'l  McClintock  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  this  town." 

Rev.  Mr.,  afterwards  Dr.  McClintock,  was  settled  at  Greenland,  in 
this  state,  and  for  many  years  was  an  able  and  faithful  minister. 
Rev.  Mr.  Bouton,  in  his  discourse,  entitled  "  Fathers  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Ministry,"  mentions  Dr.  McClintock  as  "  among  the  New 
Hampshire  pastors,  who,  more  or  less,  had  divinity  students."  His 
ministry  continued  forty-eight  years.  The  day  before  he  died  he 
said  "that  his  entire  dependence  and  hope  was  on  that  gospel  which 
he  had  preached  to  others." 2 

man  of  liberal  education.  He  produced  certificate  of  attending  the  study  of  divinity 
at  the  University  of  Glasgow,  and,  having  submitted  to  thorough  examination  and 
subscribed  to  the  confession  of  faith,  he  was  licensed  to  preach  the  gospel. 

At  the  next  meeting  of  Presbytery,  Londonderry,  October  4,  1748,  Presbytery 
thought  proper  that  Mr.  Boyd  should  supply  Kingstown  the  next  three  Sabbaths, 
and  then  immediately  after,  four  Sabbaths  for  Litchfield  and  "  Swaheggan." 

It  would  appear  from  a  subsequent  minute  that  Mr.  Boyd,  having  received  a  call 
to  Kingstown,  did  not  fulfil  his  other  appointments. 

It  is  doubtful  whether  this  call  was  ever  formally  presented  to  Mr.  Boyd.  I  find 
no  record  of  it  in  the  proceedings  of  Presbytery,  and  an  article  in  the  town  warrant 
■called  for  January  21,  of  the  following  year,  was  "  To  inquire  what  is  the  reason  why 
the  Committee  for  providing  preaching  to  the  town  are  so  negligent  in  that  busi- 
ness." It  is  probable  these  brothers  had  good  reason  for  their  "  neglect,"  as  Mr. 
Boyd  had  been  sharp ly  "rebuked  "  by  his  Presbytery  for  effecting  a  clandestine 
marriage  before  leaving  Glasgow,  and  passing  himself  in  this  country  for  an  unmar- 
ried man.  The  Presbytery,  however,  continued  his  appointments,  on  his  making  a 
full  acknowledgment,  expressing  his  sorrow,  and  promising  to  adhere  to  her  as  his 
wife.  This  acknowledgment  was  not  satisfactory,  and  Mr.  Boyd  was  after  sum- 
moned before  a  committee  of  Presbytery  to  account  for  his  conduct.  It  is  not  to  be 
"wondered  at,  therefore,  that  negotiations  for  his  settlement  in  Bedford  were  at  once 
terminated.    (Hist.  Disc,  I.  C.  Tyson.) 

1  At  a  meeting  of  Presbytery,  at  Londonderry,  October  29,  1752,  applications  were 
received  from  Palmer  District,  Canterbury,  Colerain,  Rutland,  Litchfield,  Derryfield, 
Bedford,  and  Suncook.  At  this  meeting  Mr.  Alexander  McDowell,  the  licentiate  of 
Presbytery,  was  appointed  to  supply  a  part  of  the  time  at  Bedford,  Litchfield,  Derry- 
field, and  Suncook. 

Mr.  McDowell  fulfilled  his  appointments  with  reference  to  Derryfield  and  Bed- 
ford, both  places  giving  him  a  call,  the  people  of  Derryfield  proposing  to  unite 
with  Bedford  in  having  him  preside  over  the  two  places.  An  article  was  put  in  the 
town  warrant  to  see  if  they  would  unite  with  Derryfield  in  this  call.  On  the  28th  of 
March,  1753,  the  town  voted  not  to  join  with  Derryfield,  and  at  the  same  meeting 
voted  a  unanimous  call  to  Mr.  McDowell,  with  100  pounds,  old  tenor,  if  he  accept, 
and  a  committee  appointed  to  prosecute  the  call  to  Presbytery. 

In  July  of  the  same  year,  another  committee  was  chosen  "  to  prosecute  the  call  for 
Mri  McDowell  to  the  '  Reverend  Presbytery,'  and  to  procure  preaching  until  the 
next  annual  meeting.    Mr.  McDowell,  however,  did  not  accept  the  call." 

2  The  people  seem  to  have  been  very  anxious  to  secure  the  services  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Clintock. They  offered  him  107  pounds,  10  shillings,  new  tenor,  for  his  yearly  sti- 
pend, took  measures  to  lay  a  tax  on  the  unimproved  land  in  the  town  to  build  him  a 
house,  and  agreed  to  cut  20  cords  of  wood  annually  for  five  years,  and  draw  it  to  his 
house,  if  he  would  accept.  They  also  appointed  Samuel  Patten  the  commissioner  to 
prosecute  the  call  to  the  Presbytery. 

At  a  meeting  of  Presbytery,  August  22, 1754,  held  at  Newbury,  appears  this  minute: 
•'  The  people  of  Bedford  having  sent  a  petition  to  y°  Presbytery,  requesting  them  to 
send  one  or  more  of  their  number  some  convenient  time  between  this  and  next  meet- 
ing to  moderate  in  a  call  to  Mr.  Samuel  MacClintock.  The  Presbytery,  thereupon, 
appointed  Mr.  MacGregore  to  perform  that  business  of  service." 

At  the  same  meeting  they  voted  "  that  Bedford  shall  have  their  proportion  of  time 
wholly  in  Mr.  MacClintock."  The  following  November  this  appointment  was  re- 
newed. Mr.  McClintock  did  not  accept  this  call,  but  negotiations  with  him  con- 
tinued. 


MINISTRY.  281 

In  the  next  effort  to  settle  a  minister  they  were  successful. 

August  5,  1756,  we  find  the  following  in  the  town  records  : 

"  Voted,  Unanimously,  to  give  Mr.  John  Houston  a  call  to  the 
work  of  the  ministry  in  this  town." 

Mr.  Houston  was  born  in  Londonderry,  1723,  and  it  was  stated  to 
the  writer  of  this  notice,  by  an  aged  lady  of  the  name  of  Houston, 
still  living  in  this  town,  that  his  oldest  brother  was  the  third  male 
child  born  in  Londonderry.  He  was  educated  at  Princeton,  X.  J.,1 
at  which  college  he  took  his  degree,  1753.  He  studied  divinity  in 
his  native  town,  with  Rev.  David  McGregore,  of  Londonderry.  Mr. 
Houston  was  well  reputed  for  classical  and  theological  learning,  and 
settled  among  the  people  with  encouraging  prospects  of  continued 
usefulness  and  happiness.2  By  virtue  of  being  the  first  settled  min- 
ister of  the  place,  he  was  entitled  to  certain  lands  reserved  for  that 
purpose  in  the  settlement  of  the  township,  some  of  which  still  re- 
mains in  possession  of  his  descendants.  The  following  is  the  pro- 
vision made  by  the  town  for  the  support  of  Mr.  Houston : 

Aug.  7th,  1756.  "  Voted,  To  give  Mr.  John  Houston,  equal  to  40 
pounds  Sterling,  in  old  Tenor,  as  the  law  shall  find  the  rate  of  Dol- 
lars, or  Sterling  Money,  for  his  yearly  stipend,  if  he  is  our  ordained 
minister.  And  that  what  number  of  Sabbath-days,  annually,  we 
shall  think  ourselves  not  able  to  pay  them,  he  shall  have  to  his  own 
use  and  disposal,  deducted  out  of  the  aforesaid  sum  in  proportion, 
(viz. :)  Apportioning  the  whole  of  the  aforesaid  sum  equally  among 
the  whole  number  of  Sabbath-days  in  a  year,  and  those  Sabbath- 
days  which  shall  be  so  set  off  to  him  by  the  town  annually,  the  town 
shall  be  freed  from  paying  to  him  for  them,  and  shall  only  pay 
according  to  the  aforesaid  proportion  for  what  number  of  Sabbath- 
days  we  shall  keep  of  his  time.     And  that  what  number  of  Sabbath- 

At  a  town  meeting,  May  6, 1756,  it  was  "  voted  to  renew  the  call  made  to  him  previ- 
ously at  the  same  annual  stipend,  with  this  additional  inducement,  that  he  should 
have  nine  Sabbaths  to  his  own  use  during  each  year  until  the  town  should  feel  able 
to  pay  him  for  all,  or  a  part  of  those  nine  Sabbaths  for  which  they  would  allow  him 
10  pounds,  old  tenor  per  Sabbath." 

The  people  of  Bedford  were  not  mistaken  as  to  the  character  of  the  man  whom 
they  thus  desired  to  settle  over  them.  Mr.  McClintock  afterwards  became  one  of 
the  honored  members  of  the  New  Hampshire  ministry.  He  was  graduated  at  Prince- 
ton, 1751,  settled  at  Greenland,  1756;  served  as  chaplain  in  the  army  during  the  Rev- 
olutionary War;  was  admitted  to  ad  eundeum  masters  degree  at  Harvard  1761; 
received  the  title  of  D.  D.  at  Yale  1791.  and  after  a  mmistry  of  forty-eight  years  at 
Greenland  died  there  in  1804.  (Hist.  Disc.  Rev.  I.  C.  Tyson). 

!Then  located  at  Newark,  N.  J.;  removed  to  Princeton,  N.  J.,  1756.  Rev.  Aaron  Burr 
(father  of  the  vice-president  of  the  United  States)  was  then  president  of  the  college, 
and  gave  to  Mr.  Houston  on  his  leaving  college  the  following  letter,  which  is  still 
extant,  and  written  in  a  clear  and  bold  hand: 

"  This  may  certify  all  concerned,  that  Mr.  John  Houston  has  for  sometime  been  a 
member  of  New  Jersey  College,  and  sound  in  communion  with  ye  church  of  Christ 
in  this  place,  and  behaved  himself  according  to  the  Rules  of  the  Gospel. 

A.  Bukr,  Ps'd." 

"  Sept.  28,  1753." 

1  The  subject  of  his  Latin  exegesis  was:  An  Dei  Beneplacitum  sit  solum  electionis 
fundamen,  a  homily  on  1  John,  4,  18.  He  was  licensed  May  14,  1754,  being  then 
thirty-one  years  of  age. 


282  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

days  the  town  shall  vote,  annually,  to  have  of  his  time,  them  they 
shall  have  at  the  same  rate  of  proportion,  or  the  whole  of  his  time 
when  the  town  shall  see  meet." 

According  to  these  conditions,  we  find  the  town  every  year  passed 
a  vote,  that  he  should  have  so  many  Sabbaths,  sometimes  ten  or 
fifteen,  more  or  less,  as  the  inhabitants  might  decide,  for  his  use  and 
disposal,  until,  at  a  period  of  great  dissatisfaction,  as  we  shall  see, 
they  voted  him  the  whole  of  the  year.  On  the  28th  of  September, 
1757,  Rev.  John  Houston  was  ordained  to  the  work  of  the  ministry 
in  this  town.  The  ministers  who  took  part  in  the  services  of  the 
ordination  were  the  following,  according  to  Matthew  Patten's  jour- 
nal, in  which  we  find  the  following  record  :  "  Rev'd  Mr.  True,  of 
Hampstead,  offered  the  prayer.  Rev'd  Mr.  Parsons,1  of  Newbury, 
preached  from  1  Tim.  1,  11 — 'According  to  the  glorious  gospel  of  the 
blessed  God,  which  was  committed  to  my  trust ;'  Rev'd  D.  McGre- 
gore,  of  Londonderry,  gave  the  charge ;  Rev'd  Mr.  True  gave  the 
right  hand  of  fellowship ;  and  Rev'd  Mr.  White,  of  Gloucester,  con- 
cluded by  prayer." 2  From  this  journal  we  learn  that  Mr.  Houston's 
text,  the  first  Sabbath  after  ordination  was,  "  Fear  not  little  flock  ;  it 
is  your  father's  good  pleasure  to  give  you  the  kingdom ; "  very 
appropriate,  as  it. must  have  been,  a  small  church  and  congregation 
in  the  midst  of  a  wilderness.  The  first  board  of  elders,  which  was 
probably  chosen  about  this  time,  consisted  of  James  Little,  James 
Gilmoor,  Benjamin  Smith,  William  Moor,  and  James  Moor.8 

Among  a  small  parcel  of  manuscript  sermons,  found  among  Mr.  Hous- 
ton's papers,  was  an  outline  of  a  discourse  delivered  on  the  occasion 
of  the  ordination  of  elders,  probably  this  very  board.  He  must  have 
been  a  young  man  at  the  time,  as  it  would  be  impossible  for  any  but 
young  eyes  to  decipher  the  characters,  which  are  very  small,  on  a 
very  scanty  piece  of  paper.  As  nothing  from  Mr.  Houston's  pen  has 
been  preserved  in  print,  it  may  be  interesting  to  the  curious  to  look 
at  this  specimen  of  his  composition,  especially  as  it  shows  his  senti- 
ments as  to  the  duties  of  ruling  elders.  The  text  is  from  Titus, 
1,5: 

i  Of  Mr.  Parsons  the  following  anecdote  is  related.  He  was  at  times  very  passion- 
ate, but  when  the  first  impulse  was  over  no  man  could  be  more  penitent.  On  one 
occasion  a  bill  was  presented  him  for  payment  which  at  first  struck  him  as  exorbi- 
tant, and  he  angrily  refused.  No  sooner,  however,  had  the  claimant  returned  to  his 
place  of  business  than  Mr.  Parsons  entered,  and  the  following  dialogue  ensued: 

"  Have  you  seen  Mr.  Parsons  this  morning?  " 

"  Yes,  certainly,  I  saw  you  at  your  house  and  presented  your  bill." 

"  It  was  n't  Mr.  Parsons,  it  was  the  devil.    I'll  settle  the  bill!  " 

s  Forty  pounds  were  voted  to  defray  charges  of  ordination. 

8  There  were  elders  before  this,  as  there  was  an  Elder  John  Orr,  who  died  1753; 
Deacon  Hugh  Riddle  (1762). 


MINISTRY.  283 

"  For  this  cause  left  I  thee  in  Crete,  that  thou  shouldst  set  in  order 
the  things  that  are  wanting,  and  ordain  elders  in  every  city,  as  I  had 
appointed  thee." 

The  sermon  is  thus  divided : 

1st.  Show  the  divine  right  of  ruling  elders ; 
2d.  Qualifications  of  ruling  elders  ; 
3d.  Duties  incumbent  on  them  ; 
4th.  Application. 

Passing  over  the  first  two,  he  devoted  himself  to  the  third,  viz., 
Duties  of  elders : 

These  are  too  many  to  be  enumerated.  But  the  main  and  princi- 
pal part  of  their  duty  and  office  is  to  rule  and  govern  the  church. 
To  this  end,  you  are  to  join  together  in  conjunction  with  the 
Pastor,  and  then  you  make  us  a  Judicatory  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ ; 
so  that  whatsoever  you  bind  or  loose  on  earth,  shall  be  bound  or 
loosed  in  heaven. 

Your  office,  also,  according  to  our  Constitution,  gives  you  right  to 
sit  and  vote  in  the  superior  judicatories  of  the  church,  from  the  low- 
est to  the  highest.  It  is  also  the  business  and  duty  of  your  order,  to 
watch  over  the  moral  behavior  of  your  fellow- christians.  And  as  it 
is  part  of  the  duty  of  all  Christians,  to  exhort  daily,  and  to  love  as 
Brethren,  so  it  is  something  peculiar  to  your  order,  to  visit  the  father- 
less and  widow,  and  be  ready  to  give  counsel  and  advice  in  all  diffi- 
cult matters,  to  prevent  angry  debates  and  heal  divisions.  You  are 
to  reprove,  rebuke  and  exhort,  to  stand  and  shut  the  door  of  the 
church  against  scandalous  professors,  and  open  the  door  to  those 
who  are  qualified. 

Applicatiox.  First, — Hence  we  see  the  excellency  and  glory 
of  the  gospel  dispensation,  wherein  life  and  immortality  are  brought 
to  light. 

Second, — Hence  we  see  the  necessity  of  proper  judicatories  in 
church  matters,  to  settle  controversies,  otherwise  there  would  be 
confusion.  Though  some  object  to  giving  away  their  rights,  yet  we 
know  no  lights  that  conflict  with  the  order  of  God's  house.  (Call 
the  names  of  the  elders  elect.)  You  have,  in  a  free,  open  meeting, 
been  elected  to  the  office  of  ruling  elders,  and  after  taking  time  to 
consider,  you  have  seen  it  your  duty  to  accept.  You  are  now  to  be 
set  apart  for  that  office.  You  are  to  engage  in  an  office  to  which 
there  is  little  of  a  temporal  nature  to  induce  you ;  an  office,  honora- 
ble, but  apt  to  be  the  mark  of  banter,  ridicule,  and  profane  drollery. 
You  profess  to  adhere  to  the  essential  doctrines  of  the  Old  and  New 
Testament,  the  only  rule  of  faith  and  practice  as  particularly  set 
forth  in  the  confession  of  faith ;  and  further,  you  profess,  as  far  as 
you  know  your  own  heart,  you  now  undertake  this  office,  not  with  a 
view  to  honor  or  a  name  in  the  world,  nor  with  a  design  to  lord  it 
over  God's  heritage,  or  any  similar  design  whatsoever,  but  with  a 


284  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

single  purpose,  to  strengthen  the  hands  of  your  brethren,  and  con- 
tribute your  mite,  to  advance  the  interests  of  Christ's  kingdom  in  the 
world.  And  to  this  end,  you  do  engage  to  apply  yourselves  to  a 
faithful  discharge  of  the  duties  of  your  office,  as  briefly  hinted  at ; 
let  me  exhort  you  to  think  often  of  your  solemn  engagements,  and 
to  apply  yourselves  to  the  duties  of  your  temporal  calling  as  Chris- 
tians; so  to  the  duties  of  your  peculiar  office  and  let  these  be 
backed  by  a  prayerful  and  exemplary  study  to  be  just  and  up- 
right, to  be  inoffensive  and  modest,  savory  and  holy  in  your  conver- 
sation. Think  that  the  least  wro.ng  step,  or  incautious  conduct,  will 
be  noticed  in  you.  Some  will  be  spiteful  and  wicked  enough  to 
make  a  handle  of  it.  Walk  wisely  towards  them  that  are  without. 
Know  how  you  ought  to  behave  yourselves  in  His  house,  the  church 
of  the  living  God, — the  pillar  and  ground  of  the  truth. 

Brethren  of  the  Congregation, — You  see  these  men,  whom  your 
choice  has  raised  to  the  office  of  Elders.  You  have  heard  a  summary 
of  their  duties  and  obligations.  Suffer  the  word  of  exhortation.  Be 
exhorted  to  receive  them  in  love,  yield  them  that  respect  and  sub- 
mission, to  which  by  their  office  they  are  entitled.  Be  subject  to 
them  in  disci])line.  Permit  them  to  rule  over  you  as  their  duties 
require. 

Such  is  the  outline,  given  with  verbal  accuracy,  of  what  was  prob- 
ably an  interesting  sermon,  on  an  extraordinary  occasion.  But  the 
paper  that  contains  the  whole  would  scarcely  cover  the  palm  of  the 
hand,  owing  in  part  probably  to  the  scarcity  of  paper  at  that  day. 
It  is  probable  the  sermon  occupied  much  time  in  the  delivery,  as 
they  were  accustomed  to  long  sermons.  An  old  lady  from  Scotland 
said  that  "  in  her  country,  the  sermons  were  two  hours  and  a  half 
long,  but  had  now  come  to  be  only  one  hour  and  a  half,  and  she 
feared  what  the  world  was  coming  to." 

We  have  no  records  of  the  church  to  which  to  refer  during  this 
early  period  of  its  existence.  It  enjoyed  the  stated  ministrations  of 
the  gospel,  and  seems  to  have  grown  in  strength  and  prosperity.  The 
pastor  devoted  himself  from  year  to  year  to  the  laborious  duties  of 
his  solemn  calling.  Among  his  old  papers  was  found  one  giving  a 
long  catalogue  of  names,  with  this  heading,  all  in  his  own  hand- 
writing :  "A  List  of  persons  supposed  to  be  qualified  for  being  Cat- 
echised in  Bedford,  Jan'y  10th,  1758."  On  this  list  are  several  hun- 
dred names,  classed  apparently  by  families,  among  which  we  find 
the  names  still  familiar  to  us  of  Moor,  Walker,  Patten,  Orr,  Wallace, 
Barr,  Riddel,  Aiken,  and  other  names  not  now  among  us  as  Boies, 
Little,  Taggart,  Gile,  McDowell,  Scobey,  etc.  Catechistical  instruc- 
tion was  then,  no  doubt,  faithfully  attended  to,  with  the  exception 
of  few,  if  any  families. 


MINISTRY.  285 

In  1758,  we  find  on  the  town  records  a  petition  of  which  the  fol- 
lowing is  the  commencement : 

We,  the  subscribers,  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Merrimack,  being 
of  the  Presbyterian  persuasion.  And  whereas  we  cannot  enjoy  the 
privilege  of  the  public  worship  of  God  in  our  own  town,  according 
to  our  own  persuasion,  nor  any  where  else  at  present,  so  convenient 
as  at  Bedford,  under  the  ministry  of  Rev.  John  Houston,  therefore, 
&c.  Acting  on  this  petition,  the  town  "Voted, — That  the  inhab- 
itants of  Merrimac  who  pay  rates  to  the  support  of  the  gospel  in 
Bedford,  have  so  many  Sabbath-days  of  our  Rev'd  Pastor's  time,  for 
public  worship  to  be  held  at  John  Burns'  as  they  pay  in  proportion 
with  us,  toward  his  annual  salary  for  the  present  year,  if  our  Rev'd 
Pastor  be  willing. 

Nothing  appears  but  that  Mr.  Houston  was  happy  and  successful 
in  his  parochial  relations,  until  about  1768,1  when  there  appears  to 

1  But  in  1762  the  following  petitions  were  made  as  appears  from  the  original  man- 
uscript still  preserved  in  town: 

To  the  Rev.  Mr  John  Houston  and  the  Session  of  Bedford  October  20, 1762, 

We,  the  subscribers,  Pray  that  we  and  our  famelys  may  be  Dismist  from  the  Church 
in  said  Bedford  to  the  Care  of  the  Presbytery  of  Londonderry  or  to  any  Congrega- 
tional Church  where  God  in  his  Providence  may  assign  us  our  lott 

To  the  Rev.  Mr  John  Houston  of  Bedford  and  his  session, 

The  reason  why  we  the  subscribers  Pray  that  we  and  our  famelys  may  be  Dismist 
from  the  Church  in  said  Bedford  is  as  follows  (viz)  we  find  that  we  cannot  Enjoy  Ed- 
ification under  said  Mr  Houstons  administrations  for  that  our  Desires  are  to  Enjoy 
Church  privileges  according  the  Standards  of  the  Church  of  Scotland 

To  the  Rev.  Mr  John  Houston  and  the  session  of  Bedford 

We  the  subscribers  Pray  that  we  may  be  Dismist  from  the  church  of  said  Bedford 
with  Messrs  James  Walker  Samuel  Patten  Matthew  Patten  and  Richard  MacAllester 
according  to  their  prayers  and  for  their  reason  and  Desire  given  in  writing  by  them 
to  the  Moderator  of  said  session  referance  thereto  being  had 

To  the  Rev.  Moderator  and  Session  of  Bedford  who  are  to  meet  at  the  meeting 
house  in  sd  Bedford  on  Monday  the  23d  day  of  August  1762 

To  which  session  I  am  cited  to  answer  two  articles  of  charge  wherein  my  brother 
Samuell  Patten  and  I  are  charged  joyntly  but  not  brot  forward  by  any  person  or 
persons  nor  by  any  court 

Art  1st  you  Samuell  Patten  and  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  are  charged  with  being  guil- 
ty of  breaking  off  for  years  past  from  the  Regular  use  and  improvement  of  common 
and  special  ordinances 

This  charge  is  so  General  and  uncertain  that  I  cannot  answer  For  the  bringer  or 
bringers  of  the  charge  does  not  say  what  it  is  that  I  have  broke  off  from  nor  when 
nor  where  it  was  that  I  was  guilty  the  charge  says  from  common  and  special  ordi- 
nances the  name  ordinances  being  applyed  to  many  things  Therefore  the  things 
intended  by  ordinances  (the  Word  being  in  the  Plural)  ought  particularly  to  be  dis- 
cribed  For  all  the  posterity  of  Adam  are  known  by  mankind  yet  proper  names  and 
additions  are  assigned  to  individuals  properly  to  know  one  from  another  which  case 
is  well  understood  by  the  bringer  or  bringers  of  this  charge  by  calling  my  brother 
and  me  by  our  proper  names  and  additions. 

Art  2d  you  Samuell  Patten  and  Matthew  Patten  Esqr  are  charged  with  being  guilty 
not  only  of  an  irregular  withdraw  yourselves  but  of  useing  unlawfull  means  and 
methods  to  incense  others  against  the  authority  of  this  chh  with  endeavors  to  break 
them  off  from  the  communion  of  the  same 

This  charge  is  as  uncertain  as  the  former  For  the  means  and  methods  ought  to 
have  been  ascertained  particularly  what  they  are  and  when  and  where  and  with 
whom  they  were  used  the  charge  says  to  incense  against  the  authority  of  this  chh 
these  three  letters  is  no  name  word  nor  syllable  For  according  to  Stuarts  Collection 
the  Libel  must  condescend  to  time  and  place  when  and  where  the  facts  and  offenses 
libel  were  comited  which  is  also  agreeable  to  the  civil  law  I  think  it  evidently  ap- 
pears that  the  foregoing  charges  is  contrary  to  both 

If  any  person  or  persons  are  offended  with  me  they  have  never  as  yet  taken  that 
method  prescribed  in  the  18th  chapter  of  sd  Matthew  in  order  to  reclaim  me  and 
therefore  any  offence  that  I  am  guilty  of  is  not  prepared  to  come  before  the  church 
you  cited  my  brother  and  I  to  appear  at  the  Presbytery  to  be  held  at  Bedford  on 
Tuesday  the  15th  day  of  last  June  to  give  in  our  reasons  of  absenting  which  was  doing 


286  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

have  been  some  grievances  and  symptoms  of  dissatisfaction.  On 
the  one  hand  the  ministers  and  elders  complained  of  it  as  a  griev- 
ance, that  "  a  number  of  persons,  members  of  the  church,  on  pre- 
tence of  occasional  communion  at  Londonderry,  broke  off  from  the 
use  and  improvement  of  common  and  special  ordinances  at  home ;  " 
and  on  the  other  hand,  certain  members  of  the  church  and  congre- 
gation complained,  among  other  things,  that  the  minister  maintained 
that  "  what  he  and  the  deacons  did,  was  above  being  inquired  into ; 
and  for  prosecuting  to  the  Presbytery,  some  of  those  who  have  en- 
deavored to  enquire  into  the  reason  of  some  conduct  of  the  dea- 
cons." 1 

what  you  had  no  power  to  do  and  had  we  given  in  our  reasons  in  writing  as  was  in- 
sisted on  we  must  thereby  have  become  our  own  answers  Pray  consider  if  the  treat- 
ment our  Saviour  met  with  when  arraigned  before  the  high  priest  was  not  like  this 
when  they  had  not  wherewithal  to  accuse  him  the  high  priest  asked  him  concerning 
his  disciples  and  doctrines  thereby  thinking  to  get  from  his  own  mouth  wherewith 
to  accuse  him  you  now  call  my  brother  and  me  before  you  in  a  judicial  manner  re- 
quireing  us  to  have  all  things  ready  in  order  for  a  trial  of  the  foregoing  articles  of 
charge  and  have  voted  that  we  be  cited  to  answer  to  them  articles  I  pray  you  to 
consider  how  resolutely  you  seem  determined  to  hold  us  to  trial  and  you  to  be  wit- 
nesses and  judges  notwithstanding  that  it  is  not  according  to  the  Discipline  of  the 
church  of  Scotland  nor  the  prinsaples  of  justice  and  equity  among  men  The  reason 
why  your  conduct  herein  is  not  according  to  the  prinsaples  of  justice  and  equity 
must  be  evident  to  every  rational  mind  For  whom  the  judge  will  witness  against  he 
will  Allso  judge  against  and  of  consequence  needs  no  evidence  but  his  own  and  if  all 
other  of  mankind  should  witness  the  contrary  the  judge  will  condemn  according  to 
his  own  evidence  for  by  a  charge  being  Libelled  against  the  person  he  is  thereby 
defamed  but  when  not  brot  by  any  person  nor  persons  nor  court  the  person  cannot 
be  held  by  any  court  to  answer  under  the  present  constitution  But  supposing  a  court 
could  hold  a  person  to  answer  under  the  foregoing  circumstances  and  on  trial  should 
be  acquitted  he  has  no  person  prsons  nor  courts  to  get  redress  for  the  defamation 
and  of  consequence  the  person  must  be  a  sufferer  by  the  courts  procedure  which  he 
cannot  have  redress  in  time  you  say  (in  your  representation  as  you  call  it)  the  conta- 
gion is  like  to  spread  I  suppose  you  mean  a  disatisf  action  and  uneasynessin  persons 
minds  in  Bedford  with  your  conduct  by  which  reason  a  separation  from  you  is  like 
to  spread  I  think  by  your  expression  if  I  have  hit  the  sense  of  it  supposes  that  per- 
sons does  observe  something  in  your  conduct  that  is  wrong  that  is  like  to  cause  a 
separation  you  likewise  say  in  sd  representation  that  if  we  meaning  my  brdther  and 
me  are  justly  offended  to  obtain  a  regular  dismission  here  is  a  fine  salve  prepared  by 
you  for  cureingthe  sore  offences  in  the  church  in  Bedford  for  you  have  not  one  word 
of  reclaiming  the  offender  or  of  causing  him  satisfaction  for  his  offence  to  the  offended 
But  the  offended  must  be  dismist  out  of  the  church  how  much  does  such  words  and 
actions  differ  from  the  Parables  of  the  lost  sheep  I  pray  you  to  consider  if  your  views 
and  principally  at  the  glory  of  God  and  the  intrest  of  religion  and  peace  and  unity 
of  the  church  in  Bedford  I  think  if  they  were  the  laws  of  God  and  the  prinsaples  of 
justice  and  equity  among  men  would  be  your  Rule  or  whether  you  are  not  intending 
to  lull  those  persons  who  are  like  to  be  infected  with  the  contagion  as  you  call  it  to 
sleep  with  the  buze  of  your  illegal  procedure  with  my  brother  and  me  I  think  if  you 
were  willling  that  the  causes  of  uneasenees  might  come  to  the  light  you  would  take 
proper  steps  with  us  to  bring  them  forth  I  am  willing  to  shew  the  causes  of  my  un- 
easenees as  soon  as  the  laws  of  God  and  the  prinsaples  of  justice  and  equity  among 
man  are  taken  with  me  but  when  I  shall  find  that  I  cannot  tell  I  dont  expect  to  find 
it  untill  you  are  disposed  to  bring  offenders  to  make  satisfaction  for  their  offences 
or  be  farther  dealt  with  as  their  crimes  may  justly  deserve  and  not  for  dismissing 
the  justly  offended  out  off  the  church  and  continue  the  offenders  in 

For  the  Revd  William  Davidson  &  Elders 
Sirs 

Some  time  ago  we  Recd  a  few  lines  from  you  in  answer  to  our  supplication  or  Rep- 
resentation given  unto  your  Sefsion  June  ye  3d  1768  Jn  reading  your  letter  we  were 
Sorry  to  find  it  was  no  answer  to  any  of  the  particulars  contained  in  our  Representa- 
tion but  had  a  Referance  to  some  privite  discourse  between  M»  Davidson  and  Elder 
Little  no  way  applicable  to  the  affair  between  us  as  the  Matters  of  Complaint  were 
not  so  much  between  us  and  our  Wandering  sheep  as  against  the  causes  &  Means  of 
their  Wandering  (viz)  their  being  jnduljyed  in  away  that  had  a  Tendencey  to  break 
them  off  from  Christian  Duty  in  many  Respects  Here  so  we  Mentioned  no  names  in 
our  paper  by  wav  of  Complaint  but  only  Represented  to  you  the  bed  effect  &  conse- 
quences of  their  being  Jndulged  contrary  to  Scripture  &  the  Eccelesst  Rules  of  our 


MINISTRY.  287 

But   no  open   rupture   appears   to   have   occurred    between   the 
minister  and  people  until  the  exciting  period   of   the  Revolution. 

constitution.  We  mean  not  hinder  any  of  our  members  in  Oecafsional  Communion 
where  according  to  Gods  word  they  can  be  Edified  and  Strengthed  in  Christian  Love 
and  Duty  but  where  the  contrary  Effects  are  manifest  we  must  again  as  we  did  be- 
fore Desire  a  suspenfsion  of  it  untill  they  are  brot  again  to  Duty  &  live  and  love  as 
brethren  How  can  persons  by  Oecafsional  Communion  be  Edified  abroad  when  they 
are  not  in  Unity  &  Charity  with  their  bretheren  at  home.  The  Scriptures  we  quoted 
fully  point  out  those  Evils  &  Enjoyn  our  Duty  in  these  Respects.  The  ACT  of  As- 
sembly we  had  a  Reference  to  says  Jn  the  Zeal  of  God  for  preserveing  order  Unity 
and  peace  in  the  Kirk  for  Maintaining  that  Respect  which  is  due  to  the  Ordinances 
&  ministers  of  jesus  for  preventing  schism  noyfam  Errors  and  all  unlawful  practice 
which  may  follow  on  the  peoples  withdrawing  themselves  from  their  own  Congrega- 
tion  Ordains  every  Member  in  every  Congregation  to  keep  their  own  Paroch-Kirk 

to  communicate  therein  the  word  &  Sacraments  &  if  any  person  or  persons  shall 
hereafter  Wilfully  absent  themselves  from  their  own  Congregations  Exceept  in 
Urgent  Cases  made  known  to  &  approved  by  the  Presbytery  the  Ministers  of  these 
Congregations  whereto  tbey  Resort  shall  both  in  Publick  by  preaching  &  in  privite 
adminition  shew  their  Dislike  of  their  withdrawing  from  their  own  minister  that  in 
so  doing  they  may  Witnefs  to  all  that  hear  them  their  Due  care  to  strengthen  the 
hands  of  their  fellow  Labourers  in  y«  work  of  the  Lord  &  their  Detestation  of  any 
thing  that  may  tend  to  Seperation  or  any  of  the  above  mentioned  evils  ,  , ,  so  far  an 

Extract Now  besides  the  Evils  Mentioned  it  is  evident  the  Occafsion  of  the 

above  Act  was  from  a  Conviction  that  such  Schisms  or  seperations  Generaly  Create 
prejudice  Hatered  and  Malice.  A  Confsiousnefs  of  haveing  done  wrong  Alienates 
the  Mind  more  than  of  haveing  Received  it  when  persons  are  Confcious  of  haveing 
done  an  Jnjury  to  God  and  his  people  by  a  Disorderly  schism  or  seperation  it  causes 
them  to  hate  those  they  seperate  from  as  well  as  the  cause  of  God  &  truth  maintained 
by  them  &  if  they  must  tend  the  preaching  of  the  word  where  they  have  a  prejudice 
and  hatered  against  the  same  or  Else  be  without  by  Reason  of  a  Real  Distance  they 
are  in  a  poor  case  Either  they  must  live  without  the  use  of  Gods  Jnstituted  ordi- 
nancs  or  go  where  their  wishes  desires  &  prayers  are  not.  And  if  they  cannot  Sin- 
cerly  Desire  and  pray  for  a  blef  sing  on  the  Ministery  of  the  word  they  Cannot  Expect 
to  be  Benefitted  thereby  be  it  never  so  well  Calculated  to  answer  the  Great  Ends  of 
the  Gofpel.  the  better  it  is  Calculated  to  the  Divine  Testimoney  &  the  more  it  En- 
forces the  truths  of  the  Gospel  the  more  it  goes  against  the  mindes  of  those  who 
dont  wisn  well  to  the  prosperity  of  the  Ministration  of  the  same.  Besides  prejudice 
made  by  such  Seperations  Generaly  cause  persons  to  think  all  the  Minister  says  is 
particularly  against  them.  When  he  has  no  other  thought  but  to  contend  the  Quar- 
rel of  Gods  broken  Covenant  against  his  people  yet  such  think  he  does  it  out  of  par- 
ticular design  &  Resentment  against  them  &  thereby  their  hatered  and  malice  is 
Jncreased  &  their  Edification  so  far  frusterated  How  far  these  Evils  prevail  among 
us  J  am  not  willing  now  to  Exaggerate.  But  surely  if  J  understand  anything  of  the 
Nature  and  Duty  of  a  proper  Watchman  J  cannot  be  onsensible  of  them  in  a  very 
great  Degree.  We  know  of  no  better  Remedy  than  to  Endeavour  to  have  the  causes 
Removed  which  brot  them  on.  We  know  our  greatest  Difficulties  proceed  from  these 
causes  &  their  bad  Effects.  If  we  had  the  least  Reason  to  think  their  Schism  or  sep- 
eration was  occafsioned  by  any  Real  offence  given  them  here  we  would  have  other 
thoughts  of  it  then  now  we  have — Sometime  ago  when  there  were  pretences  that  way 
we  were  at  the  pains  of  getting  our  Presbytery  to  come  three  times  here  on  purpof se 
to  Enquire  into  the  same  but  when  they  came  they  could  flnde  none,  and  therefore 
the%  second  time  they  were  here  two  of  our  members  were  obliged  to  submitt  to  a 
Censure  for  unlawful  seperation  The  last  time  they  came  was  in  consequence  of  an 
Jrregular  paper  Directed  to  the  Elders  and  Subscribed  by  a  number  who  seemed  to 
pretend  by  way  of  Jnsinuation  there  was  some  offence  but  when  the  Presbytery  Met 
&  they  brot  before  them  they  wouldneither  say  nordo  any  thingby  way  of  Complaint 

but  said  they  would  answer  or  defend  if  they  were  complained  against The 

Presbvtery  then  condemned  their  paper  as  irregular  &  propofsed  if  they  or  any  of 
them  had  any  Greivance  or  cause  of  Complaint  and  would  give  it  in  a  Regular  way 
that  they  would  come  any  time  Either  stated  or  pro  re  nata  and  Enquire  into  the 
affair.  &  if  they  did  not  like  their  judgement  they  should  have  the  oppertunity  of  an 
appeal  or  Refferance  to  the  Synod  of  Philadelphia.  Now  this  being  the  case  as  may 
appear  by  the  Presbyterys  Records  our  people  are  wholy  inexcusable  in  their  un- 
lawful seperations  &  ought  not  to  be  Encouraged  as  Malecontents.  Jt  it  true  seper- 
ations may  be  allowed  where  there  are  just  and  Real  causes  but  where  there  are  no 
proper  offences  given  they  are  wholy  unjustifiable  &  tho  you  make  a  plea  of  have- 
ing them  and  us  before  you  face  to  face  yet  you  must  consider  you  are  no  Compe- 
tent judges  in  the  affair.  First  you  Receive  them  in  away  as  we  complain  Contrary 
to  the  Law*  of  God  &  Excellent  Rules  of  our  Constitution  &  then  you  would  have  us 
before  you  to  know  whether  you  do  Right  or  not  &  be  sure  everybody  knows  you 
will  not  condemn  your  selves  if  Pofsible.  Besides  we  'mean  not  to  bring  our  people 
before  the  Barr  of  any  jurisdiction  so  as  to  Exasperate  them  more  against  us  if  they 
canpofsibly  be  Reclaimed  any  other  way.  We  would  be  Glad  to  use  the  most  Chris- 
tian Methods  to  bring  them  again  to  their  Duty  so  that  we  may  live  in  peace  and 
unity  together  but  all  is  ineffectual  so  long  as  they  are  indulged  in  away  that  setts 
them  against  us.  We  very  much  admire  what  you  can  propofse  by  Encourageing 
people  from  this  and  other  towns  where  they  live  too  far  off  to  go  to  hear  you.  and 


288  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

The  news  of  the  Lexington  battle,  April  19th,  1775,  spread  through 
the  land.  All  New  England  was  in  arms,  and  thousands  moving 
towards  the  scene  of  action.  The  next  year  independence  was  de- 
clared, and  the  declaration  was  received  with  acclamation.  In  this 
state  of  things,  those  who  set  themselves  against  the  tide  of  patriotic 
feeling  became  very  unpopular.  Perfect  unanimity  could  hardly  be 
expected  in  so  complete  a  revolution.  Many  individuals,  from  vari- 
ous causes,  still  adhered  to  the  parent  state.  Persons  of  this  descrip- 
tion were  denominated  Tories,  and  enemies  to  their  country,  and 
some  of  them  became  so  obnoxious  to  the  people  that  without  the 
semblance  of  authority  they  were  seized  by  force  and  subjected  to 
personal  abuse  in  a  manner  unjustifiable. 

Mr.  Houston  took  the  unpopular  side  in  politics,  and  being  consti- 
tutionally inflexible,  became  a  thorough  and  decided  Loyalist.  In 
taking  this  step  he  placed  himself  in  direct  opposition  to  the  prevail- 
ing spirit  of  the  town,  and  in  his  public  ministrations,  as  well  as  pri- 
vate conversation,  gave  great  offence  to  his  people.  But  we  can 
best  gather  a  correct  view  of  these  troubles  by  examining  the  votes 
of  the  town  in  relation  to  these  matters. 

*May  16,  1775,  we  find  the  following  article  in  the  warrant  for 
town-meeting : 

To  see  what  method  the  town  will  take  relating  to  Rev'd  John 
Houston,  in  these  troublesome  times,  as  we  apprehend  his  praying 

can  have  no  benefit  of  Ministerial  Visitations  Catchising  or  keeping  Fast  days.  Be- 
sides you  cannot  pray  for  them  as  the  people  of  your  care  and  charge.  They  are  not 
given  to  you  as  such,  but  are  under  the  care  and  charge  of  other  Watchmen  there- 
fore your  Encourageingthem  away  from  their  proper  fold  leaves  them  to  wander  in 
the  wide  world  in  those  Bespects.  Jn  all  these  Bespects  you  will  plainly  see  that  we 
are  not  encroaching  the  Bights  of  any  but  only  Vindicating  our  own  Eight  and 
Cause,  or  Bather  the  Bights  of  Christs  spiritual  Kingdom  in  the  world  so  far  as  is 
Commited  to  our  care  and  trust.  &  tho  we  may  be  Bidiculed  &  BefHected  on  by  some 
yet  none  are  to  be  blamed  but  commended  for  Vindicating  their  own  proper  Bights. 
&  as  we  desire  not  to  Jntermedle  with  or  Jnvade  the  Eights  of  any  in  these  Bespects 
so  we  would  be  glad  not  to  beintermedeled  with  or  invaded.  &  tho  we  are  connected 
togither  in  the  jurisdiction  of  the  same  Presbytery  yet  let  us  not  setup  alter  against 
Alter  so  as  to  weaken  one  anothers  hands  but  Eeather  endeavour  as  far  as  we  can  to 
strengthen  one  another  in  the  great  work  of  the  Gospel  and  Exercise  of  Church 
Government  &  Discipline.    We  think  if  every  one  of  us  look  well  to  our  own  proper 

charges  we  will  have  enough  to  do  att  home  without  going  abroad. We  are 

very  loath  to  enter  into  a  Quarrel  with  you.  would  Bather  forgive  all  thats  past  both 
to  you  and  our  people  &  live  in  peace  for  the  future.  But  if  by  Disregarding  these 
Bepresentations  you  lay  us  under  the  Disagreeable  necefsity  of  appealing  to  the 
world  in  these  respects,  you  cannot  blame  us  for  so  doing,  but  we  rather  hope  you 
will  see  it  both  your  Duty  and  Jntrest  to  comply  with  our  just  &  Eeasonable  Bequest 
Especialy  as  it  is  one  with  the  scriptures  &  Acts  of  Afsembly  and  thereby  so  far 
give  help  to  the  prosperity  of  Zion 

Signed  p*  order  p*  John  Houston  Mod' 
james  Little  sefs:  Clerk 

Bedford  Sep1"}-'  20:  1768 

The  foregoing  is  a  true  Coppy  of  what  M'  Houston  and  his  Sefsion  Delivered  to 
M*  Davidson  and  his  Sefsion  to  be  Communicated 

Coppy<»  july  10"'  and  11th  1769  pr  Matth"  Patten 

(Copy  of  a  manuscript  found  among  the  papers  of  the  late  Judge  James  W.  Sav- 
age, son  of  Bev.  Thomas  Savage.) 
1  June  15, 1775,  they  voted  his  dismission. 


MINISTRY.  289 

and  preaching  to  be  calculated  to  intimidate  the  minds  of  his  hear- 
ers, and  to  weaken  their  hands  in  defence  of  their  just  rights  and 
liberties,  as  there  seems  a  plan  to  be  laid  by  Parliament  to  destroy- 
both. 

Hay  16,  1775,  voted  that  what  Mr.  Houston  gives  is  not  satisfac- 
tory to  this  body.  Voted  that  the  meeting  house  doors  be  shut 
against  Mr.  John  Houston  until  he  comes  to  a  sense  of  his  duty  and 
behaves  himself  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  town  and  tha  the  sball  have 
no  salary  from  the  town  until  he  behaves  himself  as  above — the 
above  votes  were  all  nem  con :  by  us  the  subscribers — 

James  Gillmore,  William  Moor,  Jacob  McQuaid,  Samuel  Morrison, 
Samuel  Patterson,  James  Smith,  John  Little,  Patrick  Flyng,  Hugh 
Campbell,  George  Hogg,  Samuel  Gordon,  George  Cowan,  John 
McAlaster,  Whitefield  Gillmore,  James  McAlaster,  James  Steel,  John 
Moore,  Jun.,  James  Wallace,  D.  Robert  Walker,  William  Caldwell, 
Nathan  Shedd,  James  Aiken,  Zachariah  Chandler,  Stephen  French, 
Matthew  McDuffee,  John  Aiken,  Robert  Burns,  James  Mathies, 
John  Wallace,  Esq.,  Adam  Dickey,  John  O'Neil,  Capt.  Samuel  Pat- 
ten, Capt.  Daniel  Moor,  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose,  Maj.  John  Goffe,  John 
Bell,  James  Caldwell,  James  Walker,  L.  Thomas  McLoughlin,  Will- 
iam Barnes,  Matthew  Patten,  E.  James  Patterson,  Vale1  Sulla  van, 
Richrd  McAllester. 

As  the  excitement  of  those  times  has  passed  away,  and  these 
things  have  become  matter  of  sober  history,  it  may  not  be  amiss  to 
~give  this  vote,  as  being  now  a  mere  matter  of  curiosity.  It  is  a 
transcript  of  the  spirit  of  those  exciting  times,  and  though  expressed 
in  decided  language  it  does  not  involve  the  character  of  Mr.  Hous- 
ton, any  farther  than  as  to  his  political  opinions  in  which  he  proba- 
bly was  entirely  conscientious,  though  in  adopting  them  he  differed 
from  his  people,  and  from  the  great  majority  of  the  clergy  of  New 
England,  who  were  friendly  to  the  Revolution.  The  vote  runs 
thus : 

Whereas  we  find  that  the  Rev'd  Mr.  John  Houston,  after  a  great 
deal  of  tenderness  and  pains  taken  with  him,  both  in  public  and 
private,  and  toward  him,  relating  tp  his  speeches,  frequently  made 
both  in  public  and  private  against  the  rights  and  privileges  of 
America,  and  his  vindicating  of  King  and  Parliament  in  their 
present  proceedings  against  the  Americans;  and  having  not  been 
able  hitherto  to  bring  him  to  a  sense  of  his  error,  and  he  has  thereby 
rendered  himself  despised  by  people  in  general,  and  by  us  in  par- 
ticular, and  that  he  has  endeavored  to  intimidate  us  against  main- 
taining the  just  rights  of  America :  Therefore,  we  think  it  not  our 
duty  as  men  or  Christians,  to  have  him  preach  any  longer  with  us 
as  our  minister.  Therefore,  Voted,  That  he  (viz)  Rev'd  John 
Houston,  preach  no  more  in  Bedford  until  the  last  day  of  March 
next,  and  that  he  have  36  Sabbath-days  more  to  his  own  use  and 
20 


290  HISTOKY  OF   BEDFOED. 

disposal,  viz.,  from  the  16th  of  May,  last,  to  the  last  day  of  March 
next,  more  than  the  9  Sabbath-days  voted  to  his  own  use  and  dis- 
posal at  our  last  March  meeting;  and  that  the  town  be  freed  from 
paying  him  anything  for  the  said  36  Sabbath-days,  agreeably  to  the 
vote  of  the  town  he  settled  with  us  on. 

The  above  vote  was  passed  unanimously.  In  the  meantime  Mr. 
Houston  was  not  silent.  He  made  a  communication  to  the  town,  of 
which  the  following  extracts  will  give  a  correct  impression  : 

To  the  people  of  Bedford,  "met  or  convened  at  the  meeting-house, 
on  Tuesday  afternoon,  May  16,  1775.  Sirs :  As  I  have  been 
desired  by  some  of  our  people  to  give  in  writing,  my  thoughts  and 
sentiments  about  the  times,  I  would  observe  that  my  mind  for  some 
considerable  time  past,  has  been  in  pain  or  anxiety  for  my  country. 
I  plainly  foresaw,  not  by  the  spirit  of  prophecy,  but  by  the  moral 
reason  and  nature  of  things,  high  measures  in  opposition  to  the  laws 
of  commerce  and  trade,  that  mobs  and  riots  would  increase  our 
calamity.  And  though  our  opposition  some  years  ago,  succeeded  in 
the  repeal  of  the  Stamp  Act,  yet  I  was  afraid  some  of  our  late 
measures  of  opposition  would  have  a  contrary  effect.  And  could  I 
bear  a  sincere  regard  for  the  welfare  of  my  Country,  and  see  the 
storms  gathering  thick  every  way,  and  not  be  perplexed  therewith. 
'T  is  true,  nevertheless,  I  thought  it  my  duty  not  to  intermeddle 
much  in  the  disputes  of  civil  policy,  nor  be  strenuous  in  the  present 
debate  between  Great  Britain  and  her  colonies,  but  content  earnestly 
for  the  faith  once  delivered  to  the  saints.  And  accordingly  I  do 
not  remember  I  ever  dipped  into  the  merits  of  the  present  dispute, 
in  any  of  my  public  discourses ;  and  whoever  may  think  that  when 
I  prayed  that  we  might  all  have  the  pathway  of  God  and  duty  made 
plain  and  open  to  us  in  every  respect,  and  we  enabled  to  acquiesce 
therein,  according  to  the  will  of  God;  or  in  other  words  that  we 
might  all  return  to  God  and  duty,  from  whom  we  have  deeply 
revolted,  I  meant  thereby  Lord  North's  duties  or  taxes,  I  can  truly 
say  I  had  no  such  thought;  these  are  phrases  to  which  I  have  been 
long  used. 

This  defense  thus  closes : 

Suffer  ministers,  then,  to  go.  on  praying  earnestly  for  all  men, 
according  to  the  will  of  God,  and'  to  blow  the  trumpet  in  Zion, 
Shewing  unto  God's  Israel  their  sins,  the  procuring  curse  of  God's 
judgments,  that  we  may  all  repent  and  turn  from  them  unto  God,  as 
the  only  way  we  know  his  judgments  can  be  averted.  Surely  our 
doing  so  here  cannot  intimidate  the  minds  of  our  men  gone  into  the 
wai*,  but  rather  we  may  help  them  thereby,  in  our  earnest  prayer  to 
God  for  them.  Suffer  ministers,  also,  to  be  guided  and  directed  by 
the  leadings  and  teachings  of  the  unerring  word  and  spirit  of  God, 
in  all  their  public  prayers,  and  to  hear  or  receive  the  word  at  God's 
mouth,  and  warn  his  people  from  him,  and  not  from  the  leadings  or 
dictates  of  any  person  living.     That  we  may  all  be  directed  in  the 


MINISTRY.  291 

way  of  God  and  duty  in  every  respect,  and  kept  in  the  same  by  the 
almighty  power  of  God,  through  faith  unto  salvation,  is  the  earnest 
desire  and  prayer  of  your  careful  pastor, 

John  Houston. 

Warrant  for  town  meeting  March  27,  1778 : 

Article  4.  Whereas  Col.  Daniel  Moor,  Lieut.  John  Orr  and  Mr. 
John  Bell  has  been  chosen  a  Committee  to  Treat  with  the  Presbytery 
concerning  Mr.  John  Houston  To  see  if  the  Town  will  Impower  the 
men  already  chosen  or  choose  others  in  their  rooms  to  call  a  Presbyt- 
ery and  to  bring  Mr.  Houston  to  a  Trial  and  to  see  if  they  will 
Dismiss  him  in  a  Presbyterian  Form  and  any  other  thing  that  the 
town  will  think  proper  to  act  upon.  Voted  to  chuse  a  Committee 
to  send  to  the  Presbytery.  Voted  that  this  committee  (viz)  Lieut. 
John  Orr,  Mr.  John  Bell  and  Mr.  John  Aiken  is  hereby  Impowered 
to  apply  to  the  Presbytery  to  have  the  Rev'd  John  Houston  Brought 
to  Trial  in  a  Presbyterian  Form  and  Dismissed. 

Mr.  Houston's  dismission  did  not  take  place,  or  rather  his  pas- 
toral connection  was  not  ecclesiastically  dissolved,  till  1778,  as 
appears  by  the  following  minute  : 

Whereas,  there  appears  to  be  a  dissatisfaction  among  the  people 
of  Bedford,  relative  to  Rev'd  Mr.  Houston,  whereby  he  is  not  likely 
to  be  useful  among  them  in  the  ministry,  by  the  consent  of  both 
parties,  this  Synod  do  dissolve  his  pastoral  relation  to  said  congrega- 
tion. 

Simon  Williams,  Synod  Clerk. 

October  1st,  1778. 

After  this  Mr.  Houston  occasionally  preached 1  as  he  had  oppor- 
tunity in  this  state,  and  in  Vermont.  Rev.  Silas  McKeen  of  Brad- 
ford, Vt.,  mentioned  to  the  present  minister  of  Bedford  that  he  was 
baptized  in  infancy  by  Mr.  Houston,  in  one  of  his  excursions  into 
the  state  of  Vermont.  He  spoke  of  the  impression  made  on  him 
when  a  boy  by  Mr.  Houston's  appearance  on  horseback:  A  tall, 
solemn-looking  man,  with  a  wig  of  the  fashion  of  that  day.  The 
trials,  severe  as  they  were,  through  which  he  was  called  to  pass,  did 
not  crush  his  spirit,  though  they  may  have  rendered  more  repulsive 
a  temperament  that  has  been  said  to  have  been  stern  and  rigid.  He, 
no  doubt,  felt  himself  injured.  Had  it  been  merely  his  removal  as 
minister  of  the  place,  he  could  not  complain,  because  it  was  no  more 

JAs  Presbyterians,  however  they  recognized  the  fact  that  he  was  still  pastor  of  the 
church  (the  fact  of  dismissal  by  the  town  not  being  sufficient  according  to  Presby- 
terian practice  to  terminate  the  pastoral  relation).  It  had  been  the  practice  in 
former  years  to  vote  him  a  certain  number  of  Sabbaths  to  himself,  ranging  from 
four  to  ten,  so  at  the  meeting  of  March  27, 1776,  they  voted  him  the  whole  year  to  his 
own  use.  In  the  meantime,  they  requested  him  to  join  with  them  in  their  applica- 
tion to  Presbytery  for  a  dissolution  of  the  pastoral  relation  and  a  committee  was 
appointed  for  that  purpose. 


292  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

than  might  have  been  expected  in  such  times.  But  it  is  painful  to 
add  that  he  was  personally  abused ;  and  as  tradition  relates,  was  on 
a  certain  night  taken  away  from  his  family  with  violence,  conveyed 
in  an  insulting  manner  out  of  town,1  and  returned  home  again 
in  safety,  as  the  leaders  of  the  party  had  pledged  themselves  to 
his  wife  when  they  took  him  away.  But  the  whole  country  was 
greatly  excited.  It  was  confined  to  no  class  of  people.  Lieut. 
James  Moor  related  the  following  anecdote  :  Rev.  Mr.  Emerson  of 
Pepperell,  of  strong  revolutionary  feelings,  as  might  be  expected 
from  one  who  resided  in  the  same  town  with  the  commander  of 
Bunker  Hill,  was  passing  through  Bedford  and  called  to  pass  the 
night  with  Mr.  Houston.  Finding  what  his  sentiments  were,  and 
seeing  too  that  he  made  use  of  tea,  at  that  time  a  very  unpatriotic 
beverage,  he  declined  sitting  down  at  the  same  table,  and  had  one 
provided  in  another  room ;  and  even  then  would  not  unite  in  asking 
a  blessing. 

Mr.  Houston  retained  his  ecclesiastical  standing  through  all  the 
difficulties.  We  find  the  following  minute  in  the  records  of  the  As- 
sociate Presbytery : 

At  a  meeting  in  Peterborough,  March  2d,  1785,  The  Rev'd  John 
Houston  applying  to  this  Presbytery  for  a  union  with  them,  and  pro- 
ducing a  good  certificate  from  his  former  Presbytery,  it  was  unani- 
mously agreed  that  this  Presbytery  admit  Rev'd  John  Houston  as  a 
corresponding  member. 

By  way  of  explanation,  it  should  be  stated  that  in  1775  the 
"  Boston  Presbytery  was  divided  into  three  bodies,  viz.,  the  Eastern 
Presbytery,  or  Presbytery  of  Salem ;  the  Middle  Presbytery  or 
Presbytery  of  Londonderry;  and  the  Western,  or  Presbytery  of 
Palmer."  It  was  to  the  latter  that  the  church  in  Bedford  belonged, 
and  Mr.  Houston  removed  his  relation  from  that  to  the  Presbytery 
of  Londonderry.  .  I  find  also  on  referring  to  the  records  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  Longlane,  now  Federal  street,  Boston,  that 
Mr.  Houston  frequently  attended  meetings  of  Presbytery  held 
there.2  It  is  said  Mr.  Houston  took  quite  an  interest  in  the  instruc- 
tion of  youth,  and  at  a  time  when  schools  were  very  rare  instructed 

'  He  was  ridden  on  a  rail  as  far  as  Captain  Kelleys  on  the  Mast  road. 

»  He  had  stood  out  in  defence  of  his  views  to  the  point  of  surrendering  his  pastoral 
charge  and  losing  his  standing  in  the  Synod.  But  now  being  left  free  to  act  accord- 
ing to  his  own  will,  he  appeared  before  the  authorities  of  the  state  and  took  the 
oath  of  allegiance,  of  which  the  following  is  a  copy  : 

Hampshire  ! In  Committee  of  Safety,  October  28th.  1778. 
This  may  certify  all  persons  that  the  Rev.  John  Houston  has  taken  the  oath  of 
allegiance  and  fidelity  to  this,  and  the  United  States  of  America. 

Attest:    M.  WE  ARE,  Chairman. 


MINISTRY.  293 

the  neighboring  boys  at  his  house  on  evenings,  in  reading,  arithme- 
tic, etc.,  for  which  they  felt  under  great  obligations  to  him  in  after 
years.  He  interested  himself  in  children  in  his  better  days,  loved  to 
encourage  them,  and  was  pleased  with  an  apt  reply  to  any  question. 
On  one  occasion,  it  is  said,  he  went  into  a  neighbor's  field,  after 
dinner  on  a  summer's  day,  and  found  a  little  son  of  the  owner  at 
work.  "  Where  is  your  father  ?  "  "  He  is  lying  down,  taking  his 
rest."  "  Why  should  you  work  and  slave  yourself,  while  he  is  taking 
his  ease  ?  "  He  pressed  the  little  boy  awhile  in  this  way ;  at  last  the 
boy  looked  up  and  said,  "  Sir,  he  took  care  of  me,  when  I  could  n't 
help  myself,  and  now  I  ought  to  do  something  for  him."  The  ready 
reply  so  pleased  the  old  gentleman  that  he  frequently  alluded  to  it 
afterwards. 

Mr.  Houston  was  united  in  marriage  to  Anna,  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Sarah  Peebles,  by  whom  he  had  Samuel,  Robert,  John,  Sarah, 
and  Anna.  Samuel  joined  the  army  and  engaged  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  Sarah  was  the  second  wife  of  Hon.  John  Orr,  and 
Anna  became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Hugh  Riddle.  Mr.  Houston  had 
three  grandsons  that  were  educated  at  Yale  college. 

Rev.  John  Houston  died.  February  3,  1798,  aged  seventy-five. 
His  wife  died  July  4,  of  the  same  year,  aged  seventy-two.  Both 
were  buried  in  the  old  graveyard,  where  suitable  gravestones  mark 
the  place  of  their  interment.1 

After  the  dismissal  of  Mr.  Houston  the  town  was  destitute  of  a 
settled  minister  from  1778  until  1804,  a  period  of  twenty-six  years. 
The  people  were  supplied  with  preaching  by  various  ministers,  but 
with  a  single  exception,  not  by  any  one  individual  for  any  length  of 
time.  By  singular  prudence  the  town  voted  on  the  26th  day  of 
March,  1777,  "That  the  committee  of  safety  be  the  committee  to 
hire  preaching  the  ensuing  year." 

At  the  town  meeting  of  March  26,  1777,  there  was  an  article : 

To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  pay  the  Rev.  George  Gilmore  for 
two  'days  that  he  preached  and  Mr.  Taggart  for  one  day  that  he 
preached  in  Bedford.     Voted  the  town  will  pay. 

It  was  also  voted  July  3,  1779,  "To  raise  money  to  pay  Mr. 
James  Miltimore  for  the  preaching  in  the  town  the  last  year." 

At  this  meeting  also  there  was  the  following : 

As  for  sometime  past  the  Sabbath  has  been  greatly  prophaned  by 

1  There  is  extant  a  letter,  from  which  we  quote  the  following,  referring  to  Mr. 
Houston:  "He  left  Sam'l  two,  Robert  and  John  $1  each  by  his  will,  which  they 
design  to  break.    If  they  do,  it  will  be  more  than  any  man  could  do  in  his  lifetime." 


294  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  persons  travelling  with  burthens  upon  the  same,  when  there  is 
no  necessity  for  it.  To  see  whither  the  town  will  not  try  to  provide 
some  remedy  for  the  future. 

But  the  town  voted  not  to  act. 

March  29,  1780.  It  was  "  voted  to  pay  Mr.  John  Lane  for  two 
Sabbath  days'  preaching  in  the  town  of  Bedford  last  fall." 

March  27,  1782.  John  Moore,  John  Aiken,  and  Robert  Alex- 
ander were  a  committee  to  procure  preaching  the  ensuing  year,  and 
it  was  "  voted  to  hire  20  Sabbath  days'  preaching,  the  present  year." 

April  6,  1785.  It  was  "voted  to  raise  50  £  to  hire  preaching  the 
present  year." 

After  this  for  two  or  three  years  the  pulpit  was  "  supplied  "  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Pickles,  whose  ministry  requires  a  passing  notice.  But  little  is 
known  of  his  early  history.  He  was  a  native  of  Wales,  and  after 
arriving  in  this  country  appears  to  have  resided  in  or  near  Philadel- 
phia. He  came  to  this  town  some  time  about  1787,  and  excited 
great  attention  by  his  power  of  preaching.  He  preached  in  both 
Bedford  and  Londonderry  on  alternate  Sundays.  His  wife,  who 
was  said  to  be  a  most  estimable  lady,  soon  joined  him  from  Phila- 
delphia. Mr.  Pickles  was  unfortunately  one  of  those  men  who  have 
warm  friends  and  inveterate  enemies.  He  was  accordingly  the 
occasion  of  serious  divisions  in  the  town,  some  being  warmly  in  his 
favor  and  others  as  much  against  him.  We  find  that  John  Orr, 
Robert  Alexander,  Joseph  Walker,  James  Nesmith,  James  Martin, 
John  Wallace,  and  Robert  Matthews  called  a  meeting  of  the  quali- 
fied voters  of  the  town  to  be  held  at  the  meeting-house  November 
27,  1789,  "To  see  if  it  is  their  desire  that  Mr.  William  Pickles 
should  continue  to  preach  any  longer  in  this  town."  Pursuant  to 
this  call,  town-meeting  was  held,  but  the  article  relating  to  Mr. 
Pickles  was  dismissed.  To  this  action  some  of  the  citizens  filed  a 
protest  petitioning  relief  from  taxation  for  his  support.  After  vari- 
ous meetings  and  protests,  they  could  not  obtain  the  desired  relief. 
Whereupon,  March  7,  1790,  it  was  voted  "To  invite  the  Rev  Mr. 
Pickles  to  preach  out  the  money  to  be  raised  excepting  the  tax  of 
such  as  shall  enter  their  protest  against  the  hiring  of  Mr.  Pickles  by 
the  last  day  of  this  instant."  The  words  from  "  excepting  to  instant," 
inclusive,  were  by  a  subsequent  vote  reconsidered  and  stricken  out. 

As  a  result  we  find  the  following  protest : 

Bedford,  March  7,  1790  "Whereas  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Bedford,  this  day  in  legal  town  meeting  passed  a  vote  in  the  words 
following,  viz.     '  Voted  to  invite  the  Rev.  Mr.  Pickles  to  preach  out 


MINISTRY.  295 

the  money  to  be  raised  excepting  the  taxes  of  such  as  shall  enter 
their  protest  against  the  hiring  of  Mr.  Pickles  by  the  last  day  of  this 
instant '  from  which  vote  we  the  subscribers  do  disent  for  the  fol- 
lowing reasons ;  because  the  said  Mr.  Pickles,  since  he  first  came  to 
Bedford,  has  been  disorderly  in  using  spirituous  liquors  to  excess,  in 
using  oprobrius  language  and  that  his  behavior  in  several  instances 
has  been  such  that  modesty  forbids  particular  description.  Impressed 
with  a  sense  of  the  divine  command  2  Thessalonians  1 :  6,  viz.  '  Now 
we  command  you  bretheren  in  the  name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
that  ye  withdraw  yourselves  from  every  brother  that  walketh  dis- 
orderly' and  verse  11  of  the  same  chapter  'Xote  that  man  and  have 
no  company  with  him  that  he  may  be  ashamed.'  We  do  therefore 
hereby  publicly  protest  against  the  proceedings  of  the  town  in 
employing  or  countenancing  the  said  Mr.  Pickles  as  a  public  teacher 
any  longer  as  it  is  directly  against  the  command  of  Christ  by  his 
apostle,  in  the  foregoing  text,  and  we  do  request  that  we  may  not 
be  taxed  to  support  a  man  as  a  teacher  of  the  gospel  who  by  his 
practice  proves  to  us  that  he  is  not  a  christian  in  reality  because 
it  is  a  perversion  of  that  liberty  in  the  defence  of  which  America 
lately  sacrificed  much  blood  and  treasure  and  is  against  the  constitu- 
tion of  this  state.     Signed 

Matthew  Miller  John  Gardner  John  Houston,  Jun. 

William  Barnes  Asa  Barnes  John  Richardson 

John  Wallace,  Jun.  Joseph  Wallace  Jesse  Worcester 

John  Barnes  William  Moore  John  Aiken 

John  Houston  John  Orr  James  Moore 

James  Houston  Robert  Alexander  Robert  Houston 

Hugh  Riddle  Sam'l  Moore 

This  was  followed  by  another  protest : 

Bedford  January  1  1791,  Whereas  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Bedford  this  day  in  legal  town  meeting  passed  two  votes  in  the 
words  following,  viz.  "  Voted  to  hire  Mr.  Pickles  to  preach  after 
his  time  is  out  that  he  is  engaged  for  at  present."  "  Voted  that  Mr. 
Pickles  be  hired  to  preach  out  the  remainder  of  the  pew  money  if 
any  there  be  after  the  meeting  house  is  finished."  From  which 
votes  we  the  subscribers,  inhabitants  of  said  Bedford,  do  dissent  for 
the  following  reasons  :  for  that  whereas  22  legal  voters  of  the  inhab- 
itants of  said  Bedford  by  their  protest  entered  the  31st  of  March  last 
passed,  did  charge  the  said  Mr.  Pickles  as  having  been  guilty  of 
several  species  of  intemperance  inconsistent  with  the  character  of  a 
gospel  minister,  which  charge  or  accusation  is  founded  upon  known 
facts ;  and  whereas  he  the  said  Mr.  Pickles  is  not  connected  with, 
nor  acknowledges  the  authority  of  any  Presbytery  or  Associations 
of  Ministers  by  whom  he  may  or  might  be  examined  and  tryed  for 
any  of  his  moral  conduct,  we  do  protest  against  the  proceedings  of 
the  town  as  contained  in  the  above  recorded  votes  and  pray  that 


296  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

interest  may  not  be  taken  from  us  to  support  a  teacher  of  such  char- 
acter and  who  "does  not  belong  to  any  regular  ecclesiastical  society. 
Signed, 

William  Moore  John  Houston  3rd  Asa  Barnes 

John  Houston,  Jun  John  Wallace,  Jun.  Phineas  Aiken 

William  Barnes  Robert  Houston  James  Moore 

John  Aiken  Jun.  George  Orr  William  Cook 

James  Campbell  Silas  Dole  John  Burns 

John  Orr  James  Wallace  Robert  Alexander 

Jesse  Worcester  John  Aiken  Joseph  Wallace 

September  26,  1785.  "  Voted  to  give  Mr.  Allan  a  note  for  what 
is  due  to  him  from  the  town." 

December  5,  1785.  "Voted  to  pay  Mr.  Ebenezer  Allan  the  notes 
he  has  against  the  Committee  for  preaching." 

March  13,  1786.  "Voted  to  give  Mr.  Ebenezer  Allan  a  note  upon 
interest  for  fifteen  Spanish  Milled  Dollars  which  is  due  to  him  for 
Preaching." 

April  26,  1786.  "Voted  to  apply  to  the  Presbytery  to  have  Mr. 
Robert  Annan  on  probation  eight  Sabbaths." 

In  the  warrant  for  March  29,  1786,  there  was  an  article  "  To  see 
if  the  town  will  allow  John  Orr  anything  on  account  of  his  late  mis- 
fortune, viz ;  breaking  his  leg  when  going  to  Boston  for  Mr.  Annan, 
and  if  they  vote  in  the  affirmative,  to  see  how  much  and  in  what 
manner."     The  vote  was  to  dismiss  the  article. 

At  the  same  time  it  was  "  Voted  to  hire  John  Patten  to  keep  the 
dogs  out  of  the  meeting  house  on  Sunday." 

It  was  also  "  Voted  to  employ  the  Rev.  Mr.  Morrison  to  preach  a 
lecture." 

As  might  be  expected  in  such  a  state  of  things  the  ordinances 
were  neglected,  divisions  came  in,  and  the  interests  of  piety  suffered 
a  decline.  It  is  a  maxim  universally  true,  that  if  a  people  would 
enjoy  the  blessing  of  God,  and  promote  the  best  interests  of  them- 
selves and  their  children,  it  behooves  them  to  sustain  the  regular 
institutions  of  religion. 

"  During  the  long  period  of  nearly  thirty  years,"  writes  the  late 
Rev.  Mr.  Goffe,  of  Millbury,  Mass.,  in  a  letter  to  the  present  pastor 
(Rev.  Thos.  Savage),  "  the  people  hired  a  great  many  candidates  and 
preachers,  from  time  to  time,  but  I  do  not  remember  that  they  ever 
gave  one  a  call  to  settle  with  them.  In  the  meantime  the  cause  of 
religion  ran  very  low,  the  church  was  diminished  and  scattered,  pro- 
fessors lived  like  other  men,  and  it  was  scarcely  known  who  they 
were,  only  when  they  came  from  time  to  time  to  the  communion- 
table. As  to  spirituality  in  religion,  it  was  scarcely  to  be  found : 
and  here  I  would  say,  with  deep  emotion,  that  I  never  knew  a  revi- 
val of  religion  in  town  until  of  late  years  ;  and  though  I  hope  some 
souls  were  born  of  God,  yet  they  were  few  and  far  between." 


MINISTRY.  297 

Looking  back  from  this  distance  of  time,  it  appears  astonishing 
that  the  flock  of  Christ  was  not  irrevocably  scattered  during  such  a 
long  season  of  destitution.  But  the  watchful  providence  of  God 
surrounded  the  church  through  these  years  of  peril,  and  preserved 
it  from  the  fate  by  which  other  churches  in  similar  circumstances 
have  been  overtaken. 

An  effort  was  made  to  divide  the  use  of  the  meeting-house  so  that 
Mr.  Pickles'  friends  should  hear  him  in  it  at  certain  times  and  the 
rest  of  the  town  at  other  times,  and  this  vote  was  passed : 

March  21,  1792.  Voted  on  the  10th  article  in  the  affirmative,  and 
that  it  stands  on  record  as  it  stands  in  said  article,  which  is  as  follows 
(viz.)  "  If  the  town  will  vote  to  let  those  who  have  protested  against 
paving  taxes  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Pickles  to  have  their  proportion  of 
money,  voted  by  the  town  to  be  raised  for  hiring  preaching  for  the 
year  1790  and  1791,  provided  they  will  accept  of  the  Meeting  House 
one-fourth  part  of  the  time  and  expend  said  proportion  by  supplying 
the  pulpit  and  draw  upon  the  selectmen  for  the  money  as  soon  as 
they  expend  same." 

Mr.  Pickles'  principal  opponent  seems  to  have  been  Jesse  Worces- 
ter, who  brought  an  action  against  him,  which  so  inflamed  his  friends 
that  February  15,  1793,  it  was  "Voted  that  Jesse  Worcester  be  not 
allowed  to  set  in  the  deacons'  seat  on  the  Sabbath." 

One  of  the  difficulties  with  Mr.  Pickles  seems  to  have  arisen  over 
some  incidents  in  his  early  history  that  required  explanation.  After 
much  protest  and  counter-protest,  it  was  finally  agreed  that  William 
Riddle,  who  was  town  treasurer  and_  a  man  universally  respected, 
should  go  to  Philadelphia,  make  personal  examination  and  careful 
inquiry  regarding  Mr.  Pickles'  early  career,  and  his  findings  and 
report  should  be  taken  as  conclusive.1  He  did  so,  making  the  jour- 
ney on  horseback  all  the  way,  and  his  report,  favorable  to  Mr. 
Pickles,  silenced  his  opponents.  Mr.  Riddle  was  a  partisan  of  Mr. 
Pickles',  as  were  all  the  members  of  his  family,  one  of  his  children 
and  grandchildren  being  named  after  Mr.  Pickles'  wife,  Margaret 
Tregallos,  and  one  of  his  nephews,  locally  famous  as  General  Riddle, 
was  named  William  Pickles  Riddle. 

1  His  enemies  charged  him  with  dissolute  habits  in  Philadelphia,  but  the  charge 
was  stoutly  denied  by  his  friends.  At  length  the  strife  waxed  so  warm  and  became 
so  pointed  that  Lieut.  John  Orr  offered  to  lay  a  wager  of  fifty  dollars  that  the  charge 
was  true.  The  wager  was  taken  by  Mr.  Pickles'  friends,  and  Mr.  William  Riddle  was 
agreed  upon  as  the  agent  of  the  party  to  proceed  to  Philadelphia  and  investigate  the 
charge.  His  report  was  to  be  final.  Mr.  Riddle  went  to  Philadelphia  on  horseback, 
Investigated  the  matter,  found  the  charge  untrue  in  every  particular,  returned  and 
reported  the  results.  There  was  great  exultation  on  the  part  of  the  winners,  and 
they  met  at  the  store  of  Isaac  Riddle,  Esq.,  to  rejoice  over  the  victory.  Mr.  Riddle 
was  designated  as  their  agent  to  go  to  Mr.  Orr's  and  get  the  wager.  He  accordingly 
waited  upon  Mr.  Orr,  and  made  known  the  result  of  his  investigation.  Without  mak- 
ing a  remark  Lieutenant  Orr  went  to  his  desk  and  paid  over  the  money.  Mr.  Riddle 
took  the  money  back  to  the  winners,  and  it  was  spent  at  the  counter  in  liquor  for  the 
multitude.    (Hist.  Disc,  Rev.  I.  C.  Tyson.) 


298  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

A  letter  of  Matthew  Patten,  dated  December  1, 1790,  contains  the 
following  statement: 

Last  March  meeting  we  voted  to  use  Dr.  Watts  Psalms  and 
Hymns  in  public  worship  And  our  Minister  Viz.  Mr.  Pickles  (Who 
I  mentioned  in  my  last  letter  to  you  one  of  the  greatest,  best  and 
sensiblest  preachers  that  ever  I  heard)  Reads  the  psalm  or  hymn 
over. 

Amid  all  the  conflicting  opinions  concerning  his  character  there 
was  one  in  which  all  agreed,  that  he  had  uncommon  pulpit  tal- 
ents. "  I  was  but  a  youth,"  writes  Rev.  Mr.  Parker  of  Derry,  "  when 
Mr.  Pickles  preached  in  Bedford,  and  my  recollection  of  him  is  not 
very  distinct.  His  person  and  his  manner  in  the  desk  were  com- 
manding and  impressive  ;  his  voice  and  elocution  graceful ;  and,  so 
far  as  I  can  recollect,  his  sentiments  evangelical,  though  not  very 
distinguishing."  There  are  some  still  (1850)  living  among  us  who 
think  their  attention  was  first  turned  to  religion  under  his  ministry. 
Mr.  Pickles  ceased  to  "supply  "at  Bedford  in  1804,  when  he  re- 
moved from  this  state  to  Maine,  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 

In  the  warrant  for  the  meeting  of  December  10,  1802,  there  was 
an  article  "  To  see  if  the  town  would  vote  to  raise  some  money  or 
appropriate  some  interest  money  to  hire  Mr.  Cochrane  to  preach 
some  more  in  said  Bedford  the  present  season,  and  if  voted  in  the 
affirmative,  to  choose  a  Committee  to  agree  with  him." 

At  the  meeting  of  March  2,  1803,  it  was  "  Voted  that  Mr.  William 
Milltimore  be  invited  to  preach  out  the  above  sum  of  $200." 

September  5,  1804,  the  Re^.  David  McGregore  was  ordained  to 
the  pastoral  charge  of  the  church  and  congregation  in  this  town.  As 
such  things  were  then  a  part  of  the  town  business,  we  find  in  the 
town  records  the  call  and  Mr.  McGregore's  answer,  with  other  ar- 
rangements connected  with  such  an  occasion. 

Monday,  Feb.  20,  1804.  Met  according  to  adjournment.  Voted 
that  the  town  give  Mr.  David  McGregore  a  call  to  the  work  of  the 
ministry  in  said  town. 

Voted  that  David  Patten,  Esq.,  John  Orr,  Esq.,  Samuell  Smith, 
Samuel  Chandler  and  David  McQuesten,  Thomas  Wallace,  Andrew 
Aiken,  John  Holbrook  and  Phineas  Aiken  be  a  committee  to  take 
into  consideration  and  report  to  the  town  certain  conditions  on  which 
Mr.  David  McGregore  may  be  settled  in  the  work  of  the  ministry  in 
said  town. 

The  Committee  appointed  by  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  at  a  legal 
meeting  of  said  inhabitants,  holden  on  the  nineteenth  day  of  Jan- 
uary, 1804,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  into  consideration  what  sum 
ought  to  be  paid  as  an  annual  salary  to  the  Rev.  David  McGregore, 


MINISTRY.  299 

(in  case  the  town  present  him  with  a  call  to  settle  in  the  town  as  a 
minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  he  accept  such  call)  having  met,  agree  to 
report  that  in  their  opinions  the  sum  of  four  hundred  dollars,  in- 
cluding all  the  profits  arising  from  ministerial  lands,  would  be  a  rea- 
sonable annual  salary  for  the  town  of  Bedford  to  pay  the  said  Mr. 
David  McGregore  so  long  as  he  shall  be  their  minister. 

Bedford,  Feb.  9,  1804.  Signed  by  John  Orr,  George  Orr,  P. 
Aiken,  Joseph  Bell,  James  Moor,  Nathan  Barns,  Wm.  Moor,  Samuell 
Chandler,  Josiah  Gordon,  David  McQuesten,  Jno.  Houston,  Isaac 
Atwood  Jun.,  Jas.  Darrah,  Jun.,  and  John  Holbrook. 

A  true  record,  Attest,  Phixeas  Aiken,  Town  Clerk. 

Voted  that  Capt.  William  Moor,  John  Orr,  Esq.,  and  William 
McAfee  be  a  Committee  to  present  Mr.  David  McGregore  with  the 
foregoing  call  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  the  town  of  Bedford, 
and  the  votes  of  said  town  relative  thereto. 

March  6,  1804.  Met  according  to  adjournment  in  the  meeting 
house.  Upon  a  motion  being  made  to  accept  the  draft  of  a  call  and 
certain  conditions  on  which  Mr.  David  McGregore  may  be  settled  in 
the  work  of  the  ministry  in  said  town.  After  some  amendments, 
the  said  draft  was  voted  to  be  accepted  in  form  following : 

The  congregation  in  Bedford  being  on  sufficient  grounds,  well 
satisfied  of  the  Ministerial  qualifications  of  you,  Mr.  David  McGre- 
gore, and  having  good  hopes  from  our  past  experience  of  your 
labors  that  your  ministeration  in  the  gospel  will  be  profitable  to  our 
spiritual  interest  do  earnestly  call  and  desne  you  to  undertake  the 
pastoral  office  in  said  congregation,  promising  you  in  the  discharge  of 
your  duty,  all  proper  support,  encouragement  and  obedience  in  the 
Lord.  And  that  you  may  be  free  from  worldly  cares  and  avocations 
we  do  hereby  promise  to  pay  you  the  sum  of  $400  annually,  includ- 
ing all  incomes  from  ministerial  lands,  during  the  time  of  your 
being  and  continuing  the  regular  pastor  of  this  congregation. 

Provided,  That  if  you  should  continue  our  pastor  until  disabled 
from  performing  the  ministerial  duties  of  your  office  by  reason  of 
old  age,  then  in  that  case,  one-half  of  said  salary  shall  cease,  and 
you  shall  afterwards  during  life  receive  two  hundred  dollars  annu- 
ally. Provided,  also,  that  if  it  should  so  happen  that  we  should  be 
united  in  the  relation  of  minister  and  people,  and  difficulties  from 
unforeseen  events  should  take  place,  in  consequence  of  which  a  major- 
ity of  those  subject  to  taxation  for  the  said  Mr.  McGregore's  salary, 
become  dissatisfied  with  the  minister  and  desire  that  a  dissolution  of 
their  relation  should  take  place,  they  shall  in  writing  by  them  signed 
make  known  their  desire  with  the  reasons  of  it,  and  present  it  to  the 
minister  in  a  regular  manner,  and  if  the  cause  or  causes  of  dissatis- 
faction cannot  be  removed  to  the  satisfaction  of  said  majority,  but 
they  still  continue  in  their  request,  in  such  case,  a  Presbytery  shall 
be  requested  to  attend  at  the  meeting  house  in  said  town  at  the  end 
of  one  year  from  the  time  of  such  presentment,  whose  business  it 
shall  be  to  hear  the  parties,  state  the  true  character  of  each  as  re- 


300  HISTOEY  OF   BEDFORD. 

lates  to  said  dissatisfaction  and  dissolve  the  pastoral  relation  subsist- 
ing between  them,  at  which  time  the  said  salary  shall  cease.  And 
the  dismission  may  take  place  before  the  expiration  of  the  year  above 
specified,  if  the  minister  consent  to  it  and  a  presbytery  attend  at 
said  place  whose  business  shall  be  as  above.  And  if  the  minister 
be  dissatisfied  with  the  congregation  and  wishes  to  be  dismissed 
from  his  charge,  he  shall  in  writing  by  him  signed  make  known  his 
desire,  with  the  reasons  of  it,  and  present  it  to  the  elders  of  the 
church  and  the  same  mode  of  process  shall  be  observed  as  when  the 
congregation  are  dissatisfied.  And  if  the  minister  be  sick  or  other- 
wise disabled  from  performing  the  duties  of  his  office  (except  it  be 
the  disability  of  age)  his  salary  shall  continue  for  one  year  after  the 
beginning  of  such  sickness  or  disability,  and  then  cease  until  the  day 
he  shall  begin  to  officiate  and  continue  to  officiate  as  usual.  This, 
however,  is  not  to  infringe  upon  the  proceeding. 

If  the  desire  of  a  dismission  shall  have  been  manifested  prior  to 
such  sckness  or  disability,  the  dismission  shall  take  place  at  the  end 
of  the  year  from  such  presentment,  but  a  desire  of  separation  shall 
not  be  manifested  in  the  time  of  such  sickness  or  disability  unless  it 
continue  more  than  one  year. 

A  true  record,  Attest  Phineas  Aikex,  Town  Clerk. 

To  this  the  Reverend  McGregore  replied  as  follows : 

Londonderry,  May  5,  1804. 

To  the  Town  and  congregation  of  Bedford 

Honored  and  Beloved : 

It  is  now  near  12  months  since  you  honored  me,  with  a  request 
by  your  committee  to  supply  your  desk,  in  preaching  the  Gospel  of 
Jesus  Christ.  After  having  the  pleasure  of  granting  your  request  as 
much  as  my  incompleteness  would  possibly  admit,  you  were  pleased, 
in  the  month  of  February  last  to  honor  me  still  further  by  voting 
me  a  call  to  settle  with  you  in  the  important  work  of  the  Gospel 
ministry.  This  your  particular  attachment  to  me,  in  your  free 
suffrages  to  one  of  the  most  honorary  and  important  imployments 
in  human  life,  was  explicitely  declared  by  your  committee  on  the 
21st  day  of  last  March,  when  they  presented  me  your  call  agreeable 
to  said  vote.  This  expression  of  your  affection  I  have  duly  con- 
sidered, and  sensibly  feel  the  force  of  this  public  testamony  of  your 
respect  for  me ;  and  I  trust  to  the  institutions  of  Christ.  My  sense 
of  gratitude  is  the  more  lively,  since  I  am  informed  that  no  objec- 
tions were  made  to  the  vote  of  the  town  on  that  subject. 

Long  delays  in  giving  an  answer  to  a  call  after  it  is  honorably 
and  fairly  made,  I  have  never  considered  honorable  nor  just  on  the 
part  of  the  candidate. 

Ergo,  having  asked  counsel  of  God  in  prayer,  and  maturely  con- 
sidered the  subject,  and  not  being  desirous  to  keep  the  town  of 
Bedford  any  longer  in  suspence,  I  have  finally  resolved  to  answer 
your  call,  and  do  hereby  answer  the  same  in  the  affirmative. 


MINISTRY.  301 

In  taking  this  important  step,  I  trust  I  shall  not  be  found  rash  or 
presumptous,  for  I  give  this  answer,  with  diffidence,  remembering 
the  apostolic  interrogative,  "Who  is  sufficient  for  these  things?" 
When  I  sat  out  at  first  to  prepare  for  the  ministry  I  had  many  dis- 
couragements to  encounter  from  various  quarters,  but  the  kind  hand 
of  Providence  has  supported  and  carried  me  through  thus  far,  and 
I  have  still  reason  to  acknowledge  that  hithertofore  the  Lord  hath 
helped  me,  and  now  although  I  have  attained  that  station  and  em- 
ployment in  life,  which  of  all  others  is  the  most  pleasing  and  satis- 
factory to  me,  yet  I  am  very  far  from  supposing  that  troubles  may 
not  still  await  me,  for  Christ  himself  informed  his  ministring  ser- 
vants that  they  should  have  tribulation  in  the  world,  though  for 
their  encouragement  he  added,  "Be  of  good  cheer;  I  have  over- 
come the  world."  Belying  on  his  promised  presence,  I  am  willing 
to  preach  his  gospel  to  you,  my  dear  friends,  confiding  in  you  as  the 
people  of  my  charge,  as  you  are  already  of  my  choice.  Should  this 
my  answer  prove  agreeable  to  you,  I  humbly  trust  you  will 
strengthen  my  hands  and  comfort  my  heart  in  the  good  work  of  the 
Lord,  and  that  you  will  unite  with  me  in  fervent  prayer  to  Almighty 
God,  for  Zion's  prosperity  among  you  under  my  ministry.  Let  me 
observe,  that  in  giving  that  encouragement  to  each  other,  which  im- 
perfect creatures  stand  in  need  of,  in  the  present  life,  the  exercises 
of  mutual  forbearance  and  tenderness,  are  never  to  be  forgotten.- 
For  as  I  look  for  no  perfection  in  any  people,  I  arrogate  none  to 
myself,  and  you  are  too  understanding  to  expect  it  of  me.  In  the 
meantime  it  is  my  earnest  wish  and  sincere  desire  through  grace  to 
set  that  example  before  you  which  is  worthy  the  important  vocation 
whereby  I  am  called,  not  doubting  but  that  you  will  readily  coin- 
cide so  far  as  I  follow  Christ.  And,  my  dear  friends,  notwithstand- 
ing I  acknowledge  your  honorable  and  generous  spirit  in  your  offer 
for  my  annual  support,  yet  give  me  leave  to  make  one  small  request 
from  your  benevolence,  which  is  a  privilege  of  two  or  three  Sab- 
baths annually  for  myself. 

This  privilege  is  frequently  granted  to  ministers  at  their  settlement 
and  often  proves  necessary  for  their  future  convenience.  In  favor- 
ing me  in  this  request  you  will  increase  the  obligations  I  am  already 
under  to  the  people  of  Bedford. 

I  shall  only  add  that  if  divine  Providence  should  see  fit  to  estab- 
lish the  pastoral  relation  of  minister  and  people  between  us,  may  it 
be  strengthned  by  the  cords  of  mutual  love ;  may  it  be  cemented 
by  the  blood  of  Christ,  and  the  meliorating  influences  of  his  Holy 
Spirit,  and  may  we  never  have  reason  to  repent  the  day  we  first 
commenced  our  acquaintance. 

And  when  our  connection  on  earth  is  at  an  end,  may  we  then  be 
joined  to  that  fair  society  above  where  they  need  not  instruction 
from  men,  but  the  Lord  God  giveth  them  light  forever. 

I  am  with  every  sentiment  of  respect,  yours  in  the  Gospel, 

David  McGregore. 
A  true  record  Attest  Phineas  Aikex,  Town  Clerk. 


302  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

The  Rev.  David  McGregore  was  ordained  to  the  pastoral  care  of 
the  congregation  in  Bedford  on  the  fifth  day  of  September,  1804. 

Attest,  Phixeas  Aikex,  Town  Clerk. 

Thereupon  the  town  took  the  following  action : 

May  31,  1804.  Chose  John  Craig  a  commissioner  to  petition  the 
Presbytery  to  attend  at  Bedford,  at  such  time  as  may  be  agreed 
upon,  for  the  purpose  of  ordaining  Mr.  David  McGregore  to  the 
work  of  the  ministery  in  said  town. 

Voted  that  the  first  Wednesday  of  September  next  be  the  day 
appointed  for  the  ordination  of  Mr.  David  McGregore. 

Voted  that  the  Rev.  Mr.  Burnap  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Barnard,  with 
such  delegates  as  their  churches  may  appoint,  be  invited  to  associate 
with  the  Presbytery  at  the  ordination. 

Voted  that  Stephen  French,  Capt.  William  Moor  and  John  Hol- 
brook  be  a  committee  to  agree  with  some  person  to  entertain  the 
Presbytery  and  then*  associates  while  attending  at  the  ordination. 

Voted  that  John  Houston,  Jun.,  Capt.  Thomas  Chandler,  Samuel 
Chandler,  Capt.  Richard  Dole  and  William  Dole  be  a  committee  to 
arrange  the  musick. 

Voted  that  David  Patten,  Esq.,  Lieut.  Samuel  Barr,  Lieut.  Nathan 
Barns,  Capt.  George  Shepard,  Phineas  Aiken,  Andrew  Aiken  and 
Joseph  Patten  be  a  committee  of  arrangements. 

Voted  that  Mr.  McGregore  shall  have  two  Sabbaths  at  his  own 
disposal  annually  so  long  as  he  shall  continue  the  regular  minister 
of  Bedford,  provided  his  circumstances  be  such  as  to  require  him  to 
be  absent  so  many  Sabbaths. 

Rev.  Mr.  Morrison,  with  whom  Mr.  McGregore  pursued  his  theo- 
logical studies,  preached  the  ordination  sermon  from  I  Tim.  6 :  20. 
Previously  to  this  interesting  event  there  had  been  an  effort  to 
revive  the  state  of  things,  and  prepare  the  way  for  the  settlement  of 
the  ministry.     We  find  in  the  session  book  the  following  entry : 

At  a  meeting  of  church  members,  at  the  meeting-house  in  Bed- 
ford, on  Lord's  day  evening,  Sept.  25,  1803,  according  to  public 
notice  previously  given,  it  was  unanimously  agreed,  that  the  sacre- 
ment  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  be  administered  in  this  place  as  soon  as 
convenient;  and  taking  into  consideration  the  state  of  the  session, 
agreed  unanimously,  that  a  church-meeting  be  holden  in  this  place 
on  Monday,  3d  day  of  October  next,  at  one  o'clock  afternoon,  to 
elect  such,  and  so  many  persons,  as  shall  then  be  agreed  on,  to  be 
ordained  as  elders  of  this  church. 

Monday,  Oct.  3,  met  according  to  agreement,  and  voted,  that, 
David  McQuesten,  John  Craig,  John  Houston,  Samuel  Barr,  Phin- 
eas Aikin  and  William  Moor  be  appointed  to  serve  as  elders,  in 
addition  to  those  now  in  office ;  and.  it  was  agreed,  that  the  elders 
in  office  procure  a  minister,  either  by  applying  to  Rev.  Mr.  Morri- 
son, Londonderry,  or  to  the  Presbytery  for  the  purpose  of  ordain- 


MINISTRY.  303 

ing  the  elders  elect,  and  dispensing  the  sacrament  of  the  Lord's 
Supper.  Application  having  been  made  to  Rev.  Mr.  Morrison,  Fri- 
day, 28th  October  current,  was  appointed  as  a  Fast  in  this  church, 
and  David  McQuesten,  John  Craig,  John  Houston,  Phineas  Aiken 
and  "William  Moor,  were  set  apart  and  ordained  in  due  form,  as 
ruling  elders  of  the  church  in  this  town,  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mormon. 

After  Mr.  McGregore's  settlement  the  religious  aspect  of  things 
began  to  change  sensibly  for  the  better.  The  church,  as  a  body, 
became  more  regular  and  consistent ;  affairs  were  conducted  with  a 
greater  regard  to  system ;  additions  were  yearly  made  to  their  num- 
ber, and  the  cause  of  benevolence  and  piety  advanced  with  a  steady 
progress. 

Session-book,  February  16,  1806.  "Voted  that  elder  John  Hol- 
brook  attend  as  a  delegate  at  New  Boston,  for  the  purpose  of 
ordaining  Mr.  Ephraim  P.  Bradford  to  the  charge  of  the  church  and 
congregation  in  that  place." 

February  24,  1806.  "Voted,  that  the  town  be  divided  into  dis- 
tricts for  ministerial  visitation." 

September  8,  1817.  Stephen  Thurston,  John  French,  John  Orr 
Houston,  Richard  Dole,  and  Moody  Martin  Stevens,  having  been 
duly  elected  to  the  office  of  ruling  elders,  were  set  apart  and  or- 
dained in  due  form  as  ruling  elders,  in  the  church  in  Bedford,  by 
Rev.  David  McGregore. 

It  became  necessary  to  divide  Mr.  McGregore's  time,  as  appears 
by  the  following  petition  and  the  town's  action  upon  it : 

Petition. 

To  the  selectmen  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  Gentlemen : 
We,  the  subscribers,  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  hereby 
wish  you  to  call  a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  town,  and 
insert  in  the  warrant  therefor  the  following  article.  To  see  if  the 
town  will  vote  that  Mr.  McGregore  should  preach  one-fourth  part 
of  the  time  in  the  westerly  part  of  said  town,  or  transact  any  busi- 
ness relative  to  his  preaching  in  that  part  of  the  town. 

Samuel  Roby,  ) 

Nathaniel  Baldwin,  > 
Joseph  Sprague,       ) 
Benjamin  Sprague, 
Moses  Dennis, 
David  Sprague, 
Nehemiah  Kittredge, 
Benjamin  Sprague,  Jun., 
Alex.  Caldwell, 
A  true  record  Attest  Phixeas  Aikex  Town  Clerk. 

This  petition  was  denied  at  the  next  town-meeting,  but  this  vote 
was  passed  in  its  place : 


304  HISTOEY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Voted  that  all  who  live  in  that  part  of  the  town  heretofore  peti- 
tioned to  be  disannexed  shall  have  their  proportion  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Gregor's salary  preached  in  the  Westerly  part  of  the  town,  if  they 
desire  it. 

In  1818  there  was  more  than  the  ordinary  attention  to  religion, 
and  on  Sabbath,  May  31st  of  that  year,  fourteen  persons  were  ad- 
mitted to  the  church. 

Mr.  McGregore's  ministry  was  not,  however,  perfectly  satisfactory, 
for  the  following  draft  of  a  letter  to  him  is  extant,  and  although  it 
has  no  signers  and  no  date,  seems  to  have  been  very  carefully  made 
up,  and  to  be  the  expression  of  the  opinion  of  responsible  men.  The 
criticisms  offered  to  the  reverend  gentleman's  sermons  and  conduct 
sound  strangely  now,  but" carry  a  certain  air  of  truth  about  them 
which  would  argue  that  the  church  attendants  in  Bedford  at  that 
time  had  more  real  interest  in  and  knowledge  of  theology  than  they 
have  now. 

Rev  &  dear  Sir, 

The  object  of  the  Town  meeting  lately  holden,  is  undoubtedly 
known  to  you.  Certain  individuals  are  to  be  found  among  us,  who 
would  willingly  sever  the  relation  that  subsists  between  you  and  this 
people,  and  thereby,  we  fear,  deprive  the  Town  of  the  blessings  of 
the  Gospel.  To  every  effort  of  this  nature  we  have  thought  our  duty 
to  give  our  united  difent,  Desirous  that  a  preached  Gospel  may  be 
continued  among  us  and  that  every  obstacle,  that  impedes  your  use- 
fulnefs  may  be  removed,  we  have  thought  it  a  duty  affectionately  to 
remind  you  of  several  things,  which,  in  our  opinion,  tend  to  dimin- 
ish your  usefulnef s  among  the  people  of  your  charge.  We  shall  not 
state  them  as  articles  of  charge  against  you  but  only  mention  them, 
hoping  and  believing  you  will  cheerfully  do  every  thing  in  your 
power  speedily  to  remove  them  out  of  the  way. 

The  first  and  principal  thing  we  would  mention  is  too  much  atten- 
tion to  worldly  concerns.  When  you  took  the  oversight  of  this 
Flock  we  did  expect  you  would  give  attention  to  redding,  to  ex- 
hortation, to  doctrine,  that  you  would  not  neglect  the  gift  that  was 
in  thee,  but  that  you  would  give  yourself  wholly  unto  them  that  your 
profiting  might  appear  to  all.  But  in  this  reasonable  expectation  we 
have  been  in  a  measure  disappointed.  Farming,  building,  manufac- 
turing and  litigation  have  in  turn  engrofsed  your  attention  and,  we 
think,  led  off  your  mind  from  the  spiritual  concerns  of  your  Flock. 
When  the  mind  is  placed  on  worldly  things  vital  religion  is  easily 
pafsed  over  in  conversation,  for  subjects  better  suited  to  the  taste 
and  inclination.  From  this  cause,  we  fear,  when  you  have  visited 
your  people,  your  conversation  has  been  more  about  their  temporal 
than  their  spiritual  concerns.  Have  you  made  it  a  point  in  your 
pastoral  visits,  (which  have  been  to  unfrequent)  to  inquire  into  the 


MINISTRY.  305 

individual  state  of  your  hearers,  and  persuade  them  to  become  recon- 
ciled to  God  ?  Has  their  salvation  at  such  seasons  been  uppermost 
in  your  mind,  and  have  your  conversation  and  intercourse  with  them 
been  calculated  to  promote  so  desirable  an  object?  We  trust  you 
will  not  say  it  is  other  persons  businefs  to  introduce  religious  conver- 
sation. Ministers  are  especially  enjoined  to  be  an  example  of  the 
believers  in  word,  in  conversation,  in  charity,  in  spirit,  in  faith,  in 
purity.  Pious  people,  Sir,  have  been  often  grieved  to  find  your  time 
and  conversation  so  much  taken  up  in  worldly  things,  and  have  often 
spoken  on  the  subject  to  each  other,  but  perhaps  have  been  to  neg- 
lectful of  mentioning  the  subject  to  you.  The  enemy,  Sir,  alledge 
these  things  against  you.  They  say  you  have  broken  your  contract 
in  these  particulars  and  we  must  confefs  to  you  when  we  hear  these 
things  we  hardly  know  what  to  reply. 

The  second  thing  we  would  mention  is  the  too  frequent  delivery 
of  old  discourses.  If  we  mistake  not  the  greater  part  of  the  dis- 
courses we  have  heard  from  you  in  years  past  has  been  of  this 
description.  We  do  not  mean  to  be  understood  that  a  minister  may 
not  occasionally  deliver  an  old  discourse  but  when  they  are  so  fre- 
quent as  to  become  proverbial  we  think  they  ought  to  be  laid  aside. 

The  third  thing  is  too  great  a  samenefs  in  arranging  and  closing 
your  discourses.  Different  subjects  we  think  require  different  divi- 
sions. It  may  sometimes  be  proper  to  give  the  character  of  the 
speaker,  but  to  make  this  the  first  head  of  discourse  day  after  day, 
and  sometimes  twice  in  a  day  is  we  think  using  the  same  thing  too 
often.  In  closing  your  discourses,  especially  when  you  have  a  double 
sermon,  you  have  generally  observed  the  same  manner  in  the  fore- 
noon, the  repitition  of  which  has  long  icearied  the  patience  of  your 
attentive  hearers. 

The  last  thing  we  would  mention  is  the  use  of  too  many  words  in 
the  communication  of  your  ideas.  Greater  concisenefs  woidd  be 
much  more  acceptable  to  your  hearers  and  render  your  discourses 
more  easily  understood.  Observations  are  sometimes  made  on  the 
length  of  your  prayers,  especially  when  there  are  a  number  of  mourn- 
ers, for  unnecessarily  particularizing  each  individual,  as  it  protracts 
the  service  to  a  length  that  exhausts  the  strength,  and  wearies  the 
patience  of  the  auditory.  Perhaps,  Rev.  Sir,  these  things  we  have 
stated  have  escaped  your  observation,  but  they  have  for  a  long  time 
lain  with  weight  upon  our  minds,  and  we  have  felt  that  we  could  not 
discharge  our  duty  without  plainly  stating  them  to  you.  This,  we 
have  endeavored  to  do  in  the  spirit  of  heavenly  love  and  respect. 
We  hope,  sir,  you  will  seriously  ponder  upon  these  things  and  write 
your  applications  with  ours  at  the  throne  of  grace  that  you  and  we 
may  be  guided  into  all  truth,  and  walk  in  the  faith  and  order  of  the 
Gospel. 

On  March  19,  1824,  a  committee  of  one  from  each  school  district 

waited  upon  Mr.  McGregore  to  inform  him  "  of  the  unhappy  division 

which  exists  between  him  and  his  people,  and  take  such  measures 
21 


306  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

for  his  dismissal  from  his  ministerial  charge  in  said  town  as  may  be 
thought  best."  The  committee  chosen  were  Phineas  Aiken,  Moody 
M.  Stevens,  David  McQuesten,  Richard  Dole,  Samuel  Chandler, 
Josiah  Gordon,  William  Moore,  Stephen  Thurston,  John  Moore, 
Samuel  Barr,  Nehemiah  Kittredge,  Solomon  Gage.  The  committee 
waited  on  the  Rev.  Mr.  McGregore  and  reported :  "  That  Mr.  Mc- 
Gregore  has  no  statement  to  make  until  the  town  proceed."  There- 
upon, a  committee  was  nominated  to  carry  into  effect  the  dismissal 
of  Mr.  McGregore,  and  they  chose  Deacon  David  McQuesten,  Lieut. 
Samuel  Barr,  Deacon  Phineas  Aiken,  Capt.  Nathan  Barns,  and  Capt. 
William  Riddle  for  their  committee.     They  reported  as  follows : 

Bedford,  April  15,  1824. 

The  committee  to  whom  was  assigned  the  business  of  examining 
and  finding  the  minds  of  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  relative  to  dis- 
missing the  Rev.  David  McGregore  from  his  pastoral  charge,  find 
the  following  result  from  those  who  did  give  their  names.  A  con- 
siderable number,  however,  did  not  choose  to  give  their  voice  on  the 
subject. 

For  dismissing  Mr.  McGregore,     96 ; 
For  retaining  Mr.  McGregore,     74. 
They  have  also  attended  to  the  duty  of  calling  on  Mr.  McGregore 
and  acq\iainting  him  with  the  above  result. 

Phixeas  Aikex,  for  the  Committee. 
A  true  Record :     Alfred  Foster,    Town  Clerk. 

On  Nov.  1,  1824,  It  was  "voted  that  the  committee  be  authorized 
to  settle  with  the  Rev.  David  McGregore  and  give  him  as  much  as 
he  can  recover  from  the  town  for  his  salary  until  he  can  be  legally 
dismissed,  and  that  the  selectmen  assess  the  money  to  be  paid  when 
it  would  be  due  for  his  regular  salary  if  it  does  not  exceed  $400 
from  this  date." 

December  27,  1824.  The  town  voted  to  appoint  a  committee  of 
three  to  confer  with  the  Rev.  David  McGregore  and  ascertain  the 
terms  on  which  a  "  separation  may  take  place  between  him  and  his 
people  and  report  to  this  meeting,"  and  on  motion  of  Col.  William  P. 
Riddle,  chose  Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  and 
Col.  William  Moore  said  committee. 

The  committee  retired  to  attend  to  the  duty  assigned  them  and 
after  an  absence  of  a  few  minutes  they  returned  and  reported  to  the 
town  the  following  proposals  : 

Bedford,  Dec.  27,  1824. 
Gentlemen :  — 

In  answer  to  your  Committee  I  would  observe  that  my  real  estate 
in  Bedford,  consisting  of   about  eighteen  acres  of   Land,  with   my 


MINISTRY.  307 

buildings,  has  cost  me  as  far  as  I  can  ascertain  the  cost,  as  much  as 
$1,400.  If  the  town  will  buy  it  at  that  price  and  settle  up  all  other 
arrearages,  I  will  quitclaim  both  it  and  the  contract  on  the  receipt 
of  the  payment.  Or  if  the  town,  as  an  indemnity  for  the  sacrifice,  I 
shall  probably  have  to  make,  on  a  forced  sale  of  my  real  estate  in 
Bedford,  will  pay  me  six  hundred  dollars  and  settle  up  all  arrear- 
ages, I  will  on  the  receipt  thereof  give  up  the  civil  contract  which 
the  town,  made  with  me  at  the  time  of  my  settlement  in  the  minis- 
try in  this  place. 

(Signed)         David  McGregore. 

It  was  "  Voted  that  the  same  committee  be  instructed  to  offer  Mr. 
McGregore  four  hundred  dollars,  or  to  take  his  real  estate  in  Bed- 
ford at  the  appraisal  of  indifferent  men." 

The  committee  proceeded  to  the  duties  assigned  them,  and  after  a 
short  absence  came  in  and  made  the  following  report : 

The  committee  appointed  as  above  have  attended  to  the  duties 
assigned  them  and  beg  leave  to  report  that  Rev.  David  McGregore 
states  that  he  cannot  take  less  than  before  proposed. 

Joseph  Colley,  for  the  Committee. 

It  was  "  voted  that  the  proposition  made  by  Mr.  McGregore  in 
the  above  proposals  be  accepted,  that  is  to  say,  to  pay  him  $600." 

And  it  was  "voted  that  a  committee  of  three  be  chosen  to  cany 
into  effect  the  last  vote  of  the  town  relative  to  the  proposals  of  Rev. 
David  McGregore.  Chose  Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  Dr.  Peter  P.  Wood- 
bury, and  Col.  William  Moore  said  committee." 

"  Voted  that  $600  be  raised  for  the  above  purpose." 

At  the  meeting  of  March  8,  1825,  it  was  "  Voted  to  reconsider 
the  vote  passed  on  December  27,  1824,  giving  the  Rev.  David 
McGregore  6600  and  all  arrearages,  and  it  was  also  voted  that  the 
committee  chosen  be  discharged  from  any  further  service." 

It  was  "  voted  that  the  town  pay  Mr.  McGregore  one  year's  salary 
from  the  5th  of  September,  1824,  and  that  he  take  his  dismission 
from  March  8,  1825,  and  provided  that  he  shall  not  accept  of  this 
proposal,  the  committee  appointed  for  that  purpose  proceed  to  carry 
the  contract  into  effect,  and  that  said  committee  inform  him  of  this 
vote  immediately  and  report  at  this  meeting  whether  he  accept  of 
the  same  or  not,  and  the  money  to  be  paid  down." 

Mr.  McGregore  made  the  following  communication  to  the  town, 
which  it  was  voted  to  spread  upon  the  record : 
To  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford :  — 
Gentlemen :  — 

Presuming  this  to  be  the  proper  time  and  place  to  inform  you  of 
my  wishes,  and  feeling  desirous  that  a  compliance  with  your  vote  of 
Dec.  27th,  1824  should  be  earned  into  immediate  effect,  I  request 
that  you  will  instruct  your  committee  appointed  for  that  purpose 
to  conclude  the  contract.     I  proposed  giving  up  as  soon  as  may  be. 


308  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

This  I  conceive  would  produce  a  two  fold  salutary  effect,  as  it  would 
relieve  me  from  farther  suspense  on  the  subject,  and  prepare  you  to 
proceed  to  such  measures  as  may  tend  to  your  happiness  and  union 
in  the  selection  of  a  suitable  candidate  as  my  successor.  As  you 
gave  your  committee  no  instructions  with  respect  to  the  time,  when 
a  manner  of  carrying  your  vote  into  effect,  I  wish  you  now  to  do  it, 
and  if  it  is  your  desire  that  the  contract  should  be  closed  before  the 
money  can  be  conveniently  collected,  I  am  willing  to  wait  six  months 
or  any  reasonable  time  that  you  may  instruct  your  committee  to  re- 
quest on  their  security  in  their  capacity,  Bedford,  March  8th,  1825. 
N.  B.  If  the  town  wished  to  have  the  contract  closed  at  the  time 
of  the  meeting  of  the  27th  Dec.  last,  and  will  settle  it  this  week  ac- 
cording to  the  vote  and  the  proposals,  I  have  made  as  above,  I  will 
give  the  Town  that  part  of  the  salary  which  has  accrued  since  the 
aforesaid  meeting. 

D.  McGrkgore. 

He  also  made  the  following  communication  to  the  inhabitants  of 
the  town  of  Bedford : 

Gentlemen :  — 

The  statement  I  am  about  to  make  is  from  general  impressions  as 
I  have  been  for  years  past  incapable  of  distinctly  recalling  to  mind 
transactions  of  recent  date.  I  received  the  result  of  your  meeting 
of  the  27th  of  December,  1824,  pleased  with  the  honorable  ground 
you  had  taken  in  compliance  with  my  proposal.  1  then  expected, 
and  I  refer  you  to  my  proposal  your  own  vote,  whether  it  was  not 
natural  that  I  should  expect  that  your  committee  was  to  pay  me  on 
the  day  the  contract  was  to  cease  according  to  the  proposals  which 
I  made  and  which  you  accepted. 

After  I  had  inquired  when  they  thought  they  would  close  the 
business  your  committee  informed  me  that  they  had  received  no  in- 
structions as  to  the  time  when  the  town  wished  to  close  the  concern, 
but  they  would  try  to  ascertain  it  at  a  meeting  then  already  ap- 
pointed to  form  a  religious  society  in  this  place.  They  then  wished 
to  know,  that  if  the  town  desired  to  close  the  concern  before  the 
money  could  be  raised,  whether  I  would  take  security  for  the  same. 

Being  at  that  time  doubtful  whether  the  money  could  be  legally 
raised,  I  offered  to  take  the  joint  and  several  note  of  all  your  com- 
mittee and  wait  a  reasonable  time  for  the  pay,  and  by  this  I  intended 
to  make  your  committee  responsible  provided  it  should  be  the  wish 
of  the  people  that  a  settlement  should  be  effected  in  this  way. 

Some  considerable  time  elapsed  after  the  meeting  and  I  heard 
nothing  from  your  committee  nor  could  I  understand  that  your 
selectmen  were  making  any  assessments  of  the  six  hundred  dollars 
voted  for  that  purpose  and  in  the  interim  I  heard  many  say  that  in 
their  opinion  the  money  could  never  be  collected.  This  served  to 
make  my  original  impressions  still  the  stronger,  viz,  that  it  was 
doubtful  whether  the  money  could  be  legally  raised  from  the  town. 


MINISTRY.  BO  9 

While  this  impression  remained  strongly  on  my  mind  and  without 
any  previous  notice,  two  of  your  committee  called  upon  me  desiring 
to  know  if  I  would  take  their  notes  merely  in  their  capacity  for  pay. 

I  thought  if  the  money  could  never  be  collected  such  notes  must 
be  useless  or  perhaps  lead  to  serious  difficulties,  and  therefore  de- 
clined taking  them  from  those  two  in  that  form,  but  afterwards 
asked  them  if  they  would  be  responsible,  which  they  declined  and 
we  parted. 

After  they  were  gone,  I  began  to  reflect  on  the  sudden  and  unap- 
prised interview  we  had  had  and  to  query  in  my  own  mind  whether 
all  my  scruples  could  be  well  founded.  In  addition  to  this,  I  was 
afterwards  told  that  a  note  from  a  majority  of  a  committee  was 
sufficient  to  bind  the  town  for  which  they  acted  and  that  the  money 
could  be  legally  assessed.  I 

This  led  me  to  wish  that  I  had  taken  the  course  that  they  pro- 
posed, to  this  end  I  went  to  Dr.  Woodbury's  and  Captain  Colley's 
to  desire  them  to  meet  me  at  Col.  Moor's  on  the  afternoon  of  the 
same  day.  They  were  both  from  home  and  I  left  my  request  with 
their  wives  and  repaired  to  Col.  Moore's  myself  and  waited  to  meet 
them  there  but  neither  of  them  attended. 

After  this,  I  went  to  Widow  Gordon's  where  I  expected  to  find 
at  least  two  of  them  together,  and  found  them  according  to  expecta- 
tion. I  then  informed  them  that  I  was  ready  to  settle  with  them 
according  to  the  vote  of  the  town ;  but  have  never  met  any  of  them 
on  the  subject  since. 

I  regret  that  the  business  took  such  a  turn  and  am  still  ready  to 
settle  the  whole  concern  and  take  the  security  of  the  town  by  their 
committee  or  selectmen  as  they  in  their  wisdom  may  think  for  the 
best,  and  wait  six  months  or  any  reasonable  time  that  the  town  may 
find  most  convenient  for  the  pay. 
Gentlemen :  — 

In  review  of  this  statement  you  will  readily  perceive  1st  that  there 
was  nothing  mentioned  but  the  pay  on  the  day  on  which  the  con- 
tract was  to  be  settled  either  in  my  offer  or  in  your  vote  to  accept 
it.  2nd,  On  the  proposal  of  giving  security  instead  of  pay  by  your 
committee,  I,  with  a  view  to  accommodate  the  town,  was  willing  to 
take  it  if  they  would  assume  the  responsibility  and  3rdly  since  my 
doubts  of  the  legality  of  assessing  and  raising  the  money  have  been 
removed,  I  am  willing  to  take  the  security  of  your  committee  or 
Selectmen  in  their  capacity  as  soon  as  you  see  fit  to  order  them  to 
perform  that  service  and  wait  six  months  or  any  reasonable  time  for 
the  collection  of  the  money. 

Finally,  trusting  that  the  town  will  adopt  such  measures  as  may 
be  honorable  to  themselves  and  promotion  of  their  lasting  union  and 
happiness  after  I  am  gone, 

I  subscribe  myself  your  friend  and  pastor, 

David  McGregore. 

A  true  Record,  recorded  and  examined. 

By  Alfred  Foster,    Town  Clerk. 


310  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

April  17,  1825,  Mr.  McGregore  presented  to  the  session  the  fol- 
lowing communication : 

Bedford,  April  16,  1825. 
To  the  Session  of  the  Church  in  Bedford. 

Gentlemen,  I  hereby  apprise  you  of  my  desire  of  an  immediate 
dismission  from  my  pastoral  charge  in  this  place.  My  reasons  for 
this  desire  are,  first  that  my  bodily  infirmities  render  me  incapable 
of  fully  discharging  the  requsite  ministerial  duties  of  so  large  a  parish ; 
and  second,  that  nearly  two-fifths  of  those  subject  to  taxation  for  my 
support,  have  expressed  their  willingness  that  a  dissolution  of  our  re- 
lation as  pastor  and  people  should  take  place. 

Accordingly,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Londonderry  Presbytery,  held 
at  Nottingham- West,  now  Hudson,  on  the  last  Wednesday  in  April, 
1825,  the  pastoral  relation  subsisting  between  Mr.  McGregore  and 
the  church  was  by  mutual  consent  dissolved. 

Mr.  McGregore  was  born  in  Londonderry.  He  was  grand 
nephew  of  Rev.  David  McGregore,  and  great-grandson  of  Rev. 
James  McGregore,  the  first  minister  of  Londonderry.  After  com- 
pleting his  collegiate  course  at  Dartmouth  college,  in  1799,  he  de- 
voted himself  for  some  time  to  the  instruction  of  youth. .  Among 
other  places,  he  taught  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  with  great  credit  and 
success.  About  this  time  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Butter- 
field  of  Groton,  Mass.,  who  was  soon  removed  by  death.  After  his 
settlement  at  Bedford  he  was  married  to  Annis,  daughter  of  Hon. 
John  Orr,  and  this  connection  was  soon  sundered  by  death.  His 
third  wife,  who  (1850)  survived  him,  was  Miss  Rebecca  Merrill 
of  Falmouth,  Me.  He  had  no  children.  Mr.  McGregore,  in  the 
early  part  of  his  ministry,  was  absent  from  his  people  some  months 
on  a  missionary  tour  in  the  northern  section  of  the  state,  and  was 
one  of  the  first  missionaries  sent  out  by  the  New  Hampshire  Do- 
mestic Missionary  society.  The  writer  of  this  notice  heard  Rev. 
Mr.  Fairbanks  of  Littleton,  N.  H.,  say  that  Mr.  McGregore's  labors 
were  blessed,  and  that  he  had  met  with  individuals  in  that  part  of  the 
state  who  retained  a  pleasant  remembrance  of  his  preaching.  An 
account  of  his  tour  was  published  in  a  religious  journal  of  the  day. 
While  engaged  on  his  missions  the  following  incident  occurred  :  In 
that  part  of  the  country  there  was  at  that  time  a  prejudice,  to  some 
extent,  against  the  use  of  notes  in  preaching.  On  one  occasion  Mr. 
McGregore  engaged  in  a  controversy  on  the  subject  with  a  preacher 
not  remarkable  for  his  learning.  He  affirmed  that  it  was  anti-scrip- 
tural to  use  written  notes  in  the  desk,  citing  as  proof  of  his  position 


MINISTRY.  311 

the  passage,  "  Take  neither  purse  nor  scrip,"  and  taking  "  scrip  "  evi- 
dently to  mean  anything  written.  Mr.  McGregore  applied  this  con- 
struction to  the  "  scrip  "  into  which  David  put  the  stones  when  he 
slew  Goliah ;  thus  showing  the  absurdity  of  confounding  the  differ- 
ence between  a  manuscript  and  a  bag  or  wallet.1 

Another  anecdote  is  related  of  him  while  on  this  missionary  tour. 
In  the  wild  and  thinly  settled  country  near  the  White  Mountains,  he 
arrived  on  a  summer  evening,  after  a  toilsome  day's  journey  over  a 
mountainous  road,  at  a  rude  cabin  in  the  bosom  of  a  dark  forest,  and 
was  so  fatigued  that  he  immediately  retired  to  bed  knowing  nothing 
of  the  inmates  of  the  house.  After  a  season  of  sleep  he  was  aroused 
by  footsteps  in  the  house,  and  by  an  undertone  conversation  between 
persons  in  an  adjoining  room.  He  listened,  caught  here  and  there  a 
word,  and  began  to  suspect  that  he  had  fallen  into  bad  hands  who 
were  plotting  against  his  life.  Putting  himself  in  the  best  attitude 
of  defence  in  his  power,  he  lay  awake  the  rest  of  the  night.  Morn- 
ing dawned  and  found  him  safe.  On  rising  he  soon  discovered  that 
he  was  with  a  very  poor  but  pious  family,  and  that  the  undertone 
talk  and  footsteps  which  had  excited  his  suspicions  arose  from  their 
joy  at  seeing  a  missionary,  and  from  the  preparations  they  had  made 
in  the  night  to  give  him  in  the  morning  the  best  reception  their  pov- 
erty would  admit. 

Several  of  Mr.  McGregore's  sermons  were  published,  one  of  which 
was  occasioned  by  the  sudden  death  of  Mrs.  Isaac  Riddle,  who  was 
killed  by  a  fall  from  a  horse,  April  6,  1804.  Text  on  the  occasion, 
I  Samuel  20 : 3.  Mr.  McGregore  made  himself  very  useful  after 
his  dismission  as  an  instructor  of  youth.  He  encouraged  many  to 
get  an  education,  who  owe  to  his  benevolent  interest  in  their  welfare 
much  of  their  subsequent  success  in  life.  He  was  a  man  of  fine 
social  qualities,  and  often  made  himself  very  interesting  by  his  pow- 
ers of  conversation.  In  1831  he  removed  to  Falmouth,  Me.,  where 
he  engaged  in  promoting  the  interests  of  learning  and  religion.  He 
died  there  very  suddenly  October  18,  1845,  aged  74.2 

July  5,  1826,  Rev.  Thomas  Savage  was  installed  pastor  of  the 
church  and  congregation  in  this  place,  by  the  Londonderry  Presby- 
tery. Sermon  on  the  occasion  by  Rev.  Dr.  Whiton  of  Antrim,  from 
Lixke  9 :  60,  "  But  go  thou  and  preach  the  kingdom  of  God."     Mr. 

1  Mr.  McGregore  used  a  stereotyped  form  for  closing  every  morning  sermon  that 
he  preached— "The  day  being  now  far  spent  and  the  weather  somewhat  inclement, 
we  will  postpone  the  remainder  together  with  the  improvement  until  the  after  part 
of  the  day  and  to  God's  Holy  Name  as  in  his  word  displayed,  be  praise  and  Glory, 
World  without  end.    Amen!" 

1  His  pastorate  continued  21  years,  as  did  that  of  Mr.  Houston. 


312  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

Savage  was  ordained  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  without  pastoral 
charge,  by  the  Presbytery  of  Mississippi,  August,  1822,  and  preached 
two  years  at  Baton  Rouge,  La. 

Several  changes  and  improvements  took  place  in  Bedford  about 
this  time  that  were  favorable  to  the  interests  of  religion.  The  Sab- 
bath school  had  been  attended  with  rather  a  divided  interest,  in  two 
or  three  schoolhouses ;  it  now  began  to  be  held  during  intermissions 
at  the  meeting  house,  and  with  very  happy  effects.  A  stated  prayer 
meeting  commenced  October  11,  1827,  which  has  continued  to  be 
observed  on  Thursday  from  that  time  to  the  present  (1850).1 

On  Thanksgiving  day,  1829,  Dr.  Justin  Edwards  delivered  a  dis- 
course on  temperance,  which  awakened  great  attention  and  proved 
the  commencement  of  a  great  temperance  reformation.  A  temper- 
ance society  was  immediately  formed  which  exerted  a  good  influence 
and  was  succeeded  by  another,  excluding  all  alcoholic  drinks. 

The  year  1831  was  memorable  for  revivals  throughout  the  land. 
This  church  partook  largely  of  the  influence,  and  in  September  of 
that  year  ninety-one  united  with  the  church,  of  whom  many  have 
died,  some  have  fallen  from  their  profession,  and  a  goodly  number 
live  to  be  ornaments  in  the  church  and  blessings  to  the  world.  At 
subsequent  periods,  also,  there  have  been  seasons  of  religious  interest 
which  have  resulted  in  additions  to  the  church,  notably  in  1834,  un- 
der the  leadership  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Foote  of  Connecticut,  and  again 
in  1842  and  1864.  The  church  at  present  (1850)  is  in  a  diminished 
state,  owing  to  deaths,  removals,  and  a  long  season  of  religious 
dearth,  in  which  few  additions  have  been  made  by  profession.  Of 
those  who  were  once  members  of  this  church,  numbers  have 
gone  to  do  good,  it  is  hoped,  in  Wisconsin,  Michigan,  and  other 
parts  of  the  country.  In  the  work  of  foreign  missions,  in  the  minis- 
try at  home,  and  in  Western  fields,  among  the  Indians  of  our  own 
country,  and  the  sable  children  of  Africa,  laborers  have  gone  forth 
from  this  church,  who,  we  trust,  will  meet  their  reward  in  Heaven, 

Rev.  Thomas  Savage  was  born  in  Boston,  September  2,  1793,  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Phillips  academy,  Andover,  and  completed  his 
collegiate  course  at  Harvard  college,  1813,  pursued  the  study  of  the- 
ology for  some  time*  at  Cambridge,  and  finished  his  preparation 

1  Since,  the  weekly  prayer  meeting  has  been  held,  at  times,  on  other  days  of  the 
week. 

2  Having  pursued  the  study  of  theology  for  three  years  at  Cambridge,  he  accepted 
an  invitation  to  become  a  private  tutor  in  Louisiana.  About  this  time  he  experi- 
enced a  change  of  views  with  respect  to  the  system  of  theology.  He  had  adopted 
and  finished  his  preparation  under  the  care  of  the  Mississippi  Presbytery.  By  that 
body  he  was  ordained  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  1822,  and  preached  two  years  at 
Baton  Rouge.— Hist.  Die,  Rev.  I.  C.  Tyson. 


MINISTRY.  313 

under  the  care  of  the  Mississippi  Presbytery,  1822.  He  was  married 
at  St.  Francisville,  La.,  to  Miss  Lucy  Woodruff,  by  whom  he  had 
the  following  children :  Julia  Ann,  born  at  Baton  Rouge,  La., 
James,  Lucretia,  and  Frances,  born  in  Bedford.  Mrs.  Savage 
was  born  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  August  10,  1790,  and  died  May  16, 
1847.  A  sermon  on  the  occasion  of  her  death  was  delivered  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Allen.  October  12,  1848,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  Web- 
ster of  Haverhill,  X.  H.  Mr.  Savage  is  lineally  descended  from  Maj. 
Thomas  Savage,  who  came  over  to  this  country  in  1635,  and  married 
Faith,  daughter  of  the  celebrated  Mrs.  Ann  Hutchinson,  so  well 
known  in  the  early  history  of  Xew  England.  As  Bedford  was  one 
of  the  townships  granted  to  soldiers  who  served  in  the  Xarraganset 
war,  it  may  be  interesting  to  notice  that  Major  Savage  commanded  the 
forces  of  Massachusetts  in  the  early  part  of  that  war.  In  Gookin's 
account  is  the  following  curious  certificate,  signed  by  him,  bearing 
testimony  to  the  good  conduct  of  the  praying  Indians,  who  joined 
him  as  allies : 

These  do  certify  that  I,  Thomas  Savage,  of  Boston,  being  Com- 
mander of  the  English  forces  at  Mount  Hope,  in  the  beginning  of  the 
war  between  the  English  and  Indians,  about  July,  1675,  and  after- 
wards, in  March,  1676,  at  Menumene  and  Hadley,  in  both  which  ex- 
peditions, some  of  the  Christian  Indians  belonging  to  Natick,  were 
in  the  army ;  as  at  Mount  Hope  were  about  40  men,  and  at  Menu- 
mene, 6.  I  do  testify,  in  their  behalf,  that  they  carried  themselves 
well,  and  approved  themselves  courageous  soldiers,  and  faithful  to 
the  English  interest.     Dated  at  Boston,  the  20th  day  of  Dec'r,  1677. 

Thomas  Savage. 

In  the  proprietors'  records,  previous  to  the  incorporation  of  the 
town,  is  found  the  name  cf  a  son  of  Major  Savage,  Perez,  who  proba- 
bly inherited  a  right  from  his  father,  and  in  the  town  records,  down 
to  a  late  period,  is  seen  the  name  of  Habijah  Savage,  on  the  non- 
resident tax  list,  who  was  a  grandson  of  Major  Savage,  and  great- 
grandfather of  the  present  minister  of  Bedford.  In  the  possession 
of  Hon.  James  Savage  of  Boston,  there  is  a  printed  sermon  (the  only 
•copy  probably  extant),  preached  by  Rev.  Samuel  Willard,  second 
minister  of  the  old  South  church,  Boston.     The  title  runs  thus  : 

The  righteous  man's  death,  a  presage  of  evil ;  a  funeral  sermon 
upon  Maj.  Thomas  Savage,  from  Isiah  lvii ;  1 :  1681. 

With  regard  to  the  paternal  descent  of  the  present  (1850)  pastor 
it  may  be  remarked,  that  all  his  ancestors,  from  the  one  who  came 
over,  were  born  in  Boston,  for  several  generations,  and  were  mem- 


314  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

bers  of  the  old  South  church,  and  were  engaged  in  military  or  mer- 
cantile pursuits.  The  first  ministers  in  the  line  are  the  present  pas- 
tor, and  the  Rev.  William  T.  Savage,  Franklin,  N.  H.  Ezekiel 
Savage,  Esq.,  father  of  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  was  for  many  years  a 
civil  magistrate  in  Salem,  Mass.,  well  known  in  Essex  county.  He 
died  in  Salem,  June,  1837.  The  mother  of  Rev.  Thomas  Savage 
was  a  daughter  of  Col.  Joseph  Vose  of  Milton,  who  commanded  a 
regiment  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  had  a  horse  shot  under  him 
in  one  of  the  actions  connected  with  the  capture  of  Burgoyne.  The 
saddle  blanket  is  still  preserved  in  the  family,  with  the  perforation 
made  by  the  ball.  Miss  Lucy  Woodruff,  first  wife  of  Rev.  T.  Sav- 
age, was  descended  from  the  Griswold  family  in  Connecticut.  His. 
present  wife  is  daughter  of  the  late  Benjamin  Webster  of  Haverhill, 
N.  H,  whose  father,  William,  was  brother  of  the  late  Judge  Web- 
ster of  Salisbury,  N.  H,  who  was  father  of  the  Hon.  Daniel  Webster. 
They  came  originally  from  Hampton,  N.  H.  Julia  A.,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  married  S.  N.  Robb,  Esq.,  and  now  resides 
near  Rodney,  Mississippi. 

Of  Ezekiel  Savage,  Esq.,  it  should  be  added  he  was  born  in  Bos- 
ton, October  17,  1760;  received  degree  at  Harvard  college,  1778. 
While  he  was  a  member  of  the  college,  it  was  removed  to  Concord, 
Mass.,  the  college  buildings  being  occupied  by  our  troops.  The 
writer  has  heard  him  say  that  while  at  college  at  Cambridge,  he  one 
day  went  to  Winter  Hill  to  see  our  troops  that  were  posted  there, 
and  that  while  on  the  hill  a  cannon  ball  fired  from  Boston,  then  in 
possession  of  the  British,  came  so  near  as  to  throw  up  the  dirt  upon 
him.  In  early  life  he  prepared  for  the  ministry,  and  preached  a 
short  time,  but  want  of  health  obliged  him  to  abandon  it.  He 
studied  divinity  with  Rev.  Mr.  Smith  of  Weymouth,  Mass.,  one  of 
whose  daughters  married  the  first  President  Adams,  and  was  mother 
of  John  Q.  Adams. 

Rev.  Thomas  Savage  was  the  minister  in  Bedford  when  the  first 
history  of  the  town  was  published  in  1851.  A  short  time  before  his 
death  he  was  succeeded  in  his  pastorate  by  Rev.  Arthur  Little,  who 
continued  in  Bedford  but  a  short  time.  He  was  succeeded  by  Rev. 
Ira  C.  Tyson,  who  speaks  of  Mr.  Savage  as  follows  : 

Returning  North  in  1824  he  supplied  the  pulpit  of  Dr.  Codman  of 
Dorchester  for  one  year,  during  his  absence,  and  immediately  after 
received  his  first  invitation  to  preach  in  this  town.  Mr.  Savage  en- 
tered upon  his  life-work  here  under  very  encouraging  circumstances. 
He  was  young,  vigorous,  finely  educated,  and  fully  imbued  with  the 


MINISTRY.  315 

spirit  and  energy  needed  for  his  work.  He  was  earnest  in  his  piety, 
remarkable  for  the  urbanity  of  his  manners,  and  for  the  genial  kind- 
ness of  his  disposition.  He  was,  withal,  an  eloquent  preacher,  pos- 
sessing superior  pulpit  address  and  power,  and  soon  won  to  himself 
the  affection  of  his  people,  the  esteem  of  his  ministerial  brethren,  and 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  people  of  that  part  of  the  state, 
where,  during  his  long  pastorate,  his  name  became  the  synonym,  not 
of  what  it  literally  imported,  but  of  those  virtues  which  are  the  em- 
bodiment of  a  perfect  Christian  gentleman.  Politeness — genuine 
Christian  politeness — was,  in  fact,  his  distinguishing  characteristic. 
To  a  temperament  naturally  genial,  were  added  the  refinements  of 
education,  and  the  graces  of  the  Christian  life,  making  him,  says  Dr. 
Wallace,  in  his  memorial  discourse,  "  a  model  for  the  young,  a  pat- 
tern for  the  Christian,  and  an  example  to  be  imitated  by  that  profes- 
sion to  which  he  was  an  ornament." 

In  the  freshness  and  vigor  of  his  early  life  Mr.  Savage  devoted 
himself  to  the  work  of  the  ministry,  and  the  results  of  his  labors 
were  soon  apparent.  He  immediately  brought  to  the  attention  of 
the  session  the  duty  of  systematic  visitation,  and  a  plan  was  adopted 
that  had  for  its  object  "  a  revival  of  religion,"  by  bringing  the  ques- 
tion personally  to  the  attention  of  all.  The  town  was  divided  into 
districts,  and  committees  of  visitation  appointed  to  go  from  house  to 
house,  pledging  themselves  "  unitedly  to  engage  in  the  work,  imme- 
diately to  go  about  it,  and  not  to  grow  cold  or  weary  in  it."  The 
Sabbath  school  which  had  been  previously  held  in  schoolhouses, 
without  much  interest,  was  now  transferred  to  the  church  and  held 
during  intervals  of  divine  service,  with  happy  effects.  On  the  11th 
of  October,  1827,  a  Thursday  afternoon  prayer  meeting  was  com- 
menced, which  has  continued  without  interruption  until  the  present 
day,  now  almost  fifty  years.  In  1829  a  temperance  reform  began 
and  a  temperance  society  was  formed,  through  the  joint  influence  of 
Mr.  Savage  and  a  temperance  discourse  delivered  by  Dr.  Justin 
Edwards.  The  result  of  this  movement  was,  that  whereas  seven 
places  were  licensed  in  the  town  during  1829,  by  the  selectmen,  for 
the  sale  of  ardent  spirits,  only  two  were  licensed  the  following 
year. 

These  Christian  efforts  were  ordered,  in  the  providence  of  God, 
as  preliminary  to  that  wonderful  work  of  grace  which  swept  over  the 
country  in  1831.  The  church  at  Bedford  was  a  partaker,  to  a  large 
degree,  in  that  revival  season,  and  accessions  were  made  at  that  time 
which  have  had  a  lasting  influence  upon  the  church  and  the  world. 
At  the  May  communion  of  that  year  live  were  added  on  profession 
of  faith ;  in  September,  ninety-one ;  and  the  following  January  sev- 
enteen, making  one  hundred  and  thirteen  in  all.  This  was  certainly 
a  most  encouraging  result  for  the  young  pastor,  and  for  a  country 
church  it  certainly  evinces  a  work  of  no  ordinary  magnitude.  Many 
of  those  brought  into  the  church  at  that  time  became  bright  and 
hining  lights  in  the  world ;  nearly  all  of  them  continued  to  adorn 


316  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  Christian  profession  to  the  end  of  life,  and  some  still  survive  to 
attest  to  the  present  generation  the  genuine  nature  of  the  work  of 
divine  grace  in  their  hearts. 

It  was  during  this  revival  year  that  the  question  of  building  a  new 
meeting-house  first  took  definite  shape.  The  old  building  had  stood 
and  served  its  purpose  for  a  period  of  seventy-five  years,  and  was 
now  too  small  and  inconvenient  to  meet  the  wants  of  the  growing 
congregation.  During  the  year  1831  subscriptions  were  started  and 
an  association  formed  for  building  a  meeting-house.  The  building 
was  finished  during  the  following  year,  and  on  Christmas  day,  De- 
cember 25,  1832,  the  house  in  which  we  now  worship  was  solemnly 
dedicated  to  the  worship  of  Almighty  God. 

In  the  succeeding  years  Mr.  Savage  continued  to  enjoy  the  confi- 
dence of  his  people,  and  accessions  were  yearly  made  to  the  mem- 
bership of  the  church,  as  fruits  of  his  ministry.  In  an  historical  dis- 
course, prepared  and  published  during  1841,  he  reported  that  two 
hundred  and  seventy-two  had  been  added  to  the  church  on  profes- 
sion since  his  settlement,  being  an  average  of  eighteen  per  year. 

On  the  19th  of  May,  1850,  the  town  celebrated  the  centennial 
anniversary  of  its  incorporation.  It  was  a  great  day  for  Bedford. 
Many  distinguished  visitors,  former  residents  of  the  town,  and  oth- 
ers, were  present.  It  was  estimated  that  about  two  thousand  per- 
sons participated  in  the  festivities.  The  Hon.  Isaac  ().  Barnes,  of 
Boston,  a  native  of  Bedford,  delivered  the  centennial  address.  A 
history  of  the  town — the  joint  work  of  Rev.  Mr.  Savage,  Dr.  P.  P. 
Woodbury,  and  Mr.  "William  Patten — was  published,  embracing  most 
of  the  facts  of  interest  connected  with  the  town  history  up  to  that 
date.  It  was  the  result  of  great  labor,  and  is  an  unusually  interest- 
ing book  of  its  kind. 

Once  more,  near  the  close  of  his  ministry,  Mr.  Savage  was  per- 
mitted to  witness  the  divine  approval  of  his  labors  in  a  revival  of 
religion.  In  1864  a  revival  began  in  Manchester,  in  connection  with 
the  preaching  of  the  evangelist,  Rev.  A.  B.  Earle.  The  work  ex- 
tended to  Bedford.  Special  meetings  were  held,  and  a  deep  and 
general  interest  prevailed.  As  a  result,  seventy-two  persons  united 
with  the  church  during  the  year  on  profession  of  faith. 

On  the  3d  of  January,  1866,  the  pastoral  relation  between  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Savage  and  the  church  in  Bedford  was  dissolved  by 
the  Presbytery  of  Londonderry.  The  pastorate  of  Mr.  Savage  ex- 
tended over  a  period  of  nearly  forty  years,  and  embraced  the  most 
important  period  of  the  church's  history.  He  had  succeeded  in  bind- 
ing the  church  together  in  barmonious  action  in  all  Christian  work, 
and  bringing  it  forward  to  l'ank  with  the  strong  churches  in  the 
state.  His  pastorate,  on  the  whole,  was  eminently  successful,  and 
the  influence  of  his  labors  will  long  be  felt  upon  the  cause  of  relig- 
ion in  this  community. 

Mr.  Savage  did  not  long  survive  the  termination  of  his  pastorate. 
He  died  on  the  8th  of  May,  1866,  aged  72  years. 


MINISTRY.  317 

"As  a  preacher,"  says  Dr.  Wallace,  "  Mr.  Savage  was  practical  and 
impressive.  He  did  not  dwell  so  much  on  the  distinctive  doctrines 
of  the  gospel  as  many  preachers.  He  did  not  preach  theology  as  a 
system.  Yet  he  preached  salvation  only  by  the  cross.  But  its  doc- 
trines were  mingled  with  precepts  as  the  leaven  pervades  the  mass 
in  which  it  is  hidden.  They  appeared  not  as  the  veins  penetrate  the 
marble,  but  as  the  painter's  color  shades  the  whole." 

Another  says,  "  My  earliest  recollections  of  Mr.  Savage  go  back  to 
the  first  years  of  his  ministry  in  Bedford.  The  impression  that  he 
made  on  my  young  heart  was  that  he  was  a  powerful  and  pathetic 
preacher.  He  lodged  his  texts,  subjects,  and  manner  firmly  in  my 
memory.  In  the  revivals  of  thirty  years  ago  I  remember  him  as  one 
of  the  most  active  of  laborers.  He  never  seemed  more  at  home  and 
joyous  than  in  the  inquiry  room.  So  earnest,  affectionate,  and  per- 
suasive was  he  that  he  drew  all  our  hearts  towards  himself  and  his 
Saviour." 

A  writer  in  the  Boston  Recorder,  soon  after  his  death,  says  of 
him: 

His  pulpit  efforts  were  often  signally  felicitous,  and  not  a  few  will 
remember — after  the  General  Association  of  1864,  at  Manchester, 
had  voted  to  offer  special  thanks  for  converting  grace  vouchsafed  to 
the  congregation — how  in  prayer  he  took  the  great  assembly  up 
bodily  to  the  gates  of  Heaven,  so  that  we  could  almost  hear  the 
songs  of  joy  resounding  within. 

Mr.  Savage  was  especially  remarkable  for  those  bursts  of  extem- 
poraneous eloquence  by  which  he  often  carried  his  audience  at  his 
will.  These  occasions  were  frequent  at  the  communion  table  and 
in  the  religious  meetings  of  ecclesiastical  bodies.  In  the  pulpit, 
also,  it  was  not  unusual  for  him  to  rise  with  the  grandeur  of  his 
theme,  and  breaking  away  from  the  fetters  of  his  written  notes,  pour 
forth  a  torrent  of  oratory  that  swept  away  every  barrier  in  the 
hearts  of  his  hearers,  and  won  the  assent  of  their  understanding  to 
the  truths  he  uttered. 

In  many  of  his  discourses  he  was  vividly  descriptive,  leaving  the 
impress  of  the  pictures  he  portrayed  indelibly  fixed  in  the  memory 
of  those  who  heard  him.  The  writer  met  with  a  minister  in  the 
Assembly  at  Chicago,  in  1872,  who  had  heard  Mr.  Savage  preach  a 
sermon  more  than  twelve  years  previous,  but  which  had  been  so 
effectually  lodged  in  his  recollection  that  he  was  able  to  give  a  clear 
analysis  of  it,  and  to  follow  the  preacher  out  in  the  general  develop- 
ment of  his  theme. 

He  was  a  man  of  varied  attainments  in  literature,  having  read 
extensively  among  classical  as  well  as  English  authors,  and  often 
reproduced  the  results  of  his  reading  with  the  happiest  effect,  not 
only  in  his  public  discourses,  but  in  his  social  intercourse  with  men. 
His  fine  culture  as  a  scholar,  his  retentive  memory,  which  enabled 
him  to  quote  from  authors  almost  at  will,  combined  with  elegance  of 


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318  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

diction,  made  him  to  excel  in  conversation,  and  his  society  was 
always  delighted  in  by  those  who  knew  him  best.  "  Had  he  been 
ambitious,"  said  one  at  his  funeral,  "he  might  have  stood  on  the 
high  places  of  New  England." 

The  memory  of  Mr.  Savage  is  most  tenderly  cherished  by  the 
congregation  to  whom  he  so  long  ministered.  At  the  time  of  his 
dismission  they  evinced  their  affectionate  regard  by  placing  in  his 
hand  a  purse  of  $1,000,  and  after  his  death  they  erected  to  his 
memory  a  beautiful  and  appropriate  monument.  Many  anecdotes 
are  related  of  him,  illustrative  of  his  genial  kindness  and  the  never- 
failing  politeness  which  marked  all  his  intercourse  with  the  world, 
but  the  writer  has  yet  to  hear  the  first  word  that  would  cast  a 
shadow  upon  the  lustre  of  his  name. 

One  who  knew  him  well  has  thus  described  him : 

Pie  was  social  naturally  and  eminently.  He  was  social  as  a  man, 
a  Christian,  and  a  minister ;  at  all  times  ever  the  urbane  and  genial 
Christian  gentleman.  Domestic  in  his  tastes  and  feelings,  he  was 
attached  to  his  family  and  home  by  the  fondest  of  ties.  He  was  the 
vivacious  and  inspiriting  soul  of  his  household,  always  enjoying 
himself  in  the  happiness  of  those  who  were  dear  to  him.  Of  a  hos- 
pitable nature,  with  heart  and  home  he  ever  extended  a  sincere  wel- 
come to  all.  He  abounded  in  anecdote  and  reminiscence,  and  was 
the  animating  spirit  of  the  social  gathering  and  the  ministerial  asso- 
ciation. He  always  knew  when  to  relate  an  anecdote  and  when  to 
stop.     His  keen  wit  abounded  in  the  apt  repartee,  but  left  no  sting. 

His  character  was  unique.  Other  men  would  not  remind  one  of 
him  nor  he  recall  others.     His  identity  was  his  own. 

His  own  way  of  saying  and  doing  things  was  peculiar  to  himself 
and  yet  pleasing  to  others.  It  was  often  said  of  some  effort  of  his, 
"It  was  like  Mr.  Savage."  In  or  out  of  the  pulpit  he  was  never 
still.  If  he  were  in  the  pulpit  while  another  was  preaching  he  was 
sure  to  do  his  part  of  the  gesticulating  with  head  and  hands.  It 
has  been  remarked  of  him  that  he  had  much  of  the  actor  about  him. 
With  his  well  modulated  voice,  attitude,  and  features,  he  would  per- 
sonify any  emotion  with  masterly  power.  If  he  related  an  incident 
or  described  a  scene,  one  was  sure  to  see  what  he  saw.  He  was 
liberal  minded  and  of  a  generous  nature,  and  had  no  sympathy  with 
narrow-mindedness  and  bigotry,  he  loved  breadth  of  view  and  a 
generous  benevolence.  He  would  not  be  narrow,  he  could  not  be 
made  so,  and  many  young  teachers,  being  examined  for  their  first 
school,  had  reason  to  thank  him  for  adroitly  helping  them  out  of 
difficulties,  instead  of  allowing  them  to  fail  through  embarrassment 
or  confusion. 

As  a  preacher  he  was  beloved  not  only  by  his  own  parish,  but 
warmly  welcomed  by  all  the  churches  of  his  round  of  exchanges. 
His  voice  was  full  and  rich,  of  unusual  compass  and  variety,  and  he 
spoke  with  surpassing  intonation. 

A  member  of  his  congregation  said  of  him,  "I  never  knew  him 


MINISTRY.  319 

dull  in  the  utterance  of  a  sermon.  He  felt  an  interest  in  it  himself 
and  threw  that  interest  into  the  hearts  of  his  hearers.  Indeed,  I 
have  long  regarded  him  as  one  of  the  most  eloquent  speakers  to 
whom  I  ever  listened.  He  wad  practical  and  impressive,  and 
although  he  did  not  dwell  on  the  distinctive  doctrines  of  the  Bible, 
vet  its  doctrines  were  mingled  with  precept  as  the  leaven  pervades 
the  mass  in  which  it  is  hidden.  The  manner  of  his  delivery  was  so 
free,  so  far  removed  from  monotony,  and  uttered  in  a  voice  of  so 
wide  compass  and  which  even  in  a  whisper  would  fill  the  house, 
that  he  was  always  interesting." 

'  A  brother  minister  remarked  of  him :  "  He  was  one  of  the  brightest 
examples  of  Christian  cheerfulness,  hopefulness,  buoyancy,  courtesy, 
and  kindness  that  it  was  ever  my  privilege  to  know.  It  was  these 
natural  virtues  and  depths  of  sensibility  refined  by  his  education 
and  piety,  which  gave  to  his  public  utterances  at  times  a  most  ten- 
der and  melting  pathos.  I  have  often  listened  to  Brother  Savage 
when  he  seemed  to  have  lifted  the  flood  gates  of  his  heart  and 
poured  upon  his  audience  the  whole  tide  of  his  own  sensibilities, 
without  one  particle  of  reserve,  carrying  us  along  with  the  strong 
current  of  his  emotions.  His  expressions  were  choice  and  touching. 
He  breathed  out  his  own  emotions  in  the  most  classic  language  of 
the  ages." 

Another  minister  contemporary  with  him,  spoke  thus  of  his  life  in 
Bedford :  "  He  stood  at  the  center  of  the  influence  that  tended  to 
elevate  and  bless  the  staunch  and  excellent  town  of  Bedford.  For  a 
long  series  of  years  he  united  the  hearts  of  the  people  in  devotion  to 
the  highest  human  ends  and  the  glory  of  God.  With  mutual  and 
social  culture  he  was  ever  in  sympathy  with  all  the  people. 

As  the  years  rolled  past  Mr.  Savage  became  nmch  impressed  with 
the  fact  of  his  being  the  last  of  his  early  ministerial  circle,  and  by 
the  certainty  of  a  not  far  distant  departure  for  himself.  His  ser- 
mons partook  of  this  spirit,  and  in  one  of  them  after  preaching  from 
the  text,  "  We  all  do  fade  as  a  leaf,"  many  in  his  congregation  weep- 
ing from  beginning  to  end  of  the  sermon,  he  alluded  most  tenderly 
to  those  of  his  companions  who  had  gone  before  him,  and  said  with 
a  power  and  pathos  peculiarly  his  own : 

"  I  feel  like  one  who  treads  alone 
Some  banquet  hall  deserted, 
Whose  lights  are  fled,  whose  garlands  dead, 
And  all  but  me  departed." 

At  the  expiration  of  Mr.  Savage's  forty  years'  pastorate  a  celebra- 
tion was  held  in  commemoration  of  the  event.  Many  sons  and 
daughters  returned  to  then-  native  place  to  aid  in  honoring  then-  be- 
loved pastor.  Many  ministers  and  prominent  gentlemen  from  neigh- 
boring towns  Avere  also  present.  The  programme  for  the  day  was 
under  the  direction  of  John  A.  McGaw,  Esq.,  and  was  entertaining 
and  appropriate,  showing  the  esteem  in  which  Mr.  Savage  was  held 


320  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

by  his  people.  The  speeches  of  the  distinguished  gentlemen  present 
were  filled  with  wit  and  expressions  of  regard  for  the  aged  pastor 
of  the  church  who  had  labored  so  long  and  faithfully. 

The  last  years  of  Mr.  Savage's  life  are  beautifully  and  touchingly 
described  by  Rev.  Dr.  Wallace  in  his  memorial  address  : 

During  the  forty  years  of  our  acquaintance  I  never  saw  the  shadow 
of  a  cloud  resting  on  his  sunny  spirit.  The  closing  period  of  his  life 
seemed  like  the  evening  of  a  summer's  day,  when  all  is  calm  and 
quiet ;  when  the  sun  painting  in  beauty  and  brightness  the  hillside,, 
the  horizen,  the  cloud  lingering  near,  forming  a  golden  pathway  in 
which  to  sink  to  rest.  It  was  painful  for  him  to  lay  aside  the  work 
of  the  ministry.  But  as  his  fortieth  anniversary  drew  near  he  be- 
came convinced  that  the  same  Master  who  called  him  to  the  work 
bade  him  retire.  He  prepared  a  sermon  for  the  occasion  on  the  text, 
"  And  thou  shalt  remember  all  the  ways  which  the  Lord  thy  God  led 
thee  these  forty  years."  In  this  sermon  he  reviewed  his  long  pas- 
torate, recounted  the  dealings  of  God  with  him  and  his  people, 
ascribing  all  honor  to  sovereign  grace  for  the  success  which  had 
attended  his  ministry.  This  was  his  last  written  sermon.  He  closed 
with  these  lines  Avhich  for  beauty  and  adaptedness  are  seldom  sur-  - 
passed : 

"  Let  me  go,  the  day  is  breaking, 

Earthly  scenes  are  fading  fast, 
Joys  that  now  my  heart's  awaking, 

Hopes  and  fears  are  with  the  past. 
Earthly  missions  now  are  darkling, 

And  the  city's  golden  glow 
Gleams  before  me  pure  and  sparkling 

In  the  distance.    Let  me  go." 

ARTHUR  LITTLE. 

The  Rev.  Arthur  Little  was  born  in  Boscawen,  May  24,  1837, 
the  son  of  Simeon  B.  and  Harriet  (Boyd)  Little.  He  finished  his 
preparation  for  college  at  Kimball  Union  academy,  graduating  there 
in  July,  1856,  and  completed  the  course  at  Dartmouth  college  in 
1860.  He  began  his  theological  studies  at  Andover  Theological 
seminary,  remaining  there  one  year.  He  then  went  to  Princeton, 
but  before  a  year  was  completed,  entered  the  army  as  a  chaplain  in 
March,  1863.  He  was  in  the  military  service  nearly  two  and  a  half 
years,  serving  with  the  First  Vermont  Heavy  Artillery. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  at  Webster,  N.  H.,  March  16, 
1865.  He  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  Bed- 
ford, January  3, 1866,  and  remained  here  until  November,  1868,  when 
he  withdrew  to  accept  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional church  at  Fond  Du  Lac,  Wis.     His  next  charge  was  the  New 


MINISTRY.  321 

England  church  of  Chicago j  where  he  was  installed  in  February, 
1878.  He  came  to  the  Second  church  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  Jan- 
uary 30,  1889,  where  he  has  since  labored. 

Dartmouth  college  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity  in  1880.  He  served  one  term  as  moderator  of  the  Xational 
Congregational  Council,  and  has  been  twice  a  delegate  to  the 
International  Congregational  Council,  once  in  London  and  again  at 
Boston.  He  was  a  corporate  member  of  the  American  Board,  and 
president  of  Bradford  academy.  The  name  of  his  first  wife  was 
Laura  Elizabeth  Frost,  by  whom  he  had  one  child,  Mary,  wife  of 
John  M.  Thompson,  M.  D.,  of  Portland,  Me.  Later  he  married 
Elizabeth  A.  Wales,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

IRA  C.  TYSON. 

The  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Hallowell  Ty- 
son, was  born  March  3,  1830,  at  Whitemarsh,  Pa.  After  acquir- 
ing a  common  school  education  he  entered  the  office  of  the  Ger- 
mantown  Telegraph  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  learned  the 
printer's  trade,  at  which  he  worked  until  September,  1858.  He 
united  with  the  Market  Square  Presbyterian  church  in  1856,  and 
the  following  year  began  his  preparation  for  the  ministry,  studying 
Latin  and  Greek  under  the  tutorship  of  the  principal  of  German- 
town  academy.  In  September,  1858,  he  removed  to  New  York 
city,  completing  a  collegiate  course  under  a  private  tutor.  He  then 
entered  the  Union  Theological  seminary,  graduating  in  1862,  and 
was  licensed  by  the  Fourth  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia.  He  began 
preaching  at  Hughsonville,  N.  Y.,  July  5,  1862,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing October  was  ordained  and  installed  as  the  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  there.  He  came  to  Bedford  from  Hughsonville  in 
April,  1869,  and  was  installed  here  the  following  May  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Londonderry.  He  resigned  here  in  August,  1879,  and  was 
stated  supply  at  Londonderry,  where  he  was  installed  as  pastor  in 
June,  1881.  He  accepted  a  call  to  Jerseyville,  111.,  and  began  work 
there  June  1,  1883,  and  was  installed  in  the  September  following. 
He  remained  there  twelve  years,  when  he  suffered  a  slight  paralytic 
shock,  making  it  impossible  for  him  to  continue  the  work  of  so  large 
a  charge.  He  served  as  stated  supply  at  Shawneetown,  111.,  for  a 
time,  and  then  removed  to  Denver,  where  some  of  his  children  had 
located.  He  continued  to  preach  there  until  his  death  suddenly  of 
neuralgia  of  the  heart,  July  22,  1901. 
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322  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Mr.  Tyson  married  Fanny  L.  Hunt  of  Germantown,  May  16, 1853. 
She  died  January  22,  1857.  He  married  Henrietta  Sperling  of  New- 
York,  May  22,  1862,  who  still  survives  him.  By  the  latter  he  had 
five  children:  Edward  R.,  born  October  13,  1863,  and  died  April  h 
1874;  Louis  J.,  born  June-  25,  1865;  Fanny  L.,  born  March  25, 
1867  ;  Mary  L.,  born  January  8,  1870,  and  Charles  W.,  born  Janu- 
ary 16,  1875. 

Mr.  Tyson  served  four  years  as  stated  clerk  of  Boston  Presbytery, 
and  nine  years  as  stated  clerk  of  Alton  (111.)  Presbytery.  He  also 
served  as  moderator  of  all  the  Presbyteries  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected, and  was  once  moderator  of  the  Synod  of  New  York.  In 
1889  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  him  by 
Blackburn  university  of  New  York. 

Of  his  service  here  a  fellow  pastor  writes : 

It  was  my  privilege  and  joy  to  be  acquainted  with  the  Rev.  Ira 
C.  Tyson,  D.  D.,  for  nearly  the  entire  term  of  his  ministry,  and  inti- 
mately so  while  he  was  in  Bedford,  N.  H.,  as  we  then  both  belonged 
to  the  Boston  Presbytery,  of  which  he  was  for  many  years  the 
Stated  Clerk,  an  office  which  he  filled  with  great  acceptance. 

As  a  preacher  he  followed  closely  in  the  footsteps  of  the  Apostle 
Paul,  making  the  doctrines  of  Christ  and  Him  crucified  the  central 
thought  of  all  his  sermons,  never  however  neglecting  such  truths  as 
tended  to  build  up,  establish  and  strengthen  the  believer  and  develop 
in  him  the  Christ  manhood  and  the  Christ  spirit ;  while  as  a  com- 
forter of  the  sorrowing,  he  was  indeed  a  true  "  son  of  Consolation." 

As  a  pastor  he  gave  special  attention  to  the  music  of  the  church 
and  the  Sabbath  school.  For  this  he  was  preeminently  qualified, 
possessing,  by  nature  and  cultivation,  a  fine  voice  and  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  music. 

While  fully  consecrated  to  his  pulpit  and  pastoral  work,  he  was 
ever  ready  to  lend  a  helping  hand  to  all  civic  and  moral  reforms, 
especially  that  of  temperance ;  to  the  advancement  of  this  cause  he 
gave  much  time  and  thought.  This  was  very  noticeable  in  the  part 
he  took  in  arranging  for  a  New  England  Ministerial  convention, 
held  in  Boston  some  years  ago,  and  a  paper  which  he  read  at  that 
time  on  "The  Wines  of  Scripture"  showed  that  he  had  given  to 
that  and  kindred  questions  much  earnest  and  painstaking  study. 

But  as  with  our  brother  beloved, 

"  The  day  is  done,  the  shades  of  night'are  gathering  deeper, 
Hark!  from  the  skies  there  falls  the  voice  of  One! 
Lay  down  thy  task  and  rest,  my  royal  reaper, 
Thy  work  is  done." 

And  of  his  work  in  Jerseyville,  another  writes : 

It  is  with  pleasure  that  I  record  the  very  high  estimate  in  which 
Rev.  Dr.  I.  C.  Tyson  was  held  as  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian 


MINISTRY.  323 

church  in  Jerseyville,  111.,  for  fourteen  years — the  longest  pastorate 
this  church  and  the  Presbytery  with  which  it  was  connected  has 
ever  known.  Dr.  Tyson  was  looked  upon  by  all  as  eminently  a 
man  of  God ;  fully  consecrated  to  the  Gospel  Ministry ;  of  more 
than  ordinary  intellectual  power  that  could  grasp  and  hold  doc- 
trinal truth  in  its  simplicity  and  purity.  He  was  earnest  in  winning 
souls  to  Christ,  courteous  in  his  daily  intercourse  with  those  he  met 
socially,  and  ever  the  warm  friend  of  all  needing  a  friend.  .He 
shared  freely  of  his  means  in  acts  of  benevolence,  and  sympathized 
from  the  depth  of  a  warm  heart  with  those  who  sorrowed.  Like 
Paul,  he  determined  not  to  know  anything  among  us  save  Jesus 
Christ  and  him  crucified,  and  his  daily  walk  emphasized  his  public 
teaching. 

DANIEL   H.   COLCORD. 

The  Rev.  Daniel  H.  Colcord  was  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  January 
10, 1851,  son  of  Eben  Payson  and  Sarah  (Towne)  Colcord.  She  was 
of  the  seventh  generation  from  William  Towne,  of  Braceby,  Eng- 
land, who  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1640,  and  on  her  mother's  side, 
was  of  the  fourth  generation  from  Sarah  Putnam,  sister  of  Gen. 
Israel  Putnam.  Eben  P.  Colcord  was  a  descendant  of  Edward  Col- 
cord, who  settled  in  Dover,  1ST.  H.,  in  1632. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  third  son  and  eighth  and 
youngest  child  of  the  family.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Danvers,  and  graduated  from  Amherst  college  in  1878,  and  from 
Andover  seminary  in  1881. 

He  married  Pamelia  J.  Mudge  of  Danvers,  October  27,  1881. 
They  have  had  four  children,  Herbert  P.  and  Lucy  W.,  both  of 
whom  were  born  and  died  in  Bedford  at  an  early  age,  and  Ralph 
M.  and  Miriam  J.,  both  born  in  Monrovia,  Cal. 

Mr.  Colcord  became  pastor  of  the  Bedford  church  September  8, 
1881,  in  which  position  he  continued  until  April  13,  1887. 

ALBERT   D.   SMITH. 

The  Rev.  Albert  D.  Smith  was  born  in  Mercer,  Me.,  August  12, 
1855,  the  son  of  David  Welts  and  Emma  Willard  (Hibbard)  Smith. 
After  the  death  of  his  father  in  1872,  the  family  removed  to  West- 
boro,  Mass.,  where  he  prepared  for  college  in  the  high  school,  and 
entered  Amherst  in  1875,  graduating  in  1879.  For  the  six  years 
following  he  taught  school  in  Granby  and  Holliston,  Mass.,  and 
Peterborough,  X.  H.     In    1885  he   entered  Andover   Theological 


324  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

seminary,  graduating  in  1888.  In  July  of  that  year  he  came  to 
Bedford  and  on  October  18  was  ordained  here  to  the  Congregational 
ministry,  and  he  remained  here  as  acting  pastor  until  the  close  of 
August,  1892,  when  he  had  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the 
Congregational  church  of  East  Longmeadow,  Mass.  He  remained 
there  four  years,  when  he  went  to  Northboro,  Mass.,  where  he  was 
installed  in  September,  1896,  and  where  he  is  still  stationed. 

November  15,  1888,  he  married  Ellen  S.  Taylor  of  Granby,  Mass., 
a  graduate  of  Mt.  Holyoke  seminary.  Their  only  child  was  born  in 
Bedford,  December  13,  1889,  and  bears  the  name  of  Howard  Taylor 
Smith. 

CHARLES    H.   FIELDS. 

The  Rev.  Charles  H.  Fields  was  born  in  Enfield,  111.,  June  4, 
1859.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the  place,  complet- 
ing his  educational  training  at  the  Southern  Illinois  college.  He 
became  acting  pastor  of  the  Bedford  Presbyterian  church,  October  15, 
1893,  and  was  given  his  dismissal,  March  15,  1896.  He  is  now 
living  at  Enfield,  111. 

WILLIAM   CALVIN   LINDSAY. 

The  Rev.  William  C.  Lindsay  was  born  at  Lin  coin  ton,  N.  C, 
August  21,  1863.  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  W.  and  Martha  C. 
(Adams)  Lindsay.  His  father  was  a  graduate  of  the  Jefferson 
Medical  college  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  captain  of  Co.  K,  49th 
N.  C.  Confederate  Army. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  obtained  his  educational  training  at  the 
Virginia  Military  institute  and  the  Virginia.  Theological  seminary. 
While  residing  in  Bedford,  he  took  a  summer  course  in  theology 
at  Harvard,  and  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  D.  from  the 
University  of  North  Carolina. 

While  a  student  at  the  Theological  seminary,  he  served  as  stated 
supply  of  Trinity  church  at  Manassas,  Va.,  for  two  years.  He  was 
ordained  by  Greenbrier  Presbytery,  Hinton,  W.  Va.,  June  21,  1890. 
He  served  as  pastor  of  the  Holmes  church  at  Bay  View,  Va.,  for 
four  years,  and  the  church  at  Bluefield,  W.  Va.,  for  three  years. 
From  this  charge  he  resigned  to  take  missionary  work  under  the 
Boston  Presbytery,  and  after  being  stationed  at  Fall  River  for  three 
months,  came  to  Bedford,  in  November,  1897.  He  was  installed  as 
pastor  here  in  May  following  by  a  commission  of  the  Boston  Pres- 


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bytery.  While  here  he  served  as  president  of  the  Manchester 
Ministerial  association,  of  the  Deny  Presbyterian  and  Congrega- 
tional association,  and  of  the  Hillsborough  County  Sunday-school 
association. 

He  went  to  Starke,  Fla.,  January  1,  1899,  and  served  as  mission- 
ary one  year,  when  he  responded  to  a  pastoral  call  at  Biloxi,  Miss. 
In  November,  1902,  he  accepted  a  call  at  Ocala,  Fla. 

He  married  Martha  Beauregard  McConihay  of  Winnifrede, 
W.  Va.,  and  they  have  four  children,  Earl,  Lucile,  Lois,  and  Julia 
Gordon,  the  last  named  born  in  Bedford. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  orders  and  an  Odd  Fellow,  also  a 
Son  of  Confederate  Veterans. 

He  served  as  a  commissioner  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Churches  in  the  United  States  at  Jackson,  Miss.,  in 
May,  1902,  and  was  elected  moderator  of  the  Meridian  (Miss.) 
Presbytery  in  1902. 

ALBERT   P.   WATSON. 

The  Rev.  Albert  P.  Watson  was  born  at  Barrington,  N.  H., 
November  12,  1875,  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Albert  Watson  and  Mary 
M.  (Priestly)  Watson.  He  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  of 
Hampstead,  Kimball  Union  academy,  and  graduated  from  Dartmouth 
college  in  1897.  He  then  took  a  three  years'  course  at  Andover 
Theological  seminary,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Andover 
association  in  June,  1899.  He  came  to  Bedford  in  June,  1900,  and 
was  ordained  September  25  following,  President  William  J.  Tucker 
of  Dartmouth  college  preaching  the  ordination  sermon.  He  is 
unmarried. 

The  following  is  the  list  of  ministers  who  have  served  the  society, 
and  the  length  of  their  service : 

INSTALLED.  NAME.  DISMISSED.  SERVED. 

Sept.  28, 1757,  Rev.  John  Houston,            Oct.  1,  1778.  21  years. 

Sept.    5,  1804,  Rev.  David  McGregore,      April  27,  1825.  21 

July     5,  1826,  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,         Jan.  3,  1866.  40 

Jan.      3,  1866,  Rev.  Arthur  Little,  D.  D.,  Sept.  22,  1868.  2 

May      6,  1869,  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  D.  D.,  Aug.  1,  1879.  10 

Sept.     8,  1881,  Rev.  Daniel  H.  Colcord,     April  13,  1887.  6 

*July    22,  1888,  Rev.  Albert  D.  Smith,        Aug.  28,  1892.  4 

Oct.     15,  1893,  Rev.  Charles  H.  Fields,     Mar.  15,  1896.  3 

*Nov.  29,  1896,  Rev.  W.C.Lindsay, Ph.D.,Dec.  30,  1899.  3 
Sept.         1900,  Rev.  Albert  P.  Watson. 

*  Began  labor. 


The   Meeting-House. 


At  the  first  settlement  of  the  town,  immediately  after  the  old 
burying  ground  was  located,  a  long  time  before  any  portion  of  the 
town  had  been  taken  off  to  enlarge  the  town  of  Merrimack,  the 
inhabitants  were  anxious  to  have  a  meeting-house.  The  purpose  of 
the  meeting-house  was  not  only  to  afford  a  place  for  the  transaction 
of  the  political  affairs  of  the  settlement,  but  also  to  serve  as  a  place 
of  worship. 

Without  a  suitable  place  of  worship,  the  privileges  of  religion 
cannot  well  be  enjoyed.  This  they  early  felt ;  it  became  a  frequent 
subject  of  discussion ;  and  it  was  unanimously  agreed  to  build  the 
house  on  a  rise  of  land  north  of  the  old  graveyard,  which  took  the 
name  of  Meeting-house  hill,  and  is  so  called  to  this  day.  The  town 
of  Merrimack  had  been  incorporated  in  1745,  and  a  large  tract  of 
land  had  been  taken  off,  on  the  southern  part  of  Bedford,  to  enlarge 
the  town  of  Merrimack.  On  this  account, the  inhabitants  of  Narra- 
gansett  No.  5,  or  Bedford,  were  under  the  necessity  of  changing 
their  location  for  a  place  of  worship  to  one  more  central. 

At  a  meeting  held  at  Matthew  Patten's  barn,  January  24,  1750, 
it  was, 

Voted, — To  build  a  meeting-house,  either  at  the  east  or  west  side 
of  the  Bell  hill,  so  called,  on  the  9th  or  10th  range,  provided  John 
Bell  and  John  McLaughlin  would  give  2  acres  of  land,  accom- 
modated also  with  a  road-land. 

Mr.  J.  Bell,  the  father,  it  is  said,  lived  on  lot  No.  9,  at  the  west 
end,  where  the  ruins  of  an  old  cellar  are  still  (1850)  seen.  John 
McLaughlin  lived  at  the  east  end  of  said  hill,  on  lot  No.  10,  and 
the  old  road  lay  near  where  the  brick  schoolhouse  now  stands,  on 
lot  No.  10,  and  ran  up  on  the  brow  of  the  west  end  of  the  hill. 

Not  being  able  to  agree  on  which  of  the  two  places  the  house 
should  be  built,  at  a  town-meeting,  called  April  15th,  1752, 
"Voted, — That  Capt.  Andrew  Todd,  Capt.  John  Mitchell,  and 
Lieut.  Robert  Cochran,  all  of  Londonderry,  be  a  committee  to  locate 
the  spot,  at  the  east  or  west  end  of  Bell  hill,  on  lot  No.  9  or  10." 


THE   MEETING-HOUSE.  327 

At  an  adjourned  meeting,  held  Thursday,  May  7,  1752,  the  above 
committee  made  their  report,  as  follows : 

To  the  Proprietors,  freeholders,  and  inhabitants,  of  Bedford: 
Gentlemen, — That,  whereas  you  were  pleased  to  choose  us,  the 
Subscribers,  a  Committee  to  judge  in  regard  of  two  places  to  set 
your  meeting-house  on,  (viz)  at  the  east  or  west  end  of  Mr.  Bell's 
hill ;  and  our  judgment  is  this,  That  we  look  upon  the  east  end  of 
said  hill,  at  or  near  where  the  Stake  stood,  to  be  the  most  con- 
venient place ;  and  for  this  or  these  reasons, — Because  it  is  a  little 
more  convenient  for  the  present  inhabitants,  who  have  borne  the 
burden  and  heat  of  the  day ;  and  we  look  upon  the  west  end  of  the 
hill  to  be  but  a  piece  of  poor,  dry,  barren  ground,  and  exceedingly 
much  exposed  to  the  west  and  north-west  winds,  very  hard  to  be 
suffered  here  in  this,  our  cold  climate.  And,  gentlemen,  this  is  our 
joint  judgment  in  regard  of  these  two  places,  and  hope  you  will  be 
as  unanimous  about  the  place,  as  we  have  been,  which  is  from, 
Gentlemen,  your  hearty  and  sincere  friends, 

Andrew  Todd, 
John  Mitchell, 
Robert  Cochrax. 

(Directed)  "To  Mr.  Samuel  Patten,  Moderator  of  a  meeting  to  be 
holden  the  seventh  day  of  May,  next,  by  adjournment,  at  Bedford. 
To  be  communicated." 

At  this  meeting,  the  old  building  committee  was  dismissed  and  a 
new  one  appointed,  but  nothing  was  accomplished  till  1754,  when 
this  committee  also  was  dismissed,  and  a  new  one  appointed.  At  a 
meeting  held  at  William  Holmes'  barn,  on  Monday,  April  15,  1754, 
a  new  location  was  contemplated,  on  land  of  Noah  Thayer.  In  the 
meantime  the  last  committee  had  got  a  house-frame  hewed  and 
drawn  to  the  west  side  of  the  Bell  hill,  near  where  Joseph  Bell's 
cider  mill  used  to  stand,  on  lot  No.  9.  Here  the  frame  lay  until  a 
meeting  was  called  at  John  Bell's  barn,  September  22,  1755,  when 
it  was 

Voted  unanimously,  That  all  votes  and  conclusions  that  have  been 
voted  and  concluded,  concerning  fixing  a  place  to  build  a  meeting- 
house on  in  this  town,  be,  and  hereby  are,  null  and  void. 

These  particulars  are  given  to  show  that  the  people  encountered 
the  usual  difficulties  in  deciding  on  a  building  spot.  They  even  put 
an  article  into  the  town  warrant  at  the  above  meeting  to  refer  the 
subject  to  a  committee  from  the  general  court,  but  it  was  decided 
in  the  negative.     At  the  above  meeting, 

Voted,  unanimously,  That  the  meeting-house  be  built  on  a  piece 
of  land  which  William  Moor  bought,  from  Noah  Thayer  for  the  town 


328  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

for  that  purpose,  and  being  part  of  Nos.  13  and  14,  in  the    10th 
range,  in  said  Bedford. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  deed  from  Noah  Thayer  to  William 
Moor : 

Consideration  of  £  1.  6s.  Lawful  money,  in  behalf  of  Bedford 
town.  A  certain  piece  of  land  in  Bedford,  containing  1^  acres  and 
sixteen  rods,  by  measure,  lying  in  the  13th  and  14th  lots,  in  10th 
range,  said  piece  of  land  being  13  rods  in  length,  and  12  rods  in 
breadth,  each  line  being  strait.  Said  piece  being  9  rods  on  13th  lot, 
and  4  rods  on  14th  lot,  which  makes  the  length  of  said  piece  of  land, 
including  the  highway,  of  3  rods  from  the  said  lot  to  the  9th  range, 
between  said  13th  and  14th  lots ;  said  piece  of  land  being  intended 
for  the  use  of  the  said  town  of  Bedford,  for  a  meeting  house  for  the 
worship  of  God  in  that  place,  and  other  public  use  in  said  town,  to 
be  and  be  held. 

(Dated,)   13th  September,  1755. 

Lib.  52,  Fol.  348. 

This  effort  was  successful.  The  meeting-house  was  raised  on  the 
spot  last  designated,  where  it  now  stands  (1850),  on  the  14th  and 
15th  of  October,  1755.  A  man  by  the  name  of  Warren  hewed  the 
frame.  The  first  day  they  raised  the  house  up  to  the  plates,  and 
put  on  all  the  beams  but  two ;  the  second  day  finished  raising.  It 
was  40  by  50  feet,  and  two  stories  high.  The  meeting-house  was 
finished  very  gradually,  as  will  appear  by  the  following  votes,  which 
are  given  here,  as  matter  of  curiosity,  and  as  furnishing  a  striking 
contrast  with  the  modern  railroad  despatch  in  doing  business :. 

March  13th,  1757.  "Voted, — That  Capt.  Moses  Barron,  Robert 
Walker,  and  Samuel  Patten,  be  a  committee  for  boarding,  and 
shingling  the  meeting-house."  S.  Patten  declined,  and  William 
Moor  was  put  in  his  place.  John  Bell,  jr.,  and  John  Wallace,  were 
a  committee  to  provide  glass  and  sashes ;  Hugh  Riddle  was  em- 
ployed to  underpin  and  do  the  stone-work. 

June  6,  1760.  "Voted, — Benjamin  Smith,  Gawn  Riddle,  and 
James  Little,  be  a  committee  to  seat  the  meeting-house  with  long 
seats  " — males  probably  on  one  side  of  the  house,  and  females  on  the 
other.  "  Seating  the  house,"  as  the  phrase  was,  was  an  annual  cus- 
tom in  some  parts  of  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut.  The  members 
of  the  congregation  were  seated  every  year,  according  to  age,  rank 
or  property.  The  chief  seat  was  the  first  pew  at  the  right  hand, 
entering  at  the  front  door. 

January  16,  1764.  "Voted, — To  build  a  pulpit,  and  that  Mat- 
thew Patten,  John  Wallace,  and  John  Bell,  be  a  committee  to  build 
it."     Thomas  Warren  made  the  pulpit  in  1766. 

March,  1767.  "  Voted, — That  the  same  committee  who  built  the 
pulpit,  paint  it,  and  paint  it  the  same  color  the  Rev.  Mr.  McGre- 
gore's  is,  in  Londonderry." 


1755— OLD    MEETING-HOUSE;     1832-1876— OLD    TOWN    HOUSE. 


THE   MEETING-HOUSE.  329 

It  appears  that  glass  and  oil  for  the  meeting-house  had  been  ob- 
tained some  time  in  1766,  but  not  wishing  to  use  it  then,  it  had  been 
lent  out  to  the  various  inhabitants  of  the  town  by  Matthew  Little. 
The  following  may  seem  too  minute  for  insertion  here,  but  as  a 
transcript  of  the  times  and  showing  the  estimation  put  upon  glass  in 
those  times,  when  it  was  scarce  and  costly,  it  may  not  be  without 
interest : 

June,  1768.  "The  meeting-house  glass  lent  out:  Matthew  Lit- 
tle's account  of  the  same.  David  Moore  had  from  Matthew  Little, 
six  squares  of  the  meeting  house  glass  ;  Daniel  Moor  had  4  squares 
of  the  same,  Dea.  Gillmore  had  of  the  same,  24  squares.  November 
20, 1768,  The  Rev.  Mr.  John  Houston,  had  24  squares  of  the  same ; 
Hugh  Campbell  had  12  squares  of  the  same ;  Dea.  Smith  is  to  pay 
Whitfield  Gillmore  6  squares  of  the  same ;  James  Wallace  had  15 
squares  of  the  same ;  John  Bell  had  9  squares  of  the  same ;  Joseph 
Scobey,  one  quart  of  oil. 

"  A  true  record : 

Attest,  William  White,  Town  Clerk? 

November  22,  1773,  "Article  2;  to  see  what  method  the  town 
will  take  to  rais  money  for  to  get  and  make  pews  or  seats  or  part  of 
both,  in  the  meeting  house,  or  choose  any  other  method  they  shall 
think  proper  to  repair  seats  in  meeting  house."* 

"  Article  three ;  to  choose  a  committee  to  provide  stuffs  and  to  see 
the  work  completed  if  the  repairing  said  meeting  house  is  voted  to 
be  carried  on." 

It  was  voted  in  December  of  1773,  "To  repair  the  meeting  house, 
to  make  wall  pews  all  round  the  meeting  liouse  and  two  pews  on 
each  side  of  the  alley  in  the  back  of  the"     (Record  illegible.) 

"  Voted ;  The  pew  ground  to  be  laid  out  and  numbred  and  to  be 
sold  at  vendue  to  the  highest  bidder  and  the  money  thereof  raised 
by  the  sale  of  said  pews  to  be  applied  for  the  repairing  of  the  meet- 
ing house." 

In  the  warrant  for  the  meeting  of  March  27,  1782,  there  was  an 
article  "  To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  that  those  persons  that  profess 
the  Congregational  preswasion  may  have  the  opertunity  to  dispose 
of  then*  proportion  of  money  as  they  see  proper  for  to  hire  preach- 
ing the  present  year."    But  the  article  was  "  passed  in  the  negative." 

At  the  town  meeting  of  October  31,  1782,  it  was  voted  "To  re- 
ceive 38  old  Continental  dollars  from  John  Bell  which  he  received 
from  Major  John  Goff  in  behalf  of  the  town  June  17,  1778,  to  pay 
Winthrop  Wiggins  for  work  done  on  the  meeting  house  sd.  Wig- 
gins having  refused  to  receive  sd.  money." 

April  14,  1784.  "Voted  that  the  wall  pew  ground  in  the  meet- 
ing house  be  lotted  out  and  sold."  "Voted  to  sell  the  pew  ground 
to  the  town  inhabitants  only."  "  Voted  that  the  money  raised  by 
the  sale  be  expended  in  finishing  the  meeting  house  and  that  if  there 


330  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

shall  be  more  money  than  enough  to  finish  the  meeting  house  that 
the  same  be  expended  on  supplying  the  pulpit."  "  Voted  one  con- 
dition of  the  sale  be  that  the  purchaser  shall  not  be  allowed  to  sell 
it  to  any  person  unless  an  inhabitant  of  Bedford."  "  Voted  James 
Wallace,  Lieut.  Sam  Vose  and  Capt.  John  Dunlap  be  a  committee 
to  lay  out  into  lots  the  pew  ground  and  number  the  same  and  the 
pews  already  built."  "  Voted  that  the  vendue  for  the  above  pur- 
pose be  at  the  meeting  house  on  the  last  Tuesday  of  May  next  at 
ten  o'clock."  "  Voted  Lieut.  Sam  Vose  to  be  vendue  master." 
"  Voted  that  one  fourth  of  the  money  any  lot  shall  be  sold  for  shall 
be  paid  down  and  a  note  received  for  three  fourths  on  interest  on 
demand." 

May  25,  1784.  "  Voted  that  there  be  four  more  pews  built  in  the 
body  of  the  meeting  house."  "  Voted  to  choose  a  committee  to 
finish  the  building  of  the  meeting  house,  and  that  Lieut.  Samuel 
Vose,  Zechariah  Chandler  and  Stephen  Dole  be  the  committee  for 
that  purpose." 

August  27,  1784.  "Voted  to  plaster  the  whole  of  the  top  &  sides 
of  the  meeting  house  &  to  have  part  of  the  garret  fixed  with  joists  and 
boards  for  the  town  store  of  arms  and  amunition."  "  Voted  to  re- 
pair and  paint  the  outside  of  the  house."  "  Voted  that  there  be  a 
partition  with  boards  in  the  middle  of  the  front  gallery." 

Articles  of  sale  of  Pewrs  and  Pew  Ground  in  Bedford  Meeting 
House  Agreeable  to  the  votes  of  Said  Town  Recorded  in  this  (Town 
Records)  Book  page  293  &  294 

Article  1st.  The  Inhabitants  of  Bedford  only  Shall  have  a  right 
to  bid  for  Said  Pews  or  Pew  Ground. 

2nd.  The  highest  bidders  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Bedford  who  shall 
fulfil  These  articles  of  Sale  is  to  be  esteemed  the  Purchaser. 

3rd.  The  one  fourth  Part  of  the  Price  of  any  Pew  or  Pew  Ground 
is  to  be  Paid  down  in  Money  the  other  three  fourths  a  Note  upon 
Demand  with  Interest. 

4th.  The  Said  Pews  are  to  be  Built  uniform  by  the  Purchasers. 

5th.  All  Future  Sales  of  Said  PewTs  or  Pew  Ground  is  hereby 
Confin'd  to  the  Inhabitants  of  Bedford. 

6th.  if  any  Dispute  Should  arise  respecting  two  bids  upon  any 
Pew  or  Pew  Ground  then  the  Same  to  be  Set  up  again. 

7th.  if  any  Bidder  Should  Refuse  or  neglect  to  perform  any  of 
These  Articles  of  Sale  then  the  Same  Pew  to  be  set  up  again. 

8th.  the  Vendue  Master  is  to  have  an  Equal  Right  of  Bidding 
with  other  Inhabitants. 

9th.  all  bids  are  to  be  understood  in  Lawful  money  and  nothing 
Less  than  one  Shilling  to  be  Esteemed  a  bid. 

10th.  The  First  highest  Bidder  is  to  have  his  first  Choice  of  Pews 
Excepting  the  Ministerial  Pew,  who  shall  Immediately  make  his 
Choice  and  have  his  name  wrote  in  the  plan  of  his  Pew,  and  the 
Second  highest  Bidder  Shall  have  his  Choice  of  the  Pews  not  sold 
and  so  on,  in  like  manner  until  all  are  Sold. 


THE   MEETING-HOUSE. 


331 


11th.  Josiah  Gillis  is  appointed  Clark  for  Said  Vendue. 
12th.  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose  is  appointed  Vendue- Master  For  Said 
Vendue. 

13th.  That  the  Pews  be  Built  by  the  purchasers  Within  Six 
Months  from  the  Sale 

Samuel  Vose 

James  Wallace  Committee. 

Jonx  Dunlap 
Bedford  September  1785 

A  True  Record  Attest  Josiah  Gillis  Town  Clerk. 

The  Sale  of  the  Pews  and  Pew  Ground  in  Bedford  meeting 
House  Sold  at  Vendue  by  the  Committee  Chosen  by  Sd.  town  for 
Said  purpose. 

•  Dollars 

was  probably  the  minister's  pew 
Struck  off  to  Samuel  Gerish  at 
to  Stephen  Dole  at 


Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 
Xo. 


34 
35 

To  John  Kiddle  at  36 

To  James  Moor  at  32 

To  Robert  Houston  at  28  1/2 

To  William  Moor  Jun.  at  23  1/2 

8  To  John  McKinney  at  36 

9  To  Robert  Alexander  at  35 

10  To  Jno.  Burns  Jun.  at  34 
Xo.  11  To  Wm.  Burns  at  34 
Xo.  12  To  Adam  Dickev  at  26 
Xo.  13  To  Patrick  Flvng  at  24  1/6 
Xo.  14  To  Jno.  Wallace  Esq.  at  27  1/2 
Xo.  15  To  Dn.  Matthew  Miller  at  35 
Xo.  16  To  James  Smith  at  35 
Xo.  17  To  John  Aiken  Sen.  at  35 
Xo.  18  To  Samuel  Patterson  at  36 
Xo.  19  To  Capt.  Jno.  Dunlap  at  27 
Xo.  20  To  Capt.  James  Aiken  at  30 
Xo.  21  To  Isaac  Riddle  at  34 
Xo.  22  To  Zech.  Chandler  at  35 
Xo.  23  To  Jno.  Aiken  Jun.  at  34 
Xo.  24  To  Jno.  Orr  at  34 
Xo.  25  To  Adam  Smith  34 
Xo.  26  To  Samuel  Vose  at  33 
Xo.  27  To  Stephen  Dole  at  33 


Sale  of  the  Pew  Ground  on  the  Gallery. 

Xo.  1     Struck  off  to  Capt.  James  Aiken  at  10  2/6 

Xo.  2     To  Ensign  Chubbuck  at  8  3/6 

Xo.  3     To  Lieut.  Jno.  Orr  at  8  4/6 

Xo.  4     To  Adam  Dickey  at  10  4/6 


332 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


No.  5     To  James  Underwood  at  8  0/ 

No.  6     To  James  McLaughlin  at  6 

No.  7     To  Joseph  Patten  at  13  1/6 

No.  8     To  Stephen  Dole  at  7  2/6 

No.  9     To  James  Walker  at  13 

No.  10  To  Josiah  Gillis  at  7  3/6 

No.  11  To  Joseph  Houston  at  9  1/6 

No.  12  To  James  Wallace  at  11  2/6 

No.  13  To  Joseph  McLaughlin  at  9  4/6 

No.  14  To  Maj.  Jno.  Goffe  at  10  2/6 

No.  15  To  John  Bell  at  5  2/6 

No.  16  To  Jno.  Wallace  Jun.  at  8  1/6 

Recorded  Sept.  27th  1785 

Pr.  Josiah  Gillis  Town  Clerk. 

A  True  Record  Attest  Josiah  Gillis  Town  Clerk. 

In  about  twenty  years  from  its  beginning  the  house  was  com- 
pleted, and  being  finished  according  to  vote,  all  the  pews,  except 
the  minister's  (and  his  name  was  put  on  that)  were  sold  to  the 
highest  bidder.  Major  John  Dunlap  was  the  man  who  finished  the 
pews.  There  were  27  sold  on  the  ground  floor ;  the  highest  selling 
at  $36  and  the  lowest  at  $23.50.  In  the  gallery,  16  pews  were  sold ; 
highest  price,  $13.16  2/3;  lowest,  $5.33  1/3. 

April  16,  1789.  "Voted  to  build  2  porches,  one  at  the  east  and 
the  other  at  the  west  end  of  the  meeting  house.  Voted  to  underpin 
the  meeting  house  with  hewn  stone  from  the  north  east  or  east  end 
porch  round  the  south  side  to  the  northwest  corner  or  west  end 
porch." 

The  town  meeting  of  May  28,  1789  voted  to  postpone  the  finish- 
ing of  the  meeting  house  from  this  present  year,  and  the  committee 
secure  said  house  from  taking  further  damage  at  their  discretion. 

March  6,  1793.  "  Voted  to  remit  Elisha  Lincoln's  tax  in  Josiah 
Gordon's  list.  And  all  taxes  against  said  Elisha  Lincoln  made  prior 
to  this  date,  remaining  unpaid  we  vote  to  be  remitted  on  condition 
that  he  help  Amos  Gardner  to  sweep  the  meeting  house." 

January  5,  1792.  Voted  "  To  Buy  green  Velvet  to  Cover  the 
Cushing  Belonging  To  the  Pulpit  in  bedford  and  likewise  on  the 
right  and  left  of  where  the  Minister  Stands." 

September  5,  1799.     "  Voted  to  buy  a  new  moar  cloth."  * 

August  30,  1802.  "  Voted  that  the  pews  mentioned  in  the  6th 
article  (the  two  corner  pews  on  the  front  of  the  gallery)  of  the  fore- 
going warrant  be  sold  at  auction  to  the  highest  bidder."  "  Voted 
that  Phineas  Aiken  sell  said  pews  at  some  future  meeting  and  give 

1  Mort-cloth,  the  pall  carried  at  a  funeral.    Encyclopedic  Dictionary.    It  was  used 
for  years  to  cover  the  coffin  when  placed  upon  the  bier. 


THE   MEETING-HOUSE.  333 

the  purchaser  or  purchasers  a  quit  claim  deed  in  behalf  of  said 
town." 

September  30,  1802.  "pursuant  to  a  vote  of  the  town  authoriz- 
ing the  subscriber  to  sell  the  two  corner  pews  on  the  front  gallery  in 
the  meeting  house  in  said  town,  I  have  on  this  30th  day  of  Septem- 
ber, 1802,  proceeded  and  sold  said  pews  at  public  auction  to  the 
highest  bidder.  The  pew  joining  on  the  west  end  of  the  pew  set 
aside  to  the  singers  was  struck  off  to  Jacob  Sprake  [sic]  Sprague,  at 
thirty-three  dollars,  and  the  pew  joining  on  the  East  end  of  said 
singers  pew  was  struck  off  to  Captain  Thomas  Chandler  at  $43,  for 
which  sum  the  said  Sprake  and  Chandler  have  given  their  notes." 

Phineas  Aikex. 

March  3,  1802.  "  Voted  to  build  a  pewT  on  the  front  gallery  in 
the  meeting  house  for  the  singers." 

March  22,  1803.  "The  use  of  the  ministerial  pew  in  the  meeting 
house  in  said  towm,  being  put  to  vendue  to  the  highest  bidder,  was 
struck  off  to  John  C.  White  for  $6.60  for  one  year  from  the  second 
day  of  April  next." 

In  the  warrant  for  the  meeting  of  May  24,  1803,  there  was  an 
article  "  To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  move  the  meeting  house 
now  in  the  town  of  Bedford  from  where  it  stands  and  set  it  in  the 
centre  of  said  town,  or  cause  a  new  meeting  house  to  be  set  in  the 
centre  of  the  said  town  large  enough  to  hold  all  the  inhabitants  of 
said  town,  and  to  see  if  the  town  will  choose  a  Committee  or  Com- 
mittees to  find  the  centre  of  said  Bedford  and  to  transact  any  busi- 
ness relative  to  moving  the  meeting  house  as  the  inhabitants  of  said 
town  may  see  fit  to  direct,  so  that  said  business  may  be  carried  into 
effect."  But  it  was  "  Voted  neither  to  move  the  meeting  house,  nor 
build  a  new  one,  nor  choose  a  Committee  to  find  the  centre  of  the 
town." 

However,  on  August  31,  1803,  it  was  "Voted  to  choose  a  com- 
mittee to  find  the  centre  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  and  that  Mr. 

McKinney,  of  Merrimack ;  Greeley,  Esq.  of  Hopkinton  and 

Samuel  Chase,  Jr.  of  Litchfield  be  said  committee  to  find  the  centre 
of  the  town  of  Bedford.  Also  voted  that  Capt.  George  Shepard  and 
David  McQuesten,  Esqrs.,  attend  upon  the  said  Committee  when 
doing  said  business."  However,  in  the  meeting  of  September  26, 
1803,  these  votes  were  all  reconsidered. 

March  9,  1813.  "voted  to  sell  the  ground  on  the  lower  floor  in 
the  meeting  house  on  which  the  two  South  body  seats  now  stand  on 
each  side  of  the  broad  alley,  for  the  purpose  of  building  pews  there- 
on, and  that  the  third  seat,  counting  from  the  South,  be  moved  to 
the  North  three  inches,  in  order  to  enlarge  the  pew  ground." 

"  Voted  that  the  selectmen  sell  the  above  pew  ground  at  vendue 
to  the  highest  bidder  on  one  year's  credit  at  good  security.  Part  of 
this  space  was  sold  to  James  Darrah,  Jr.,  for  $42.75,  and  a  part  to 
Leonard  C.  French  for  $38.75,  a  part  also  to  William  Chandler  for 
$42.75,  and  another  part  to  Solomon  Gage  for  $40.25." 


334  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

In  1813  some  of  the  long  seats  for  the  aged  were  made  into  body 
pews. 

In  1838  the  old  meeting-house  was  remodeled,  the  lower  part 
being  appropriated  for  a  town  house,  and  the  upper  part  for  a  school- 
room and  selectmen's  room.  The  estimated  expense  was  $530.32. 
The  house  was  turned  round  and  moved  back  twenty-five  or  thirty 
feet.  The  whole  work  was  not  completed  till  August,  1839,  when  it 
was  voted  to  let  the  lower  part  for  public  worship  and  the  upper 
part  for  a  school-room. 

The  old  meeting-house,  or,  as  it  was  called  after  the  building  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  in  1832,  the  town  house,  continued  in  use 
as  a  town  meeting-house  until  1876,  when  it  was  removed  and  the 
present  structure  erected. 

The  interior  arrangement  of  the  old  meeting-house,  prior  to  the 
changes  of  1838  was  as  follows :  The  building  was  of  two  stories. 
In  the  upper  story  was  the  gallery,  which  ran  around  three  sides. 
The  pulpit  occupied  the  north  side.  This  was  a  high  structure  with 
a  sounding  board  and  window  back  of  it.  It  was  entered  by  a  wind- 
ing flight  of  stairs  and  was  unpainted.  Below  the  pulpit  and  in 
front  of  it,  facing  the  congregation,  were  the  deacons'  seats.  Between 
the  deacons'  seats  and  the  pews  was  an  open  space  in  which  the 
communion  table  was  set.  To  it  came  the  members  who  were  enti- 
tled to  seats  there,  upon  presenting  to  the  tything-men  the  "  tokens," 
which  were  distributed  at  the  preparatory  lecture.  Without  the 
"  token "  no  member  of  the  church  was  admitted  to  communion. 
The  "  tokens  "  were  small  circular  pieces  of  lead  about  three-fourths 
of  an  inch  in  diameter  and  an  eighth  of  an  inch  thick.  They  were 
stamped  with  a  letter  B.,  for  Bedford.  The  communion  service  was 
of  pewter  and  is  still  preserved  in  town.  The  pews  were  square 
enclosures  with  seats  on  all  sides  save  where  the  door  entered.  There 
was  an  open  space  or  lattice  work  running  around  above  the  top  of 
the  pew  back.  From  the  top  of  this  lattice  to.  the  floor  was  about 
four  feet.  The  seats  were  loose  boards  which  tipped  up  when  the 
congregation  rose  to  sing.  When  they  sat  down  again  the  noise  of 
the  falling  seats  filled  the  house.  The  gallery  was  entered  by  nights 
of  stairs  at  the  southeast  and  southwest  corners.  The  congregation 
entered  by  doors  on  the  south,  east,  and  west  sides.  From  the  south 
door  a  broad  aisle  led  directly  to  the  pulpit ;  the  floor  was  level.  On 
the  east  and  west  sides  the  door  of  entrance  gave  on  an  aisle  which 
ran  completely  around  the  building  in  front  of  the  wall  pews,  which 


THE   MEETING-HOUSE.  335 

were  located  between  it  and  the  walls.  The  tything-man  probably 
sat  near  the  south  door.  He  carried  a  long  round  pole  with  a  turned 
gilt  head.  Most  every  family  dog  came  to  meeting  on  Sunday  and 
sometimes  sat  in  his  pew  and  sometimes  strolled  through  the  aisles. 
In  consequence  the  Sunday  service  was  occasionally  interrupted  by 
a  dog  fight.  This  must  have  been  the  reason  for  the  vote  "that 
John  Patten  be  instructed  to  keep  the  dogs  out  of  the  meeting- 
house." 

Lieut.  John  Patten,  having  been  recently  married,  was  elected 
tything-man,  writh  the  intention  on  the  part  of  his  friends  of  thus 
placing  him  in  an  embarrassing  position.  He  had  made  a  small 
hatchet  and  a  hook  fixed  to  the  end  of  his  rod  of  office.  With  this 
he  rapped  the  heads  of  two  or  three  dogs  and  then  dragged  them 
out  of  the  house  with  the  hook.  He  had  no  further  trouble  with 
the  rest.  The  dogs  were  called  into  their  pews  and  kept  there. 
Foot  stoves  were  carried  by  members  of  the  congregation  for  their 
own  and  the  family's  accommodation.  They  were  usually  used  only 
by  the  weak  or  sickly.  The  singing  was  by  the  congregation  as 
a  body.  There  was  no  choir,  one  of  the  deacons  "  lining "  the 
hymn.  The  minister  always  preached  in  his  gown  and  bands.  There 
were  two  services,  one  in  the  morning  which  began  early  and  con- 
tinued until  twelve  o'clock,  and  the  other  in  the  afternoon,  beginning 
at  one  o'clock.  The  afternoon  service  was  called  the  "  improve- 
ment." 

The  changes  in  the  house  made  in  1838  consisted  in  taking  out 
the  pulpit,  making  an  inclined  floor  from  south  to  north  on  the 
main  floor.  There  was  an  entry  at  the  south  door  with  a  level  floor, 
and  the  space  in  front  of  the  moderator's  desk,  which  was  at  the 
the  south,  was  also  level.  The  seats  were  stationary  and  arranged 
with  two  aisles.  The  gallery  floor  was  extended,  so  as  to  completely 
cover  the  former  open  space,  thus  i orming  two  stories.  The  upper 
hall  was  used  for  various  purposes.  The  floor  of  the  gallery  had 
formerly  inclined  toward  the  center  of  the  house,  but  in  the  changes 
made  in  1838  the  floor  of  the  second  story  was  all  brought  to  a  level. 
The  entrance  to  the  second  story  was  at  the  southeast  corner,  where 
a  winding  flight  of  stairs  led  to  an  entry  way  in  the  upper  story  at 
the  west  end  of  which  was  the  selectmen's  room.  Entrance  to  the 
upper  hall  was  by  a  door  in  the  middle  of  the  partition.  This  ar- 
rangement continued  until  1861,  when  the  inclined  floor  was  replaced 
by  a  level  one,  in  order  that  the  military  company  then  formed  and 


336  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

known  as  the  Bedford  Light  Infantry,  might  have  a  place  to  drill. 
An  entertainment  held  on  Thanksgiving  evening  marked  the  com- 
pletion of  the  work.  The  Bedford  Light  Infantry  invited  the  Bed- 
ford Grenadiers — or  what  of  them  were  then  living — to  an  enter- 
tainment on  Christmas  night  1861.  General  Riddle  commanded 
the  Grenadiers.  James  Morrison,  Silas  Wallace,  and  many  others  of 
the  old  Grenadiers  were  drawn  out  in  line.  Speeches  were  made  by 
Cyrus  W.  Wallace,  Mr.  Savage,  George  Riddle,  and  others.  Then 
followed  dancing  and  a  supper.  The  condition  of  the  old  town  house 
was  such  that  in  1876  the  following  vote  was  passed : 

1876.  Voted  to  raise  a  sum  not  to  exceed  15,000  to  build  a  new 
Town  House. 

Apr.  adjd.  an.  meeting — 

Resolved.  That  the  expression  of  this  meeting  is  that  the  location 
of  the  new  Town  House  be  not  changed. 

Also  "That  the  position  of  the  new  Town  House  be  left  to  the 
building  committee,"  which  was  also  authorized  "  to  dispose  of  the  old 
Town  House." 


Dedication  of  the  New  Town   Hall. 


The  following  detailed  account  of  the  dedication  of  the  new  town 
hall,  endorsed  by  the  secretary,  Silas  A.  Riddle,  appeared  in  the 
Union  Democrat  of  Tuesday,  October  24,  1876,  and  is  here  given 
in  full,  as  perhaps  the  best  account  obtainable  : 

Early  Wednesday  morning  the  roads  toward  Bedford  showed 
signs  of  unusual  activity,  and  conveyances  of  all  sorts,  public  and 
private,  were  put  in  requisition  by  people  bound  for  Bedford  to 
assist  in  various  capacities  at  the  ceremonies  connected  with  the  ded- 
ication of  the  new  town  hall  at  that  place,  recently  completed  by 
Hon.  Alpheus  Gay,  of  this  city,  the  contractor  for  the  work. 

The  building  is  of  wood,  of  two  stories,  and  measures  75x50  feet. 
It  is  built  in  the  most  thorough  and  substantial  manner,  and  the 
interior  finish  and  trimmings  throughout  are  of  brown  ash.  The 
lower  story  is  12  feet  in  the  clear,  the  upper  18  feet.  From  the 
ground  to  the  ridgepole  measures  60  feet.  The  building  is  sur- 
mounted by  a  bell  tower,  and  that  by  a  spire  and  vane  of  a  very 
tasteful  design.     The  top  of  the  spire  is  110  feet  from  the  ground. 

The  arrangement  of  the  upper  and  lower  floors  is  precisely  the 
same.  A  hall  measuring  50x60  feet,  with  all  the  requisite  ante- 
rooms, cloak-rooms,  retiring-rooms,  etc. 

The  lower  hall  will  be  used  for  town-meeting  purposes ;  the  upper 
for  social  gatherings,  concerts,  lectures,  etc.  The  selectmen's  room 
is  also  on  the  upper  floor. 

The  cost  of  the  complete  building  was  about  $6,750.  It  was  built 
by  contract  by  Hon.  Alpheus  Gay,  of  this  city.  His  contract  com- 
prised the  whole  work,  except  the  stone,  which  was  put  in  under  the 
immediate  superintendence  of  the  Building  Committee. 

The  painting  was  done  for  Mr.  Gay  by  Mr.  Michael  O'Dowd,  of 
this  city,  with  the  exception  of  a  central  piece  of  frescoing  in  the 
upper  hall,  which  was  done  by  W.  S.  James. 

Mr.  Gay  commenced  the  work  May  29,  and  completed  all  except 
some  details  of  its  furnishings  September  27.  It  does  full  justice  to 
our  honored  contractor. 

The  building  itself  is  one  of  the  finest  and  most  complete  in  its 
appointments  of  any  to  be  found  in  any  country  town  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  does  credit  to  the  town  to  which  it  belongs,  as  well  as  to 
the  builder,  and  all  who  have  been  connected  with  the  structure 
from  its  incipiency  to  its  completion.  / 

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338  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

The  ceremonies  opened  by  the  forming  of  a  procession  at  the 
church,  which  escorted  the  orators  and  invited  guests  to  the  new 
edifice  in  which  the  dedicatory  exercises  were  held.  Before  the 
commencement  of  the  ceremonies  the  hall  was  completely  packed 
with  people,  and  it  will  probably  never  again  in  its  history  contain 
more  people  than  on  this  occasion.  Our  own  city  furnished  its  full 
quota  of  the  number ;  Concord  was  well  represented,  while  the 
neighboring  towns  of  Merrimack,  Litchfield,  New  Boston,  and  other 
places  swelled  the  number  who  assembled  to  rejoice  with  their  neigh- 
bors of  Bedford,  who  were  out  in  full  force  and  all  intent  on  the 
entertainment  of  their  guests,  and  right  royally  was  it  done. 

The  music  for  the  occasion  was  furnished  by  Blaisdell  &  Ingalls' 
band,  of  Concord,  and  by  a  quartette  who  were  greeted  as  children 
and  grandchildren  of  Bedford,  though  our  own  city  lays  more  imme- 
diate claim  to  them.  The  quartette  consisted  of  Messrs.  John  M. 
Chandler,  Henry  M.  French,  Mrs.  Currier  and  her  sister,  Miss  Zilla 
Louisa  McQuesten,  with  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Scott  as  pianist.  Miss 
McQuesten  also  favored  the  audience  A*Tith  several  solos,  which  were 
highly  appreciated  and  warmly  applauded. 

It  was  nearly  eleven  o'clock  when  the  meeting  was  called  to  order 
by  George  W.  Goffe,  Esq.,  who,  as  temporary  chairman,  made  a  few 
remarks,  referring  to  the  completion  of  the  new  edifice  during  this 
centennial  year,  and  welcoming  to  its  shelter  the  sons  and  daugh- 
ters of  Bedford  who  had  come  from  a  distance  to  assist  in  the  cele- 
bration, as  well  as  the  many  guests  and  friends  assembled. 

He  then  announced  the  officers  of  the  day  as  follows :  President, 
Isaac  N.  Riddle ;  vice-presidents,  William  McAllister,  Hon.  George 
Foster,  John  H.  McAfee,  Daniel  G.  Atwood,  Thomas  G.  Holbrook, 
Nathaniel  Flint,  Charles  F.  Shepard,  Paul  T.  Campbell,  Henry 
Plummer ;  secretary,  Silas  A.  Riddle. 

The  president  of  the  day  was  then  called  upon  and  made  a  few 
fitting  and  earnest  remarks,  referring  to  the  elegance  of  the  house 
completed  in  the  centennial  year,  and  the  credit  which  it  reflected 
upon  the  architect,  builder,  and  gentlemen  of  the  Building  Committee. 
He  spoke  of  the  progress  made  in  the  century  which  had  passed 
away ;  of  the  privations  of  our  forefathers,  and  in  conclusion  warmly 
welcomed  the  guests  to  the  hospitalities  of  the  good  old  town  of 
Bedford. 

An  appropriate  and  earnest  prayer  was  then  offered  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Tyson,  of  Bedford. 

Hon.  Alpheus  Gay  then  presented  the  keys  of  the  building  to  the 
Building  Committee,  Messrs.  George  W.  Goffe,  Henry  T.  Barnard, 
and  R.  M.  Rollins,  briefly  thanking  them  for  the  pleasant  and  friend- 
ly relations  which  had  existed  without  interruption  between  them. 

George  W.  Goffe,  Esq.,  as  chairman  of  the  Building  Committee, 
in  accepting  the  keys  spoke  in  the  most  flattering  terms  of  the  way 
in  which  the  contractor  had  executed  his  work,  saying  that  not  a 
single  mistake  had  been  made,  not  one  thing  slighted  ;  he  had  em- 


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DEDICATION   OF   THE   NEW   TOWN   HALL.  339 

ployed  the  best  of  workmen  and  had  fully  sustained  the  high  repu- 
tation which  he  had  long  enjoyed  as  an  architect  and  builder.  The 
edifice  was  one  of  which  every  citizen  might  well  feel  proud. 

Mr.  Goffe  then  presented  the  keys  to  the  chairman  of  the  select- 
men, reminding  them  of  the  memories  clustering  around  the  old 
house,  and  hoping  that  if  spared  by  fire,  those  who  come  after  us  in 
the  next  century,  as  this  house  in  its  turn  is  supplemented  by  a  new 
one,  may  look  back  on  us  with  feelings  of  pride  akin  to  those  we 
bear  for  the  builders  of  the  house  which  has  now  been  demolished. 
In  conclusion,  he  expressed  confidence  that  when  their  time  came  to 
hand  the  keys  to  their  successors  in  the  office  of  selectmen,  the 
building  would  be  in  as  good  condition  as  to-day. 

One  of  the  board  of  selectmen,  William  IT.  Gage,  Esq.,  briefly  re- 
plied by  thanking  the  Building  Committee  for  their  efficient  ser- 
vices, and  referring  to  the  pleasant  relations  which  had  ever  existed 
between  the  two  boards. 

After  the  musical  exercises  the  president  called  upon  Rev.  Dr.  C. 
W.  Wallace,  of  Manchester,  a  native  of  Bedford,  who  gave  an  inter- 
esting historical  address. 

He  referred  to  the  occasion  which  had  called  them  together  to 
dedicate  their  new  and  beautiful  structure  to  take  the  place  of  one 
which  years  and  decay  had  rendered  no  longer  a  fitting  representa- 
tive of  an  enterprising  and  prosperous  town.  Yet  the  old  building 
possessed  a  charm  and  glory  which  can  never  belong  to  the  new ; 
the  altar  of  worship,  the  table  of  communion  were  in  the  building, 
but  will  find  no  place  here.  May  a  greater  than  these  preside  here, 
even  as  in  the  temple  at  Jerusalem  the  presence  of  Shekinah  was  re- 
placed by  a  greater.  The  former  building  represented  the  condition 
of  things  when  church  and  state  were  united — this  the  idea  of  then- 
complete  separation.  The  house  of  God  is  yonder,  while  here  we 
have  the  place  for  the  transaction  of  the  affairs  of  this  life,  daily  be- 
coming more  important  as  we  approach  the  ideal  of  a  perfect  state. 
This  hall  is  an  honor  to  the  present  generation — a  rich  legacy  to  the 
future. 

The  reverend  speaker  then  took  a  hasty  retrospect,  glancing  at  the 
wonderful  progress  made  during  the  first  century  and  compared  the 
old  times  with  the  present.  Referring  to  educational  matters,  while 
proudly  acknowledging  the  great  advance  which  had  been  made,  he 
reminded  his  hearers  there  was  yet  much  to  do.  While  of  12,000,000 
between  the  ages  of  five  and  seventeen,  more  than  5,000,000  don't 
attend  school,  and  while  there  are  in  the  country  1,600,000  men 
who  cannot  read  nor  write  and  nearly  half  of  them  are  white.  This 
should  arouse  the  anxious  thoughts  of  the  patriots  and  the  earnest 
prayer  of  the  Christian.  Our  nation  was  founded  upon  the  princi- 
ples of  the  Christian  religion ;  the  God  of  the  Bible  is  recognized  in 
our  courts  and  legislature,  and  though  adverse  sentiments  have 
floated  to  us,  though  men  have  sprung  up  who  deny  the  existence  of 
God,  still  to-day  we  stand  as  a  Christian  nation,  our  feet  upon  the 


340  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

rock,  and  in  proportion  to  the  population  there  is  more  open  acknowl- 
edgment of  faith  in  Christ  than  there  was  one  hundred  years  ago. 
He  referred  to  the  vast  number  of  printed  publications  now,  while 
one  hundred  years  ago  there  were  but  thirty-seven  in  the  whole 
land.  While  much  of  this  literature  is  elevated  in  tone,  patriotic, 
moral  and  religious  in  tendency,  it  is  to  be  deplored  that  there  is 
also  a  Satanic  department  to  the  American  press,  the  tendency  of 
which  is  to  destroy  public  morals  and  blast  private  reputations  and 
undermine  our  whole  social  fabric ;  still  he  would  have  the  press 
entirely  free,  for  "  Truth  is  born  of  God,  and  in  the  open  held  will 
come  off  victorious  in  conflict  with  error." 

Referring  again  to  the  progress  made  in  science,  mechanical  and 
industrial  art,  he  said  that  society  has  been  made  over  and  whether 
made  better  or  not,  the  change  is  an  accomplished  fact ;  the  shadow 
will  never  turn  back  upon  the  dial  plate  of  the  ages,  and  it  becomes 
us  to  see  that  the  moral  virtue  of  the  community  keeps  pace  with 
the  sweeping  marks  of  the  age  in  which  we  live. 

The  nation,  which  was  poor  and  weak  at  the  close  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, enters  upon  its  second  century  rich  and  strong ;  we  have  en- 
dured the  tests  of  one  of  the  greatest  civil  wars  known  to  history 
and  to-day,  upon  our  own  soil  and  with  right  on  our  side,  we  might 
defy  the  world.  To  maintain  the  glory  of  the  past,  we  must  see  that 
every  child,  whether  of  native  or  foreign  parentage,  is  educated. 
This  education  must  be  homogenous,  and  though  it  may  be  a  ques- 
tion for  debate  whether  or  not  the  Bible  should  remain  as  a  book  for 
daily  reading  in  our  common  schools,  the  great  principles  taught  in 
that  book  must  be  inculcated  in  those  schools.  What  it  teaches  of 
accountability  to  God ;  the  sacredness  of  an  oath ;  truth,  honesty, 
temperance,  the  common  and  equal  rights  of  all,  must  be  ingrained 
into  the  young  heart  of  the  nation,  or  before  the  close  of  another 
century  republican  institutions  will  have  ceased  to  exist.  Love  of 
country,  loyalty,  is  an  indispensable  virtue.  Next  to  the  cross  must 
stand  the  stars  and  stripes ;  the  ballot  box  must  be  purified  and  kept 
pure.  He  who  tampers  is  the  most  subtle  and  dangerous  of  enemies. 
If  such  sentiments  are  implanted  in  the  heart  of  the  nation,  our  re- 
public will  stand  firmly. 

Passing  to  matters  of  local  history,  he  referred  to  the  first  settle- 
ment of  Bedford  by  the  Scotch-Irish,  so  called,  in  1737,  the  same 
stock  that  settled  in  Londonderry  and  the  adjacent  towns.  It  was 
a  good  stock  from  which  to  descend,  for  the  heart  of  a  real  Scotch- 
Irishman  was  of  fine,  tough  fibre,  warm  to  friends,  loyal  to  truth,  but 
unyielding  to  enemies.  They  were  the  men,  27,000  of  whom,  en- 
dured an  eight  months'  siege  at  Londonderry,  Ireland,  shut  up  with- 
in walls  but  2,000  feet  one  way  by  600  the  other.  A  noble  ancestry 
is  a  shame  rather  than  a  glory  to  a  degenerate  people,  but  we  hope 
we  are  not  altogether  unworthy  of  our  sires.  No  Tory  was  found 
here  when  the  War  of  Revolution  broke  out — not  one  that  wavered 
except  Parson  Houston,  and  three  of  his  family  entered  the  Conti- 


DEDICATION   OF   THE   NEW   TOWN   HALL.  341 

nental  army,  while  nearly  all  the  men  capable  of  bearing  arms  did 
good  service.  In  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  this  town  made  an  hon- 
orable record.  Like  so  many  others,  this  town  has  suffered  a  con- 
stant drain  of  emigration,  and  not  a  few  have  obtained  positions 
worthy  of  the  town  which  gave  them  birth.  You  who  have  stayed 
at  home  have  prospered.  Your  farms  and  buildings  are  better  to- 
day than  ever  before,  and  if  I  may  venture  a  word  of  advice,  it  is  to 
cultivate  the  sublime  grace  of  contentment;  be  admonished  also  to 
yield  a  liberal  support  to  the  institutions  of  education  and  religion. 
The  schoolhouse  and  the  meeting-house  have  made  our  New  Eng- 
land what  it  is.  Again  congratulating  the  people  of  Bedford  upon 
the  completion  of  the  house  which  is  to  serve  in  the  future  for  so 
many  useful  purposes,  he  implored  them  "  to  hand  the  blessings  you 
enjoy,  unimpaired  down  to  others,  and  be  ready  when  the  shadows 
gather,  with  faith  in  our  Holy  Redeemer,  to  join  the  great  assembly 
in  the  bright  field  beyond  the  dark  river." 

The  address  of  Dr.  Wallace  was  listened  to  with  marked  atten- 
tion, and  at  its  conclusion  he  was  greeted  with  enthusiastic  applause. 

After  a  song  by  the  quartette,  Thomas  Savage,  Esq.,  a  young  law- 
yer of  Boston,  a  native  of  Bedford,  was  called  upon  and  gave  an 
eloquent  and  polished  oration,  referring  to  the  memories  which  cen- 
tered around  the  old  house,  and  expressing  a  hope  that  the  present 
edifice  might  promote  the  patriotism  and  stimulate  the  citizen  to 
honor  in  no  less  a  degree  than  had  the  old.  He  touched  upon  the 
growth  of  republican  ideas  in  the  Old  World,  who  looked  to  the 
West  for  its  example;  he  referred  in  glowing  terms* to  the  men  and 
the  character  of  the  olden  times,  whose  virtues  and  whose  deeds 
were  worthy  of  so  much  emulation,  and  whose  blood  and  treasure 
were  so  freely  poured  out  to  maintain  the  rights  which  we  now  en- 
joy ;  he  referred  to  the  Goffes,  the  Orrs,  the  Chandlers,  the  Barrs, 
the  Riddles,  and  the  many  others  who  had  left  a  record  of  which 
the  town  was  so  justly  proud,  and  expressed  bright  hopes  for  the 
future  prosperity  of  the  town,  the  state,  and  the  nation. 

After  a  musical  interlude,  Hon.  George  B.  Chandler  was  intro- 
duced as  the  toastmaster  of  the  occasion. 

In  a  few  earnest  and  well-chosen  words,  Mr.  Chandler  spoke  of 
the  pleasure  it  gave  him  to  be  present  on  this  occasion,  and  referring 
to  Bedford  as  his  birthplace,  said  that  around  it  clustered  all  the 
affectionate  remembrances  of  childhood  and  youth,  which  always 
renders  the  home  of  one's  early  days  so  dear  through  the  stern  real- 
ities of  after  life.  As  a  descendant  and  representative  of  a  family 
which  had  been  so  long  and  so  intimately  connected  with  the  his- 
tory of  the  town,  he  felt  that  he  ought-  to  be  no  stranger  on  this 
happy  occasion.  He  referred  in  complimentary  terms  to  the  voices 
of  the  former  •townsmen  which  had  been  already  heard  (Dr.  Wal- 
lace and  Mr.  Savage),  the  one  bearing  the  ripe  honors  of  a  long  life 
spent  in  the  service  of  God  and  man ;  the  other  full  of  the  hope  of 
an  early  and  vigorous  manhood,  and  in  conclusion  gave  some  reniin- 


342  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

iscences  of  the  old  heroes  who  had  passed  away.     He  then  gave  as 
the  first  sentiment  of  the  day : 

The  Old  Town  House.  It  was  a  link  which  bound  us  to  the  long,  long 
ago.  Who  can  picture  the  scenes  enacted  within  and  about  it  during  the 
last  one  hundred  and  twenty  years  ? 

John  A.  Riddle,  Esq.,  of  Bedford,  was  called  upon  to  respond  to 
this,  which  he  did  by  giving  historical  and  statistical  information  re- 
garding the  difficulties  which  attended  the  commencement  and  com- 
pletion of  the  structure  which  has  now  been  supplanted.  The  paper 
which  he  read  gave  evidence  of  a  great  deal  of  labor  and  research 
and  was  rich  in  local  historical  lore. 

It  seems  that  in  1732  the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  granted 
seven  townships  of  land  to  certain  proprietors  as  a  reward  for  im- 
portant services;  Narragansett  No.  5,  afterwards  called  Bedford, 
was  among  these.  The  question  of  building  a  meeting-house  was 
first  voted  upon  in  1738,  when  the  proprietors  in  a  meeting  held  at 
Boston  voted  against  granting  a  tract  of  the  undivided  land  for  that 
purpose.  But  at  a  meeting  held  May  18,  1743,  it  was  voted  by  the 
proprietors  that  a  tax  of  thirty  shillings,  old  tenor,  be  laid  on  each 
right  towards  building  a  meeting-house.  No  immediate  action 
seems  to  have  been  taken,  however,  and  in  1748  it  was  voted  that 
£  10  of  the  money  in  the  hands  of  the  treasurer  for  building  the 
meeting-house  be  drawn  out  to  provide  preaching. 

The  town  was  chartered  in  1750,  and  the  matter  of  building  a 
meeting-house  early  occupied  their  attention.  In  1751  it  was 
"  Voted  that  there  be  a  meeting-house  built  in  this  town."  Imme- 
diately thereafter  they  got  into  troubled  waters  about  its  location  and 
subseqently  a  committee  was  appointed.  "  Inasmuch  as  the  town 
was  not  able  to  conclude  in  their  own  person"  to  decide  between 
the  two  locations  specified,  Capt.  Andrew  Todd,  Capt.  John  Mit- 
chell, and  Lieut.  Robert  Cochrane,  of  Londonderry,  were  elected 
such  a  committee.  They  managed  the  matter  so  well  that  a  vote  of 
thanks  was  subsequently  tendered  them  by  the  town  for  their  good 
judgment  in  the  selection  of  a  site,  and  Lieut.  Moses  Barron,  Deacon 
John  Orr,  and  Mr.  James  Little  were  appointed  a  building  commit- 
tee. The  ghost  of  the  location  for  the  meeting-house  was  not  laid 
yet,  however,  and  in  1755  all  previous  votes  of  the  town  were  re- 
pealed, and  it  was  voted  to  build  on  the  site  actually  occupied,  and 
the  frame  of  the  new  house  was  raised  October  14  and  15,  1755. 
Matters  do  not  seem  to  have  gone  smoothly,  however,  and  at  a 
meeting  held  March  30,  1757,  it  was  voted  to  dismiss  the  committee 
appointed  to  board  and  shingle  the  meeting-house,  and  Capt.  Moses 
Barron,  Robert  Walker,  and*  Samuel  Patten  were  appointed  a  com- 
mittee for  that  purpose.  Patten,  however,  refused  to  serve,  and  in 
May,  1757,  William  Moor  was  chosen  to  fill  the  vacancy.  Commit- 
tees upon  committees  were  chosen,  dismissed  and  re-chosen,  to  at- 
tend to  the  various  departments  of  the  building,  and  we  fear  that 
the  Bedford  brethren  did  not  dwell  together  in  unity.     It  was  not 


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343 


until  1760,  five  years  after  the  raising,  that  a  town-meeting  was 
called  to  see  if  they  would  vote  to  sell  the  pews  at  public  vendue  to 
raise  money  for  completing  the  house  ;  then  from  1760  to  1767  re- 
peated votes  were  taken  to  see  if  a  pulpit  should  be  built,  and  hav- 
ing been  built,  to  see  if  it  should  be  painted.  It  was  finally  voted 
that  the  pulpit  should  be  painted  "  the  same  color  as  Mr.  McGre- 
gore's  pulpit  in  Londonderry." 

In  1784  luxury  begins  to  assert  itself,  and  it  was  voted  to  plaster 
the  walls  on  top  of  the  audience  room. 

In  1789  it  was  voted  to  postpone  the  finishing  of  the  meeting- 
house, and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  prevent  it  taking  further 
damage. 

The  compiler  of  all  these  statistics  from  the  town  records  here 
sagely  remarks,  "  that  it  is  doubtful  whether  the  house  was  ever 
fully  finished  until  razed  to  the  ground  in  this  present  year  of  1876." 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  reading  of  Mr.  Riddle's  paper  a  vote  of 
thanks  was  passed  by  the  citizens  of  Bedford  to  Hon.  George  B. 
Chandler,  Henry  Chandler,  and  John  M.  Chandler  for  their  "  very 
useful  present  in  the  shape  of  an  elegant  chandelier  for  our  new 
town  hall." 

An  adjournment  was  then  taken  for  dinner.  The  dinner  was 
provided  in  the  lower  hall  and  is  beyond  description.  All  the  sub- 
stantials  and  many  of  the  luxuries  of  food  were  present  in  abund- 
ance, and  though  fully  1,000  people  must  have  been  fed,  there  was 
enough  for  more.  The  waiters  were  among  the  elite  of  the  town, 
and  the  dinner  was  never  surpassed  even  by  Bedford  itself,  whose 
fame  in  this  regard  extends  far  and  near. 

After  dinner  the  exercises  in  the  upper  hall  were  continued,  and 
Hon.  Geo.  B.  Chandler  announced  as  the  second  sentiment : 

From  the  Old  Home  Into  the  New.  May  this  beautiful  edifice  dedicated 
this  day  to  the  uses  of  the  citizens  of  Bedford  become  their  social  "  mecca  " 
at  whose  shrine  all  her  people  may  delight  to  gather.  May  no  sounds 
save  those  of  gladness  be  heard  within  these  walls. 

Hon.  Lewis  W.  Clark,  of  Manchester,  was  called  upon  for  a  re- 
sponse. His  remarks  were  given  in  a  very  eloquent  manner  and 
abounded  in  happy  thoughts  and  sentiments.  He  congratulated  the 
town  upon  having  one  of  the  best,  if  not  the  very  best,  town  house 
in  the  state,  completed  without  the  burden  of  extra  taxation.  He 
deprecated  the  idea  of  calling  upon  outsiders  to  take  an  active  part 
in  the  dedicatory  exercises  while  home  talent  so  much  abounded  in 
the  town.  He  accorded  great  praise  to  the  town,  yet  reminded  the 
audience  that  Mr.  Riddle's  paper  had  shown  that  more  credit  was 
due  to  those  who  under  so  many  difficulties  had  labored  so  earnestly 
and  so  persistently  for  more  than  thirty  years  to  erect  the  old  house. 
That  building  was  used  for  more  than  half  its  histoiy  for  religious 
purposes,  and  from  the  teachings  disseminated  there,  the  enviable 
position  of  the  town  to-day  had  been  reached,  and  the  means  of 
erecting  this  house  attained.     He  eloquently  referred  to  the  various 


344  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFORD. 

uses  to  which  the  old  house  had  been  put,  its  services  to  church  and 
state,  the  ctvil  and  warlike  councils  which  had  been  held  in  it.  It 
had  done  its  part  toward  making  and  maintaining  the  honor  of  the 
flag;  of  those  who  were  instrumental  in  building  the  old  house  not 
one  remains  to  counsel  us  to-day.  He  touched  upon  the  value  at- 
taching to  the  new  house  in  the  development  of  the  social  life  of  the 
town,  and  hoped  that  the  house  might  be  no  insignificant  means  for 
the  preparation  of  those  who  congregated  therein  to  pass  from  this 
to  "  the  house  not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens." 

Our  Country.     1776-1876-1976. 

Hon.  John  G.  Sinclair  responded  in  a  most  able  manner,  recount- 
ing briefly  the  progress  which  the  infant  colonies  of  1776  had  made, 
and  reminding  his  hearers  that  God  only  knows  to  what  we  may 
attain  in  1976.  What  the  future  is  to  be  depends,  he  said,  upon  our 
children  and  upon  our  children's  children,  and  the  present  is  more  a 
time  for  prayer  than  for  prophecy.  Our  prayer  should  be  that  our 
country  may  ever  be  as  it  has  been,  a  land  of  liberty  and  asylum 
for  the  oppressed  till  time  shall  be  no  more. 

State  of  New  Hampshire.  Since  the  formation  of  our  state  government, 
most  honorably  has  she  acquitted  herself.  That  spirit  of  hostility  to 
oppression,  that  calm  courage,  that  fidelity  to  the  right,  and  that  sagacious 
wisdom  which  characterized  her  people  at  the  formation  of  our  federal 
union  has  marked  her  progress  to  the  present  time.  Proud  are  we  of  her 
to-day. 

Hon.  Charles  P.  Sanborn,  of  Concord,  responded  in  patriotic 
terms,  referring  to  the  firm  faith  in  God  manifested  by  our  hardy 
ancestors  which  had  borne  such  good  fruit  and  had  enabled  New 
Hampshire  ever  to  stand  in  advance.  Our  record,  not  only  in  the 
Revolution  but  in  the  Rebellion,  is  a  matter  of  history,  and  of  it  we 
have  no  cause  to  be  ashamed.  In  conclusion,  he  conjured  the  peo- 
ple to  avoid  the  errors  and  to  emulate  the  virtues  of  then-  ancestors. 

Woman.  Not  undeveloped  man,  but  diverse,  her  kingdom  is  the  house- 
hold, and  her  best  work  and  glory  as  teacher,  wife,  and  mother  in  the  edu- 
cation of  the  coming  generation. 

I  envy  not  the  man  who  dwells 

In  stately  hall  or  dome, 
If,  'mid  his  splendor,  he  hath  not 

A  world  of  love  at  home. 

Rev.  Henry  Powers  responded  in  a  manner  which  should  make 
the  ladies  proud  of  their  champion.  He  deprecated  in  earnest 
terms  the  too  common  custom  of  answering  such  a  toast  in  a  conde- 
scending, sarcastic  manner,  which  really  belittles  and  degrades 
woman,  under  pretence  of  doing  her  honor.  He  put  in  a  manly 
plea  for  woman's  equal  right,  in  the  highest  and  holiest  sense  of  the 
term.  In  the  course  of  his  remarks  he  told  some  wholesome  truths 
of  the  way  in  which  woman  was  ill-treated,  not  only  in  foreign  lands, 
but  even  in  our  streets  of  Manchester,  where  men  may  be  seen  loaf- 


DEDICATION   OF   THE   NEW   TOWN    HALL.  345 

ing  and  smoking,  busy  in  political  intrigue,  while  their  wives  are 
toiling  in  the  mills  to  support  them  and  their  children.  The  Chris- 
tian conception  of  woman  is  an  equal  and  a  helpmeet,  one  who  has 
entire  sovereignty  over  her  own  person,  and  whose  place  is  not  only 
at  home,  but  wherever  her  circumstances  call  her.  Referring  to  Miss 
McQuesten  as  the  sweet  singer  who  had  so  delighted  them,  he  asked 
if  she  was  any  less  a  woman  in  its  purest  sense  because  she  appeared 
publicly  in  her  profession  as  a  musician. 

Absent  Sons.  Scattered,  far  and  wide  amidst  the  duties  of  professional 
life  or  participating  iu  the  responsibilities  of  business,  we  proudly  will  call 
them  to-day,  and  in  the  name  of  the  old  home  we  wish  them  Godspeed. 

John  Atwood,  Esq.,  of  Bedford,  responded  by  reference  to  many 
of  the  absent  and  departed  ones,  and  pleasant  references  to  the  old 
persons  of  Bedford. 

Ex-Governor  Smyth  was  also  called  up  in  response  to  this  senti- 
ment, and  made  some  local  and  personal  pleasantries,  some  of  which 
were  at  the  expense  of  "  Father  "  Wallace  and  himself.  In  conclu- 
sion, he  gave  the  following  sentiment : 

May  the  right  of  free  suffrage  be  exercised  within  these  halls  without 
ftar  or  favor,  with  no  intimidation,  and  with  no  hope  of  reward. 

The  Centennial  Exposition.  Grand  in  conception,  mammoth  in  propor- 
tions, perfect  in  its  arrangements,  unsurpassed  in  its  patronage,  we  glory 
in  the  fact  that  it  was  reserved  for  the  American  people  to  show  the  world 
how  to  make  a  financial  success  of  an  international  exposition. 

Frank  Hiland  responded  in  fitting  terms,  deploring  his  fate  in  not 
having  been  born  in  Bedford,  but  saying  that  next  to  that  came  the 
privilege  of  an  invitation  to  the  town  on  this  occasion.  Passing  to 
the  great  exposition,  he  said,  that,  though  other  nations  had  tried  it, 
to  the  United  States  belonged  the  credit  of  making  a  financial  suc- 
cess of  so  gigantic  an  affair.  He  complimented  in  glowing  terms 
Col.  George  W.  Riddle  and  his  associates  for  their  efforts  in  making 
the  New  Hampshire  department  so  successful. 

The  Fathers  and  Mother*  of  Our  Hundred  Years  Ago.  Amidst  hardships 
and  dangers,  through  darkness  and  gloom,  they  struggled  on,  willing  to 
suffer  that  religion,  liberty,  and  justice  might  be  maintained.  May  we 
transmit  these  virtues  to  our  children  by  both  precept  and  example. 

Rev.  Dr.  Wallace,  in  response,  made  the  happiest  speech  of  the 
day,  abounding  in  witticisms  and  local  pleasantries,  and  carrying  the 
audience  completely  off  their  feet  with  delight. 

He  spoke  of  the  difficulties  under  which  the  people  of  the  old 
time  labored  in  doing  what  we  now  accomplish  so  easily,  of  house 
building,  when  almost  the  only  tool  in  use  was  a  rude  sawmill. 
Only  forty-two  years  ago  he  started  from  home  one  Saturday  morn- 
ing, and  traveling  by  the  fast  lines  of  those  days,  on  the  Saturday 
night  of  the  following  week  reached  Rochester,  X.  Y.,  and  thought 
he  had  made  grand  progress.  When  he  was  a  boy,  the  flax  for 
clothing  was  raised  in  our  field,  rotted  on  the  grass,  then  swingled, 


346  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

then  the  men  gave  it  over  to  the  women,  and,  seeing  that  all  the 
children  were  born  naked,  it  was  a  mystery  to  him  how  they  ever 
got  them  clothed.  But  when  the  garments  were  made  they  were 
made  of  cloth — there  was  no  shoddy  then.  It  took  three  days  and 
three  nights  to  have  a  good  Scotch-Irish  wedding,  but  when  the  job 
was  done  it  was  well  done  —no  divorces  then.  Give  us  three  months, 
said  the  old  gentleman,  if  they  will  only  stick.  Turning  then  to  Mr. 
Isaac  N.  Riddle,  he  jocosely  referred  to  him  as  a  specimen  of  what  a 
son  of  Bedford  could  be  when  he  got  "  ripe,"  even  though  a  bache- 
lor. (At  this  point  the  audience  were  convulsed  with  laughter.) 
Passing  from  the  ludicrous  to  the  sei'ious,  and  asking  pardon  for 
levity,  he  ended  by  imploring  the  people  to  transmit  to  posterity, 
undiminished,  the  blessings  which  were  descended  to  us  from  the 
fathers  and  mothers  of  old. 

Our  Schools.  New  Hampshire's  pride  and  boast,  her  common  schools. 
In  the  future  as  in  the  past  may  they  receive  the  united  and  cordial  sup- 
port of  all  her  people. 

Joseph  Kidder,  Esq.,  responded  in  his  usual  effective  manner, 
justly  attributing  the  material  and  mental  prosperity  of  the  town  to 
the  schools  and  church  which  were  so  early  established  in  the  town. 
The  church,  the  town  house,  and  the  schoolhouse  were  emblems  of 
our  civilization.  It  had  been  suggested  by  a  citizen  of  the  town 
that  the  schoolhouses  of  Bedford  were  relatively  scarcely  equal  to 
the  new  town  house ;  if  so,  this  should  be  looked  to. 

Mr.  Henry  M.  French  was  introduced  at  this  point  as  a  grandson 
of  Bedford  and  a  very  "  bass "  young  man.  He  responded  by  a 
song  which  was  received  by  great  applause. 

Town  of  Bedford.  Pleasantly  located  in  the  valley  of  the  beautiful  Mer- 
rimack, inhabited  by  an  industrious,  frugal,  and  prosperous  people,  with 
no  outstanding  obligation,  but  with  thousands  of  dollars  in  her  treasury, 
may  we  not  justly  claim  her  as  the  model  town  of  the  state. 

Col.  George  W.  Riddle  responded.  His  ancestors  settled  on  the 
hillside  close  by,  118  years  ago;  there  their  descendants  still  remain, 
and  mean  to  stay.  He  referred  to  the  mutual  benefit  accruing  to 
the  relations  between  Bedford  and  Manchester,  complimented  the 
town  upon  its  prosperity,  but  doubted  if  the  people  of  Bedford  can 
afford  to  let  $200,000  lie  in  the  savings  banks  of  our  city.  He 
thought  it  could  be  better  expended  upon  their  farms. 

The  Presbyterian  Church.  May  its  present  and  succeeding  generations 
perpetuate  the  religious  privileges  handed  down  by  the  fathers. 

Rev.  I.  C.  Tyson  was  to  have  responded,  but  was  excused  on 
account  of  the  length  of  the  proceedings. 

Oliver  L.  Kendall,  Esq.,  was  called  out,  and  gave  some  pleasant 
reminiscences. 

The  Young  People  of  Bedford.  May  they  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  their 
ancestors,  and,  dying,  leave  behind  the  record  of  as  honest  and  patriotic 
and  fragrant  lives  as  were  led  by  them. 


DEDICATION   OF   THE   NEW   TOWN   HALL.  347 

Mr.  John  Foster  gracefully  excused  himself  from  replying  by  say- 
ing that  it  was  time  for  the  farmers  to  go  home  to  their  milking, 
besides  the  young  people  had  to  prepare  for  the  exercises  of  the 
evening. 

This  closed  the  exercises  of  the  day,  which  were  somewhat 
lengthy.  The  usual  "and  others"  were  not  called  upon  to  speak 
on  account  of  the  length  of  the  proceedings.  To  this,  added  to  the 
fact  that  no  distinguished  representative  of  the  "  press  "  was  present, 
and  possibly  those  who  were  present  belonging  to  Dr.  Wallace's 
"  Satanic  Department,"  no  sentiment  was  offered  for  that  poor  pub- 
lic drudge  called  the  "  Press." 

In  the  evening  a  grand  concert  and  ball  was  given.  The  concert 
by  Blaisdell  &  Ingalls'  band,  of  Concord,  occupied  the  time  from 
7 :  30  to  9  o'clock,  at  which  time  the  ball  was  to  have  commenced. 
There  was  so  great  a  number  present,  however,  as  to  completely  fill 
the  hall,  and  dancing  was  rendered  not  only  inconvenient,  but  utterly 
impossible  until  after  11  o'clock,  when  the  numbers  became  so  far 
reduced  as  to  allow  of  the  forming  of  the  sets,  and  dancing  was  con- 
tinued until  about  2 :  30,  at  which  time  the  hall  having  been  pretty 
thoroughly  dedicated,  the  party  broke  up. 

In  another  column  of  this  issue  was  this  additional  note : 

The  Bedford  Dedication. — This  very  successful  ^and  interest- 
ing occasion,  which  is  reported  on  the  first  page  of  our  paper,  owed 
its  success,  as  all  such  matters  do,  to  the  great  amount  of  work 
which  was  put  into  it  by  those  who  managed  it.  Any  attempt  to 
mention  those  whose  self-sacrificing  labor  bore  such  good  results, 
must  of  necessity  be  incomplete,  because  they  comprised  about  half 
the  inhabitants  of  Bedford.  The  Marshals,  however,  deserve  special 
mention  for  the  manner  in  which  they  performed  their  duty.  Mr. 
Thomas  G.  Worthley  was  chief  marshal,  with  Messrs  S.  Manning, 
H.  R.  Barnard,  W.  C.  Parker,  and  J.  Oilman  as  aids. 


New   Presbyterian  Meeting-House. 


As  some  readers  may  be  ready  to  think  the  following  details  too 
minute,  it  should  be  remembered  that  though  not  of  so  much  inter- 
est now,  yet  to  those  who  live  a  hundred  years  hence  they  may  be 
matter  of  curiosity,  and  even  of  value;  especially  if  the  meeting- 
house be  permitted  to  stand  till  that  time.  The  first  public  intima- 
tion about  a  new  meeting-house  we  have  as  follows  : 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  are  re- 
quested to  meet  at  the  old  meeting-house  in  said  Bedford  on  Tues- 
day, 29th  day  of  August,  current,  at  4  o'clock  p.  m.: — To  see  what 
method  they  will  take  to  pay  the  expenses  of  installing  Rev.  Thos. 
Savage  : — To  devise  some  way  to  collect  the  subscription  money  for 
Rev.  Thos.  Savage : — And  to  see  if  they  are  desirous  of  building  a 
new  meeting-house. 

Peter  P.  Woodbury. 

Bedford,  22d  August,  1826. 

There  was,  however,  no  decided  action  on  the  subject  of  a  new 
house ;  it  remained  a  subject  of  occasional  discussion,  but  nothing 
was  done  till  the  19th  of  April,  1831,  at  which  date  the  following- 
measure  was  adopted : 

We,  the  subscribers,  do  associate  and  agree  for  the  purpose  of 
building  a  meeting-house.  The  condition  of  this  paper  is  to  obtain 
subscribers  for  fifty  shares  in  said  house ;  and  when  said  shares  are 
taken,  Doct.  P.  P.  Woodbury  will  call  a  meeting  of  the  subscribers 
for  the  purpose  of  locating  the  spot  for  said  house ;  which  location 
is  to  be  made  by  a  majority  of  the  shareholders,  each  share  to  count 
one  vote,  and  of  choosing  a  building  committee,  to  cany  the  plan 
into  effect ;  each  share  to  be  assessed  and  paid  as  the  money  is 
wanted,  as  in  their  wisdom  they  shall  direct  when  assembled.  And 
we,  the  undersigned,  do  agree,  for  the  above  purpose,  to  take  the 
number  of  shares  set  against  our  names,  respectively: 

Peter  P.  Woodbury,  Daniel  Gordon,  Isaac  Riddle, 

William  Patten,  Cyrus  W.  Wallace,  Daniel  Mack, 

James  Walker,  Samuel  McQuesten,  Richard  Dole, 

Stephen  Thurston,  Josiah  Walker,  John  G.  Mooi-, 

Isaac  Gage,  Willard  Parker,  Samuel  Patten, 

James  French,  John  Houston,  Jr.,  Leonard  C.  French, 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE. 


349 


Daniel  L.  French, 
John  Houston, 
John  W.  Barnes, 
John  D.  Riddle, 
Samuel  Chandler, 
John  Armstrong, 
Stephen  French,  Jr., 
John  French, 
Moses  Noyes, 
Gardner  Nevens, 


Isaac  Atwood,  Jr., 
William  Riddle,  Jr., 
David  Atwood, 
Nathan  Cutler, 
Aaron  Gage, 
William  Chandler, 
Eleazer  Dole, 
William  Moor,  Jr., 
John  Patten, 
John  Holbrook, 
F.  A.  Mitchell, 


Rufus  Houston, 
William  Riddle, 
Hugh  Riddle, 
Joshua  Vose, 
William  P.  Riddle, 
David  Stevens,  Jr., 
Moody  M.  Stevens, 
Rufus  Men-ill, 
Isaac  Gage,  Jr., 
Ebenezer  French, 
Solomon  Woods, 
Benjamin  Nichols. 


Phineas  Aiken, 

Nehemiah  Kittredge,  John  Craig, 

John  P.  Houston,         Jesse  Hartwell, 

These  subscribed  for  one  share  each,  making  fifty-six. 

(A  true  copy,)  Samuel  Chandler,  Clerk. 

The  above  subscribers  held  a  meeting  at  Capt.  Isaac  Riddle's 
hall,  May  9th,  1831.  Dea.  John  Holbrook,  chairman,  Samuef 
Chandler,  clerk.  A  committe  was  chosen  consisting  of  Dr.  P.  P. 
Woodbury,  Mr.  James  Walker,  Ebenezer  French,  John  French, 
and  Capt.  John  Patten  to  ascertain  on  what  terms  a  suitable  spot 
could  be  obtained  on  which  to  erect  the  meeting-house ;  which  com- 
mittee reported  that 

An  acre  of  land,  east  of  Capt.  Riddle's,  at  the  oak  tree,  may  be 
had  without  any  expense ;  that  an  acre  of  land  on  the  hill  north  of 
the  road,  and  west  of  the  burying-ground,  can  be  had  for  one  hun- 
dred dollars ;  that  an  acre  east  of  the  burying-ground,  and  between 
that  and  Isaac  Riddle's  store,  can  be  had  for  one  hundred  dollars ; 
or,  that  an  acre  can  be  had  north  of  the  schoolhouse  (near  the 
Baptist  meeting-house)  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

These  four  described  places  were  numbered  from  1  to  4,  and 
voted  for  by  ballot ;  No.  1,  that  north  of  the  schoolhouse ;  No.  2, 
between  the  store  and  burying-ground ;  No.  3,  on  the  middle  hill ; 
No.  4,  east  of  Capt.  William  Riddle's.  The  vote  was  as  follows : 
No.  1  had  three  votes ;  No.  2,  thirty  votes ;  No.  3,  two  votes,  and 
No.  4,  four  votes. 

May  28,  1831.  The  shareholders  formed  themselves  into  a  regu- 
lar society,  adopted  a  constitution  and  by-laws,  and  organized  by 
the  choice  of  officers,  agreeably  to  an  act  of  the  legislature  of  the 
state  passed  July  3,  1827.  A  superintending  building  committee 
was  chosen  consisting  of  Capt.  William  Patten,  Dr.  P.  P.  Wood- 
bury, Col.  William  Moor,  Capt.  John  Patten,  and  John  G.  Moor, 
with  which  committee  it  was  left  discretionary  to  make  any  altera- 


350  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

tion  as  to  the  size  of  the  house,  basement-story,  and  general  con- 
struction, as  they  may  think  best,  and  to  finish  the  work  at  their 
discretion.  In  the  meantime  the  society,  rejecting  all  other  loca- 
tions, voted  to  build  the  contemplated  house  on  Houston  hill ;  the 
title  to  the  land  being  more  satisfactory.  The  committee  made  a 
contract  with  Thomas  Kennedy,  of  Goffstown,  N.  H.,  to  build  a 
meeting-house  seventy-one  feet  in  length  by  fifty-one  in  width,  to 
be  finished  according  to  a  plan  exhibited ;  the  said  Kennedy  to  do 
all  the  work,  outside  and  in,  to  find  all  the  materials  for  the  same, 
finishing  of  the  windows,  glass,  doors,  painting,  the  belfry,  plaster- 
ing, and  brickwork,  shingling,  boarding,  and  the  qualities  of  stock, 
etc. 

"  The  undertaker  agrees  to  do  everything,  whether  expressed  in  the 
agreement  or  not,  that  ought  to  be  done,  and  in  a  workmanlike 
.manner ;  and  to  have  the  work  completed  in  September,  1832. 
For  the  above  work  the  committee  agree  to  pay  $3,700."      (Signed) 

P.  P.  Woodbury, 
Wm.  Patten, 
John  G.  Mook, 

Building  Committee. 
Thomas  Kennedy, 

Undertaker. 
A  true  copy,  Samuel  Chandler,  Clerk. 

The  basement-story  underpinning  was  done  by  Benjamin  F. 
Riddle  for  1418.  The  .finishing  of  basement-story  was  done  by 
J.  Langley  at  an  expense  of  $321.  The  frame  was  raised  on  the 
spot  where  the  house  now  stands  June  20,  1832.  Rev.  Mr.  Savage 
offered  prayer,  and  Dr.  Woodbury  made  an  address  on  the  occasion. 
The  house  was  raised  without  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors,  and 
the  whole  work  was  accomplished  without  a  single  accident,  even 
to  the  bruising  of  a  finger.  The  house  was  solemnly  dedicated  to 
the  worship  of  God  on  Christmas  day,  December  25,  1832.  The 
pastor  of  the  church  preached  on  the  occasion  from  Haggai  2  :  9. 
Rev.  Mr.  Aiken,  of  Amherst,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Adams,  of  Londonderry, 
took  part  in  the  exercises.  The  day  was  pleasant,  and  a  numerous 
audience  attended. 

The  following  was  the  order  of  exercises : 

1.  Invocation  and  Reading  of  the  Scriptures. 

2.  Anthem. — "We  Praise  Thee,  O  God." 

3.  Prayer. 

4.  Hymn. — Written  for  the  occasion. 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN  MEETING-HOUSE.  351 

We  meet,  O  Lord,  on  this  blest  morn 
Which  tells  on  earth  "  a  child  is  born"; 
We  meet  where  ne'er  we  met  before, 
To  praise,  to  wonder,  and  adore. 

We  bring  no  myrrh  nor  cassia  sweet 

In  off' ring  at  the  Infant's  feet; 

But  yet  aD  off'ring  we  would  bring 

For  Bethlehem's  new-born  Lord  and  King. 

We  give  this  Temple,  Lord,  to  thee, 
And  pray  that  this  thine  house  may  be, 
These  walls,  these  seats,  this  altar  thine, 
We  dedicate  to  God  divine. 

Here  may' thy  servants,  Lord,  proclaim 
Thy  truth,  thy  love,  thy  hallowed  name; 
And  here  may  those  thy  name  shall  hear 
Like  Mary  shed  the  heart-felt  tear. 

Here  may  the  good  man's  prayer  ascend, 
And  here  prove  thou  the  good  man's  friend  ! 
Let  all  whose  prayer  shall  meet  thine  ear 
Both  say  and  feel,  "  Lo!  God  is  here." 

Here  may  thy  praise  be  sung  in  strains 
Like  those  once  heard  on  Judah's  plains; 
And  as  we  tune  thy  praise  and  love, 
O  fit  us  for  the  songs  above. 

Wilt  thou  who  once  on  earth  appear'd 
Accept  the  Temple  we  have  rear'd  ! 
This  house,  these  hearts,  our  all  we  bring 
For  thee,  our  Sov'reign  Lord  and  King. 

5.  Sermon.1  » 

6.  Dedicating  Prayer. 

7.  Anthem. — "  Lord  of  All  Power  and  Might." 

Doxology. 

8.  Benediction. 

1  The  following  is  the  close  of  the  sermon  delivered  at  the  dedication  of  the  Pres- 
byterian meeting-house,  December  25, 1832: 

•'  Very  soon  after  the  settlement  became  an  incorporated  town,  a  house  was  built 
for  the  worship  of  God,  and  there  for  nearly  eighty  years,  the  fathers  and  the 
mothers  have  worshipped  through  successive  generations  down  to  the  present  time. 

"  God  has  favored  the  town  with  a  good  degree  of  temporal  blessing.  No  wasting 
sickness  has  thinned  its  population.  The  earth  has  annually  rewarded  the  industri- 
ous with  its  fruits.  A  spirit  of  harmony  has  generally  prevailed,  and  to  a  happy 
extent  the  love  of  order  and  sobriety.  Its  sons  have  gone  forth  to  almost  all  parts 
of  our  land.  They  have  filled  the  various  learned  professions  and  some  of  them 
have  been  and  still  are  the  honored  instruments  of  winning  souls  to  Christ. 

"God  has  granted  seasons  of  spiritual  prosperity.  This  vine  which  was  early 
planted  he  has  visited  and  watered  and  the  last  year  especially  will  be  remembered, 
I  trust,  in  eternity  by  many  as  the  happy  year  of  their  espousal  to  Christ. 

"  The  present,  beloved  friends,  may  well  be  with  you  a  time  of  tender  recollection 
and  of  great  anticipation.  You  have  been  permitted  to  erect  a  new  and  commodious 
edifice  for  the  worship  of  God.  No  adverse  event  has  interrupted  the  progress  of 
the  work— no  accident  has  occurred  to  cause  a  moment's  gloom,  and  by  the  help  of 
God  it  is  now  brought  to  a  happy  completion. 

"  On  this  auspicious  day  (Christmas),  a  day  on  which  multitudes  in  all  parts  of  the 
Christian  world  have  repaired  to  their  places  of  worship  to  pour  forth  their  grat- 
itude for  spiritual  mercies,  a  day  that  commemorates  a  dawn  of  that  light  which  is 
now  spreading  throughout  the  world,  we  come  with  our  humble  offering,  we  come  to 
dedicate  this  temple  to  God. 

"To  Him,  then,  and  to  His  service,  we  now  devote  this  building.  We  dedicate 
this  altar  to  the  cause  of  truth  and  righteousness;  here  may  the  messages  of  mercy 
come  warm  from  the  heart.  Here  may  a  holy  unction  descend  from  Sabbath  to 
Sabbath  on  those  who  shall  minister  in  this  sacred  place. 


352  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

January  14,  1833,  the  pews  were  disposed  of  by  sale,  one  pew 
being  reserved  for  the  minister,  to  be  by  him  selected.  The  pews 
were  sold  to  the  highest  bidder  for  their  choice.  An  appraisal  had 
been  previously  made,  and  whatever  was  bid  over  and  above  was 
added  to  the  appraisal  as  the  price  of  the  pew.  It  had  also  been 
agreed  that  if  the  pews  should  sell  for  more  than  enough  to  pay  for 
the  house,  the  surplus  should  be  appropriated  for  the  purchase  of  a 
bell  for  said  house ;  and  if  there  should  still  be  money  remaining,  it 
should  go  for  building  a  parsonage.  At  this  public  sale,  85  pews 
were  sold,  and  money  enough  raised  beyond  the  estimated  expense 
of  the  building  to  purchase  a  bell. ,  The  remaining  pews  being 
disposed  of,  except  two  or  three  reserved,  the  aggregate  result  thus 
stood : 

Whole  number  of  pews,  91. 

Of  these  88  were  sold  for  .         .         .         .     $5,200.00 

Amount  sold  exceeding  appraisal      .         .         .  527.00 


Whole  amount  received     ....     $5,727.00 

After  the  sale  of  the  pews  a  surplus  remained.  This  was  expended 
in  the  purchase  of  a  bell.  It  was  not,  however,  put  in  until  some 
two  or  three  years  after  the  church  was  completed.  Soon  after  it 
cracked  and  the  present  bell  was  put  in  in  1844.  It  was  cast  by 
Henry  Hooper  &  Co.  of  Boston.     Its  tone  is  singularly  sweet. 

The  house  was  warmed  originally  by  a  furnace.  This  was  taken 
out  about  ten  years  since  (1850),  and  its  place  supplied  by  stoves. 
They  stood  in  the  entry  and  long  pipes  ran  over  each  aisle  to  the 
chimneys  in  the  west  end  of  the  building.  The  stoves  were  taken 
down  and  set  up  in  the  basement  about  1873.  A  new  furnace  was 
then  put  in,  the  stoves  being  taken  down  cellar  and  bricked  up  so 

"To  Him  we  consecrate  these  pews  now  filled  with  attentive  hearers.  Ever 
sacred  may  they  be  to  the  worship  of  God.  Sacred  henceforth  to  meditation, 
prayer,  and  holy  resolve.  We  dedicate  yonder  seats,  devoted  to  the  singing  of  His 
praise.    These  walls,  this  house,  we  dedicate  to  Father,  Son,  and  Blessed  Spirit. 

"  Holy,  ever  holy,  be  this  as  was  the  place  where  Jacob  wrestled  with  the  angel 
of  the  covenant. 

"  Here  may  the  God  of  the  fathers  manifest  himself  the  God  of  the  children  and 
the  children's  children  until  Time  shall  lay  his  hand  on  this  now  goodly  edifice  and 
this  house  like  all  things  else  on  earth  shall  be  mouldering  to  decay. 

•'And  when  the  Lord  shall  write  up  his  people  may  it  be  found  that  multitudes 
were  born  here  to  glory. 

"  Peace  be  within  Thy  walls  and  prosperity  within  Thy  palaces.  For  my  brethren 
and  companion's  sake  I  will  now  say,  Peace  be  within  thee. 

"And  while  we  dedicate  this  Temple  of  God,  let  us  remember  that  he  has  said 
'  The  Heaven  is  my  throne  and  the  earth  is  my  footstool.  Where  is  the  house  that 
ye  build  unto  me  and  where  is  the  place  of  my  rest,  for  all  these  things  hath  mine 
hand  made,  and  all  these  things  have  been,  saith  the  Lord,  but  to  this  man  will  I 
look,  even  to  him  that  is  poor  and  of  a  contrite  spirit  and  that  trembleth  at  my 
word.' 

"  Let  us  give  ourselves  to  God.  Let  us  each  become  the  temple  for  the  residence 
of  His  holy  spirit." 


NEW  PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  353 

that  heat  came  from  them  to  heat  the  east  end.1  A  part  of  the 
horse  sheds  were  removed,  and  a  face  wall  put  in  on  the  northerly 
side  of  the  road  leading  past  the  meeting-house,  in  1872.  In  1881 
the  building  was  remodeled  by  doing  away  with  the  entrance 
through  the  basement  to  the  body  of  the  house,  and  a  covered  porch 
was  put  on  the  front. 

•  In  1894  the  entire  building  needed  to  be  extensively  repaired, 
and  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  the  town  who  were  interested 
was  called  for  the  purpose.  At  the  meeting  it  was  stated  by  the 
ladies  of  the  Social  Circle  that  they  would  be  responsible  for  the 
repairs  to  the  interior  of  the  building  if  the  men  of  the  town  would 
attend  to  the  repairs  of  the  exterior.  It  was  also  stated  that  there 
would  be  added  to  the  front  of  the  building  a  new  porch,  the 
expense  of  which  would  be  entirely  borne  by  Mrs.  Charles  II. 
Woodbury.  A  committee  was  chosen  to  solicit  subscriptions 
throughout  the  town  for  work  on  the  exterior  of  the  building,  and 
t]iey  succeeded  in  raising  the  sum  of  nearly  $600. 

Mr.  Joseph  Dana,  who  had  been  the  foreman  for  Alpheus  Gay 
when  he  built  the  town  house,  was  employed  to  prosecute  the 
repairs  on  the  meeting-house.  The  building  was  shingled;  the 
porch  added,  and  then  the  outside  painted.  The  horse  sheds  on  the 
south  and  west  sides  were  torn  away  and  new  ones  erected  in  their 
place.  The  interior  of  the  church  was  re-decorated,  and  new 
carpets  and  cushions  purchased.  The  work  of  decoration  and  plans 
for  the  porch  were  drawn  by  Mr.  Wadsworth  Longfellow,  nephew 
of  the  poet  Longfellow,  an  architect  in  Boston. 

Upon  the  work  of  interior  decoration,  including  the  building  of  a 
new  pulpit,  the  Ladies'  Social  Circle,  whose  contribution  was  aug- 
mented by  private  subscriptions,  expended  $2,921.81. 

In  1835  Daniel  French  got  a  small  reed  organ  for  the  church  on 
trial,  but  it  did  not  give  satisfaction  and  he  removed  it  to  his  own 
home. 

In  March,  1867,  during  the  pastorate  of  Mr.  Little,  a  small  reed 
organ  was  bought  and  placed  in  the  gallery  at  the  east  end  of  the 
church.  This  was  disposed  of  in  1881—82  and  the  large  pipe  organ 
now  in  use  was  put  at  the  west  end  of  the  edifice  in  an  addition  to 
the  building  made  for  the  purpose. 

1The  stoves  were  finally  disposed  of  when  the  present  furnace  which  heats  the 
eastern  end  was  put  in.  This  was  in  1890.  The  furnace  was  paid  for  by  public  sub- 
scription. The  committee  in  charge  of  the  work  was  William  M.  Patten,  Quincy 
Barnard,  and  Fred  F.  Lane. 

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354  HISTOEY  OF   BEDFORD. 

The  vane  on  the  meeting-house  represents  the  sun,  moon,  and 
seven  stars  and  is  hung  on  Mr.  Nathan  Kendall's  crowbar. 

FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY    OF    CHURCH   DEDICATION. 

The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  dedication  of  the  church  was  cele- 
brated Sunday,  December  24,  1882.  Dedication  had  been  on  Decem- 
ber 25,  1832,  but  it  was  thought  best  that  the  commemorative  exer- 
cises be  on  the  Sabbath  day.  The  pleasant  weather  of  the  day  per- 
mitted the  attendance  not  only  of  many  from  the  out  districts  and 
surrounding  towns,  but  also  of  many  old  people.  The  church,  which 
had  been  thoroughly  repaired  and  greatly  improved  in  the  summer 
of  1881,  was  tastefully  decorated  for  the  day;  baskets  of  flowers 
were  about  the  pulpit,  from  which  also  hung  a  large  evergreen  star, 
and  at  the  opposite  end  of  the  church,  on  the  balcony  flanking  the 
clock,  were  the  dates  1832-1882  in  evergreen  figures. 

The  choir,  enlarged  for  the  day,  consisted  of  twenty  members,  of 
whom  two,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Gardner,  sang  at  the  dedication. 
Willard  C.  Parker  was  chorister.  The  hymns  were  not  only  appro- 
priate, but  largely  those  of  the  fathers — and  set  to  the  old-time  tunes. 

The  programme  for  the  morning  was  as  follows : 

Organ  Voluntary. 
Doxology. 
Invocation. 
Scripture  Selections. 
Singing. 

Scripture  Selections. 

Prayer.  By  Rev.  C.  W.  Wallace. 

Singing. 

Sermon — An  extract  from  the  original  sermon  preached  by  Dr.  Savage 
from  the  text  Hag.  2  : 9.  Bead  by  the  pastor. 

Singing. 

Address — Beminiscences  of  fifty  years.  By  Bev.  C.  W.  Wallace. 

Singing. 
Benediction.  By  Bev.  Dr.  Wallace. 

The  programme  for  the  afternoon  was  as  follows : 

Organ  Voluntary. 

Singing. 

Scripture  Lesson. 

Prayer.  By  the  pastor. 

Letter.  From  Ira  C.  Tyson,  pastor  from  1869-'80. 

Address— The  Bevivals  of  Fifty  Years.  By  Elder  Samuel  Gardner. 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN  MEETING-HOUSE.  355 

Address — The  Thursday  Afternoon  Prayer-meeting. 

By  Elder  Elijah  P.  Parkhurst. 

Singing. 

Address — The  Former  Pillars  of  the  Church. 

By  Deacon  Thomas  G.  Holbrook. 

Paper — The  Women  of  Bedford. 

Prepared  by  one  of  the  ladies  and  read  by  the  pastor. 

Letter — Relative  to  Mrs.  Ann  Orr,  from  Rev.  C.  Carpenter  of  Mt.  Ver- 
non. Read  by  the  pastor. 

Singing. 

Remarks.  By  Hon.  David  Atwood  of  Madison,  Wis. 

Address — The  Sunday-school  in  Fifty  Years.     By  Elder  John  Hodgman. 

Brief  Remarks.     By  Rev.  Dr.  Wallace,  Elders  Parkhurst  and  Hodgman, 
and  Deacon  Holbrook. 

Singing. 

Benediction.  By  Rev.  Dr.  Wallace. 

During  the  afternoon  exercises  those  present  at  the  dedication 
were  requested  to  rise.    The  following  thirty-one  persons  responded : 

Daniel  G.  Atwood,  Samuel  Gardner, 

Hannah  Atwood,  Frederick  Hodgman, 

Eliphalet  Bursiel,  Maria  Hodgman, 

Nathaniel  Flint,  George  Hodgman, 

Annis  Campbell  French,  John  Hodgman, 

Hugh  R.  French,  Thos.  G.  Holbrook, 

Charles  Gage,  Submit  Walker  Holbrook, 

James  Gardner,  Oliver  L.  Kendall, 

Nancy  Bursiel  Gardner,  William  McAffee, 

Walter  Nichols,  Elijah  P.  Parkhurst, 

Zachariah  Perry,  Sanford  Roby, 

Rodney  M.  Rollins,  Charles  F.  Shepard, 

Eliza  A.  Morrison  Stevens,  David  Swett, 

Elvira  Walker,  Sarah  Walker, 

W.  Walker,  Cyrus  W.  Wallace, 
Eliza  B.  G.  Woodbury. 

THE  CHURCH  ANNIVERSARY  CELEBRATION. 

On  Tuesday,  August  15,  1899,  was  celebrated  the  150th  anniver- 
sary of  the  organization  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Bedford. 
The  occasion  was  fittingly  observed.  Not  only  were  the  people  of 
Bedford  themselves  present,  but  sons  and  daughters  of  the  town, 
many  of  whom  had  not  been  in  the  town  for  years,  came  from  far 
and  wide.  The  people  of  the  town  not  only  kept  their  latch  strings 
out,  but  held  their  doors  invitingly  open,  and  everything  tending  to 
promote  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  their  guests,  both  invited 


356  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

and  uninvited,  was  done.  Carriages  met  all  trains  at  Manchester, 
and  at  noon  was  served  to  all  at  the  town  house  such  a  dinner  as  is 
seldom  seen  in  country  places  in  these  days,  especially  as  to  the  num- 
bers present.  The  people  of  the  town,  irrespective  of  religious  dif- 
ferences, joined  heartily  with  those  of  the  church  in  the  celebration, 
as  the  two  organizations  have  always  worked  together. 

The  town  of  Bedford  was  organized  just  a  year  later  than  the 
church,  and  in  the  petition  (made  in  1750)  to  the  governor  for  in- 
corporation, the  townspeople  stated  that  they  desired  to  be  set  apart 
together,  in  order  that  they  might  the  better  support  the  faith  of 
their  choice. 

The  following  account  of  the  celebration  appeared  in  the  Man- 
chester Daily  Union : 

The  day's  exercises,  which,  with  an  intermission  for  dinner,  con- 
tinued from  morning  until  evening,  were  partly  of  a  secular  and 
partly  of  a  religious  nature.  The  church  edifice  was  crowded  to  its 
utmost  capacity,  many  patiently  standing  during  the  sessions. 

It  was  a  time  of  reminiscences  and  recollections,  and  also  of  hope- 
ful looking  into  the  future.  The  honorable  history  of  the  church 
and  its  people  was  recounted,  while  there  was  also  expressed  the 
hope  and  belief  that  the  days  yet  to  come  would  have  their  worthy 
sheaves,  to  be  added  to  the  harvest  of  good  things,  good  lives,  and. 
good  influences  already  garnered. 

Visitors  to  the  town  began  to  arrive  early  Monday  afternoon  and 
continued  to  come  all  through  the  celebration.  There  were  dele- 
gates from  the  Presbyterian  and  Congregational  churches  of  the 
nearby  towns,  and  others  interested.  The  transportation  facilities 
were  excellently  managed  and  all  were  comfortably  carried  to  and 
from  the  place  of  the  celebration. 

The  church  had  with  it  two  of  its  former  pastors,  who  were  cor- 
dially welcomed  and  given  prominent  places  in  the  proceedings. 

The  church  building,  handsome  in  architecture  and  bright  in  its 
new  paint,  with  its  quaint  high  pews,  galleries  and  other  old-time 
arrangements,  was  bright  with  flowers  and  made  a  fitting  place  for 
the  exercises.  Commodious  and  convenient  in  its  arrangements,  sit- 
uated in  an  attractive  location,  and  with  its  attractive  design,  the 
people  of  the  town  have  always  just  cause  to  be  proud  of  it,  and 
never  more  so  than  on  Tuesday. 

The  church  edifice  was  well  filled  when,  about  9 :  30  a.  m.,  the  ex- 
ercises began,  and  people  were  constantly  entering.  It  was  not  long 
until  the  seats  were  all  filled.  Seated  on  the  platiorm  were  the  pas- 
tor, Dr.  W.  C.  Lindsay,  Governor  Frank  West  Rollins,  President 
Tucker  of  Dartmouth  college,  the  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  a  former  pas- 
tor, and  others  who  took  part  in  the  exercises. 

After  an  organ  voluntary  by  Mrs.  Lyman  Kinson,  the  church  or- 


NEW  PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  357 

ganist,  whose  playing  throughout  was  very  acceptable,  all  present 
united  in  singing  the  ancient  doxology,  beginning  "  Praise  God  from 
whom  all  blessings  flow." 

The  divine  blessing  was  then  invoked  upon  the  exercises  of  the 
day  and  on  the  ancient  church,  its  pastor  and  people,  by  the  Rev. 
E.  A.  Xelson  of  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  church  of  Manches- 
ter, the  people  uniting  in  the  Lord's  prayer  at  the  close. 

Gounod's  beautiful  anthem,  "  Send  Out  Thy  Light,"  was  then 
sung  by  the  chorus  in  an  excellent  manner,  showing  the  results  of 
the  faithful  practice  which  had  been  put  in  under  the  painstaking 
and  faithful  training  of  Harry  C.  Whittemore,  choir  master  of  Grace 
church,  Manchester. 

Lessons  from  the  Scriptures,  appropriate  to  the  day,  were  then 
read  by  the  Rev.  Albert  Watson  of  Windham,  after  wThich  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Little  of  Dorchester  offered  prayer. 

A  hymn  followed.  It  was  Perronett's  old  hymn,  "  All  Hail  the 
Power  of  Jesus'  Name,"  and  was  sung  to  the  tune  of  "  Coronation," 
with  which  it  has  always  been  associated.  And  with  the  congrega- 
tion joining  with  the  chorus  there  went  up  such  a  volume  of  praise 
as,  it  is  safe  to  say,  had  seldom  if  ever  been  raised  in  the  edifice.  It 
was  an  old-time  example  of  congregational  singing. 

The  address  of  welcome  was  then  delivered  by  Dr.  W.  C  Lind- 
say, the  pastor,  in  his  customary  graceful  style.  He  spoke  as  follows : 

"  Brethren  and  Friends :  This  is  the  great  festival  day  of  Bed- 
ford Presbyterian  church,  sacred  to  the  memory  of  the  past  and  re- 
dolent with  the  glory  of  the  future.  Like  Janus,  the  day  has  two 
faces ;  one  face  thoughtfully  regards  the  past,  rich  with  experience, 
with  memories  and  with  priceless  traditions  of  truth  and  virtue ; 
while  the  other  face  looks  beautifully  and  earnestly  to  the  future, 
richer  still  with  transcendent  hopes  and  unfulfilled  prophecies.  It 
was  a  custom  in  ancient  Rome,  on  solemn  occasions,  to  bring  forward 
the  images  of  departed  friends,  arrayed  in  their  robes  of  office,  and 
carefully  adorned,  while  some  one  recounted  the  deeds  they  had 
done,  jiot  to  glorify  the  past,  but  in  the  hope  of  refreshing  the  mem- 
ory of  their  deeds  and  of  inspiring  the  living  with  new  impulses  to 
virtue.  'For  who,'  says  Polybius,  'can  behold  without  emotion 
the  forms  of  so  many  illustrious  men,  thus  living,  as  it  were,  and 
breathing  together  in  his  presence  ?  Or  what  spectacle  can  be  con- 
ceived more  great  and  striking '? ' 

"  So  to-day  the  images  of  some  of  Bedford's  departed  ones  will  be 
shown  you,  not  in  robes  of  ceremony  or  costume  of  office,  but  in  the 
native  coloring  of  then-  truthful  and  simple  characters.  From  many 
places,  remote  and  near,  we  have  come  together  to-day  beneath  the 
benedictions  of  this  church,  older  than,  not  the  golden  fleece  and 
Roman  eagles,  but  than  the  country  we  love  so  well  and  the  flag 
which  floats  grandly  above  us.  To-day  friend  meets  friend  from 
distant  scenes  and  places,  and  warm  hand  clasps  bring  back  to  mem- 
ory days  of  long  ago.     To-day  our  people  hold  open  house  to  wel- 


358  HISTOKY   OF   BEDFORD. 

come  the  loved  and  honored  guests,  who  have  come  to  share  in  our 
pleasures  and  add  to  our  joys.  And  we  have  come  to  this  church,  a 
company  of  brothers  and  sisters,  some  with  the  silvered  locks  of  re- 
vered age,  and  some  with  the  fresh  forms  that  glow  in  the  golden 
blood  of  youth.  We  are  here  to  call  back  the  past  and  get  inspira- 
tion for  the  future.  It  is  my  special  privilege  and  joy  to  welcome 
you  in  behalf  of  the  church. 

"  We  welcome  you,  Mr.  Rollins,  as  the  chosen  leader  of  this  state. 
We  welcome  these  fellow-laborers  in  Christ,  the  former  pastors  of 
this  church  and  other  pastors  from  the  churches  of  Christ  about  us. 
We  welcome  you,  churches  of  our  own  faith,  Antrim,  Londonderry, 
New  Boston,  Litchfield,  Windham,  and  Manchester,  German  and 
Westminster.  Also  the  Congregational  churches,  neighbors  of  ours 
and  beloved.  We  welcome  you  all — young  and  old  alike,  and  may 
this,  our  holiday  and  holy  day,  bring  harnfony  and  soul  joy. 

"The  grand  fundamental  law  of  humanity  is  the  good  of  the 
whole  human  family,  its  happiness,  its  development,  and  its  progress. 
In  this  cause,  Christianity  leads.  It  is  the  influence  more  powerful 
than  the  sword,  and  it  yet  shall  lead  mankind  from  the  bondage  of 
error  into  the  service  which  is  perfect  freedom.  The  cause  of  our 
gathering  to-day  is  the  following  of  the  wisdom  of  experience  and 
the  wisdom  of  Hope,  to  be  mindful  of  the  future  and  not  neglectful 
of  the  past ;  to  be  awed  by  the  majesty  of  antiquity,  but  not  to  turn 
with  indifference  to  the  future ;  to  look  to  the  ages  before  as  well 
as  those  behind. 

"We  stand  on  the  threshold  of  a  new  era,  which  is  prepared  to 
recognize  new  influences.  The  ancient  divinities  ">f  violence  and 
wrong  are  retreating  to  their  kindred  darkness.  The  sun  of  our 
moral  universe  is  entering  a  new  eclipse,  no  longer  deformed  by 
those  images  of  animal  rage  such  as  Cancer,  Taurus,  and  Leo,  but 
beaming  with  mild  radiance  in  the  form  of  the  heavenly  signs  of 
Faith,  Hope,  and  Charity. 

"  So,  may  it  be  our  privilege  to-day  to  light  a  fresh  beacon  fire  on 
the  venerable  walls  of  this  ancient  church,  sacred  to  Truth,  to 
Christ,  and  to  the  holy  church  universal.  Let  the  flame  spread 
from  pew  to  pulpit,  from  pulpit  to  town,  from  town  to  state,  from 
state  to  nation,  and  from  nation  to  the  world,  till  the  long  line  of 
fire  shall  illuminate  all  the  peoples  of  earth. 

"  We  welcome  you  to  this  church,  this  town,  our  homes,  and  our 
hearts." 

At  the  close  of  the  address,  Mrs.  Celia  French  Dascom,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Bedford,  read  an  original  poem,  written  by  her  for  the  occa- 
sion, which  was  as  follows : 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  359 

A  POEM. 
(But  call  to  remembrance  the  former  days.— Hebrews,  10:  32.) 

While  this  town  was  yet  clothed  in  primeval  bands, 
The  fathers  were  busy  with  brains  and  with  hands 
Clearing  forests  and  turning  the  soil,  rock-strown; 
To  prepare  for  tbemselves  and  loved  ones,  a  home. 
They  earnestly  worked— this  object  in  view — 
These  men  of  the  past,  the  steadfast,  the  true. 

Strong  men  and  brave  women  in  unison  wrought; 
In  those  far  away  homes  God's  message  was  taught, 
Catechism  and  Bible  their  text-books  were  then- 
Other  helps,  in  those  days,  were  few,  I  ken. 
So  they  studied  the  Word,  were  fervent  in  prayer, 
Feeling  deeply  their  need  of  divine  help  and  care. 

Conversation  and  mein,  at  times,  were  austere; 
Their  children  were  taught  aged  ones  to  revere. 
They  were  taught  great  respect  for  the  Sabbath  day, 
To  keep  within  doors,  nor  indulge  in  much  play. 
They  served  God  with  some  fear,  perhaps  with  some  joy, 
While  resting  this  day,  from  their  worldly  employ. 

Over  hills  and  through  valleys,  they  hither  came, 

'Mid  fast-falling  snow,  or  more  cheerless  rain. 

They  believed  in  a  worship,  simple  yet  strong, 

They  came  out  from  the  world,  nor  moved  with  the  throng. 

The  prayers  of  those  saints  in  the  olden  days, 

Will  be  answered  yet.    To  God  be  the  praise. 

They  have  gone  on  high,  to  receive  their  reward, 

They  have  heard  "  Well  done  "  from  the  mouth  of  the  Lord. 

Still  a  remnant  is  left,  to  work  and  to  pray, 

God's  spirit  remains,  He  will  not  say— Nay. 

This  church  is  yet  dear  to  the  Crucified  One, 

He  will  finish,  make  perfect,  the  work  here  begun. 

The  past  has  had  seasons,  most  precious  and  sweet, 
When  Christians  have  gathered  God's  Spirit  to  meet, 
When  they  loyally  bowed  at  the  foot  of  the  cross 
Feeling  there,  that  the  pleasures  of  earth  were  but  dross. 
Confessing  their  coldness;  of  faith,  their  great  need, 
They  were  willing  to  walk  as  the  Spirit  might  lead. 

Then  they  sang  the  refrain,  Oh,  gather  them  in, 
The  wanderers  of  God  on  the  highway  of  sin; 
Faith's  prayers  were  soon  answered,  God  came  in  his  might, 
Redeeming  lost  souls  from  the  darkness  of  night; 
So  we  praise  Him  to-day,  in  songs,  blended  with  tears, 
For  His  care  of  this  church,  three  times  fifty  years. 
/ 

An  intermission  of  fifteen  minutes  followed,  during  which  time 
the  Bedford  orchestra  played  several  selections  very  acceptably. 

At  the  close  of  the  intermission,  the  choir  sang  the  Te  Deum 
Laudamus,  arranged  mainly  as  a  chant,  in  an  admirable  manner. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Tucker,  president  of  Dartmouth  college,  was  then 
introduced  as  the  speaker  of  the  morning,  his  theme  being  "The 
Presbyterian  Church."  He  found  in  the  subject  given  him  many 
things   to   laud,  and   after   briefly  analyzing   Presbyterianism   and 


360  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

pointing  out  what  he  considered  its  strongest  points,  he  proceeded 
to  hold  them  up  as  worthy  of  respect.  Dr.  Tucker  spoke  in  part  as 
follows : 

"  My  announced  address  is  merely  a  brief  and  informal  introduc- 
tion to  the  reminiscences  to  follow.  This  day  is  not  for  the  discus- 
sion of  Presbyterianism.  This  day  is  set  apart  for  the  remembrance 
of  those  who  acted  their  parts.  One  hundred  and  fifty  years  is  not 
a  great  period  in  the  life  of  the  church,  but  it  is  in  the  life  of  a 
church.  When  we  pass  from  the  general  to  the  individual,  time 
makes  a  great  difference.  Time,  as  well  as  breaking  down,  destroy- 
ing, causes  good  to  give  way  to  better. 

"  What  we  celebrate  to-day  is  that  this  church  has  not  given  way, 
has  not  been  superseded  by  any  other.  It  still  ministers  to  the 
descendants  of  its  founders  and  original  members  and  in  the  same 
way.  Then,  too,  we  have  reason  to  rejoice  because  this  church  has 
not  had  the  difficulties  and  dissensions  met  with  so  often  in  cities. 

"  There  are,  I  think,  two  causes  of  its  stability — the  age  in  which 
it  was  born  and  the  stock  from  which  it  was  made.  The  eighteenth 
century  time  was  one  in  which  tremendous  powers  were  working. 
It  was  an  age  in  which  were  laid  the  foundations  on  which  we  are 
enduring  to-day.  And  as  to  the  Scotch,  who  founded  this  church — 
whatever  may  be  said  of  the  Scotch  mind,  rfc  cannot  be  said  that  it 
accomplished  nothing.  The  Scotch,  I  have  sometimes  thought,  see 
straight,  but  not  always  widely.  No  one  ever  found  they  lacked 
endurance.  The  Scotchman,  when  he  has  put  his  hand  to  the  plow, 
does  not  look  back.     He  keeps  on  and  he  plows  a  straight  furrow. 

"  My  only  qualification  to  treat  of  Presbyterianism  lies  in  the  fact 
that  during  my  brief  ministerial  life  I  was  part  of  the  time  in  a 
Presbyterian  church  and  part  in  a  Congregational  church.  I  did 
not  go  far  enough  into  Presbyterianism  to  see  many  faults,  but  I 
did  go  far  enough  to  see  something  of  its  other  side. 

"Presbyterianism  is  essentially  affirmative.  It  deals  in  positive 
affirmations  as  to  truth  and  conduct.  All  communions  reach  the 
greatest  ends  of  their  existence  in  meeting  the  needs  of  their  own 
people.     And  so,  Presbyterianism  has  strength  in  direct  affirmation. 

"  The  Presbyterian  church  is  for  the  believing  man.  The  doubt- 
ing man  has  no  place  in  it.  I  sometimes  think  it  has  no  way  of 
dealing  with  doubt,  but  it  does  speak  right  out  to  the  man  of  faith. 
Presbyterianism  stands  for  that  power  which  deals  affirmatively  with 
affirmative  truth.  It  knows  how  to  build  in  personal  character, 
with  cumulative  power.  It  has  produced  a  very  large  proportion  of 
the  statesmen  of  this  country.  Presbyterianism  has  not  been,  as 
Congregationalism  has  been,  a  great  educational  power — with  little 
but  noted  exception  it  has  not  produced  great  colleges  and  univer- 
sities as  has  Congregationalism — but  what  stands  to  its  credit  is  its 
great  constructive  power,  building  itself  up  into  the  life  of  the 
nation. 

"  Princeton  did  a  wonderful  work,  through  its  sons,  in  building 


NEW  PRESBYTERIAN  MEETIXG-HOUSE.  361 

the  constitution,  because  Princeton  stood  for  men  who  knew  how  to 
build  into  what  they  were  doing,  the  best  in  them. 

"  Presbyterian  ism  does  not  lose  ground.  It  builds  to  stand,  what- 
ever it  does.  There  are  very  few  weak  and  struggling  Presbyterian 
churches.  Its  genius  lies  in  its  special  practicability.  It  knows  how 
to  build,  how  to  locate,  how  to  adjust.  Presbyterianism  stands  for 
the  Westminster  confession,  but  does  not  obligate  every  convert 
to  it.  It  guards  its  ministry  with  that  confession.  When  contro- 
versy breaks  out,  there  is  lack  of  elasticity  and  it  does  not  readjust 
itself  quickly.     The  blows  tell,  but  the  faith  is  built  to  stand. 

"  The  Presbyterian  church  to-day  makes  a  great  contribution  to 
the  religious  and  professional  life  of  the  day.  And,  I  believe,  its 
truth  will  be  appreciated  more  in  the  future  than  it  has  been  in  the 
past.  This  truth  is  as  to  the  authority  of  God.  We  have  been 
careless  in  handling  the  truth  of  the  sovereignty  of  God,  and  when 
Presbyterianism  comes  to  exalt  the  sovereignty  of  God,  then  we 
shall  have  a  religion,  a  theology  that  shall  give  us  a  future  bright 
and  shining. 

"•  I  rejoice  with  you  in  your  celebration  to-day.  You  seem  remote, 
compared  with  others;  you  seem  a  little  people  here  in  New 
England.  But  the  church  you  represent  covers  the  nation.  It 
stands  for  the  power  of  the  nation,"  and  has  been  built  into  the 
nation  itself.  And  in  so  far  as  you  live  that  life  and  follow  its 
example  you  will  not  only  grow  in  grace  yourselves,  but  add  to  that 
which  will  be  of  infinite  benefit  to  this  country." 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Arthur  Little  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  was  next  intro- 
duced. He  gave  some  interesting  reminiscences  of  some  of  those 
who  had  gone  out  from  Bedford  and  made  more  than  ordinary 
names  for  themselves,  or,  who  remaining  at  home,  were  of  special 
mention.  His  reminiscences  included  mention  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Savage,  who  for  forty  years  was  pastor  of  the  church,  of  Rev.  Cyrus 
W.  Wallace,  a  native  of  the  town,  for  forty-two  years  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  church  in  Manchester,  of  the  Rev.  Lemuel 
Chandler  Spofford,  of  Col.  James  Woodruff  Savage,  son  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Savage,  of  Ann  Orr,  the  noted  teacher,  Zachariah  Chandler, 
Deacon  Samuel  McQuesten,  Deacon  Daniel  Mack,  and  members  of 
the  French  and  Woodbury  families,  including  in  their  number 
saintly  men  and  women,  worthy  representatives  of  the  church. 
He  also  read  a  poem  written  for  the  occasion  by  Miss  Mary  Tucker, 
which  was  full  of  appreciation  of  the  past  and  of  hope  for  the  future. 

An  interesting  letter  was  read  from  the  Rev.  Albert  D.  Smith, 
a  former  pastor,  the  text  of  which  is  given  below : 

Noethborough,  Mass.,  Aug.  5,  1899. 
Miss  Martha  R.    Woodbury,   Corresponding    Secretary  of  Anni- 
versary Committee : 

I  have  delayed  answering  your  note  of  invitation  to  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  150th  anniversary  of  the  organization  of  the  Bedford 


362  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

church  in  the  hope  that  something  might  arise  that  would  make  it 
possible  for  me  to  attend.  At  this  late  date,  it  seems  too  remote  to 
hope  for.  I  had  my  summer  plans  all  arranged  when  the  invitation 
was  received,  and  involving,  as  they  did,  not  only  myself  and  fam- 
ily, but  others  also,  I  was  unable  to  change  them. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  I  shall  be  unable  to  be  present. 
I  should  have  been  glad  to  share  in  the  feast  of  wit,  reason,  and 
religion  which  all  those  present  will  enjoy.  I  shall  miss  the  meet- 
ing, under  happy  auspices,  with  many  friends  whose  faces  it  is  a 
pleasure  to  look  into.  I  would  have  been  glad  to  speak  my  word 
of  congratulation  in  its  place.  But  I  must  apparently  miss  all  that 
and  send  only  a  cold  written  word  of  good  cheer. 

If  the  genial  Dr.  Holmes  knew  "  what  was  so  "  when  he  wrote, 

"  In  fact,  there's  nothing  that  keeps  its  youth, 
So  far  as  I  know,  but  a  tree  and  truth," 

then  a  church  that  wakes  one  day  to  find  itself  150  years  young 
must  owe  that  youth  constantly  renewed  to  the  truth.  May  the 
celebration  of  this  anniversary  prove  another  renewal  of  youth  and 
a  re-enthroning  of  truth,  that  the  church  may  see  its  300th  birthday 
in  more  spotless  purity,  in  the  vigor  of  a  stronger  youth,  in  the 
possession  of  larger  truth,  and  with  a  record  of  more  noble  and 
more  glorious  service  behind  it. 

With  the  hope  that  the  day  may  be  all  that  those  who  love  the 
church  best  could  desire,  I  am 

Yours  in  Christian  fellowship, 

Albert  D.  Smith. 

This  brought  the  morning  exercises  to  a  close.  Under  the  leader- 
ship of  the  marshal  and  his  aids,  the  guests  were  next  escorted  to 
the  town  house  where  a  bountiful  dinner  was  provided. 

Shortly  after  2  o'clock  the  exercises  were  resumed,  the  Bedford 
orchestra  having  rendered  most  acceptably  several  selections  while 
the  audience  was  being  seated. 

The  first  address  was  given  by  A.  W.  Holbrook,  president  of  the 
flourishing  Christian  Endeavor  society  .  of  the  church.  The  good 
work  of  the  society  since  its  organization  in  August,  1891,  was 
briefly  reviewed,  and  presented  in  an  interesting  manner. 

Dr.  Lindsay  then  introduced  His  Excellency  Gov.  Frank  W. 
Rollins,  who,  before  beginning  his  address,  read  to  the  audience  a 
parchment  which  had  been  received  by  mail  during  the  day  by 
which  the  Rev.  W.  C.  Lindsay,  Ph.  D.,  was  notified  that  Rutherford 
college,  North  Carolina,  had  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity.     Governor  Rollins  then  spoke  as  follows : 

"  One  hundred  and  fifty  years — two  full  lifetimes — three  genera- 
tions— is  a  long  period  in  the  history  of  a  new  country  like  ours, 
though  but  a  brief  span  in  the  rearward  spreading  ages  of  this  old 
world.     One  hundred  and  fifty  years  counts  but  as  a  day  in  the  pro- 


NEW  PRESBYTERIAN  MEETING-HOUSE.  363 

cession  of  the  ages,  and  as  we  know  not  the  divisions  of  time  in  the 
great  eternity — -do  not  even  know  that  time  exists,  for  no  one  has 
ever  even  vaguely  understood  infinity  and  time  without  end — our 
years  may  count  as  days  or  our  centuries  as  months ;  but  in  this 
spick  and  span  new  world,  discovered  but  yesterday,  one  hundred 
and  fifty  years  covers  a  multitude  of  great  undertakings,  of  magni- 
ficent achievements. 

"  Our  ancestors  seized  this  new  world,  wrested  it  from  the  savage 
redskin  and  from  the  no  less  savage  forces  of  nature — they  found  it 
raw,  wild,  unfruitful.  The  task  before  them  was  one  to  fill  the 
strongest  heart  with  foreboding,  but  those  men  and  women  were 
made  of  stern  stuff,  their  hearts  were  strong,  their  constitutions  iron, 
their  courage  magnificent.  Neither  hunger  nor  cold  nor  heat,  nor 
savage  men  nor  savage  beasts,  could  hold  them  in  check.  Death 
had  no  terrors  for  them,  sickness  they  had  no  time  for,  nerves  they 
had  never  discovered. 

"  The  history  of  this  church  is  woven  into  the  history  of  our  coun- 
try, for  its  growth  and  progress  has  been  within  our  historic  period. 
And  what  a  history !  No  American  can  read  it  without  justifiable 
pride.  Its  pages  are  the  pages  of  a  romance  more  wonderful  than 
novelists  have  been  able  to  produce.  They  teem  with  the  mighty 
deeds  of  a  mighty  people,  following  each  other  in  wondrous  proces- 
sion, and  crowded  into  the  short  space  of  a  few  centuries.  While 
the  Old  World  slept  the  New  was  stealing  up  to  it  by  forced  night 
marches — working  double  time — toiling  with  brain  and  hand  in  the 
arts,  in  the  sciences,  in  agriculture,  and  in  manufactures.  Quietly, 
unostentatiously,  they  toiled  on  until  they  overtook  and  passed  the 
astonished  nations  of  the  East,  and  now  the  Old  World  is  watching 
us  as  we  push  steadily  onward,  with  grave  questionings  as  to  its 
own  future. 

"  How  intensely  interesting  it  would  be  to-day  if  some  man,  who 
by  means  of  the  occult  sciences,  had  found  the  secret  of  living  on 
beyond  the  allotted  age  of  human  beings,  could  rise  here  and  give 
us  the  early  history  of  this  town  and  church ;  paint  a  word  picture 
of  this  historic  town  and  society !  He  would  probably  tell  us  who 
the  pioneers  were  who  drifted  here  in  search  of  a  home  in  the  wil- 
derness ;  how  they  looked ;  how  they  dressed ;  what  their  character ; 
and  what  they  sought.  He  would  tell  us  how  they  felled  the  forest, 
and  built  the  rough  but  serviceable  log  houses  and  barns  ;  he  would 
point  out  just  where  the  first  houses  stood,  just  where  the  garrison 
house  for  mutual  protection  was  erected,  and  most  certainly  where 
the  first  church  spread  wide  its  doors.  He  would  tell  us  of  the 
trials  and  dangers,  the  midnight  attacks,  the  sudden  alarms,  the 
times  of  prosperity,  the  seasons  of  failure  and  bitter  disappointment, 
but  he  would  show  us  how  from  the  first  and  from  very  small  be- 
ginnings they  had  gone  steadily  onward  and  upward,  every  year  a 
few  new  faces,  every  year  a  few  additional  farms,  every  year  a  larger 
clearing  and  a  wider  horizon. 


364  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

"  And  the  most  prominent  thing  in  his  story  would  be  the  history 
of  this  church,  of  this  old  and  honored  society,  for  the  history  of 
this  church  is  the  history  of  the  town.  I  do  not  personally  know 
its  history,  but  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  settlement  was  not  very  old 
before  it  had  its  minister  and  its  church,  and  every  man  and  woman 
in  the  town  attended  it  and  helped  support  it,  and  every  child  went 
to  its  services  and  its  Sunday-school.  The  minister  was  undoubt- 
edly the  man  of  learning  of  the  community,  the  court  of  .last  resort 
for  all  questions,  a  man  whose  word  was  law. 

"  Religion  meant  something  then.  It  was  a  very  real  part  of  life  ; 
it  entered  into  every  act  and  thought  of  daily  existence.  Agnosti- 
cism was  yet  to  be  born.  The  Higher  Criticism  had  not  shed  its 
withering  blight  over  sensitive  minds.  It  may  be  that  the  religion 
of  the  Puritans  was  hard,  severe,  unlovely,  but  it  was  a  reality.  It 
meant  something ;  it  stood  for  something ;  it  had  a  body  and  a  sub- 
stance— you  could  lay  your  hand  upon  it  and  find  it  when  needed. 
It  stood  out  before  these  rugged  people  as  a  sure  guide  in  the  wil- 
derness, a  strong  arm  \ipon  which  they  could  unfailingly  rely.  They 
would  have  spurned  some  of  the  colorless  substitutes  in  use  nowa- 
days. They  would  tell  you  that  the  pith  and  strength  and  vitality 
had  all  been  strained  and  refined  away,  and  that  nothing  was  left 
but  the  chaff  clothed  in  the  phraseology  of  a  by-gone  age.  They 
would  show  you  that  reverence  for  holy  things  had  largely  passed 
away — that  children  no  longer  venerated  their  fathers  and  mothers, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  church — that  the  Bible  had  become  a  thing  to 
jest  about,  and  the  minister  simply  a  man  to  be  good-naturedly 
smiled  upon.  And  we  should  point  to  our  schools,  our  hospitals, 
our  charitable  and  philanthropic  institutions,  and  say,  '  These  are 
our  religion,'  and  they  would  sadly  shake  their  heads  and  say,. 
'  They  largely  indicate  a  certain  form  of  selfishness,  an  insurance  of 
the  body  politic  against  the  criminal,  the  diseased,  the  insane — they 
do  represent  advance  and  improvement  and  do  you  credit,  but  they 
are  not  religion.  You  have  followed  the  Master's  teaching  in  this 
one  line,  but  how  far  have  you  drifted  from  it  in  others.' 

"  I  am  not  defending  Puritanism — there  was  much  about  it  that 
was  repellent  and  unlovely,  and  I  do  not  know  that  I  would  wish  it 
back,  but  the  contrast  between  the  sure,  steady,  unwavering  belief 
of  those  days,  the  daily  canning  out  of  the  teachings  which  they 
revered,  and  the  vagueness,  uncertainty,  shifting,  and  hollowness  of 
some  of  the  creeds  of  to-day  is  appalling.  The  ground  work  and 
foundation  of  the  church  of  the  future  would  seem  to  be  good 
natured  tolerance — the  blind  leading  the  blind. 

"Perhaps  we  are  progressing,  perhaps  we  are  working  upward 
toward  new  light  and  better  things,  perhaps  this  is  a  transition 
period,  and  we  are  to  discover  some  new  ark  of  the  covenant.  But 
it  seems  to  me  that  when  you  once  begin  to  question,  when  you 
loosen  the  moorings  of  a  man's  faith,  and  set  him  adrift  upon  the 
sea  of  doubt,  you  have  done  him  an  irreparable  injury.     What  is 


NEW  PRESBYTERIAN  MEETING-HOUSE.  365 

there  in  the  world  so  sweet  and  pure  and  upholding  as  faith — 
whether  it  is  faith  in  God  or  in  one's  fellow-man  ?  And  when  you 
shake  a  man's  faith,  you  twist  and  ruin  his  whole  nature.  Let  us 
grant  for  the  sake  of  argument  that  God  is  a  dream,  man's  desire 
for  the  unattainable  personified.  What  then  ?  Destroy  this  belief 
and  what  will  you  put  in  its  place  ?  No  one  has  even  suggested  a 
substitute.  Yet,  the  whole  drift  of  mankind  to-day  is  away  from 
this  strong  belief.  Every  year  some  part  of  the  Biblical  story  is 
explained  away,  and  thrown  into  the  refuse  pile  of  exploded  myths. 
One  by  one  the  truths  we  were  taught  by  our  mother's  knee  are 
shattered.  So  I  say  that  Puritanism,  with  all  its  bigotry,  its  narrow- 
ness, its  cant,  was  a  better  religion  than  much  of  the  religion  of  to- 
day which  leads— God  knows  where. 

"  I  suppose  this  church  in  this  lovely  old  town,  Avith  its  conserva- 
tive people,  descendants  of  the  good  old  stock,  has  retained  as  much 
of  the  essentials  of  the  religion  of  then-  fathers  as  any,  and  I  con- 
gratulate you  upon  it  and  upon  your  anniversary,  and  I  trust  that 
the  man  who  addresses  this  church  on  its  300th  anniversary  may 
still  find  its  communicants  strong  in  the  faith  which  built  up  and 
made  possible  our  noble  country." 


Brief  exercises  by  the  Sunday-school  came  next  on  the  programme. 
They  included  the  reciting  of  the  Ten  Commandments,  the  Beati- 
tudes, and  the  singing  of  several  songs,  all  of  which  was  done  in  a 
manner  that  reflected  credit  on  those  who  have  that  branch  of 
church  work  in  charge.  The  superintendent,  Arthur  W.  Holbrook, 
then  addressed  the  audience  as  follows  : 

"  A  few  weeks  since  I  was  requested  by  the  anniversary  committee 
to  prepare  a  historical  sketch  of  Bedford  Sunday-school.  I  fully 
realize  the  difficulty  of  doing  justice  to  the  subject,  as  records  and 
reports  are  so  meager,  for  the  Sunday-school  has  been  sadly 
neglected  in  regard  to  having  any  records  kept. 

"  I  have  found  some  interesting  points,  however,  from  different 
sources  which  I  presume  are  correct,  and  will  give  a  few  extracts 
here. 

"On  Sunday,  December  24, 1882,  during  the  pastorate  of  the  Rev. 
D.  H.  Colcord,  there  was  held  in  the  church  very  interesting  anniver- 
sary exercises  commemorating  fifty  years  from  the  dedication  of  the 
meeting-house.  Among  other  interesting  remarks  and  papers  was 
a  paper  entitled  'Reminiscences  of  Bedford  Sunday-school,'  pre- 
pared by  the  late  Elder  John  Hodgman,  from  which  I  quote  the 
following : 

"'At  the  centennial  celebration  of  the  town,  May  19,  1850,  the 
Rev.  James  T.  Woodbury,  then  of  Acton,  Mass.,  in  his  remarks 
referred  to  the  Hon.  John  Orr  as  being  present  to  assist  in  organiz- 
ing a  Sabbath  school  in  the  Old  Square  schoolhouse  at  the  Center. 
It  was  on  a  rainy  Sabbath  morning  in  May,  1818.    Dr.  P.  P.  Wood- 


366  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

bury  was  also  present.  This,  in  all  probability,  was  the  first  Sun- 
day-school instituted  in  town.  A  little  later  there  was  one  in  dis- 
trict No.  2  conducted  by  Mr.  Orr  and  Miss  Ann  Orr.  Also  one  in 
district  No.  3  conducted  by  Elder  Stephen  Thurston.  The  schools 
were  held  on  Sabbath  evenings.  I  have  been  informed  by  aged 
persons  that  there  were  many  of  the  older  persons  at  that  time  who 
did  not  regard  the  institution  of  these  schools  with  favor.  They 
considered  them  an  innovation  upon  the  regular  services  of  the 
sanctuary.  They  were  also  afraid  that  the  boys  and  girls  would  be 
noisy  in  going  to  and  from  school.' 

"  It  may  be  remarked  here  that  the  Sabbath  was  more  strictly 
kept  then  than  now,  no  noise  or  loud  talking  being  allowed. 

" '  My  earliest  recollection,'  he  continues,  '  of  attending  the  Sab- 
bath school  was  in  1827  or  1828  in  the  old  schoolhouse  at  the  Cen- 
ter. I  do  not  remember  the  superintendent,  but  easily  recall  the 
clerk,  whose  duty  it  was  to  keep  a  record  of  the  school  and  call  the 
roll  at  each  session.  .  .  .  The  principal  exercise  was  reciting 
verses  that  we  had  learned  during  the  week.  We  were  required  to 
commit  to  memory  seven  or  more.  .  .  .  There  was  no  library, 
no  singing,  and  but  little  to  interest  us,  but  we  were  obliged  to  go, 
willing  or  not.  The  school  was  not  in  session  during  the  winter 
months  until  it  was  removed  to  the  old  meeting-house,  when  it  was 
held  at  noon  between  the  services.  Here  we  had  singing,  a  small 
library  and  question  books,  and  here  the  school  received  a  large 
accession  from  the  congregation,  the  older  members  joining  it.' 

"Probably  at  this  time  occurred  the  organizing  referred  to  in  a 
record  made  by  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury  and  found  recently  among 
his  private  papers,  which  reads  as  follows  : 

"'Bedford  Sabbath  school,  organized  May  3,  1829,  Deacon  John 
French,  superintendent ;  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  assistant ;  Stephen 
French,  Jr.,  librarian.'  Then  follows  a  list  of  the  teachers  and  the 
number  in  each  class,  footing  up  :  Number  of  members,  221 ;  teach- 
ers, 21 ;  officers,  3,  making  a  total  of  245. 

"In  January,  1833,  the  Sabbath-school  was  removed  to  its  present 
quarters  in  the  then  new  meeting-house.  The  superintendents  from 
that  time,  to  1861, 1  have  been  unable  to  ascertain,  or  any  records 
during  that  time.  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury  was  superintendent  at 
the  time  of  his  death  in  1861.  In  1864,  so  Elder  John  Hodgman 
states,  when  he  returned  to  Bedford  to  live,  Deacon  Benjamin  Hall 
was  superintendent,  and  he  was  succeeded  by  John  Hodgman,  who 
served  three  years.  During  his  term  of  service  his  record  shows  a 
total  membership  of  365  members,  with  25  teachers  and  an  average 
attendance  of  about  200.  I  think  Mr.  Hodgman  was  followed  by 
Solomon  Manning,  who  served  two  or  three  years.  I  am  unable  to 
give  the  names  in  order  of  Mr.  Manning's  successors,  but  I  think 
they  were  F.  R.  French,  Silas  Holbrook,  E.  G.  Newton,  Deacon  S.  C. 
Damon,  and  Samuel  Seavey ;  possibly  there  were  others.  In  May, 
1881,  Fred  A.  French  was  elected  and  served  eleven  years,  or  until 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN  MEETING-HOUSE.  367 

January,  1892,  when  Jasper  P.  George  served  one  year.  William  B. 
French  served  during  1893.  James  R.  Leach  then  served  four  years, 
during  1894-'97.  In  January,  1898,  Arthur  W.  Holbrook  was 
elected  and  is  the  present  superintendent. 

"Our  present  membership  is  about  150,  with  an  average  attend- 
ance of  about  80  in  ten  classes. 

"  Within  the  past  few  weeks  we  have  started  a  home  department 
under  the  superintendence  of  Mrs.  Eunice  Kinson.  This  is  designed 
for  those  who  cannot,  or  do  not,  attend  the  regular  school,  but  agree 
to  study  the  lessons  at  home. 

"  There  has  been  Sunday-schools  in  different  parts  of  the  town  at 
different  times ;  some  of  the  places  have  been  already  named,  also  in 
district  No.  8  and  Joppa.  At  the  present  time  there  is  only  one 
other  school  in  town  to  our  knowledge,  that  in  district  No.  4,  under 
the  superintendence  of  Mrs.  John  Lodge. 

"  This  brief  glance  at  the  past  of  Bedford  Sunday-schools  does  not 
show  the  amount  of  good  that  has  been  accomplished  as  no  human 
being  can  estimate  that,  but  we  hope  and  pray  that  Bedford  Sunday- 
school  may  still  continue  to  prove  a  blessing  to  Bedford  in  genera- 
tions to  come." 


The  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  of  Shawnee ville,  111.,  a  former  pastor,  was 
next  presented,  and  delivered  the  historical  address  of  the  day.  He 
spoke  as  follows : 

"  Christian  Friends  and  Citizens  of  Bedford :  I  cannot  express 
to  you  the  unmingled  pleasure  I  experience  to-day  in  meeting  you 
again  in  this  earthly  life.  Ever  since  I  determined  to  accept  the 
invitation  of  your  honorable  committee  to  participate  with  you  in 
these  anniversary  exercises,  I  have  been  striving  to  recall  your  faces, 
and  wondering  how  many  I  should  be  able  to  recognize  of  those 
with  whom  I  was  so  intimately  associated  more  than  twenty  years 
ago.  While  recognizing  with  pleasure  the  familiar  faces  of  so  many, 
there  is  yet  a  tinge  of  sadness  as  I  note  the  absence  of  some  whose 
greetings  I  shall  receive  no  more.  As  I  recall  their  friendship,  their 
kindly  interest  in  me  for  the  sake  of  Him  whom  I  served,  and  the 
delightful  fellowship  we  had  together,  I  feel  and  can  appreciate  those 
tender  words  of  Tennyson, — 

'  O  for  the  touch  of  a  vanished  hand, 
And  the  sound  of  a  voice  that  is  still.' 

"  As  I  cast  my  eye  over  this  audience  and  recognize  the  faces  of 
many  friends  of  former  years,  I  notice  that  you,  as  I,  have  had 
your  encounter  with  old  Father  Time.  There  are  a  few  more  fur- 
rows on  the  brow,  a  few  more  gray  hairs,  and  with  some,  perhaps, 
that  crown  of  glory  has  nearly  all  departed.  And  so,  perhaps,  there 
is  a  fellow  sympathy  between  us,  and  as  we  recall  the  memory  of 
past  years,  and  how  differently  we  appeared  to  each  other,  we  can 


368  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

solace  ourselves  with  the  lines  of  the  Scottish  bard,  so  familiar  to  us 
all,- — 

'  John  Anderson  my  Jo  John, 

When  we  were  first  acquent, 
Your  locks  were  like  the  raven, 

Your  bonny  brow  was  brent, 
But  now  your  brow  is  beld,  John, 

Your  locks  are  like  the  snow, 
But  blessing  on  your  frosty  pow, 

John  Anderson,  my  Jo.' 

"  But  I  see  in  this  assembly  younger  faces,  those  of  a  generation 
that  has  come  since  I  left  Bedford.  Some  of  them  were  perhaps 
infants  while  I  was  here,  others  have  been  born  and  grown  up  to 
manhood  and  womanhood  during  the  twenty  years  that  have  inter- 
vened since  1879.  Of  these  I  can  only  say  that  I  knew  their  par- 
ents, but  I  shall  need  a  formal  introduction  before  1  can  say  even 
that  much.  But  these  swiftly  changing  pictures  of  young  and  old, 
and  generation  succeeding  generation,  in  life's  kaleidoscope,  do  but 
illustrate  and  confirm  what  I  have  so  often  tried  to  impress  upon  the 
minds  of  old  and  young  during  my  ministry,  that  soon,  very  soon, 
these  little  years  that  have  been  cut  out  of  God's  eternity  for  each 
one  of  us,  must  fade  and  vanish  away  in  the  eternity  yet  to  come, 
and  whatsoever  is  done  in  life  to  make  ourselves  and  the  world  bet- 
ter must  be  done  in  the  little  now. 

'  Not  enjoyment  and  not  sorrow, 

Is  our  destined  end  or  way, 
But  to  act  that  each  to-morrow 

Find  us  farther  than  to-day; 
Lives  of  great  men  all  remind  us 

We  can  make  our  lives  sublime; 
And  departing  leave  behind  us 

Footprints  on  the  sands  of  time.' 

"  Citizens  of  Bedford,  scions  of  the  old  Scotch-Irish  stock,  whose 
spreading  branches  of  influence  have  extended  over  every  section  of 
this  great  Union,  and  penetrated  every  department  of  church  and 
state,  I  wish  to  speak  to  you  to-day  of  some  of  the  striking  features 
of  your  ancestry.  I  take  it  that  you  have  arranged  this  anniversary 
for  the  purpose  of  recalling  to  mind  the  characters  and  the  deeds  of 
the  heroes  who  have  contributed  so  much  to  make  this  magnificent 
country  what  it  is,  the  home  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  and  to  per- 
petuate their  memory  in  the  hearts  and  lives  of  their  posterity.  This 
is  the  duty  of  a  generation  that  appreciates  what  their  forefathers 
have  done.  Says  Lord  Macaulay :  '  A  people  which  takes  no  pride 
in  the  noble  achievements  of  remote  ancestors,  will  never  achieve 
anything  worthy  to  be  remembered  with  pride  by  remote  descend- 
ants.' You  have  shown  by  your  centennial,  and  by  this  semi-cen- 
tennial anniversary,  that  you  do  not  belong  to  such  an  ungrateful 
posterity. 

"  To  trace  God's  hand  and  His  Providence  in  the  raising  up  and 
transfer  of  the  Scotch-Irish  to  this  country,  and  the  influence  they 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  369 

have  exerted  in  moulding  our  civil  institutions,  and  infusing  their 
religious  life  into  the  church  of  Christ  in  this  country,  must  always 
be  an  interesting  subject  to  us,  who  to-day  are  reaping  the  fruits  of 
their  labors,  then  sacrifices  and  trials,  and  feel  the  consciousness  that 
their  blood  is  coursing  in  our  veins. 

"  The  character  of  the  Scottish  Presbyterians  was  fully  developed 
during  the  long  years  of  persecution  to  which  they  were  subjected 
by  the  house  of  Stuart.  To  that  natural  persistence  of  purpose, 
which  was  a  national  trait,  were  added  that  clear  perception  of  the 
nature  of  the  divine  government  which  made  them  Presbyterians, 
and  that  deep  devotional  spirit  that  made  them  Christians.  These 
traits  of  character  carried  them  successfully  through  the  long  strug- 
gle for  civil  and  religious  liberty  in  Scotland  from  the  days  of  Knox 
till  the  time  of  Oliver  Cromwell.  Sometimes  it  was  Romanism, 
sometimes  Episcopacy  that  was  the  persecuting  power,  but  rather 
than  submit  to  a  religious  system  which  they  abhorred,  the  Scottish 
Presbyterians  suffered  the  loss  of  all  things.  They  were  hunted  like 
beasts  of  prey ;  they  were  shot  down  with  remorseless  cruelty,  their 
property  was  seized,  their  houses  burned,  and  themselves  expatriated. 
But  they  clung  to  the  faith  delivered  to  them  by  Knox  and  his  com- 
peers. They  had  imbibed  the  spirit  of  John  Knox,  at  whose  funeral- 
Morton  testified,  '  There  lies  one  who  never  feared  the  face  of  man."' 
In  that  spirit  they  went  with  even  step  to  the  block  and  the  gibbet. 
A  Presbyterian  youth  was  dragged  before  Claverhouse.  The  guns 
were  loaded  and  he  was  told  to  pull  his  bonnet  over  his  face.  He 
refused,  and  stood  confronting  his  murderers,  with  his  Bible  in  his 
hand.  He  said,  '  I  can  look  you  in  the  face,  I  have  done  nothing  of 
which  I  need  be  ashamed.  But  how  will  you  look,  in  that  day,  when 
you  shall  be  judged  by  what  is  written  in  this  book?'  He  fell  dead, 
and  was  buried  on  the  moor.  The  age  of  the  early  martyrs  did  not 
show  a  grander  heroism  than  this,  and  that  which  was  shown  by  the 
Scottish  covenanters  throughout  then  long  and  bitter  persecutions. 
They  were  planting  the  seeds  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  whose 
fruits  were  to  be  seen  later,  flourishing  upon  the  soil  of  a  new 
world. 

" '  The  wheels  of  Providence,'  says  Jonathan  Edwards,  '  are  not 
turned  about  by  blind  chance,  but  they  are  full  of  eyes  round  about,  and 
they  are  guided  by  the  spirit  of  God.  Where  the  Spirit  goes  they 
go.'  Seldom  has  God's  overruling  Providence  been  more  signally 
illustrated  than  in  the  results  of  those  persecutions,  both  in  England 
and  Scotland,  which  succeeded  the  reformation,  and  prepared  the 
way  for  American  emigration.  There  were  many  happy  Christian 
homes,  both  in  England  and  Scotland,  during  the  early  part  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  Despite  the  cruelties  of  a  persecuting  hier- 
archy, those  homes  to  then  inhabitants  were  the  dearest  places  on 
earth.  The  green  hillsides  and  mountain  streams  were  endeared  to 
the  heart  by  the  tenderest  ties.  The  4  banks  and  braes  o'  Bonny 
Doon,'  were  as  dear  to  the  Scot  as  Tennyson's  '  Babbling  Brook '  to 
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370  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

the  Puritan.  There,  among  those  hills,  and  along  those  streamlets, 
they  and  their  forefathers  had  dwelt,  till  every  moor  and  crag  and 
burn  had  its  association  of  hallowed  memory.  But  there  was  a  new 
world  waiting  to  be  occupied.  It  might  become  peopled  with  wild 
adventurers,  seeking  its  shores  in  quest  of  gold,  or  it  might  be  seized 
and  possessed  by  that  same  intolerant  religious  system  by  which 
they  were  oppressed  at  home.  But  that  new  country  belonged  to 
Christ,  and  it  must  be  taken  and  held  in  the  interests  of  His  King- 
dom. So  the  Puritans  of  England  and  the  Presbyterians  of  Scot- 
land alike  believed,  and  only  the  high  resolve  of  planting  in  the  new 
world  a  home  and  a  church  that  should  be  exempt  from  the  persecu- 
tions to  which  they  had  been  subjected,  could  ever  have  induced 
them  to  leave  the  land  of  their  forefathers  and  the  happy  homes  of 
their  early  years,  to  dwell  among  savages  and  endure  the  hardships 
of  a  life  in  the  wilderness. 

"  But  God  employs  the  element  of  time  in  the  execution  of  His 
purposes.  The  events  of  His  Providence  are  best  understood  in  the 
light  of  their  results. 

"Although  the  Scotch-Irish  arrived  in  this  country  nearly  100  years 
after  the  Puritan  fathers,  it  was  in  reality  their  second  emigration ; 
the  time  of  their  leaving  Scotland  nearly  synchronizing  with  the  de- 
parture of  the  Leydon  company  from  England — the  English  leaving 
in  1608,  the  Scotch  in  1612. 

"  God  had  a  particular  work  to  be  performed  by  these  two  classes 
of  people.  The  Pilgrim  fathers  were  destined  to  the  work  of  found- 
ing a  new  government  in  the  new  world  ;  of  denning  its  nature,  and 
laying  the  foundations  of  civil  and  religious  liberty.  They  were 
needed  here  first  and  God  sent  them  first.  The  original  colony  of 
Puritans  sojourned  in  Holland  from  1608  till  1620.  But  they  never 
felt  at  home  there.  There  was  a  divine  impulse  urging  them  on  to 
this  new  world  as  clearly  defined  as  that  which  moved  Abram  from 
Ur  of  the  Chaldees  to  the  plains  of  Mamre.  Many  a  difficulty,  many 
a  vexatious  delay  was  encountered,  but  still  they  persevered,  till  at 
length,  joining  their  friends  in  Southampton,  after  still  farther 
troubles,  they  set  sail  in  the  famous  historic  Mayflower,  and  landed 
on  these  shores  in  December,  1620.  The  story  of  their  losses  and 
trials  during  that  bitter  New  England  winter  are  familiar  to  us  all. 
The  mingled  hopes  and  fears,  the  lights  and  shadows  through  which 
they  passed  were  such  as  try  men's  souls  and  test  their  faith  to 
the  utmost,  but  did  not  alter  their  purpose.  Their  high  resolve  was 
never,  except  as  visitors,  to  return  to  their  native  land.  Half  their 
numbers  perished  during  the  first  winter,  but  not  a  word  was  said 
about  returning  home. 

"  God's  time  had  not  yet  fully  come  for  the  Scottish  Presbyterians 
to  emigrate  to  America.  While  the  English  colony  was  making  a 
way  in  the  wilderness  for  a  future  civilization  that  was  to  be  the 
wonder  of  the  world,  the  Scotch  were  needed  for  another  century  to 
resist  the  bigoted  James  in  the  north  of  Ireland.   And  so  '  the  wheel 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  371 

of  Providence  '  turned  them  thitherward.  The  successive  Irish  re- 
bellions, during  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  were  finally  suppressed,  and 
the  whole  Province  of  Ulster  fell  to  the  crown  by  the  attainder  of 
rebels.  James  I  offered  liberal  inducements  to  the  English  and 
Scotch  to  settle  in  Ulster,  and  from  1612  and  onward  great  numbers 
passed  over  and  occupied  the  lands  that  had  been  forfeited  to  the 
crown.  Soon  the  whole  aspect  of  the  country  was  changed.  'Ul- 
ster,' says  Hume,  '  from  being  the  most  wild  and  disorderly  province, 
became  the  best  cultivated  and  most  civilized.'  The  Scotch  brought 
with  them  not  only  their  habits  of  industry  and  economy,  for  which 
they  were  noted,  but  that  stern  devotion  to  religious  principles  which 
afterwards  gave  to  Scotland  its  solemn  leage  and  covenant,  and 
which  was  the  very  element  required  in  the  struggle  they  were  so 
soon  to  encounter. 

"  Here  they  dwelt  in  comparative  peace  and  prosperity  for  more 
than  seventy  years,  until  James  II  sought  to  recover  again  the  crown 
he  had  so  ignominiously  abandoned.  His  plan  of  campaign  was  to 
enter  Ireland,  thence  to  cross  into  Scotland,  and  by  the  aid  of  the 
army  he  would  thus  raise  from  among  his  adherents  in  those  realms, 
strike  for  the  recovery  of  his  crown.  But  he  found  the  Scotch- 
Irish  in  the  north  of  Ireland  a  mighty  bulwark  to  oppose  him.  He 
met  them  at  Enniskillen,  at  Newton  Butler,  and  Londonderry,  and 
the  encounters  were  neither  nattering  to  his  pride  nor  encouraging  to 
his  cause.  There  were  men  in  William's  army  who  understood  the 
animus  of  James,  and  to  whom  the  Protestant  faith  was  dearer  than 
life ;  men  who  could  die,  but  who  would  never  submit  to  a  galling 
tyranny  like  that  which  James  sought  to  reestablish  over  them. 

"  The  siege  of  Londonderry  has  passed  into  history  as  one  of  the 
grandest  examples  of  heroic  endurance  in  British  annals.  For  105 
days  the  Scotch-Irish,  poorly  armed  and  poorly  fed,  and  deserted 
by  their  leader,  withstood  the  disciplined  army  of  James  till  succor 
reached  them  from  England.  By  the  successful  issue  of  the  siege 
of  Londonderry  the  fate  of  the  house  of  Stuart  was  fixed  and  sealed 
with  the  blood  of  Presbyterian  martyrs.  The  blessings  of  religious 
liberty  were  insured  to  the  British  Isles,  and  the  great  principles  of 
the  Protestant  reformation  finally  established  by  that  memorable 
siege. 

"Doubtless  the  Scotch-Irish  inhabitants  of  Ulster  would  have  been 
content  to  remain  where  then  liberties  had  been  so  dearly  purchased. 
But  new  sources  of  grievance  arose.  They  held  their  lands  not  as 
original  and  sole  proprietors,  but  as  tenants  to  the  crown.  They 
were  subjected  to  an  annual  tax  for  the  support  of  the  established 
church,  and  dwelt  in  near  proximity  to  a  native  population  which 
though  subdued,  still  cherished  the  spirit  of  hate  and  sought  to  annoy 
them  in  every  conceivable  way.  '  They  sprang,'  says  Macaulay, 
'  from  different  stocks.  They  spoke  different  languages,  they  had 
different  national  characters,  as  strongly  opposed  as  any  two  national 
characters  in  Europe.     They  were  in  widely  different  stages  of  civ- 


372  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

ilization.  There  could,  therefore,  be  little  sympathy  between  them, 
and  centuries  of  calamities  and  wrongs  had  generated  a  strong  an- 
tipathy.' And  here  let  me  emphasize  a  fact.  The  term  Scotch- 
Irish  is  somewhat  misleading.  It  was  only  during  the  past  summer 
that  I  met  with  a  Scotchman  in  Illinois  who  had  always  supposed 
the  Scotch- Irish  were  a  mixed  race.  But  the  term  means  only  a 
Scotchman  living  in  Ireland.  With  perhaps  a  few  exceptions,  the 
Scotch  who  lived  in  the  north  of  Ireland  were  as  exclusive  and  sep- 
arate as  the  Jew  in  Palestine. 

"  Soon  after  the  siege  of  Londonderry,  and  because  of  the  exac- 
tions imposed  upon  them  by  government,  the  Scotch-Irish  were 
again  seized  with  the  spirit  of  emigration.  They  had  done  their 
work  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  done  it  well.  But  the  results  were 
to  be  reaped  beyond  the  seas.  They  sought  now  a  land  where  they 
might  enjoy  unmolested  the  fruits  of  their  industry,  and  that  form 
of  religious  worship  which  was  all  the  dearer  by  reason  of  the  gen- 
erations of  suffering  endured  to  secure  it.  But  above  and  beyond 
all  these  second  causes,  the  wheels  of  Providence  were  full  of  eyes, 
and  down  through  the  swift-coming  years  a  power  was  directing 
the  steps  of  those  men  that  they  might  assist  in  founding  a  republic, 
the  grandeur  of  whose  destiny  is  just  beginning  to  dawn  upon  the 
world. 

"  The  Scotch-Irish  emigration  to  this  country  affords  an  important 
chapter  of  its  history  during  the  eighteenth  century,  and  they  have 
had  an  important  influence  in  shaping  our  system  of  government. 
Many  of  them  settled  originally  in  North  Carolina,  New  Jersey,  and 
Pennsylvania.  So  early  as  1729  more  than  6,000  had  already  set- 
tled in  Pennsylvania,  and  by  the  middle  of  the  century  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  nearly  12,000  arrived  in  this  country  annually.  Their 
descendants  have  gone  into  every  state  and  territory  of  the  Union. 
They  have  risen  to  the  highest  positions  in  church  and  state,  they 
have  controlled  the  destinies  of  the  country  from  the  presidential 
chair,  from  the  bench  of  the  supreme  court,  and  from  the  senate  and 
congress  of  the  United  States.  In  the  church  they  have  been  no 
less  influential,  and  thousands  of  our  clergymen  and  prominent  lay- 
men are  to-day  holding  the  church  to  its  moorings  against  the  tides 
of  infidelity  that  are  sweeping  over  us. 

"  The  Scotch-Irish  emigrants  to  New  England  were  among  the 
first  to  come  to  this  country.  They  arrived  in  Boston  in  five  ships 
on  the  4th  of  August,  1718,  181  years  ago  this  present  month. 
There  were  100  families  in  all  who  came  to  Boston.  Of  these,  six- 
teen families,  who  had  formed  the  congregation  of  James  McGreg- 
ore  in  Ireland,  determined  to  secure  a  settlement  together,  and  to 
have  Mr.  McGregore  for  their  minister.  They  were  directed  to 
Casco  bay,  in  the  province  of  Maine,  then  belonging  to  Massachu- 
setts, where  they  arrived  late  in  the  season  of  1718.  The  winter 
was  unusually  severe ;  then  vessel  was  frozen  in,  and  they  were  with- 
out sufficient  provision  to  supply  their  wants.     The  point  at  which 


NEW   PBESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  373 

they  landed  is  now  known  as  Cape  Elizabethan  Falmouth  harbor. 
The  spot  has  been  recently  identified  by  a  stone  fireplace  on  the 
shore,  where  they  did  their  cooking.  Time  had  concealed  this  from 
view,  but  quite  recently  it  was  revealed  by  the  washing  away  of  the 
shore.  It  consisted  of  three  plain  slabs,  so  arranged  as  to  create  a 
draft  and  to  hang  a  kettle  for  cooking.  They  suffered  greatly  dur- 
ing the  winter,  but  expected  to  endure  hardships.  So  they  made 
themselves  as  conffortable  as  possible,  sang  the  137th  Psalm  and 
patiently  awaited  the  opening  of  spring.  They  were  the  immediate 
ancestors  of  some  of  those  who  stand  before  me  to-day,  and  were 
every  way  worthy  of  such  a  posterity.  As  they  stood  upon  the 
shores  of  a  new  continent,  where  they  were  determined  to  make  for 
themselves  a  home,  they  found  the  source  of  then-  hope  and  their 
comfort  in  God.  The  unseen  eye  of  a  Father's  love  was  upon  them. 
They  suffered,  but  the  suffering  was  the  making  of  the  men.  It  was 
of  such  material  upon  which  God  has  built  the  great  fabric  of  our 
modern  institutions. 

"  Finding  no  suitable  place  to  locate  on  the  coast  of  Maine,  they 
reembarked  on  the  opening  of  spring,  and,  sailing  along  the  coast 
southward,  entered  and  ascended  the  Merrimack  river  as  far  as 
Haverhill.  Here  they  heard  of  a  tract  of  land  known  as  Nutfield, 
which  was  unappropriated.  Thither  they  proceeded,  and  took  pos- 
session of  the  place  on  the  11th  of  April,  old  style,  1719.  Their 
pastor,  James  McGregore,  was  with  them,  and  delivered  a  brief 
address  of  congratulation,  and  on  the  following  day  preached  a  ser- 
mon from  Isaiah  32 :  2.  This  was  the  first  sermon  ever  preached 
in  the  town  of  Londonderry.  The  place  was  beneath  a  spreading 
oak,  on  the  east  side  of  Beaver  pond.  Says  Parker,  in  his  history 
of  Londonderry :  '  Then,  for  the  first  time,  did  this  wilderness  and 
solitary  place,  over  which  the  savage  tribes  had  for  centuries  roamed, 
resound  with  the  voice  of  prayer  and  praise,  and  echo  to  the  sound 
of  the  gospel.'  And  here,  I  may  add,  sanctified  by  the  religious 
services  of  the  occasion,  the  first  church  distinctively  Presbyterian 
was  planted  upon  the  soil  of  Xew  England. 

"  The  people  of  Bedford  must  ever  take  a  lively  interest  in  this 
little  colony  of  Londonderry  settlers,  for  it  was  from  them,  in  1737, 
that  the  first  settlers  in  Bedford  came.  Some  of  your  ancestors 
were  doubtless  among  those  sufferers  of  Casco  bay,  and  who  gath- 
ered around  the  Rev.  James  McGregore,  at  Beaver  pond,  while  he 
comforted  their  hearts,  and  encouraged  their  faith  with  the  precious 
truths  of  the  gospel.  And  it  affords  a  strong  illustration  of  the 
devotional  spirit  of  those  men,  their  faith  in  God,  and  their  determi- 
nation to  lay  the  foundations  of  their  community  on  the  principles 
of  eternal  truth,  that  before  a  survey  was  made,  or  a  lot  chosen,  the 
place  was  consecrated  in  the  service  of  prayer  and  praise.  What  a 
contrast,  this,  from  the  mad  rush  that  has  characterized  the  recent 
occupancy  of  some  of  our  Western  territory. 

"Among  the  signers  for  the  incorporation  of  the  town  of  Bedford 

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374  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

are  the  names  of  Riddle,  McAllister,  Walker,  Patten,  Goffe,  Chand- 
ler, and  others,  names  that  were  still  common  in  the  town  during 
my  pastorate  here,  and  will  doubtless  remain  so  for  generations  to 
come.  But  many  of  them  have  gone  to  other  places  to  seek  their 
fortunes  in  manufacturing  towns  or  in  the  far  West.  The  most  of 
these  names  are  of  Scotch-Irish  origin,  and  the  most  of  them,  though 
not  all,  come  here  from  the  Londonderry  colony. 

"The  same  spirit  of  loyalty  to  God  and  dependence  upon  His 
grace  characterized  the  Bedford  settlers.  That  unseen  hand  that 
had  defended  them  against  their  foes  in  Ireland,  that  had  preserved 
them  through  the  dangers  of  the  deep  and  upheld  them  through  the 
terrible  winter  of  1718-'19  was  still  trusted  to  shield  them  from 
savages,  and  provide  for  them  a  table  in  the  wilderness,  and  almost 
their  first  act  was  to  provide  for  themselves  a  house  of  worship. 
With  few  in  number  and  limited  means  they  began  the  work  about 
1750,  and  after  several  years  of  tedious  delay,  during  which  they 
worshipped  in  barns  or  the  open  air,  their  house  of  worship  was  com- 
pleted, and  a  settled  minister  secured  in  the  person  of  the  Rev.  John 
Houston,  who  was  settled  as  the  first  pastor  on  the  28th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1757. 

"I  need  not  enter  into  the  details  of  the  history  of  Bedford.. 
They  are  given  fully,  concisely,  and  in  a  most  readable  form  by 
your  town  history,  published  at  the  time  of  the  centennial,  in  1850. 
Doubtless  you  will  have  an  historical  committee  to  bring  the  history 
down  to  the  present  date.  , 

"  I  need  only  say  in  this  connection  that  the  town  and  church 
have  had  a  most  honorable  history,  and,  notwithstanding  the  steady 
drain  upon  its  numerical  strength,  by  reason  of  the  men  and  women 
who  have  gone  out  from  its  happy  homes  to  build  up  and  enrich 
other  parts  of  our  great  country,  Bedford  still  maintains  its  place 
among  the  New  Hampshire  churches,  full  of  life,  full  of  enterprise, 
and  still  a  power  for  good,  not  only  in  New  Hampshire,  but  to  the 
ends  of  the  earth.  Men  and  women  have  gone  from  this  town,  as 
they  have  from  all  other  New  England  towns,  to  build  up  the 
mighty  West ;  to  infuse  new  life  and  energy  into  the  manufactur- 
ing cities  of  the  land,  and  as  missionaries,  to  carry  the  gospel  to  the 
remotest  habitations  of  men. 

"  We  sometimes  feel  discouraged,  ministers  and  people,  as  we  wit- 
ness this  constant  drain  upon  the  rural  churches  by  removals  and  by 
the  spirit  of  emigration  that  seems  to  prevail  everywhere.  But  we 
should  rejoice,  rather,  that  this  spirit  only  enlarges  the  sphere  of  our 
usefulness.  The  men  and  women  who  go  out  from  these  churches, 
and  from  the  influence  of  these  New  England  homes,  carry  with 
them  their  habits  of  industry,  then  educational  training,  and  their 
Christian  characters,  to  enrich  and  bless  the  people  and  places 
whither  they  go.  For  fourteen  years,  during  my  ministry  in  New 
England,  I  was  often  discouraged  by  this  constant  tide  of  western 
emigration,  whose  effect  was  to  weaken  the  home  churches,  both  in 


NEW  PRESBYTERIAN  MEETING-HOUSE.  375 

numbers  and  spiritual  force.  So  that,  when  I  received  a  call  to  the 
West  my  thought  was  that  I  should  no  longer  be  called  to  contend 
with  this  spirit  of  unrest  that  seemed  to  exhaust  all  the  energies  of 
these  rural  churches.  But  1  found  that  in  Illinois,  the  same  as  in 
New  Hampshire,  the  tide  was  still  westward.  The  states  of  Cali- 
fornia, Oregon,  Colorado,  Kansas,  and  Nebraska  are  largely  peopled 
by  the  millions  who  have  gone  thither  from  the  great  Mississippi 
valley,  as  well  as  from  New  England.  They  have  reached  the  west- 
ern slopes  of  the  Rocky  Mountains ;  they  stand  upon  the  shores  of 
the  Pacific,  and  their  eyes  are  now  turned  towards  those  islands  that 
have  so  suddenly  and  wonderfully  come  within  the  reach  of  Ameri- 
can ambition  and  American  enterprise.  And  who  shall  deny  an 
overruling  Providence  in  this  westward  star  of  empire — a  Provi- 
dence as  unerring  as  that  which  brought  our  fathers  across  the 
Atlantic?  We  may  not  as  yet  fathom  God's  purpose,  but  we  may 
be  sure  that  all  these  movements  are  in  the  interest,  and  for  the  pur- 
pose, of  the  world's  evangelization,  in  which  it  is  the  manifest  des- 
tiny for  this  country  to  take  a  leading  part. 

"At  the  Bedford  centennial  in  1850,  much  was  said  of  the  wonder- 
ful progress  in  discoveries,  inventions,  and  arts  during  the  previous 
100  years.  Steam  and  the  electric  telegraph  were  then  compara- 
tively new  forces,  just  beginning  to  be  utilized  in  human  industries. 
The  spinning-wheel  of  100  years  before  was  contrasted  with  the 
cotton  mills  of  that  day,  and  the  horse's  two  days'  journey  to  Boston 
with  the  steam  engine  and  electric  telegraph.  To  illustrate  these 
remarkable  changes,  on  the  day  of  the  celebration  a  telegram  was 
received  from  the  Hon.  Levi  Woodbury,  then  in  Washington,  giv- 
ing an  account  of  the  proceedings  of  congress  at  that  moment  in 
session.  It  was  truly  wonderful,  and  well  worthy  of  notice  on  such 
an  interesting  occasion.  But,  could  a  panoramic  view  of  the  next 
fifty  years  have  passed  in  prophetic  vision  before  that  assembly  gath- 
ered just  south  of  the  old  town  house  what  an  astonishing  picture 
would  they  have  beheld.  They  would  have  seen  those  electric  wires 
girdling  the  earth,  with  their  submarine  cables  connecting  every 
continent  on  the  whole  planet.  The  earth's  millions  talking  with 
one  another,  and  reporting  the  news  of  the  day,  to  be  read  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  planet  the  day  on  which  it  happened.  They 
would  have  seen  a  network  of  railways  all  over  this  continent,  span- 
ning the  mountains,  the  rivers,  and  prairies  from  sea  to  sea — an 
event  only  dreamed  of  by  the  men  of  their  generation.  They  would 
have  seen  an  audience  in  Chicago  listening  to  an  opera  in  New  York 
city,  charmed  by  the  words  of  the  song  and  the  sweet  tones  of  har- 
mony that  were  swept  across  the  interval  on  the  wires  of  the  tele- 
phone. They  would  have  seen  millions  of  people  traversing  town 
and  country  on  the  bicycle,  the  trolley  car,  and  the  automobile. 
They  would  have  seen  the  most  astounding  evolutions  in  every 
department  of  science  and  art.  They  would  have  seen  the  Bible — 
the  same  old  Bible  which  they  loved  and  we  love,  under  a  fire  of 


376  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

criticism  as  hot  as  Nebuchadnezzar's  furnace,  but  remaining  un- 
singed,  and  without  even  the  smell  of  fire  upon  it.  They  would 
have  seen  a  dark  war  cloud  rising  above  the  horizon,  and  heard  the 
clash  of  arms  resounding  from  South  to  North,  and  have  seen  the 
shackles  fall  from  3,000,000  of  bondmen.  They  would  have  seen 
40,000,000  of  people  issuing  from  the  horfor  and  smoke  of  battle 
addressing  themselves,  with  all  the  energy  of  Anglo-Saxon  blood,  to 
repair  the  ravages  of  war.  They  would  have  seen  the  two  hostile 
sections,  sadder  and  wiser  by  reason  of  the  conflict,  gradually  sink- 
ing their  animosities  and  welding  themselves  together  as  a  reunited 
people  under  the  folds  of  that  emblem  of  civil  and  religious  liberty, 
which,  down  deeply  in  their  hearts,  they  all  so  tenderly  loved. 
They*  would  have  seen  their  country  starting  upon  a  tide  of  pros- 
perity such  as  was  never  seen  or  dreamed  of  in  human  history, 
which  has  left  the  achievements  and  glory  of  ancient  civilizations  as 
far  behind  as  the  savages  of  darkest  Africa  were  behind  the  civiliza- 
tions of  Greece  and  Rome.  They  would  have  seen  the  American 
nation,  under  the  guidance  of  that  same  mysterious  Providence 
which  was  with  them  from  the  beginning,  and  whose  issues  we,  our- 
selves, have  not  yet  realized,  crushing,  with  a  few  well-aimed  blows, 
the  old  Castilian  monarchy  that  was  the  terror  of  the  world  under 
•Charles  V,  300  years  ago.  And  amidst  all  these  marvelous  advance- 
ments they  would  have  seen  the  descendants  of  the  old  Scotch-Irish 
stock — their  own  descendants,  many  of  them — keeping  even  pace 
with  the  Puritan  in  the  onward  progress  of  this  wonderful  country 
towards  its  high  destiny. 

"  But  as  we  stand  here  to-day,  within  a  few  months  of  the  dawn 
of  the  twentieth  century,  judging  by  the  past,  what  may  we  look 
for  during  the  next  fifty  years?  The  fact  is,  events  follow  each 
other  in  such  rapid  succession,  we  grow  almost  dizzy  with  the  whirl 
of  days  and  years,  in  the  contemplation  of  what  is  coming.  These 
astonishing  means  of  rapid  transit ;  the  discovery  and  use  of  hitherto 
unknown  forces  in  nature;  the  fearful  perfection  attained  in  the 
science  of  war ;  the  girding  of  the  nations  for  a  mighty  conflict,  and, 
withal,  the  tremendous  leap  of  the  American  nation  to  the  front  of 
the  world's  great  powers,  are  events  calculated  to  awaken  serious 
reflection,  and  to  suggest  the  inquiry,  have  we  any  means  of  judging 
the  future  by  the  past  ?  Do  not  these  swiftly  recurring  events  con- 
found all  our  calculations  and  turn  us  in  mute  dependence  to  Him 
who  was  the  guide  of  our  fathers  in  the  beginning  of  our  history, 
and  who  will  evolve,  from  the  mysteries  of  His  Providence,  the 
accomplishment  of  that  Divine  purpose  for  which  this  nation,  born 
of  so  many  nationalities,  was  called  into  existence  ?  I  believe  that 
God  has  had  a  purpose  in  raising  up  this  great  nation ;  that  that 
purpose  may  be  traced  through  all  the  small  and  feeble  beginnings 
that  marked  the  early  stages  of  its  history,  and  that  will,  despite  the 
abounding  wickedness,  be  finally  consummated — namely,  that  this 
American  nation  is  to  be  a  mighty  factor  in  the  evangelization  of 
the  world. 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  377 

"  How  near  we  may  be  to  that  consummation  none  can  tell,  but 
the  whole  trend  of  events  seems  to  point  in  one  direction,  that  the 
blessings  of  civil  and  religious  freedom  which  we  enjoy  are  to  be 
carried  forward  along  with  the  gospel,  to  the  nations  sitting  in 
darkness.  The  running  of  many  to  and  fro,  and  knowledge  being 
increased,  are  the  sure  precursors  of  that  everlasting  righteousness 
that  is  to  cover  the  earth. 

"And  now,  friends  and  citizens  of  Bedford,  I  thank  you  for  the 
honor  you  have  conferred  upon  me,  in  sending  for  me  to  address 
you  to-day.  As  I  look  back  over  the  years  of  my  ministry  here, 
I  recall  them  as  forming  an  important  part  of  my  ministerial  life. 
During  the  ten  years  of  my  pastorate  I  had  the  opportunity  of 
observing  the  character  of  the  people,  and  I  take  pleasure  in  bearing 
testimony  to  my  high  appreciation  of  then-  many  virtues  and  Chris- 
tian worth.  The  old  Scotch-Irish  element  of  fidelity  to  the  truth 
and  firmness  in  upholding  it,  was  apparent  in  all  the  departments  of 
church  work,  as  well  as  in  all  social  relations  one  with  another. 
In  promoting  the  welfare  of  the  community,  in  adopting  measures 
for  the  advancement  of  educational  and  religious  interests,  there 
was  a  unanimity  of  sentiment  that  made  the  adoption  of  measures 
easy  and  success  sure.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Savage,  after  a  study  of  the 
people  extending  over  forty  years,  pointed  out  this  special  charac- 
teristic aptly  when  he  said :  '  Bedford  moves  slowly ;  but  when  it 
starts,  it  moves  in  a  body.'  This  feature  in  the  character  of  the 
people  has  made  them  conservative,  and  is  the  basis  of  all  then* 
prosperity. 

"Bedford  is  not  one  of  the  towns  of  New  Hampshire  that  is 
going  to  die  for  the  want  of  moral  or  spiritual  vitality.  The  influ- 
ence of  its  ministry,  especially  that  of  Mr.  Savage,  in  promoting 
spiritual  life  among  its  people,  has  been  healthful  and  permanent, 
and  Bedford  is  going  to  live  and  thrive  so  long  as  the  devotion  and 
moral  stamina  of  the  fathers  remain  to  inspire  the  courage  and 
direct  the  faith  of  the  children.  That  the  generation  of  your  pos- 
terity may  celebrate  the  200th  anniversary  of  your  history,  with 
ever  increasing  honor  and  glory,  is  the  hope  and  prayer  of  all  those 
who  have  gone  out  from  among  you  to  bless  other  portions  of  the 
world." 

The  Rev.  J.  E.  Wildey  of  New  Boston  then  read  a  hymn  in 
which  the  audience  joined  in  singing. 

The  exercises  were  brought  to  a  close  by  remarks  of  a  congratu- 
latory and  complimentary  nature  made  by  visiting  clergymen  and 
delegates.  The  remarks  were  all  brief  and  hardly  more  than  the 
expressions  of  greeting  and  words  in  praise  of  the  church  and  the 
day's  exercises.  New  Hampshire's  governor  came  in  for  numerous 
compliments,  the  clergy  being  highly  pleased  at  the  interest  he 
manifests  in  the  spiritual  welfare  of  the  state. 

The  churches  represented  were  :  Antrim  Presbyterian,  Goffstown 
Congregational,  Londonderry  Presbyterian,  First  Congregational  of 


378  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

Manchester,  First  Presbyterian  of  Manchester,  North  Londonderry 
Congregational,  New  Boston  Presbyterian,  and  Westminster  Pres- 
byterian. 

The  celebration  was  closed  by  the  singing  of  a  hymn  and  the 
pronouncing  of  the  benediction  by  Dr.  Lindsay. 

The  choir,  which  sang  so  acceptably,  both  in  the  morning  and 
afternoon,  was  made  up  as  follows :  Sopranos — Miss  Agnes  Currie, 
Miss  Jennie  Woodbury,  Miss  Lillian  Kingsley,  Miss  May  Krol,  Miss 
Amy  French,  Miss  Mary  Crowell,  Miss  Mae  Currie,  Miss  Myra 
French,  Miss  Gerda  Huntoon,  Miss  Louise  C.  Smith,  Miss  Minnie 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  Barnard,  Miss  Evelyn  Stevens,  Miss  Gertrude 
Lane,  Miss  Ethel  Mack,  Mrs.  John  Quaid,  Mrs.  O.  G.  Kilton,  Mrs. 
George  French,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Lodge,  Mrs.  C.  C.  Brock. 

Altos — Miss  Maggie  Currie,  Miss  Winifred  French,  Mrs.  W.  B. 
French,  Miss  Alice  M.  Buzzell,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Lindsay. 

Tenors — D.  Burns  Bartlett  and  Edward  K.  Burbeck. 

Bassos — Stephen  S.  Reade,  J.  E.  Perigo,  and  W.  J.  Rudd. 

The  general  committee  in  charge  of  the  arrangements  for  the 
celebration  consisted  of  the  pastor,  as  chairman :  Miss  Martha 
Woodbury  and  Mrs.  Stephen  Goffe  as  secretaries;  Messrs.  J.  R. 
Leach,  E.  R.  French,  Gordon  Woodbury,  and  Miss  Mary  Manning. 
The  following  committees  did  efficient  work : 

Finance — James  R.  Leach,  chairman  and  treasurer. 

District  No.  1 — Fred  A.  French  and  S.  C.  Damon.  No.  2 — 
Albert  Flint.  No.  3— W.  W.  Darrah.  No.  4— Mrs.  Edmund  Hill. 
No.  5 — Lyman  Kinson.  No.  6 — Charles  Burseil.  No.  7 — Thomas 
Barr.  No.  8— A.  W.  Holbrook.  No.  9— George  Hardy.  No.  10— 
Harry  Shepard. 

Music — Mrs.  Lyman  Kinson,  assisted  by  Harry  Whittemore. 

Entertainment — Stephen  Goffe,  F.  R.  French,  S.  C.  Damon,  and 
Miss  Mary  Manning. 

Invitations — Miss  Martha  Woodbury. 

Transportation — Gordon  Woodbury. 

Dinner — George  Barnard,  W.  W.  Darrah,  W.  S  Manning,  Mrs. 
J.  E.  French,  and  Miss  Ethel  French. 

Sunday-school  exercises — A.  W.  Holbrook  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Lodge. 

The  following  verses,  written  for  the  occasion  by  one  of  the 
members  of  the  church,  Deacon  S.  C.  Damon,  contain  a  list  of  the 
fifty-five  elders  of  the  church,  of  which  seven  are  living,  four  being 
in  active  service : 

Since  1749,  there  have  been  enrolled 
Fifty  and  five  of  elders  all  told, 
And  thus  their  names  in  order  run 
Since  this  grand  church  has  been  begun. 

John  Orr,  the  first  man,  was  elected 
In  the  same  year  the  church  was  founded. 
Then  seven  years  later  we  do  discover 
A  Smith,  two  Moors,  and  Robert  Walker. 


NEW   PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  379 

In  1762  the  church  then  made  a  choice 

In  the  selection  of  Jonathan  Williams  and  William  Boise, 

Who,  with  Hugh  Riddle  and  Robert  Gilmore, 

Gave  to  the  session  much  wisdom  and  lore. 

As  1766,  in  the  cycles  roll  around, 

James  Little  and  James  Gilmore's  names  are  found. 

Then  following  them  in  order 

Come  Matthew  Miller  and  Robert  Alexander. 

In  1786,  John  Orr  and  Silas  Dole 

Were  added  to  complete  the  roll. 

And  since  the  elders  needed  solace. 

They  sought  and  found  it  in  James  Wallace. 

The  very  next  year  «ur  attention  is  turned 

To  John  Aiken,  Jesse  Worcester,  and  Asa  Barnes. 

Just  forty  years  from  the  organization 

We  find  Ephraim  Abbott  gets  his  election. 

In  1803,  the  August  session 
Took  unto  itself  David  McQuesten. 
John  Craig,  John  Houston,  William  Moor 
And  Phineas  Aiken  made  others  four. 

In  1804,  they  simply  took 
A  man  by  the  name  of  John  Holbrook. 
Then  these  passed  in  years  thirteen 
Before  others  came  upon  the  scene. 

Then  we  find  a  Stephen  Thurston, 
John  French  and  John  Orr  Houston, 
Another  Dole,  whose  name  was  Richard, 
A  Stephen,  too,  who  proved  no  laggard. 

In  1832  were  solved  all  rising  questions 
By  Atwood  French  and  Samuel  McQueston. 
Then  they  elected  Daniel  Mack, 
Who  also  in  wisdom  did  not  lack. 

James  and  Phineas  French  now  enter  my  song, 
Who  both  for  right  were  ever  strong. 
Then  William  B.  Stevens,  in  '59, 
Is  one  of  the  foremost  in  the  line. 

Six  years  shall  pass  before  the  elders  sage 
Find  helpers  in  Nevins,  Parkhurst,  Gage, 
And  then,  to  make  up  for  the  waning  session, 
They  elected  the  elders,  Wetherspoon  and  Damon. 

Hugh,  Freeman,  and  Frederick  for  Frenches  we  find, 
All  men  of  good  sense  and  excellent  mind. 
Hodgman,  Frederick  and  John,  with  Clark  and  Cutler, 
Gave  to  '76  an  unusual  number. 

Samuel  Gardner,  whose  piety  you  all  relate, 
Was  elected  with  Gage  and  Walker  in  '78, 
And  Samuel  P.  Duncklee,  our  senior  member, 
With  Jasper  P.  George  complete  the  number. 


380  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 


REPORT  OF  THE  WEST  BEDFORD  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. 

(Prepared  by  Louise  C.  Smith,  secretary,  and  read  at  the  150th  anniversary  of  the 
church.) 

In  1891  the  annual  State  Christian  Endeavor  Convention  was 
held  at  Manchester.  A  number  of  young  people  from  what  was 
simply  Distiict  No.  8  attended  the  convention.  They  came  home 
filled  with  the  enthusiasm  that  pervades  all  such  religious  gather- 
ings and  decided  to  form  a  Christian  Endeavor  society.  A  few 
young  people  of  the  neighborhood  met  at  Mr.  A.  W.  Holbrook's 
and  a  society  was  organized  with  seven  active  members.  This  society 
must  of  course  have  a  name.  Several  *'ere  proposed  but  it  was 
finally  decided  to  call  it  the  West  Bedford  Young  People's  Society 
of  Christian  Endeavor.  The  name  was  so  appropriate  that  it  was 
soon  adopted  by  the  community,  and  it  is  no  longer  simply  District 
No.  8,  but  West  Bedford.  The  society  thus  formed  still  continues 
to  live  and  prosper  with  this  motto  as  its  watchword,  "  For  Christ 
and  the  Church." 

There  have  been  49  different  members.  Of  these  2  have  died 
and  18  removed.  The  members  now  number  28,  10  active,  10  asso- 
ciate, and  8  honorary.  All  of  the  active  and  honorary  members 
except  3  are  members  of  the  church,  three  of  these  having  joined 
from  the  society  since  its  organization.  Mr.  A.  W.  Holbrook  was 
the  first  president.  During  the  first  year  no  record  was  kept  of  the 
regular  meetings.  In  the  last^six  years  only  19  meetings  have  been 
omitted  and  the  average  attendance  during  the  same  time  was  15. 
The  meetings  are  held  Friday  evenings  at  private  homes.  Socials 
are  held  quite  regularly,  and  these,  as  well  as  the  meetings,  have 
been  well  attended.  Nearly  every  year  one  or  two  barrels  of  cloth- 
ing and  good  literature  have  been  collected  and  given  to  the  city 
mission.  Besides  this,  an  average  of  nearly  90  cents  for  every 
active  member  has  been  given  to  missions  through  the  society  each 
year.  A  part  of  the  money  has  been  sent  to  the  Presbyterian 
Board  of  Missions.  The  remainder  was  used  for  special  objects. 
Among  these  are :  aiding  the  sick ;  sending  the  Christian  Endeavor 
World  to  missionaries ;  Moody  Library  given  to  the  Union  Sunday- 
school  at  Milan,  N.  H. ;  and  furnishing  a  crib,  mattress,  and  quilts 
for  the  Orphans'  Home  at  Franklin,  N.  H.  For  a  year  papers  were 
furnished  for  the  children  in  the  Sunday-school  of  this  church. 
About  three  years  ago  a  temperance  pledge  was  circulated.  It  was 
signed  by  nearly  one  half  of  the  present  members,  beside  quite  a 
number  who  were  not  members.  Number  8  school-room  is  dec- 
orated by  the  Christian  Endeavor  Flower  Committee  for  Sunday 
evening  meetings.  After  the  meeting  the  bouquets  of  flowers  are 
given  to  those  who  have  none  at  home.  Flowers  have  also  been 
sent  to  the  sick. 

Since  the    society  was   organized   delegates  have   been  sent  to 


NEW  PRESBYTERIAN   MEETING-HOUSE.  381 

every  International  Christian  Endeavor  Convention  except  at  San 
Francisco  and  Xashville.  They  have  also  been  sent  to  state  and 
county  conventions.  We  have  thus  tried  to  keep  in  touch  with 
other  workers.  As  we  look  back  it  sometimes  seems  that  we  have 
accomplished  very  little,  but  we  have  been  blessed  and  perhaps 
shall  never  know  Avhat  good  results  may  spring  from  our  work  or 
what  pure  aspirations  and  holy  thoughts  someone  has  felt  by  our 
influence.  So,  trusting  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  for  strength  we 
will  endeavor  to  do  whatever  He  would  like  to  have  us  do. 


Graveyards. 


The  old  graveyard,  at  the  southeast  part  of  the  town,  was  made 
use  of  to  deposit  the  dead  from  the  first  settlement  in  1737.  Here 
were  laid  the  first  settlers  of  the  town  with  their  children ;  here 
sleep  the  forefathers  and  their  families. 

April  14,  1752.  At  a  town-meeting  held  in  Matthew  Patten's 
barn  it  was  "  Voted,  To  fence  the  burying-ground,  and  that  it  be 
fenced  ten  rods  square,  with  stone  wall;  the  wall  to  be  five  feet 
high."  (But  the  wall  was  never  more  than  three  feet  high.)  John 
Orr,  John  Moor,  and  Hugh  Riddle  were  the  committee  to  see  the 
work  done.  "  They  shall  employ  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  to  do 
the  work ;  a  man  to  have  fifteen  shillings  a  day,  and  oxen  ten  shill- 
ings, old  tenor.  Each  laborer  to  begin  work  at  8  a.  m.,  in  the 
months  of  August,  September,  and  October."  It  was  voted  at  the 
same  time  to  pay  for  a  "  moar  cloth,"  or  pall.  Eighty  pounds  were 
appropriated  for  building  the  wall,  and  the  ground  was  to  be  cleared 
at  the  expense  of  the  town.  The  oldest  inscriptions  now  found  in 
the  yard  are  Ann  Burns,  July,  1745;  John,  father  of  Hon.  Matthew 
Patten,  April,  1746;  Catherine  Bell,  1746;  also  John  Goffe,  father 
of  Colonel  Goffe,  and  John  Bell,  1746.  At  the  period  of  1760, 
there  had  been  numerous  interments.  It  is  now  (1850)  occasionally 
used  as  a  burying  place.  Though  in  an  unfrequented  part  of  the 
town,  it  is  an  interesting  spot,  and  with  certain  improvements, 
might  be  made  a  place  of  solemn  resort  and  profitable  meditation. 
Here,  within  sound  of  the  railroad  whistle,  the  forefathers  sleep. 
Here  we  stand  where  tears  were  shed  a  hundred  years  ago  for 
departed  friends.  Here  is  still  the  old  stone  horse  block,  where 
mothers  and  wives  and  sisters  mounted,  having  followed  in  proces- 
sion some  loved  one  to  the  grave.  Here  are  the  gravestones  of  the 
first  minister,  and  the  elders,  who  often  consulted  together  for  the 
welfare  of  the  church.  All  the  early  burials  were  made  by  bringing 
the  body  on  a  bier  carried  from  the  house  of  the  deceased  person 
to  the  graveyard  on  the  shoulders  of  bearers.  Where  the  distance 
was  long  there  were  several  relays  of  bearers.     This  being  the  first 


GRAVEYARDS.  383 

yard  on  the  west  side  of  the  river — so  far  north  as  Bedford — inter- 
ments were  made  there  from  the  neighboring  towns.  In  a  part  of  the 
yard  there  are  no  carved  headstones,  but  field  stones,  placed  at  head 
and  foot,  mark  the  grave.  The  yard  is  supposed  to  be  entirely 
filled  with  graves.  For  a  time  after  the  new  yard  at  the  Center 
was  located  this  older  yard  fell  into  neglect.  Bushes  were  allowed 
to  grow  over  the  graves,  and  the  wall  became  much  dilapidated. 
About  1866  interest  was  aroused  to  restore  this  ancient  depository 
of  the  dead.  The  town  and  private  individuals  joined  in  the  work 
of  restoration,  and  the  following  extract  from  the  Town  Report  of 
1873  shows  the  nature  and  extent  of  the  work  done  : 

Report  of  the  old  cemetery  at  the  east  part  of  the  town : 

Rodney   M.  Rollins  has  laid  out  in  labor  in  clearing 

up  and  otherwise  improving  the  condition  of  the 
cemetery  the  sum  of                                                            $40.25 

Received  by  labor  given,  $16.00 
by  subscription  from  Mrs.  John  A. 

McGaw,  24.25 

by  subscription  of  Adam  Chandler,  5.00 

by  sale  of  wood  cut  from  yard,  3.50 


Total,  $48.75 


Leaving  a  balance  in  favor  of  old  yard,  $8.50 

Respectfully  submitted, 

William  McAllastek, 
Rodxey  M.  Rollins, 
Silas  Holbrook, 

Committee. 

Since  1873  interest  in  this  old  graveyard  has  been  sustained,  and 
it  is  still  kept  in  a  suitable  condition  by  the  town,  although  burials 
there  are  not  now  very  frequent. 

BEDFORD  CENTER  GRAVEYARD. 

In  1799  Isaac  Riddle,  Esq.,  gave  half  an  acre  of  land  for  the  pur- 
pose of  a  graveyard.  In  1847  half  an  acre  more  of  land  was  ob- 
tained, and  a  stone  wall  built  on  the  north,  south,  and  west  sides, 
and  on  the  east  side  a  stone  and  wooden  fence  with  iron  posts.  It 
is  a  solemn  and  interesting  spot,  and  had  it  been  laid  out  at  first 
with  a  view  to  walks  and  alleys,  it  might  have  added  much  to  its 
attractions  as  a  cemetery.     As  it  is,  it  well  repays  the  visitor.     The 


384  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

first  body  buried  in  the  yard  was  that  of  Gilman,  son  of  Isaac 
Riddle,  October  8,  1799.  The  inscriptions  are  often  inpressive  to  a 
stranger.     To  notice  one  : 

In  memory  of 

Mr.  Robert  Burns 

Member  of  Junior  Class 

Dartmouth  College 

Who  died  Feb.  22,  1810, 

aged  25. 

The  name  being  the  same  with  the  Scottish  poet,  his  being  a 
member  of  college,  and  his  early  death,  all  create  an  interest,  and 
the  interest  is  increased  when  it  is  known  that  he  was  a  young  man 
of  great  promise,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  instructing  a  dis- 
trict school  in  town,  to  help  pay  his  way  in  college. 

One  other  epitaph  may  be  given ;  very  appropriate,  probably  a 
selection.    It  is  on  a  young  lady  who  died  of  consumption,  aged  20 : 

"  A  marble  marks  thy  couch  of  lowly  sleep, 
And  living  statues  there  are  seen  to  weep, 
Affliction's  semblance  bends  not  o'er  thy  tomb, 
Affliction's  self  deplores  thy  youthful  doom." 

"  Nowhere  on  earth  is  death  more  solemn  nor  the  remembrance 
of  the  dead  more  ineffaceable  than  in  New  England."  A  lack  of 
education  in  the  graceful  and  the  beautiful  makes  some  of  the 
graveyards  in  this  region  unattractive  to  visit,  and  this  was  true  of 
this  particular  spot  where  briers  and  bushes  grew  unmolested, 
where  the  severe  winters  broke  the  headstones  and  effaced  the  in- 
scriptions. In  the  summer  of  1873,  through  the  kindness  and  liber- 
ality of  former  townsmen,  the  horse  sheds  were  removed  from  the 
front  of  the  yard,  revealing  the  beautiful  oak,  the  pride  of  the 
village.  A  face  stone  wall  was  built  by  the  town  at  an  expense  of 
$664.50  along  the  front  of  the  yard;  also  a  handsome  iron  gate 
with  stone  posts  was  placed  at  the  entrance,  and  the  tombs  reno- 
vated. The  town  resolved  "  A  vote  of  thanks  be  extended  to  Free- 
man P.  Woodbury  and  George  W.  Riddle  for  this  expression  of  the 
interest  they  have  always  manifested  in  our  welfare." 

In  1888  further  improvement  was  made  possible  by  the  legacy  of 
Mr.  Adam  Chandler,  a  native  of  Bedford,  for  the  care  of  his  lot,  and 
a  small  appropriation  was  granted  by  the  town  for  general  use  in 
the  yard. 

In  the  fall  of  1893  the  good  work  was  continued  by  Frances  E. 
Woodbury,  widow  of  Charles  H.  Woodbury,  Esq.,  of  New  York 


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city.  It  has  been  said  that  it  is  a  peculiarly  fit  labor  of  love  for 
woman.  The  great  renovation  now  began  which  made  the  desert 
bud  and  blossom  like  the  rose.  Walls  were  relaid.  Moss  was 
removed  from  the  old  headstones,  revealing  inscriptions  of  tasteful 
design  of  by-gone  days.  Trees  were  taken  out  whose  roots  were 
higher  than  the  mounds.  Avenues  and  paths  were  laid  out ;  neg- 
lected lots  cared  for ;  trees,  shrubs,  and  flowers  planted ;  almost  the 
entire  yard  nicely  grassed;  a  terrace  laid  out  and  concrete  gutters 
made.  This  result  was  accomplished  at  a  considerable  expense.  It 
now  became  a  necessity  for  the  preservation  of  these  improvements 
to  introduce  a  water  supply.  A  well  was  dug  in  the  rear  of  the 
yard,  and  a  stone  tower  erected  fifty  feet  high,  containing  a  wind- 
mill with  a  tank  to  hold  three  thousand  gallons  of  water.  The 
stone  was  contributed  by  Freeman  R.  French  from  his  quarry  near 
by,  and  the  structure  was  built  at  a  cost  of  three  thousand  dollars. 
The  design  was  drawn  by  the  donor,  Frances  E.  Woodbury,  to 
whom  the  permanent  care  of  the  yard  was  granted  by  the  town  in 
1895. 

In  August,  1901,  a  number  of  persons  met  at  the  Woodbury 
homestead  in  Bedford  Center  to  organize  a  society  for  the  perpetual 
care  of  the  cemetery.  A  society  was  formed  and  legalized  under 
the  title  of  The  Bedford  Center  Old  Cemetery  Association,  its 
object  being  to  receive  all  moneys  donated  for  the  care  of  lots ;  the 
general  repairing  and  beautifying  of  the  }7ard,  also  to  care  for  all 
legacies  left  in  perpetuity.     The  following  officers  were  elected : 

Frances  E.  Woodbury,  president;  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  vice- 
president;  Martha  E.  Woodbury,  treasurer;  Wilhs  B.  Kendall, 
secretary. 

Board  of  trustees :  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  Fred  A.  French,  Morris 
W.  House. 

The  beauty  of  the  yard  has  been  heralded  by  thousands  of  visitors 
from  all  over  our  country,  and  across  the  sea  one  comes  to  visit  the 
last  resting-place  of  a  mother.  As  they  wander  among  the  avenues 
and  by-paths,  past  the  ivy-mantled  tower  and  stately  poplars,  up  the 
time-traveled  driveway,  they  notice  the  oldest  epitaph  in  the  yard 
of  1799,  for  a  boy  of  three  years  : 

"  Draw  near  ye  youth  behold  and  see 
How  small  a  grave  containeth  me. 
I  was  the  first  that  here  was  laid. 
For  death's  loud  call  must  be  obeyed." 

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386  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Another  stone  of  1817  has  this  inscription: 

"  Stay  passenger,  though  dead,  I  speak 
You  know  the  word  conveyed 
A  thousand  calls  like  this  you  've  heard, 
But  have  you  one  obeyed?  " 

Their  attention  is  arrested  by  the  monument  erected  to  the  mem- 
ory of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  pastor  of  the  church  in  this  place 
from  1825  to  1865.  The  marble  Bible  on  the  pedestal  is  open  at 
the  appropriate  text: 

"  Remember  all  the  way  which  the  Lord  thy  God  led  thee  these 
forty  years." 

Another  stone  is  of  interest,  erected  to  a  woman,  who,  though  a 
maiden  lady,  won  the  old-time  title  of  Mrs.  Ann  Orr: 

"  A  pre-eminently  successful  teacher  of  youth  for  fifty  consecutive 
years." 

Scattered  about  the  yard  are  the  graves  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors 
sleeping  under  the  stars  and  stripes  and  Union  Jack. 

Under  the  large  oak  is  the  grave  of  a  negro  called  Boston  Bell, 
the  slave  of  John  Bell;  he  was  buried  in  the  year  1811  in  the  old 
fashion,  with  coppers  on  his  eyelids. 

The  visitors  now  ascend  the  terrace,  and  as  they  stand  in  thought, 
they  muse  on  the  problem  of  life  and  death ;  of  life,  in  the  sight  of 
the  time-honored  church  on  the  hill ;  the  little  vestry  under  the  hill ; 
the  quaint  little  house,  formerly  the  home  of  Mrs.  Elvira  Walker, 
with  its  vine-covered  arbor,  and  moss-covered  bucket  in  the  well, 
whose  water  has  quenched  the  thirst  of  many  a  worn  traveler ;  then 
look  back  on  the  graves  of  those  whose  memory  shall  never  fade 
away,  but  live  in  freshness  and  beauty  until  the  trumpet  shall  sound 
on  the  glorious  resurrection  morning. 

THE  NEW  YARD. 

In  1871  additional  land  on  the  west  was  purchased  from  the 
Riddle  brothers,  Isaac  ~N.,  John  A.,  and  Silas  A.,  by  the  town,  at  a 
■cost  of  $485.  The  wall  in  front  and  the  gate  at  the  south  were 
built  at  a  cost  of  $175.42.  "  Buying,1  laying  out,  grading,  and  fencing 
(except  the  front  wall)  cost  $465.21."  The  whole  number  of  lots  in 
the  yard  is  315.  Lots  were  sold  to  pay  for  the  land.  It  is  now 
known  as  the  New  Yard.  It  is  within  the  same  enclosure  as  the  old 
yard.  There  is  an  avenue  fringed  with  evergreens  leading  from  the 
entrance  of  the  new  yard  to  within  a  few  feet  of  the  tower  in  the 

1  Town  Report  for  1873. 


GRAVEYARDS.  387 

old  yard.  The  evergreen  shrubs  were  presented  by  Jacob  Manning, 
formerly  of  Bedford.  In  1897  the  little  wooden  gate  at  the  entrance 
Avas  replaced  by  an  ornamental  iron  one  with  stone  posts,  which  was 
contributed  by  some  of  the  lot  owners  and  their  friends.  A  connec- 
tion was  made  with  the  windmill.  Money  is  yearly  appropriated  by 
the  town  for  the  care  of  the  new  yard,  and  trustees  have  been 
selected,  viz. :  William  Milton  Patten,  George  F.  Barnard,  and 
James  R.  Leach.  This  yard  is  under  the  personal  superintendence 
of  George  F.  Barnard.  Flowers,  shrubs,  and  urns  have  been  added, 
all  of  which  enhance  the  beauty  and  general  appearance  of  the  cem- 
etery. 

WEST  PARISH  (JOPPA1)  GRAVEYARD. 

The  land  for  this  yard  was  given  by  Jesse  Worcester,  Esq., 
father  of  Joseph  Worcester,  the  lexicographer.  The  first  burial 
was  Hannah,  an  infant  child  of  Mr.  Benjamin  Sprague,  June  9, 1789. 
The  oldest  gravestone  to  be  seen  is  that  of  Mr.  David  French,  father 
of  Deacon  John  French,  and  bears  date  of  June  13,  1790.  In  1872 
an  addition  was  made  to  the  west  and  south. 

The  town  purchased  the  land  of  Stillman  A.  Shepard  and  Mary 
Ann  Shepard,  his  sister,  and  paid  them  $52  for  it.  It  was  laid  out 
in  lots,  and  the  lots  are  sold  for  from  $2.50  to  $5.  Harry  A.  Shepard, 
son  of  Stillman  A.  Shepard,  had  charge  of  the  lots  until  his  removal 
to  Milford  in  1900.  The  yard  is  now  in  charge  of  Mr.  Arthur  W. 
Holbrook. 

Here  are  buried  representatives  of  the  families  of  Holbrook, 
French,  Xevins,  Craig,  Flint,  Parkhurst,  Kittredge,  Gage,  Sprague, 
Shepard,  and  Nichols.     Their  farms  are  near  by. 

SOUTH  GRAVEYARD. 

The  land  for  this  yard  was  given  by  Major  Stephen  Dole.  The 
first  burial  in  it  was  a  child  of  Silas  Martin.  The  oldest  inscriptions 
found  there  are  on  the  gravestones  of  William  Gerrish,  February  20, 
1793,  and  Judith  Gerrish,  October  10,  1794. 

Here  are  buried  representatives  of  the  families  of  Moore,  Parker, 
Colley,  Dole,  Underwood,  Gage,  Martin,  Burns,  Jaquith,  and  Gerrish. 
Just  inside  the  gate  and  to  the  left  is  the  grave  of  Titus  A.  Moore, 

1  The  name  "Joppa"  is  said  to  have  been  applied  because  of  an  incident  in  a 
school  meeting  held  in  that  part  of  the  town,  district  No.  8.  The  attendance  was 
small,  and  commenting  on  the  fact,  some  one  said  that  in  accordance  with  A.cts  10:32, 
they  needed  to  send  Cornelius  Barnes  to  "  Joppa  "  for  help.  Cornelius  Barnes  lived 
just  below  the  location  of  the  cemetery  on  the  road  west. 


388  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

who  was  in  life  the  negro  slave  of  Elder  William  Moore.  He  served 
his  master  until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  His  gravestone 
was  erected  by  the  town  from  money  which,  at  his  death,  he  be- 
queathed to  the  town. 

Very  few  burials  have  taken  place  in  this  yard  within  the  last 
fifty  years. 

JEWS'  GRAVEYARD. 

There  was  a  graveyard  started  by  some  Hebrews  of  Manchester 
in  February,  1896.  They  bought  a  piece  of  land  on  the  plains  near 
the  west  line  of  Edmund  B.  Hull's  land.  There  they  buried  some 
six  or  seven  of  their  dead  after  having  consecrated  the  ground  with 
appropriate  and  peculiar  ceremonies.  In  1900  they  sold  the  land 
to  Gordon  Woodbury,  reserving  the  right  to  leave  upon  a  portion  of 
it  the  bodies  already  buried  there.  An  iron  fence  marks  the  spot. 
No  burials  have  taken  place  there  since  that  time. 

In  a  few  instances  there  have  been  burials  on  private  property. 
Some  of  our  people  have  been  buried  on  their  own  farms.  Near 
the  south  line  of  the  Beard  farm,  now  owned  by  Charles  E.  Bursiel, 
just  west  of  the  Rowe  house,  are  buried  Deacon  Lincoln  and  his 
wife.  Two  slate  headstones  mark  the  spot.  On  the  farm  now  owned 
by  Nelson  Merchant,  near  the  Deacon  Stevens'  place,  are  buried  Reu- 
ben Bowers  and  his  wife.  The  graves  are  south  of  the  buildings  on 
a  little  knoll  in  the  pasture. 

PISCATAQITOG  VILLAGE  GRAVEYARD. 

William  Parker,  Esq.,  gave  half  an  acre  of  land  for  this  purpose. 
The  first  interment  was  that  of  a  child  of  James  Griffin,  1814;  the 
second  was  that  of  Edward,  son  of  William  Parker,  Esq.,  April  8, 
1815. 

These  are  all  the  public  burial  places  in  the  town.  A  Roman 
Catholic  cemetery,  for  Manchester,  has  lately  been  laid  out  (1850) 
a  little  west  of  Piscataquog  village,  on  land  lately  owned  by  A.  J. 
Dow,  and  formerly  belonging  to  the  Parker  estate.  In  1836  a 
human  skeleton  was  dug  up  by  Mr.  Willard  Parker  at  the  fork  of 
the  road  near  his  house.  On  the  place  occupied  by  Mr.  Ames,  west 
of  the  Catholic  cemetery,  are  two  or  three  graves. 


Ministerial   Land. 


It  has  been  noted  that  a  condition  of  the  grant  of  the  township  in 
1733  was  the  setting  apart  of  a  lot  of  land  for  the  ministry,  one  for 
the  minister  and  another  for  the  schools.  While  there  is  no  record 
in  the  Proprietors'  Book  of  Records  or  on  the  early  maps  that  this 
was  done  when  the  first  division  of  lots  was  made,  it  is  clear  that 
when  the  second  division  was  made  the  terms  of  the  grant  were 
complied  with.  According  to  the  conditions  of  the  second  division 
each  proprietor  was  to  have  "  2  lots,  50  acres  each."  It  is  found  that 
two  such  lots  were  assigned  to  each,  the  "  ministry,"  the  "  minister," 
and  the  "  school " ;  so  likewise  when  the  third  division  was  made, 
and  each  proprietor  was  voted  "  a  meadow  lot  and  an  upland  lot," 
each  of  the  above  three  received  such  lots  in  the  third  division. 

It  has  been  remarked  that  religion  was  one  of  the  subjects  upper- 
most in  the  minds  of  these  people.  Because  of  their  zeal,  as  well  as 
because  then  charter  so  required,  they  would  naturally  be  ready  to 
make  the  most  liberal  provision  for  the  means  of  religious  observ- 
ance. It  seems  probable,  therefore,  that  when  the  surveyors  were 
sent  to  lay  the  grant  out  into  lots  for  the  first  division,  they  were 
instructed  to  select  lots  suitable  for  the  three  purposes  above  named, 
to  wit,  the  "  minister,"  the  "  ministry,"  and  the  "  school,"  and  that 
the  selections  be  of  as  good  locations  as  were  to  be  had.  Yet  we  do 
not  find  what  lots  were  so  designated.  We  do  find,  however,  that 
the  "  minister,"  the  "  ministry,"  and  the  "  school "  were  always  re- 
garded as  a  propriety,  having  the  same  claims  upon  and  rights  in 
the  remaining  undivided  lands  in  the  grant  as  the  other  individual 
owners,  hence  the  equal  territorial  increase  in  the  second  and  third 
division  above  alluded  to. 

But  it  is  of  the  "  ministerial  land  "  alone  that  this  chapter  is  to 
treat.  No  record  has  been  found  of  the  disposal  of  the  original 
"  ministry "  lot,  any  more  than  of  its  location.  It  appears  that  the 
**  minister "  land  went  to  the  Rev.  John  Houston,  because  of  his 
being  the  "  first  settled  minister,"  although  his  settlement  did  not 
take  place  until  1757.     In  the  second  division,  made  in  1736,  lots 


390  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Nos.  10  and  11,  in  the  9th  range,  were  set  apart  for  the  "ministry," 
and  Nos.  16  and  19  in  the  same  range  for  the  "minister."  In  the 
third  division,  made  in  1739,  lots  No.  58  (upland)  and  No.  87 
(meadow)  were  added  to  the  "  ministry  "  holdings,  and  Nos.  60  (up- 
land) and  89  (meadow)  to  the  "  minister's  "  portion. 

Upon  the  plan  of  the  grant,  showing  the  lots  laid  out  in  the 
three  divisions,  No.  58  is  marked  as  the  "Meeting  House  lot." 
Almost  directly  west  and  adjoining  it  is  No.  60.  So  it  may  be  that 
this  lot  was  assigned  to  the  "  minister "  in  order  that  he  might  be 
located  near  the  church  building,  when  erected.  Each  of  these  two 
lots,  Nos.  58  and  60,  measures  about  four  times  the  area  of  the  orig- 
inal lots,  laid  out  in  the  first  division,  a  part  of  which  the  former 
adjoins.  Whether  the  third  division  of  upland  lots  would  account 
for  this  larger  area,  through  being  an  addition  to  the  original  lot,  is 
an  undetermined  supposition. 

It  is  supposed  that  all  of  this  "  minister  "  land  came  into  the  actual 
possession  and  ownership  of  the  Rev.  John  Houston,  for  the  reason 
above  given. 

The  "  ministry  land,"  or  as  we  now  call  it  the  "  ministerial  land," 
was  cleared,  improved,  or  rented  from  time  to  time,  as  seemed  best 
to  the  citizens  of  the  town.  The  following  from  the  town  records 
interestingly  confirms  this  statement : 

May  28,  1789,  "Voted  John  Wallace,  Zachariah  Chandler  Esq. 
John  Orr  Esq,  Ensign  John  Aiken  and  Jesse  Custer  be  a  committee 
to  clear  15  acres  of  the  ministerial  land." 

May  7,  1792,  "  Voted  to  lease  the  improved  part  of  the  ministerial 
land  for  three  years,  the  lessee  being  under  obligation  to  plough  said 
land  within  said  term."  "  Voted  that  the  town  provide  hayseed  to 
sow  the  ministerial  land." 

Sept.  7,  1789,  "Voted  to  vendue  the  clearing,  fencing  and  sowing 
of  the  ministerial  land  with  rye  and  grass  seed.  "  Voted  to  vendue 
said  land  by  lots  as  it  is  described  by  a  plan  of  the  same.  Voted 
Captain  Stephen  Dole  vendue  master."  "  Voted  to  allow  Isaac  Rid- 
dle the  privilege  of  setting  potash  at  the  southeast  corner  of  the  lot 
he  now  lives  on,  on  the  giving  the  town  as  much  land  in  lieu  there- 
for between  his  dwelling  house  and  where  said  potash  is  to  be  set 
to  the  south  side  of  the  land."  "  Voted  to  call  upon  Mr.  John 
Houston  for  the  lot  of  land  he  has  in  his  enclosure  on  the  south  side 
of  the  lot  Isaac  Riddle  lives  on."  Voted  to  call  upon  Mr.  John 
Houston  for  all  the  land  he  has  enclosed  of  meeting  house  lot." 
"  Voted  to  call  upon  Mr.  John  Houston  for  all  the  proprietor's  lot  of 
land  he  has  enclosed  north  of  Stockbridge  at  the  east  end  of  the  lots 
numbers  13  and  14  in  the  ninth  range." 


MINISTERIAL    LAND.  391 

The  improved  part  of  the  ministerial  land  was,  in  September  26, 
1792,  leased  to  Stephen  French  and  Isaac  Riddle  until  April  1,  1796, 
they  being  under  obligation  to  plough  the  same  "  once  more  in  the 
present  year  and  twice  in  the  year  1793."  The  rental  was  to  be  the 
same  as  that  paid  by  Joseph  Bell. 

Naturally,  this  course  involved  considerable  trouble  for  a  very 
small  return  and  in  1802  it  was  "voted  to  lease  the  lands  for  a  term 
of  999  years."  The  reason  for  leasing  rather  than  selling  the  lands 
probably  was  that  the  town  considered  itself  as  the  owner  of  the 
land,  in  trust  for  the  church.  The  following  from  the  town  records, 
is  an  interesting  official  account  of  the  lease  of  the  lots  above  referred 
to,  which  were  set  apart  to  the  "  ministry  "  and  the  school : 

The  Committee  appointed  by  vote  of  the  town  of  Bedford  on  the 
23d  of  March,  1802,  for  the  purpose  of  leasing  for  the  term  of  999 
years,  the  ministerial  lots  Nos.  10  and  11  in  the  9th  range,  and  the 
school  lot  No.  59,  third  division  in  said  Bedford,  report  that  they 
have  attended  to  the  business  of  their  appointment  and  after  having 
duly  advertised,  proceeded  by  auction  on  the  20th  day  of  April,  1802, 
to  dispose  of  said  lands  in  the  following  manner,  observing  the  term 
prescribed  by  the  town,  viz : 

To  Dr.  Nathan  Cutler,  25  acres  and  40  rods  of  the  West  end  of 
said  lots  No.  10  and  11,  at  $12.50  per  acre,  $315.62.  Deduct  for 
road  three  rods  wide  and  43£  rods  in  length,  $10.15,  leaves  $305.47. 
Of  which  sum,  2  per  cent.,  viz.  $6.10  was  paid  in  specie  and  a  note 
of  hand  signed  by  Nathan  Cutler  and  Robert  Walker  for  $299.37,  to 
be  paid  to  the  selectmen  of  Bedford  at  two  years  from  the  said  2d 
of  April  and  interest  to  be  paid  annually.  To  Samuel  Chandler  25 
acres  and  40  rods,  adjoining  on  the  East  of  Dr.  Cutler's  lot,  at  $12 
per  acre,  $303.  Deduct  for  road  three  rods  wide  and  44  rods  in 
width,  $9.90,  leaves  $293.10,  of  which  sum  $5.86  was  paid  in  specie 
and  a  note  of  hand  signed  by  Samuel  Chandler  and  John  Orr  for 
$287.24,  to  be  paid  in  the  same  time  and  manner  as  that  of  Dr.  Cut- 
ler. 

To  Robert  Houston,  25  acres  40  rods,  adjoining  that  of  Samuel 
Chandler  on  the  east  at  $20.25  per  acre,  $511.31.  Deduct  for  road 
three  rods  wide  and  48  in  length,  $18.22,  leaves  $493.09,  of  which 
sum  $9.86  was  paid  in  specie  and  a  note  of  hand  signed  by  Robert 
Houston  and  John  Houston  Jun  for  $483.23,  to  be  paid  in  time  and 
manner  aforesaid. 

To  Isaac  Riddle,  by  his  agent,  Capt.  Moore,  27  acres  and  26  rods 
at  $14.25  per  acre,  $386.76.  Deduct  for  road  three  rods  wide  and 
47  in  length,  $12.55,  leaves  $374.24.  Of  which  sum  $7.48  was  paid 
in  specie  and  a  note  of  hand  signed  by  Isaac  Riddle  and  Hugh  Rid- 
dle for  $336.76,  to  be  paid  in  time  and  manner  aforesaid. 

To  Joseph  Bell,  all  that  part  of  school  lot  No.  59  which  lies  east 
of  the  road  leading  from  Chandler's  to  McGaw's,  exclusive  of  road 


392  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFORD. 

land,  containing  21  acres  and  134  rods,  at  $3.25  per  acre,  equal  to 
$70.97,  of  which  sum  $1.42  was  paid  in  specie  and  a  note  of  hand 
signed  by  Joseph  Bell  and  Thomas  Townsend  for  $69.55  to  be  paid 
as  aforesaid. 

To  William  Moore  Jun  the  Southwesterly  part  of  said  lot  No.  59 
containing  52  acres  and  63  rods  at  $4.30  per  acre,  $225.29,  of  which 
sum  $4.50  was  paid  in  specie  and  a  note  of  hand  signed  by  William 
Moore  Jun  and  John  Burns  for  $220.79  to  be  paid  in  the  above 
mentioned  notes. 

To  Samuel  Chandler  the  Northwesterly  part  of  said  lot  No.  59, 
containing  51  acres  and  155  rods  at  $3.70  per  acre,  $192.28,  of  which 
sum  $3.84  was  paid  in  specie  and  a  note  of  hand  signed  by  Samuell 
Chandler  and  John  Orr  for  $188.44  to  be  paid  as  aforesaid. 

Amount  of  cash  received  by  the  Committee  from  the  leases  of 
Ministerial  lots  no  10  and  11,  $29.30.  Amount  received  of  school 
lot  no.  59,  $9.76.  Whole  amount,  $39.06,  of  which  sum  the  Com- 
mittee in  prosecuting  the  business  of  their  appointment,  expended 
the  following  sums,  viz. 

Paid  Hugh  McQuesten  for  his  services  as  auctioneer,  and  the  rev- 
enue arising  to  Government  from  the  sales  as  per  receipt,  $6.85 
Paid  Isaac  Riddle  for  liquor  furnished  at  Vendue,  3.67 
Paid  David  Patten  Esqr  for  running  lines  of  lot  no.  59,  .50 


$11.02 
The  Committee  also  charge  for  their  services  per  acct  12.75 


Amounting  in  the  whole  to  $23.77 

leaving  in  the  Committee's  hands  a  balance  of  $15.29  to  be  disposed 
of  as  the  town  may  direct. 

John  Orr,        ) 
Samuel  Barr,  v  Committee. 
John  Craig,     ) 
A  true  record  attest     Phineas  Aiken,  Toicn  Clerk. 

March  29,  1810.  "  Voted  to  lease  the  meadow  lots  belonging  to  the 
ministerial  and  school  rights  for  999  years  from  the  date  of  the  leases." 

1812.  "Voted  to  lease  the  meeting-house  lot  for  the  term  of  999 
years  and  that  Moody  M.  Stevens,  Joseph  Colley,  and  James  Darrah 
sell  and  lease  same. 

Articles  of  sale  of  the  meeting-house  lot : 

Article  1.  The  highest  bidder  to  be  the  purchaser. 

Article  2.  Notes  with  sufficient  bondsmen  will  be  received  in  pay- 
ment therefor,  payable  in  one  year  with  interest  until  paid. 

March  26,  1812.     A  true  record,  attest: 

Moody  M.  Stevens,  Toicn  Clerk. 

On  the  above  day  the  above  said  lot  was  vendued  to  the  highest 
bidder  and  the  same  was  struck  off  to  Patrick  McLoughlin  at  $4.50. 

(Signed)         Patrick  McLoughlin. 

Attest:  Moody  M.  Stevens,  Town  Clerk. 


MINISTERIAL  LAND.  393 

When  the  strip  was  taken  off  from  the  southerly  end  of  Souhegan 
East,  or  Narragansett  Number  5,  and  added  to  Merrimack  (as  is  ex- 
plained in  the  chapter  on  the  origin  of  the  town),  it  became  desira- 
ble to  locate  the  meeting-house  nearer  the  geographical  center  of 
the  town.  Accordingly,  no  church  edifice  was  ever  erected  on  the 
"meeting-house  lot,"  although  the  first  burying  ground  was  there 
located.  This  lot  has  a  prominent  knoll,  which  was  early  termed 
"  meeting-house  hill,"  and  by  this  name  it  is  still  known. 

As  has  been  seen,  a  portion  of  the  lease  purchase  money  was  paid 
down  and  notes  taken  for  the  balance.  These  notes  were  lodged  in 
the  keeping  of  the  town  treasurer,  and  the  interest  upon  them  was 
received  by  him  and  turned  in  toward  the  payment  of  the  salary  of 
the  Rev.  David  McGregore.  For  many  years  interest  upon  these 
notes  amounted  to  something  more  than  $100,  the  balance  of  his  sal- 
ary being  raised  by  direct  taxation. 

About  1820,  in  consequence  of  the  passage  of  the  Toleration  Act 
of  1819,  an  effort  was  made  to  collect  the  principal  of  these  notes. 
Between  that  date  and  1834  this  seems  to  have  been  done,  for  when 
the  town  farm  was  purchased  in  that  year  the  money  for  the  purpose 
came  from  these  payments,  and  from  the  surplus  revenue  received 
from  the  United  States,  a  fact  remembered  by  some  of  our  oldest 
inhabitants,  but  of  which  no  record  has  been  found  upon  the  town 
books.  The  town  continued  to  pay  interest  on  the  sum  received 
from  the  sale  of  its  ministerial  land,  toward  the  support  of  the  min- 
ister, for  many  years.  The  money  was,  however,  paid  to  the  church 
societies  in  a  proportion  determined  as  follows :  The  selectmen  wThen 
taking  the  inventory  each  year,  inquired  of  each  taxpayer  as  to  which 
religious  society  he  chose  to  have  his  proportion  of  the  income  from 
the  ministerial  fund  devoted,  and  it  was  divided  accordingly.  At 
times,  however,  it  was  voted  by  the  town  that  those  portions  as  to 
which  no  preference  was  expressed  should  be  devoted  to  the  support 
of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  the  Presbyterian  pastor.  From  the 
records  of  the  Universalist  society  it  is  learned  that  so  large  an 
amount  as  $30  in  one  year  was  received  from  the  town  as  the  result 
of  the  above  described  canvass.  It  may  be  safely  presumed  that 
for  the  greater  part  of  the  time  the  balance  went  to  the  Presbyte- 
rian society. 

Other  towns  than  Bedford  were  in  possession  of  similar  funds, 
similarly  derived,  and  their  action  had  been  the  same  '  as  Bedford's, 
but  it  seems  that  an  element  had  arisen  in  these  towns  which  was 


394  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

either  not  enthusiastic  for  the  support  of  the  ministry  by  what  was- 
virtually  town  aid,  or  else  following  the  logic  of  the  Toleration  Act,. 
felt  that  such  aid  was  not  legal.  They  were  industrious  thinkers  in 
those  days,  and  there  was  basis  for  the  belief  that  indirect  evasion  of 
the  law,  if  not  a  positive  infraction  of  it,  was  going  on.  At  length 
the  authorities  of  some  towns  refused  to  devote  the  income  from  the 
ministerial  fund  towards  the  support  of  any  religious  society.  In 
other  towns,  individual  taxpayers  refused  to  pay  the  assessments 
levied  for  that  purpose.  Thus  the  matter  came  into  the  courts. 
Wilton  was  one  of  the  former,  and  a  proceeding  in  Henniker  came 
within  the  latter  class. 

While  the  particulars  may  have  no  place  here,  it  is  pertinent  to 
state  that  the  decisions  of  the  court  were  in  substance,  that  the  as- 
sessments were  illegal  and  if  made  in  connection  with  those  for  the 
payment  of  other  town  charges  would  invalidate  the  whole  assess- 
ment, if  the  point  were  raised.  The  explanation  was  practically 
this :  The  land  was  granted  to  the  original  proprietors,  as  an  induce- 
ment to,  and  in  order  to  make  easy,  the  establishment  of  a  church. 
It  was  the  property  of  the  town  and  not  of  the  church,  and  held 
absolutely  in  trust.  A  church  having  been  established  and  a  minis- 
ter settled,  the  greater  part  of  the  duty  of  providing  for  gospel 
teaching  had  been  performed.  It  therefore  remained  for  the  resi- 
dents of  the  town  to  carry  on  the  work  from  such  a  start.  The 
town  had  the  right  to  devote  the  proceeds  of  the  ministerial  land  to 
the  purchase  of  a  farm  or  to  any  other  legal  purpose  whatever,  and 
having  done  so,  there  was  no  authority  which  could  compel  it  to  re- 
verse its  action  or  to  treat  the  transaction  in  any  other  way  than  as 
an  exercise  of  its  legal  authority. 

News  of  these  decisions  spread  quickly,  and  soon  after  1850,  when 
some  feeling  between  the  religious  societies  in  Bedford  had  devel- 
oped, it  appears  .that  there  happened  to  be  elected  on  the  board  of 
selectmen  two  men  who  were  not  Presbyterians.  The  Universalist 
society  had  disbanded ;  the  Baptists  were  in  but  little,  if  any,  better 
condition.  This  board  of  selectmen  refused  to  raise  or  appropriate 
any  money  for  the  payment  of  the  interest  on  the  ministerial  fund, 
thus  breaking  a  long-established  custom.  It  can  readily  be  seen 
why  conscientious  authorities,  in  the  face  of  the  decisions  rendered 
as  to  other  towns,  should  hesitate  to  take  any  other  course.  Although 
undoubtedly  sustained  by  the  majority  of  their  fellow-townsmen,  it 
was  reasonably  certain  that  if  the  point  were  raised  and  pressed  by 


MINISTERIAL   LAND.  395 

any  objector,  the  entire  assessment  which  they  should  levy  would  be 
declared  illegal  and  uncollectable,  if  it  contained  any  money  to  be 
applied  for  religious  purposes.  Several  of  the  more  zealous  mem- 
bers of  the  Presbyterian  society  endeavored  to  bring  about  such  a 
solution  of  the  problem  as  would  allow  the  money  that  had  been  so 
long  available,  without  question,  for  use  by  the  Presbyterian  society, 
to  be  continued.  Among  them  was  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury ;  but 
these  efforts  were  unsuccessful.  The  date  of  the  last  payment  to 
the  Presbyterian  society,  which  its  records  show,  was  1853,  and  the 
amount  was  $113.  In  1857  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury  was  appointed 
in  town-meeting  to  secure  the  original  grant  of  the  ministerial  land, 
which  he  did,  the  idea  manifestly  being  to  show  that  so  far  as  Bed- 
ford was  concerned  the  grant  was  in  the  nature  of  a  trust  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  ministry  there  in  perpetuity,  rather  than  for  the 

mere  establishment  of  a  church. 

« 

But  the  problem  still  remained  unsolved.  Was  the  town  liable 
for  the  interest  upon  the  ministerial  fund  ? 

After  the  death  of  Dr.  Woodbury,  which  occurred  in  1860,  and 
more  particularly  after  the  town  had  sold  its  poor  farm  in  1862,  and 
covered  the  money  received  therefor  into  its  treasury,  work  upon 
the  problem  was  renewed.  Foremost  in  it  was  Solomon  Manning. 
During  the  legislative  session  of  1865  he  went  to  Concord  and 
worked  with  Col.  George  W.  Riddle  to  obtain  the  passage  of  an  act 
which  would  enable  the  town  to  pay  this  money  toward  the  support 
of  the  ministry.  They  secured  the  assistance  of  Judge  Asa  Fowler, 
and  the  following  act  was  passed : 

Whenever  any  city  or  town  shall  be  in  the  possession  of  funds, 
the  proceeds,  whether  directly  or  indirectly,  of  property  or  funds 
originally  set  apart  for  the  purposes  of  education  or  the  support  of 
the  ministry,  it  is  lawful  for  such  city  or  town  at  any  legal  meeting, 
duly  notified  and  holden  for  that  purpose,  to  set  apart  and  devote 
such  funds  for  the  purposes  of  their  original  destination,  and  to  pro- 
vide for  then*  investment  and  management  by  trustees  appointed  for 
that  purpose  and  for  the  application  of  the  income  of  such  funds  to 
aid  the  cause  of  education  or  in  support  of  the  ministry,  in  such  just 
and  equal  manner  as  said  city  or  town  may  determine. 

It  may  be  inferred  that  the  act  was  made  general  in  its  provisions 
to  avoid  a  local  contest,  and  "  education  "  was  brought  in  so  promi- 
nently in  order  to  disarm  possible  sectarian  opposition.  It  was, 
nevertheless,  a  fact  that  the  overwhelming  majority  of  the  town 
favored  a  payment  of  the  annual  .income  to  the  support  of  the  min- 
istry, as  had  previously  been  done.     In  pursuance  of  this  act,  the 


396  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

warrant  for  the  next  annual  meeting,  March,  1866,  contained  three 
articles  upon  the  subject,  and  it  was  voted  thereunder  that : 

The  town  hereby  set  apart  and  devote  for  the  purpose  of  their 
original  destination  such  funds  as  may  be  in  possession  of  the  town, 
as  were  originally  set  apart  for  the  support  of  the  ministry,  and  the 
proceeds  thereof,  and  that  the  income  of  the  same  be  applied  in  the 
following  just  and  equal  manner,  viz. :  that  the  sum  originally  set 
apart  for  the  ministry  or  the  proceeds  thereof  be  applied  to  the  sup- 
port of  the  Gosj^el  in  said  town  of  Bedford. 

Gardner  Xevins,  Solomon  Manning,  and  Daniel  Barnard  were  ap- 
pointed trustees  to  have  charge  of  the  fund,  and  the  selectmen  were 
authorized  to  pay  over  to  them  such  money  as  was  in  possession  of 
the  town  and  belonging  to  the  ministerial  fund. 

The  extraordinary  expenses  due  to  the  Civil  war  had  more  than 
exhausted  the  town's  treasury,  but  a  note  of  the  town  was  issued  to 
"fehe  trustees,  bearing  date  of  April  2, 1866,  for  $2,100.  It  is  presumed 
that  the  sum  was  agreed  upon  as  the  amount  actually  received  by  the 
town  upon  the  long  term  lease,  or  as  we  should  now  call  them 
"sales  "of  the  ministerial  lands,  prior  to  the  year  1834.  Still  the 
long  standing  problem  was  not  finally  settled.  Interest  on  this  note 
was  paid  for  the  years  1866  and  1867,  but  the  board  of  selectmen 
for  1868  refused  to  pay  it,  and  in  the  warrant  for  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  1869  is  found  an  article,  "  To  see  what  action  the  town  will 
take  in  regard  to  paying  interest  on  the  above  note."  It  was  voted 
to  choose  Solomon  Manning  and  Joseph  II.  Stevens  a  committee  to 
investigate  the  matter  of  the  ministerial  fund. 

The  record  of  the  next  annual  meeting  reads  that  "  This  commit- 
tee reported  and  the  report  was  accepted  and  the  committee  was 
discharged."  Mr.  Manning  states  that  the  committee  consulted 
eminent  counsel,  among  whom  was  the  same  Judge  Fowler  who  had 
been  formerly  consulted,  and  they  were  assured  that  if  the  act  under 
which  the  town  was  proceeding  was  passed  upon  in  the  courts,  it 
would  unquestionably  be  declared  unconstitutional.  They  so  re- 
ported. Thereupon,  the  long  agitated  subject  was  finally  dropped 
and  no  further  effort  has  been  made  toward  securing  for  any  church 
in  Bedford  any  portion  of  the  ministerial  fund. 

The  clause  in  the  constitution  upon  which  this  final  settlement 
undoubtedly  rests  is  Article  VI  of  the  Bill  of  Rights  : 

And  no  person  of  any  particular  religious  sect  or  denomination 
shall  ever  be  compelled  to  pay  toward  the  support  of  the  teacher  or 
teachers  of  another  persuasion,  sect,  or  denomination. 


MINISTERIAL   LAND.  397 


A    COPY    OF    THE    LEASE    OP    PART    OF    THE    MINISTERIAL    LANDS. 

This  indenture  of  lease  made  this  thirteenth  day  of  September, 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  two,  by  and  between  John  Orr, 
Esq.,  Samuel  Barr,  Gent,  and  John  Craig,  Yeoman,  all  of  Bedford, 
in  the  County  of  Hillsborough  and  State  of  New  Hampshire  of  the 
one  part  and  Samuel  Chandler  of  the  same  Bedford,  trader  of  the 
other  part.  , 

Witnesseth,  that  the  said  John  Orr,  Samuel  Barr  and  John  Craig, 
under  particular  appointment  as  per  vote  of  the  town  of  Bedford, 
passed  the  twenty-third  day  of  March  last  past;  having  received 
of  the  said  Samuel  Chandler,  nine  dollars  and  seventy  cents  in  specie 
and  security  for  four  hundred  seventy  five  dollars  and  sixty  eight 
cents  payable  to  the  Selectmen  of  said  Bedford,  in  two  years  from 
the  twentieth  day  of  April,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  two 
with  interest,  in  consideration  of  which  and  the  rents,  covenants  and 
agreements  hereinafter  mentioned  and  reserved  on  the  part  and  be- 
half of  the  said  Samuel  Chandler  to  be  paid,  done  and  performed,  do' 
hereby  remise,  lease  set  and  to  farm  let  unto  the  said  Samuel  Chand- 
ler, his  heirs  and  assigns  for  and  during  the  term  of  nine  hundred 
and  ninety  nine  years,  from  the  twentieth  day  of  April,  Anno 
Domini  1802,  two  certain  tracts  of  land  in  said  Bedford,  described 
as  follows,  viz :  one  tract  (293.10),  containing  twenty  five  acres 
and  forty  rods,  being  part  of  lots  number  ten  and  eleven  in  the 
ninth  range,  second  division  and  bounded  as  follows,  viz :  beginning 
at  a  heap  of  stones  on  the  south  line  of  sd  lot  number  eleven  forty 
rods  east  from  the  southwest  corner  of  said  lot ;  thence  running 
North  two  degrees  west  about  one  hundred  and  one  rods  to  the 
north  line  of  lot  number  ten  aforesaid ;  thence  easterly  on  sd  line 
forty  rods ;  thence  south  two  degrees  east  to  a  heap  of  stones  on  the 
south  line  of  said  lot  number  eleven,  thence  westerly  on  sd  line  to 
the  bound  first  mentioned  the  other  tract  (192.28)  contains  fifty-one 
acres  and  one  hundred  and  fifty-five  rods,  being  part  of  lot  number 
fifty-nine,  third  division,  bounded  as  follows :  beginning  at  the  north- 
west corner  of  said  lot :  thence  running  south  two  degrees  east  one 
the  range  line  seventy  six  rods,  thence  north  eighty-eight  degrees 
east  to  the  road  now  occupied  through  said  lot ;  thence  northerly  by 
the  west  side  of  sd  road  to  the  North  line  of  sd  lot ;  thence  westerly 
on  sd  line  to  the  bound  first  mentioned ; 

To  Have  and  to  Hold  the  said  leased  premises  with  all  its  appur- 
tenances and  privileges  to  the  said  Samuel  Chandler,  his  heirs  and 
assigns  during  the  term  aforesaid.  And  the  said  Samuel  Chandler 
on  his  part  for  himself,  his  heirs  and  assigns  engages  to  render  or 
pay  unto  such  person  as  the  town  of  Bedford  shall  appoint,  one  peck 
of  potatoes  annually  as  a  rent  therefor,  if  demanded,  and  at  the  ex- 
piration of  said  term  to  deliver  up  unto  the  said  town  of  Bedford  the 
peaceable  possession  of  said  leased  premises.     In  testimony  whereof 


398  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

the  parties  to  these  presents  have  interchangeably  set  their  hands 
and  seals  the  day  and  year  first  above  written. 

Signed,  sealed  )  John  Orr  (seal) 

and  delivered  )  Samuel  Barr  (seal) 

in  presence  of  )  John  Craig  (seal) 

Ezekiel  Gardner  )  Sam'l  Chandler  (seal) 

Silas  Dole  ) 

Rec'd  and  recorded  7  octr,  1803,  &  examined  by  Isaac  Brooks,  Regr 

This  indenture  of  Lease  made  the  second  day  of  April,  one  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  and  ninety  nine,  by  and  between  William 
McAfee  and  William  Riddle,  yeomen,  and  Samuel  Chandler,  trader, 
all  of  Bedford  in  the  County  of  Hillsborough  and  State  of  New 
Hampshire,  on  the  one  part,  and  Isaac  Riddle,  of  the  same  Bedford, 
Trader,  on  the  other  part, 

Witnesseth,  that  the  said  William  McAfee,  William  Riddle,  and 
Saml.  Chandler  under  particular  appointment,  as  per  vote  of  the 
said  town  of  Bedford,  passed  the  21st  day  of  March  last  past,  hav- 
ing received  of  said  Isaac  Riddle  good  security  for  five  hundred  and 
fifty  seven  Dollars  and  80  cents,  payable  on  demand  with  interest  to 
the  Selectmen  of  Bedford  for  the  timbering  and  also  sixty  eight 
Dollars  and  ninety  two  cents  in  specie  all  which  security  and  cash 
together  with  eight  dollars  paid  to  the  Selectmen  of  Bedford  on  the 
26  of  January  1795  and  sixty  six  dollars  and  92  cents  paid  the 
selectmen  of  said  Bedford  on  the  9th  day  of  Feby.  1797  amount  in 
the  whole  to  seven  hundred  and  one  dollars  and  64  cents  in  con- 
sideration of  which  and  of  the  rents,  covenants,  and  agreements 
hereinafter  mentioned  and  reserved  on  the  part  and  behalf  of  the 
said  Isaac  Riddle,  to  be  paid,  done  and  performed,  do  hereby  remise, 
lease,  set  and  to  farm  let  unto  the  said  Isaac  Riddle,  his  heirs, 
assigns  for  and  during  the  term  of  nine  hundred  and  ninety  nine 
years  from  the  twenty  sixth  day  of  January  Anno  Domoni  1795 — 
a  certain  lot  of  land  lying  in  said  Bedford,  containing  by  estimation 
one  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  be  it  more  or  less,  and  is  numbered 
fifty  eight  third  division,  originally  drawn  and  recorded  to  the 
Ministry  and  bounded  northerly  on  Joseph  Patten's  farm,  easterly 
on  home  lots,  southerly  on  number  fifty  seven,  third  division.  To 
have  and  to  hold  to  the  said  Isaac  Riddle,  his  heirs  and  assigns  with 
all  its  appurtenances  and  privileges,  during  the  term  aforesaid, 
excepting  the  road  land  on  sd  premises  which  is  hereby  reserved ; 
and  the  said  Isaac  Riddle  on  his  part  engages  for  himself  his  heirs 
and  assigns  to  render  or  pay  unto  such  person  as  the  Town  of  Bed- 
ford shall  appoint  one  ear  of  Indian  corn,  as  a  rent  therefore,  annu- 
ally if  demanded,  and  at  the  expiration  of  said  Term,  to  deliver  up 
unto  the  said  Town  of  Bedford  the  peaceable  possession  of  said 
leased  premises. 

In  testimony  whereof — the  parties  to  these  presents  have  inter- 


MINISTERIAL   LAND.  399 

changeably  set  their  hands  and  seals  the  day  and  year  first  above 
written. 

Signed,  sealed  and  Wm.  McAfee  (seal) 

delivered  in  presents  of  Wm.  Riddle  (seal) 

Samuel  Barr,  Roger  Vose,  Sam1.  Chandler  (seal) 

Reed,  and  Recorded  1  April,  1801  &  Examined 

by  Jona  Smith  Regi. 


The    Parsonage    Association. 


The  Bedford  Parsonage  association  was  formed  in  April,  1866, 
with  an  authorized  capital  stock  of  $3,000,  divided  into  shares  of 
$25  each.  The  following  were  the  original  shareholders :  George  W. 
Riddle,  Daniel  Barnard,  Charles  Gage,  Gardner  Nevins,  Frederick  F. 
French,  John  Barr,  Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  John  Goffe,  Stephen  C. 
Damon,  Nathaniel  Flint,  E.  P.  Parkhurst,  Eliza  B.  G.  Woodbury, 
F.  R.  French,  S.  A.  Shepard,  Solomon  Manning,  Paul  T.  Campbell, 
Phineas  C.  French,  Samuel  Patten,  Adam  N.  Patten,  Samuel 
Chandler,  Samuel  P.  Dunklee,  Frederick  Hodgman,  John  A. 
McGaw,  4  shares  each ;  David  Swett,  3  shares ;  William  McAllister, 
Blanchard  Nichols,  O.  L.  Kendall,  Thomas  Bursiel,  C.  S.  Shepard 
and  Moody  M.  Stevens,  2  shares  each;  John  Adams,  1  share. 

The  meeting  for  organization  was  held  April  10,  1866.  John  A. 
McGaw  was  chosen  chairman ;  Solomon  Manning,  secretary ;  and 
Solomon  Manning,  Charles  Gage,  and  Nathaniel  Flint,  trustees; 
Charles  Gage,  treasurer ;  William  W.  Wilkins,  clerk. 

Three  propositions  relative  to  the  location  of  the  building  were 
received,  one  from  Isaac  Riddle  to  sell  one  acre  of  land  for  $500 ; 
Thomas  J.  Rollins  proposed  to  sell  his  farm  for  a  parsonage  for 
$2,800 ;  the  owners  of  the  Baptist  church  and  site  offered  the  prop- 
erty for  $500,  and  the  latter  proposition  was  accepted.  The  follow- 
ing were  named  as  a  building  committee :  Daniel  Barnard,  Fred- 
erick Hodgman,  Nathaniel  Flint,  Charles  Gage.  An  assessment 
of  $5  on  a  share  was  ordered,  payable  May  1 ;  another  of  $10,  pay- 
able June  1,  and  a  third  of  $10,  payable  August  15.  The  contract 
for  the  building  was  awarded  to  Dean  Bixby,  of  Manchester,  the 
building  to  be  completed  on  the  10th  day  of  July.  The  contract 
price  was  $450.1  The  buildings  were  to  consist  of  a  dwelling  house, 
of  two  stories,  32  feet  long  by  24  feet  wide,  with  an  L,  one  and  one 
half  stories,  26  feet  long  by  16  feet  wide ;  a  barn  24  by  20  feet. 
At  a  meeting  held  November    19,  1866,  the   building   committee 

1  Taken  from  the  record  book  and  exactly  as  there  stated. 


THE  PARSONAGE  ASSOCIATION.  401 

reported  that  the  entire  cost  of  the  parsonage  was  $3,223.13. 
At  a  subsequent  meeting  it  was  voted  that  the  rent  be  $200. 
This  was  reduced  in  1882  to  $150,  and  in  1883,  to  $100. 

In  December,  1866,  the  capital  stock  was  increased  $250,  and  it 
was  voted  to  assess  $4  on  a  share  to  pay  up  the  debts  on  the 
parsonage. 

The  articles  of  agreement  were  amended  in  1893,  authorizing 
stockholders  to  sell  or  transfer  their  shares  without  first  obtaining 
the  consent  of  the  association.  Previously,  such  consent  had  been 
required,  or  the  shares  were  to  be  forfeited. 

In  1901  the  shares  were  held  as  follows:  Presbyterian  church, 
10 ;  Frances  E.  Woodbury,  23 ;  Gordon  Woodbury,  12 ;  William  M. 
Patten  and  Milton  N.  Flint,  8  each ;  Daniel  Barnard,  Charles  Gage, 
Frederick  F.  French,  John  Barr,  Stephen  C.  Damon,  Eliza  B.  G. 
Woodbury,  Solomon  Manning,  Samuel  Chandler,  Samuel  P.  Dunk- 
lee,  and  Elbridge  J.  Campbell,  4  each ;  Freeman  R.  French,  5 ; 
William  McAllister,  Charles  BursieL,  2  each. 
27 


The  Presbyterian  Vestry. 


The  general  gratification  of  Presbyterians  throughout  the  country 
over  the  union  of  the  two  branches  of  the  Presbyterian  church — the 
old  school  and  the  new  school — in  1870,  was  shared  by  the  members 
in  Bedford.  Deacon  S.  C.  Damon  had  been  a  delegate  in  attendance 
at  the  Presbytery  at  Philadelphia,  at  which  the  action  of  union  had 
been  taken. 

It  had  been  recommended  that  $5,000,000  be  raised  by  the  Pres- 
byterians of  the  country  as  a  thank  offering  for  such  result,  and  be 
expended  for  the  better  equipment  of  the  strengthened  church  in 
the  prosecution  of  the  work  of  gospel  dissemination  and  Christian 
teaching. 

The  need  of  a  building,  smaller  than  the  church  and  especially 
adapted  to  the  needs  of  gatherings  for  prayer,  Sabbath  school,  lec- 
tures, etc.,  bad  long  been  felt.  It  was  promptly  suggested  that 
Bedford's  portion  of  the  memorial  fund,  recommended  as  above 
mentioned,  should  be  devoted  to  providing  a  vestry  building. 

In  response  to  a  resolution  "  that  a  meeting  of  the  church  and 
society  be  called  with  a  view  to  consider  the  expediency  of  building 
a  lecture  room  and  otherwise  improving  the  church  edifice,"  a  spe- 
cial meeting  was  called,  to  be  held  October  20,  1870.  Under  the 
appropriate  article  in  the  above-named  call,  the  following  preamble 
and  resolution  was  adopted : 

Whereas,  the  want  has  long  been  felt  for  a  suitable  room  for  the 
uses  of  the  Presbyterian  church  wherein  to  hold  its  Sabbath  school 
sessions,  prayer  meetings,  lectures,  and  other  meetings,  and 

Whereas,  the  conditions  of  contributing  to  the  Memorial  Fund 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  allow  the  appropriation  of  whatever  fund 
may  be  raised  to  the  uses  of  the  congregation  wherein  raised,  there- 
fore 

Resolved,  first,  that  in  the  judgment  of  this  society  it  seems  to  be 
a  suitable  time  for  making  an  effort  to  build  a  vestry  as  a  thank 
offering  to  God  for  his  goodness  in  leading  the  two  branches  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  old  school  and  new  school  to  an  organic  union, 


THE   PRESBYTERIAN   VESTRY.  403 

Resolved,  second,  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  consider  a 
plan  for  such  vestry,  to  estimate  the  cost,  and  report  at  a  subse- 
quent meeting. 

Daniel  Barnard,  Charles  Gage,  and  S.  C.  Damon  were  chosen  such 
committee. 

At  an  adjourned  meeting,  held  November  3,  the  committee 
reported  that  it  had  estimated  the  cost  of  a  new  building,  36  x  26, 
"  the  size  of  the  schoolhouse  in  District  No.  1,"  as  $1,000 ;  also  that 
the  new  store  building  could  be  had  for  $800,  and  the  latter  was 
recommended,  provided  "  a  good  title  "  could  be  secured.  A  further 
report  was  desired  from  the  committee,  and  an  adjournment  was 
made  to  November  17. 

At  that  meeting,  it  was  resolved  that  the  raising  of  the  money 
necessary  for  the  object  was  feasible,  and  without  adopting  any  defi- 
nite plan  for  a  building  a  committee  was  chosen  to  solicit  subscrip- 
tions in  the  several  school  districts.  At  another  meeting,  March  30, 
1871,  the  "religious  society"  gave  the  "Presbyterian  church  and 
society "  permission  to  build  a  vestry  on  their  land  if  needed,  and 
John  A.  Riddle,  Theodore  A.  Goffe,  and  Solomon  Manning  were 
chosen  a  committee  to  secure  a  plan  and  estimate  of  cost  of  a  vestry 
"  both  outside  of  the  meeting  house  and  also  under  the  house." 

After  considering  the  report,  April  13,  1871,  that  a  vestry  under 
the  house  would  cost  $1,375,  and  $200  to  raise  the  house,  and  one 
outside  of  the  meeting-house,  30  x  40  feet,  $1,500,  the  latter  plan 
was  adopted.  Charles  Gage,  Solomon  Manning,  and  S.  C.  Damon 
were  chosen  the  building  committee,  and  Charles  Gage,  Ira  C.  Ty- 
son, H.  R.  French,  Charles  F.  Shepard,  Stillman  A.  Shepard,  Fred- 
erick Hodgman,  James  Darrah,  John  A.  McGaw,  Solomon  Manning, 
and  John  A.  Riddle,  committee  on  location.  A  lot  of  land  at  the 
southeast  corner  of  the  cemetery,  where  the  house  now  stands,  was 
purchased  for  $50  of  Isaac  N.,  John  A.,  and  Silas  A.  Riddle.  The 
land  must  be  used  for  a  vestry  building  or  otherwise  reverts  to  its 
former  owners. 

The  contract  for  building  above  the  underpinning  was  awarded  to 
N.  R.  Bixby  for  $1,250 ;  Solomon  Manning  superintended  the  put- 
ting in  the  foundation,  which  cost  $115.95.  The  total  cost  of  the 
completed  building  was  $1,475.05.  Towards  this  sum,  individuals 
subscribed  $1,070 ;  the  Aid  society  furnished  $107.04,  and  the  pro- 
ceeds of  the  Christmas  festival  of  1870,  amounting  to  $187.75,  was 
added.  The  corner-stone  was  laid  September  21,  187.1,  and  the 
ceremony  was  made  an  interesting  occasion.     The  exercises  were 


404  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

conducted  by  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  assisted  by  Revs.  Wallace,  Dean, 
and  Hubbard,  and  consisted  of  prayer  and  remarks  appropriate  ito 
the  occasion. 

In  the  corner-stone  were  deposited  a  brief  history  of  the  church, 
sketches  of  its  ministers,  the  names  of  its  officers,  etc.,  the  contract 
for  the  building,  some  lines  once  written  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Sav- 
age, some  souvenirs,  and  money  scrip  then  in  common  circulation. 

The  building  has  well  met  the  purposes  for  which  it  was  designed, 
proving,  as  great  a  convenience  as  had  been  anticipated.  Its  front 
bears  a  stone  tablet  setting  forth  briefly  the  memorial  which  prompted 
its  erection.  A  portion  of  the  building  is  now  used  for  the  town 
library. 


The  Bedford  Messenger. 


The  Bedford  Messenger  was  a  four-paged,  monthly  paper,  pub- 
lished in  Bedford  for  three  years.  The  first  issue  was  dated  Janu- 
ary 31,  1883,  and  the  last,  December  30,  1885,  making  thirty-six 
numbers  in  all. 

The  editorial  committee  consisted  of  the  Rev.  D.  Herbert  Colcord, 
Elder  Stephen  C.  Damon,  and  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  for  the  entire 
time.  Its  editorial  announcement  read  :  "A  monthly  paper  devoted 
to  church  and  town  interests,  and  news  in  brief  from  neighboring 
towns  and  churches  and  old  residents." 

The  subscription  price  was  thirty  cents  a  year,  and  500  copies 
were  printed.  The  volumes  contained  many  articles  of  reminis- 
cences by  former  residents,  sketches  of  distinguished  sons  of  the 
town,  and  extracts  from  Matthew  Patten's  diary,  as  special  features. 


Music  in  Bedford. 


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The  Hundredth  Psalm  (about  1750)  as  taken  from  Francis  Bar- 
nett's  book.  G  of  the  staff  is  represented  by  "  g's  "  (no  treble  clef) ; 
the  music  (notes)  is  represented  by  the  initial  letter  of  the  old  sylla- 
bles, when  the  scale  was  represented  by  four,  Fa,  Sol,  La,  Mi,  instead 
of  seven,  Do,  Ra,  Mi,  etc.,  as  now. 

The  first  instruction  in  music  was  by  John  Orr,  Esq.,  about  the 
year  1780.  There  were  no  books  at  that  time,  and  the  instruction 
was  altogether  by  rote,  but  the  key  was  found  with  a  tuning  fork. 

The  next  teacher  was  Ezekiel  Gai'dner.  He  undertook  to  give  his 
scholars  some  idea  of  time,  though  no  book  was  then  used,  except 
a  few  tunes  pricked  off  by  himself,  with  the  bass  and  air  only,  to  aid 
him  somewhat  in  his  labor.  One  of  these  books  as  late  as  1850  was 
in  the  possession  of  Thomas  Chandler,  bearing  date  1782. 

Mr.  Josiah  Chandler,  from  Andover,  Mass.,  came  to  town,  and  had 
some  knowledge  of  music;  he  first  taught  Thomas  and  Samuel 
Chandler  at  the  age  of  some  ten  or  twelve  years ;  their  father  bought 
them  one  of  the  old  Billings'  collection,  which  is  supposed  to  have 
been  the  first  singing  book  in  town.  A  few  years  later  Thomas 
Chandler  himself  taught  music,  not  only  in  the  school  near  his  home, 
but  at  the  center  of  the  town  and  other  places. 


406  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

A  Mr.  Sherwin  from  Tyngsborough  next  taught.  He  introduced 
the  Worcester  collection,  and  taught  by  rule.  It  is  believed  these 
were  the  first  books  to  any  extent  in  town.  John  Orr,  Ezekiel"  Gard- 
ner, John  Pratt,  and  many  others  attended  his  school  in  the  year 
1786. 

Mr.  Goss,  from  Billerica,  was  in  town  about  1790,  and  taught  one 
winter.     John  Pratt  occasionally  instructed. 

Dea.  James  Wallace,  up  to  about  1790,  deaconed  or  lined  the 
Psalm  and  set  the  tune,  the  congregation  joining  in  the  exercise. 
About  1790  the  singers  took  their  station  in  the  gallery,  and  the 
deacon's  services  were  dispensed  with  in  that  part  of  the  exercise. 
At  the  time  above  alluded  to,  Ezekiel  Gardner  was  chosen  leader  of 
the  singers  by  the  town,  joined  by  Phineas  Aiken,  John  Pratt, 
Thomas  and  Samuel  Chandler,  Hugh  Moor,  David  McAfee,  Margaret 
Orr,  Susannah,  Annis,  and  Jane  Aiken.  About  the  same  time  a 
bass  viol  was  introduced  into  the  meeting-house,  which  caused  much 
dissatisfaction  to  many  of  the  congregation.  Some  were  so  much 
disaffected  in  consequence  of  such  proceedings  as  to  leave  the  house ; 
ere  long,  however,  these  feelings  were  dispelled,  and  the  innocent 
bass  viol  remained  to  cheer  and  assist  such  as  were  performing  an 
important  part  in  public  worship.  Its  later  history  is  unknown. 
But  in  1849  a  double  bass  viol  was  bought  by  the  Presbyterian 
society  at  the  instance  of  Mr.  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  and  upon  it  he  per- 
formed at  Sunday  service  for  many  years.     It  cost  $42.50. 

On  March  3,  1790,  the  town  "  Voted  to  adopt  the  new  method  of 
singing  for  the  future,"  and  a  letter  of  Matthew  Patten  to  James  Pat- 
ten, dated  December  1,  1790,  offers  the  following  explanation : 

At  last  March  meeting  we  Voted  to  use  Dr.  Watts'  Psalms  and 
Hymns  in  public  worship.  And  our  Minister,  viz,  Mr.  Pickles,  Reads 
the  psalm  or  hymn  and  our  Singers  (who  sit  in  the  front  Gallery 
and  what  that  wont  hold  sits  in  the  side  Gallery)  Rises  and  Zeke 
Gardner  who  leads  the  way  names  the  tunes  to  be  sung  and  then 
they  sound  that  the  harmony  may  be  agreeable  and  then  stops  and 
begins  to  sing  the  psalm  which  they  sing  generally  without  reading 
line  by  line,  as  formerly  practiced  when  our  singers  are  generally 
there  they  make  the  grandest  harmony  of  singing  that  ever  I  heard 
in  a  meeting  house.  A  number  in  this  town  hired  one  Mr.  Sherwin 
from  Dunstable  two  months,  last  winter,  to  teach  them  to  sing  in 
which  they  have  much  improved. 

March  6,  1793,  the  town  "  Voted  that  John  Pratt  be  chorister, 
and  Thomas  Chandler  assistant." 


MUSIC   IN  BEDFORD.  407 

After  that  there  was  not  much  done  in  the  way  of  instruction  for 
several  years.  About  the  year  1800  John  Pratt  was  chosen  choris- 
ter by  the  town,  and  some  other  persons  joined  the  choir, — Richard, 
William,  and  John  Dole,  Joseph  Colley,  Daniel,  William,  and  John 
Moor. 

In  1803  or  1804  Thomas  Chandler  began  to  assist  the  young  peo- 
ple in  town  in  obtaining  some  knowledge  of  music.  His  first 
efforts  were  in  his  own  neighborhood.  He  subsequently  taught  at 
the  center  of  the  town,  and  in  other  places. 

About  1808  or  1810,  Samuel  Chandler  and  Richard  Dole  were 
chosen  leaders  by  the  town.  The  following  persons  were  among  the 
singers  of  that  day :  John,  Silas,  and  Nancy  Aiken,  William,  Jane, 
and  Margaret  Patten,  Asenath  and  Sally  Chandler,  Nancy  and  Jane 
Moor,  William  P.  Riddle,  Daniel  Gordon,  William  Chandler,  Thomas 
Shepard,  Alfred  Foster,  and  James  French. 

Soon  after  this  Capt.  William  Patten  commenced  the  labor  of 
teaching,  devoting  several  winters  to  the  business  in  various  parts  of 
the  town,  thereby  keeping  alive  a  spirit  of  social,  joyous,  and  friendly 
feeling,  which  should  always  subsist,  in  order  to  success,  among  a 
singing  community. 

March  24, 1814.  "  Voted  that  $20,  due  the  town  from  pew  ground, 
be  put  into  the  hands  of  Samuel  Chandler  for  the  purpose  of  provid- 
ing musick,  and  psalm  books  at  his  discretion,  to  be  kept  in  the  meet- 
ing house,  for  the  use  of  the  singers  and  that  the  remainder  be  ap- 
plied to  the  selectmen  for  the  repairing  of  the  meeting  house." 

March  12,  1816.  "Voted  Alfred  Foster  chorrister  and  William  P. 
Riddle  Vice  Chorrister  for  the  ensuing  year." 

In  the  warrant  of  March  14,  1819,  there  was  an  article  "To  see  if 
the  town  will  vote  to  appropriate  a  certain  sum  of  money  for  the  en- 
couragement of  vocal  musick  in  the  meeting  house,  and  choose  a 
committee  to  appropriate  the  same  and  report  their  proceedings  at 
the  next  annual  meeting."  A  committee  of  three  was  chosen,  con- 
sisting of  William  P.  Riddle,  William  Patten,  and  Daniel  Gordon, 
and  the  sum  of  $30  was  appropriated  for  the  use  of  the  singers. 

At  the  town-meeting  held  April  21, 1820,  there  was  an  article  "  To 
see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  make  any  alteration  in  the  seats  in  the 
gallery  of  the  meeting  house  for  the  better  accommodation  of  the 
singers." 

May  4,  1820.  Isaac  Riddle  and  Alfred  Foster  "  were  chosen  a 
committee  to  change  the  seats  in  the  gallery  for  the  better  accommo- 
dation of  the  singers." 


408  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

About  1820  Mr.  Richardson  from  Lyndeborough,  we  think,  taught 
one  winter  at  Isaac  Riddle's  hall,  soon  after  the  close  of  which  Daniel 
L.  French  was  chosen  leader  by  the  choir,  and  continued  as  such  till 
1835  or  1836.  Many  young  persons  came  forward  after  Mr.  Richard- 
son's school  had  closed  and  joined  those  already  in  the  seats ;  among 
the  number  was  Mary  J.  Chandler,  Louisa  Dole,  Polly,  Susannah, 
and  Jane  Riddle.  At  a  subsequent  period  others  were  added,  viz. : 
Sarah  A.  Aiken,  Margaret  A.  and  Nancy  French,  Charles  and  David 
Aiken,  John  and  William  Craig,  Eleazer  Dole,  Blanchard  Nichols, 
and  Isaac  Darrah.  Alfred  Foster  played  the  bass  viol  some  ten 
years,  or  until  shortly  before  his  decease,  which  was  in  1827,  being 
an  efficient  member  of  the  choir  for  many  years. 

Mr.  French,  as  leader,  saw  the  necessity  of  keeping  up  and  im- 
proving, as  far  as  practicable,  the  singing  in  town,  consequently  he  de- 
voted much  time  in  the  winter  to  further  its  advancement,  the  result 
of  which  was  an  increase  in  numbers  with  some  distinguished  singers. 

Several  other  persons  have  taught  in  town  since  Mr.  French  left. 
We  will  name  such  as  occur  to  our  mind  at  this  moment :  Rev. 
Henry  Little,  Ohio ;  Rev.  James  Aiken,  Gloucester ;  Mr.  Hutchinson 
of  the  far-famed  Hutchinson  family ;  Mr.  Heath,  David  Stevens,  and 
one  Cheney  from  Nashua ;  James  McFerson,  Robert  W.  French. 

When  Mr.  French  left  town  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  himself 
for  the  ministry,  he  was  succeeded  by  David  Stevens,  2d,  as  leader 
of  the  choir,  which  place  he  held  till  1848,  when  he,  too,  left  town. 
During  Mr.  Stevens'  lead  quite  a  number  were  added,  to  wit :  Eli- 
jah C,  Martha,  and  Augusta  Stevens ;  Harriet  N.  and  Mary  Ann 
French ;  William,  Leonard,  Susan  J.,  and  Sarah  F.  French ;  Sally  D. 
Riddle,  Mary  J.  Fisher,  Ann  E.  Riddle,  Solomon  G.,  Mary  Jane 
Harriet,  and  Cordelia  Stevens ;  Julia  and  Lucretia  Savage,  Elizabeth 
and  Louisa  Gordon,  Maria  and  Sarah  Parker,  Hugh  R.  French,  John 
IT.  French,  James  F.  Moor,  Jerusha  and  Susan  Spofford,  Lemuel 
and  John  Spofford,  Alfred  McAfee,  Margaret  Ann  Moor,  Sewel 
Stratton,  and  Stillman  Shepard. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  singers  in  1849,  James  McFerson  was  chosen 
leader.  The  winter  following  a  constitution  was  framed  and  pre- 
sented, when  most  of  the  choir  became  members  by  subscribing 
thereto. 

In  1850  the  persons  bearing  the  following  names  belonged  to  the 
choir,  and  usually  sat  in  the  singers'  seats  at  church :  Mrs.  Jane  Mc- 
Ferson, Mrs.  Betsey  Kendall,  Laura  A.  Riddle,  Margaret  A.  and  Livinia 


MUSIC   IN   BEDFOED.  409 

J.  Patten,  Mary  Ann  Shepard,  John  O.  and  David  B.  French,  Henry 
and  George  B.  Chandler,  James  T.  Kendall,  Calvin  R.  and  Emeline 
Butterfield,  Frederick  F.  French,  George  Shattuck,  Dudley  H.,  Sol- 
omon, and  Lucy  Manning,  Achsah  Houston,  Mrs.  Jane  Barr,  Lydia  J. 
Butterfield,  Jane  Nichols,  Lucy  Ann  Whitford,  Martha  J.  Goffe,  Julia 
Ban-,  Greenleaf  Walker,  and  Alfred  McAfee.  Some  of  the  choir 
were  singers  and  some  played  on  musical  instruments.  Greenleaf 
Walker  played  the  clarionet,  Chandler  Spofford  played  the  bassoon, 
Adam  Chandler  played  the  violin,  Henry  and  John  Chandler  played 
violins,  and  George  Byron  Chandler  played  the  flute. 

It  is  believed  that  the  services  of  the  choir  in  this  town  have 
generally  been  very  acceptable.  Neighboring  ministers  when  they 
exchanged  often  spoke  of  the  excellence  of  the  singing. 

In  connection  with  the  vocal  department  we  will  here  take  occa- 
sion to  remark  that  in  the  year  1828  there  was  an  Instrumental 
Musical  society  formed  in  town,  regulated  by  a  constitution,  which 
required  the  members  to  meet  every  month  for  rehearsal  and  musi- 
cal exercises.  The  following  names  appear  upon  the  record  as 
members  thereof :  Leonard  Walker,  Daniel  L.  French,  Adam 
Chandler,  Joseph  Lombard,  Chandler  Spofford,  William  G.  Camp- 
bell, Dioclesian  Melvin,  John  Craig,  Jr.,  John  Parker,  Frederic 
Wallace,  Jesse  Walker,  John  D.  Walker,  John  W.  Barnes,  Joseph 
Atwood,  Greenleaf  Walker,  and  Andrew  Walker.  The  instruments 
used  were  clarionets,  bugle,  French  horn,  octave  flute,  cymbals, 
bass  horn,  bassoon,  trombone,  and  drums;  thus  forming  the  best 
drilled  and  most  efficient  band  to  be  found  in  this  region.  They 
had  many  calls  upon  public  occasions  to  go  into  neighboring  towns 
where  such  exercises  formed  an  important  part. 

At  the  present  time  (December,  1850)  there  is  a  singing  school 
taught  at  the  town  hall  by  Mr.  Willard,  of  Manchester,  consisting  of 
young  scholars,  under  very  encouraging  circumstances.  They  are 
beginners,  and  then-  names  are  as  follows : 

Willard  C.  Parker,  Orlando  Hall,  Sylvester  Shepard,  George 
Shepard,  Hugh  R.  Barnard,  Henry  T.  Barnard,  George  E.  Woodbury, 
Charles  H.  Woodbury,  George  Whitford,  Edwin  Whitford,  Ellen 
French,  Celia  French,  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  Mary  Ann  Manning, 
Emily  Alexander,  Margaret  Goffe,  Lucy  Manning,  Sarah  Manning, 
Margaret  Parker,  Mrs.  Jane  Armstrong. 

S.  Greenleaf  Stevens  has  the  direction  of  the  school  as  to  manage- 
ment and  arrangement. 


410  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

To  the  above  number  fifteen  more  should  be  added,  making  a 
school  at  present  (1850)  of  thirty-five. 

The  church  music  was  furnished  by  the  choir  until  1866  or  1867, 
during  the  incumbency  of  the  Rev.  Arthur  Little,  when  a  reed 
organ  was  introduced.  But  there  were  no  musical  instruments  used 
except  the  bass  viol  after  about  1852.  At  the  singing  of  the  second 
hymn  the  congregation  rose  and  turned  around  in  their  places,  pre- 
senting their  faces  to  the  choir  who  then  sat  in  the  singers'  seats  at 
the  east  end  of  the  house,  and  then  backs  to  the  pulpit.  The  pipe 
organ  was  bought  by  the  Dorcas  society,  now  known  as  the  Social 
Circle,  about  1881.  Its  cost  was  $1,300.  For  a  time  after  its 
introduction  the  choir  continued  their  part  of  the  services  without 
any  diminution  of  numbers,  although  they  were  not,  as  formerly, 
accompanied  by  musical  instruments.  Then,  about  the  time  the  pipe 
organ  was  introduced,  they  moved  from  the  "  seats  "  into  the  oppo- 
site end  of  the  church,  taking  their  places  between  the  organist  and 
the  pulpit  and  facing  the  congregation.  Among  those  who  have 
sat  in  the  choir  since  the  introduction  of  the  pipe  organ  have  been 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  F.  French,  James  McPherson,  Keziah  McPher- 
son,  Dollyette  McPherson,  Mrs.  F.  R.  French,  Mrs.  Sally  D.  French, 
Mrs.  W.  B.  French,  Mrs.  John  McAfee,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clinton  Par- 
ker, James  T.  Kendall,  Mr.  W.  B.  French,  Lyman  M.  Kinson,  and 
Bertha  Gault. 

From  time  to  time  the  services  Of  the  choir  have  been  dispensed 
with  and  we  have  had  congregational  singing  at  intervals,  the  choir 
taking  their  station  back  of  the  pulpit  and  in  front  of  the  organ. 
Just  at  this  time  we  have  congregational  singing  without  any  choir. 
The  hymn  books  in  use  were,  in  1850,  Watts'  Select  Hymns,  but 
their  use  was  abandoned  in  1870,  and  the  congregation  used  Rob- 
inson's Songs  of  the  Sanctuary.  At  present  they  use  Robinson's 
Selections. 

The  organists  have  been  Mrs.  John  H.  McAfee,  Mrs.  Frederick 
F.  French,  Mrs.  Lyman  Kinson,  Mrs.  James  Edwards  French. 

Mr.  James  McPherson  kept  a  singing  school  in  the  town  in  the 
50's.  He  taught  sacred  and  secular  music.  He  had  some  forty 
pupils.  His  school  was  quite  successful,  and  he  taught  it  for  several 
winters.  About  1867  a  Mr.  Little  of  Antrim  taught  singing  for  one 
winter.  Then,  in  1879,  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson  opened  a  singing  school. 
His  school  was  very  popular,  and  there  were  as  many  as  fifty  pupils 
attending  at  one  time.     The  price  was  one  dollar  a  term  for  twelve 


MUSIC    IN   BEDFORD.  411 

lessons.  In  1880  Mr.  Elton  French,  of  Merrimack,  a  son  of  Deacon 
Robert  French,  opened  a  school  in  the  town  hall.  A  Mr.  I.  S. 
Whitney,  of  Manchester,  also  taught  for  a  few  years  after  1883. 

Mr.  Arthur  Davis  of  Manchester  opened  a  singing  school  in  the 
vestry.  He  taught  for  two  terms.  A  Mr.  Hill  of  Manchester  also 
opened  a  school  in  the  town  hall.  Then  U.  Leroy  George  of  Man- 
chester opened  a  school  in  the  town  hall  and  taught  for  a  time. 
These  latter  two  were  under  the  auspices  of  the  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry. 


The   Ladies'  Social  Circle. 


In  the  year  1848  or  1849  a  juvenile  sewing  circle  was  organized 
under  the  direction  of  the  pastor's  wife,  Mrs.  Thomas  Savage. 

The  youthful  members  of  this  early  society  took  great  pride  in 
preparing  a  missionary  barrel  which,  when  filled,  was  sent  to 
gladden  hearts  in  a  home  far  away.  Stored  among  the  contents  was 
a  quilt  on  each  square  of  which  was  penned  the  name  of  the  busy 
worker,  and  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  while  diligently  tracing  her 
letters  in  a  frame  of  oak  leaves,  little  dreamed  that  more  than  fifty 
years  later  hers  would  be  the  only  one  remaining  of  the  original 
names  to  grace  the  roll  of  The  Ladies  Social  Circle,  now  carrying 
on  in  its  wider  field  the  work  so  enthusiastically  begun  by  childish 
hands. 

In  due  time  the  young  folks  were  led  from  the  minor  to  the 
major  work  of  the  sewing  circle,  where  they  were  taught  the  meth- 
ods then  used  in  such  societies,  concerning  ways  and  means  of  rais- 
ing money. 

Mrs.  John  Barr,  the  president,  instilled  her  own  soul-stirring 
energy  which  soon  pervaded  the  whole,  and  to  the  present  day  her 
monumental  work  is  visible.  Although  not  under  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  church,  love  for  it  and  its  Christian  work  were  characteristic 
features,  and  whatever  pertained  to  its  welfare  appealed  to  the  heart 
of  each  member  in  the  society.  So,  when  the  subject  of  repairing 
or  renovating  the  building  was  presented,  "all  strengthened  their 
hands  for  the  good  work."  The  high  pulpit  with  its  ragged,  faded 
covering  of  damask  was  replaced  by  a  new  pulpit  with  plush  cover- 
ing and  a  new  sofa,  chairs,  and  carpet  took  the  place  of  those  worn 
by  time  and  service. 

This  society  kept  no  record,  only  continued  to  work  as  it  had 
begun,  accomplishing  little  deeds  of  kindness  and  acts  of  love  until 
it  merged,  December  8,  1865,  into  the  Ladies'  Aid  society,  regularly 
organized  with  constitution,  by-laws,  and  board  of  officers.  A  sig- 
nificant feature  of  this  society  rested  in  its  foundation,  when  the 
framers  of    the   constitution   declared   "Every    meeting    shall   be 


THE   LADIES'    SOCIAL  ' CIRCLE.  413 

opened  with  singing  and  closed  with  prayer,"  thus  acknowledging 
God  in  all  their  deliberations,  and  right  here  lay  the  secret  of  their 
success. 

Any  one  became  a  member  by  the  annual  payment  of  twenty-five 
cents,  and  a  collection  of  five  cents  was  taken  up  at  each  meeting. 
Sixteen  years  of  earnest  work  followed,  and  out  of  the  carefully 
gathered  store  from  time  to  time  was  given  $1,113.15. 

The  secretary's  report  of  May  25,  1881,  states  that  the  society 
voted  to  change  its  name  to  Dorcas  society.  This  was  the  sole 
alteration  made,  but  under  its  new  name  the  society  soon  found  con- 
genial work  to  do. 

The  entrance  to  the  meeting-house  was  through  the  basement, 
and  when  Dr.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace,  on  coming  to  preach,  referred  to 
its  awkwardness,  and  begged  the  people  "to  change  the  way  of 
getting  into  the  church  rather  than  by  going  through  the  bulk- 
head," his  bit  of  sarcasm  produced  the  desired  effect,  for  in  conse- 
quence, at  a  special  meeting  of  the  Dorcas  society  held  in  June, 
1881,  permission  was  obtained  from  the  church  building  committee 
to  change  and  repair  the  building  in  any  way  decided  upon  by  the 
society,  provided  it  pay  the  bills. 

August  10,  1881,  saw  the  first  blow  struck,  and  the  house  was 
made  ready  for  the  workmen. 

While  the  appointed  committee,  Mrs.  Stephen  Goffe,  Mrs. 
Horace  Townsend,  and  Miss  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  were  preparing 
the  interior,  Mr.  Freeman  P.  Woodbury  entered  the  church  and 
suggested  that  "if  the  society  would  paint  the  building  inside  and 
out,  he  would  add  new  windows  and  blinds."  The  ladies  consulted 
the  men  of  the  town,  who  agreed  to  assume  the  expense  of  painting 
the  exterior.  At  the  next  meeting  of  the  society  Mr.  Woodbury's 
proposition  was  received  with  great  favor,  carried  by  vote,  and  a 
committee  was  appointed  to  solicit  funds  and  to  take  charge  of  the 
work.  Mrs.  Freeman  P.  Woodbury  and  Miss  Martha  R.  Wood- 
bury were  empowered  to  act  on  all  questions  of  inside  renovations, 
while  Head  &  Dowst  of  Manchester  were  chosen  the  contractors 
and  builders.  Work  was  begun  in  August,  1881,  at  which  time  an 
entrance  with  vestibule  was  constructed  by  steps  leading  up  to  the 
door,  and  a  passage  was  cut  between  the  two  east  windows,  thus 
giving  ample  room  and  comfortable  shelter  from  storms.  The  fining 
in  and  grading  of  the  ground  in  front  was  done  by  men  invited 
publicly  to  bring  horses,  carts,  and  drags  for  carrying  stone  and 


414  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

earth.  At  the  vestry  Dorcas  society  gave  a  substantial  dinner  to 
the  workmen  whose  able,  willing  hands  completed  their  task  in 
two  days. 

As  all  were  of  the  same  mind  the  good  work  went  on,  and  by 
early  autumn  the  meeting-house  was  painted  and  carpeted,  individ- 
ual interest  being  excited  in  covering  the  floor  by  the  purchase  of 
one  yard  or  more  of  carpeting  as  each  woman  chose,  and  the  secre- 
tary recorded  on  September  5,  1881 : 

The  ladies  met  at  the  house  of  Mrs.  E.  B.  G.  Woodbury  to  make 
the  carpet  for  the  church,  and  enough  were  present  to  complete  it 
in  one  afternoon. 

At  a  cost  of  one  hundred  dollars  the  pulpit  furniture  was  pre- 
sented by  Mr.  George  Byron  Chandler,  and  the  two  chairs  on  either 
side  of  the  communion  table  by  Messrs.  Gilman  Riddle  and  John  O. 
Parker  of  Manchester.  Senator  Zachariah  Chandler,  Mrs.  John  A. 
McGaw,  and  Gawen  R.  Gage  gave  large  donations  to  the  general 
fund,  thus  enabling  the  committee  to  pay  all  debts  contracted  by  the 
society  for  the  enterprise,  and  to  meet  also  the  unexpected  expenses 
for  painting  the  outside  of  the  church. 

Through  succeeding  years  the  Dorcas  society  courageously  pur- 
sued its  busy  way,  looking  forward  to  the  time  when  it  could  pur- 
chase a  pipe  organ.  In  October,  1883,  a  vote  was  taken  that  "All 
money  belonging  to  the  Dorcas  society  be  devoted  to  the  church 
organ  fund,"  and  that  Martha  R.  Woodbury  confer  with  the  town 
committee  and  request  them  to  appoint  one  person  to  act  on  a  com- 
mittee of  three  to  see  about  purchasing  an  organ.  It  was  also  voted 
that  the  session  be  requested  to  appoint  one  person  to  act  as  one  of 
the  committee  before  mentioned,  that  the  Rev.  D.  H.  Colcord  repre- 
sent the  Dorcas  society  on  said  committee.  As  a  place  for  the 
instrument  was  lacking,  in  September,  1885,  an  extension  on  the 
west  end  of  the  church  was  erected  by  the  men  interested,  while 
Messrs.  Hugh  R.  French  and  Clinton  W.  Parker,  the  committee, 
rendered  great  assistance  by  their  advice  and  labor.  The  purchas- 
ing committee  obtained  from  George  Hutohins  of  Boston,  Mass.,  a 
fine  pipe  organ,  which  was  set  up  back  of  the  pulpit  in  the  alcove 
built  to  receive  it,  and  on  the  moonlight  night  of  November  6,  1885, 
an  organ  recital  celebrated  this  happy  event,  and  assuredly  every 
one  felt  like  singing  with  heart  as  well  as  voice,  for  bills  amount- 
ing to  $1300  were  paid,  and,  thank  God,  the  society  could  go  on 
with  renewed  effort  quite  free  from  debt.     On  May  26,  1887,  by 


the  ladies'  social  circle.  415 

vote,  the  Dorcas  society  changed  its  name  to  Ladies'  Social  Circle, 
when,  with  a  new  constitution,  and  under  new  officers,  but  with  the 
old-time  spirit  and  energy  of  its  predecessors,  the  burden  bearers 
shouldered  their  work  and  at  once  made  plans  to  place  new  pews 
inside  the  church.  They  discussed,  they  sewed,  they  knitted,  they 
held  fairs,  and  cooked  suppers,  they  worked  early  and  late,  always 
looking  forward  to  an  accomplishment  of  their  purpose — the  com- 
fort and  good  of  all.  When  December  10,  1890,  arrived,  the  circle 
observed  a  twenty-fifth  anniversary,  dating  from  the  formation  of 
the  Ladies'  Aid  society,  listening  to  the  various  reports  of  officers, 
reviewing  the  work  done  and  financial  conditions,  hearing  reminis- 
cences, and  partaking  of  a  hearty  supper  served  to  give  satisfaction, 
and  to  cause  all  to  feel  great  good  had  been  accomplished.  It  was 
on  August  28,  1894,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  pewholders,  for  the 
second  time  the  band  of  industrious  women  was  given  "  full  power 
to  change  the  church  inside  in  any  way  they  chose,  provided  they 
paid  the  bills."  Two  days  later,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Social  circle, 
Mrs.  Freeman  P.  Woodbury  showed  plans  drawn  by  Mr.  Wards- 
worth  Longfellow  of  Boston,  Mass.,  for  the  inside  of  the  church, 
thus  giving  a  clear  idea  of  what  was  needful.  At  the  same  time  Mrs. 
Freeman  P.  Woodbury  made  a  proposition, — if  the  said  society 
use  what  money  it  had  in  following  the  plans  presented,  she  would 
pay  the  remainder  of  the  expense,  and  pass  in  the  money  to  the 
credit  of  the  society  to  the  treasurer  as  bills  became  due,  the  amount 
then  being  nine  hundred  dollars.  The  circle  voted  to  reconsider 
the  vote  taken  at  its  previous  meeting  when  it  had  been  decided  to 
put  in  new  pews,  and  instead  to  accept  Mrs.  Woodbury's  offer. 

Work  was  at  once  begun,  and  soon  the  old  pews  were  made 
more  comfortable,  the  old  pulpit  was  removed  and  a  new  one  built, 
the  ceiling  was  remodeled  on  curved  instead  of  straight  lines,  the 
walls  were  painted  an  artistic  green,  a  new  carpet  and  cushions  were 
added,  so  the  room  at  last  presented  a  fresh  and  most  attractive 
appearance.     The  cost  of  this  renovation  amounted  to  $2,921.81. 

Not  stopping  for  an  instant  on  its  onward  way  the  circle  at  its 
annual  meeting,  October  1,  1894,  voted  to  work  for  a  clock  to  be 
placed  in  the  church  tower.  Almost  four  years  later,  in  August, 
1898,  the  endeavor  reached  success  by  the  cooperative  effort  of  the 
efficient  committee  and  the  interested  townspeople,  at  a  cost  of 
$450,  and  on  an  evening  appointed  all  gladly  met  at  the  dedication 
for  as  the  hammer  of  the  new  timepiece  struck  the  hour  on  the  old 


416  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

bell,  it  was  to  the  accompaniment  of  words  written  by  a  friend, 
Mrs.  Celia  N.  (French)  Dascomb : 

It  is  fitting  to  look  backward 

Upon  labor  planned  and  done 
At  the  cost  of  our  achievement, 

How  we've  earned  the  honors  won. 

However,  never  satisfied,  the  circle  next  turned  its  attention  to 
another  project,  viz.,  the  joining  of  the  town  house  to  the  meeting- 
house by  a  concrete  sidewalk.  The  laying  of  the  sidewalk  was  begun 
in  the  fall  of  1900  and  completed  the  following  autumn,  at  a  cost  of 
$345.  Now  in  November,  1902,  as  the  work  of  half  a  century  is 
reviewed  it  shows  labor  planned  for  the  good  of  the  whole  commu- 
nity, and  within  the  next  few  years  the  zealous  women  hope  to  con- 
tinue their  work,  and  by  electricity  through  the  town  to  carry  out 
the  letter  as  well  as  the  spirit  of  the  gospel  injunction, — "Let  your 
light  so  shine  before  men  that  they  may  see  your  good  works,  and 
glorify  your  Father  in  Heaven." 


SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT  NO.  1. 


SCHOOLHOUSE.  DISTRICT   NO.  2. 


Schools. 


The  people  of  our  town  early  turned  their  attention  to  the  sub- 
ject of  common-school  education.  Even  before  the  town  was  incor- 
porated certain  lands  were  set  apart,  the  income  of  which  was  to  be 
devoted  to  school  purposes. 

The  sturdy  settlers  of  Bedford  did  not  confine  themselves  to  one 
lot  only  for  school  purposes,  but  laid  out  four  lots,  as  follows:  Lots 
21  and  22,  north  of  farm  occupied  by  John  Orr,  Esq.,  later  by 
Samuel  Patten,  and  now  owned  by  Albert  L.  Flint.  Lot  59,  south 
of  the  Old  cemetery,  near  the  back  river  road,  and  lot  90,  which 
probably  formed  part  of  the  farm  occupied  by  Samuel  Chandler,  and 
since  included  in  the  farm  occupied  by  the  late  Rodney  M.  Rollins. 
Upon  two  of  these  lots,  schoolhouses  were  early  erected,  one  north 
of  Esq.  John  Orr's  farm,  the  other  near  the  Samuel  Chandler  farm, 
but  no  record  has  been  found  of  such  use  having  been  made  of  the 
other  two  lots. 

Lots  21  and  22  extended  east  and  west  of  Riddle's  brook,  which 
was  located  so  as  to  furnish  an  excellent  mill  privilege.  In  1771  we 
find  the  town  voting  to  lease  this  mill  privilege  for  twenty  years.  In 
1789  again  a  vote  is  passed  to  lease  this  land  for  six  years.  The 
timber,  also,  was  an  important  source  of  income  from  these  lots,  as 
there  was  a  heavy  growth  of  ship  and  building  timber  upon  the 
upland.  From  the  timber  alone  £387  were  received  in  1793,  an 
unusual  sum  for  school  purposes  in  those  days.  (This  was  probably 
old  tenor,  however.) 

In  course  of  time  the  school  lands  were  trespassed  upon  in  vari- 
ous ways,  a  fact  often  brought  to  the  notice  of  the  town  fathers,  as 
the  record  of  their  meetings  proves.  That  these  meetings  were 
somewhat  stormy  at  times  can  easily  be  imagined,  and  in  1794  we 
find  the  voters  apparently  determined  to  settle  the  matter  once  for 
all  by  voting  to  lease  the  school  land  north  of  Esq.  John  Orr's  farm, 
"the  same  to  be  leased  as  long  as  wood  grows  and  water  runs."  The 
record  fails  to  tell  us  who  secured  this  long  term  lease,  but  it  is  fair 
to  presume  that  Esq.  John  Orr  secured  a  goodly  portion  of  this  land, 
28 


418  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

as  much  of  it  now  forms  the  northern  part  of  the  farm  once  owned 
by  him,  now  owned  by  Albert  L.  Flint.  In  1802  the  remainder  of 
the  school  lands  was  disposed  of  by  leases  running  999  years.  Lot 
59,  south  of  the  Old  cemetery,  was  leased  at  this  time,  John  Bell 
securing  "  all  east  of  road  leading  from  Chandler's  to  McGaw's," 
while  William  Moore  secured  the  southwest  part  of  the  lot  and 
Samuel  Chandler  the  northwest  part. 

At  first  the  families  were  long  distances  apart,  but  as  neighbors 
increased  we  find  them  uniting  their  funds  and  employing  a  teacher. 
See  Matthew  Patten's  Journal,  March  28,  1772 : 

"  My  brother  Samuel  and  Major  Goffe,  McLaughlin,  Newman  and 
I  hired  one  Mr.  Stillman  to  keep  school  and  Martin  joins  the  wages 
to  be  the  same  of  Mr.  Saunders  "  (Undoubtedly  a  previous  teacher.) 
March  30th.  "The  children  went  to  school  to  the  amount  of  five 
scholars  the  whole  day."  March  31.  "I  had  six  children  at  school 
all  day."  Later.  "  We  settled  with  our  school  master  and  I  paid  my 
brother  Samuel's  part  and  mine ;  they  both  came  to  13  shillings 
lawful.     I  sent  128  days  and  Samuel  sent  65  days." 

After  erecting  their  own  homes,  the  thought  of  the  early  settlers 
turned  to  establishing  a  church  and  building  a  meeting-house.  The 
schoolhouse  soon  followed.  The  first  schoolhouse,  a  log-cabin 
structure,  was  located  on  school  land,  about  one  fourth  mile  north 
of  farm  then  owned  by  John  Orr,  Esq.  In  Bedford  history,  pub- 
lished 1850,  page  174,  we  find,  "  This  schoolhouse  stood  on  an  emi- 
nence." On  page  192,  same  history,  we  find,  "The  schoolhouse 
stood  at  the  foot  of  the  hill  by  the  large  stone,1  as  you  go  from  the 
farm  of  the  late  John  Orr  to  the  center  of  the  town."  Eminence 
and  stone  still  remain,  silent  reminders  of  the  dim  past.  The  high- 
way which  passed  this  center  of  learning  can  still  be  easily  traced, 
but  the  ancient  structure  itself  long  since  completed  its  usefulness, 
and  only  exists  in  tradition  and  history.  Diligent  inquiry  has  failed 
to  discover  the  date  of  its  building,  or  how  and  when  its  history 
closed.  Some  of  the  materials  of  the  old  building  formed  part  of 
the  barn  of  Mr.  Calvin  Snow.  The  second  schoolhouse  was  erected 
July  4,  1772.  Matthew  Patten  says:  "We  raised  it  about  sunset." 
It  was  built  by  subscription,  and  located  at  junction  of  the  river 
road  with  the  back  river  road,  south  of  Samuel  Chandler  place,  now 
occupied  by  heirs  of  Rodney  M.  Rollins.  This  house  was  soon  filled 
by  a  large  school. 

1  This  stone  can  be  seen  at  the  left  of  the  present  highway,  a  few  rods  north  of  an 
aged  apple-tree,  which  stands  in  a  dilapidated  stone  wall. 


SCHOOLS.  419 

When  the  town  was  incorporated  (1750)  it  contained  about  fifty- 
families,  or  two  hundred  persons,  of  which  twenty-five  would  proba- 
bly be  of  school  age.  In  1750-51  the  town  voted  to  have  no  school, 
but  in  1752  decided  to  have  a  public  school  six  months  during  the 
summer:  "To  be  kept  in  three  places  in  said  town,  viz — 2  mos. 
near  Thos.  Chandler's  and  2  mos.  near  James  Little's  and  2  mos. 
more  south  of  Benj.  Smith's."  The  next  year  the  vote  stood  the 
same,  but  in  1754  an  effort  was  made  to  accommodate  all  sections 
of  the  town  by  providing  schools  for  eight  months,  as  follows :  "  Be- 
ginning in  S.  W.  corner  of  town  and  continue  one  month,  then  N.  E. 
corner  one  month,  X.  W.  corner  one  month,  and  so  alternately  in  each 
of  afore-mentioned  places,  till  the  eight  months  be  completed."  The 
southeast  corner  of  the  town  being  the  first  settled,  was  probably 
included  in  this  division  of  school  time.  Even  this  arrangement 
made  it  necessary  for  the  children  to  travel  great  distances. 

For  nineteen  years  after  this  no  action  was  taken  by  the  town  to 
support  public  schools,  though  no  doubt  schools  were  sustained  in 
various  places  by  private  subscription.  In  1773  £15  lawful  money 
were  voted  to  hire  a  town  school-master,  the  town  to  be  divided  into 
seven  districts.  The  next  year  £15  were  again  appropriated,  with 
four  districts  to  provide  for.  As  we  review  the  town  records,  it  is 
evident  that  two  parties  existed,  with  regard  to  school  matters.  One 
party  desired  each  district  to  support  its  own  school,  the  other  felt 
more  inclined  to  give  the  schools  town  support. 

From  1775  to  1780  the  people  were  too  much  absorbed  in  the 
stirring  times  of  the  Revolutionary  period  to  give  much  attention  to 
educational  matters.  In  1780  the  town  flatly  refused  "to  hire  a 
town  school  master,"  but,  at  a  later  meeting,  when  it  was  discovered 
that  complaint  against  the  town  had  been  made  by  the  grand  jury 
at  Amherst,  £120  were  forthcoming.  The  next  year  it  was  decided 
to  pay  John  O'Xeil  for  his  services  as  school-master  seven  years 
previous.  Possibly,  by  this  time,  the  feelings  which  had  smarted 
under  the  strict  discipline  of  this  stern  master  may  have  become 
more  calm,  and  after  seven  years  of  waiting  the  people  were  ready 
to  do  him  justice. 

Another  teacher  of  this  early  time,  Luke  Eagan,  taught  in  the 
second  schoolhouse  ever  built  in  town.  He  had  been  well  educated 
for  a  priest  in  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  and  becoming  a  Protes- 
tant was  qualified  for  teaching.  An  account  of  his  death  is  found 
among  the  fatal  casualties. 


420  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Rev.  Joseph  Goffe  said  : 

At  that  time  (1766)  it  was  generally  thought  that  no  native 
American  was  capable  of  teaching  a  common  English  school.  Suita- 
ble books  of  instruction  were  very  few  and  scarce.  Grammar, 
Geography  and  other  studies'  now  common  in  schools,  were  then 
rarely  heard  of. 

Book  agents,  with  their  frequent  calls  and  urgent  demands,  had 
not  penetrated  this  primitive  region.  Each  book  was  carefully  pre- 
served, as  containing  hidden  treasure.  In  most  erases,  learning  to 
read,  write,  and  spell,  with  a  limited  knowledge  of  arithmetic,  meas- 
ured the  height  of  the  pupil's  ambition.  Mental  arithmetic  gave  a 
keen  intellectual  training  which  would  often  outstrip  the  slower 
process  of  ciphering  to-day,  by  its  rapidity  in  securing  results.  The 
New  England  primer,  though  small  in  size,  must  not  be  overlooked. 
It  occupied  an  important  place  in  the  school-room,  being  used  as  a 
reader,  and  containing  many  wholesome  truths,  which,  with  the  cate- 
chism, were  thoroughly  taught. 

Meagre  as  were  the  advantages,  still  in  the  minds  of  some  of  those 
early  pupils  a  great  desire  for  knowledge  was  imparted.  John  Orr, 
Esq.,  born  1748,  was  a  striking  illustration  of  what  a  quick  mind, 
with  a  thirst  for  knowledge,  may  accomplish,  even  with  limited 
opportunities.  He  became  a  power  in  his  own  community,  and 
filled  important  positions,  in  both  town  and  state,  commanding  the 
respect  of  all. 

David  Patten,  Esq.,  born  1761,  a  son  of  Hon.  Matthew  Patten, 
took  his  place  as  land  surveyor  and  school-master  when  a  young 
man,  thus  reflecting  credit  upon  his  own  ability  and  that  of  his 
instructors  also. 

Joseph  Goff,  born  1766,  was  the  first  college  graduate  of  Bedford, 
taking  his  degree  of  A.  B.  at  Dartmouth,  August  21,  1791,  standing 
well  in  a  class  of  fifty  students,  and  later  an  active  and  successful 
minister  of  the  gospel.  He  assisted  Hon.  John  Vose  to  prepare  for 
college,  and  found  him  an  apt  pupil. 

John  Vose  graduated  from  Dartmouth  (1795)  and  became  in  his 
turn  an  instructor  of  youth.  He  served  as  principal  of  Atkinson 
and  Pembroke  academies  for  thirty-two  years,  and  was  the  author  of 
valuable  works  in  astronomy. 

Some  of  these  aspirants  for  knowledge  struggled  on  for  years  in 
their  effort  to  secure  an  education.  Hon.  Benjamin  Orr  was  one  of 
these.  As  a  boy,  he  expressed  a  desire  for  college  training.  His 
father  being  unable  to  help  him,  Benjamin  determined  to  pay  his 


SCHOOLS.  421 

own  way  through  college.  As  apprentice,  carpenter,  and  teacher  he 
finally  overcame  all  obstacles,  won  his  degree  of  A.  B.,  1798,  from 
Dartmouth,  and  became  an  eminent  lawyer, — "  Higher  than  any  of 
the  people  from  his  shoulders  and  upward." 

When  the  new  century  dawned,  the  people  had  established  church 
and  school  upon  solid  foundations.  The  sturdy  efforts  of  the  pre- 
vious fifty  years  had  taken  root,  and  a  more  vigorous  growth  was 
the  result.  Population  and  wealth  had  increased.  At  least  six 
schoolhouses  had  already  been  erected,  probably  by  the  people  living 
in  their  vicinity,  as  there  is  no  record  of  the  town  appropriating 
money  for  that  purpose.  These  houses  were  located  in  the  present 
subdistricts  Nos.  1  (located  at  the  southwest  corner  of  the  common, 
which  was  removed  to  Isaac  Riddle's  and  used  for  a  shed),  2,  3,  4,  7, 
and  9.  The  boundaries  of  these  little  communities  were  not  defin- 
ite, but  varied  with  the  convenience  and  preference  of  the  parents. 
Thus  the  support  of  each  school  was  subject  to  the  sudden  likes 
and  dislikes  of  all  who  felt  at  liberty  to  join  other  districts  whenever 
they  chose.  Seeing  this  disadvantage,  the  people  voted,  in  1800,  to 
divide  the  town  into  nine  districts,  and  defined  their  boundaries. 
Only  two  years  later  we  find  the  town  cheerfully  raising  $1,500  for 
new  schoolhouses,  those  districts  already  having  suitable  school  build- 
ings being  excused  from  paying  their  share  of  this  tax.  The  new 
schoolhouses  were  erected  in  what  are  now  subdistricts  Nos.  1,  6,  8, 
and  Piscataquog.  Large  families  were  the  rule  then,  not  the  excep- 
tion as  now,  and  the  new  houses  were  soon  filled  with  large,  flourish- 
ing schools. 

The  districts  now  assumed  more  definite  control  of  school  mat- 
ters, and  for  over  three  fourths  of  a  century,  until  1886,  erected  and 
repaired  their  own  school  buildings,  chose  their  agents  for  hiring 
teachers,  and  determined  the  time  and  length  of  school  terms  as  best 
suited  them.  Sums  of  money  appropriated  from  time  to  time  by 
the  town  were  divided  among  the  districts  in  proportion  to  the 
wealth  of  each,  and  not  according  to  the  number  of  pupils.  This 
system  was  followed,  also,  by  the  selectmen  in  dividing  the  money 
required  by  law  for  the  support  of  schools.  Of  course  it  might  often 
happen  that  some  of  the  largest  schools  would  have  the  least  money, 
and,  therefore,  the  shortest  terms.  A  partial  remedy  for  this  was 
found  by  sending  the  pupils  whose  school  had  closed  to  some  neigh- 
boring school  still  open.  Districts  receiving  pupils  in  this  way  usu- 
ally charged  tuition  varying  from  six  cents  to  one  dollar  per  week, 


422  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

but  seemed  ready  to  accommodate  in  this  matter.  When  a  teacher 
was  very  popular,  the  private  purse  was  often  called  upon  to  assist  in 
increasing  the  length  of  school  terms. 

The  people  of  the  town  were  industrious  and  desired  their  public 
servants  to  serve  them  in  the  same  manner.  The  minister  was  re- 
quired to  preach  two  good  long  sermons  each  Sunday.  Teachers 
and  pupils  were  required  to  spend  six  days  per  week  in  the  school- 
room. Saturday  holidays  were  not  even  dreamed  of,  much  less 
mentioned.  Gradually  the  boys  grew  to  be  men,  and  we  find  them 
assembled  at  the  various  school  meetings,  carrying  forward  the  work 
so  well  begun  by  their  fathers.  The  holiday  question  was  brought 
up  for  solemn  discussion.  Economy  was  the  rule  in  every  household 
and  they  wished  to  get  their  money's  worth  in  the  school-room.  At 
length  they  decided  to  grant  a  half  holiday  each  Saturday.  Later, 
this  plan  was  changed  to  no  school  every  other  Saturday,  and  finally 
the  present  custom  of  no  school  on  Saturday  was  adopted.  What 
would  the  thrifty  people  of  those  times  think  of  the  numerous  holi- 
days of  the  present  time  ? 

Teachers'  salaries  were  in  proportion  to  the  prices  of  the  times. 
The  salary  of  the  mistress  employed  for  the  summer  schools,  varied 
from  $1.20  to  $2.00  per  week,  the  district  paying  her  board  in  addi- 
tion to  this.  The  famous  Ann  Orr  taught  No.  9  school  ten  weeks  in 
1837,  for  $1.25  per  week,  while  Thomas  Shepard  received  for  her 
board  in  the  mean  time  $1.34  per  week.  The  master,  whom  it  was 
thought  necessary  to  employ  for  the  winter  terms,  received  $3  or  $4 
per  week. 

The  privilege  of  boarding  the  teacher  was  often  struck  off  "  by 
vendue  "  to  the  lowest  bidder.  More  or  less  rivalry  in  the  matter 
often  secured  a  very  low  price.  The  lowest  price  noted  was  16  cents 
per  week,  but  the  man  who  offered  to  board  for  this  sum  happened 
to  have  a  daughter  Hannah.  The  committee  ,of  three  chosen  to 
secure  a  mistress  for  the  summer  school  that  year  employed  this 
daughter  Hannah,  and  we  presume  they  thought  her  father  well  paid 
for  her  board.  Often  the  teacher  "  boarded  around  "  with  her  pupils^ 
stopping  at  each  home  a  longer  or  less  time,  according  to  the  number 
of  pupils.  This  arrangement  was  the  source  of  many  pleasant  and 
sometimes  strange  experiences. 

Listening  to  the  echoes  coming  down  to  us  from  the  first  half  of 
thes  last  century,  we  hear  such  names  as  these  upon  the  teachers'  roll : 
Dr.  Mitchell,  Fletcher,  also  lecturer  on  astronomy  in  Riddle  hall ; 


SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT  NO.  3. 


SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT  NO.  4. 


schools.  423 

Spaulding,  Bout  well,  Hall,  Joy,  Calvin  McQuesten,  R.  Walker,  Cor- 
nelius Walker,  who  taught  many  terms,  though  noted  for  his  severity ; 
Margaret  and  Sally  Orr,  Mary  Houston,  selected  by  a  committee  of 
five  men  chosen  to  secure  a  mistress  for  No.  1  school;  Hannah 
French,  Sally  Xoyes,  Philomela  Atwood,  Eliza  Gordon,  Harriet  N. 
French,  Ann  Riddle,  Susan  Spofford,  Mary  Rogers,  Ellen  Cutler, 
Mary  J.  F.  Moore,  Adeline  and  Ann  J.  Kevins,  who  came  from  a 
family  of  teachers ;  also,  Thornton  McGaw,  Charles  Aiken,  D.  G. 
Stevens,  William  R.  Woodbury,  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  and  many  others. 
The  Rev.  David  McGregore  once  held  sway  in  No.  1  school,  while 
standing  out  prominently  among  them  all,  the  strong,  forceful  tones 
of  Ann  Orr  were  heard  as  she  presided  in  nearly  every  school-room 
in  town.  Born  in  1782,  her  death  occurred  in  1849.  For  nearly 
fifty  years  her  commanding  form  was  seen  in  the  school-rooms  of 
Bedford  and  surrounding  towns. 

Few  natives  of  Bedford  during  that  period  but  remembered  with 
gratitude  the  faithful  instruction,  the  kind  advice,  the  excellent  pre- 
cepts and  example  of  Ann  Orr.  She  is  said  to  have  been  an  extra- 
ordinary character,  making  up  in  vigor  of  thought  and  action  what 
she  lacked  in  refinement.  "As  a  teacher  of  children  almost  un- 
equaled."  Kind-hearted,  strong-minded,  sensible,  the  older  pupils  sel- 
dom questioned  her  authority,  and  the  younger  ones  were  sure  of  her 
interest  and  protection.  Hers  was  a  life  of  quiet,  steady,  earnest  de- 
votion to  one  great  purpose,  viz.,  the  moral,  religious,  and  intellectual 
culture  of  the  youth  of  her  time.  A  certain  writer  says,  when  as  a 
little  girl  she  looked  upon  Ann  Orr  for  the  first  time,  she  could  not 
help  associating  her  with  the  verse  recited  in  Sunday-school  the  day 
before,  "  Stand  in  awe  and  sin  not."  For  years  afterward  she  felt  as 
if  she  must  write  that  teacher's  name  Atce.  Later,  when  some  blun- 
derer, reading  from  the  Bible  the  parable  of  the  vineyard,  said,  "  Here 
is  the  hah  comb,  let  us  kill  him,"  a  burst  of  laughter  followed.  In- 
stantly the  teacher  thundered,  "  Silence !"  emphasizing  it  with  a 
stamp  of  the  foot  which  jarred  the  room,  and  silence  it  was.  The 
pupils  sat  in  awe  and  smiled  not.  She  had  little  patience  with  poor 
lessons  ;  they  must  be  learned.  The  catechism  also  was  thoroughly 
taught  by  her.  Many  a  frostbite  and  discomfort  were  prevented  by 
her  care  of  the  little  ones  on  a  cold  stormy  day  as  she  carefully  ad- 
justed and  fastened  the  various  wraps,  caps,  hoods,  and  mittens. 
Only  evil-doers  were  roughly  handled  by  her.  She  believed  and 
practised  with  Aaron  Hill : 


424  HISTORY   OF   BEDFOED. 

"  Tender-hearted  stroke  a  nettle 

And  it  stings  you  for  your  pains, 
Grasp  it  like  a  man  of  mettle 

And  it  soft  as  silk  remains. 
'Tis  the  same  with  common  natures, 

Use  them  kindly,  they  rebel, 
But  be  rough  as  nutmeg  graters 

And  the  rogues  obey  you  well." 

She  seemed  to  read  the  future  of  her  pupils  with  wonderful  accu- 
racy. When  visiting  at  the  home  of  one  of  her  former  pupils,  who 
had  married  a  clergyman,  the  minister  remarked, "  I  suppose  you 
little  thought  this  pupil  of  yours  would  sometime  fill  the  position  she 
now  does."  Instantly  came  the  reply,  "  Sir,  my  pupils  stayed  pretty 
much  on  the  shelf  where  I  put  them !"  Near  the  close  of  her  useful 
life,  her  former  pupils,  scattered  throughout  the  country,  united  in 
presenting  her  a  valuable  gold  watch  in  token  of  their  high  regard. 

The  following  anecdote  was  related  of  Miss  Orr  at  the  centennial 
celebration  by  the  president  of  the  day : 

"  I  once  had,"  she  said,  "  a  lad  in  my  school  who  troubled  me  very 
much.  He  would  not  get  his  lesson,  though  he  appeared  not  to  be 
idle.  I  kept  my  eye  on  him  a  day  or  two ;  I  had  an  article  he 
wanted ;  I  said  to  him,  James,  if  you  will  give  me  a  perfect  lesson 
you  shall  have  that  article.  At  the  time  of  recitation  I  had  a  perfect 
lesson.  Now,  James,  I  see  you  have  a  good  mind,  as  good,  if  not 
better  than  any  in  school,  I  shall  always  expect,  and  I  intend  to  have, 
perfect  lessons  ever  after  this ;  and  it  was  so,  I  had  no  more  trouble 
with  James." 

The  following  poetical  tribute  to  Miss  Orr  is  from  one  of  her 
scholars.  It  is  an  extract  from  a  poem,  too  long  for  a  place  in  this 
volume : 

"  Near  half  a  century  flitted  by, 
The  summer's  sweetness,  winter's  sigh 
Still  found  her  at  her  chosen  post, 
To  educate  the  youthful  host. 
Her  labors  o'er,  but  memory  still 
Will  feel  a  deep  and  touching  thrill, 
As  back  it  passes  to  those  days 
When  we  indulg'd  in  jocund  plays." 

In  conversation  she  was  always  sensible  and  animated.  At  times 
she  was  masculine  in  her  bearing ;  but  her  active  usefulness,  with 
many  excellent  qualities,  made  ample  amends  for  the  want  of  that 
softness  that  belongs  to  the  female  character. 

When  the  town  was  divided  into  nine  districts  (1800)  and  their 
boundaries  denned,  District  Number  One  was  located  in  the  center 
of  the  town ;  District  Number  Two,  in  the  south  central  part ;  Dis- 
tricts Three,  Four,  and  Five,  near  the  Merrimack  river,  in  the  eastern 


schools.  425- 

part  of  the  town ;  Number  Three  being  in  the  southeast  part,  and 
Number  Five  in  the  northeast  part,  now  Piscataquog ;  Districts  Six, 
Seven,  and  Eight  came  in  order  as  now  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
town,  while  District  Number  Nine  occupied  the  west  central  part, 
including  its  present  territory,  and  much  of  Joppa  also. 

The  schoolhouse  of  District  Number  One,  built  in  1800,  was  lo- 
cated on  the  south-east  corner  of  the  parsonage  lot.  (Here  the  first 
Sunday-school  was  organized  in  1818.)  This  district  was  noted  for 
its  lively  school  meetings.  When  but  few  were  present  at  the  school- 
house  they  often  adjourned  to  Riddle's  store,  and  here  had  no  trouble 
in  securing  a  good  attendance.  One  person  was  usually  considered 
sufficient  to  act  as  prudential  committee,  but  in  1819  an  especial 
effort  was  made  to  secure  good  teachers,  and  three  men  were  chosen 
to  secure  a  mistress  for  the  summer  school,  and  seven  men  to  select 
a  master  for  the  winter  term.  The  choice  fell  upon  Sally  Orr  and 
Mary  Houston  for  the  summer,  and  Silas  Aiken  for  the  winter  term. 
We  hope  their  efforts  were  successful.  A  division  of  the  pupils  wa*s 
made  in  this  school  for  several  years,  those  under  a  certain  age,  vary- 
ing from  ten  to  fourteen  years,  attended  the  mistress'  school  in  sum- 
mer, while  all  over  the  age  limit  attended  the  master's  school  in 
winter.  As  the  population  increased  and  extended  over  a  large  area, 
the  district  was  divided  (1829)  and  a  stone  schoolhouse,  familiarly 
known  as  "  the  stone  jug,"  was  erected  just  east  of  the  brook  in  the 
southeast  corner  of  the  field,  north  of  Holbrook's  mill.  Thus  Dis- 
trict Number  Ten  came  into  existence.  Moving  the  schoolhouse 
now  became  the  burning  question  in  District  Number  One.  After 
several  years  of  discussion,  both  question  and  schoolhouse  found  a 
resting-place  just  "north  of  causeway,"  near  the  present  junction  of 
roads  at  the  foot  of  Woodbury  (Globe)  hill.  After  serving  its  pur- 
pose faithfully  for  nearly  seventy  years,  the  old  building  was  aban- 
doned (1870),  when  Districts  One  and  Ten  were  again  united  by  vote 
of  the  selectmen  and  superintending  school  committee,  and  the  pres- 
ent house  was  built. 

District  Number  Two  would  no  doubt  have  some  interesting 
records,  if  the  early  ones  could  be  found,  as  the  first  schoolhouse  in 
town  was  erected  in  this  district  previous  to  1772.  A  fire  in  1848 
resulted  in  a  new  schoolhouse  in  1849,  which,  we  presume,  is  the 
brick  structure  of  to-day.  This  school  has  numbered  over  sixty 
pupils. 

District  Number  Three  had  a  schoolhouse  previous  to  1800,  but 


426  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

received  a  new  deed  of  land  in  the  present  location  in  1848,  and  the 
schoolhouse  now  in  use  was  probably  erected  at  that  time. 

District  Number  Four  boasted  the  second  schoolhouse  built  in 
town  (1772).  After  long  service  in  the  cause  of  education,  this 
ancient  building,  which  stood  on  the  west  side  of  the  river  road  at 
its  junction  with  the  back  river  road,  near  the  residence  of  Alfred 
Porter,  was  transformed  into  a  dwelling  which  was  occupied  by 
"  Sally  and  Becky "  Wallace  for  many  years.  Rodney  M.  Rollins 
took  it  down.  The  brick  house  now  in  use  was  erected  previous  to 
1850. 

Piscataquog  in  1785  had  but  three  houses  and  a  mill.  In  1800 
her  first  schoolhouse  was  erected,  and  the  village  became  District 
Number  Five.  The  population  rapidly  increased,  the  school  grew 
apace,  and  in  1847  all  the  village  north  of  "Squog"  river  became 
District  Number  Fourteen.  The  latter  school  opened  under  diffi- 
culties, with  forty-seven  pupils.  "  It  was  commenced  in  a  room  fitted 
lip  for  the  purpose  over  a  blacksmith  shop  and  under  a  carpenter 
shop,  in  the  rear  of  the  store  and  tavern."  No  wonder  the  parents 
bestirred  themselves,  to  avoid  the  noise  and  confusion,  by  erecting  a 
new  school  building.  When  Piscataquog  became  a  part  of  Man- 
chester (1853)  Bedford  lost  an  important  part  of  her  school  wealth. 
The  present  District  Number  Five,  previous  to  this,  had  been  known 
as  District  Number  Thirteen.  It  had  been  taken  from  District 
Number  One,  and  a  brick  house  erected  for  its  use,  previous  to  1835, 
in  its  present  location. 

District  Number  Six  was  first  provided  with  a  schoolhouse  in 
1800.  A  new  house  was  erected  in  1852  and  dedicated  with  appro- 
priate exercises,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  with  other  clergymen, 
assisting  the  people  of  the  district  on  this  occasion.  Among  the 
pupils  whose  later  career  has  reflected  credit  upon  this  school  we 
might  mention  Hon.  John  Vose,  Cornelius  Walker,  Esq.,  Horace 
Greeley,  John  Atwood,  David  Atwood,  Rev.  C.  W.  Wallace,  and 
others. 

District  Number  Seven  has  enjoyed  school  privileges  for  over  one 
hundred  years,  and  has  been  subject  to  many  changes  during  this 
period.  It  has  produced  successful  teachers  and  excellent  scholars, 
among  whom  might  be  mentioned  Annie  Vose,  a  recent  graduate  of 
Wellesley  college. 

District  Number  Eight's  first  schoolhouse  was  built  in  1800.  A 
new  house  erected  in  1852  was  burned  in  1857  and  rebuilt  in  1858. 


schools.  427 

This  school  is  said  to  have  numbered  seventy-five  pupils  in  populous 
times. 

District  Number  Nine  has  had  a  school  for  over  a  century.  The 
first  schooolhouse  was  located  on  the  point  near  the  junction  of 
Joppa  and  North  Amherst  roads,  west  of  Shepard's  mills,  but  being 
destroyed  by  fire,  a  new  house  was  erected  (1816)  just  across  the 
Joppa  road,  opposite  the  first  location.  Until  Joppa  erected  a 
schoolhouse  of  her  own,  the  pupils  of  that  vicinity  attended  Num- 
ber Nine  school,  and  fifty .  or  sixty  pupils  were  the  result.  But 
Joppa  boasted  her  store,  blacksmith  shop,  cooper  shop,  and  a  public- 
spirited  people.  Of  course  they  desired  a  schoolhouse  also,  and  took 
steps  to  secure  one  in  1833.  Previous  to  this,  even,  they  had  sus- 
tained private  schools,  one  in  the  hall  over  Joppa  store,  attended 
largely  by  advanced  pupils ;  also  one  taught  by  Ann  Orr,  in  a  small 
building,  part  cooper's  shop,  part  dwelling,  near  the  cemetery.  Dis- 
trict Number  Nine  was  still  further  reduced  (1847)  by  the  west 
part  of  the  district  forming  a  union  district  with  Amherst.  The 
remainder  of  the  people  now  felt  that  the  schoolhouse  should  occupy 
a  more  central  spot,  and  moved  it  to  the  hill  southwest  of  the  place 
now  occupied  by  F.  E.  Manning.  This  repeated  division  of  the  dis- 
trict resulted  in  small  schools,  and  once  more  (1870)  we  find  the 
schoolhouse  on  the  wing.  This  time  it  alighted  on  its  present  loca- 
tion, east  of  Shepard's  brook,  for  the  union  district  with  Amherst 
had  been  given  up  and  Number  Nine  once  more  included  this  terri- 
tory. 

District  Number  Ten,  which  occupied  "  the  stone  jug  "  at  first, 
built  a  new  house  a  few  rods  east  of  the  dwelling  now  oocupied  by 
Stephen  C.  Damon,  in  1864.  When  Districts  One  and  Ten  were 
reunited  (1870)  the  new  house  was  moved  to  the  present  location  of 
Number  One  schoolhouse. 

District  Number  Eleven  was  the  name  given  to  a  union  district 
with  Merrimack,  in  the  southwest  part  of  the  town,  for  over  fifty 
years.  For  want  of  a  Bedford  pupil,  this  school  was  given  up  in 
1886.  District  Number  Twelve,  or  Joppa,  has  since  been  Number 
Eleven,  and  now  is  known  as  Number  Ten.  It  contains  the  birth- 
place of  Joseph  E.  Worcester,  author  of  a  valuable  dictionary.  In 
1850  we  had  15  schools  containing  559  pupils.  To-day  we  have  10 
schools  containing  172  pupils.  Piscataquog  took  with  her  125 
pupils  (or  two  schools)  when  she  left  us.  While  the  union  of  Num- 
bers One  and  Ten  and  giving  up  of  the  union  schools  with  Amherst 


428  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

and  Merrimack  account  for  the  smaller  number  of  schools,  it  does 
not  explain  the  entire  decrease  of  scholars. 

As  time  passed  on  the  need  of  a  school  for  advanced  pupils  was 
realized.  To  supply  this  need  a  private  school  was  conducted  in 
Washington  hall,  over  a  store  near  the  present  residence  of  John 
Riddle,  Esq.  Dr.  Leonard  French  taught  here.  Here  Adeline  Wil- 
ley  also  taught  with  success,  then  married  Charles  Aiken  of  this  town 
and  moved  to  Wisconsin.  We  have  said  that  the  first  efforts  of  the 
early  settlers  after  building  their  homes-  were  directed  toward  build- 
ing a  church,  and  the  schoolhouse  soon  followed.  What  more  natural, 
then,  when  the  old  church  edifice  was  replaced  by  a  new  structure, 
than  to  remodel  the  old  building  into  a  schoolhouse.  This  was  done 
in  1838,  when  the  lower  story  was  used  for  a  town  hall  and  the  upper 
story  for  a  school-room.  Here  we  find  advanced  pupils  gathered 
from  the  homes  throughout  the  town  in  a  high  school,  and  an  excel- 
lent "  training  ground  "it  proved.  This  school  was  sustained  by  pri- 
vate subscription  and  tuition  charged  the  pupils.  The  latter  also 
sustained  the  school  by  their  presence  in  goodly  numbers.  Here  we 
find  teaching  with  success :  Rev.  J.  C.  Bryant,  who  had  been  pastor 
of  a  church  in  Littleton,  Mass.,  and  later  became  a  missionary  in 
South  Africa ;  J.  W.  Pillsbury  of  Dartmouth  college,  who  settled  in 
Milford,  N.  H. ;  Rev.  Mr.  Turner  of  Andover  seminary,  who  after- 
ward settled  in  Iowa ;  B.  F.  Wallace,  Frank  Moore,  Jane  Riddle, 
Linas  Gould,  Charles  W.  Johnson,  who  taught  three  successive 
autumns,  1855-'57,  with  his  sister,  Miss  Augusta  Johnson  (now  Mrs. 
Freeman  R.  French),  as  assistant  to  care  for  the  younger  pupils ; 
also  Charles  I.  Parker  (1858),  who  is  now  a  prominent  educator  in 
Chicago,  111.,  and  a  director  of  the  National  Educational  Association 
of  the  United  States,  and  lastly,  F.  J.  Burnham,  who  taught  a  school 
of  eighty-eight  pupils  in  the  fall  of  1867,  with  Mrs.  Eliza  Ann  Stev- 
ens as  his  assistant.  In  Joppa  a  school  was  conducted  for  advanced 
pupils  (probably  previous  to  1833)  in  the  hall  over  Joppa  store,  with 
the  following  as  teachers :  Rev.  Mr.  Wilder,  who  became  missionary 
to  India ;  Rev.  Mr.  Kendall,  later  a  professor  in  Jackson  college, 
Illinois,  also  Dodge  and  Rev.  A.  W.  Burnham,  mentioned  as  notable 
teachers  in  town. 

Several  prominent  gentlemen  in  Piscataquog  (1842)  formed  an 
association  which  purchased  the  meeting-house  located  there  and 
remodeled  the  upper  part  into  convenient  rooms  for  an  academy, 
while  the  lower  part  was  still  retained  for  public  worship.     This 


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SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT   NO.  6. 


schools.  429 

academy  was  incorporated  in  1847.  By  the  liberality  of  ladies  and 
gentlemen  of  that  village  a  good  apparatus  was  provided,  and  the 
academy  ably  sustained  for  several  years  without  endowment  funds. 
The  gentlemen  who  successively  took  charge  of  this  school  were : 
Leonard  French,  M.  D.,  of  Dartmouth  college ;  Hiram  Wason,  Esq., 
Dartmouth  college;  Charles  Warren,  Harvard  university.  Benja- 
min F.  Wallace,  Esq.,  of  Dartmouth  college,  and  resident  of  Bed- 
ford, taught  here  several  years,  also  Rev.  Amos  Abbott,  once  mis- 
sionary to  India.  Among  the  founders  of  this  academy  were: 
Hon.  Frederick  G.  Stark,  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  Esq.,  Gen.  William  P. 
Riddle,  and  James  Walker,  Esq.,  each  of  whom  served  on  the  board 
of  directors.  In  recent  years,  our  advanced  pupils  have  found 
accommodation  in  the  larger  and  better  equipped  academies  of 
nearby  towns,  viz. :  McGaw  Normal  institute,  Reed's  Ferry,  McCol- 
lom  institute,  Mt.  Vernon,  Francestown  academy,  New  Ipswich 
academy,  Pinkerton  academy,  Derry,  and  Colby  academy,  New 
London.  The  high  school  of  Manchester  has  also  been  liberally 
patronized  by  Bedford  pupils,  many  of  whom  have  entered  «it  with 
noticeably  high  standing,  and  won  the  highest  class  honors  at  the 
end  of  their  course. 

During  the  125  years  of  its  existence  our  nation  has  produced  but 
two  great  lexicographers,  and  the  little  town  of  Bedford,  N.  H.,  pro- 
duced one  of  these,  viz.,  Joseph  E.  Worcester,  LL.  D.  Webster's 
and  Worcester's  dictionaries  rest  side  by  side  in  the  reference  libra- 
ries of  our  higher  institutions  of  learning,  the  one  being  considered 
authority  for  pronunciation  and  derivation  of  words,  the  other  for 
definition.  It  would  be  interesting  to  notice  many  others  who  have 
won  fame,  influence,  and  power  in  the  world,  and  yet  would  not  be 
ashamed  to  say  that  their  early  education  was  secured  in  our  Bed- 
ford schools.  The  ministers  include :  Joseph  Goffe,  John  Walker, 
Isaac  Orr,  Silas  Aiken,  Daniel  L.  French,  Adoniram  Stevens,  Cyrus 
W.  Wallace,  Lemuel  Spofford,  and  Albert  F.  Newton.  The  physi- 
cians include :  Calvin  McQuesten,  Adams  Moor,  Jesse  Moor,  Leon- 
ard French,  William  B.  Stevens,  Jesse  P.  Swett,  Levi  J.  Woodbury, 
George  E.  Woodbury,  John  G.  McAllister,  Frank  William  Patten, 
Alfred  G.  French,  Fred  C.  Newton,  George  W.  Newton,  and  Alice 
French  Mills.  While  the  members  of  congress  include  Thomas 
Chandler,  and  his  nephew,  Zechariah  Chandler,  "  the  great  war  sena- 
tor," and  David  Atwood,  publisher  Daily  State  Journal,  Madison, 
Wis.     The  members  of  the  bar  include :  Benjamin  Orr,  Joseph  Bell, 


430  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

William  Gordon,  Adam  Gordon,  Isaac  McGaw,  David  Aiken,  Peter 
Trask  Woodbury,  Josiah  Gordon  Woodbury,  Charles  H.  Woodbury, 
Judge  James  W.  Savage  and  his  brother,  Thomas  Savage,  John 
Foster,  Gordon  Woodbury,  and  Wallace  B.  Clement.  Others  who 
might  be  mentioned  are :  Hugh  Riddle,  a  railway  magnate  in  the 
West ;  Horace  Greeley,  editor  and  publisher  of  the  New  York  Trib- 
une for  many  years ;  Louis  J.  Rundlett,  superintendent  of  schools, 
Concord,  1ST.  H. ;  the  three  brothers,  Henry  M.,  G.  Byron,  and  John 
M.  Chandler,  bankers,  and  Joseph  Manning,  real  estate  and  loan 
agent  in  the  West.  Other  names  which  should  not  be  omitted  are : 
Ann  Orr  Worcester,  who  became  missionary  to  the  Cherokee  In- 
dians ;  Dolly  Bryant,  a  missionary  in  South  Africa ;  Lydia  Flint 
Orr,  a  teacher  in  Talledega  college,  Alabama ;  Fanny  A.  Darrah, 
teacher  of  art  in  St.  Margaret  school,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  many 
others  which  lack  of  space  compels  us  to  omit. 

During  the  past  half  century  many  teachers  have  exerted  then- 
influence  for  good  or  ill  upon  the  rising  generation.  Standing  out 
with  especial  prominence  among  them  were  five  sisters,  Nevins  by 
name,  a  family  of  successful  teachers.  It  has  been  said  :  "  Let  one 
of  these  enter  the  school-room,  and  order  at  once  prevailed.  If  not, 
woe  be  to  the  offender !  "  Mary  Jane  Fisher,  a  niece  of  Ann  Orr, 
followed  in  her  footsteps.  The  home  of  Ann  Orr  later  became  the 
home  of  another  teacher  prominent  in  our  schools  during  the  last 
fifty  years.  In  its  descent  the  mantle  of  Ann  Orr  rested  upon 
Miriam  B.  Gilmore;  firm,  prompt,  energetic,  persevering,  she  has 
proven  a  worthy  successor.  Having  taught  in  nearly  every  school- 
room in  town,  often  many  successive  terms  in  each  (thirty-four  in 
all)  she  has  had  a  greater  number  of  pupils  under  her  care  than  any 
other  town  teacher  during  the  past  half  century.  Near  the  close  of 
her  work  as  a  teacher  she  gave  an  entertainment  in  the  town  hall  in 
which  her  former  pupils  were  the  actors.  Great  interest  was  taken 
in  this  entertainment  throughout  the  town,  and  the  hall  was  well 
filled.  The  pupils  were  assembled,  and  marched  to  their  places  to 
the  beat  of  the  drum,  when  it  was  discovered  they  formed  a  large 
portion  of  the  audience.  Mary  A.  Walker  is  also  a  teacher  whose 
face  has  been  familiar  in  nearly  all  our  school-rooms ;  kind-hearted, 
possessing  ready  tact  and  sympathy,  her  pupils  soon  discovered  in 
her  a  friend  as  well  as  teacher.  Though  she  has  taught  forty-two 
terms  in  town,  the  number  of  her  pupils  was  somewhat  less  than 
those  of  the  teacher  previously  mentioned,  owing  to  having  taught 


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several  successive  years' in  the  same  school.  She  is  a  descendant  of 
James  Walker,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Bedford,  who  came  here 
in  1737,  and  later  built  the  first  framed  house  in  town.  Other 
teachers  whose  value  has  been  unquestioned,  and  whose  influence 
has  always  been  a  power  for  good  in  the  school-room,  deserve  men- 
tion, but  lack  of  space,  and  fear  of  doing  injustice  to  others  just  as 
worthy,  compel  us  to  omit  them. 

In  reviewing  the  progress  of  common-school  education  in  our 
town  we  see  a  constant  effort  made  to  give  greater  and  more  equal 
advantages  to  each  succeeding  generation.  Great  interest  in  the 
cause  has  always  been  manifest.  The  school  districts  were  long 
miniature  republics,  the  men  only  holding  the  reins  of  government 
for  many  years.  In  1878,  however,  the  women  also  were  given  an 
opportunity  to  vote  on  school  matters  by  a  law  of  the  state,  a  privi- 
lege of  which  they  have  since  availed  themselves  to  a  limited  extent. 
A  few  years  later  (1884)  an  effort  was  made  to  equalize  as  much  as 
possible  the  length  of  school  terms  in  each  district,  the  town  appro- 
priating $500  for  this  purpose,  and  choosing  a  committee  to  divide 
the  money.  In  compliance  with  a  state  statute  permitting  the  towns 
to  adopt  the  town  system,  the  districts  were  merged  in  one  (1886), 
and  all  school  mattei's  placed  in  charge  of  a  committee  of  three. 
The  last  effort  made  to  give  equality  of  advantages  to  all  came  in 
1890,  when  the  town  began  furnishing  each  pupil  with  the  needed 
text-books  and  supplies,  and  thus  secured  uniformity.  Previous  to 
this  the  variety  of  text-books  used  had  been  "  legion." 

If  we  could  imagine  ourselves  in  the  primitive  school-rooms  first 
used  we  should  find  a  log  schoolhouse,  with  small-paned  windows ;  a 
huge  fireplace  in  which  a  roaring  fire  must  be  maintained  to  keep 
out  the  cold  winds  ready  to  enter  every  crack  and  crevice ;  heavy 
plank  seats  and  desks,  made  to  be  substantial,  often  without  regard 
to  comfort ;  while  the  aisles  were  an  inclined  plane,  higher  at  the 
back  of  the  room,  so  that  the  older  pupils  could  readily  see  and  be 
seen  over  the  heads  of  the  younger.  Occasionally  these  aisles  were 
snowed  over  by  the  big  boys  and  used  as  a  sliding  ground.  Some- 
times, instead  of  the  inclined  plane,  steps  were  used  to  reach  the 
back  seats.  Gradually  the  log  house  gave  way  to  the  more  comfort- 
able framed  house ;  the  stone  hearth  fireplaces  and  big  cracks  dis- 
appeared, stoves  came  into  use;  blackboards  began  to  adorn  the 
walls,  and  maps  and  globes  appeared.  During  this  transition  time 
the  books  and  supplies  were  furnished  by  the  parents,  and  were 


432  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

sometimes  very  noticeable  because  of  their  absence.  Many  a  boy 
and  girl  bad  to  earn  their  own  book,  slate,  or  pencil  by  working 
hard  at  some  neighbor's  home,  sawing  wood,  washing,  perhaps  pick- 
ing berries  or  hops,  or  in  whatever  way  a  penny  could  be  earned. 
Those  books  and  slates  were  appreciated  by  their  owners,  and  care- 
fully cared  for  by  them.  The  wood  was  supplied  one  foot  or  more 
to  each  pupil,  depending  upon  the  number  in  school.  The  big  boys 
were  expected  to  cut  and  split  their  share  of  this  wood,  and  take 
turns  in  building  the  fire.  Meanwhile  the  older  girls  took  turns  in 
sweeping  the  school-room,  using  a  bush  broom,  made  from  slender 
birch  branches  firmly  fastened  to  a  straight  stick,  for  the  purpose. 
The  ashes  were  carefully  saved  and  sold  at  auction,  at  the  annual 
school  meeting,  sometimes  selling  for  twenty-one  cents  per  bushel, 
and  the  proceeds  devoted  to  the  necessary  repairs.  Methods  of  dis- 
cipline, once  very  severe,  have  gradually  become  milder  in  form, 
the  rod,  once  in  daily  use,  now  being  relied  upon  for  desperate  cases 
•only.  It  was  once  the  custom  for  young  men  to  attend  the  winter 
schools  until  nineteen  or  twenty  years  of  age.  The  master  must  be 
popular  and  the  possessor  of  ready  tact  as  a  disciplinarian  if  he 
wished  to  retain  his  position.  The  steel  pen  has  supplanted  the 
goose  quill,  which  the  teachers  were  expected  to  cut  and  carefully 
prepare  for  the  writing  lesson,  for  which,  also,  they  had  written  the 
copies.  Pupils  of  five  or  six  years  now  write  lessons  which  it  was 
once  thought  sufficient  for  pupils  of  twelve  or  more  to  master. 
When  scholars  could  attend  school  but  eight  or  ten  weeks  a  year, 
we  readily  see  why  they  went  so  many,  years,  and  why  but  few  stud- 
ies could  be  mastered,  reading,  writing,  and  arithmetic,  with  spelling, 
being  considered  the  most  important.  Then-  great  aim  was  to  be 
thorough  in  what  they  attempted,  and  they  succeeded.  JVow,  with 
thirty  weeks'  schooling  per  year,  our  pupils  have  time  to  take  up 
more  studies  and  gain  a  broader  outlook  upon  the  world's  knowl- 
edge at  an  earlier  age  than  their  predecessors. 

The  committee  of  supervision  has  not  been  ascertained  previous 
to  1843,  when  apparently  the  first  report  to  the  town  was  made. 
The  following  list  presents  date  of  first  election  and  the  number  of 
years  each  individual  has  served  upon  the  committee : 

Peter  P.  Woodbury,  M»  D.,  1843  (5  or  more),  Rev.  Thomas  Sav- 
age, 1844  (9  or  more),  Benj.  F.  Wallace,  1847  (3  or  more),  John 
French,  1851  (1),  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  1854  (4),  William  B.  Stevens, 
M.  D.,  1857  (3),  Leonard  J.  Brown,  1862  (2),  Silas  Holbrook,  1864 


SCHOOLS. 


•433 


(1),  George  W.  Riddle,  1865  (1),  William  W.  Wilkins,  M.  D.,  1866 
(3),  Isaac  N.  Riddle,  1869  (1),  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  1870  (4),  William 
U.  Gage,  1871  (2),  William  R.  French,  1873  (1),  David  P.  Campbell, 
M.D.,  1879  (1),  Anna  H.Farley,  1880  (1),  John  Hodgman,  1881  (1), 
Charles  B.  Beal,  1882  (6),  Rev.  D.  H.  Colcord,  1883  (3),  Nathaniel 
B.  Hull,  1886  (3),  Arthur  W.  Holbrook,  1886  (1),  Frank  H.  Rowe, 
M.  D.,  1887  (6),  E.  Payson  French,  1889  (6),  William  F.  Connor, 
1891  (2),  William  S.  Manning,  1893  (1),  Jasper  P.  George,  1893  (5), 
Mary  E.  Manning,  1894  (9),  William  W.  Darrah,  1895  (3),  Thomas 
J.  Wiggin,  1898  (3),  William  M.  Patten,  1898  (5),  Arthur  W.  Hol- 
brook, 1901  (2). 

A  list  of  our  teachers  for  the  past  fifty-two  years  follows,  with 
the  number  of  terms  taught  by  them  in  town  each  year : 


1850. 


Mary  S.  Walker 
Dudley  H.  Manning 
Eliza  A.  Morrison 
Fanny  W.  Wallace 
Miss  Parker 
Mr.  Dearborn 
Ann  Riddle 
James  P.  Walker 
Nancy  A.  Vose 
Mr.  Stevens 
Miss  Clapp 
George  B.  Chandler 
Melissa  Boynton 
Aden  N.  Stevens 


Miss  Felt 
J.  F.  Moore 
Miss  Putnum 
A.  J.  Hoyt 
Persis  A.  Winn 
Miss  Wallace 
Miss  Butterfield 
G.  Byron  Chandler 
Miss  Richardson 
William  Hoyt 
Sarah  J.  Jones 
Miss  Haines 
Miss  Kimball 


Miss  Briggs 
J.  G.  Woodbury 
29 


1 
1 

2 

Annis  E.  Gage 
Miss  Gregg 
Miss  Damon 

3 

1 

Marion  Whitney 
Miss  Fisher 

1 

Asenath  Kendrick 

1 

Susan  A.  Mullett 

1 
1 

Dolly  J.  Stevens 
Helen  Nevins 

1 
1 

1 

Lucy  S.  Nevins 
Ellen  M.  Thompson 
J.  B.  Gage 

1 
1 

Mary  Ann  Shepard 
Amy  French 

1851. 

1 
1 
1 

Henry  Chandler 
Miss  Boynton 
Mr.  Mason 

2 

Miss  Duncklee 

2 

Mr.  Walker 

2 
1 

Miss  Shepard 
Miss  Smith 

1 
1 

Miss  Raymond 
Miss  Hamblett 

1 

Miss  Riddle 

1 

Eliza  M.  Winn 

1 
1 

Miss  Staples 
Amy  French 

1852. 

1 
1 

Miss  George 
Mr.  Wells 

434 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Miss  Vose 

1 

Miss  Adams 

1 

Mr.  Moore 

1 

Mr.  Vent 

1 

Miss  Prince 

1 

Miss  Richardson 

1 

Mr.  Smyth 

1 

Mr.  Marshall 

1 

Miss  Kingsbury 

1 

Miss  Love  joy 

1 

Miss  Abbott 

1 

Sarah  J.  Jones 

1 

Miss  Riddle 

2 

Miss  Chase 

1 

Mr.  Chandler 

1 

Dolly  J.  Stevens 

1 

Mr.  Gilbert 

1 

M.  Adeline  Nevins 

2 

Miss  Savage 

1 

Mr.  Campbell 

1 

Fanny  W.  Wallace 

1 

Miss  Gardner 

1 

Miss  Wadleigh 

1 

Miss  Stevens 

1 

Miss  Martin 

1 

1853. 

Miss  Darrah 

1 

Miss  Wallace 

1 

Miss  Briggs 

1 

Mr.  Cooke 

1 

Miss  Vose 

1 

Miss  Wentworth 

1 

Mr.  Fosdick 

1 

Mr.  Gilbert 

1 

Miss  Colby 

1 

Miss  Sarah  J.  Jones 

1 

Miss  Eastman 

1 

Miss  Hannah  M.  Jones 

1 

Miss  M.  Dole 

2 

Miss  Patch 

2 

Miss  Hamblett 

1 

Miss  Nevins 

1 

Mr.  Marshall 

1 

Miss  French 

1 

Miss  Stevens 

2 

Miss  Savage 

1 

Miss  Ferguson 

1 

Miss  Bangs 

1 

Miss  Flanders 

1 

Miss  Burbank 

1 

1854. 

Annah  J.Hilton 

1 

John  W.  Clark 

1 

Benjamin  F.  Wallace 

2 

Sarah  E.  Mullett 

1 

Helen  M.  Putnum 

1 

Charlas  K.  Gilchrist 

1 

Rev.  Abel  Fletcher 

1 

Marion  Whitney 

1 

A.  Jane  Parker 

2 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

2 

Fanny  W.  Wallace 

1 

Kilburn  H.  Roby 

1 

Miss  Ferguson 

1 

Lucy  A.  Wilkins 

2 

M.  Elizabeth  Parker 

2 

Emma  N".  French 

1 

Gilman  D.  Moore 

1 

Lizzie  A.  Giles 

1 

Margaret  A.  Richardson 

1 

Leonard  J.  Brown 

1 

William  B.  Tebbetts 

1 

Martha  J.  Page 

1 

Sophia  B.  McPherson 

1 

1855. 

Elmira  J.  Riddle 

2 

Moses  W.  Moulton 

1 

Mary  E.  Parker 

2 

Marie  E.  Merrill 

1 

Mr.  Skinner 

1 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

1 

Susan  J.  Ferguson 

1 

Edward  B.  Knight 

1 

Lizzie  S.  Colby 

1 

Augusta  A.  Johnson 

2 

Frances  A.  McPherson 

1 

Helen  M.  Kinsley 

1 

SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT  NO.  7. 


SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT  NO.  8. 


SCHOOLS. 

435 

Nancie  McLaughlin 

2 

Sarah  M.  Longa 

1 

A.  Jane  Parker 

1 

Hannah  Nevins 

1 

James  W.  Locke 

1 

Keziah  J.  McPherson 

1 

Sophia  B.  McPherson 

1 

Leonard  J.  Brown 

1 

Betsey  J.  Bills 

1 

Charles  W. 

Johnson,  High  School. 

1856. 

Mary  J.  A.  Stevens 

1 

G.  W.  Skinner 

1 

Griggs  Holbrook 

1 

Clara  Wilder 

2 

Nancie  McLaughlin 

2 

Mary  A.  Kendrick 

1 

Susan  J.  Ferguson 

2 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

1 

Emma  J.  Harvey 

1 

E.  C.  Stevens 

1 

Samuel  J.  Patten 

1 

Miss  Shepard 

1 

Lattie  E.  Matthews 

1 

Miss  Wilkins 

1 

George  C.  McPherson 

1 

Priscilla  A.  McKean 

2 

A.  Jane  Parker 

1 

Betsey  J.  Bills 

1 

Elmira  Jones 

2 

Charles  W. 

Johnson,  High  School. 

1857. 

Dolly  F.  Bryant 

1 

Mary  J.  A.  Stevens 

1 

Annette  J.  Parker 

1 

George  C.  McPherson 

1 

Nancie  McLaughlin 

1 

Hannah  T.  Nevins 

1 

Ann  A.  Perkins 

1 

Edwin  L.  Cheney 

1 

Nathan  C.  Goffe 

2 

Mary  Ann  Walker 

1 

Clara  Wilder 

3 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

1 

Frances  Savage 

1 

Ann  A.  Perkins 

1 

Lizzie  N.  Bailey 

1 

Sarah  M.  Longa 

1 

Mary  F.  Cutler 

2 

Sophia  E.  Phelps 

1 

Lucy  A.  Bingham 

1 

W.  H.  D.  Cochran 

1 

Samuel  J.  Patten 

1 

Mary  F.  Steele 

1 

Elizabeth  G.  Brown 

1 

Elizabeth  S.  Hartshorn 

1 

Charles  W. 

Johnson,  High  School. 

1858. 

Dolly  F.  Bryant 

1 

Fannie  M.  McPherson 

1 

Augusta  A.  French 

1 

Clinton  Barr 

1 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

1 

Fannie  M.  Moor 

2 

Hosea  B.  Spalding 

1 

Joseph  V.  Chase 

1 

Clara  Wilder 

1 

Hannah  T.  W.  Nevins 

2 

N.  Annette  McDole 

1 

Mary  J.  A.  Stevens 

1 

Fannie  E.  Parker 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

2 

Charles  H.  Woodbury 

1 

Sophia  E.  Phelps 

1 

Lydia  A.  Flint 

1 

Anstress  P.  Flint 

2 

Lizzie  N.  Bailey 

1 

Hugh  R.  Barnard 

1 

William  C.  French 

1 

Charlotte  N.  Nichols 

1 

Charles  I.  Parker,  High  School. 


436 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


1859. 


Fannie  A.  McPherson 

1 

Keziah  J.  McPherson 

1 

Rodney  S.  McLaughlin 

1 

Clinton  Barr 

1 

Lydia  A.  Flint 

1 

Anstress  P.  Flint 

2 

Hugh  R.  Barnard 

1 

James  D.  Gilchrist 

1 

Hannah  T.  W.  Nevins 

1 

Miss  L.  W.  Pike 

1 

Maria  A.  Stevens 

1 

Electa  D.  Grow 

1 

Lizzie  F.  George 

2 

Martha  E.  Conant 

1 

Ellen  B.  French 

1 

Nathan  C.  Goffe 

1 

Leonard  J.  Brown 

1 

Annette  J.  Parker 

1 

Louise  C.  Rundlett 

1 

L.  Anna  Wilkins 

1 

Albert  R.  Holbrook 

1 

Abby  A.  Nichols 

1 

Augusta  H.  Mace 

1 

Silas  Holbrook 

1 

Cyrus  W.  Sargent 

1 

1860. 

Louise  C.  Rundlett 

1 

Hannah  T.  W.  Nevins 

1 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

1 

Leonard  J.  Brown 

1 

Mary  F.  Darrah 

1 

Lucy  A.  Bowers 

1 

Mary  N.  Adams 

1 

H.  F.  Blaisdell 

1 

Ellen  B.  French 

2 

Eliza  A.  Foster 

1 

Asenath  P.  McQueston 

1 

George  0.  Lawrence 

1 

Fanny  A.  McPherson 

1 

Joseph  L.  Locke 

1 

Lucy  A.  Holbrook 

1 

Miss  L.  S.  McNeil 

1 

Electa  D.  Grow 

1 

Carrie  D.  Pinkham 

1 

Julia  A.  Neville 

2 

Silas  Holbrook 

1 

Annette  J.  Parker 

2 

Augusta  H.  Mace 

1 

1861. 

Martha  Woodbury 

2 

Lucy  A.  Holbrook 

1 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

2 

K.  F.  Blaisdell 

1 

Mary  F.  Darrah 

3 

G.  A.  Kittredge 

1 

Mary  N.  Adams 

1 

Ellen  M.  Spalding 

1 

J.  P.  Varnum 

1 

Hannah  T.  W.  Nevins 

2 

Mrs.  E.  A.  Stevens 

1 

Charles  H.  Young 

1 

Mary  A.  Doty 

1 

Jenny  Channell 

1 

Mr.  Heald 

1 

Abby  A.  Nichols 

1 

Fannie  A.  McPherson 

2 

John  N.  Mace 

1 

Addie  A.  Crosby 

1 

Asenath  P.  McQueston 

1 

1862. 

Asenath  H.  Riddle 

1 

Fannie  A.  McPherson 

1 

Benj.  R.  Emerson 

1 

John  G.  McAllaster 

1 

Fannie  L.  Conant 

1 

Georgianna  Steele 

1 

Edwin  H.  Wilson 

1 

Daniel  Austin 

1 

Brina  E.  Crane 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

2 

Rebecca  Richardson 

1 

A.  Jennie  Parker 

2 

SCHOOLS. 

437 

Julia  M.  Pierce 

1 

Mrs.  Eliza  A.  Stevens 

1 

H.  P.  Potter 

1 

Mary  F.  Darrah 

1 

Sarah  H.  Prince 

2 

Hannah  T.  W.  Nevins 

1 

Laura  J.  Hamblett 

1 

Leonard  J.  Brown 

1 

J.  L.  Boynton 

1 

Adaline  E.  Adams 

1 

1863. 

Fannie  T.  Rundlett 

2 

Ellen  J.  Kittredge 

1 

Mary  E.  Morrison 

1 

Lizzie  S.  Hartshorn 

1 

Julia  M.  Pierce 

1 

Sarah  J.  Farley 

1 

Mary  N.  Adams 

2 

Georgianna  Patten 

1 

Nellie  M.  Whitford 

1 

Augusta  A.  French 

1 

Laura  J.  Hamblett 

1 

Mary  E.  Morrison 

1 

Orriette  V.  Nesmith 

1 

Charles  E.  McLaughlin 

1 

Fannie  A.  McPherson 

1 

Robert  C.  French 

1 

Agnes  J.  Cutler 

1 

N.  Parker  Hunt 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

3 

Fannie  Moor 

1 

Horace  E.  Andrews 

1 

Mrs.  Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

Mary  E.  Sleeper 

1 

1864. 

Abbie  A.  Patten 

1 

Lucretia  D.  Parkhurst 

1 

Fannie  M.  Daniels 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

1 

Anna  M.  Mellen 

1 

Fannie  A.  McPherson 

1 

Mary  E.  Morrison 

2 

Fannie  M.  Smith 

1 

Charles  E.  McLaughlin 

1 

Mary  F.  Cutler 

2 

Miss  Giles 

1 

Lois  C.  Richardson 

3 

Mary  F.  Darrah 

1 

Asenath  P.  McQueston 

2 

Sarah  T.  Hook 

1 

Sarah  A.  Tinker 

3 

Julia  M.  Pierce 

1 

Mrs.  Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

Silas  Holbrook 

1 

Fanny  T.  Rundlett 

1 

Eben  W.  Sleeper 

1 

1865. 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

3 

Larenda  L.  Webster 

1 

Mary  E.  Morrison 

1 

Fannie  A.  McPherson 

1 

John  P.  Hodgman 

1 

Nellie  Flint 

1 

Sarah  T.  Hook 

1 

Lucretia  D.  Parkhurst 

1 

S.  Addie  Bryant 

1 

Agnes  J.  Cutler 

1 

Asenath  P.  McQueston 

1 

Mary  A.  Shepard 

1 

Abby  G.  Wallace 

1 

Nancy  P.  Flint 

1 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

1 

Sarah  E.  Tinker 

1 

1866. 

Abbie  A.  Patten 

3 

Sarah  E.  Tinker 

3 

Jennie  A.  Parker 

1 

N.  Amanda  Wyman 

1 

Albert  F.  Newton 

1 

Mary  E.  Wright 

1 

Mary  D.  Gale 

1 

Sarah  E.  Holt 

2 

438 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Rebecca  C.  Hull 

1 

Julia  Neville 

2 

Abbie  G.  Wallace 

2 

Lucretia  D.  Parkhurst 

2 

Abbie  A.  King 

1 

Lydia  A.  Flint 

2 

Fannie  A.  McPherson 

1 

Hattie  N  Wheeler 

1 

1867. 

S.  Josie  Page 

1 

Fannie  A.  McPherson 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

2 

Hannah  J.  Hall 

1 

Mary  E.  Mbrrison 

1 

Mary  S.  Danforth 

1 

John  P.  Hodgman 

1 

F.  W.  Daniels 

1 

Emma  F.  Bean 

1 

Sarah  E.  Tinker 

2 

Abbie  C.  Morse 

1 

George  F.  Heald 

1 

Mary  D.  Gale 

1 

Helen  I.  Lane 

1 

Silas  Holbrook 

1 

Mary  F.  Cutler 

1 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

1 

Sarah  A.  Farley 

2 

Alice  G.  Lord 

1 

Hortensia  McMillan 

1 

Laura  A.  Riddle 

1 

Estella  Stevens 

1 

1868. 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

2 

Martha  J.  Boyd 

1 

Annice  G.  Kendall 

1 

Abbie  E.  Cushman 

1 

Mary  E.  Morrison 

2 

Alice  G.  Lord 

2 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

Abbie  A.  Patten 

2 

Sarah  E.  Tinker 

2 

Lucy  A.  Evans 

1 

Emma  A.  Hill 

1 

Sarah  A.  Farley 

1 

James  H.  Willoughby 

1 

Jennie  McDole 

3 

Emma  F.  Soule 

1 

Hannah  E.  French 

1 

Lucy  A.  Burns 

2 

Mary  F.  Cutler 

3 

1869. 

Mary  A.  Damon 

2 

Josie  A.  Holmes 

1 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

Fannie  A.  Averill 

1 

Ida  A.  Leigh  ton 

2 

Alice  G.  Lord 

1 

Emma  F.  Bean 

1 

Martha  R.  Butterfield 

1 

Sarah  M.  Foster 

3 

Sarah  E.  Tinker 

1 

Emma  J.  Hodgman 

1 

Mary  A.  Campbell 

1 

Abbie  A.  Patten 

1 

Lucy  A.  Burns 

1 

Alice  Bird  French 

1 

Jennie  McDole 

1 

Laura  E.  Cutler 

1 

Mrs.  Annie  S.  Goffe 

1 

Hattie  E.  Bailey 

2 

Annice  G.  Kendall 

2 

Ardell  B.  Taylor 

1 

1870. 

Jennie  M.  Heald 

1 

Emma  J.  Hodgman 

2 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

A.  M.  Fitzpatrick 

2 

Addie  E.  Shedd 

1 

Susie  Page 

1 

Ida  A.  Leighton 

1 

Fannie  A.  Averill 

1 

Fannie  A.  Darrah 

1 

Mary  Campbell 

1 

SCHOOLS. 

439 

Jennie  L.  McDole 

1 

Sarah  E.  Tinker 

2 

L.  C.  Rundlett 

3 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

1 

A.  Lizzie  Tolles 

1 

Hattie  E.  Bailey 

2 

Mrs.  L.  M.  Dudley 

2 

1871. 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

3 

Martha  Butterfield 

1 

Addie  E.  Shedd 

2 

Martha  Mussey 

1 

L.  E.  Converse 

1 

Catherine  A.  Tuttle 

1 

Mary  M.  Carpenter 

1 

Mary  H.  Jewett 

1 

Sarah  W.  Foster 

3 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

1 

Miss  E.  M.  Colburn 

1 

Mrs.  L.  M.  Dudley 

1 

Abbie  A.  Patten 

1 

Mary  L.  Sawyer 

1 

Ella  F.  Salisbury 

1 

Emma  J.  Witherspoon 

1 

Abbie  M.  Lane 

1 

1872. 

Delia  E  Haines 

3 

Emma  J.  Witherspoon 

2 

Hattie  A.  Page 

2 

Dollie  C.  Mathes 

1 

Fannie  A.  Darrah 

3 

Martha  Butterfield 

1 

Sarah  M.  Foster 

3 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

3 

Annie  M.  Offutt 

1 

Flora  Gregg 

1 

S.  Annie  Lane 

1 

Annie  D.  French 

1 

Imogene  F.  Joy 

1 

A.  Minnie  Campbell 

2 

Emma  M.  Bennett 

1 

Emma  J.  Mudge 

1 

1873. 

Delia  E.  Haines 

2 

Nellie  B.  Chamberlain 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

3 

Clara  L.  Rockwood 

1 

Laura  A.  Riddle 

1 

Emma  J.  Witherspoon 

1 

Addie  E.  Shedd 

2 

Abbie  C.  Page 

1 

Eunice  Stevens 

1 

Fanny  A.  Averill 

1 

M.  Abbie  Center 

1 

Miss  Topliff 

1 

Miss  Walker 

1 

Letitia  M.  Adams 

1 

Sarah  M.  Foster 

2 

Silas  Holbrook 

1 

Josie  E.  Rollins 

2 

Sally  D.  French 

2 

Anna  D.  French 

1 

Mary  E.  Odiorne 

2 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

1 

18h 

(4. 

Sarah  M.  Foster 

2 

Clara  L.  Rockwood 

2 

M.  E.  Walker 

2 

Emma  J.  Witherspoon 

1 

Willis  B.  Kendall 

1 

Ezra  F.  Elliott 

1 

Eunice  Stevens 

1 

Lydia  W.  Dodge 

1 

Josie  E.  Rollins 

1 

Minnie  C.  Abbott 

2 

Lucy  F.  Morse 

1 

Nellie  B.  Chamberlain 

1 

T.  Frankie  Rundlett 

1 

Minnie  C.  Wilkins 

1 

Mazie  A.  Walker 

2 

Sally  D.  French 

2 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

440 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


1875. 


Mary  F.  Cutler 

1 

Emma  J.  Witherspoon 

1 

Lizzie  M.  McAfee 

1 

A.  Minnie  Campbell 

1 

Delia  E.  Haines 

1 

M.  E.  Walker 

1 

Sallie  D.  French 

2 

Miss  E.  J.  Hoag 

1 

Laura  Center 

2 

Flora  E.  Haines 

1 

Frankie  T.  Rundlett 

2 

Nellie  B.  Chamberlain 

2 

Sarah  M.  Foster 

1 

Fanny  A.  Darrah 

1 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

Minnie  C.  Wilkins 

2 

Delia  J.  Baker 

2 

Sarah  B.  Spencer 

2 

1876. 

Anna  H.  Eastman 

1 

Eliza  A.  Stevens 

2 

Anna  Titus 

1 

Etta  McLaren 

1 

Miss  A.  A.  Trickey 

1 

Carrie  M.  Gilmore 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

1 

Clara  G.  Fogg 

1 

Flora  M.  Senter 

1 

Sarah  B.  Spencer 

2 

Laura  Center 

1 

Nellie  B.  Chamberlain 

2 

Delia  J.  Baker 

2 

Clara  L.  Bennett 

1 

Mazie  A.  Walker 

2 

Lizzie  Nichols 

2 

Hattie  A.  Page 

1 

Mary  E.  Manning 

2 

1877. 

Maria  J.  Bancroft 

1 

Abbie  E.  Boyd 

1 

Anna  H.  Eastman 

2 

Mary  A.  Walker 

1 

Hattie  A.  Page 

2 

Josie  L.  Chase 

1 

Delia  J.  Baker 

3 

Clara  E.  Woods 

1 

Lilla  0.  Cressy 

2 

Anna  M.  Brown 

2 

Sarah  B.  Spencer 

2 

Lizzie  M.  McAfee 

1 

Clara  G.  Fogg 

1 

Amanda  M.  McDougal 

2 

Flora  M.  Senter 

1 

Eunice  Stevens 

1 

George  N.  Merrill 

1 

1878. 

Olive  A.  Rowe 

2 

Sarah  B.  Spencer 

1 

Frank  R.  Lane 

1 

Calvin  C.  Richards 

1 

Minnie  L.  Burnham 

2 

Delia  J.  Baker 

1 

James  T.  Jones 

1 

Charles  A.  Shannon 

1 

Ella  F.  Lane 

2 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

2 

Etta  F.  Moulton 

3 

Frank  H.  Rowe 

1 

Mary  A.  Parker 

1 

Lizzie  M.  McAfee 

2 

Eunice  Stevens 

2 

Mary  A.  Walker 

1 

Clara  M.  Crooker 

1 

1879. 

Olive  A.  Rowe 

■     2 

Mary  E.  Manning 

3 

Maria  J.  Stevens 

1 

George  W.  Newton 

1 

Fanny  L.  Perry 

1 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

1 

SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT  NO.  9. 


SCHOOLHOUSE,  DISTRICT   NO.  10. 


SCHOOLS. 


441 


Samuel  S.  Perry 
Mary  A.  Walker 
Etta  F.  Moulton 
Eunice  Stevens 


Miriam  B.  Gilmore 
Fanny  L.  Perry 
Etta  L.  Mace 
Linna  J.  Nutt 
Addie  L.  Flanders 
Etta.  F.  Moulton 
Emma  S.  Sanborn 
Mary  E.  Manning 

Miriam  B.  Gilmore 
Fanny  L.  Perry 
Mary  A.  Walker 
Lizzie  J.  Taffe 
Ella  N.  Moulton 
Eunice  Stevens 
Lizzie  L.  Clapp 


Lizzie  L.  Clapp 
Fannie  L.  Sanborn 
Lucretia  A.  Prince 
Mary  A.  Walker 
Mary  J.  Brown 
Isabel  T.  Brown 
Fannie  A.  Darrah 
Lilia  A.  Brooks 


Lizzie  L.  Clapp 
Lucretia  A.  Prince 
Mary  A.  Walker 
Fanny  L.  Perry 
Lillie  E.  Ross 
Miriam  B.  Gilmore 
Eunice  Stevens 


Lizzie  L.  Clapp 
Lucretia  A.  Prince 
Jennie  IT.  Elliott 
Helen  J.  Burpee   . 


1  Will  I.  Kendall 

3  Lizzie  M.  McAfee 

3  Hattie  A.  Nichols 

2  Ada  M.  Daniels 

1880.      ' 

3  Amanda  M.  McDougal 
2  E.  Maria  Dickey 

1  Ida  J.  Spencer 

1  Juliette  A.  Eastman 

1  Hattie  J.  Parkhurst 

1  L.  Annie  Wilkins 

2  Lucia  Stiles 

1  Eunice  Stevens 

1881. 

3  Carrie  I.  Gonzales 
3  Ida  J.  Spencer 

2  E.  Maria  Dickey 

3  Mabel  A.  Buttrick 
1  Nina  D.  Annis 

1  Amanda  M.  McDougal 

3  Hattie  J.  Parkhurst 

1882. 

3  Lizzie  J.  Taffe 

1  Eunice  Stevens 

1  Fanny  L.  Perry 

3  Ida  J.  Spencer 

1  Amanda  M.  McDougal 

1  Carrie  I.  Gonzales 

1  Eliza  A.  Wheeler 
2 

1883. 

3  Isabel  T.  Brown 

3  Sara  L.  Plummer 

3  Etta  J.  Butterfield 

2  Carrie  I.  Gonzales 
1  Eva  J.  French 

1  Hattie  L.  Stevens 

2  Attie  S.  Marshall 

1884. 

3  Sara  L.  Plummer 
3  Etta  J.  Butterfield 

1  Sarah  E.  McLane 

2  Carrie  I.  Gonzales 


442 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Miriam  B.  Gilmore 

2 

Eva  I.  French 

2 

Nellie  L.  Barnard 

1 

Emma  J.  Fretts 

2 

Ella  L.  S.  Hodgman 

3 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

1885. 

Lizzie  L.  Clapp 

2 

Pauline  A.  Osgood 

2 

Eunice  Stevens 

2 

Etta  J.  Butterfield 

1 

Mary  F.  Vose 

3 

Emma  E.  Butterfield 

2 

Lucretia  A.  Prince 

3 

Carrie  I.  Gonzales 

3 

Jennie  U.  Elliott 

3 

Mary  A.  Walker 

1 

Sarah  E.  McLane 

1 

Bertha  T.  Jones 

2 

Ella  L.  S.  Hodgman 

3 

Addie  L.  Gage 

1 

Effie  F.  McLaren 

1 

Emma  E.  Gould 

1 

Eva  I.  French 

2 

1886. 

Sarah  E.  McLane 

3 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

Carrie  I.  Gonzales 

1 

Lizzie  E.  Hill 

1 

Florence  Ruggles 

1 

Mary  E.  McLane 

2 

Sara  A.  Page 

1 

Maud  Whipple 

1 

Viella  Bachelder 

1 

Georgia  L.  Barnard 

2 

Emma  E.  Gould 

1 

E.  Maria  Dickey 

3 

Ada  E.  Crosby 

1 

Eva  A.  Mason 

2 

Annabel  Emerson 

1 

Lucretia.  A.  Prince 

2 

Mary  J.  Moore 

3 

Eva  I.  French 

1 

Ella  L.  S.  Hodgman 

1 

i 

1887. 

Sarah  E.  McLane 

1 

Ruby  A.  Johnson 

1 

Mattie  S.  Johnson 

2 

Annabel  Emerson 

3 

Viella  Bachelder 

2 

Georgia  L.  Barnard 

2 

Carrie  B.  Tilton 

1 

Carrie  M.  Dodge 

1 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

Lizzie  E.  Hill 

1 

Mary  E.  McLane 

3 

Ada  L.  Mason 

1 

Annie  L.  Moulton 

1 

E.  Maria  Dickey 

3 

S.  Olive  Marden 

1 

Mattie  S.  Johnson 

1 

Lizzie  J.  Parkhurst 

1 

May  V.  Tilton 

2 

1888. 

Honoria  J.  Crough 

2 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

Georgia  Kendrick 

1 

Mary  E.  McLane 

3 

Ruby  A.  Johnson, 

1 

Lizzie  J.  Parkhurst 

1 

Maud  J.  Hersey 

1 

May  A.  Wilson 

1 

Sarah  P.  Webster 

1 

Sadie  A.  Gurley 

1 

Annabel  Emerson 

3 

Susie  A.  Bailey 

2 

Hattie  S.  Platts 

2 

Abbie  J.  James 

1 

May  V.  Tilton 

1 

Carrie  B.  Tilton 

3 

Grace  A.  Smiley 

2 

Adella  F.  Veazie 

1 

SCHOOLS. 

44S 

1889. 

Georgia  Kendrick 

3 

Alice  M.  Little 

1 

Sarah  P.  Webster 

3 

V.  A.  V.  Goldsmith 

1 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

Clarena  L.  Richardson 

1 

Annabel  Emerson 

2 

Hattie  I.  Coolidge 

1 

May  V.  Tilton 

3 

E.  L.  Smith 

2 

Bertha  A.  Swett 

1 

M.  Clair  Sawyer 

1 

Mary  Jones 

3 

Martha  L.  Coolidge 

3 

Susie  E.  Haselton 

2 

1890. 

Georgia  Kendrick 

1 

Mary  A.  Walker 

2 

Ella  M.  Huntington 

1 

Mary  D.  Webster 

1 

Edith  G.  Caldwell 

1 

Emma  J.  Cooper 

1 

Bertha  A.  Swett 

1 

Lillian  M.  Brackett 

1 

Grace  C.  Osgood 

2 

Annie  L.  Morse 

2 

Annabel  Emerson 

3 

Susie  A.  Cate 

1 

Frances  M.  Cox 

1 

Lizzie  C.  Todd 

1 

May  E.  Murphy 

2 

Emma  Stewart 

1 

Nellie  S.  Morse 

1 

Alice  G.  Crowley 

2 

E.  Blanche  Gammon 

2 

Clara  L.  Richardson 

1 

Bertha  Chapman 

1 

Anna  L.  Alger 

2 

1891. 

Edith  G.  Caldwell 

1 

Annie  L.  Morse 

2 

Annabel  Emerson 

3 

H.  Amelia  Henderson 

1 

Grace  C.  Osgood 

1 

Susie  A.  Cate 

3 

Kate  E.  Currier 

1 

Emma  Stewart 

1 

Sarah  P.  Webster 

1 

Mary  E.  Butell 

1 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

Percy  N.  Folsom 

1 

Georgia  F.  Way 

2 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 

3 

Grace  B.  Whitford 

1 

Mary  P.  Grover 

1 

Mersilvia  A.  Jenness 

2 

Elizabeth  Watt 

2 

1892. 

Annabel  Emerson 

3 

Susie  C.  Fogg 

2 

Georgia  F.  Way 

3 

Mabel  A.  Morse 

1 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

Eva  A.  Lobdell 

1 

Hattiebel  S.  Smith 

1 

Susie  A.  Cate 

2 

Dora  D.  Holbrook 

3 

Alice  M.  Leadbetter 

l 

Mersilvia  A.  Jenness 

3 

Charlotte  B.  Fox 

1 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 

3 

Wallace  H.  Tarbell 

1 

Alice  G.  White 

1 

Isabel  C.  Win  gate 

1 

1893. 

Annabel  Emerson 

3 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 

3 

Georgia  F.  Way 

3 

Susie  C.  Fogg 

2 

Mary  A.  Walker 

2 

Clara  B.  Carr 

2 

444 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Lilla  F.  Warren 
Dora  D.  Holbrook 
Abbie  Gile 
Susie  A.  Cate 
Mersilvia  A.  Jenness 

2 
3 
1 
2 
1 

Julia  A.  Wood 
Ray  H.  Da  vies 
Carrie  A.  Tirrell 
Amy  N.  Flint 
Lizzie  M.  Bailey 

1 
1 
3 

1 
2 

1894. 

Mary  J.  Moor 
Georgia  F.  Way 
Etta  F.  Boardman 
Hattie  S.  Platts 
Roxanna  W.  McKean 
Lilla  F.  Warren 
Nellie  L.  Frye 
Mary  A.  Walker 
Cora  W.  Warren 

3 
1 

1 
2 
1 
2 
2 
2 
1 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 
Lizzie  S.  Holbrook 
Minnie  C.  Johonnett 
Julia  M.  Muzzey, 
Carrie  A.  Tirrill 
Lizzie  M.  Bailey 
Elizabeth  Flint" 
Alice  E.  Moor 
Lydia  D.  Shirley 

3 
1 

1 

1 

3 

.       1 

2 
1 
1 

1895. 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 
Roxanna  W.  McKean 
Hattie  S.  Tuttle 
Mary  J.  Moore 
Helen  M.  Barnard 
Hattie  S.  Platts 
Annie  R.  Morison 
Helen  E.  True 

3 
1 

2 
3 
2 
1 
1 
1 

Lizzie  S.  Holbrook 
Minnie  C.  Johonnett 
Nellie  L.  Frye 
Lura  B.  Gage 
Frances  P.  Ayer 
Mary  A.  Tuck 
Cora  E.  Holbrook 
Edith  A.  Ladd 

3 
3 

1 
1 
1 
2 
3 
1 

1896. 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 
Hattie  S.  Tuttle 
Grace  I.  Sullivan 
C.  Josephine  Ayer 
Gerda  L.  Hun  toon 
Mary  J.  Moore 
Annie  R.  Morison 
Lizzie  S.  Holbrook 

3 
1 
1 
1 
3 
3 
3 
2 

Jessie  M.  Hutchinson 
Martha  S.  Oviatt 
Annie  B.  Angell 
Jenny  H.  Woodbury 
Georgina  Hutchinson 
Cora  E.  Holbrook 
Evelyn  A.  Stevens 
Hannah  A.  Chase 

1 

1 
1 
1 
3 
2 
1 
3 

1897. 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 
C.  Josephine  Ayer 
Annie  R.  Morison 
Gerda  L.  Huntoon 
Mary  E.  Crowell 
Mary  J.  Moore 

3 
1 

2 
2 
2 
2 

Lizzie  S.  Holbrook 
Jenny  H.  Woodbury 
Hannah  A.  Chase 
Evelyn  A.  Stevens 
Mary  E.  Manning 
Cora  E.  Holbrook 

1 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 

1898. 

Bertha  E.  Parkhurst 
Jenny  H.  Woodbury 

1 
3 

Gyrta  Bartlett 
Dora  D.  Holbrook 

1 

1 

SCHOOLS. 

445 

Annie  R.  Morison 

3 

Gerda  L.  Huntoon 

3 

Evelyn  A.  Stevens 

3 

Mary  E.  Manning 

3 

C.  Josephine  Aver 

3 

Julia  L.  Langdell 

2 

Mary  E.  Crowell 

2 

Hannah  A.  Chase  Sargent 

1 

Jessie  E.  Patten 

1 

1899. 

Alice  L.  McQuesten 

1 

C.  Josephine  Ayer 

1 

Dora  D.  Holbrook  • 

2 

Minnie  A.  Stevens 

2 

Gerda  L.  Hun  toon 

3 

Lizzie  S.  Holbrook 

3 

Evelyn  A.  Stevens 

3 

Charles  A.  Campbell 

1 

Sadie  A.  Gillan 

3 

Grace  M.  Smith 

3 

Annie  R.  Morison 

2 

Ella  C.  Darrah 

1 

Lucy  A.  Merrill 

2 

Nettie  B.  Tinker 

3 

1900. 

Gerda  L.  Huntoon 

3 

Amy  R.  French 

1 

Sadie  A.  Gillan 

3 

Charles  A.  Campbell 

1 

Lucy  A.  Merrill 

2 

Una  R.  Rowell 

2 

Ella  C.  Darrah 

3 

Nettie  B.  Tinker 

2 

Evelyn  A.  Stevens 

3 

Eda  M.  Barr 

1 

Minnie  A.  Stevens 

1 

Sybil  Grace  Crosby 

1 

Grace  M.  Smith 

3 

Gertrude  M.  Porter 

1 

Lizzie  S.  Holbrook 

1 

Allen  F.  King 

1 

Gyrta  Bartlett 

1 

1901. 

Evelyn  A.  Stevens 

3 

Gyrta  Bartlett 

3 

Sadie  A.  Gillan 

3 

Jenny  H.  Woodbury 

1 

Ella  C.  Darrah 

1 

Mary  E.  Smith 

1 

Edith  Lewis 

1 

Carlene  A.  Savory 

1 

Mary  A.  Walker 

2 

Nettie  B.  Tinker 

3 

Amy  R.  French 

3 

Sybil  Grace  Crosby 

3 

Florence  E.  Cass 

1 

Mytle  B.  Colson 

1 

Minnie  S.  Melendy 

2 

Jennie  B.  Harmon 

1 

Cora  E.  Holbrook 

1 

1902. 

Evelyn  A.  Stevens 

1 

Bertha  E.  Crowell 

2 

Sybil  Grace  Crosby 

3 

Margarita  Vittum 

2 

Sadie  A.  Gillan 

3 

Gyrta  Bartlett 

3 

Mary  A.  Walker 

3 

Nettie  B.  Tinker 

3 

Amy  R.  French 

3 

Electa  E.  Wakefield 

2 

Jenny  H.  Woodbury 

1 

Florence  E.  Blakeley 

2 

446 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


COLLEGE  GRADUATES. 

Joseph  Goffe,  clergyman,  Dartmouth, 

John  Vose,  teacher  and  author,  Dartmouth 

Benjamin  Orr,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth, 

Thomas  Rand,  clergyman,  Brown, 

Isaac  McGaw,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

Joseph  Bell,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth, 

John  Walker,  clergyman,  •      Dartmouth 

William  Gordon,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

Joseph  E.  Worcester,  author,  Yale, 

William  Orr,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth, 

Adam  Gordon,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

John  Aiken,  treasurer  Manufacturing  Co.,  Dartmouth 

Isaac  Orr,  clergyman,  Yale 

Robert  Riddle,  M.  D.,  Yale 

Freeman  Riddle,  M.  D.,  Yale 

Robert  Orr,  member  of  bar,  Yale 

James  McGaw,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

Isaac  O.  Barnes,  clerk  U.  S.  court,  Middlebury 

Adams  Moore,  M.  D.,  Dartmouth 

Gilman  Parker,  Dartmouth, 

Silas  Aiken,  clergyman,  Dartmouth, 

Cornelius  Walker,  teacher,  Dartmouth 

David  Aiken,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

Calvin  McQuesten,  M.  D.,  Bowdoin 

Samuel  Chandler,  Union 

John  Chandler,  Dartmouth 

Peter  T.  Woodbury,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

Selwyn  B.  Bowman,  Dartmouth 

William  R.  Woodbury,  member  of  bar,                     Dartmouth 

Leonard  French,  M.  D.,  Dartmouth 

Lemuel  C.  Spofford,  clergyman,  Dartmouth 

James  W.  Savage,  member  of  bar,  Harvard 

Alfred  J.  French,  M.  D.,  Burlington 

William  Stark,  member  of  bar,  Williams 

William  B.  Stevens,  M.  D.,  Dartmouth 

Levi  J.  Woodbury,  M.  D.,  Bowdoin 

David  B.  French,  M.  D.,  Dartmouth 

Josiah  Gordon  Woodbury,  member  of  bar,                    Harvard 
Chas.  J.  Parker,  Principal  So.  Chicago  high  school,  Dartmouth, 

John  G.  McAllister,  M.  D.,  Columbia 

Thomas  Savage,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

Frank  W.  Parker,  President  Chicago  Institute, 

King  William's,  Germany, 

Albert  F.  Newton,  clergyman,  Dartmouth 

John  Foster,  member  of  bar,  Dartmouth 

Frank  William  Patten,  M.  D.,  Columbia 


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schools.  447 

Louis  J.  Rundlett,  Supt.  of  schools,  Concord,  Dartmouth,  1881. 

Fred  C.  Newton,  M.  D.,  University  of  New  York,  1882. 

George  W.  Newton,  M.  D.,  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1884. 

Gordon  Woodbury,  member  of  bar,  Harvard,  1886. 

Thornton  Woodbury,  Harvard,  1889. 

Annie  Vose,  teacher,  Wellesley,  1898. 

Frank  French,  Dartmouth,  1902. 


Physicians  of  Bedford. 


Dr.  Nathan  Cutler  came  to  Bedford  from  Dunstable,  Mass.,  in 
1777,  and  returned  to  the  same  place  in  1782,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death. 

Dr.  John  Quin  came  to  Bedford  in  1782  from  Halifax,  Vt.  He 
was  a  relation  of  Dr.  Cutler  and  had  a  family.  After  staying  a  year 
or  two  he  removed  to  Massachusetts. 

Dr.  Nathan  Cutler,  son  of  the  former,  came  to  Bedford  in  1789, 
and  was  the  only  practising  physician  in  town  until  a  short  time  be- 
fore his  death,  which  took  place  May  31,  1809.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth Swett. 

Dr.  William  Wallace  came  to  Bedford  in  1805 ;  his  native  place 
was  Milford,  1ST.  H.  He  died  in  1821.  His  widow,  sister  of  Rev.  E. 
L.  Parker  of  Londonderry,  survived  him  many  years. 

Dr.  Page  came  in  1810  and  resided  in  Bedford  but  a  few  months. 

Dr.  Baird  came  to  Bedford  in  1811,  left  in  1813,  and  went  to  Nel- 
son ;  he  resided  while  in  town  with  Thomas  Wallace. 

Dr.  Frederick  A.  Mitchell  was  born  in  Peterborough,  July  15, 
1789.  He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Starr  of  Peterborough,  and 
Dr.  Howe  of  Jaffrey,  and  attended  medical  lectures  at  Hanover.  He 
practised  his  profession  in  Chester,  Bradford,  and  Bedford,  coming 
here  in  1813.  He  retired  from  practice  some  years  prior  to  his  de- 
cease, which  occurred  in  Manchester,  July  28,  1869 ;  interment  at 
Bedford.  He  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  Deacon  Phineas  Aiken  of 
Bedford,  in  1816.  At  one  time  during  his  residence  here  he  taught 
the  school  in  district  No.  9,  where  Horace  Greeley  was  a  pupil. 

Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury  was  born  in  Francestown,  August  8, 
1791.  He  was  prepared  for  college  in  part  under  the  instruction  of 
the  Hon.  John  Vose,  the  distinguished  preceptor  of  Atkinson  acade- 
my, and  James  Morrison,  Esq.  (late  mayor  of  Savannah,  Ga.),  at 
Francestown  academy. 

In  1812  he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  with  Adonijah  Howe, 
M.  D.,  his  brother-in-law,  at  Jaffrey.  The  next  ^year  he  put  himself 
under  the  care  of  Nathan  Smith,  M.  D.,  at  Hanover,  Dartmouth  col- 
lege. In  a  few  months  Dr.  Smith  removed  to  New  Haven,  Conn., 
Yale  college,  and  Dr.  Woodbury  accompanied  him,  and  attended  the 
first  course  of  medical  lectures  given  at  Yale  college,  of  six  months 
continuance.  The  medical  professors  were  Nathan  Smith,  Eli  Ives, 
Benjamin  Silliman,  and  Jonathan  Knight. 


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He  returned  to  Xew  Hampshire  in  1818,  and  put  himself  under 
the  care  of  Hon.  Jonathan  Gove,  of  Goffstown,  where  he  closed  his 
medical  studies,  after  attending  a  second  course  of  lectures  at  Dart- 
mouth in  the  fall  of  1814.  He  commenced  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  partnership  with  his  preceptor,  Dr.  Gove,  at  Goffstown, 
January  9,  1815.  Here  he  continued  to  practice  medicine  till  July 
3,  1815,  when  he  removed  to  Bedford,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death  in  1860. 

He  at  one  time  held  the  office  of  president  of  the  Xew  Hampshire 
Medical  society,  and  was  sent  as  a  delegate  from  that  society  to 
attend  the  examination  of  candidates  for  M.  D.  at  Dartmouth  col- 
lege, which  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1845. 

Dr.  Houston  came  to  Bedford  in  1824;  resided  at  Piscataquog ; 
stayed  one  year  and  went  to  western  New  York. 

Dr.  Levi  B.  Johnson  came  to  Bedford  in  1825;  stayed  two  years. 
He  boarded  at  Piscataquog  village. 

Dr.  Robert  Riddle,  son  of  Hugh  Riddle,  began  to  practice  at 
Hooksett,  came  back  to  his  father's  in  1825,  and  practised  medicine 
till  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1828. 

Dr.  Silas  Walker  was  born  in  Goffstown  in  1780.  He  married 
Sarah  Dinsmore  of  that  town.  Seven  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage,  viz.,  John  Dinsmore,  Harriet,  Silas,  Rachel,  James,  Charles, 
and  Sarah.  The  doctor  practised  in  Goffstown,  Bedford,  and  Man- 
chester, coming  to  Piscataquog  in  1827.  He  was  an  honor  to  the 
profession,  being  a  remarkably  skilful  practitioner  in  his  time,  and 
his  friendship  was  prized  as  much  as  his  advice. 

Dr.  Walker  had  the  confidence  of  the  community  in  which  he 
lived,  and  his  services  were  in  such  demand  that  rest  was  almost  an 
unknown  luxury  to  him.  It  is  said  that  his  office  door  was  never 
locked.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  known  for  years  as  "Old 
Dr.  Walker,"  but  at  the  time  of  his  death  his  years  only  numbered 
sixty-three. 

Dr.  Henry  Clinton  Parker,  son  of  James  Parker  of  Litchfield  and 
Betsey  Parker  of  Bedford,  was  born  in  the  part  of  Bedford  now 
Manchester,  April  11,  1813.  In  his  boyhood  he  was  a  student  at 
Hopkinton  academy,  and  later  graduated  from  college  and  the  Phil- 
adelphia Medical  school.  In  1838  he  married  Bridget  Stark,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Stark  of  Hopkinton,  and  settled  in  Piscataquog  village. 

One  son,  Henry  James,  was  born  to  them,  who  died  in  1861  at 
the  age  of  twenty.  The  doctor  first  lived  in  the  house  known  as 
the  Dr.  Wallace  house,  opposite  the  home  of  Daniel  K.  Mack,  and 
afterwards  built  a  house  on  the  lot  where  now  stands  the  modern 
residence  of  George  S.  Eastman.  In  this  vicinity  and  the  neighbor- 
ing towns  of  Bedford,  Goffstown,  and  Merrimack,  he  practised  his 
profession  until  his  death  in  1861. 

He  had  a  sunny,  genial  disposition,  which  caused  him  to  be  loved 
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450  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

as  a  friend  as  well  as  a  physician  by  his  patients,  and  his  loss  to  the 
community  seemed  irreparable. 

His  half  brother,  Charles  K.  Walker,  says  he  well  remembers  the 
night  after  the  Parker  murder  ;  nearly  everybody  was  afraid  to  go 
out  of  doors,  but  sickness  in  a  family  in  Bakersville  compelled  the 
man  of  the  family  to  seek  the  services  of  a  physician.  Doctors  in 
town  refused  to  go  from  their  homes,  and  finally  he  came  to  Dr. 
Parker,  and  as  the  doctor  knew  not  fear,  he  at  once  responded  to  the 
call.  Pickets  were  stationed  on  every  street,  and  the  doctor  was 
often  called  to  a  halt,  but  as  might  be  expected  nothing  serious  came 
of  the  adventure. 

There  are  a  few  residents  now  living  who  will  remember  the 
great  power  of  mimicry  possessed  by  Dr.  Parker,  and  that  no  com- 
pany was  considered  a  success  without  him.  He  was  the  entertainer. 
Dr.  Parker  was  also  a  musician  of  no  mean  ability,  and  played  hour 
after  hour  for  the  enjoyment  of  others  without  any  compensation. 
In  fact,  to  see  others  happy  was  happiness  to  him. 

Dr.  John  Dinsmore  Walker  was  born  in  1810  in  the  town  of 
Warner.  He  studied  medicine  with  his  father,  Dr.  Silas  Walker, 
and  like  him  practised  in  Goffstown,  Bedford,  and  Manchester,  com- 
mencing in  1840.  He  was  a  man  of  remarkably  fine  physique, 
which  was  especially  noticeable  when,  mounted  on  his  gray  mare,  he 
made  his  tour  of  professional  calls.  Dr.  Walker  never  married,  and 
notwithstanding  his  seemingly  remarkable  constitution,  died  very 
suddenly  at  the  age  of  forty-eight  years  in  the  Merrimack  House  in 
Piscataquog. 

Dr.  Leonard  French,1  for  many  years  one  of  the  leading  physi- 
cians of  Manchester,  where  he  died  February  14,  1892,  was  born  in 
Bedford,  November  11,  1817,  son  of  Leonard  C.  and  Nancy  (Hutch- 
inson) French.  His  father  was  a  prominent  town  officer  of  Bedford. 
The  son  attended  the  common  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  was 
fitted  for  college  at  Gilmanton  academy.  He  entered  Dartmouth  in 
1839,  and  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1843. 

On  leaving  college  he  taught  a  select  school  in  Bedford  for  three 
months,  and  then  the  academy  at  Piscataquog  for  four  months. 
Deciding  to  embrace  the  medical  profession,  he  studied  with  Drs. 
Josiah  and  Thomas  R.  Crosby  at  Manchester,  and  attended  lecture 
courses  at  Dartmouth. 

He  took  his  degree  in  1846,  and  began  practice  in  his  native 
town,  but  in  April,  1847,  entered  into  partnership  with  Dr.  Alfred 
Hitchcock  in  Ashby,  Mass.,  where  he  remained  three  years,  and 
then  removed  with  Dr.  Hitchcock  to  Fitchburg,  Mass.  His  stay  in 
Fitchburg  was  short,  however,  for  at  the  expiration  of  three  months 
he  returned  to  Ashby,  where  he  did  a  large  and  most  prosperous 
business. 

In  1861  he  removed  to  Manchester,  and  at  once  entered  upon  an 

*  Written  by  Dr.  L.  B.  How  of  Manchester  in  1892,  for  the  N.  H.  Medical  society. 


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extensive  practice.  In  1866-67  he  was  city  physician;  in  1872 
president  of  Manchester  Medical  society;  in  1873  a  delegate  to 
Dartmouth  Medical  college,  where  he  made  the  address  to  the 
graduating  class.  He  was  also  consulting  physician  to  the  Elliot 
hospital  and  counselor  of  both  the  Manchester  and  New  Hampshire 
Medical  societies. 

It  was  as  an  obstetrician  that  he  was  most  widely  known.  He 
performed  the  operations  incident  to  this  department  with  signal 
success.  He  was  at  all  times  kindly,  patient,  and  genial,  a  friend  to 
his  patients,  as  well  as  a  skilful  physician  and  gentleman.  The 
influence  of  his  upright  living  and  Christian  character  did  not  fail 
to  make  its  impress  upon  the  community  wherein  he  resided.  He 
was  a  consistent  member  of  the  First  Congregational  church,  and  a 
deacon  in  the  organization  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

In  1846  he  married  Sarah  M.,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Lydia 
(Whitney)  Melville  of  Nelson,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Leonard 
Melville  French,  born  July  26,  1849,  and  at  present  a  prominent 
physician  of  Manchester.  His  wife  dying  in  1849,  he  married  her 
sister,  Ann  Maria,  in  1850,  having  by  her  one  son,  Henry  Minot 
French,  who  became  a  successful  physician  at  Concord,  and  died 
June  13,  1893. 

His  second  wife  died  in  January,  1866,  and  June  25,  1867,  he 
married  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Moore,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Ramsey  of 
Greenfield,  and  widow  of  Dr.  George  W.  Moore  of  Amherst,  who 
survives  him. 

Dr.  John  William  Harvill  came  to  Bedford  in  1849;  began 
to  practice  at  Piscataquog  village,  and  after  one  year  went  to 
California. 

Dr.  James  P.  Walker,  son  of  James  and  Betsey  (Parker)  Walker, 
was  born  in  1828.  At  the  age  of  twenty-six  years  he  graduated 
from  the  Harvard  Medical  school,  and  at  once  began  practice  in  his 
native  village  of  Piscataquog.  With  the  exception  of  six  months, 
when  he  served  as  surgeon  with  the  Fourth  New  Hampshire  regi- 
ment, his  life  was  spent  in  and  near  the  place  of  his  birth. 

He  married  Rowena  L.  Hamblett,  and  built  a  home  opposite  the 
old  homestead,  formerly  occupied  by  the  old  homestead  barn. 

Dr.  Walker  was  an  eccentric  man,  but  his  patients  considered  him 
as  a  physician  almost  infallible,  and  it  was  often  said  by  those  out- 
side of  his  care,  "  I  should  hate  to  have  Dr.  Walker  say  I  could  not 
get  well." 

He  was  a  man  of  fine  musical  tastes,  and  although  he  never  gave 
any  time  to  the  study  of  music,  performed  very  acceptably  upon  the 
violin,  flute,  and  fife. 

The  doctor  saw  the  ludicrous  side  of  everything,  and  enjoyed  a 
joke  on  himself  as  well  as  on  another.     He  died  May  6,  1897. 

Dr.  William  Bradford  Stevens,  son  of  Moody  M.  and  Eunice 
(Chandler)  Stevens,  was  born  in  Bedford,  January  27,  1820.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  district  school  near  his  home  and  at 


452  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

New  Ipswich  and  Francestown  academies.  On  leaving  school  he 
entered  the  office  of  Dr.  Fitch  of  Amherst,  and  after  a  course  of 
study  there  was  with  Dr.  Crosby  at  Manchester.  He  then  attended 
medical  lectures  at  Hanover  and  Castleton,  Vt.,  receiving  his 
diploma  from  Dartmouth  Medical  college  in  1853,  and  being  elected 
a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire  Medical  society  in  1854. 

In  1847  he  entered  the  Asylum  for  the  Insane  at  Concord  as 
assistant  physician,  where  he  remained  eight  years.  Frequently 
during  that  period  the  entire  charge  of  the  institution  devolved 
upon  him  ;  at  one  time  the  superintendent,  Dr.  Andrew  McFarland, 
being  absent  six  months  in  Europe. 

In  1855  his  health  failing  him  he  relinquished  his  position,  and 
returned  to  his  native  town,  hoping  by  the  practice  of  his  profession 
among  our  hills  to  regain  his  wonted  strength  and  vigor.  In  this 
hope  he  was  not  entirely  disappointed,  but  his'  disease  returned,  and 
at  last  prevailed,  his  death  occurring  February  18,  1861.  He  was 
a  modest,  unassuming  man,  of  large  literary  and  professional  qual- 
ifications, with  the  bighest  character  for  social  and  moral  worth. 

Dr.  George  Edwin  Woodbury,  son  of  Peter  Perkins  Woodbury, 
M.  D.,  and  Eliza  Gordon  Woodbury,  was  born  in  Bedford,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1838.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  school  of  Bedford, 
the  high  schools  of  Piscataquog  and  Merrimack,  in  New  Ipswich 
Appleton  academy  and  Francestown  academy. 

In  May,  1856,  he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  with  his 
father.  In  1857  and  1858  he  studied  with  Dr.  Smith  of  Peter- 
borough. He  graduated  from  the  Dartmouth  Medical  school  in 
November,  1859,  then  returned  to  Bedford,  where  he  practised  with 
his  father  until  the  latter's  death  in  December,  1860.  He  remained 
in  Bedford  until  September,  1862,  when  he  entered  the  army  as 
acting  assistant  surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  stationed  at  Douglass  hospital, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

In  November,  1862,  he  was  mustered  into  the  army  as  assistant 
surgeon  of  the;  Second  District  of  Columbia  Volunteer  Infantry,  and 
served  in  the  Twenty-second  Army  Corps  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac.  He  was  mustered  out  of  the  army  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  returning  to  Bedford. 

In  September,  1866,  he  opened  in  Methuen,  Mass.,  an  office  for 
the  practice  of  medicine.  October  30,  1867,  he  married  Harriette 
Emily  Reed  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Dr.  Woodbury  has  been  a  trustee  of  Nevins  Memorial  library  in 
Methuen  since  its  incorporation. 

He  is  a  Mason  of  the  rank  of  Knight  Templar,  a  member  of  the 
G.  A.  R.,  and  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States. 

Dr.  William  Wesley  Wilkins  was  born  in  the  town  of  Depeyster, 
St.  Lawrence  county,  New  York  state,  June  17,  1829.  His  father, 
Daniel  Wilkins  of  Londonderry,  was  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Daniel 
Wilkins,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  town  of  Amherst,  and  the 


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first  settled  minister  over  the  Presbyterian  church  in  that  town. 
The  mother  of  Daniel  Wilkins,  and  the  grandmother  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  was  Elizabeth  McMurphy,  daughter  of  Archibald 
McMurphy,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Londonderry.  The  father  of  Dr. 
Wilkins  in  early  life  went  to  northern  New  York,  where  he  married 
Betsey  Russell,  daughter  of  Elijah  Russell,  by  whom  he  had  several 
children.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  a  man  who  had 
improved  his  mind  and  stored  it  with  useful  knowledge.  His  boys, 
under  his  careful  instruction,  early  acquired  a  knowledge  of  the  use 
of  tools,  and  to  tliis  practical  knowledge  they  owed  more  than  to 
any  other  one  thing,  their  success  in  life. 

Dr.  Wilkins'  education,  aside  from  that  secured  in  the  common 
schools,  was  obtained  in  the  academy  at  Derry  and  at  Fitchburg, 
Mass.  He  married  August  5,  1852,  Miss  Persis  L.  Morse,  daughter 
of  Johnson  Morse  of  Manchester.  Then  he  studied  medicine  with 
Drs.  E.  H.  Davis  and  S.  W.  Jones  of  Manchester,  and  attended 
medical  lectures  at  the  Vermont  Medical  college,  Woodstock,  Vt., 
where  he  graduated  in  June,  1856.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  went 
to  Henniker,  and  practised  medicine  till  the  spring  of  1861,  when  he 
returned  to  Manchester  and  took  the  office  vacated  by  Dr.  George 
H.  Hubbard,  sui'geon  of  the  Second  Xew  Hampshire  regiment. 
He  remained  here  only  a  few  months. 

In  June,  when  that  regiment  was  going  to  the  front,  he  gave  up 
a  good  practice  to  enlist  in  Company  I,  Captain  Bailey,  and  left 
with  the  regiment  for  Washington.  He  was  with  the  Second  at 
Bull  Run,  and  also  remained  with  the  regiment  until  September, 
when  he  received  an  appointment  as  acting  assistant  surgeon  in  the 
l'.  S.  navy,  and  was  ordered  to  the  U.  S.  ship,  Shepard  Knapp, 
which  was  sent  to  the  West  Indies  to  cruise  for  blockade  runners 
and  privateers. 

The  following  May  the  Shepard  Knapp  returned  to  New  York, 
and  after  taking  in  necessary  stores  was  sent  to  take  part  in  the 
blockade  off  Charleston.  The  summer  and  fall  were  spent  at  this 
place  and  at  St.  Helena  sound,  returning  to  Xew  York  in  the 
winter. 

On  arriving  in  New  York  and  learning  of  the  death  of  a  daugh- 
ter and  the  dangerous  sickness  of  his  son,  he  resigned  his  commis- 
sion and  came  home.  The  next  spring  he  bought  a  place  in 
Bedford  and  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine,  but  having  a 
commission  offered  him  in  the  Tenth  Xew  Hampshire  volunteers, 
he  accepted  the  same  and  reported  to  the  regiment  in  August,  1863. 
The  regiment  was  then  encamped  at  Julius  Creek,  Ya.,  where  it 
remained  during  the  fall  and  winter  months. 

He  remained  with  the  Tenth  until  July,  1864,  when,  broken 
down  in  health,  he  was  sent  as  a  patient  to  Point  of  Rocks  hospital, 
at  which  place  he  resigned  his  commission  and  returned  to  Xew 
Hampshire. 

He  practised  for  eight  years  after  in  Bedford,  and  then  removed 


454  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

to  Manchester,  where  after  a  time  he  gave  up  general  practice,  took 
a  course  of  study,  and  made  a  specialty  of  treatment  of  eye  troubles. 
His  death  occurred  September  1,  1891,  after  a  sickness  of  eight 
months,  at  the  age  of  63  years. 

Dr.  David  Proctor  Campbell  was  born  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  March 
1,  1842 ;  died  January  7,  1901,  at  Greenspring,  O.  The  early  life 
of  the  doctor  was  passed  at  the  place  of  his  birth,  where  he  received 
a  careful  and  thorough  education,  well  fitting  him  for  the  study  of 
medicine,  Avhich  he  completed  at  the  age  of  twenty-five.  In  1879 
he  located  in  Bedford,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
immediately  showing  his  ability  in  his  chosen  work  by  building  up 
an  extensive  practice. 

On  the  22d  of  June,  1879,  he  married  Miss  Alice  E.  Watrous  of 
Greenspring,  O.,  to  which  place  they  removed,  after  spending  neaily 
four  years  in  Bedford,  and  where  they  have  since  resided.  To  them 
was  born  a  daughter,  Grace,  who,  with  the  widow,  survives. 

In  a  short  time  after  going  to  Greenspring  he  had  gained  a  prom- 
inence more  than  local,  and  his  advice  was  sought  for  professionally 
far  and  near.  Finding  the  labors  of  general  practice  too  severe,  he 
undertook  sanatorium  work,  and  was  identified  with  the  sanatorium 
at  that  place.  He  combined,  in  the  later  years  of  his  life,  with  his 
medical  work,  several  business  ventures,  finally  devoting  all  his  time 
to  them,  at  home  and  in  Colorado.  His  health  yielded  to  the  strain 
of  the  high  altitude  of  Colorado,  and  he  returned  to  Greenspring  in 
1900,  resuming  his  practice  of  medicine,  which  he  followed  until  his 
death.  A  man  of  indomitable  energy  and  inflexible  will,  he  threw 
his  entire  strength  into  whatever  he  undertook,  and  to  this,  as  much 
as  anything,  may  be  attributed  his  failing  health.  His  professional 
life  was  marked  by  many  successes,  and  his  reputation  was  well 
established  through  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances  in  his 
own  and  neighboring  states,  who  mourn  him  as  a  helpful  physician. 

Dr.  Frank  H.  Rowe  was  born  in  Hooksett,  February  13, 1853,  and 
removed  to  Manchester  at  the  age  of  six  years.  Here  he  attended 
the  public  schools,  graduating  from  the  high  school  in  the  class  of 
1874. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  the  late  Dr.  H.  C.  Canney, 
continuing  his  studies  at  Dartmouth  and  the  University  of  Vermont, 
graduating  from  the  latter  in  the  class  of  1881. 

He  married,  March  4,  1885,  Flora  E.  Lang  of  Candia,  and  their 
only  child  living  was  born  March  13,  1893,  Olive  M.  Rowe. 

In  the  fall  of  the  year  1881  he  commenced  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine in  Bedford,  and  continued  in  active  practice  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  March  20,  1896. 

Dr.  George  Moses  Davis  was  born  in  Norwich,  Vt.,  January  30, 
1864,  son  of  Ira  and  Lucy  A.  L.  (Crary)  Davis.  His  grandfather, 
Moses  Davis,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war  for  a  period  of  about 
two  years,  and  was  one  of  the  sentinels  stationed  over  Andr6  a  night 
or  two  before  his  execution. 


PHYSICIANS.  455 

His  father  was  a  physician  of  Norwich,  being  born  in  Dracut, 
Mass.,  January  25,  1801,  and  practising  in  Norwich  until  his  death. 

Dr.  Davis  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  of  Manchester.  Later  he  studied  medicine  with  Dr. 
George  C.  Hoitt,  entered  Dartmouth  Medical  school,  and  was  gradu- 
ated in  the  class  of  1888.  While  in  college  he  spent  a  year  in 
Tewksbury,  Mass.,  hospital.  After  graduation  he  again  went  there 
for  a  few  months. 

In  November,  1889,  he  located  in  Bedford.  February  24,  1891, 
he  married  Mabel  L.  Davis  of  Norwich,  Yt.  A  daughter,  Hilda  L. 
Davis,  was  born  to  them  in  Bedford,  June  10,  1892. 

In  July,  1893,  he  removed  to  the  adjoining  town  of  Merrimack, 
succeeding  to  the  practice  of  Dr.  W.  W.  Pillsbury.  While  in  Mer- 
rimack, a  son,  Harold  I.  Davis,  was  born,  December  24,  1893.  He 
remained  there  until  January,  1896,  when  he  removed  to  Manches- 
ter, where  he  became  associated  with  Dr.  Henry  W.  Boutwell,  in  the 
office  formerly  occupied  by  Drs.  Crosby  and  Wilkins.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Medical  society  and  of  the  staff  of  Sacred  Heart 
hospital. 

Dr.  Daniel  Grant,  a  graduate  of  McGill  university,  Montreal, 
came  to  Bedford  in  April,  1896,  remaining  here  until  December, 
1897,  when  he  removed  to  Bourne,  Ore. 

Dr.  Joseph  Taylor  was  born  in  Harrisville,  N.  H.,  August  11, 
1860.  At  the  age  of  five  years  he  removed  to  Cambridgeport,  Vt., 
where  he  received  a  common  school  education.  In  the  fall  of  1890 
he  entered  the  medical  school  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
which  he  attended  one  year,  entering  the  University  of  Maryland 
Medical  college  in  the  fall  of  1892,  which  he  left  January  1,  1893, 
and  went  to  Dartmouth  Medical  college,  where  he  graduated  in 
November,  1893. 

He  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Acworth,  N.  H.,  where 
he  remained  five  years,  coming  to  Bedford  in  December,  1897,  where 
he  practised  three  years,  removing  to  West  Manchester  in  Decem- 
ber, 1900. 

Physicians  who  Spent  the  Early  Years  of  Their  Lives  in 
Bedford,  but  who  Practised  Their  Profession  Elsewhere. 

Dr.  David  McQuesten,  son  of  Deacon  David  McQuesten,  was- 
born  in  Litchfield,  September  13,  1793.  He  was  a  descendant  in  the 
fourth  generation  of  William  McQuesten,  who  came  from  the  north 
of  Ireland,  in  1730,  to  Medford,  Mass.,  from  which  place  he  removed 
to  Litchfield,  where  with  his  family  he  lived  until  his  decease. 

Dr.  McQuesten  in  his  boyhood  worked  upon  his  father's  farm  in 
Bedford,  and  after  a  preparatory  course  of  study,  entered  Dartmouth 
college,  where  he  pursued  his  studies  for  about  two  years,  when  he 
was  obliged  to  suspend  by  reason  of  a  partial  failure  of  sight.  After 
leaving  college  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  medicine  at  Dr.  Robert 


456  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Bartley's  office  in  Londonderry,  attending  courses  of  lectures  at 
Harvard  until  he  received  his  degree,  when  he  commenced  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine  in  Washington  in  the  year  1821. 

Dr.  McQuesten  was  an  energetic,  outspoken,  fearless  man.  He 
had  a  widely  extended  practice  in  Washington  and  adjoining  towns 
for  nearly  thirty  years,  and  is  still  remembered  by  grateful  friends 
for  his  kind  and  successful  ministrations  in  the  sick  room,  as  well  as 
for  his  active  cooperation  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  highest 
good  of  his  fellow-townsmen. 

Dr.  McQuesten  was  prominently  identified  with  the  founding  of 
Tubbs  Union  academy  in  Washington,  but  died  the  year  following 
its  successful  opening.  He  was  a  man  of  fine  physique,  being  six 
feet  in  height  and  of  large  frame ;  was  active,  and  led  a  laborious 
life.  Washington  and  the  surrounding  towns  are  very  rough,  and 
such  an  extended  practice  as  was  his  required  much  physical  endur- 
ance. 

He  was  sought  as  counsel  in  difficult  cases  by  his  brethren  of  the 
profession  as  often  probably  as  any  other  physician  in  Sullivan 
county. 

In  temperament  he  was  jovial,  the  life  and  inspiration  of  social 
gatherings,  beloved  by  children,  implicitly  trusted  by  his  patrons, 
and  tolerant  of  all  human  failings  except  lying.  No  person  angled 
for  a  second  rebuke  from  him  for  indulging  in  that  vice. 

He  died  May  20,  1850,  and  was  buried  the  22d,  the  day  of  the 
centennial  celebration  of  the  town  of  Bedford. 

Dr.  Calvin  McQuesten,  also  the  son  of  Deacon  David  McQuesten, 
was  born  in  Bedford.  His  early  life  was  probably  not  different  from 
that  of  his  older  brother,  David.  He  was  not  robust  in  youth,  and 
never  intended  to  depend  upon  manual  labor  for  a  living.  He  was 
diligent  in  reading  at  home,  being  one  of  those  who  studied  by  the 
light  of  pine  knots,  lying  prone  before  an  open  fireplace,  an  advan 
tage  in  the  acquirement  of  an  education  which  has,  together  with 
the  use  of  the  birch,  gone  into  oblivion.  After  preparation  at  an 
academy  he  entered  the  medical  school  at  Bowdoin  college,  where 
he  took  his  degree  in  1830. 

He  first  located  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Sanbornton 
Bridge,  where  he  remained  one  year,  thence  removing  to  Brockport, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  practised  ten  years,  when  he  gave  up  medicine  and 
engaged  in  manufacturing  at  Hamilton,  Ont.,  where  he  died  in 
1885,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-four  years. 

Dr.  Jesse  Powell  Sweat  (Swett),  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Susan 
(Gustin)  Swett,  was  born  in  Bedford,  February  11,  1811.  In  his 
boyhood  he  was  "  bound  out "  by  his  father  to  Dea.  John  French  at 
"  Joppa,"  and  when  about  eighteen  years  of  age,  fearful  of  the  con- 
sequences of  some  mischievous  fun  which  he  with  some  other  boys 
had  indulged  in,  with  all  his  worldly  goods  tied  up  in  a  red  handker- 
chief, he  left  his  home  and  trudged  barefoot  to  Portland,  Me.,  the 
home  of  an  uncle,  Dr.  Moses  Sweat.     While  there  he  accepted  Dr. 


PHYSICIANS.  457 

Sweat's  offer  of  a  medical  education,  in  company  with  his  own  son 
at  Parsonsfield,  Me.,  with  whom  he  studied.  He  also  attended  West- 
brook  academy,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Bowdoin 
college  in  1834. 

After  completing  his  studies,  the  senior  Dr.  Sweat  took  young 
Jesse  up  to  the  remote  and  sparsely  settled  town  of  Brownfield,  Me., 
and  left  him  to  his  fate.  There  was  an  old  and  respected  physician 
located  in  the  village,  and  the  young  doctor  had  not  the  first  recog- 
nition, and  would  literally  have  starved  had  he  not  been  ready  to  do 
anything  that  offered.  One  day  he  was  at  work  some  distance  from 
the  village  in  a  meadow  digging  a  ditch,  when  a  messenger  reached 
him  with  the  story  that  a  man  was  bleeding  to  death  in  the  village 
from  a  cut  in  his  foot,  and  the  old  village  doctor  being  unable  to 
relieve  the  hemorrhage,  he  urged  Jesse  to  hasten  and  do  what  he 
could  to  save  the  man's  life.  He  instantly  dropped  his  shovel  and 
ran  with  all  speed  across  the  field,  and  before  the  messenger  reached 
the  house,  going  by  the  road,  the  young  physician  had  stanched  the 
tide. 

From  that  time  his  skill  and  ability  were  recognized.  For 'fifty 
years  he  practised  his  profession  in  the  town,  achieving  a  reputation 
for  remarkable  ability  and  insight  as  physicion  and  surgeon,  and 
having  a  consulting  practice  for  a  radius  of  thirty  miles  in  the  White 
Mountain  region.  He  served  through  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  as 
surgeon  of  the  Twenty- third,  and  afterwards  of  the  Fourteenth 
Maine  volunteers.  He  married  in  December,  1837,  Eliza  Wheelock 
Spring,  eldest  daughter  of  Alpheus  and  Sally  (Goodenow)  Spring  of 
the  town  of  Hiram,  Me.  He  had  three  children  who  arrived  at  ma- 
turity :  Valeria  Goodenow,  who  married  Hon.  Paris  Gibson ;  John 
Aiken,  who  married  Mary  Frances  Towle  of  Fryeburg,  and  is  a  prac- 
tising physician  in  Great  Falls,  Mont. ;  and  Jessie  May,  who  mar- 
ried Dr.  Alfred  G.  Ladd  of  Portland,  Me. 

Dr.  Sweat  was  a  man  of  great  mental  gifts  and  strong  personality. 
His  memory  is  cherished  among  the  people  of  the  large  section  of 
country  where  his  life  labors  were  spent,  as  the  type  of  the  country 
doctor, — sympathetic,  kindly  and  efficient ;  too  considerate  of  others 
to  ever  accumulate  much  wealth,  but  charitable  and  large-minded, 
his  active  life  being  distinguished  by  countless  benevolent,  humane 
acts.  He  was  always  prominent  in  public  affairs,  a  lifelong  Demo- 
crat in  politics,  a  Mason  for  many  years,  and  a  Universalist  in  relig- 
ious faith. 

About  three  years  before  his  death,  being  obliged  to  retire  from 
practice,  he  went  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  died  at  the  home 
of  his  eldest  daughter,  August  20,  1885. 

Dr.  Alfred  J.  French,  was  born  in  Bedford,  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  attended  Hancock  Literary  and  Scientific  institution  two 
years,  read  medicine  one  year  with  the  late  Drs.  Buck  and  Gale  of 
Manchester,  subsequently  went  to  Woodstock,  Vt.,  and  spent  two 
years  with   the   professors   of  the  Vermont   Medical    college,  now 


458  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

located  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  where  he  graduated  in  1848.  He  then 
opened  an  office  in  Manchester  where  he  practised  one  year,  remov- 
ing to  Methuen,  Mass.,  in  1850,  from  which  place,  after  seven  years 
of  practice,  he  removed  to  Lawrence,  Mass.,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death. 

Dr.  Levi  Jackson  Woodbury,  son  of  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  M.  D., 
and  Martha  Riddle  Woodbury,  was  born  in  Bedford,  January  12, 
1829.  He  was  educated  in  Francestown  academy  and  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He  studied  medicine  with  his  father, 
attended  medical  lectures  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  received  the  degree 
of  M.  D.  from  Bowdoin  College,  Maine,  in  1853. 

In  1854  he  located  in  Princeton,  111.,  where  he  practised  his  pro- 
fession three  years,  then  returned  to  his  home  in  New  Hampshire, 
living  there  until  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  June  20, 1890. 

Dr.  David  Brainard  French,  son  of  Dea.  John  French,  was  born 
January  27,  1830.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth  college,  July, 
1850,  studied  medicine  and  received  the  degree  M.  D.  from  Dart- 
mouth in  1854  ;  located  in  Bath,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  a  very  suc- 
cessful physician.  He  married  Sarah  Isabella  Hutchinson  of  Nor- 
wich, Vt.,  February  27,  1855;  forced  to  leave  on  account  of  failing 
health,  he  went  west  and  located  in  Eau  Claire,  Wis.,  where  he  died 
March  26,  1861. 

Dr.  John  Oilman  McAllister  was  born  in  Bedford,  December  9, 
1841.  After  completing  his  education  in  the  public  schools  at  Man- 
chester, Nashua,  and  New  Hampton  institute,  he  studied  medicine 
in  the  office  of  Dr.  Josiah  G.  Graves  at  Nashua,  and  attended  his 
first  course  of  lectures  at  Dartmouth  Medical  school ;  he  afterwards 
attended  lectures  in  New  York  city  at  the  medical  department  of 
Columbia  college,  where  he  graduated  in  1865.  •  He  passed  the  ex- 
amination for  assistant  surgeon  United  States  navy,  and  was  appointed 
acting  assistant  surgeon  May  1,  1865,  being  ordered  to  the  old  re- 
ceiving ship  Ohio,  at  Charlestown  (Mass.)  navy  yard,  and  trans- 
ferred from  there  to  the  headquarters  of  the  Mississippi  squadron  at 
Mound  City,  111.,  where  he  was  surgeon  to  the  marine  barracks  and 
hospital.  He  was  on  duty  there  till  all  of  the  gunboats  were  mus- 
tered out  of  service  and  sold  at  auction,  and  received  an  honorable 
discharge  February  12,  1866.  He  then  went  to  New  York  city, 
where  he  followed  the  hospitals  until  May,  when  he  removed  to 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  where  he  has  since  been  in  active  practice  of  med- 
icine and  surgery.  In  October,  1869,  he  married  Almeda  N.  Tir- 
rell  of  Nashua,  They  have  a  family  of  four  children,  Frederick  D., 
who  graduated  from  Amherst  college  and  Harvard  Medical  school, 
and  who  is  now  associated  with  his  father  in  practice ;  Frank  B., 
who  also  graduated  at  Amherst  college  and  Yale  Divinity  school, 
and  who  has  been  pastor  over  the  church  at  Bedford,  Mass.,  for  four 
years ;  Grace  T.,  who  is  at  home,  and  Helen  W.,  who  is  a  student  at 
Mt.  Holyoke  college.  Dr.  McAllister,  with  his  family,  are  members 
of  the  Lawrence  Street  Congregational  church. 


PHYSICIANS.  459 

The  doctor  was  early  associated  with  the  G.  A.  R.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Needham  post,  No.  39,  G.  A.  R.,  Department  of  Massachusetts, 
and  has  been  surgeon  of  the  post  continuously  nearly  since  its  organ- 
ization. He  is  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  society,  and 
a  counselor  of  the  society  from  Xorth  Essex  district.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Lawrence  Medical  club  since  its  organization,  and 
was  for  many  years  on  the  active  staff  of  the  Lawrence  General  hos- 
pital, and  is  at  present  one  of  the  consulting  staff;  a  member  of 
the  board  of  examiners  for  Lawrence  training  school  for  nurses,  and 
has  been  on  the  board  of  L'nited  States  pension  examiners  for  Law- 
rence district  for  several  years,  and  is  at  present  president  of  the 
board. 

Dr.  McAllister  has  had  a  long  experience  in  his  profession,  and 
from  one  of  the  youngest  has  come  to  be  one  of  the  oldest  physi- 
cians in  active  practice  in  the  vicinity  of  Lawrence. 

Frank  William  Patten,  M.  D.,  was  bora  in  Bedford,  May  9,  1852. 
He  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Keziah  (Parker)  Patten.  After  attend- 
ing the  Bedford  schools  he  fitted  for  college  at  the  Manchester  high 
school,  and  his  home  was  in  that  city  from  1874.  He  entered  Dart- 
mouth college  in  1873,  but  soon  after  the  death  of  his  father,  he  en- 
tered the  office  of  Dr.  W.  W.  Wilkins  of  Manchester,  to  begin  the 
study  of  medicine.  He  was  graduated  from  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  New  York  city,  in  March,  1877. 

He  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  in  Octo- 
ber, 1877,  where  he  soon  had  a  large  practice  that  extended  over 
miles  of  Middlesex  county,  and  where  he  remained  until  the  financial 
resources  of  the  town  and  the  need  of  an  easier  life  induced  him  to 
move  to  Boston,  August  1,  1899. 

But  the  families  who  had  depended  on  him  so  many  years  were 
unwilling  to  give  him  up,  so  in  connection  with  a  large  private  prac- 
tice and  dispensary  work  in  Boston,  he  was  obliged  to  make  many 
trips  to  Hopkinton  every  month,  making  his  lif e  doubly  hard.  Early 
on  the  morning  of  November  16,  1900,  he  was  called  to  a  patient 
only  a  few  doors  from  his  own  home,  and  hurrying  up  four  flights  of 
stairs  to  the  bedside,  without  warning  the  end  came,  and  with  the 
well-known  kindly  smile  on  his  face  he  went  to  meet  the  Great 
Physician. 

Dr.  Patten  was  a  close  student,  passionately  fond  of  his  chosen 
profession,  and  deeply  interested  in  all  who  came  to  him,  in  what- 
ever station  in  life  they  might  be.  He  kept  in  touch  with  other 
physicians  by  attending  the  meetings  of  all  medical  associations  near 
him,  and  for  many  years  held  different  offices  in  Thurber  Medical 
association  of  Milford,  Mass.  His  papers  read  before  that  society 
were  published  in  numerous  medical  magazines  and  largely  quoted 
and  copied. 

Dr.  Patten  was  married  September  20,  1876,  to  Harriette  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  William  Bailey  of  Manchester,  who  survives  him, 
with  two  sons,  William  Everett  and  Clarence  Wesley,  also  a  daugh- 


460  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ter,  Bertha  Alice,  one  son  having  died  in  infancy.  Dr.  Patten  en- 
joyed the  social  life  of  fraternal  orders,  being  a  member  and  past 
master  of  John  Warren  lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Hopkinton,  and 
also  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arch  chapter,  the  O.  E.  S.,  the  A.  O. 
U.  W.,  and  K.  of  H.,  in  all  of  which  he  had  held  many  offices.  He 
also  kept  up  his  love  of  music,  acting  as  organist  in  different  orders. 
He  was  deeply  interested  in  the  youth  of  Hopkinton,  and  had  served 
a  number  of  years  on  the  school  committee,  and  was  also  town  physi- 
cian and  chairman  of  board  of  health  many  years.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Congregational  church  in  Hopkinton,  acting  for  a  time  as 
treasurer,  and  was  a  sincere  and  conscientious  Christian.  The  funeral 
services  and  burial  were  at  Manchester. 

The  following  is  a  quotation  from  the  Dartmouth  class  of  '77  re- 
port :  "  Dr.  Patten,  though  his  connection  with  as  at  Hanover  was 
only  for  a  year,  was  strongly  attached  to  the  class,  and  was  present 
at  our  reunions  in  1887  and  1897.  No  one  of  our  non-graduate 
members  could  be  more  deeply  mourned." 

Dr.  George  W.  Sargent,  son  of  George  W.  and  Maria  (Barr)  Sar- 
gent, graduated  in  1879  at  the  medical  college  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
after  three  years  of  study  there,  one  winter  at  the  Dartmouth  Medi- 
cal college,  and  two  winters  at  the  medical  college  of  Vermont  uni- 
versity at  Burlington. 

He  commenced  practice  at  Skaneateles,  N.  Y.,  where  he  lived  five 
years,  removing  to  Seneca  Castle,  N.  Y.,  in  1884,  where  he  still 
remains. 

Dr.  Alice  Bird  (French)  Mills,  youngest  child  of  Stephen  and 
Sallie  (Foster)  French,  entered  the  medical  school  of  Boston  univer- 
sity in  1877.  She  took  the  full  course  of  three  years,  and  received 
her  degree  in  April,  1880.  The  same  month  she  married  Prof. 
Henry  Mills  of  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  and  went  into  practice  with 
him  in  that  city.  For  twelve  years  they  conducted  a  sanatorium ; 
then  Dr.  Mills  entered  general  practice. 

After  the  death  of  Professor  Mills  in  1897  Dr.  Mills  broke  up  her 
home  and  went  abroad  for  a  year  and  a  half,  spending  most  of  the 
time  in  Syria  and  Palestine. 

Soon  after  her  return,  in  August,  1901,  she  went  into  medical 
mission  work  under  the  Woman's  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  has  now  been  two  years  among  the  moun- 
taineers of  "  Appalachian  America." 

Of  a  strongly  religious  nature  from  a  child  she  finds  great  oppor- 
tunities and  greater  satisfaction  in  ministering  to  the  souls  and  bodies 
of  those  shut-in  people.  Her  work  is  on  the  Coal  river,  Dry  Creek, 
Raleigh  county,  West  Virginia. 

Frederick  Clarence  Newton,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  Milford,  N.  H., 
December  15,  1858.  In  1862  his  parents  moved  to  Bedford.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  that  town.  After  the  death  of 
his  father,  Elbridge  Gould  Newton,  January  28,  1874,  he  went 
to    Phillips    academy,   Andover,   Mass.,   where    he    graduated    in 


PHYSICIANS.  461 

1878.  After  one  year  at  Dartmouth  college  he  began  the  study 
of  medicine  in  the  University  of  Xew  York,  and  graduated  in  1882. 
He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  that  year  in  Chicago,  and 
soon  built  up  a  lucrative  business.  He  was  assistant  demonstrator  of 
anatomy  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  Chicago  until 
his  death,  and  acquired  a  good  reputation  as  a  skilful  surgeon.  In 
1884  he  married  Josephine  H.  Martin,  of  Manchester,  X.  H.  In 
December  of  1886  a  neighboring  physician  engaged  him  to  perform 
intubation  on  a  little  girl  who  was  very  sick  with  diphtheria.  During 
the  operation  the  child  accidentally  bit  Dr.  Xewton  in  his  finger. 
From  this  wound  he  took  the  disease  and  died  January  12,  1887. 
He  is  buried  in  Milford,  1ST.  H. 

"  Life  is  not  measured  by  years." 

George  Wentworth  Xewton,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  Milford,  X.  H., 
December  11,  1860.  His  parents  moved  to  Bedford  in  1862.  After 
the  death  of  his  father,  Elbridge  Gould  Xewton,  in  1874,  he  attended 
school  for  a  few  months  at  the  academy  at  Derry,  and  soon  after 
entered  Phillips  academy  at  Andover,  Mass.,  where  he  graduated  in 

1879.  After  engaging  in  business  in  Boston  part  of  a  year,  he  com- 
menced the  study  of  medicine  in  the  University  of  Xew  York,  where 
he  remained  one  year,  and  then  entered  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, at  Philadelphia,  where  he  graduated  with  honor  in  1884. 

After  practising  a  few  months  in  Hudson,  Mass.,  he  decided  that 
a  small  town  offered  too  small  opportunities,  so  he  decided  to  move 
to  Chicago.  In  the  fall  of  1884  he  opened  an  office  in  Chicago,  111., 
and  soon  built  up  a  profitable  practice.  Besides  attending  to  his 
private  practice  he  was  connected  with  one  of  the  city  dispensaries, 
which  afforded  him  a  large  field  for  the  study  of  disease. 

After  the  death  of  his  brother,  Dr.  Frederick  C.  Xewton,  in  1887, 
he  combined  his  brother's  practice  with  his  own.  In  May,  1887,  he 
married  Jennette  Jackson,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.  In  their  home  at 
Chicago  they  have  had  two  sons  born,  Harold  Jackson  and  Frederick 
Albert.  He  has  made  surgery  a  specialty,  and  in  1897  was  elected 
to  the  chair  of  professor  of  gynecology  in  the  Chicago  Post-Graduate 
school  and  policlinic,  and  visiting  gynecologist  at  the  West  Side 
hospital.  In  1901  he  was  elected  instructor  in  gynecology  in  the 
medical  department  of  the  University  of  Illinois,  and  in  1902  was 
appointed  associate  professor  of  clinical  gynecology  in  the  same  uni- 
versity. 

He  has  written  several  articles  for  medical  journals,  which  have 
attracted  wide  attention.  He  has  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  and 
is  recognized  by  his  fellow  practitioners  as  an  able  operator  and 
acute  diagnostician. 


Lawyers. 


Since  Piscataquog  was  taken  from  Bedford  there  has  been  no  law- 
yer's office  in  the  town.  The  lawyers  who  had  practised  in  Bedford 
had  their  offices  in  Piscataquog  village.  An  attempt  has  been  made 
to  bring  into  this  chapter  a  brief  notice  of  all  of  the  lawyers  who 
have  resided  here  or  who  were  born  here. 

The  first  lawyer  who  settled  in  Bedford  was  James  Underwood, 
son  of  Judge  Underwood  of  Litchfield.  He  had  a  house  a  little 
north  of  Frederic  Hodgman's.     It  is  said  he  became  deranged. 

James  Parker,  Esq.,  came  from  Litchfield  to  Bedford  and  opened 
an  office  in  Piscataquog  village  in  the  spring  of  1805,  and  continued 
in  the  practice  of  law  until  his  death,  which  occurred  March  26, 
1822.  He  was  the  son  of  Matthew  Parker,  and  married  Mary 
Parker. 

Isaac  McGaw,  Esq.,  son  of  Jacob  McGaw  of  Merrimack,  came  to 
Bedford,  opened  an  office  in  Piscataquog  village,  April,  1810,  and 
continued  the  practice  of  law  until  June  1,  1819.  He  then  left 
Bedford,  married,  and  settled  in  Windham,  N.  H.  He  now  (1850) 
resides  with  a  married  daughter  in  Merrimack.  He  graduated  from 
college  in  1807. 

Jonas  B.  Bowman,  Esq.,  came  to  Bedford,  March  26,  1818.  He 
went  into  partnership  with  James  Parker,  Esq.,  and  continued  with 
him  in  the  practice  of  law  until  the  death  of  his  partner,  when  he 
took  the  office,  and  has  been  in  the  practice  of  law  to  the  present 
time  (1850),  having  had  the  last  few  years  an  office  in  Manchester. 

James  McKeen  Wilkins,  Esq.,  came  to  Bedford,  October  20,  1819, 
opened  an  office  in  William  P.  Riddle's  store,  and  continued  here  in 
the  practice  of  law  until  June  3,  1840,  when  he  moved  to  Man- 
chester. 

John  Porter,  Jr.,  came  to  Bedford  from  Londonderry,  and  went 
into  J.  B.  Bowman's  office  in  company,  October  5,  1835.  Went  to 
Manchester  in  1839. 

Among  the  attorneys-at-law  who  were  born,  or  have  resided  in 
Bedford,  but  who  practised  elsewhere,  were : 

Benjamin  Orr,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Houston)  Orr,  was  born 
December  1,  1772.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth  college  in  1798, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1802,  settling  at  Brunswick,  Me. 
He  had  a  very  extensive  practice  in  that  state,  and  served  one  term 
in  congress.     He  died  in  1828. 

Joseph  Bell,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Houston)  Bell,  was  born 


LAWYERS.  463 

March  21, 1787.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth  college  in  1807,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  and  settled  at  Haverhill,  X.  H.  In  1846  he 
moved  to  Boston,  and  became  very  eminent  in  the  profession.  He 
was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Massachusetts  state  senate. 

William  Gordon,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Campbell)  Gordon, 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  college  in  1811.  He  established  a  law 
office  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  died  in  1835  from  inflammation  of 
the  lungs  in  consequence  of  an  injury  from  a  passing  carriage  while 
handing  a  letter  to  a  stage-driver. 

Adam  Gordon,  son  of  Josiah  and  Jane  (Walker)  Gordon,  gradu- 
ated from  Dartmouth  college  in  1817  ;  he  studied  law  at  Cambridge 
and  settled  at  Pensacola,  Fla. ;  he  later  removed  to  Key  West,  and 
subsequently  came  to  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Robert  Orr,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Houston)  Orr,  was  born 
December  23,  1797,  graduated  from  Yale  college  in  1820.  He 
studied  law  with  his  brother  Benjamin  at  Brunswick,  Me.,  and 
opened  an  office  at  Topsham.     He  died  in  1829. 

John  Aiken,  son  of  Phineas  and  Elizabeth  (Patterson)  Aiken, 
was  born  January  30,  1797,  in  Bedford ;  died  February  10,  1867,  in 
Andover,  Mass.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1819,  and  was  a 
classmate  of  Rufus  Choate.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  a 
teacher  of  Burr  seminary,  Manchester,  Vt.,  where  he  entered  into 
the  practice  of  law,  but  soon  removed  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he 
became  the  agent  in  charge  of  the  Lawrence,  Suffolk,  and  Tremont 
mills.  About  1849  he  removed  to  Andover,  Mass.,  having  a  busi- 
ness office  in  Boston  as  treasurer  of  the  Cocheco  Manufacturing 
company,  Dover,  X.  H.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Dartmouth,  Phillips 
Andover  academy,  Andover  Theological  seminary ;  deacon  in  the 
Congregational  church,  Lowell  and  Andover;  Bible  scholar  and 
teacher,  and  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  state  council.  He 
married,  November  14,  1826,  Harriet  Russell  Adams,  daughter  of 
Prof.  Ebenezer  Adams  of  Dartmouth.  He  married,  second,  May 
28,  1832,  Mary  Means  Apple  ton,  daughter  of  Pres.  Jesse  Appleton, 
of  Bowdoin  college. 

Charles  Aiken,  son  of  Phineas  and  Elizabeth  (Patterson)  Aiken, 
was  born  March  2,  1802,  in  Bedford ;  died  May  5,  1894,  in  Santa 
Cruz,  Cal.;  married  May  2,  1839,  Adeline  Willey  of  Campton,  N".  H. 
He  was  a  man  of  many  remarkable  characteristics,  a  lawyer  and 
member  of  the  bar  for  seventy  years,  practising  at  Chester  and  Mid- 
dlebury,  Vt.,  Appleton,  Wis.,  and  San  Francisco,  Cal.  He  was 
honored  with  A.  M.  from  Dartmouth  in  1872. 

David  Aiken,  son  of  Phineas  and  Elizabeth  (Patterson)  Aiken, 
was  born  June  7,  1804,  in  Bedford;  died  April  13,  1895,  in  Green- 
field, Mass.;  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1830 ;  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1833  ;^  practised  law  at  Greenfield,  Mass.  He  was  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
senate  in  1882.     He  married,  October  24,  1844,  Lydia  A.  Root,  who 


464  .  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

died  November  13,  1846.  He  married,  second,  Margaret  E.  Adams, 
daughter  of  John  S.  Adams,  Amherst,  Mass. 

Peter  Trask  Woodbury,  son  of  Peter  P.  and  Martha  (Riddle) 
Woodbury,  was  born  May  8,  1820.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth 
college  in  1839,  and,  upon  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  located  at 
Troy,  N.  Y.,  later  removing  to  New  York  city.  He  was  made  judge 
advocate-general  of  the  navy  in  1858,  and  was  for  many  years  a 
partner  of  President  Chester  A.  Arthur.    He  died  in  March,  1862. 

William  Riddle  Woodbury,  son  of  Peter  P.  and  Martha  (Riddle) 
Woodbury,  was  born  December  31,  1821.  He  graduated  from 
Dartmouth  college  in  1843,  and  practised  law  at  Sheboygan,  Wis. 
He  died  in  Bedford  May  27,  1860. 

James  Woodruff  Savage,  son  of  Thomas  and  Lucy  (Woodruff) 
Savage,  was  born  February  2,  1826.  He  graduated  from  Harvard 
college  in  1847,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  city  in 
1850.  He  practised  law  there  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil 
war,  when  he  served  on  the  staff  of  General  Fremont,  and  after- 
wards was  colonel  of  a  regiment  of  New  York  cavalry.  After  the 
war  he  removed  to  Omaha,  and  became  one  of  the  leaders  of  the 
Nebraska  bar.  He  was  elected  to  a  judgeship,  was  government 
director  of  the  Union  Pacific  railroad,  and  held  many  other  posi- 
tions of  trust.     He  died  November  22,  1890. 

William  Quincy  Riddle,  son  of  William  P.  and  Sally  (Ferguson) 
Riddle,  was  born  June  8,  1828,  in  Bedford  (Piscataquog)  ;  died, 
April  5,  1895,  in  New  York  city,  and  was  buried  in  the  family  tomb 
at  Bedford.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the  town, 
was  a  student  at  Yale  but  graduated  at  Harvard,  and  practised  law 
in  New  York  city.  He  volunteered  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  to 
aid  in  the  checking  and  turning  back  of  the  rebel  army  from  the 
state  of  Pennsylvania  when  on  its  way  to  capture  New  York,  Phila- 
delphia, and  Washington.  He  was  largely  identified  as  an  organizer 
and  early  member  of  the  Union  League  club  of  New  York. 

William  Stark,  son  of  Frederick  G.  Stark,  Esq.,  graduated  from 
college  in  1850.     Although  admitted  to  the  bar  he  did  not  practice.1 

Josiah  Gordon  Woodbury,  son  of  Peter  P.  and  Eliza  B.  G.  Wood- 
bury, was  born  July  27,  1833.  He  graduated  from  Brown  univer- 
sity in  1857  and  the  Harvard  Law  school.  He  opened  an  office  at 
Indianapolis,  and  conducted  it  until  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war, 
when  he  returned  to  Bedford  and  entered  the  navy  as  paymaster. 
He  was  killed  on  board  the  monitor  Catskill,  in  front  of  Battery 
Wagner,  at  Charleston,  August  7,  1863. 

Charles  H.  Woodbury,  son  of  Peter  P.  and  Eliza  B.  G.  Wood- 
bury, was  born  March  10,  1840,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  Law 

1  Frederick  G.  Stark  was  a  "side"  judge,  as  it  was  called.  He  sold  his  land  near 
where  the  American  Locomotive  company  works  are,  on  the  banks  of  the  Locks  and 
Canal  company's  land  running  to  the  river,  and  moved  to  Bedford  about  1835.  He 
was  called  Judge  Stark  because  he  sat  on  the  bench  beside  the  court  during  the 
trial  of  actions  in  the  county  court.  His  duty  was  to  pass  upon  the  accounts  of  the 
county  as  county  commissioners  now  do. 


LAWYERS.  465 

School.  He  studied  law  with  Herman  Foster  in  Manchester,  and  went 
to  New  York  in  1862,  on  the  death  of  his  brother,  Peter  Trask,  and 
assumed  his  business.  He  continued  in  practice  there  until  his  sud- 
den death  at  his  Bedford  home,  September  12, 1893.  He  was  offered 
the  position  of  associate  justice  of  the  United  States  supreme  court 
by  President  Cleveland  to  succeed  Justice  Blatchford,  his  knowledge 
of  maritime  law  being  regarded  as  especially  qualifying  him  for  the 
position. 

Thomas  Savage,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Webster)  Savage,  was 
born  January  20, 1852.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Pinkerton  academy, 
and  graduated  from  Dartmouth  college  in  1873.  He  went  to  Flor- 
ida with  an  engagement  to  teach  after  having  been  admitted  to  the 
bar,  studying  with  Judge  Cross  in  Manchester,  and  was  soon  made 
district  attorney  for  the  southern  district  of  Florida,  by  President 
Grant.  In  1876  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Allen  &  Long  in  Bos- 
ton, and  later  became  a  member  of  the  firm  whose  title  was  Allen, 
Long  &  Savage,  the  Long  being  ex-Governor  and  ex- Secretary 
John  D.  Long.  He  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  aldermen  of 
Maiden,  Mass.,  and  city  solicitor  there.  He  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice in  the  United  States  supreme  court  in  1879.  He  was  a  Mason, 
and  a  widely-known  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artil- 
lery company  of  Boston,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  had  risen 
therein  to  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant.  He  died  January  31,  1899, 
the  result  of  a  serious  accident  in  being  thrown  from  a  street  car. 

John  Foster,  son  of  George  and  Salome  (Little)  Foster,  was  born 
at  Warner,  X.  H.,  March  5,  1852,  and  came  to  Bedford  in  1868, 
where  he  resided  until  1880,  representing  the  town  in  the  legisla- 
ture in  1879.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth  college  in  1876.  He 
studied  law  with  Briggs  &  Huse  in  Manchester,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1878.  He  removed  to  Manchester  in  1880,  and  con- 
tinued in  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  for  about  twenty  years, 
when  his  health  broke  down. 

Gordon  Woodbury,  son  of  Freeman  P.  and  Harriet  (McGaw) 
Woodbury,  was  born  in  Xew  York  city,  September  17,  1863.  He 
graduated  from  Harvard  college  in  1886,  and  from  the  Columbia 
Law  school.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1888,  and  practised  for 
one  year  in  Xew  York  city.  He  then  came  to  Bedford,  having  an 
office  in  Manchester  in  company  with  L.  B.  Clough.  He  ceased  to 
practice  in  1896,  having  become  treasurer  of  the  F/nion  Publishing 
company. 

Wallace  B.  Clement,  son  of  Xathan  W.  and  Augusta  C.  Clement, 
was  born  in  Manchester,  January  24,  1866.  He  moved  to  Bedford 
with  his  parents  in  1876,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  1894. 
He  studied  law  with  Briggs  &  Huse  and  Henry  E.  Burnham  of 
Manchester,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1888.  His  office  has 
always  been  in  Manchester,  where  he  still  resides. 
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The  French   War. 


The  history  of  Bedford  is  concerned  only  with  the  French  war, 
which  began  in  1744,  was  temporarily  interrupted  by  the  Peace 
of  Aix-la-Chapelle  in  1748 ;  was  renewed  again  in  1750,  and  con- 
tinued until  the  fall  of  Montreal  and  the  final  conquest  of  Canada  in 
1760.  With  the  old  French  war,  as  it  was  called  on  this  side  of 
the  water,  or  what  is  known  in  England  as  Queen  Anne's  war,  and 
which  began  in  1710,  and  terminated  by  the  treaty  of  Utrecht  in 
1713,  our  town  was  not  concerned. 

The  immediate  and  the  more  remote  causes  which  led  up  to  the 
War  of  1744  did  not  have  then-  origin  on  this  continent,  but  grew 
out  of  European  continental  politics. 

At  first  blush  it  would  seem  as  if  the  interests  of  the  settlers  in 
this  (then)  remote  wilderness  could  not  be  involved  in  a  quarrel 
between  the  remote  personages  who  occupied  thrones  three  thou- 
sand miles  away,  but  it  is  the  testimony  of  the  time  that  their  eager- 
ness and  alacrity  in  entering  upon  the  war,  and  the  immediate  suc- 
cess which  attended  the  first  enterprise,  which  was  distinctively  their 
own,  aroused  the  excited  admiration  of  both  Europe  and  America- 
Why  should  these  early  settlers  of  Bedford  care  for  these  quarrels 
of  distant  sovereigns  ? 

While  our  forefathers  had  little  knowledge  of  European  politics, 
long  experience  had  taught  them  that  no  firm  and  lasting  peace  on 
this  continent  was  possible  with  the  French  and  their  Indian  allies 
on  the  north.  The  settlement  of  New  France  had  been  accom- 
panied by  one  long- continued  and  well-planned  attempt  of  the 
French  governors  to  stretch  a  chain  of  forts  and  trading  posts  from 
Quebec  on  the  north  to  Louisiana  on  the  south.  These  fortifications 
would  form  a  dotted  line  along  the  principal  waterways  between 
the  two  points.  Ascending  the  St.  Lawrence  from  Quebec  they 
fortified  the  Island  of  Montreal  and  established  there  a  colony; 
through  the  Thousand  Islands  to  Niagara,  and  we  find  another  fort ; 
again  at  Oswego,  on  the  shore  of  Lake  Erie,  was  another  fort ; 


THE   FRENCH    WAR.  467 

again  at  Venango ;  then  at  Detroit  and  Mackinaw,  and  so  on  to  the 
far  West.  From  Venango  to  the  junction  of  the  Monongahela 
and  Allegheny  rivers  and  we  come  to  Fort  Duquesne,  as  they 
called  it,  or  after  its  capture  by  the  British,  Fort  Pitt,  and  now 
Pittsburg. 

Between  Montreal  and  Quebec  the  River  Richelieu  empties  the 
water  of  Lake  Champlain  into  the  St.  Lawrence,  and  gives  an  easy 
entrance  to  the  heart  of  the  English  settlements.  A  canoe  can 
readily  pass  through  it  up  Lake  Champlain ;  from  Lake  Champlain 
a  short  carry  around  the  falls  of  Ticbnderoga  brings  the  voyager  to 
Lake  George,  and  threading  his  way  among  its  many  islands  he 
found  at  its  head  that  he  was  within  easy  marching  distance  of  Fort 
Edward  and  Albany. 

Where  Lake  Champlain  narrows  near  its  head  to  form  Crown 
Point  extensive  fortifications  were  begun  in  1727.  At  the  fall  of 
the  waters  of  Lake  George  into  Lake  Champlain  at  Ticonderoga,  as 
the  Indians  call  it  (known  by  the  French  as  Fort  Carillon),  still 
more  complete  and  elaborate  defences  were  completed  about  1730, 
and  served  to  hem  in  the  English  settlements  on  the  north  and 
west. 

The  nature  of  the  country  along  the  shores  of  Lake  George,  from 
Ticonderoga  at  its  foot  to  Fort  Edward  near  its  head,  did  not  fur- 
nish a  site  for  fortifications  which  appealed  to  the  engineers  of  the 
time.  At  the  head  of  the  lake,  however,  there  was  erected  by  the 
British  a  fort  which  they  called  Fort  William  Henry.  This  was  in 
1755. 

There  seemed  to  be  something  in  the  character  of  the  French  col- 
onists which  admitted  of  closer  assimilation  with  their  Indian  neigh- 
bors than  was  the  case  with  the  English.  The  French  colonists 
frequently  married  Indians,  and  most  of  the  western  settlements  of 
Canada  at  that  time  were  peopled  by  a  race  of  half-breeds  who 
seemed  to  share  the  vices  of  both  the  races  from  which  they  sprang, 
but  to  divide  none  of  their  merits.  The  first  Frenchman  (De  La 
Salle)  to  paddle  up  Lake  Champlain  had  incurred  for  his  country- 
men the  lasting  hostility  of  the  most  powerful  tribe  of  Indians  on 
the  North  American  continent,  the  Iroquois,  or  Six  Nations.  This 
was  a  tribe,  or  confederation  of  tribes,  whose  headquarters  were  at 
Onondaga,  in  the  Mohawk  valley  in  New  York,  and  their  name  be- 
came a  terror  to  the  settlers  as  far  east  as  Quebec  and  as  far  west  as 
Duluth,  and  as  far  south  as  the  Ohio.     It  was  the  policy  of  the  Eng- 


468  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

lish  governors  to  play  upon  the  hereditary  hostility  to  the  French, 
which  these  Indians  displayed,  and  every  effort  was  made  to  buy  and 
wheedle  them  into  alliances  with  the  English.  On  the  other  hand,  it 
was  the  policy  of  the  French  to  make  difficult  the  settlement  of  the 
dreary  wilderness  which,  stretching  from  Exeter  and  Portsmouth, 
and  west  to  Lake  George,  reached  north  to  the  river  St.  Lawrence. 

To  accomplish  this  they  therefore  maintained  a  standing  bounty 
for  English  scalps,  and  through  their  priests,  promised  abundant  in- 
dulgence in  this  world,  and  a  future  of  unmixed  happiness  in  the 
next,  to  every  war  party  which  should  return  with  a  record  of  plun- 
dered settlements  and  butchered  women  and  children  from  the  Eng- 
lish frontier. 

It  must  have  been  the  daily  anticipation  of  the  early  settlers  in  our 
town  of  meeting  or  hearing  of  war  parties  from  Canada  who  had 
come  up  the  Richelieu  river,  carried  over  into  the  head  waters  of 
the  Connecticut,  come  down  the  Connecticut,  usually  as  far  as 
Charlestown,  and  so  passed  on  their  way  southward.  They  knew 
that  warfare  against  the  Indian  alone  was  comparatively  simple,  but 
when  combined  with  his  half-breed  relative  and  commanded  by  the 
regular  officers  of  the  French  army,  the  conflict  was  sure  to  be  un- 
certain, and  if  decided  against  them,  certain  death  or  slavery,  worse 
than  death,  was  the  result.  Accordingly,  we  gain  in  this  aspect  of  the 
situation  an  insight  into  the  eagerness  with  which  the  colonists  of 
the  time  were  ready  to  tax  themselves  and  to  contribute  men  and 
money  for  the  expeditions  which  the  king  would  set  on  foot  to  re- 
duce Canada.  A  state  of  smouldering  war  seems  to  have  existed 
from  about  1690  to  1760  between  the  French-Indian  colonists  on  the 
one  hand  and  the  English  on  the  other,  and  the  period  was  punc- 
tuated by  seasons  when  well-organized  effort  was  made  by  the  royal 
authorities  to  cooperate  with  the  colonists  and  bring  about  a  final 
settlement  of  the  situation.  Accordingly,  when  war  was  declared, 
in  1744,  the  colonial  governors  were  called  on  to  raise  men  and 
money  for  an  expedition  against  the  French.  Joseph  Blanchard,  of 
Dunstable,  was  commissioned  by  the  governor  of  New  Hampshire 
to  raise  a  regiment.  A  Bedford  man,  John  Goffe,  was  commis- 
sioned captain  in  it.  Elsewhere  we  have  told  the  story  of  two  other 
men  from  Bedford,  James  McQuaid  and  John  Burns,  who  went  to 
Penacook  (now  Concord)  to  purchase  corn  for  their  families ;  how 
one  of  them  (McQuaid)  was  killed  and  the  other  (Burns)  escaped. 
This  outrage  and  another  of  similar  character   at  Great   Meadows 


THE   FRENCH   WAR.  469 

(now  Walpole)  roused  the  governor.  Orders  were  issued  to  Colonel 
Blanchard  to  take  the  field,  and  he  detached  Captain  Goffe  to  scour 
the  woods  for  the  enemy. 

The  early  muster  rolls  give  nothing  as  to  the  place  of  residence  of 
the  people  whose  names  they  contain.  John  Goffe  was  an  officer  in 
the  militia  forces  almost  continuously  from  the  beginning  of  the 
trouble  which  the  colonists  had  with  the  French  and  Indians  until 
its  close  in  1760.  The  greater  portion  of  that  time  he  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Bedford,  and  the  remainder  of  it  his  home  was  just  across 
the  river  at  Goffe's.  What  other  Bedford  people  were  in  the  ser- 
vice during  this  period  is  not  absolutely  certain.  There  are  sur- 
names upon  those  rolls  such  as  were  held  by  families  then  perma- 
nently settled,  as  known  from  lists  of  1744  and  1751,  printed  else- 
where, and  we  also  find  a  few  names  identically  the  same  in  the  lat- 
ter and  upon  the  rolls.  On  the  roll  of  those  who  served  under  Capt. 
John  Goffe  in  guarding  Souhegan,  Monson,  and  Stark  garrisons  in 
1748,  is  found  the  name  Benjamin  Smith.  There  was  in  Bedford  at 
that  time  not  only  a  Benjamin  Smith,  but  three,  and  as  the  designa- 
tions "  2d  "  and  "3d  "  are  found,  it  rs  probable  that  they  were  all  of 
one  family.  Close  to  Smith's  name  on  the  roll  is  "  John  Lunn,"  and 
upon  the  list  of  residents  of  1751  we  find  "Jonathan  Lyon."  There 
were  also  in  this  company  "  Jonathan  Corlass  "  and  "  Hugh  Blair." 
*'  Corliss  "  and  "  Blare  "  families  were  then  living  in  Bedford.  May 
not  these  have  been  boys  of  the  families  V 

The  roll  of  another  company  commanded  by  Goffe  in  scouting  "  on 
the  frontiers  "  later  in  the  same  year  (1748)  contains  the  name  of 
John  Little,  and  a  person  of  that  name  then  lived  in  Bedford. 
Other  names  in  that  company  are :  Thomas  Chandler,  Jr.,  Isaac 
Chandler,  Jr.,  Joseph  Taylor,  Thomas  Taylor,  and  Joseph  Walker. 
Among  the  names  of  settlers  residing  on  the  Merrimack  river  bank 
in  Bedford  in  1744  were :  Thomas  Chandler,  John  Taylor,  James, 
Robert,  and  Alexander  Walker.  The  query  naturally  arises  were 
the  scouts  bearing  their  surnames  members  of  their  families  ? 

The  demand  upon  the  province  for  men  in  the  expeditions 
against  Crown  Point  in  1756,  1757,  and  1758  was  largely  responded 
to,  and  it  seems  certain  that  a  number  of  Bedford  men  must  have 
enlisted  therein.  In  the  regiment  of  1756,  in  the  seventh  company, 
commanded  by  "Major  John  Goffe,"  a  son  of  Colonel  John,  and 
whose  son  John  was  ensign  of  the  same  company,  all  of  Bedford, 
were   Thomas   McLaughlin   and   William    and    Timothy    Barron. 


470  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Thomas  "  Meglotherin  "  had  been  a  resident  of  Bedford,  and  so  had 
"Lev*  Moses  Barron." 

In  the  regiment  (sixth  company)  that  went  out  in  1757,  and  a 
part  of  which  were  in  the  massacre  at  Fort  William  Henry,  were 
men  with  these  names  :  Jonathan  Corliss,  Jr.,  Asa  Corliss,  Thomas 
and  Robert  Kennedy,  Benjamin  and  John  Kidder,  William  McDu- 
gal,  and  James  Patterson.     Such  families  resided  in  Bedford. 

Upon  the  roll  of  the  seventh  company  of  the  regiment  that  went 
out  in  1758,  under  Capt.  Alexander  Todd  of  Chester  (now  Hook- 
sett)  are  the  names:  William  McDugal,  Robert  Walker,  Joseph 
Linn,  Joseph  Moore,  Enoch  Moore,  James  Aiken,  James  Gilmore, 
John  McAllister,  John  McDugal,  and  Robert  Gilmore,  all  names  of 
families  early  settled  in  Bedford. 

As  the  men  selected  for  such  work  were  those  only  who  had 
some  reputation  for  sagacity  and  courage,  it  seems  a  fair  inference 
that  their  leader  must  have  possessed  those  qualities  in  a  marked 
degree. 

From  the  provincial  papers,  which  give  the  record  of  the  war- 
rants issued  to  pay  for  scouting  duty,  it  appears  that  from  1744 
until  the  Peace  of  Aix-La-Chapelle  in  1748,  Goffe  was  on  scouting 
duty  every  winter.  In  1747  he  petitioned  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil for  men  to  'guard  the  towns  of  Hollis  and  Souhegan-East 
(Bedford),  and  his  petition  was  granted.  Attacks  by  the  Indians 
were  frequent  through  the  whole  of  1747,  and  garrisons  to  protect 
the  inhabitants  were  established  at  Dunstable  (now  Nashua),  Mon- 
son  (now  Milford),  Souhegan  (now  Bedford),  Derryfield  (now 
Manchester),  Suncook,  Penacook,  Contoocook,  and  Canterbury. 
The  garrisons  at  Milford,  Bedford,  and  Derryfield  were  under  com- 
mand of  Captain  Goffe.1     Peace  was  made  (temporarily)  in  1748. 

«  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  vol.  46,  p.  86. 

Souhegan  East.*    May  ye  10th  1746 

Capt  Colborn.  Sr.  I  Have  Inlested  John  Marshell,  Juner.  John  Marsh,  Juner.  &. 
Ezekiel  Greley  into  my  Troop  which  I  hope  is  with  your  consent,  this  from  your 
friend  and  Seruant 

John  Chamberlin 

N.  H.  Military  History,  vol.  2,  p.  90. 

In  July  (1746)  two  men  were  posted  at  Goffe's  garrison  in  Bedford,  by  the  Gov- 
ernor's order,  as  appears  by  the  following  roll: 

A  Muster-Roll  of  two  men,  by  the  Governor's  order,  posted  at  Capt  John  Goffe's 
Garrison  £      s      d 

John  Sargent  entered  July  9  discharged  Oct  31 

115  days  6-2  6-5-5 

Henry  Flood,  entered  July  9.  discharged  Oct  31 

115  days  6-2  6-5-5 


Total  £12-10-10 

*  Now  Bedford. 


THE   FRENCH   WAR.  471 

The  boundary  commissioners,  who  were  appointed  under  the 
treaty  of  1748  to  settle  the  question  of  the  boundary  of  Acadia, 
debated  and  disputed  until  1753,  when,  it  appearing  that  a  peaceful 
determination  of  the  matter  was  impossible,  negotiations  were 
broken  off  and  hostilities  begun  again.  They  reached  no  acute 
stage,  however,  until  1755.  In  September  of  that  year  a  force  of 
Provincials  and  Regulars,  to  the  number  of  6,000  men,  were  assem- 
bled at  Albany.  John  "Lyman,  of  Massachusetts,  commanded  the 
New  England  contingent,  and  under  him  was  Colonel  Blanchard,  of 
Dunstable,  with  500  men.  Of  these,  three  companies  were  raised 
in  Derryfield ;  one  commanded  by  John  Goffe,  one  by  John  Moore, 
his  son-in-law,  and  a  third  by  the  afterwards  celebrated  Robert 
Rogers.  Their  duty  was  mainly  that  of  scouting,  or  "  ranging,"  as 
it  was  called,  and  here  we  quote  from  Parkman's  description  of 
them : 

These  rangers  wore  a  sort  of  woodland  uniform,  which  varied 
in  the  different  companies,  and  were  armed  with  smooth  bore  guns, 
loaded  with  buck  shot,  bullets,  or  sometimes  both.  The  best  of 
them  were  commonly  employed  on  Lake  George,  and  nothing  can 
surpass  the  adventurous  hardihood  of  their  lives.  Summer  and 
winter,  day  and  night  were  alike  to  them.  Embarked  in  whale 
boats  or  birch  canoes  they  glided  under  the  silent  moon  or  in  the 
languid  glare  of  a  breathless  August  day,  when  islands  floated  in 
dreamy  haze  and  the  hot  ah*  was  thick  with  odors  of  the  pine,  or  in 
the  bright  October  when  the  jay  screamed  from  the  woods,  squirrels 
gathered  their  winter  hoard  and  congregated  blackbirds  chatter 
farewell  to  their  summer  haunts ;  when  gay  mountains  basked  in 
light ;  maples  dropped  leaves  of  rustling  gold ;  sumachs  glowed  like 
rubies  under  the  dark  green  of  the  unchanging  spruce,  and  mossed 
rocks  with  all  their  painted  plumage  lay  double  in  the  water  mir- 
ror ;  that  festal  evening  of  the  year  when  jocund  nature  disrobes  ■ 
herself  to  wake  again  refreshed  in  the  joy  of  her  undying  spring. 
Or  in  the  tomb-like  silence  of  the  winter  forest,  with  breath  frozen 
on  his  beard,  the  ranger  strode  on  snowshoes  over  the  spotless  drifts, 
and  like  Durer's  knight,  a  ghastly  death  stalked  ever  at  his  side. 

Among  the  Bedford  men  who  were  enlisted  were  "William 
McDougall,  George  Orr,  Robert  Holmes,  Thomas  McLaughlin, 
Samuel  Patterson,  James  Patterson,  Nathaniel  Patterson,  John  Orr, 

Province  of  New  Hampshire 

In  the  House  of  Representatives  Dec  25  1746  Voted,  That  the  above  muster-roll  be 
allowed,  amounting  to  twelve  pounds  ten  shillings  and  ten  pence,  and  paid  to 
the  said  men  out  of  the  money  in  the  treasury  for  defense  of  the  Government 
&c.  D.  Pierce— Clerk 

In  Council:  Eod'm  Die- 
Read  and  concurred: 

Theodore  Atkinson— Sec'y 
In  Council  Dec  11th  1746 
Consented  to:  B.  Wentworth 


472  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

and  John  Moore.1  Moore  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  surrender  of 
Fort  William  Henry  in  1757  ;  carried  to  Brest  in  France,  served  in 
the  galleys ;  thence  he  escaped  to  England,  sailed  to  Boston,  was 
impressed  there  for  the  royal  navy,  and  after  being  two  years  at 
sea,  at  last  reached  home.  The  Bedford  men  in  Goffe's  company  of 
Blanchard's  regiment  assembled  at  Stewartstown  (now  Salisbury)  ; 
thence  they  marched  to  Charlestown,  or  ~No.  4,  as  it  was  called,  on 
the  Connecticut  river,  and  thence  by  Indian  trail  through  the 
woods  to  Albany.  They  were  posted  at  Fort  Edward  on  the  road 
from  Albany  to  the  head  of  Lake  George.  At  the  close  of  the 
battle  between  Baron  Dieskau  and  Sir  William  Johnson,  which  took 
place  in  September,  1755,2  over  the  possession  of  Fort  William 
Henry,  Goffe's  command  was  posted  so  as  to  fall  on  the  flank  of  the 
retreating  French.  This  they  did,  and  though  much  inferior  in 
numbers,  dispersed  them  utterly.  All  their  baggage  and  many 
prisoners  were  taken.  Upon  the  approach  of  winter,  the  English 
army  under  Sir  William  Johnson  was  disbanded  and  sent  home, 
with  the  exception  of  a  small  garrison  at  Fort  Edward,  and  another 
at  Fort  William  Henry.  Goffe  and  Moore,  with  their  Bedford  men, 
came  home,  but  Rogers  and  his  company  remained.  Their  exploits 
in  themselves  make  a  history. 

The  next  spring  another  expedition  was  organized  against  Crown 
Point  by  General  Shirley,  and  a  regiment  was  raised  in  New  Hamp- 
shire for  the  service.  It  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Meserve ; 
Goffe  was  its  major,  and  his  oldest  son,  John,  went  as  an  ensign. 
But  the  year  1756  was  one  of  inactivity  in  military  affairs,  and 
according  to  tbe  custom  of  the  time,  the  soldiers  were  withdrawn 
into  winter  quarters  by  October,  and  active  hostilities  were  at  an 
end  for  the  year.  The  fortification  at  the  head  of  Lake  George, 
which  Sir  William  Johnson  had  completed  in  1755  and  which  was 
known  by  the  name  of  Fort  William  Henry,  was  a  constant  source 
of  chagrin  and  irritation  to  the  French,  and  Montcalm,  their 
commander-in-chief,  determined  to  destroy  it.  Accordingly,  as 
early  as  March  of  1757,  he  made  his  first  attack  upon  it  from  Crown 
Point  and  Ticonderoga,  but  it  was  defended  by  the  rangers  so 
stoutly  that  he  was  compelled  to  withdraw,  though  his  force  num- 
bered some  1,500  men.    -With  the  opening  of  the  summer  of  1757, 

1  But  an  entry  of  M.  P.  diary  dated  June  10,  1760,  reads:  "  I  went  in  the  forenoon  to 
Hugh  Riddels  &  notified  his  Sons  to  go  to  Halifax  as  they  were  enlisted." 

2  June  ye  21st  1755 
Rec<i  of  Cap'  Sam"  moor  fifteen  Pound  of  bulets  of  the  provence-Stors-I  say  Rec<J 

Pr  John  Goffe 


THE   FRENCH    WAR.  473 

the  English  commander-in-chief,  the  Earl  of  London,  prepared  for 
aggressive  hostility  against  the  French.  His  attack  took  the  form 
of  a  joint  approach,  by  sea  against  Louisburg  and  by  land  against 
Crown  Point  and  Ticonderoga.  Troops  were  called  for  from  the 
colonies,  and  New  Hampshire  raised  1,000  men.  They  were  placed 
again  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Meserve,  and  John  Goffe  of 
Bedford  was  commissioned  lieutenant-colonel.  The  regiment  was 
divided.  One  battalion  in  command  of  Meserve  joined  the  'expedi- 
tion against  Louisburg;  the  other,  under  Goffe,  marched  from 
Charlestown  (No.  4),  on  the  Connecticut  river,  to  join  General 
Webb  at  Albany,  and  was  placed  by  him  with  the  other  contingents 
at  Fort  William  Henry  under  command  of  Colonel  Munroe. 

While  the  English  were  preparing  for  the  attack  of  Ticonderoga 
and  Crown  Point  the  French  were  not  idle.  Fort  William  Henry 
itself  was  attacked  by  them  with  an  army  of  8,000  men,  starting 
from  Ticonderoga  at  the  end  of  June,  and  guided  by  their  Indian 
allies.  Munroe  was  left  with  the  2,000  men  to  hold  his  fort  against 
this  force. 

Among  the  garrison  was  the  battalion  of  200  men  from  the  New 
Hampshire  regiment.  Besides  these  there  was  a  ranger  company, 
commanded  by  Richard  Rogers,  brother  of  the  famous  Robert 
Rogers. 

The  story  of  the  siege  and  capture  of  Fort  AVilliam  Henry  is 
a  moving  one.  Enough  to  say  that  after  repeated  calls  for  aid  and 
reinforcements  from  Webb,  their  general  commanding,  which  were 
refused,  after  their  ammunition  had  been  completely  exhausted  so 
that  cannon  and  muskets  lay  useless  on  the  ramparts,  after  an  inter- 
cepted letter  from  Webb  had  been  sent  into  the  fortress  by  Mont- 
calm, the  French  commander-in-chief,  advising  Monroe  to  capitulate 
upon  the  best  terms  obtainable,  then  and  then  only  was  the  place 
surrendered.  But  even  then  Monroe  would  yield  only  upon  terms 
and  these  were,  that  the  garrison  should  march  out  -with  the  honors 
of  war  with  their  arms,  baggage,  and  a  field  piece  and  that  they 
should  be  protected  from  the  outrages  of  the  savages.  On  these 
terms  they  yielded,  and  the  evacuation  began. 

The  stipulation  of  protection  from  Indian  outrage  upon  helpless 
captives  and  upon  the  women  and  children  in  the  fort  was  the  more 
necessary,  because  only  the  year  before  such  an  agreement  had  been 
made  at  the  surrender  of  Oswego,  and  yet  in  gross  violation  of  it 
twenty  English  prisoners  had  been  delivered  by  Montcalm  into  the 


474  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

hands  of  the  savages  for  torture.  But  at  William  Henry,  before 
the  English  had  left  the  fort,  the  Indians,  in  search  of  plunder,  had 
broken  into  the  spirit  room,  stove  in  the  rum  casks  and  were  drink- 
ing themselves  to  frenzy.  The  evacuation  began.  The  garrison, 
with  the  women  in  the  center,  marched  out.  The  New  Hampshire 
contingent  was  in  the  rear.  They  had  gone  but  a  short  distance 
when  by  a  preconcerted  signal,  the  savages  rushed  upon  them  all, 
sounding  the  war-whoop  and  brandishing  their  tomahawks.  No 
guard  had  been  furnished  by  Montcalm.  There  was  not  a  single 
round  of  powder  among  the  surrendered  garrison  and  only  the 
regular  troops  had  bayonets.  They  were  in  advance  and  were  not 
molested.  But  the  provincials  and  the  women  were  attacked  by 
the  savages  with  the  utmost  ferocity.  They  were  killed  in  scores, 
and  those  who  were  taken  prisoners  were  reserved  for  torture. 
The  exact  number  of  the  slaughtered  cannot  be  ascertained,  but  it 
is  estimated  as  being  from  500  to  1,500. 

The  whole  transaction  sent  a  shudder  of  horror  through  the 
country,  and  remains  till  now  an  indelible  stain  on  the  honor  of  its 
responsible  author,  the  Marquis  of  Montcalm. 

Of  the  200  New  Hampshire  soldiers,  80  were  killed  or  made 
prisoners. 

The  losses  of  Colonel  Goffe  were  stated  by  him  at  £  178  15  s., 
and  this  sum  was  reimbursed  to  him  by  the  New  Hampshire  legis- 
lature the  next  year.  From  his  experience  in  such  occurrences  we 
can  gain  an  idea  of  how  he  and  others  like  him  must  have  regarded 
the  French  and  how  they  enjoyed  apparently  to  the  utmost  the 
continuous  war  against  them  in  which  they  were  engaged. 

The  fort  was  burned  and  abandoned  by  the  French  after  its  cap- 
ture. The  following  spring,  New  Hampshire,  in  addition  to  the  500 
men  serving  as  rangers,  furnished  800  men,  under  Colonel  Hart  of 
Portsmouth,  to  form  a  regiment.  John  Goffe  of  Bedford  was  com- 
missioned as  lieutenant-colonel,  and  his  son  was  lieutenant  in  one  of 
the  companies. 

The  feature  in  this  year  of  the  war  was  the  unsuccessful  attack 
made  on  Fort  Ticonderoga,  in  which  Lord  Howe  was  killed.  The 
next  year  the  attack  was  renewed,  and  again  New  Hampshire  sent 
her  regiment. 

On  the  26th  of  July,  1759,  the  French  blew  up  Ticonderoga,  and 
retreated  to  Crown  Point.  The  1st  of  August  they  abandoned  that 
place  and  withdrew  to  their  fort  at  the  foot  of  Lake  Champlain, 


THE   FRENCH   WAR.  475 

where  it  empties  into  Richelieu  river.  The  English  army  wintered 
at  Crown  Point.  Quebec  had  fallen  on  September  13,  1759,  and 
little  was  now  left  of  French  power  on  this  continent,  but  such  as 
there  was  centered  at  Montreal.  The  English  only  waited  for  the 
opening  of  spring  to  invest  the  place.  General  Murray  was  in  com- 
mand of  the  English  forces,  and  the  colonists  were  called  upon  to 
furnish  levies.  Xew  Hampshire  furnished  a  regiment,  and  this 
time  John  Goffe  of  Bedford  was  commissioned  its  full  colonel. 
Colonel  Goffe  had  his  rendezvous  at  Litchfield,  then  the  important 
town  of  Hillsborough  county.1 

A  singular  order  published  by  him  is  preserved : 

Collo.  Goffe  recommends  it  to  the  officers  to  examine  the  state  of 
the  men's  shirts,  shoes  and  stockings  and  further  acquaint  them  that 
they  are  to  be  answerable  that  the  men  shirt  twice  every  week  at 
least,  that  such  as  have  hair  that  will  admit  of  it  must  have  it  con- 
stantly tied,  they  must  be  obliged  to  comb  their  hah  and  wash  their 
hands  every  morning  and  as  it  is  observed  a  number  of  the  men 
accustom  themselves  to  wear  woolen  night  caps  in  the  day  time,  he 
allows  them  hats.  They  are  ordered  for  the  future  not  to  be  seen  in 
the  day  time  with  anything  besides  their  hats  on  their  heads,  as  ye 
above  mentioned  custom  of  wearing  night  caps  must  be  detrimental 
to  their  health  and  cleanliness,  the  men's  hats  to  be  all  cocked,  or 
cut  uniformly  as  Collo.  Goffe  pleases  to  direct. 

The  10th  of  May,  1760,  Governor  Wentworth  summoned  his 
council  and  informed  them  that  the  regiment  was  "  to  march  with- 
out loss  of  time,  from  Lytchfield  to  Charlestown,  on  Connecticut 
river,  which  being  through  an  unsettled  country  and  uncertain 
whether  provisions  could  be  got  there,  he  thought  it  necessary  to 
send  provisions  to  Lytchfield  to  supply  them  from  thence  to  Charles- 
town  ;  and  asked  the  Councils  advice  thereon,  as  also  about  a  supply 
of  arms,  &c." 

The  council  advised  the  governor  that  he  "give  orders  for  so 
much  provision  as  will  be  necessary  to  victual  the  regiment  from 
Lytchfield  to  Charlestown  and  cause  the  same  to  be  transported  to 
Lytchfield."  They  also  advised  "that  a  sufficient  number  of  arms 
be  supplied  the  men,  to  guard  the  regiment  on  their  way  to  Crown 
Point." 

The  provisions  were  duly  provided,  and  Colonel  Goffe  marched 
with  his  regiment  to  Charlestown.  From  thence,  with  a  vast  deal 
of  labor,  a  road  was  cut  by  the  troops  through  the  wilderness  in  the 

1  The  men  were  recruited  largely  from  the  neighboring  towns  in  Hillsborough  and 
Rockingham  counties. 


476  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

direction  of  Crown  Point  for  the  distance  of  twenty-six  miles,  and 
so  well  made  that  the  provisions  of  the  regiment  passed  over  it  in 
carts  without  difficulty.  It  is  needless  to  remark  that  such  troops, 
under  such  a  leader,  were  equal  to  any  emergency  and  rendered 
most  essential  service  in  the  campaign. 

The  regiment  was  marched  up  Souhegan  river,  through  Amherst, 
Milford,  Wilton,  over  the  Pack  Monadnock  to  Peterborough,  up  the 
Contoocook  and  down  the  Ashuelot  to  Keene  ;  thence  up  the  Con- 
necticut river  to  Charlestown,  thence  across  Vermont  to  Crown 
Point,  where  it  joined  the  main  army ;  thence  down  Lake  Cham- 
plain  and  the  Sorel  river  to  Montreal,  where  they  arrived  on  August 
8,  1760.  September  8,  Montreal  capitulated,  and  French  power  in 
Canada  was  at  an  end.1 

Capt.  James  Walker  was  engaged  in  this  war  from  1760  to  1763 
as  a  sutler,  under  Col.  John  Goffe,  his  father-in-law.  In  1764  he 
was  appointed  captain  of  a  troop  of  horse,  by  Governor  Wentworth ; 
the  commission,  dated  March  4, 1764,  and  signed  by  Theodore  Atkin- 
son, Jr.,  secretary,  and  B.  Wentworth,  governor,  is  in  town  in  a  good 
state  of  preservation  (1850). 

'  We  will  here  insert  a  few  short  extracts  from  Capt.  James  Walk- 
er's journal,  while  sutler  in  the  French  war: 

June  16,  1760.  I  set  out  for  Albany  from  No.  4,  but  was  detained, 
and  I  got  to  Mr.  Grime's  in  Swansea,  and  lodged  there  all  night,  and 
it  rained  very  hard,  and  the  18th,  I  arrived  at  Northfield,  and  lodged 
there  all  night,  and  the  next  day  to  North  Hampton,  and  lodged  at 
Capt.  Lyman's.     The  20tb,  I  arrived  at  Westfield,  to  Capt.  Clayer 

1  The  taking  of  Montreal  is  thus  noticed  by  Russell  in  his  "  History  of  Modern 
Europe:" 

In  the  meantime  General  Amherst  was  diligently  employed  in  taking  measures  for 
the  utter  subversion  of  the  French  power  in  that  part  of  the  new  world. 

He  conveyed  instructions  to  General  Murray,  directing  him  to  advance  by  water 
to  Montreal,  with  all  the  troops  that  could  be  spared  from  the  garrison  of  Quebec; 
and  Colonel  Haviland.by  like  orders,  sailed  with  a  detachment  from  Crown  Point 
and  took  possession  of  Isle  aux  Noix,  which  he  found  abandoned  by  the  enemy,  and 
thence  proceeded  directly  for  Montreal,  while  the  commander-in-chief,  with  his  own 
division,  consisting  of  about  10,000,  regular  and  provincials,  left  the  frontiers  of 
New  York  and  advanced  to  Oswego.  There  he  was  joined  by  1,000  Indians  of  the  Six 
Nations,  under  Sir  William  Johnson. 

Amherst  embarked  on  Lake  Ontario  with  his  whole  army,  and  after  taking  the  fort 
of  Isle  Royale,  which  in  a  manner  commanded  the  source  of  the  river  St.  Lawrence, 
he  arrived,  by  a  tedious  and  dangerous  voyage,  at  Montreal  on  the  same  day  that 
General  Murray  landed  near  that  place  from  Quebec.  The  two  generals  met  with 
no  opposition  in  this  embarking  their  troops,  and  by  a  happy  concurrence  of  cir- 
cumstances Colonel  Haviland,  with  the  detachment  under  his  command,  arrived 
next  day. 

The  junction  of  these  three  bodies,  composed  of  the  flower  of  the  British  forces  in 
North  America,  and  the  masterly  dispositions  made  by  the  commanders,  convinced 
Vaudreuil  that  all  resistance  would  be  ineffectual.  He  therefore  demanded  a  capitu- 
lation, which  was  granted  September  8,  on  terms  more  favorable  than  he  had  reason 
to  expect  in  such  circumstances. 

Montreal,  Detroit,  Michilemackenac,  and  every  other  place  possessed  by  the 
French,  with  the  government  of  Canada,  was  surrendered  to  his  Britannic  Majesty. 
But  it  was  stipulated  that  the  troops  should  be  transported  to  old  France,  and  the 
Canadians  were  secured  in  their  property  and  in  the  free  exercise  of  their  religion. 


THE   FRENCH   WAR.  477 

and  21st  June  I  got  to  Shattuck's,  and  I  went  to  breakfast  at  Shef- 
field. I  got  to  Kinderhook,  and  lodged  there  all  night.  June  23,  I 
arrived  at  Albany.  June  24,  came  to  Mr.  Fisher's,  to  lodge.  It 
rained  all  that  week,  and  on  the  Sabbath,  29th,  it  rained  very  hard 
in  the  morning,  and  cleared  off  very  pleasant. 

1760,  July  4.  I  was  at  Mr.  Xew-kirk's  house,  in  the  Mohawk 
Country,  and  returned  to  Albany  the  6th  (Sabbath),  and  I  paid 
three  dollars  for  a  horse  to  ride  to  Mr.  Xew-kirk's. 

July  10,  Thursday,  Mr.  Fisher  and  I  sent  one  team  loaded,  to  Lake 
George,  with  sugar,  cheese,  and  tobacco,  and  I  was  very  much  out  of 
order  all  that  day  with  the  head-ache,  and  all  my  bones  and  flesh 
was  sore,  and  I  was  so  weak  that  I  could  hardly  walk  the  street, 
and  so  I  remained  till  the  13th.     (Sabbath)  I  felt  some  better. 

July  19,  Saturday,  we  sent  one  cart  away,  loaded  with  three  bar- 
rels of  rum,  and  one  barrel  of  shrub,  and  one  barrel  of  spirits  and 
two  boxes  of  chocolate,  and  one  box  of  soap. 

July  22.  Mr.  Fisher  and  I  lodged  at  Saratoga  all  night  going  to 
the  Lake.  July  23,  we  got  to  Lake  George,  to  Mr.  Cooper's,  where 
we  lodged  all  night. 

July  24.  I  set  out  to  go  to  Crown  Point,  and  tamed  all  night  on 
the  Lake,  and  got  to  Ticonderoga  the  next  morning,  one  o'clock. 
And  25th,  I  got  to  Crown  Point  and  lodged  all  night  with  Capt. 
Rogers;  and  Saturday,  26th,  it  rained,  and  the  28th,  I  went  to  Col. 
Haviland  and  got  a  pass  to  go  to  Albany,  this  was  a  Monday. 

Tuesday,  29.  I  saw  a  pickerel  that  was  four  feet  and  five  inches 
long,  that  was  found  dead  in  the  Lake. 

July  31,  1760.  The  Regiment  arrived  at  Crown  Point,  and  4th 
of  August  the  Post  mustered,  and  this  was  a  Monday.  August  8,  I 
got  to  Lake  George,  coming  back  to  Albany,  this  was  a  Friday,  to 
get  stores  for  the  Regiment. 

He  got  back  to  the  army  with  his  stores,  and  proceeds: 

August  30.  We  pitched  our  tent  and  got  our  stores  from  the 
Landing ;  I  went  to  the  Mills  to  bring  more  stores  and  was  obliged 
to  stay  the  31st  day,  waiting  for  the  Snotoshoe,  this  was  a  Saturday. 

September  2,  1760.  A  Schooner  and  Sloop  came  up  to  Crown 
Point,  with  the  French  prisoners  and  wounded  men.  Friday,  5th 
September,  was  a  very  pleasant  day.  7th  September,  Sabbath.  9th, 
Moon  changes  at  8  o.clock,  morning. 

September  10,  1760,  was  Wednesday  and  we  were  all  waiting  for 
Xews  from  the  Army,  but  could  hear  none.  Monday  the  8th  day, 
Montreal  was  surrendered  to  our  arms,  and  we  received  the  news  the 
12th  day,  which  was  very  agreeable  to  us  all. 

Feb.  25,  1761.  I  swore  Jas.  Moor,  Rob'  Griffen,  David  Thomp- 
son, Rob1  Morrial  and  Alexander  Orr  concerning  their  being  at  Fort 
Frederick  over  winter  in  the  year  1760.     (M.  P.'s  Journal.) 


478 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


(From  Provincial  Papers,  "Vol.  9.) 


Nov.  29,  1745.  "  Voted  that  their  be  allow'd  Capt.  John  Goffe  &  ye  twenty-seven 
men  under  his  command  for  scouting  from  Merrymack  to  Connecticut  river.  Began 
ye  30th  July  last,  65:17:11  &  for  wages  &  53  :  1:3  for  Provisions  and  47:18:4  y2  for  wages 
&  38:5:0,  for  Provisions  to  ye  s<i  John  Goffe  for  scouting  as  afores'i  from  ye  10'i>  of 
Octor  last  &  19:7  %  for  Wittles  to  be  p<i  out  of  ye  money  in  ye  publick  Treasury  to 
defray  ye  charge  of  ye  war  against  His  Majestie's  Enemies." 

Tuesday,  May  20,  1746.  "  Voted  that  there  be  allow'd  Capt.  John  Goffe  &  ye  forty- 
four  men  under  his  command  scouting  from  ye  twenty-fourth  April,  1746  to  ye  nine- 
teenth of  May  following  fifty-nine  Pounds  ten  shillings  for  wages  &  forty  Pounds 
one  shill  for  Provisions  &  fifty  shills  to  send  Capt.  Goffe  for  his  extra  service  in  en- 
listing men  &  transporting  Powder  to  be  pd  out  of  ye  money  in  ye  Treasury  for 
Defence  of  ye  Government." 

May  21,  1746.  "Voted  that  there  be  allow'd  one  Hundred  &  six  Pounds  thirteen 
shillings  &  two  Pence  for  wages  eighty-three  Pounds  ten  shillings  &  three  Pence  for 
Provisions  &  nine  Pounds  Eighteen  shills  &  nine  Pence  for  snow-shoes  & 
Maughgazins  in  full  to  Capt.  John  Goffe  &ye  thirty -eight  men  under  his  command 
scouting  on  the  Frontiers  from  Deer  23  to  Ap>'  7"1,"  etc. 

Saturday,  Deer  6, 1746.  "  Voted  that  there  be  allow'd  thirty-two  Pounds  seventeen 
shills  &  eight  Pence  to  Capt.  John  Goffe  &  ye  thirteen  men  under  his  command,  in 
full  of  their  monthly  roll  from  ye  21st  May  last,"  etc. 

Saturday,  October  24t>>,  1747.  "Voted  that  ye  Muster  Roll  of  Capt.  John  Goffe  for 
four  men  posted  at  Blaisdell's,  Perham's  and  Foster's  Garrison  near  Amoskeag, 
from  30tii  Aug',  1746  to  ye  29'ii  Sept  following  amounting  to  Twelve  Pounds  for  Prov.  & 
ammunition  be  allow'd  &  p1'  out  of  ye  money  in  ye  Treasury." 

Saturday,  21st  Nov,  1747.  "  Voted  that  Capt.- John  Goffe's  Muster  Roll  of  men  posted 
at  Souhegan-East,  Souhegan-West,  Monson  &  Hollis  from  ye  29th  May  last  to  ye  16th 
Octor  amounting  to  two  Hundred  &  eighty  Pounds  Four  Shillings  &  two  Pence,  three 
farthings,  be  allow'd  &  pii  out  of  ye  publick  Treasury. 

Saturday,  14ti>  May,  1748.  "Mr.  Secretary  bro't  down  ye  Petition  of  ye  Rev<i  Mr. 
Stevens  to  Capt.  Goffe  praying  for  reinforcements  for  Souhegan-East,  Souhegan- 
West,  Contoocook  and  Canterbury,  &c  &  ye  Petition  of  Capt  Job  Clement  and  man 
for  Rum." 

Thursday,  May  17, 1759.  "  Mr.  Secy  Came  Down  &  Delivered  the  following  Verball 
Message  from  his  Excellency  viz  That  his  Excellency  having  sent  Colo  Goffe  to 
Worcester  to  know  whether  there  was  any  Provision  made  there  for  marching  the 
New  Hampsr  Forces  to  Albany.  Col«  Goffe  Returned  &  Informed  him  that  there  was 
none.  Upon  which  his  Excellency  bv  the  advice  of  the  Council  ordered  a  Quantity 
of  Provisions  &  a  number  of  oxen  and  carriages  to  be  bought  since  which  he  had 
received  advise  from  Geni  Amherst  that  there  was  Provision  made  at  Worcester  to 
Answer  the  end  aforesaid  &  desired  the  House  would  pass  some  order  for  the  dis- 
posal of  said  provision  and  oxen  which  the  House  took  no  notice  of. 

Date,  Souhegan-East  June  8,  1744. 

We,  the  Inhabitants  of  Souhegan-East  Apprehending  ourselves  Exposed  to  Im- 
minent Danger  botn  from  the  French  &  Indian  enemys  &  being  in  no  capacity  to 
make  a  proper  Stand  in  case  of  an  assault  from  do  constitute  &  appoint  Mr.  John 
Chamberlin  our  Delegate  requesting  him  in  yt  capacity  with  all  possible  speed  to 
repair  to  Portsmouth  &  to  represent  our  Deplorable  case  to  his  Excellency,  our 
Governor  and  ye  general  assembly  and  request  of  them  such  aids  both  in  respect  of 
men  &  military  stores  as  to  their  great  wisdom  may  seem  meet  and  which  may  put 
us  in  a  capacity  to  repell  all  attempts  of  our  s'i  enemies. 

John  Riddel  Sami  Wood 

John  Riddel  Junr  James  Walker 

Forges  Kennd  Benjamin  Kidder 

Hugh  Ridell  William  Patterson 

Ritchard  McAllister  John  Moor 

James  Kinnock  Robert  Gilmore 

John  McDugel  Thomas  Chandler 

Moses  Barron  Samuel  Patten 

James  Moor  Matthew  Patten 

John  Burns  Jonathan  Lyon 

John  Toms  John  Orr 

James  Moor  James  Linn 

John  Moorhead  John  Durgee 

Eleazer  Lyon  Alex'-  Walker 

John  Roby  William  Calwell 

John  Carr  Jas  Little 

Thomas  Vickere  John  Patten 

Thomas  Vickere  Sen  Robert  Walker 


THE   FRENCH   WAR. 


479 


A  list  of  the  names  of  the  families  of  the  Inhabitants  of   Souhegan-East  upon 
Merrimack  River  is  appended  to  this  petition. 


Timothy  Corlis 
John  More 
Robert  Gillemore 
Robert  Little 
John  Goffe 
William  Pateson 
Thomas  Chandler 
John  Blare 
Benjamin  Smith  Jun 
John  Mac  Dugel 
James  Walker 
John  Taylor 
Cap  John  Chamberlin 

Canada 
John  Tom 

Morehead 
William  Patison  Jun 
James  More  Jun 
Thomas  Barn 
James  More 
James  Mathews 
Benjamin  Smith  third 
John  Orr 
Joseph  Canada 
John  Quig 
.John  Burns 


Samuel  Woods 
Ephraim  Bushnel 
Thomas  Worthley 
Levt  Moses  Barns 
Thomas  Vickers 
Elizer  Lyon 
Robert  Gilmore 
John  Robe 
Thomas  Farmer 
Thomas  Farmer  Jun 
Benjamin  Smith 
Gorn  Ridle 
Wid  MacQuaid 
Robert  Walker 
Hugh  Ridle 
Forges  Canada 
John  Ridle 
Jonathan  Lyon 
James  Little 
James  Lynn 
Elexander  Walker 
John  Bell 
Samuel  Pattin 
Matthew  Patten  Jun 
Kiders  family 


Revolutionary    War. 


In  the  Revolutionary  war  Bedford  furnished  a  large  number  of 
citizens  who  united  in  opposing  the  oppression  of  Great  Britain,  and 
in  common  with  their  fellow-citizens  were  zealous  in  sharing  the 
danger  and  hardships  necessary  to  independence.  Then  zeal  and 
patriotism  were  manifested  by  a  ready  compliance  with  the  requisi- 
tions of  congress  and  the  orders  of  the  provincial  convention.  A  few 
extracts  from  the  town  records  will  represent  the  spirit  of  the  day. 
and  the  excitement  of  that  period : * 

1774.     Hillsborough,  Bedford,  S.  S. 

To  John  Wallace,  constable  for  the  town  of  Bedford,  for  the  year 
1774.  At  the  request  of  the  provincial  committee,  you  are  required 
in  His  Majesty's  name,  to  warn  all  freeholders  and  other  inhabitants 
of  the  town  of  Bedford,  to  meet  at  the  meeting  house  on  Monday, 
the  18th  day  of  January  next  at  two  o'the  clock  in  the  afternoon, 
then  and  there  when  met  first,  to  chuse  a  moderator  for  said  meet- 
ing :  secondly,  to  appoint  a  man  in  the  behalf  of  this  town  to  meet 
at  Exeter  the  25th  of  said  month  and  join  in  conjunction  with  the 
other  towns  in  the  choice  of  delegates  to  representate  this  province 
at  an  intended  congress  to  be  held  at  Philadelphia,  on  the  10th  day 
of  May  next. 

1  The  following  letter  is  preserved  in  town  : 
New  York  Aprill  13,  year  1776 

Loveing  wife  I  think  my  self  hapey  To  imbrace  this  opertunity  To  Right  A  Few 
Lines  to  you  To  Let  you  Know  I  am  in  good  Helth  Blessed  be  God  for  it  hopeing 
these  will  Hind  you  So  I  Arived  att  New  York  the  30th  of  March  I  had  A  Good  Pasage 
and  was  in  Good  Helth  my  Poor  Brother  John  Died  on  the  journey  in  West  Town  on 
March  the  19th  1776  and  I  See  him  oneribelley  buried  This  Journey  is  very  Unex- 
pected to  me  and  undesired  for  myself  But  much  more  for  your  Sake  Knowing  your 
case  is  Exceeding  maloncolley  Lonesome  and  Dificult  But  I  must  Begg  your  Pray- 
ers to  God  for  me  and  your  helth  he  would  Keep  me  from  Sin  and  all  Danger  and  in 
his  own  Dew  Time  return  me  home  to  my  famile  and  frinds  again  our  Company  and 
armey  are  in  a  coman  State  of  helth  and  in  Good  Spirits  we  have  a  Strong  Armey  and 
are  planty  for  Cannon  and  amonishion  and  are  well  footifide  for  the  Time  we  have 
Bin  here  there  is  no  Regelars  here  on  Land  there  is  one  Large  ship  of  regelars  and 
two  small  vesals  Laying  in  3  miles  of  the  town  near  the  Place  Cold  the  Narrows  But 
we  have  poshen  of  sevaral  Hands  rownd  them  and  are  well  fortfide  and  have  the 
town  well  secured  there  is  no  Aperance  of  Danger  att  Presant  in  this  Place  if  God  be 
with  us  I  have  provisions  planty  and  Good  and  I  Want  for  Nothing  but  Your  save- 
ing  Grace  and  the  injoyment  of  your  Companey  alltho  I  am  absant  From  you  and 
have  all  Sorts  of  movements  and  Company  Around  me  yet  it  doth  not  confine  my 
thots  from  you  altho  it  is  our  unhapey  Lott  to  be  absant  for  a  Season  yet  it  doth  not 
disever  us  forever  unless  Death  should  overtake  Ither  of  us  Before  we  meet  again 
But  Let  us  Trust  in  God  Att  all  times  for  all  we  kned  and  waight  with  Pashance 
his  Tim  if  it  be  Possibel  I  shall  come  home  in  3  monts  if  not  I  Shall  not  expect  to 
come  horn  Before  my  Tim  is  out  I  would  have  you  apply  to  John  Griffins  father  for  5 
Bushels  and  V2  of  Rye  which  he  promist  to  me  and  is  paid  for  the  same  no  more  att 
Presant 

I  will  close  my  discors  with  wisheing  hevens  Blesings  on  us  all  and  stileing  my 
self  your  Loveing  husband 

William  Newman 

Stephen  Goffe  is  well  and  remembers  his  Love  to  his  parents 


COL.  DANIEL  MOORE'S  HOUSE. 


THE  MOORE  TAVERN. 


REVOLUTIONARY  WAR.  481 

James  Martin  was  chosen.  At  the  same  time  it  was  voted  nem  con, 
•"  that  we  will  be  our  proportion  with  other  towns  in  the  province 
for  sending  delegates  to  Philadelphia,  the  10th  of  May  next,  if  our 
grievances  are  not  redressed  before  that  time."  Mr.  Martin  was  also 
voted  a  dollar  a  day  for  his  time  and  expense. 

1775.  The  next  town  warrant  runs  as  follows:  "  To  John  Wal- 
lace, Constable :  Greeting  :  By  virtue  of  the  authority  the  town  give 
the  selectmen  at  their  last  annual  March  meeting  to  transact  the 
public  affairs  of  the  town  the  present  year,  as  true  sons  of  liberty, 
you  are  hereby  required  etc." 

Warrants  formerly  ran  "  in  his  Majesty's  name." 

The  meeting  of  March  6,  1776,  was  called  by  virtue  of  the  author- 
ity of  the  continental  congress,  the  first  time  that  authority  was  offi- 
cially invoked  in  our  town.  By  the  23d  of  December,  1775,  the 
province  had  risen  to  the  dignity  of  a  "  Colleny,"  for  we  find  this 
caption  at  the  head  of  one  of  the  warrants :  "  Colleny  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, Hillsborough  S.  S.,  Bedford,"  etc. 

The  meeting  of  September  10,  1776,  was  called  "by  the  authority 
of  the  State  of  Xew  Hampshire,"  the  first  time  this  name  appears  in 
our  record. 

January  16,  1775.  "  Voted  to  dopt  the  measures  of  the  Continen- 
tal Congress." 

"  Voted  Capt.  Samuel  Patten,  Capt.  Daniel  Moor,  and  Lt.  Samuel 
Vose  be  a  committee  to  carry  said  measures  into  execution." 

"  Voted  Mr.  James  Martin  be  appointed  deputy  in  behalf  of  the 
town  to  attend  the  Provincial  Congress  to  be  held  at  Exeter  on 
Wednesday,  25th  instant,  for  the  choice  of  a  delegate  to  represent 
their  province  at  the  Continental  Congress,  proposed  to  be  held  at 
Philadelphia,  Tuesday,  10th  of  May  next. 

1775.  Interest  in  public  questions  must  have  been  at  a  high  pitch 
when  the  following  was  received  the  day  after  the  battle  of  Lexington : 

April  20,  1775. 
To  the  selectmen  of  Bedford.  Gentlemen: — This  moment  the 
melancholy  inteligence  has  been  received  of  hostilities  being  com- 
menced between  ye  troops  under  the  command  of  General  Gage  and 
our  brethren  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay.  The  importance  of  our 
-exerting  ourselves  at  this  critical  moment,  has  caused  the  provincial 
committee  to  meet  at  Exeter,  and  you  are  requested  instantly  to 
choose  and  hasten  forward  there  a  delegate  or  delegates  to  join  the 
committee  and  aid  them  in  consulting  measures  for  our  safety.  In 
great  haste,  I  am,  by  order  of  the  committee, 
Your  humble  servant, 

J.  Wentworth. 
32 


482  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Five  days  later  the  town  met  and  chose  James  Martin  as  its  dele- 
gate to  Exeter. 

At  the  meeting  it  was  "  voted  that  the  selectmen  inspect  into  the 
families  of  our  men  that  is  gone  to  the  army,  and  if  they  want, 
to  provide  what  is  necessary  for  them  at  the  town  cost."  Second  : 
"To  choose  a  constable  to  serve  in  the  room  of  Hugh  Camp- 
bell that  is  gone  to  the  army,  for  the  present  year."  Thirdly :  "  To 
see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  raise  money  in  lieu  of  the  money  that 
John  Wallace,  Constable,  gave  to  Daniel  Moore  for  to  support  his 
company  in  Cambridge." 

May  2d,  1775.  "Voted  Matthew  Patten,  Esqr.,  be  our  member  to 
attend  the  County  Congress  to  be  held  at  Amherst  on  Wednesday, 
the  24th  of  this  instant.  Voted  Matthew  Patten  and  John  Bell  be 
added  to  the  Committee  of  Safety  in  this  town.  Voted  that  each 
man  return  what  money  they  received  of  Capt.  Daniel  Moore  at 
Cambridge  to  him  again  as  soon  as  may  be.  Voted  that  the  money 
that  was  gained  by  subscription  on  the  2d  of  this  instant  to  purchase 
ammunition  will  be  given  to  Mr.  James  Martin  for  the  same  pur- 
pose, if  he  can  get  it,  and  if  not,  he,  the  said  Martin,  is  to  return  the 
said  money  to  John  Bell." 

News  had  reached  the  colonies  of  the  mishaps  of  Arnold,  and  the 
failure  of  Montgomery's  attack  upon  Quebec.  A  call  was  made  for 
troops  to  reinforce  and  save  his  army  and  three  regiments  were 
raised.  Two  of  them,  under  the  command  of  Col.  Isaac  Wyman 
and  Joshua  Wingate,  marched  for  Canada,  but  joined  the  Northern 
army  in  New  York,  General  Sullivan  having  made  his  successful 
retreat  with  the  remnant  of  Montgomery's  army  before  their  arrival. 
There  were  nine  companies  in  Colonel  Wingate's  regiment,  which 
was  the  third  of  the  regiments  raised  under  the  call,  and  Whitefield 
Gilmore  was  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  ninth  company,  and  David 
Gregory  the  drummer,  both  Bedford  men.  From  Bedford  the  fol- 
lowing private  soldiers  were  enlisted  :  George  Orr,  Samuel  Fugard, 
Patrick  Murphy,  James  Steele,  Jonah  Tirrell,  William  Karr  (From 
muster  and  pay-roll  of  men  raised  for  Canada  out  of  Col.  Daniell 
Moore's  regiment  mustered  and  paid  by  Moses  Kelley,  July  22, 
1776.) 

November  4,  1776.  Voted  "That  the  town  pay  $10  to  each  man 
who  went  to  Ticonderoga  on  the  towns  account  in  July  last,  and  $7 
for  a  drum."  Voted  "  To  dismiss  the  soldiers  that  went  out  of  this 
town,  that  served  in  the  Continental  army  in  the  year  1775,  of  their 
jioll  tax."  Voted,  "  Wiseman  Clagget  of  Litchfield  to  represent  the 
towns  of  Bedford  and  Merrimack  in  general  assembly  now  setting 
at  Exeter,  for  the  year  1777  agreeable  to  precept  to  us  directed." 


REVOLUTIONARY   WAR.  483 

The  second  article  in  the  warrant  of  January  22,  1777,  was  as  fol- 
lows :  "  To  here  the  articles  of  federation  read,  as  formed  by  the 
honorable,  the  Continental  Congress  and  to  chose  a  committee  to 
instruct  their  representative  according  to  a  vote  of  the  general  as- 
sembly of  this  state  for  the  purpose  of  framing  and  laying  a  permi- 
nent  plan  or  system  for  the  future  government  of  this  state." 

It  is  almost  needless  to  say  that  the  articles  of  federation  were 
accepted  as  read.  The  committee  chosen  to  instruct  the  representa- 
tive in  constitutional  carpentry  were  Maj.  John  Goffe,  Thomas  Boies, 
and  James  Martin.  It  was  also  voted,  "That. the  selectmen  shall  sup- 
port Samuel  Fugard  and  Jonas  Cutting  family."  These  were  men 
that  had  gone  as  soldiers  into  the  continental  army. 

March  26,  1777.  Voted  Thomas  Boies,  James  Vose,  John  Martin, 
Lt.  John  Orr,  and  John  Aiken  be  a  committee  of  Safety. 

April  10,  1777.  Voted  to  raise  $80  to  give  as  a  bounty  to  each 
soldier  that  shall  enlist  in  this  town  for  the  Continental  Army. 

May  5th,  1777.  Voted  6  pounds  lawful  money  to  each  of  those 
men  engaged  by  Capt.  James  Aiken  to  serve  in  the  Continental 
Army  for  the  term  of  three  years  for  the  town  of  Bedford,  to  be 
added  to  the  24  pounds  that  were  before  voted.  Voted  6  pounds  to 
Thomas  Matthews,  provided  he  has  taken  no  other  hire  from  any 
other  man  or  men.  Voted  to  chuse  a  committee  for  the  regulating 
service  done  in  the  War. 

May  19th,  1777.  Voted  that  those  men  that  went  on  behalf  of 
the  town  from  Winter  Hill  to  New  York,  and  thence  to  Canada  and 
thence  back  to  Ticonderoga,  be  free  from  their  poll  rate  for  1777. x 

1  Among  interesting  old  papers  found  relative  to  this  period  was  one  giving  the 
following  lists  of  regiments  in  the  state  of  New  Hampshire  for  1777: 

Colonel  William  Whipple,  Esq.,  Portsmouth,  873;  Newcastle,  65;  Bye,  161;  Newing- 
ton,  96;  Stratham,  200;  Greenland,  146.  Total,  1,561;  proportion  to  send  to  the  conti- 
nental army,  193. 

Colonel  Stephen  Evans,  Esq.,  Dover,  370;  Durham,  242;  Lee,  159;  Somersworth,  175; 
Rochester,  329;  Barrington,  267;  Madbury,  124.    Total,  1,666;  proportion,  207. 

Colonel  Jonathan  Moulton,  Esq.,  Hampton,  167;  Hampton  Falls,  110;  North  Hamp- 
ton, 121;  Seabrook,  120;  Kensington,  161;  South  Hampton,  102.  Total,  781;  propor- 
tion, 97. 

Colonel  Nicholas  Gilman,  Esq.,  Exeter,  324;  Newmarket,  242;  Epping,  303;  Brent- 
wood, 209;  Nottingham,  187;  Deerfield,  234;  Northwood,  67;  Poplin,  99.  Total,  1,665; 
proportion,  207. 

Colonel  Jonathan  Webster,  Esq.,  Chester,  324;  Candia,  147;  Raymond,  138.  Total, 
609;  proportion,  75. 

Colonel  Matthew  Thornton,  Esq.,  Londonderry,  470;  Windham,  101;  Pelham,  141. 
Total,  712;  proportion,  89. 

Colonel  Joseph  Bartlett,  Esq.,  Kingston,  182;  East  Kingston,  72;  Hancock,  89;  San- 
down,  107;  Newton,  104;  Hampstead,  141;  Plaistow,  118;  Atkinson,  109;  Salem,  198. 
Total,  1,120;  proportion,  130. 

Colonel  Moses  Nichols,  Esq.,  Amherst,  321;  Nottingham  West,  122;  Litchfield,  57; 
Dunstable,  128;  Merrimack,  129;  Hollis,  234;  Wilton,  128;  Raby,  20;  Mason,  113.  To- 
tal, 1,252;  proportion,  155. 

Colonel  Daniel  Moore,  Esq.,  Bedford,  107;  Dunbarton,  106;  Pembroke,  137;  Aliens- 
town,  19;  Lyndeborough,  130;  Goffstown,  178;  New  Boston,  118;  Derryfield,  57;  Fran- 
cestown,  46;  Weare,  149;  Society  Land,  45;  Deering,  40.    Total,  1,132;  proportion,  140. 

ColonelJoseph  Badger,  Esq.,  Gilmanton,  163;  Barnstead,  55;  Sahbornton,  107;  Mer- 
edith, 60;  Moultonborough,  65;  Sandwich,  46;  Tamworth,  35;  Wolfeborough,  57; 
Wakefield,  74;  Leavittown,  19;  Middletown,  46;  New  Durham,  56;  McGore,20.  Total, 
1,803;  proportion,  100. 

Colonel  Thomas  Stickney,  Esq.,  Concord,  232;  Boscawen,  108;  Canterbury,  159; 
Hopkinton,  202;  Salisbury,  98;  Loudon,  88;  Chichester,  91;  Perrystown,  20;  Epsom, 


484  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1778.  The  price  of  provisions  began  to  advance  in  consequence 
of  the  war,  and  an  act  of  the  provincial  legislature  authorized  towns 
to  appoint  committees  to  regulate  the  price  of  articles  sold  in  the 
town ;  accordingly  Jonathan  Kinney,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  John  Gor- 
don, Hugh  Campbell,  and  John  McAllester  were  chosen  as  a  com- 
mittee for  the  purpose,  and  it  was  voted  on  June  15,  1778,  that  the 
selectmen  of  Bedford  shall  supply  the  soldiers'  wives  with  the  neces- 
saries of  life  at  the  rated  prices,  and  that  the  town  pay  the  over- 
plus. 

November  9,  1778.  Voted  "That  the  selectmen  take  care  of  the 
soldiers'  wives  at  their  discretion,  so  that  they  do  not  suffer."  (It 
appears  that  Mrs.  Fugard,  Mrs.  Cutting,  and  Mrs.  Sullivan  were  the 
soldiers'  wives  in  question.)  • 

Feb.  18,  1779.  "Article  2:  To  let  the  town  know  that  Robert 
Morrell  being  a  Continental  soldier  has  made  a  demand  for  some 
support  for  his  wife,  and  to  see  whether  the  town  will  allow  him 
anything  or  not."  Voted  that  the  selectmen  stand  ready  to  supply 
Mr.  Robert  Morrel's  wife  with  the  necessaries  of  life  at  the  stated 
prices,  at  any  time  when  she  shall  come  to  this  town,  during  her 
stay  in  the  same,  and  his  stay  in  the  continental  army,  for  the  town 
of  Bedford,  except  the  Continental  Congress  make  provision  in  such 
case. 

Voted,  "  To  send  a  man  to  the  convention  to  be  held  at  Concord  on 
the  22d  day  of  September  1779  to  join  in  convention  in  regulating 
the  prices  of  things  in  this  state." 

The  following  votes  show  the  great  depreciation  of  paper  money 
at  that  time : 

Sept.  17,  1779,  Voted  to  raise  300£  Lawful  money  to  purchase 
grain  for  Levi  Whitman's  wife. 

Sept.  9,  1780.  Raised  10,700  pounds,  lawful  money,  to  purchase 
beef  for  the  army. 

72;  Hillsborough,  43;  Bow,  64;  Henniker,  76;  New  Brittain,  41.  Total,  1,445;  propor- 
tion, 180. 

Colonel  David  Hobart,  Esq.,  Plymouth,  91:  Rumney,  52;  Holderness,  36;  Campton, 
45;  Thornton,  54;  Cockermouth,  28;  Newchester,  38;  Alexandria,  34.  Total,  378;  pro- 
portion, 47. 

Colonel  Samuel  Ashley,  Esq.,  Winchester,  130;  Keene,  171;  Swanzev,138;  Richmond, 
169;  Hinsdale,  33;  Chesterfield,  191;  Westmoreland,  155;  Surry,  44;  Gilsum  39.  Total, 
1,080;  proportion,  134. 

Colonel  Enoch  Hale,  Esq.,  Rindge,  143;  New  Ipswich,  130;  Jaffrey,  146;  Temple,  112; 
Peterborough,  102;  Fitzwilliam,  40;  Dublin,  64;  Stoddard,  49;  Washington,  35;  Marl- 
borough, 68;  Parkerfleld,  47;  Sliptown,  23.    Total,  959;  proportion,  120. 

Colonel  Israel  Morey,  Esq.,  Orford,  47;  Lyme,  69;  Piermont,43;  Haverhill,  86;  Bath, 
35;  Dorchester,  8;  Warren,  10;  Wentworth,  10;  Gunthwaile,  11;  Northumberland,  7; 
Lempster,  6;  Lyman,-;  Landaff,  9;  Morristown,  6.    Total,  347;  proportion,  43. 

Colonel  Benjamin  Bellows,  Esq.,  Walpole,  133;  Charlestown,  121;  Claremont,  126; 
Newport,  40;  Saville,  17;  Unity,  42;  Acworth,  27;  Lempster,  32;  Marlow,  57;  Alstead, 
88.    Total,  675;  proportion,  84. 

ColonelJonathan  Chase,  Esq.,  Cornish,  81;  Plainfleld,  83;  Lebanon,  93;  Hanover, 
130;  Croydon,  37;  Grantham,  21;  Nelson,  17;  Grafton,  15;  Canaan  (Independent),  15; 
Conway,  33.    Total,  523;  proportion,  65. 


.REVOLUTIONARY  WAR.  485 

Nov.  15,  Voted  to  allow  50  dollars  per  bushel  for  Indian  corn. 

.May  24,  1781.  Voted  to  raise  13,500  pounds,  L:  M:  in  Continen- 
tal Bills,  to  purchase  beef  for  the  support  of  the  army  the  present 
year. 

May  3, 1783.  Voted  the  Constable  be  directed  to  receive  1  Span- 
ish Dollar  in  lieu  of  160  dollars  in  Continental  bills. 

All  through  the  period  from  1776  to  1780,  there  seems  to  have 
been  the  utmost  difficulty  in  raising  the  grain  for  Levi  Whitman's 
wife.  Continual  votes  of  the  town  for  this  purpose  are  found,  but 
she  seemed  always  unprovided  for.  Finally,  February  16,  1780,  the 
town  voted  not  to  raise  more  money  "  to  purchase  the  grain  for  Levi 
Whitman's  wife,  the  money  that  has  been  already  raised,  being  suffi- 
cient to  purchase  the  same." 

Voted  "  That  the  grain  for  Levi  Whitman's  wife  be  collected  as  it 
is  assessed."  Voted,  "  That  each  one  carry  in  his  proportion  for  said 
grain  to  James  Wallace,  clerk  of  the  market  for  the  town  of  Bed- 
ford." Voted,  "  That  said  grain  be  earned  to  James  Wallace  by  the 
last  day  of  May  next."  Voted,  "  That  the  committee  that  was  chose 
to  supply  Levi  Whitman's  wife  with  grain  have  what  Grain  they  dis- 
bursted  to  said  Whitman's  wife  before  that  the  grain  was  assessed 
and  a  road  bill  be  paid  out  of  said  assessment  of  grain  except  then- 
own  proportion  of  said  grain." 

The  committee  appointed  to  treat  with  Samuel  Fugard  respecting 
his  serving  as  Continental  soldier  for  the  town  of  Bedford,  reported 
"  that  said  Fugard  requests  that  the  town  pay  him  $2,000  as  a  bounty 
for  his  last  three  years  service  and  that  as  a  bounty  for  the  time  to 
come,  the  town  pay  Mr.  James  Martin  on  said  Fugard's  account  $10 
at  the  value  money  was  in  the  year  1774,  as  also  that  the  town  pur- 
chase 25  acres  of  land  lying  south  of  and  joining  to  Capt.  James 
Walker's  land  in  Bedford  aforesaid,  or  if  said  land  cannot  be  pur- 
chased at  reasonable  price  the  town  shall  deliver  to  said  Fugard's 
wife  one  bushel  of  Indian  per  month  during  the  time  of  said  Fugard's 
service  in  the  Continental  Army.  Dated  at  Bedford  10th  day  of 
April,  1780." 

The  warrant  of  May  15,  1779,  contains  this  provision,  "And  for 
defraying  the  charges  of  the  Continent  and  State  the  current  year, 
you  are  hereby  required  to  pay  unto  the  State  Treasurer  for  the  time 
being,  the  sum  of  700  pounds  lawful  money,  one-half  at  or  before 
the  first  day  of  June  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof,  and  the  other  half 
at  or  before  the  last  day  of  December  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof." 

June  1, 1779,  Voted,  "  to  pay  the  sum  of  150  pounds,  lawful  money, 
to  Capt.  Samuel  McConnell  of  Pembroke  for  finding  a  man  the  town 
of  Bedford  to  serve  in  the  Continental  army  during  the  war." 

The  proportion  of  the  town  of  Bedford  for  the  Continental  army 
in  the  year  1779  was  three  men. 


486  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

At  the  town-meeting,  July  3, 1779,  there  was  one  vote  for  accept- 
ing and  23  for  not  accepting  the  plan  of  government  submitted  to 
the  town  by  the  provincial  assembly. 

"  Voted  to  pay  the  300  pounds  lawful  money  that  was  paid  to  James 
Grear  being  a  soldier  in  the  Continental  army."  Voted  "  Not  to  pay 
the  militia  men  by  way  of  a  town  tax." 

Feb.  16,  1780.  "Voted  not  to  allow  Samuell  Houston  his  bounty 
from  the  town  for  being  a  soldier  till  further  order." 

November  15,  1780.  "Voted  to  allow  Robert  Alexander  the 
money  he  paid  as  a  fine  when  he  was  drafted  to  go  into  the  army 
last  summer." 

1780.  The  Fugard  question  seemed  to  continue  unsettled  for  we 
find  in  the  town-meeting  of  May,  1780,  that  the  following  article 
was  in  the  warrant : 

"  Secondly,  whereas  the  committee  that  was  chose  to  treat  with 
Samuel  Fugard  when  they  brought  in  their  report  did  not  report 
how  and  in  what  manner  said  Fugard  would  recover  those  things 
that  Robert  Merrill  has  seased  of  said  Fugard,  therefore,  he,  the  said 
Fugard,  requested  that  some  method  be  decided  on  by  the  town  to 
recover  said  goods  it  being  an  agreement  between  said  Samuel  Fu- . 
gard  and  said  committee." 

This  article  was  not  acted  upon  "  for  the  reason  the  things  was  de- 
livered up  before  the  time  of  holding  said  meeting." 

July  15,  1780.  Voted,  "To  choose  a  Committee  to  Procure  the 
beef  that  is  Sent  for  to  supply  the  Army." 

Voted,  "  That  Persons  that  Disbursted  any  articles  of  Life  to  the 
Soldiers  wives  be  allowed  the  price  of  such  Articles  is  when  they 
received  their  money." 

Another  singular  occurrence  seems  to  have  taken  place  at  this 
time,  for  we  find  this  entry :  "  Drew  Matthew  McDuffev  out  of  the 
box." » 

"  Voted  to  sell  so  much  timber  off  lots  of  land  is  in  the  town  to 
defray  the  cost  of  the  house  and  land  that  the  selectmen  purchased 
for  Samuel  Fugard,  he  being  a  soldier  in  the  Continental  Army  for 
said  town  of  Bedford  during  the  war."  Voted,  "  Adam  Dickey,  John 
Bell  and  Samuell  Tirrell,  Sr.,  to  be  a  committee  to  sell  the  timber  off 
the  public  lots." 

In  the  warrant  for  the  town  meeting  of  March  28,  1780,  there  was 
an  article  "  To  see  whether  the  town  would  allow  Hugh  Matthews 
and  Joseph  Matthews  for  their  service  as  soldiers  in  the  year  1776." 
But  it  was  "  Voted  not  to  allow  them  their  poll  tax." 

February  28,  1781.  "  Voted  that  John  Griffin  shall  receive  18-3 
year  old  neat  cattle  if  he  stays  three  years  as  he  is  enlisted  and  pass 
muster  for  the  town  of  Bedford  in  the  Continental  Army  for  that 

1  Mr.  McDuffle  was  a  very  large  and  heavy  man,  so  Matthew  Patten's  diary  states, 
and  probably  the  entry  refers  to  his  being  drawn  as  a  juror. 


REVOLUTIONARY   WAR.  487 

term,  and  if  but  two  years,  18-2  years  old,  and  if  but  one  year  18-1 
years  old,  and  2,000  Continental  dollars,  as  a  bounty  from  said  Bed- 
ford." "  Voted  tbat  tbe  Committee  that  has  been  already  chose : 
Zechariah  Chandler,  Esq.,  Lieut.  James  Smith,  and  James  Vose,  be  a 
committee  to  procure  soldiers  for  the  Continental  Army  for  the  term 
of  three  years  for  the  said  town  of  Bedford,  as  mentioned  in  the 
second  article  in  the  warrant." 

October  22, 1781.  "  Voted  that  the  constable  take  no  more  of  the 
old  Continental  bills." 

"  Voted  that  the  constable  take  but  one  new  emission  bill  in  the 
room  of  two  from  those  that  have  not  paid  their  tax  on  the  first  rate 
bill  for  the  present  year,  and  those  that  paid  the  town  tax,  have  a 
reduction  of  the  same." 

January  18,  1782.  "Voted  Indian  corn  at -four  shillings  lawful 
money  per  bushel  to  pay  the  soldiers  that  went  for  the  town  last 
Slimmer." 

The  form  of  government  was  submitted  to  the  town  for  approval 
or  disapproval,  January  4,  1782,  and  at  the  town-meeting  held  on 
the  18th  of  January,  1782,  it  was  "  Voted  that  Lieut.  John  Orr,  Lieut. 
James  Moore,  John  Bell,  Zechariah  Chandler,  Esq.,  James  Wallace, 
Major  John  Goff,  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose,  Capt.  John  Dunlap,  and  James 
Martin  be  a  committee  to  examine  and  report."  Then-  report  was 
accepted,  and  it  was  "  Voted  not  to  accept  the  plan  of  government 
as  it  now  stands."  It  was  also  "  Voted  that  every  freeholder  shall 
be  a  voter."  Then  the  meeting  was  adjourned  to  Ensign  Chubbuck's. 
(Ensign  Chubbuck  kept  the  Globe  tavern  on  Globe  hill).  When 
they  met  at  Ensign  Chubbuck's,  the  town  "  Voted  that  a  certain  part 
of  the  35th  article  of  the  bill  of  rights,  viz.,  that  the  judges  of  the 
Supream  Judiciel  Court  should  hold  their  office  so  long  as  they  be- 
haved well,  ought  to  be  expunged  and  that  they  should  hold  their 
office  during  pleasure,  and  that  the  said  judges  shall  be  amply  com- 
pensated from  year  to  year  for  actual  services  only."  "  Voted  that 
Council  and  House  of  Representatives  duly  authorized  are  sufficient 
to  govern  the  state  that,  therefore,  a  governor  and  privy  council  are 
not  only  burthensome  but  unnecessary."  "  Voted  that  the  General 
{Court?)  shall  appoint  officers  of  the  state,  that  the  several  County 
conventions  shall  appoint  all  County  officers  for  their  respective  coun- 
ties, that  the  several  towns  appoint  their  own  officers,  that  the  sev- 
eral companies  of  militia  appoint  their  own  captains  and  subbaltrens 
and  the  said  officers  shall  appoint  their  field  officers." 

April  29,  1783.  "  Voted  that  the  constable  be  directed  to  take 
one  silver  dollar  in  the  lue  of  four  paper  new  emission  bills,  in  pay- 
ment of  taxes." 


488  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

May  28,  1783.  "Voted  not  to  have  a  governor,  but  that  if  it  be 
the  vote  of  the  convention  we  have  a  governor,  his  power  be  regu- 
lated by  the  votes  of  the  town  sent  to  the  last  convention." 

The  congress  of  the  confederation  assembled  February  17,  1783, 
proposed  to  recommend  an  alteration  of  the  8th  article  of  the  con- 
federation and  perpetual  union  of  the  thirteen  states.  Upon  an  arti- 
cle in  the  town  warrant  therefor,  August  27,  the  town  voted  that  it 
did  not  approve  of  the  amendment. 

On  March  12th,  1784,  it  was  "Voted  that  Patrick  Fling  and  other* 
who  enlisted  for  three  years  and  faithfully  served  the  whole  term 
shall  be  paid  in  state  notes  the  nominal  sum  that  was  taken  out  of 
our  mens  wages,  on  account  of  a  bounty  paid  them  by  the  town  and 
that  the  heirs  as  such  as  died  in  the  army  shall  be  entitled  to  the 
same  privilege." 

"  Voted  that  Stephen  Dole,  Capt.  Thomas  McLaughlin  and  Lieut. 
John  Orr  be  a  committee  to  pay  said  soldiers,  agreeable  to  above 
vote." 

Monday,  August  16,  1784.  "  Voted  that  the  town  receive  of  Mr. 
James  Vose,  constable  in  the  year  1781,  the  Continental  bills  which 
he  received  in  the  time  limited  by  the  town  for  his  taking  the  sum, 
counterfeit  bills  accepted.1  He  giving  oath  that  he  received  each  of 
said  bills  for  taxes." 

Apparently  Levi  Whitman,  whom  the  town  had  sent  as  a  soldier 
to  the  Continental  army,  was  a  thorn  in  the  flesh  after  his  return,  for 
on  March  27,  1787,  it  was  "  Voted  to  remit  Levi  Whitman's  taxes  in 
John  Mills'  list  so  long  as  said  Whitman  stays  out  of  town,  and  as 
long  as  he  keeps  out  of  town."  2 

i  "  Excepted  "  probably  meant. 

!  State  of  New  Hampshire  j 
Hillsborough  SS  |     To  Moses  Little  Esqr  one  of  the  justices  assigned  to 

keep  the  peace  within  and  for  the  county  of  Hillsborough 

Complaining  Humbly  Shews  (on  the  part  and  in  behalf  of  the  town  of  Goffestown 
in  sd  county  of  Hillsborough  and  State  of  New  Hampshire)  the  selectmen  of  sd 
Goffestown  in  sd  county  that  Levy  Whitman  Bethiah  Whitman  his  wife  and  James 
Whitman  their  sun  Sum  Time  since  came  into  the  aforesd  Town  of  Goffestown  and 
were  Legally  warned  to  departe  sd  Goffestown  as  the  law  directs  and  they  the  said 
Levy  Bethiah  and  James  all  did  Departe  sd  town  and  now  they  the  said  Levy  Be- 
thiah and  James  doth  again  in  Trude  on  the  aforesd  town  of  Goffestown  by  their 
Remooving  a  second  Time  into  sd  Goffestown  their  to  Reside  Contrary  to  the  Law 
in  such  case  made  and  Provided  wherefour  your  Complainants  pay  that  a  warrant 
may  issue  that  the  said  Levy  Bethiah  and  james  may  all  be  apprehended  and  car- 
ryed  to  the  town  whence  of  right  they  do  properly  belong  &c 

Dated  at  sd  Goffestown  this  18th  day  of  March  1788 
John  Butterfleld  j  Selectmen 
James  Walker    j     of  Goffestown 

State  of  New  Hampshire  ) 

Hillsborough  SS  \     To  Mr  Ebenr  Hadley  one  of  the  constables  in  the  towD 

of  Goffestown  and  sd  county  of  Hillsborough  Greeting 

In  the  name  of  the  State  of  New  Hampshire  complaint  being  made  as  above  these 
are  therefour  to  command  you  fourth  with  to  apprehend  the  bodys  of  the  said  Levy 
Whitman  Bethiah  and  James  Whitman  and  them  convey  and  deliver  to  the  con- 
stable of  the  sd  town  of  Bedford  in  sd  New  Hampshire  and  so  on  from  constable  to 
constable  untill  they  shall  be  Delivered  to  the  constable  of  the  Town  where  of  rights 
they  do  belong  and  this  shall  be  your  Surflsion  warrant  Given  and  my  hand  and 
seal  this  sixteenth  day  of 
March  A.  D.  1788 

Moses  Little  Jus:  Peace. 


REVOLUTIONARY   WAR.  489 

Although  the  diary  of  Matthew  Patten,  so  far  as  it  relates  to  this 
interesting  period,  is  published  in  full  as  a  supplement,  yet  we  ap- 
pend here  a  few  extracts  of  particular  interest  in  this  connection  : 

April  20,  1775.  I  received  the  melancholy  news,  in  the  morning, 
that  Gen.  Gage's  troops  had  fired  on  our  countrymen  at  Concord, 
and  had  killed  a  large  number  of  them.  Our  town  was  notified  last 
night.  We  generally  met  at  the  meeting-house,  about  9  o'clock,  and 
twenty  of  our  men  went  directly  off  for  our  army  from  the  meeting, 
to  assist  them.  And  our  son  John  came  home  from  Pawtucket,  and 
intending  to  set  off  for  our  army  tomorrow  morning,  and  our  girls 
set  up  all  night  baking  bread  and  fixing  things  for  him  and  John 
Dobbin.1 

21.  Our  John  and  John  Dobbin  and  my  brother  Samuel's  two  old- 
est sons,  set  off  and  joined  Derryfield  men,  and  about  six  from  Goffs- 
town,  and  two  or  three  more  from  this  town,  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  John  Moor  of  Derryfield.  They  amounted  in  number  to  45 
in  all.  Suncook  men  and  two  or  three  others  that  joined  them, 
marched  on  in  about  an  horn-  after ;  they  amounted  to  35.  There 
was  nine  men  went  along  after,  belonging  to  Pennykook  or  therea- 
bouts. 

22.  I  was  awaked  in  the  morning  by  Mr.  Chandler's  man,  with  a 
letter  from  the  Committee  of  the  Provincial  Congress,  for  calling 
another  Congress  of  the  Province  immediately.  And  I  went  with 
it  as  fast  as  1  could,  to  John  Bell's,  but  he  had  gone  to  the  army, 
and  both  the  other  Selectmen. 

24.  I  went  and  notified  on  the  River  Row,  to  meet  at  the  meet- 
ing-house, on  our  public  distress.  And  I  went  to  Col.  John  Goffe, 
to  ask  his  advice,  and  we  met  toward  evening,  and  acted  on  what 
we  thought  necessary. 

25.  I  went  at  the  service  of  the  town,  to  Col.  Goffe,  and  Merrill, 
at  MacGregore's  and  cautioned  them  to  take  special  care  of  strangers, 
and  persons  suspected  of  being  tories,  crossing  the  river  by  ferries ; 
to  examine  and  search,  if  they  judged  needful.  And  I  got  nine 
flints  from  Mr.  MacGregor,  for  which  I  paid  him  lis  8d.  old  tenor. 

Sept.  10,  1778.  I  sent  my  bror  Samuel  to  Amherst  to  examine 
the  Records  concerning  Col.  Lutwyches  Estate  he  returned  about  10 
or  11  oclock  at  night     11th  I  set  out  for  Exeter  to  the  Comtee  of 

Hillsborough)  March  20th  1788  in  obediance  to  the  within  process  to  me 

directed  I  have  taken  the  bodyes  of  the  innamed  Levy  Whitman  Bethiah  Whitman 
and  James  Whitman  and  hav  convoyd  to  and  delivered  them  to  josiah  Gordon  con- 
stable of  the  town  of  Bedford 

Eben  Hadley  Constable 

1  John  Dobbin  was  Mr.  Patten's  hired  man. 

January  20,  1850.  Dr.  Woodbury  called  on  two  daughters  of  Matthew  Patten, 
Pollv  and  Sarah  Patten,  and  asked  them  if  they  could  remember  an3'thing  that  took 
place  when  they  first  heard  of  the  battle  of  Lexington,  1775.  "  Oh,  yes,  remember 
very  well,  never  shall  forget.  Brother  John  came  home  that  night,  and  we  sat  up  all 
night,  baking  bread  and  making  small  clothes  for  brother  John  and  John  Dobbin, 
who  went  away  early  in  the  morning.  The  soldiers  kept  coming  along,  and  we  kept 
giving  the  bread  and  meat,  and  when  night  came  we  had  not  a  morsel  left."  "  At 
the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  we  could  hear  the  guns  very  distinctly."  (Polly,  lately 
deceased,  aged  89;  Sarah  still  survives.) 


490  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Safety  and  got  in  about  sunset  and  lodged  at  Capt  Leavitts  12th 
I  laid  the  matter  of  Col :  Lutwyches  Estate  before  the  Comtte  after 
a  great  deal  of  discourse  on  the  affair  they  came  to  conclusion  by  a 
majority  to  give  an  order  to  seize  the  Estate  and  they  appointed 
Col :  Nichols  Esqr  Underwood  and  Major  Chase  to  seize  take  an  in- 
ventory of  the  Estate  both  real  and  personal  14th  I  went  to  Am- 
herst to  Col :  Nichols  with  the  order  of  the  Comttee  22d  A  little 
before  night  I  went  to  Chandlers  where  Mr  Houston  had  Goffstown 
Comttee  of  Safety  in  order  to  have  them  take  off  the  Restriction  he 
was  laid  under  by  the  Committee  of  three  towns  in  1775  There  was 
nothing  done  I  got  home  at  midnight  23d  Mr  Merrill  preached  a 
sermon  in  Bedford  introductory  to  holding  a  Presbtry  for  the  trial 
of  Mr  Houston  on  the  charge  brot  against  him  by  the  town  he  had 
not  been  served  with  a  copy  of  the  charge  10  free  days  before  the 
time  of  trial  according  to  the  rules  of  the  Church  of  Scotland  and  he 
would  not  give  up  the  advantages  he  had  got  and  come  to  trial 

24th  I  assisted  the  Selectmen  and  Committee  of  Safety  and 
drawed  a  petition  to  the  Committee  of  Safety  of  the  State  against 
Mr  Houstons  taking  the  oath  of  Fidelity  to  the  state  Oct  12th  In 
the  evening  I  met  the  selectmen  and  some  others  to  consider  what 
evidence  to  take  concerning  Mr  Houston  to  go  to  Exeter  19th  Esqr 
Underwood  attended  at  Chandlers  at  the  desire  of  Selectmen  and 
Committee  of  Safety  and  took  a  number  of  Depositions  to  go  to  Ex- 
eter against  Mr  Houston  and  I  attended  them  but  did  not  assist 

25th  I  spent  the  day  at  Chandlers  taking  depositions  about  Mr 
Houstons  being  a  Tory  and  Col :  Moore  and  I  gave  our  depositions 
about  his  offering  to  swear  to  a  falsehood  in  the  1766  22d  I  set  out 
in  company  with  Thos  Boise  for  Exeter  with  the  depositions  the 
town  took  on  the  19th  instant  against  Mr  Houston 

July  23,  1777.  The  evacuation  of  Ticonderoga.  I  paid  advanced 
wages.  And  this  day  I  went  to  New  Boston,  to  Capt.  McGaw's  and 
mustered  52  men  for  Col.  Moor.  They  were  from  Lyndeborougb, 
New  Boston,  Francestown,  Deering,  and  Antrim.  My  expenses  was 
Is.  6d.  at  McGaw's.     I  went  to  Hugh  Gregg's  and  lodged  all  night. 

Sept.  23,  1777.  We  arrived  in  Exeter  to  breakfast.  Had  the 
hearing  before  the  Commitee  of  Safety  in  the  afternoon  they  did 
not  determine  that  night.  24th  The  Comittee  agreed  to  have  Mr 
Houston  draw  up  his  acknowledgement  which  he  did  on  which  they 
admited  him  to  swear  the  oath  of  fidelity  and  Boise  and  I  came 
home  and  the  Comitee  allowed  us  to  bring  the  depositions  home 
with  us. 

Very  few  towns  probably  furnished  a  larger  quota  of  men  for  the 
Revolutionary  army  than  did  Bedford.  And  those  who  remained  at 
home  were  willing  to  make  sacrifices  as  well  as  those  who  went 
away.  The  people  boiled  corn  stalks  to  make  molasses  and  drank 
liberty  tea  (ribwort)1  for  a  beverage  instead  of  Hyson  and  Gunpow- 

1  Common  plantain  leaves,  considered  a  good  external  application  for  wounds,  etc. 


REVOLUTIONARY   WAR.  491 

der  tea.  But  they  were  a  people  accustomed  to  hardships.  The 
females  were  not  strangers  to  outdoor  work,  such  as  raking  hay, 
reaping  grain,  and  cultivating  flax.  Some  of  them  went  out  to  work 
for  their  neighbors  in  these  employments.  The  sons  and  brothers 
of  such  women  would  be  hardy  and  brave. 

The  following  document  connected  with  the  Revolution  is  a  curi- 
osity, and  shows  that  at  that  day  constituents  felt  at  liberty  to  in- 
struct their  representatives.  It  was  found  among  the  papers  of 
John  Eland,  Esq.,  who  was  also  one  of  the  signers : 

Bedford,  May  31,  1783. 
To  Lieut.  John  Orr,  representative  at  the  General  Court  of  the 
State  of  New  Hampshire : 

Sir:  Although  we  have  full  confidence  in  your  fidelity  and 
public  virtue  and  conceive  that  you  would  at  all  times  pursue  such 
measures  only  as  tend  to  the  public  good,  yet  upon  the  particular 
occasion  of  our  instructing  you,  we  conceive  that  it  will  be  an  ad- 
vantage to  have  your  sentiments  fortified  by  those  of  your  constitu- 
ents. 

The  occasion  is  this.  The  return  of  those  persons  to  this  country 
who  are  known  in  Great  Britain  by  the  name  of  loyalists  but  in 
America  by  the  name  of  conspirators,  absentees,  and  tories. 

We  agree  that  you  use  your  influence  that  these  persons  do  not 
receive  the  least  encouragement  to  return  to  dwell  among  us,  they 
not  deserving  favor,  as  they  left  us  in  the  righteous  cause  we  were 
engaged  in,  fighting  for  our  undoubted  rights  and  liberties,  and  as 
many  of  them  acted  the  part  of  the  most  inveterate  enemies. 

And  further,  that  they  do  not  receive  any  favor  of  any  kind,  as 
we  esteem  them  as  persons  not  deserving  it,  but  the  contrary. 

You  are  further  directed  to  use  your  influence  that  those  that  are 
already  returned  be  treated  according  to  then  deserts. 
Sam  Patten,  v 

John  Rand,  A  committee  chosen  May  28th,  by  the 
John  Goffe,  >■  town  of  Bedford,  to  give  instruc- 
John  Bell,  tions  to  their  Representative. 

George  Orr,  ^ 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  the  Committee  of  Safety  very  wisely 
determined  that  every  inhabitant  of  the  colony  should  be  made  to 
show  his  colors,  and  accordingly  the  following  resolution  was 
passed  : 

Declaration  of  the  Inhabitants  of  New  Hampshire. 

Colony  of  N.  Hampshire,  &c. — Committee  of  Safety, 

April  12,  1776. 
To  the  Selectmen  of  Bedford : — In  order  to  carry  the  underwritten 
resolve  of  the  Honorable  Continental  Congress  into  execution,  you 


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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


are  requested  to  desire  all  Males,  above  twenty-one  years  of  age 
(lunatics,  idiots,  and  negroes  excepted)  to  sign  the  Declaration  on 
this  paper,  and  when  so  done  to  make  return  thereof,  together  with 
the  name  or  names  of  all  who  shall  refuse  to  sign  the  same,  to  the 
General  Assembly,  or  Committee  of  Safety  of  this  Colony. 

M.  Weare,  Chairman. 

In  Congress,  March  14,  1776. 
liesolved,  That  it  be  recommended  to  the  several  Assemblies, 
Conventions  and  Councils,  or  Committees  of  Safety,  of  the  United 
Colonies,  immediately  to  cause  all  persons  to  be  disarmed,  within 
their  respective  Colonies,  who  are  notoriously  disaffected  to  the 
cause  of  America,  or  who  have  not  associated,  and  refuse  to  asso- 
ciate, to  defend  by  Arms,  the  United  Colonies  against  the  hostile 
attempts  of  the  British  Fleets  and  Armies. 

Extract  from  the  Minutes, 

Charles  Thompson,  Secretary. 

In  consequence  of  the  above  Resolution  of  the  Continental  Con- 
gress and  to  show  our  determination  in  joining  our  American 
brethren,  in  defending  the  lives,  liberties  and  properties  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  United  Colonies,  We,  the  Subscribers,  do  hereby 
solemnly  engage  and  promise,  that  we  will,  to  the  utmost  of  our 
power,  at  the  risk  of  our  lives  and  fortunes,  with  arms,  oppose  the 
hostile  proceedings  of  the  British  Fleets  and  Armies  against  the 
United  American  Colonies. 

This  declaration  was  signed  in  Bedford  by  the  following : 


John  Wallace,  Jr., 
James  Caldwell, 
Wm.  Caldwell, 
James  Matthews, 
John  Harrison, 
John  Aiken, 
Adam  Dickey, 
Matthew  Patten, 
John  Goffe, 
Daniel  Moor, 
John  Moor,  Jr., 
Thomas  Matthews, 
Robert  Griffin, 
John  Burns, 
Robert  Burns, 
Wm.  Burns, 
John  Brien, 
Wm.  Moor, 
James  Houston, 
John  McKinney, 
Asa  Barnes, 


Hugh  Campbell, 
James  McAlister, 
John  McLaughlin, 
John  Gardner, 
Amaziah  Pollard, 
James  Steel, 
James  Aiken, 
Whitfield  Gilmore, 
James  Smith, 
John  Orr, 
Barnabas  Cain, 
John  Moor, 
James  Wallace, 
James  Mardin, 
John  Goffe,  Jr., 
John  Riddle, 
Samuel  Patten, 
John  Boies, 
James  Lyon, 
John  Bell, 
John  Wallace, 


James  Carnes, 
Samuel  Patten, 
Hugh  Orr, 
John  Mclintosh, 
Jacob  McQuaid, 
James  Westley, 
John  Little, 
Thomas  Gault, 
Thomas  Boies, 
Samuel  Vose, 
William  White, 
Joseph  Wallace, 
Lt.  John  Moor, 
Joseph  Houston, 
Daniel  Moor, 
James  Gilman, 
William  Moor, 
David  McClary, 
James  Patterson, 
Matthew  McDuffie, 
Thomas  McLaughlin, 


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Samuel  TirrilL  Jr.,  Robert  Walker,  Benjamin  Smith, 

Wm,  Kennedy,  James  Walker,  Zechariah  Chandler 

Robert  Morrel,  Patrick  Larkin,  Richard  MAllister, 

Andrew  Walker,  John  Vicary,  John  Smith, 

Nathaniel  Patterson,  William  McCleary,  James  Little, 

Robert  Matthews,  Joseph  Bell,  Stephen  French. 

James  Vose,  Samuel  Fugard, 

George  Comeray,  Thomas  V.  Yose, 

To  the  Honorable,  the  Council  and  House  of  Representatives,  for 
the  Colony  of  New  Hampshire,  to  be  convened  at  Exeter,  in  said 
Colony,  on  Wednesday,  5th  inst. : 

Pursuant  to  the  within  precept,  we  have  taken  pains  to  know  the 
minds  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  with  respect  to  the 
within  obligation,  and  find  none  unwilling  to  sign  the  same  except 
the  Rev.  John  Houston,  who  declines  signing  the  said  obligation 
for  the  following  reasons :  Firstly,  Because  he  did  not  apprehend 
that  the  honorable  Committee  meant  that  Ministers  should  take  up 
arms,  as  being  inconsistent  with  their  ministerial  charge,  Secondly, 
Because  he  was  already  confined  to  the  County  of  Hillsborough, 
therefore,  he  thinks  he  ought  to  be  set  at  liberty  before  he  should 
sign  the  said  obligation.  Thirdly,  Because  there  are  three  men 
belonging  to  his  family  already  enlisted  in  the  Continental  Army. 

T  r\  r  Selectmen. 

John  Orr,      ) 

Bedford,  June  4th,  1776. 

Should  any  one  have  the  curiosity  to  examine  the  work  from 
which  the  above  is  an  extract,  they  would  find  much  to  interest 
them.  In  the  return  from  Amherst,  it  is  stated  "  all  who  have  seen 
it  have  signed,  except" — then  the  names  of  four  are  given  who 
refused  to  sign.  So  from  Londonderry,  the  return  says,  "We  find 
none  who  refuse  to  sign  except  the  following  persons,"  naming  fif- 
teen.    In  some  towns  all  the  inhabitants  signed  the  agreement. 

Many  interesting  facts  might,  no  doubt,  be  collected  concerning 
those  who  went  into  the  Revolutionary  service  from  this  town. 
There  was  one  in  particular,  George  Orr,  whose  life  was  so  eventful 
that  some  account  should  be  given.  The  following  facts  are  from 
his  daughter,  Ann  Orr,  and  they  extend  back  to  his  childhood,  long 
before  the  Revolution.  George  Orr,  losing  his  parents  when  an 
infant,  was  brought  up,  till  the  age  of  sixteen,  by  an  Aunt  Dins- 
moor,  of  Windham  (then  a  part  of  Londonderry).  At  that  age  he 
went  to  sea  in  the  merchant  service.  But,  as  it  was  then  a  time  of 
war,  he  was  pressed  on  board  a  British  man-of-war,  and  continued 
in  the  naval  service  three  years.  Peace  being  restored,  he  was  paid 
off  and  honorably  discharged  in  London,  from  whence  he  traveled 


494  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

on  foot  through  the  country  to  Edinburgh,  took  passage  for  Amer- 
ica, and  returned  to  his  friends  in  Bedford. 

Intending  to  settle  on  a  farm,  he  purchased  a  piece  of  land  in 
Goffstown,  and  went  to  sea  once  more  to  obtain  a  little  more  money 
to  make  his  last  payment  and  secure  a  title.  But,  as  war  had  again 
broken  out,  he  was,  on  his  very  first  voyage,  pressed  again  into  the 
British  navy,  and  kept  there  seven  years  more,  generally  on  the 
Mediterranean  station.  At  length,  an  order  being  received  to  send 
a  vessel  on  to  the  New  England  coast,  the  captain  of  that  vessel 
requested  the  commander  of  the  ship  on  board  which  George  was 
bound  to  Gibralter,  to  exchange  a  number  of  Yankee  seamen,  who 
he  feared  might  desert  when  they  came  into  a  New  England  port, 
and  give  him  an  equal  number  of  Europeans  for  his  voyage. 

George,  speaking  the  broad  Scotch  dialect,  was  taken  for  a  Scotch- 
man, and,  being  asked  if  he  was  willing  to  change  ships,  readily 
agreed,  and  thus  in  an  unexpected  moment  was  released  from  the 
Mediterranean  squadron,  and  found  to  his  great  joy  that  the  ship 
was  to  be  anchored  in  Portsmouth  harbor,  where  he  had  friends 
that  would  aid  him  in  making  his  escape.  As  soon  as  the  ship 
arrived  he  persuaded  another  sailor  to  accompany  him,  took  the  first 
chance  of  securing  a  boat  and  making  their  escape.  They  were 
closely  pursued,  but  finding  friends  ready  to  conceal  him  he  soon 
arrived  safely  in  Londonderry.  Advertisements  were  sent  after, 
but  he  had  nothing  to  fear ;  the  inhabitants  of  the  place  would  have 
risked  their  lives  rather  than  to  have  given  him  up.  The  ship  could 
make  but  a  short  stay,  so  that  he  could  soon  bid  defiance  to  naval 
authority.  He,  however,  always  spoke  with  respect  concerning  his 
officers,  and  said  the  severity  they  practised  was  generally  indispen- 
sable. He  boasted  that  through  the  service  he  never  got  a  single 
scratch  from  the  boatswain's  cat.  (Thanks  to  congress,  flogging  is 
now  abolished  in  the  American  navy.)  As  he  had  never  been  heard 
from  by  his  friends,  his  land  had  been  conveyed  to  another,  and  he 
was  left,  after  ten  years'  hard  service  on  the  ocean,  with  nothing  but 
the  sailors'  suit  upon  his  back.  The  good  ladies  of  Londonderry 
soon  furnished  him  with  clothing.  His  health  was  unimpaired,  and 
he  was  willing  to  labor,  but  being  no  landsman  he  was  unskilful  in 
farming,  and  dared  not  trust  himself  again  on  the  ocean.  As  his 
only  resource,  he  engaged  in  boating  on  the  Western  lak«s.  Com- 
mencing at  Schenectady,  they  pursued  their  course  in  batteaux  up 
the   Mohawk  river,  carrying  their  canoes  and  baggage  from  one 


REVOLUTIONARY   WAR.  495 

stream  to  another  till  they  reached  Lake  Ontario,  thence  pursuing 
their  voyage  through  the  lakes  until  they  met  the  Indian  traders  at 
Mackinaw,  and,  exchanging  their  goods  for  furs,  returned  to  Schenec- 
tady in  the  fall,  making  but  one  trip  in  a  year.  In  this  business  he 
spent  seven  years  more  of  his  life.  With  the  little  property  thus 
acquired  he  returned  to  Bedford,  purchased  fifty  acres  of  wild  land, 
built  a  cottage,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wallace,  and 
set  himself  to  clearing  up  his  farm,  but  was  again  interrupted  by  a 
call  to  take  up  arms  in  defence  of  his  country.  He  was  with  the 
army  at  Ticonderoga,  and  was  a  boatswain  under  General  Arnold, 
on  Lake  Champlain.  Here  a  ball  split  open  the  wristband  of  bis 
shirt  and  broke  the  skin  on  his  hand,  which  was  all  the  wound  he 
received.  Having  completed  his  term  of  service  he  returned  to 
Bedford  and  steadily  pursued  the  cultivation  of  Ms  farm.  He  died 
October  17,  1807. 

In  the  inventory  of  the  town  for  April,  1783,  it  appears  that  there 
were  143  polls,  one  male  negro  slave,  and  one  female  negro  slave  in 
Bedford*. 

Thursday,  July  10,  1783.  "Voted  we  would  not  proceed  to  busi- 
ness by  reason  of  its  being  a  day  of  rejoicing  on  account  of  peace." 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  Revolutionary  soldiers  who 
went  from  this  town  to  serve  their  country  in  the  glorious  struggle 
for  independence,  as  given  in  the  History  of  Bedford  published  in 
1851: 

Col.  Daniel  Moor,  Primas  Chandler   (taken  at  the 

Maj.  John  Goffe,  Cedars  and  never  heard  of), 

Capt.  James  Aiken,  Samuel  Ban-, 

Capt.  Thos.  McLaughlin,  John  Callahan  (killed), 

Lieut.  John  Patten,  James  Moor, 

John  Patten,  Jr.,  Robert  Cornewell, 

Samuel  Patten,  John  Caldwell, 

James  Patten,  James  Grear, 

Robert  Patten,  Jonas  Cutting, 

Hugh  Campbell,  William  Parker, 

John  Gault,  John  Kellen, 

Isaac  Riddle,  John  MacAllister, 

David  Riddle,  Barnet  McCain, 

John  Riddle,  *      John  Griffin, 

Amos  Martin,  Luke  Eagan, 

James  Martin,  Solomon  Kemp  (killed), 

George  Gault,  John  O'Xeil, 

Stephen  Goffe  (lost  at  sea),  Jonathan  Dorr  (killed), 

Hugh  Thornton  (died  in  service),     George  Hogg, 


496 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


John  Gardner, 

Emigrant  Chubuck, 

Samuel  Fugard, 

William  Newman, 

Thomas  McClary, 

Nathaniel  Spofford, 

Robert  Dewrumple  (killed), 

Patrick  Larkin, 

William  Houston, 

Hugh  Jameson, 

Whitfield  Gilmore, 

John  Bell, 

James  Houston, 

Valentine  Sullivan  (taken  in  the 

retreat  from  Canada ;    died  a 

prisoner), 
William  Kerr,  Jr., 
David  Gregore  (drummer), 
George  Orr, 
John  Ross, 
James  Steel, 
Stephen  Mack, 
Robert  Morrill, 
Josiah  Tirrel, 
Patrick  O 'Murphy, 
Patrick  O'Flyng, 
Calvin  Johnson  (died  in  service), 


Hugh  Matthews, 

Joseph  Matthews, 

Thomas  Matthews, 

William  Caldwell, 

John  Dobbin, 

John  Boies  (taken  prisoner  and 
carried  to  Limerick,  Ireland, 
thence  to  Mill  prison,  England), 

Josiah  Gordon, 

Phineas  Aiken, 

John  Manahan, 

Thomas  Lancy, 

William  Goffe  (killed), 

William  Barnet  (died  in  service), 

David  C.  Houston, 

John  Burns, 

William  Burns  (wounded), 

James  Smith, 

John  Russell, 

Samuel  Turrell, 

Levi  Whitman, 

1  James  Nesmith, 

1  Nehemiah  Lincoln, 

1  James  Gordon, 

1  James  Bell, 

1  Barnard  McKim, 

1  Samuel  Remich  (?). 


Since  the  History  of  Bedford  was  published  in  1851  a  closer 
examination  of  the  state  and  colonial  records  of  Massachusetts  and 
New  Hampshire  has  disclosed  the  names  of  some  men  who  should 
be  included  among  the  Bedford  men  who  served  in  the  Revolution, 
and  has  also  shown  that  some  men  were  given  in  the  history  of  1851 
as  from  Bedford  whose  names  should  not  be  credited  to  Bedford. 

With  this  in  mind  a  supplemental  list  is  added — arranged  in  a 
little  different  form — which  may  not  be  itself  perfectly  correct,  but 
which  represents  the  most  exact  information  obtainable  at  this  date 
upon  the  point.  The  lists  have  been  compared  with  the  rolls  of 
Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire  by  Mr.  G.  C.  Gilmore,  a  son  of 
Bedford,  and  an  authority  on  these  matters.  A  reason  for  the  dis- 
crepancies that  exist  may  be  found  in  the  fact  that  in  computing  the 
mileage  of  men  who  came  to  Bunker  Hill  from  Bedford,  Mass.,  and 
Bedford,  N.  H.,  and  whose  names  were  alike,  there  was  no  way  of 


>  But  see  warrant  for  town  meeting,  July  17, 1781,  February  10, 1783,  August  29,  1785; 
Bouton's  History  of  New  Hampshire,  pp.  183-4  and  187. 


REVOLUTIONARY   WAR.  497 

telling  to  which  of  the  two  towns  they  should  be  credited  save  by 
computing  the  comparative  mileage  which  they  were  allowed. 

This  list  is  authenticated  by  the  State  Papers,  but  is  not  a  correct 
list  in  some  respects  known  to  members  of  families  interested.  For 
instance:  David  Riddle  served  all  through  the  war  and  was  a  pen- 
sioner after  it  was  over,  yet  his  name  is  not  credited  to  Bedford  on 
the  state  rolls,  although  he  was  born  there,  lived,  and  died  there. 
The  reason  is  that  an  examination  of  the  pension  office  records  at 
Washington  shows  that  he  served  in  a  Massachusetts  regiment. 
Stephen  Goffe  was  killed  at  Saratoga,  as  the  family  Bible  states, 
and  was  not  drowned  at  sea.  His  brother  William  was  so  drowned 
while  on  a  privateering  voyage. 
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498 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Bedford  Men  in    the   Revolutionary  War,  Copied  Mainly 
from  the  State  Papers. 


names. 


Rank. 


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Aiken,  James 

Aiken,  John 

Aiken,  Phinehas 

Barr ,  Samuel 

Barnet,  John 

Barnet,  Samuel 

Barnet,  William 

Bell, John 

Boies,  John 

Burns,  John 

Burns,  Robert 

Burns,  William 

Callahan,  John 

Caldwell,  William.... 

Campbell,  Hugh 

Carr,  William 

Chandler,  Primas 

Chandler,  Zachariah. 
Chubbuck,  Simeon... 

Cornwall,  Robert 

Cutting,  Jonas 

Dobbin,  John 

Eagan,  Luke 

English,  Thomas 


Fling,  Patrick 

Fugard,  Samuel 

Gardner,  John 

Gault,  George 

Gault,  John 

George,  John 

Gilmore,  Whitefleld.. 

Goffe,  John 

Goffe,  John 

Goffe,  William 

Goffe,  Stephen 

Gordon,  James 

Gordon,  Josiah 

Greer,  James 

Gregory,  David 

Griffin,  Jonathan 

Griffin,  John 

Griffin,  Timothy 

Hinckley,  Seth 

Hogg,  George 

Houston,  David 

Houston,  James 

Houston,  Isaac 

Houston,  Robert 

Houston,  Samuel 

Jameson,  Hugh 

Johnson,  Calvin 

Jones,  Robert 

Karr,  William 

Kemp,  Solomon 

Kerr,  John 

Larkin,  Patrick 

Lincoln,  Nehemiah.. 

Mannahan,  John 

Martin,  Amos 

Martin.  James 

Matthews,  Hugh 

Matthews,  Joseph 

Matthews,  Robert 

Matthews,  Thomas... 


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Bennington. 


Bennington. 

Bunker  Hill. 
Bennington. 


Died  in  service. 


Bennington. 
Bunker  Hill. 
Bunker  Hill. 
Taken  prisoner  and  never  heard  from. 


Bunker  Hill. 

Bunker  Hill.  Arnold  Expd.  Quebec.  Taken 

prisoner. 
Bunker  Hill. 
Bunker  Hill. 
Bunker  Hill.    Arnold  Expd.  Quebec.    Died 

Illinois,  Oct.  7,  1821. 
Served  several  times  during  the  war. 


Killed  accidentally,  May  12, 1786. 

Bunker  Hill. 

Bunker  Hill. 

Killed  at  Saratoga. 

Lost  at  sea  on  a  privateering  voyage. 


Bunker  Hill. 


Bunker  Hill. 
Bennington. 


Bennington. 
Bunker  Hill. 


Died  during  the  war. 


Mass.  Rolls.    Said  to  have  been  killed. 
Bunker  Hill.    Arnold  Expd.  Quebec. 


Bunker  Hill.    Arnold  Expd.  Quebec. 


Bunker  Hill.    Died  Sept.  22,  1838. 

Bunker  Hill. 

Bennington. 

Died  March  16, 1781. 


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499 


Bedford  Men  B?  the  Revolutionary  War. —  Continued. 


NAMES. 


Rank. 


In  What  Battles,  etc. 


♦McAffee,  Samuel 

McAllaster.  John , 

McClary,  Thomas , 

McClary,  William 

McKeen,  Barnard 

McLaughlin,  James 

McLaughlin,  James,  Jr 
McLaughlin,  Thomas.. 
McLaughlin,  William. . 

McQuaid,  Jacob 

Miller,  James 

Moore,  Daniel 

Moore,  David 

Moore,  James 

Moore,  John 

Moore,  Samuel 

Moore,  William 

Moore,  William 

Morrill,  Robert 

Morrison,  John 

Morrison,  Samuel 

Murphy,  Patrick 

Newman,  William 

Nutt,  William.  .  

O'Neil,  John 

Orr,  George 

Orr,  James 

Orr,  John 

Patten,  James 

Patten,  John 

Patten,  John,  Jr 

Patten,  Robert 

Patten,  Samuel 

Patterson,  James 

(iu in n ,  Peter 

tRiddle,  David 

Riddle,  Hugh 

Riddle,  Isaac 

Riddle,  John 

Rider,  James 

Ross,  John 

Russell,  John 

Smith,  Adam 

Smith,  Samuel 

Steele,  James 

Sullivan,  Valentine 

Thornton,  Hugh 

Tirrell,  Abel 

Tirrell,  Jonah 

Vose,  Thomas  V 

Wallace,  James 

Wallace,  John 

Walker,  James 

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Wilkins,  Isaac 

Woods,  Stephen 


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Bennington.    Died  Wds.,  Aug.  17, 17i 
Bunker  Hill. 


Bunker  Hill. 
Bennington. 
Bennington. 


Bunker  Hill. 

Bennington. 
Discharged  June  7,  1.'75. 

Bennington. 

Bennington. 

Bunker  Hill.    Arnold  Expd.  Quebec. 
Bunker  Hill. 

Bunker  Hill. 

Bunker  Hill. 

Bennington.    Wounded  severely. 

Bunker  Hill.    Vol.  15,  362,  Lieut. 


Bunker  Hill. 


Bennington. 


Bennington. 

Bunker  Hill.    Mass.  Rolls. 

Killed  July  7, 1777. 


Bennington 
Bennington. 
Bennington. 


Total,  120. 


*The  name  McDuffee  was  changed  to  McAffee,  and  so  the  inscription  on  the  grave 
of  this  young  man  in  the  Old  Graveyard  is  accounted  for:  "  In  memory  of  Samuel 

McDuffee,  son  of  Mr.  John  McDuffee  and ,  his  wife.    He  died  in  ye  service  of  his 

country,  Aug.  17, 1777,  at  Bennington.    In  ye  17th  year  of  his  age." 

t  Claimed  by  Bedford,  Mass.,  evidently  a  mistake.  He  was  born  and  always  lived 
in  Bedford,  N.  H.,  except  when  in  the  Continental  army. 


500  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

The  rolls  give  the  names  of  twenty-seven  men,  enlisted  from  Bed- 
ford, who  were  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 

It  is  known  that  this  is  not  a  complete  list,  but  it  is  not  surprising 
that,  at  such  a  time,  less  attention  should  be  given  to  the  making  of 
perfect  records  than  to  the  real  business  at  hand.  The  list  is  given, 
therefore,  as  the  roll  has  it,  conscious  that  there  is  abundance  of  evi- 
dence that  there  are  additional  names,1  but  for  the  above  reason : 

William  Barnet;  John  Callahan;  Hugh  Campbell;  Jonas  Cut- 
ting ;  John  Dobbins ;  Luke  Eagan ;  Thomas  English ;  Patrick 
Fling ;  John  Goffe ;  John  Goffe,  Jr. ;  George  Hogg ;  James  Hous- 
ton; Calvin  Johnson;  John  Kerr;  John  Mannahan;  Hugh  Mat- 
thews ;  Joseph  Matthews ;  Thomas  McClary ;  Thomas  McLaughlin  ; 
David  Moore ;  Patrick  Murphy ;  William  Newman ;  John  O'Neil ; 
James  Orr  ;  John  Patten ;  Samuel  Patten  ;  Samuel  Smith. 

There  were  five  Bedford  men  in  Arnold's  expedition  to  Quebec : 
John  Dobbin ;  Patrick  Fling ;  John  Kerr ;  John  Mannahan  ;  Patrick 
Murphy. 

Names  of  soldiers  in  the  History  of  Bedford  of  1851,  but  now 
omitted  : 

Emigrant  Chubbuck  ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

Jonathan  Dorr ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

William  Houston ;  Vol.  14,  720,  Goffstown. 

Robert  Dewrumple ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

Nathaniel  Spofford ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

Stephen  Mack ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

Josiah  Tirrell ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

Samuel  Turrill ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

Thomas  Lancey  ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

William  Kerr,  Jr. ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

John  Kollin  (probably  Mollen)  ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

William  Parker ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

James  Smith ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

John  Caldwell ;  see  Massachusetts  rolls. 

iThe  following  extracts  from  Matthew  Patten's  Diary  have  a  bearing  upon  this 
point: 

April  20  1775.  I  received  the  melancholy  news  in  the  morning  that  Gen  Gages 
troops  had  fired  on  our  countrymen  at  Concord  and  had  killed  a  large  number 
of  then?  Our  town  was  notified  last  night  We  generally  met  at  the  meeting  house 
about  9  o'clock  and  twenty  of  our  men  went  directly  off  for  our  army  from  the  meet- 
ing to  assist  them  And  our  John  came  home  from  Pawtucket  and  intending  to  set 
off  for  our  army  tomorrow  morning  and  our  girls  set  up  all  night  baking  bread  and 
fixing  things  for  him  and  John  Dobbin. 

April  21  Our  John  and  John  Dobbin  and  my  brother  Samuels  two  oldest  sons  set 
off  and  joined  Derryfield  men  and  about  six  from  Goffstown  and  two  or  three  more 
from  this  town  under  the  command  of  Capt  Moor  of  Derryfield  They  amounted  in 
number  to  45  in  all  Suncook  men  and  two  or  three  others  that  joined  them  marched 
on  in  about  an  hour  after  They  amounted  to  35  There  was  nine  men  went  along 
after  belonging  to  Pennykook  or  thereabouts. 

April  22  I  was  awaked  in  the  morning  by  Mr  Chandlers  man  with  a  letter  from  the 
Committee  of  the  Provincial  Congress  for  calling  another  Congress  of  the  Province 
immediately  And  I  went  with  it  as  fast  as  I  could  to  John  Bells  but  he  had  gone  to 
the  army  and  both  the  other  selectmen. 


REVOLUTIONARY   WAR.  501 

These  names  are  not  found  in  any  rolls  now  known  to  be  in  exist- 
ence where  the  residence  of  the  soldier  is  given. 

There  were  nineteen  Bedford  men  at  Bennington : 

John  Aiken  ;  John  Barnet ;  John  Bell ;  Robert  Burns ;  Isaac 
Houston;  Samuel  Houston;  Robert  Matthews;  Samuel  McAffee 
(died  of  wounds,  August  17,  1777) ;  William  McLaughlin ;  Jacob 
McQuaid;  John  Moore;  William  Moore;  John  Morrison;  John 
Orr  (wounded  severely) ;  Hugh  Riddle ;  Adam  Smith ;  James  Wal- 
lace ;  John  Wallace ;  James  Walker. 

When  the  United  States  government  took  the  census,  June  1, 
1840,  Bedford  had  six  Revolutionary  pensioners  living  in  the  town: 

Name.  Age.  Living  with 

John  Ferguson  83  Daniel  Ferguson. 

John  Gault  77  Daniel  Gault. 

William  Moore  80  William  Moore. 

Sarah  Holbrook  75  Thomas  G.  Holbrook. 

Lydia  Rundlett  90  Thomas  Rundlett. 

Eunice  Shepard  77  Charles  Shepard. 

1860.  Nabby  (Abigail)  Flint  (?)  Nathaniel  Flint. 

In  the  old  graveyard  the  following  inscription  is  also  to  be  found : 
"  In  memory  of  John  Houston,  son  of  Mr.  James  Houston  and  Mary 
his  wife  who  died  at  Ticonderoga  in  the  service  of  his  country  Oct. 
15,  1776,  aged  18  years,  6  months  and  19  days." 

Xo  roll  of  the  men  enlisted  in  this  expedition  is  obtainable, 
although  of  course  its  story  is  part  of  our  country's  history. 


War  of  1812,   Militia,  Etc. 


At  the  outbreak  of  the  War  of  1812  some  Bedford  men  enlisted 
and  saw  active  service.  Their  names,  taken  from  the  adjutant- 
general's  report,  are  as  follows : 

Capt.  Phineas  Stone's  company  (Weare).  Nat  Fisk,  lieutenant- 
colonel,  commanding  First  regiment,  New  Hampshire  militia,  enlisted 
September  1,  1814,  for  three  months.  Privates :  John  Martin, 
William  Montgomery,  Elias  Peabody,  and  Otis  Shepard. 

Enlisted  September  12,  1814,  John  McAfee,  corporal.  Privates: 
John  Barr  and  Samuel  Campbell,  Jr. 

Capt.  James  T.  Trivetts'  company,  Col.  John  Steele's  (Peterbor- 
ough) i-egiment,  Second  detached  militia,  enlisted  September  27, 
1814,  for  sixty  days.  Privates :  Barton  Bullock,  William  French, 
Francis  King,  Bernice  Pritchard,  and  Reuben  Spofford. 

Ephraim  Snow  also  went  from  Bedford  and  served  through  the 
War  of  1812.     His  widow  was  a  pensioner. 

Joseph  Manning  of  Bedford  was  in  the  War  of  1812 ;  was  wounded 
at  Lundy's  Lane,  and  carried  the  bullet  in  his  shoulder  to  the  end  of 
his  life.     Ruel  G.  Manning  of  Bedford  was  also  in  the  War  of  1812. 

During  the  war  there  were  more  than  200  men,  armed  and 
equipped  in  the  town,  who  held  themselves  in  readiness  to  march 
in  defense  of  their  country.  At  the  time  the  British  invaded  Ports- 
mouth, the  company  of  Exempts,  under  Capt.  Isaac  Riddle,  the 
Infantry,  under  Capt.  William  Moore,  and  the  Grenadiers,  under 
Capt.  William  P.  Riddle,  met  at  the  center  of  the  town  and  drilled, 
daily,  expecting  to  have  orders  hourly  to  meet  the  enemy  at  Ports- 
mouth. 

By  a  law  passed  December  28,  1792,  all  men  between  the  ages  of 
eighteen  and  forty-five  were  liable  to  do  military  duty.  The  com- 
pany of  Exempts  were  those  whose  ages  were  outside  of  these 
limits,  or  who,  for  some  reason,  were  not  subject  to  draft.  The 
company  was  formed  in  1814,  and  numbered  about  sixty  men. 
They  armed  and  equipped  themselves  *at  their  own  expense,  and 
were  ready  to  march  at  a  moment's  warning  for  the  protection  of 
their  country,  then  engaged  in  the  hostilities  with  England.  Their 
first  officers  were  as  follows  : 


MILITIA.  503 

Isaac  Riddle,  captain ;  John  Holbrook,  lieutenant ;  Samuel  Chand- 
ler, second  lieutenant ;  William  Riddle,  ensign. 

In  the  year  1815,  the  Infantry  company,  embodying  in  its  limits 
all  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  was  composed  of  about  150  men.  It 
was  attached  to  the  Xinth  regiment,  and  was  known  as  Company  A 
The  field  officers  of  the  regiment,  deeming  it  too  large  for  the  pur- 
pose for  which  it  was  intended,  created  a  volunteer  company  by  the 
name  of  the  Bedford  Grenadiers,  numbering  forty-eight,  rank  and 
file.  For  military  tactics  and  strict  discipline  it  stood  the  highest  in 
the  Xinth  regiment,  and  was  considered  one  of  the  first  companies 
in  the  state.  It  was  organized  before  the  clqse  of  the  War  of  1812. 
The  uniforms  were  of  American  manufacture.  Their  swallow-tail 
coats  were  made  of  homespun  cloth,  colored  blue,  trimmed  with  yel- 
low silk  braid  and  bright  buttons.  They  wore  a  leather  stock  to 
keep  their  chins  up.  The  trousers  were  made  of  white  cotton  jean 
or  drilling,  manufactured  from  Xo.  16  cotton  yarn,  and  woven  by 
the  Misses  Patten ;  vests  of  the  same  ;  gaiters  made  from  black  vel- 
vet; black  wool  hats,  furnished  with  a  brass  front  piece,  embossed 
with  the  American  eagle.  The  plumes  were  of  white,  with  a  red 
top  made  from  geese  feathers  by  Mrs.  Theodore  A.  Goffe.  They 
were  armed  with  a  flintlock  musket  and  bayonet. 

In  the  year  1821  the  company  procured  a  new  uniform,  similar  in 
style  to  the  first  one  but  of  a  richer  material,  substituting  English 
manufacture  for  American.  Every  man  was  warned  out  to  train  by 
the  orderly  once  a  year.  In  September  the  regiment  to  which  the 
company  belonged  was  mustered  on  the  muster  field  at  Goffstown. 
In  May  of  each  year  the  company  trained  at  Bedford  on  the  com- 
mon near  the  town  house,  as  a  preliminary  for  the  fall  muster. 
They  had  a  band.  Chandler  Spofford  played  the  bassoon ;  Green- 
leaf  Walker,  clarionet ;  James  Gardner,  Kent  bugle ;  Fred  Wallace, 
cymbals ;  Adam  Chandler  also  played  in  the  band ;  a  man  named 
Lombard  played  the  clarionet.  The  company  continued  to  hold  its 
rank  as  one  of  the  best  in  the  state  until  it  was  disbanded  in  1834. 
They  marched  from  Bedford  to  Concord,  with  their  own  band,  to 
meet  Lafayette.  Many  members  of  this  company  were  among  the 
organizers  of  the  Amoskeag  Veterans,  whose  first  commander  was 
William  P.  Riddle.  They  erected  the  tombstone  over  the  grave  of 
Alfred  Foster,  who,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  was  their  commanding 
officer. 

The  officers  of  the  company  were  the  following : 


504  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

William  P.  Riddle,  ap.  1st  Capt.,  Dec.  20, 1815;  pro.Maj.,  May  19, 
1820;  pro.  Lieut.-Col.,  June   23,  1821;   pro.  Col.,  June  15,  1824 
pro.  Brig.-Gen.,  June  24,  1831 ;  pro.  Maj.-Gen.,  June  25,  1833;  res 
June  8,  1835. 

Isaac  McGaw,  ap.  Lieut.,  Dec.  20,  1815;  res.,  Feb.  10,  1818. 

Wm.  Patten,  ap.  Ens.,  Dec.  20,  1815;  pro.  Lieut.,  Feb.  10,  1818 
pro.  Capt.,  Aug.  28,  1820 ;  res.,  April  9,  1821. 

Alfred  Foster,  ap.  Ens.,  Feb.  10,  1819;  pro.  Lieut,  Aug.  28, 1820 
pro.  Capt.,  April  9,  1821 ,  pro.  Maj.,  June  18,  1825.  Died  in  office. 

John  Patten,  ap.  Ens.,  Aug.  28,  1820;  pro.  Lieut.,  April  9,  1821 
pro.  Capt.,  Aug.  12,  1825 ;  res.,  Dec.  19,  1827. 

Daniel  Gordon,  ap.  Ens.,  April  9, 1821 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  Aug.  12,  1825 
pro.  Capt.,  Dec.  22,  1827 ;  res.,  Nov.  22,  1829. 

Rufus  Merrill,  ap.  Ens.,  Aug.  12,  1825;  pro.  Lieut.,  Dec.  22, 1827 
pro.  Capt.,  Dec.  2,  1829;  res.,  April  16,  1832. 

John  P.  Houston,  ap.  Ens.,  Dec.  22, 1827 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  Dec.  2, 1829 
pro.  Capt.,  April  18,  1832;  res.,  April  16,  1833. 

James  French,  ap.  Ens.,  Dec.  22,  1829;  res.,  April  16,  1832. 

Samuel  Patten,  ap.  Lieut.,  April  18,  1832;  pro.  Capt.,  April  17, 
1833;  res.,  April  26,1834. 

Samuel  Morrison,  ap.  Ens.,  April  18,  1832;  pro.  Lieut.,  April  17r 
1833;  res.,  April  26,  1834. 

R.  McLaughlin,  ap.  Ens.,  April  17,  1833  ;  res.,  July  22,  1834. 

In  the  year  1842  a  volunteer  company  was  formed  under  the 
style  of  the  Bedford  Highlanders.  Their  uniforms  consisted  of 
coats  made  from  green  and  Highland  plaid,  with  a  plaid  scarf ;  trou- 
sers of  white,  trimmed  with  black  velvet ;  hats  of  black  velvet,  with 
black  plumes. 

Its  first  officers  were  the  following : 

Charles  F.  Shepard,  ap.  Capt.,  April  11,  1842;  res.,  Oct.  13,  1845. 

Joshua  Vose,  Jr.,  ap.  Lieut.,  April  11,  1842;  pro.  Capt.,  Oct.  13, 
1845  ;  res.,  April  20,  1847. 

Timothy  F.  Moore,  ap.  Ens.,  May  24,  1844 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  Oct.  13, 
1845;  pro.  Capt.,  April  20,  1847;  res.,  Dec.  9,  1847. 

Alfred  McAffee,  ap.  Ens.,  Oct.  13,  1845 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  April  20, 
1847;  pro.  Capt.,  Dec.  9,  1847  (disbanded). 

William  Moore,  2d,  ap.  Ens.,  April  20,  1847;  pro.  Lieut.,  Dec.  9,. 
1847  (disbanded). 

Wm.  McDole  Ferson,  ap.  Ens.,  Dec.  9,  1847  (disbanded). 

Field  and  staff  officers : 

Silas  Walker,  ap.  Surg.,  Sept.  17,  1824;  res.,  Sept.  2,  1826. 

Robert  Riddle,  ap.  Surg.'s  mate,  Sept.  2,  1826.     Died  in  office. 

H.  C.  Parker,  ap.  paymaster,  Aug.  25,  1831;  res.,  Sept.  6,  1831; 
ap.  Surg.,  Dec.  11,  1838  ;  res.,  March  4,  1831. 

Isaac  Riddle,  ap.  Adjt.,  July  23,  1824;  pro.  Maj.,  June  25, 1831 ;. 
res.,  June  12,  1833. 


MILITIA.  505 

Lewis  F.  Harris,  ap.  Q.  M.,  July  23,  1824;  res.,  Oct.  22,  1828. 

A.  J.  Dow,  ap.  Adjt.,  July  20,  1837;  res.,  Aug.  14,  1840. 

Leonard  Rundlett,  ap.  Q.  M.,  July  20, 1837  ;  pro.  brigade  inspector, 
Sept.  9,  1839 ;  res.,  1840. 

L.  B.  Bowman,  ap.  paymaster,  Aug.  16,  1838;  pro.  Adjt.,  Aug. 
14,  1840;  res.,  1841. 

Geo.  W.  Kiddle,  ap.  Q.  M.,  Aug.  21,  1848 ;  now  in  commission 
(1850). 

There  was  another  militia  company  known  as  the  Slambangs, 
made  up  largely  of  the  brickmakers,  and  which  included  all  men 
liable  to  do  military  duty  who  were  not  enrolled  in  the  Grenadiers 
or  the  Highlanders.  The  officers  were  elected  every  May,  and 
changes  were  so  frequent  that  no  record  is  possible.  They  had  a 
drum  corps,  but  no  band.  William  Ferson  so  distinguished  himself 
in  this  direction  that  he  was  popularly  known  as  "  Billy  Bangings." 
The  drum  he  played  is  still  in  existence,  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
Charles  H.  Kendall. 

Persons  who  have  held  commissions  in  the  militia  in  the  town  of 
Bedford,  from  roster  in  the  adjutant-general's  office,  Concord : 

Stephen  Dole,  colonel ;  James  Aiken,  captain ;  Phineas  Aiken, 
lieutenant;  James  Gilmore,  ensign.  William  Dole,  Capt.  Nathan 
Barnes,  Capt.  Andrew  Aiken,   captains  of  cavalry.     James  Moor. 

Lieut. Dunlap,  Maj.  Boies,  Capt.   William   Moor,   Capt 

James  McLaughlin,  Ens.  John  McAllister,  Capt.  Thomas  Chandler, 
Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  Capt.  Thomas  Barr,  captain  of  artillery,  1815 
to  1817. 

William  Moor,  ap.  Capt.,  Aug.  8,  1812 ;  pro.  Adj.,  July  4,  1816 
pro.  Col.,  June  20,  1818;  res.,  March  9,  1820. 

Moody  M.  Stevens,  ap.  Lieut.,  June  20,  1814 ;  res.,  July  26,  1816 

Leonard  C.  French,  ap.  Ens.,  June  20,  1814;  pro.  Capt.,  July  26 
1816;  res.,  June  23,  1818. 

Enoch  Dole,  ap.  Lieut.,  July  26,  1816;  pro.  Capt.,  June  23,  1818 
res.,  Feb.  10,  1819. 

Jesse  Parker,  ap.  Ens.,  July  26,  1816 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  June  23,  1818 
pro.  Capt.,  Feb.  18,  1819;  res.,  April  9,  1821. 

William  Chandler,  ap.  Ens.,  June  23,  1818 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  Feb.  10 
1819;  pro.  Capt.,  April  9,  1821;  res.,  April  9,  1824. 

Robert  Moor,  ap.  Ens.,  Feb.  10,  1819;  pro.  Lieut.,  April  9,  1821 
pro.  Capt,  April  9,  1824;  res.,  Jan.  31,  1825. 

David  Stevens,  ap.  Ens.,  Aug.  27, 1821 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  April  9, 1824 
res.,  Jan.  31,  1825. 

Samuel  Campbell,  ap.  Ens.,  April  9, 1824 ;  pro.  Capt.,  Feb.  2,  1825 
res.,  March  24,  1828. 

Benjamin  Nichols,  ap.  Lieut.,  Feb.  2,  1825 ;  pro.  Capt.,  March  1, 
1828;  dis.,  April  17,  1830. 


506  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Joseph  C/  Moore,  ap.  Ens.,  Feb.  2,  1825 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  March  1, 
1828 ;  pro.  Capt.,  April  17,  1830 ;  res.,  Feb.  8,  1832. 

Samuel  G.  Colley,  ap.  Ens.,  Sept.  5,  1829;  pro.  Lieut.,  April  17, 
1830;  pro.  Capt.,  Feb.  20,  1832;  res.,  April  8,  1834. 

David  Sprague,  ap.  Ens.,  April  17,  1830 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  Feb.  20, 
1832;  res.,  April  8,  1834. 

William  Goff,  ap.  Capt.,  April  9,  1834 ;  res.,  Aug.  28,  1834. 

Rufus  Merrill,  ap.  Capt,  Aug.  28,  1834;  res.,  Feb.  5, 1838. 

Nathaniel  Moore,  ap.  Lieut.,  Aug.  28,  1834  ;  pro.  Capt.,  Feb.  6, 
1838;  res.,  June  5,  1839. 

William  A.  Rundlett,  ap.  Ens.,  Aug.  28, 1834 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  May  22, 
1838;  res.,  March  14,  1839. 

William  R.  French,  ap.  Ens.,  May  23,  1838;  pro.  Capt.,  June  11, 
1839 ;  res.,  March  11,  1842. 

Frederick  Hodgman,  ap.  Lieut.,  June  11,  1839;  pro.  Capt.,  March 
11,  1842;  res.,  July  7,  1843. 

William  McAllister,  ap.  Ens.,  June  11,  1839;  pro.  Lieut,  March 
11,  1842;  res.  July  7,  1843. 

Benjamin  Hall,ap.  Ens.,  March  11,  1842;  pro.  Capt,  July  7, 1843; 
res.,  March  20,  1844. 

Charles  A.  Moore,  ap.  Ens.,  July  7,  1843  ;  res.,  May  27,  1844. 

Philip  C.  Flanders,  ap.  Capt,  Oct.  13,  1845 ;  removed  by  address, 
June  session,  1846. 

F.  F.  French,  ap.  Ens.,  Oct  13,  1845 ;  res.,  April  20,  1847. 

Thomas  G.  Worthley,  ap.  Lieut.,  Oct.  13,  1845 ;  pro.  Capt.,  April 
20,  1847 ;  res.,  April  6,  1848. 

Joseph  H.  Flint,  ap.  Ens.,  April  20,  1847 ;  pro.  Lieut.,  Aug.  24, 
1847 ;  pro.  Capt,  Sept.  4,  1848  ;  res.,  May  1,  1849. 

James  F.  Moore,  ap.  Ens.,  Aug.  24,  1847;  res.,  Aug.  7,  1848. 

Robert  C.  Moore,  ap.  Ens.,  Sept.  4,  1848;  res.,  May  22,  1849. 

William  Moore,  2d,  ap.  Lieut.,  Sept.  4,  1848 ;  pro.  Capt.,  May  1, 
1849;  now  in  commission  (1850). 

William  P.  Gage,  ap.  Lieut.,  May  22,  1849;  now  in  commission 
(1850). 

Rufus  K.  Darrah,  ap.  Ens.,  May  22,  1849;  now  in  commission 
(1850). 

George  W.  Goffe,  ap.  Ens.,  Aug.  24,  1849;  now  in  commission 
(1850). 

The  ladies  got  up  a  subscription  for  a  flag  to  be  presented  to 
the  Grenadiers,  in  accordance  with  the  following  subscription  list. 
Jane  Riddle  made  the  presentation  speech : 

The  ladies  of  Bedford  have  witnessed  with  pleasure  the  unwearied 
exertions  of  the  military  company  of  Grenadiers  in  Bedford  to  per- 
fect themselves  in  uniform  and  in  the  use  of  arms,  rendering  them- 
selves an  ornament  to  the  militia  of  this  state,  and,  as  a  well-disci- 
plined militia  is  the  only  source  from  which  we  can  reasonably 
expect  protection  in  time  of  war,  we  think  it  a  duty  incumbent  on  us 


MILITIA. 


507 


to  encourage,  so  far  as  the  delicacy  of  our  sex  will  permit,  the 
accomplishment  of  an  object  so  honorable.  Therefore,  as  a  testi- 
mony of  our  respect  for  the  members  of  said  company,  and  the 
interest  we  feel  in  their  prosperity,  we  promise  to  pay  to  any  person 
appointed  for  that  purpose,  the  sum  annexed  to  each  of  our  names 
for  the  purpose  of  providing  said  company  with  a  standard,  which 
we  propose  to  present  to  said  company  in  due  form  as  soon  as  may 
be  convenient. 


Jane  Riddle, 

10.75 

Hannah  G.  Foster, 

81.00 

Marinda  Riddle, 

.50 

Clarissa  Darrah, 

'.50 

Margaret  T.  Riddle, 

.50 

Hannah  Wallace, 

.50 

Martha  Riddle, 

.75 

Margaret  A.  French, 

.25 

Elviry  Walker, 

.50 

Achsa  Patten, 

1.50 

Mary  Ann  Walker, 

.25 

Sophia  Darrah, 

.25 

Eunice  C.  At  wood, 

.50 

Susan  E.  Savage, 

.50 

Mary  Houston, 

.50 

Irena  Patten, 

.50 

Asenath  Riddle, 

.50 

Vina  Patten, 

.50 

Submit  Walker, 

.25 

Abigail  Dole, 

.50 

Jane  Houston, 

.25 

Susan  Riddle, 

.50 

Matilda  Eaton, 

.50 

Jane  McQuesten, 

.50 

Sally  Gillmore, 

.50 

Ann  Moss, 

.20 

Margaret  Gillmore, 

.50 

Mary  Anderson, 

.25 

Achsah  N.  McAllaster, 

.50 

Alice  Stearns, 

.34 

Sally  M.  McAllaster, 

.25 

Mary  Kittredge, 

.50 

Sophronia  Cutler, 

.25 

Cathary  Perry, 

.50 

Mary  T.  Cutler, 

.25 

Betsey  Campbell, 

.25 

Dolly  French  Ferson, 

.50 

Lucy  Swett, 

.50 

Eliza  Burns, 

.25 

Merab  French, 

.25 

A  flag  was  also  presented  the  Highlanders  by  the  ladies.  Dolly 
Jane  Stevens  made  the  presentation  speech  and  Thomas  Campbell 
received  the  flag  for  the  company. 


508 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Roll  of  the  Company  of  Bedford  Grenadiers,  1820. 
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John  Goffe 

There  was  but  one  man  from  Bedford  in  the  Mexican  war,  and 
he  was  Caleb  Whitman,  son  of  Levi  Whitman,  who  had  served  in 
the  Revolutionary  army.  He  was  a  fifer,  and  carried  his  fife  up  his 
sleeve.  An  effort  was  made  to  obtain  his  release  from  service  upon 
the  ground  that  he  was  not  fully  competent,  but  it  was  unsuccessful, 
and  Caleb  was  obliged  to  go.  In  Mobile  James  Moore  Gage,  a  Bed- 
ford man,  discovered  him  in  considerable  want,  and  had  him  sent 
home,  honorably  discharged. 

Somewhere  about  1860  there  was  an  independent  military  com- 
pany formed  in  Bedford,  called  Bedford  Light  Infantry,  Company 
A.  The  captain  was  George  W.  Riddle ;  first  lieutenant,  Robert 
Fulton ;  and  second  lieutenant,  David  H.  Barr.  They  equipped 
themselves  at  organization,  but  later  went  into  the  state  service  and 
received  supplies  from  the  state,  as  the  following  shows  : 

May  11    1864     Received  from    Natt  Head  60  Springfield  Rifle 
Muskets  complete  in  extra  nipples  etc. 
Sept  28     500  cartridges. 


MILITIA.  509 

June  5  1866.  received  1  drum  50  uniforms.  52  trumpets  for 
caps  49  letter  A  for  caps.  72  tins  for  shoulders ;  70  buttons  for 
shoulders ;  68  brasses  for  shoulders. 

Oct  15     received  3  Militia  laws  ;  3  Uptons  tactics. 

June  21  1867     received  1  enlistment  book ;  1  Fife. 

Sept  7  1867     550  coat  buttons  ;  200  sleeve  buttons. 

August.     From  Anthony  Colby,  60  equipments  all  new. 

The  following  was  found  in  the  town  records : 

At  a  town  meeting  held  Oct.  19,  1861,  it  was  voted  to  furnish  an 
Armory  for  the  Bedford  Light  Infantry,  and  to  remodel  the  lower 
room  in  the  town  house  for  that  purpose,  and  raise  the  sum  of  fifty 
dollars. 

The  following  roll  of  members  was  copied  from  the  old  record 
book  of  the  company.  Many  of  these  afterwards  enlisted  in  the 
state  militia  in  different  companies: 

Company  A,  Bedford    Light   Infantry,  New    Hampshire 
State  Militia. 

We,  whose  names  are  hereunto  affixed,  severally  enlist  in  "A " 
company  of  the  Bedford  Light  Infantry,  Volunteer  Militia  of  the 
State  of  New  Hampshire,  being  raise  in  Bedford  and  vicinity  to 
serve  for  a  period  of  five  years,  unless  sooner  discharged,  subject  to 
orders  of  the  Commander-in-chief  and  all  laws  and  regulations  gov- 
erning the  Militia  of  this  State. 

Names.  Age.                          Name.  Age. 

George  W.  Riddle,  37  Charles  E.  Bursiel,  19 

Robert  Fulton,  39  Stephen  C.  Damon,  36 

William  Moor,  39  Benjamin  HaU,  39 

Willard  C.  Parker,  28  Alfred  McAffee,  39 

Stephen  Goff,  26  T.  F.  Moor,  39 

John  A.  Patten,  20  Walter  I.  Bachelder,  26 

William  M.  Patten,  23  George  B.  Shattuck,  34 

Samuel  H.  Patten,  18  Monroe  Hardy,  19 

Charles  H.  Marshall  20  Nathan  A.  Parker,  24 

Austin  G.  French,  18  Elijah  C.  Stevens, 

George  F.  Elliott,  19  Farnham  Jenkins,  29 

Edward  H.  Patten,  22  Samuel  P.  Duncklee, 

James  A.  Parker,  37  Charles  C.  Riddle, 

George  M.  French,  18  Selwin  B.  Wallace, 

Herbert  R.  Fulton,  17  Robert  B.  McPherson,  24 

Samuel  M.  Swett,  28  Justin  E.  Vose,  28 

Daniel  G.  Atwood,  39  F.  Shepard, 

Timothv  Townsend,  39  George  E.  Gault, 

Daniel  F.  Gardner,  28  E.  W.  Butterfield, 

Daniel  W.  Atwood,  18  E.  T.  Hardy,  23 


510 


HISTORY   OE   BEDFORD. 


Names.  Age. 

Solon  D.  Pollard, 
Putnam  Jenkins, 
Lysander  Gardner,  25 

Charles  E.  McLaughlin,  19 

John  P.  Hodgman, 
John  A.  Armstrong,  21 

James  E.  French, 
William  P.  Shepard,  18 

Charles  P.  Farley,  19 

Fred  M.  Smith,  20 

Jacob  N.  Rundlett, 
Joseph  S.  Parkhurst, 
Solon  C.  Gillmore,  19 

Charles  S.  Campbell,  26 

Seth  P.  Campbell,  18 

Ephraim  Kendall,  19 

Charles  A.  Flint,  18 

John  P.  Connor, 


Names. 
David  A.  Butterfield, 
Ira  Way, 
1866,  May  22. 
George  F.  Barnard, 
Daniel  Parker, 
William  F.  Conner, 
May  25,  Charles  Seavey, 
John  H.  Campbell, 
Andrew  J.  Butterfield, 
Horace  Townsend, 
Edward  E.  Schneider, 
Samuel  B.  Mace, 
Joseph  Allen, 
William  W.  Wilkins, 
Albert  Hill, 
James  T.  Kendall, 
Edwin  F.  Sherburne. 


Age. 


18 


The  Civil  War. 


The  following  are  extracts  from  the  records  of  the  town  of  Bed- 
ford pertaining  to  the  War  of  the  Rebellion : 

August  12,  1862.  Voted  to  raise  $500,  and  appropriate  as  speci- 
fied in  the  article. 

Voted  that  the  selectmen  of  the  town  of  Bedford  pay  to  every 
person  resident  of  said  town  who  has  enlisted  since  the  first  day  of 
June  last,  or  may  enlist  until  the  first  of  September  next,  enough  to 
fill  up  the  quota  of  100,000  men,  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  to  be  paid 
as  soon  as  said  resident  shall  be  sworn  into  the  United  States  service. 

Voted,  that  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  by  the  chair  to 
encourage  enlistments  in  the  town. 

The  chair  appointed  as  the  committee  the  following  persons: 
Rodney  M.  Rollins,  Robert  Fulton,  Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  and  Daniel 
Parker.    On  motion  George  W.  Riddle  was  added  to  the  committee. 

September  17, 1862.  Voted  to  authorize  the  selectmen  to  borrow 
$1,800,  for  the  purpose  of  paying  a  bounty  of  $50  to  each  soldier 
that  enlisted  from  the  town  of  Bedford  between  the  first  day  of 
June  and  the  first  day  of  September,  1862,  and  have  been  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service. 

Voted,  that  the  town  pay  $200  to  each  man  who  has  or  may 
enlist  for  nine  months  in  the  United  States  service  and  are  mustered 
in  from  this  town  and  authorize  the  selectmen  to  borrow  and  pay 
out  the  same. 

Voted,  that  the  selectmen  be  a  committee  to  see  that  the  quota 
is  filled. 

Voted,  to  authorize  the  selectmen  to  borrow  such  sums  of  money 
as  may  become  necessary  to  pay  the  families  of  volunteers  for  assist- 
ance. 

September  27,  1862.  Voted  to  reconsider  the  vote  of  last  meet- 
ing and  voted  that  the  town  pay  $200  to  each  man  who  has  or  may 
enlist  for  nine  months  from  this  town,  and  is  or  may  be  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service,  enough  to  fill  up  the  quota  called  for 
by  the  governor  of  New  Hampshire,  and  authorize  the  selectmen  to 
borrow  the  money  and  pledge  the  credit  of  the  town  for  the  same. 

September  3,  1863.  Voted  to  pay  to  each  drafted  man  who  goes 
into  the  service  or  furnishes  a  substitute  the  sum  of  $300. 

Voted  to  authorize  the  selectmen  to  borrow  such  sums  of  money 
as  is  necessary  to  pay  those  men  who  go  into  the  service  or  find  a 
substitute,  not  exceeding  $3,000. 


512  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Resolution  by  Colonel  Pierce  adopted : 

That  the  town  of  Bedford  give  to  all  conscripts  that  are  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  and  to  families  the  same  that  was 
given  to  volunteers  under  the  state  laws. 

Voted  that  the  town  clerk  procure  a  suitable  book  in  which  to 
record  the  names  of  all  those  that  go  into  the  service  of  the 
United  States  as  soldiers,  physicians,  etc.,  and  a  record  of  all  the 
circumstances  connected  with  that  service  that  may  be  of  interest 
and  may  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the  clerk. 

November  12,  1863.  Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to 
borrow  the  sum  of  $3,000  or  a  sufficient  sum  to  pay  the  balance  due 
to  the  men  that  were  drafted  on  the  first  day  of  September  last  and 
authorize  the  selectmen  to  borrow  and  pay  out  the  same. 

Voted,  that  a  committee  of  two  be  appointed  by  the  selectmen 
to  furnish  the  men  to  fill  the  quota.  And  the  selectmen  appointed 
Robert  Fulton  and  George  W.  Riddle. 

Voted,  to  authorize  the  selectmen  to  hire  the  sum  of  $6,000  to 
pay  for  fourteen  men,  that  being  the  quota  called  for  from  this  town 
by  the  president  in  his  call  of  October  17,  1863,  for  300,000  men. 

November  21,  1863.  Voted  to  add  one  man  to  the  committee 
appointed  at  last  meeting,  viz. :  Leonard  C.  French,  2d. 

.Voted  that  an  additional  sum  of  $3,000  be  added  to  that  raised  at 
last  meeting. 

April  7,  1864.  That  the  town  of  Bedford  pay  a  bounty  of  $200 
to  the  veteran  soldiers  that  have  or  may  reenlist  to  fill  the  quota  of 
the  town  of  Bedford  from  the.  Third  and  Fourth  regiments  under 
the  call  of  the  president  for  200,000  men,  dated  February  14,  1864. 

Voted  that  the  sum  of  $200  be  paid  to  Onslow  T.  McPherson  and 
John  R.  Young,  Jr.,  each  having  enlisted  as  veteran  soldiers  from 
the  Seventh  New  Hampshire  regiment  provided  they  go  for  the 
quota  of  Bedford. 

Voted  to  authorize  the  selectmen  to  borrow  for  the  town  of  Bed- 
ford the  sum  of  $1,400  as  a  bounty  to  veteran  soldiers  as  voted  in 
preceding  articles. 

August  18,  1864.  Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  a  committee  to 
fill  the  quota  of  the  town  of  Bedford  under  the  last  call  of  the  presi- 
dent for  500,000  men. 

Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to  borrow  upon  the  credit 
of  the  town  $3,300  to  pay  bounties  under  the  call  of  the  president  in 
July,  1864,  for  500,000,  also  to  borrow  $1,700  to  pay  expenses  of 
procuring  said  volunteers  and  bounties  to  be  paid  to  enrolled  men, 
or  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford  who  shall  enlist  to  fill  the 
quota  of  said  town  under  said  call. 

Voted  that  the  town  pay  $200  to  each  drafted  man. 

August  30,  1864.  Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to  pay 
$300  each  for  eleven  men  to  fill  the  quota  to  the  town  of  Bedford 
who  may  enlist  from  said  towns  under  call  of  president  for  500,000. 

November  8,  1864.     Voted  that  the  selectmen  may  continue  to 


THE   CIVIL   WAR.  513 

pay  town  bounties  as  voted  by  the  legislature  of  1864  to  all  volun- 
teers who  may  enlist  to  fill  the  quota  of  this  town  in  anticipation  of 
any  future  call. 

Also  to  principals  who  may  put  in  substitutes  which  count  upon 
the  quota  of  this  town  in  anticipation  of  any  future  call. 

But  the  town  shall  not  pay  to  said  principals  a  town  bounty  of 
over  $300,  nor  any  larger  sum  than  the  said  principal  actually  paid 
to  said  substitutes,  and  the  selectmen  are  authorized  to  hire  such 
sums  of  money  as  is  necessary  to  pay  bounties  under  this  vote  and 
to  pledge  the  credit  of  the  town  for  the  same. 

Office  of  Secretary  of  State,  November  15,  1864. 
To  Town,  Clerk  of  Bedford : 

The  list  of  the  names  of  soldiers  in  the  field  having  their  residence 
in  your  town  whose  ballots  have  been  returned  to  me  as  provided  by 
law  approved  August  31,  1864 :  Thomas  S.  Burns,  Edwin  Whitford, 
Samuel  B.  Mack,  John  W.  Stark,  George  B.  Moore,  John  H.  Camp- 
bell, Silas  Campbell.     The  above  is  a  correct  list. 

Allex  Texxy, 
/Secretary  of  State. 

March  14,  1865.  Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to  hire 
such  sums  of  money  upon  the  credit  of  the  town  as  may  be  neces- 
sary to  fill  the  quota  of  this  town  for  all  calls  heretofore  made  or 
may  be  made  by  the  president  of  the  United  States  and  may  pay 
such  rates  of  interest  as  may  be  necessary  to  procure  the  same  tem- 
porarily until  the  same  can  be  obtained  at  six  per  cent.  Also  to  pay 
such  sums  of  money  to  soldiers  for  bounties  who  may  enlist  from  this 
town  as  is  necessary  to  procure  their  establishment  to  fill  the  quota 
of  all  men  called  for. 

Office  of  Secretary  of  State,  March,  1865. 
To  Town  Clerk  of  Bedford : 

The  list  of  soldiers  in  the  field  having  their  residence  in  your  town 
whose  ballots  for  member  of  congress  has  been  returned  to  me  as 
provided  by  the  law  approved  August  31,  1864 :  Edwin  Whitford, 
Thomas  S.  Burns,  John  P.  Hodgman,  John  Fullerton,  Silas  Camp- 
bell, John  Campbell,  William  Smith,  Oilman  H.  Moore. 

True  Copy.  W.  W.  Wilkins, 

Town,  Clerk. 

March  14,  1866.  Yoted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to  ap- 
point one  person  to  prepare  a  record  of  the  names  of  all  persons 
who  served  in  the  army  or  navy  of  the  United  States  from  said 
towns  giving  all  interesting  facts  connected  therewith  making  a 
complete  history  of  the  soldiers  from  this  town  to  be  kept  with  the 
records  of  this  town. 

September  2,  1866.  Yoted  that  this  town  pay  a  bounty  of  $200 
to  George  Blood  and  the  heirs  of  Thomas  Hackett  and  Daniel  Way 
34 


514  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Bedford  was  prompt  to  respond  to  the  call  of  President  Lincoln 
f or  volunteers.  August  23, 1861,  there  were  thirteen  men  from  Bed- 
ford mustered  into  the  Third  regiment  for  three  years. 

At  a  special  town  meeting  held  August  12,  1862,  a  committee  of 
five  was  appointed  to  encourage  enlistment.  Soon  after  this,  August 
20,  1862,  twenty-eight  men  were  mustered  into  the  Tenth  regiment, 
the  largest  number  in  any  one  regiment  from  Bedford. 

There  were,  according  to  the  record  of  George  W.  Riddle,  142 
men  credited  to  Bedford  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  And  there 
were  several  others  who  were  really  Bedford  boys  but  were  credited 
to  other  towns,  where  they  were  at  the  time  residing.  Our  corrected 
list,  however,  taken  largely  from  the  adjutant- general's  report,  in- 
creases the  number  to  153.  We  have  counted  men  as  many  times 
as  they  enlisted. 

At  a  legal  meeting  held  March  14,  1866,  it  was  voted  that  the 
selectmen  appoint  one  person  to  prepare  a  record  of  the  names  of  all 
persons  who  served  in  the  army  or  navy  of  the  United  States  from 
Bedford,  giving  all  interesting  facts  connected  therewith,  said  records 
to  be  kept  with  the  records  of  the  town.  It  seems  that  George  W. 
Riddle  must  have  been  the  man  appointed,  as  the  following  extracts 
from  his  record,  which  were  published  in  the  town  report  of  1865-'66, 
show. 

The  roll  has  been  tabulated  for  convenience,  and  some  corrections 
have  also  been  made : 


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Drafted  Men  Who  Furnished  Substitutes. 


Sept.  1,  1863. 

Gilman  H.  Moore, 
Walter  I.  Bachelder, 
Roger  H.  Vose, 
Freeman  R.  French, 
Leonard  J.  Brown, 
Charles  H.  Kendall, 
Levi  J.  Woodbury, 
George  Whitford, 
Farnham  Jenkins, 
David  R.  Barnard, 
Clinton  French, 
Horace  S.  Campbell, 
George  B.  Shattuck, 
John  G.  Vose, 
Walter  Gage, 
Joseph  G.  Holbrook, 
Charles  H.  Sargent, 
Jno.  H.  Lord,  in  person, 


$2,875.00  $5,400.00 

Substitutes  Furnished  by  Enrolled  Men. 

March,  1865. 

Horace  Holbrook,  one  for  three  years, 
Enoch  F.  Gage,  one  for  three  years, 


Individual 

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bounty. 

$140.00 

$300.00 

125.00 

300.00 

175.00 

300.00 

115.00 

300.00 

200.00 

300.00 

175.00 

300.00 

200.00 

300.00 

150.00 

300.00 

140.00 

300.00 

175.00 

300.00 

170.00 

300.00 

155.00 

300.00 

140.00 

300.00 

175.00 

300.00 

115.00 

300.00 

175.00 

300.00 

175.00 

300.00 

175.00 

300.00 

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bounty. 

$200.00 

$300.00 

200.00 

300.00 

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$600.00 
400.00 

$1,000.00 


Volunteers    Furnished    by    Town    of    Bedford,  Under    the 
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The  town  cashed  the  United  States  bounty  of  $300.00. 


Town 

United  States 

bounty. 

bounty. 

William  Jones, 

$150.00 

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Edwin  Burns,  deserted,  Jan.  3,  1864, 

145.00 

300.00 

Charles  Prescott, 

151.00 

300.00 

Charles  Jager, 

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300.00 

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George  E.  Yates, 

George  S.  Allen, 

John  Neilson, 

Charles  Paterson, 

Samuel  Collard,  veteran, 

Peter  Dailey,  died  wounds,  June  19,  1864, 

James  Cuedv, 

W.  P.  Mudge,  V.  K.  C, 

George  W.  Cutler, 

Larkin  Sargent, 

$2,619.00  $3,300.00 

Average  cost,  $422.00  each. 

Number  of  Soldiers  Furnished  from  Bedford. 

Forty  men  in  First,  Second,  Third,  Fourth,  Seventh,  and  Eighth 
regiments,  navy,  and  medical  departments,  received  no  town  bounty. 

Forty-two  men  in  Ninth,  Tenth,  Eleventh,  Fourteenth,  Fifteenth, 
Sixteenth,  and  cavalry  regiments  received  town  bounty  of    $3,150.00 

Eighty- two  men  volunteered  prior  to  Sept.  1,  1863. 

Sixty  men  furnished  under  calls  of  president  since 
September  1,  1863,  who  have  received  from  the  town  of 
Bedford,  and  from  principals  who  have  furnished  twenty 
substitutes,  21,694.00 


Town 

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bounty. 

$265.00  " 

$300.00 

198.00 

300.00 

265.00 

300.00 

265.00 

300.00 

275.00 

300.00 

220.00 

300.00 

225.00 

300.00 

25.00 

34.00 

136.00 

Total,  142  men,  $24,844.00 

Expenses  of  enlisting  paid  from  town  treasury,  217.63 


1  $25,061.63 


Aggregate  Bounties  and  Expenses. 


Paid  by  town  of  Bedford  and  twenty  individuals  since  September 
1,  1863,  for  sixty  soldiers,  and  cost  returned  to  provost  marshal 
September  1,  1865  : 

Individual  Town 

Call.  Expenses.  bounty.  bounty. 

July  3,  18  drafted  men,  $2,875.00           $5,400.00 

Oct.  14,  14  volunteers,  $143.93                                   5,919.00 
1864,  7  men  reenlisted. 

Feb.  1, 4  enlisted— 11  men,  137.80                                   1,650.00 

July  18,  10  men,  heavy  artillery,  126.00                                   3,000.00 
2  substitutes,  Holbrook  and 

Gage,  400.00                600.00 

1  This  includes  $3,300  United  States  bounty  cashed  by  town,  October,  1863,  $3,275 
individual  bounties  for  substitutes,  making  a  total  of  $6,575. 


522  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Call. 

July  1  navy,  Captain  Rollins, 
Dec.  17,  4  men,  1  year, 


Expenses. 

Individual 
bounty. 

Town 
bounty. 

$300.00 

$25.00 

1,800.00 

Total,  60  men,  $432.73     $3,275.00  $18,669.00 

Individual  bounty,  3,275.00 

Expenses,  432.73 


$22,376.73 

It  is  expected  that  this  sum  will  be  refunded  by  the  United 
States  to  the  town  of  Bedford,  or  a  portion  of  it,  a  bill  being  now 
before  congress  to  that  effect. 

Expenses  of  enlisting  142  soldiers  for  the  town  of  Bedford  during 
the  war,  and  the  amount  of  cash  paid  out  of  the  town  treasury : 

March,  1863,  paid  George  W.  Riddle  for  services  enlisting  thirty- 
seven  volunteers,  in  Tenth,  Eleventh,  Fifteenth,  and  Sixteenth  regi- 
ments, and  for  cash  paid  out,  $8.00, — $22.00. 

Received  of  United  States,  enlistment  fees,  11  men,  $165.00 

October.    Geo.  W.  Riddle,  21  days,  $42.00 

Cash  expenses,  35.08 

R.  Fulton,  12  days,  24.00 

Cash  expenses,  28.25 

L.  C.  French,  2d,  4  days,  8.00 

Cash  expenses,  6.60 

143.93 


Balance,  $21.17 

1864.     Dr. 

March.      Cash  paid  G.  B.  Moore,  $40.00 

T.  W.  Moore,  Jr.,  expenses  paid  out,  7.40 

Hackett,  Way,  and  Blood,  and  ex- 
penses enlisting,  27.60 
Geo.  W.  Riddle,  services  reducing 
quota,  enlisting  12  men,  getting 
credits,  substitute  bounties,  etc., 
17  days,  34.00 
Cash  paid  expenses,  see  bill,                    33.50 


Cr. 

Cash  balance  on  hand,  $21.17 

Received  of  United  States,  enlistment  fees  of 

Moore,  Blood,  Way,  and  Hackett,  70.00 


$142.50 


91.17 


Balance  paid  from  town  treasury,  1865,  $51.33 


THE   CIVIL   WAR.  523 

Total  expenses  paid  from  town  treasury  for 
reduction  of  quota  and  enlisting  63  men,  to 
July  1,  1864,  $73.33 

August,  1864.  Expenses  of  enlisting  10  men,  heavy  artillery: 

L.  B.  Bowman's  bill,  $63.91 

D.  G.  Atwood's  bill  38.82 

S.  A.  Shepard's  bill  23.87 


March,  1865.  Expense  of  enlisting  4  men  : 
George  W.  Riddle,  4  days,  88.00 

Cash  expenses,  9.70 


$126.60 


L7.70 


Total, 

$217.63 

Bounties  and  expenses  paid  by 

adjoining  towns : 

Average  cost 

Average 

No.  of 

of  enlistment 

bounty 

Town.                    men.              Bounties. 

Expenses. 

per  man. 

per  man. 

Amherst,        153         $20,560.00 

$371.22 

$2.42 

$135.00 

Merrimack,    132           35,145.00 

1,339.00 

13.39 

266.00 

Goffstown,     157           36,795.00 

492.00 

3.13 

234.00 

Weare,           186           66,895.00 

1,295.00 

6.96 

359.00 

Bedford,         142         » 19,486.00 

217.00 

1.53 

137.00 

Justice  to  the  brave  men  who  went  forth  from  our  town  to  fight 
the  battles  of  our  country  and  protect  its  flag,  demand  that  some 
record  should  be  made  and  kept  to  commemorate  their  names,  suffer- 
ings, and  heroic  deeds.  Our  fallen  dead,  who  fell  in  battle,  died  and 
starved  at  Andersonville,  sick,  wounded,  and  died  in  hospitals — let 
us  ever  remember  them  with  gratitude!  and  cherish  their  memories. 
As  long  as  the  Republic  lives  and  men  have  memories  their  names 
will  be  honored,  respected,  and  revered.  That  those  who  may  come 
after  us  may  know  who  the  brave  men  were  who  went  from  Bedford, 
assisted,  defended,  and  saved  our  country,  is  my  only  apology  for  com- 
piling and  arranging  these  statistics,  and  printing  them  with  the  town 
reports  of  this  year.  There  may  be  some  slight  inaccuracies  which 
can  be  corrected  in  the  future,  but  in  the  main  they  are  correct  from 
the  best  information  that  can  be  obtained.  At  no  distant  day  it  is 
hoped  that  the  town  will  cause  a  complete  history  of  its  soldiers  to 
be  written,  which  will  be  of  great  value  to  them,  their  friends,  and 

our  citizens. 

George  W.  Riddle. 
Bedford,  March  1,  1866. 

Exclusive  of  United  States  and  individual  bounties. 


Spanish-American  War. 


In  the  war  with  Spain  Bedford  was  represented  by  only  one 
soldier,  whose  discharge  papers  read  as  follows : 

Charles  Arthur  Campbell  enlisted  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  June  13, 
1898,  in  Company  C,  of  the  Thirteenth  regiment,  Minnesota  infantry. 
Sent  to  San  Francisco,  then  to  Manila,  and  served  during  Spanish- 
American  War,  1898,  and  in  Philippine  insurrection,  1899,  in  the 
Philippines.  Took  part  in  street  riot  in  Londo ;  Toudo  uprising ; 
skirmishes  in  Toudo  district  and  Mariquina  road ;  attack  on  railroad 
at  Bocave ;  skirmish  and  battle  of  St.  Maria.  With  General  Law- 
ton  expedition  in  following  engagements :  Naryaguay,  Angor,  San 
Rafael,  Baliang,  Muasin,  Salicor,  and  San  Isidro.  Mustered  out  at 
Presidio,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  October  3,  1899. 


Extracts   From  the  Records. 


In  the  following  chapter  have  been  brought  together  such  items 
of  interest  as  do  not  seem  to  have  a  specially  pertinent  place  in 
other  chapters.  They  are  taken  from  the  official  records,  mostly 
from  those  strictly  of  the  town,  but  a  few  from  the  Province  records. 
They  are  certainly  of  historical  interest,  and  have  been  arranged  in 
chronological  order,  as  a  convenience  for  reference  : 

Thursday,  April  2d,  1747.  The  Honb,e  Mr.  Husk  brot  down  y 
petition  of  Capt.  John  Goffe  &  Mr.  Sam'l  Cummings  praying  for 
men  to  guard  ye  towns  of  Hollis  &  Souhegan  East.     (State  Papers.) 

The  inventoried  value  of  taxable  estate  in  Bedford  in  1768  was 
£2,959,  and  the  number  of  polls,  86. 

An  act  of  1758,  limiting  the  number  of  taverns  in  New  Hamp- 
shire to  89,  gave  Bedford  1. 

There  seems  to  have  been  trouble  at  one  time  with  the  tax  collec- 
tor, for  we  find  that  a  writ  was  issued  by  the  town,  acting  through 
its  selectmen,  John  Bell  and  John  Little,  on  the  26th  of  February, 
1774,  directing  the  sheriff  as  follows : 
Hillsborough,  S.S. 

Bedford. 
To  the  sheriff  of  said  County  of  Hillsborough,  his  under  sheriff  or 

deputy,  greeting : 

Whereas,  James  Caldwell,  James  Aiken  and  John  Bell,  did  at 
Bedford,  in  the  County  of  Hillsborough  aforesaid,  on  the  23rd  day 
of  January,  Anno  Domini  1764,  they  then  being  selectmen  of  said 
town,  make  and  deliver  to  Richard  McAllester  of  said  Bedford  a 
certain  list  of  rates,  being  the  town  rate  amounting  to  1147  pounds 
6  shilling  and  10  pence,  old  tenor,  assessed  on  the  poll  and  estates  of 
the  inhabitants  of  said  town  for  the  defraying  of  charges  of  said 
town,  with  a  legal  warrant  to  collect  the  same  and  to  pay  it  to  us  or 
to  the  selectmen  of  Bedford  for  the  time  being,  by  the  28th  day  of 
March,  then  next,  as  appears  by  the  record  of  said  town ;  and  where- 
as the  said  McAllester  hath  not  collected  and  paid  the  same  as  afore- 
said, but  hath  neglected  his  duty  therein  and  the  sum  of  206  pounds 
9  shilling  and  9  pence,  old  tenor,  thereof,  equal  to  10  pounds  6  shil- 


526  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

lings  and  5  pence  3  farthings  lawful  money  is  yet  in  arriars  and  un- 
paid as  also  appears  by  said  records ;  these  are  then  in  His  Majesty's 
name  to  require  you  forthwith  to  levy  and  collect  the  said  sum  of 
10  pounds  6  shillings  5  pence  3  farthings,  lawful  money,  of  the 
goods  and  chattels  or  land  of  the  said  Richard  McAllester  within 
your  precinct  according  to  the  laws  of  this  province  in  such  case 
made  and  provided  and  for  want  of  good,  chattels,  or  land  of  said 
Richard  to  be  by  him  shown  to  you  or  found  within  your  precinct 
to  satisfy  the  said  sum  last  mentioned,  with  two  shillings  more  for 
this  execution  together  with  your  own  fee,  you  are  to  take  the  body 
of  the  said  Richard  if  he  may  be  found  in  your  precinct  and  commit 
him  to  His  Majesty's  gaol  at  Amherst,  in  said  county,  there  to  re- 
main until  he  shall  satisfy  the  same.  And  the  said  sum  of  10 
pounds  6  shillings  5  pence  3  farthings,  when  collected  as  aforesaid, 
you  are  to  pay  ixs,  the  subscribers,  selectmen  of  Bedford  aforesaid  or 
to  our  successors  in  said  office  and  make  due  return  hereof  within  60 
days  coming. 

Given  under  our  hand  and  seal  this  26th  day  of  Februrary,  in  the 
fourteenth  year  of  His  Majesty's,  Annoque  Domini  1774. 

John  Bell 
John  Little 
Selectmen  of  Bedford. 

What  further  was  done  about  the  matter  is  not  on  record. 

1770 — The  caption  or  heading  which  appears  at  the  beginning  of 
all  the  town  warrants,  from  its  incorporation  in  1750,  was  always 
the  same  save  for  the  omission  after  1770  of  the  tax  on  negro  slaves. 
Down  to  that  time  we  find  such  entries  as  this :  "  A  tax  or  assess- 
ment on  the  male  polls,  estate  both  real  and  personal  Income. 
Facualty  and  money  at  Interest  and  Negro  Slaves,  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  town  of  Bedford  in  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  to 
and  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  John  Houston, 
for  the  year  1770." 

A  clause  of  Mr.  Francis  Barnett's  will,  dated  June  20,  A.  D.  1772 : 
item  "  I  bequeath  to  the  use  of  the  poor  of  the  town  of  Bedford  the 
interest  of  15  pounds  lawful  money  per  annum  in  the  following  man- 
ner viz.  The  said  15  pounds  to  be  raised  out  of  my  estate  by  my 
executors  and  shall  be  afterward  expressly  deposited  in  the  hands  of 
the  selectmen  of  said  Bedford  for  the  time  being  and  their  succes- 
sors in  office,  to  be  put  to  interest  and  the  interest  paid  annually  to 
the  poor  of  said  town  as  the  said  selectmen  shall  think  proper."  On 
March  24,  1774,  the  selectmen  "received  a  note  of  hand  of  15 
pounds  lawful  money  from  Sam  Patten  and  Hannah  Barnett,  exec- 
utors of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Francis  Barnett  late  of  said 
Bedford  deceased  for  the  security  of  the  payment  of  a  legacy  left 
by  said  Barnett,  the  interest  of  which  15  pounds  is  to  be  applyed  to 
the  use  of  the  poor  of  said  Bedford  by  the  selectmen  of  said  Bedford 
for  the  time  being,  or  ye  successors  in  said  office  forever.     And  the 


KXTRACTS  FROM  THE  RECORDS.  527 

said  15  pounds  to  be  in  the  care  of  the  said  selectmen,  which  note  is 
in  full  of  said  legacy  left  by  said  Barnett  as  aforesaid.  Witness  our 
hands  in  our  capacities.  John  Bell  John  Little  Adam  Dickey  se- 
lectmen." A  true  copy  by  John  Rand  Town  Clerk,  This  fund  is 
still  in  the  town's  possession,  together  with  other  similar  funds.  Mr. 
Barnett's  widow  was  late  in  life  a  beneficiary  of  this  fund. 

1772 — There  seems  to  have  been  an  event  which  aroused  great 
interest,  and  that  was  the  breaking  jail  of  Capt.  Joseph  Kelley  and 
one  John  Thomas,  who  escaped  from  the  Amherst  jail  on  the  14th 
day  of  October,  1772.  We  find  that  the  town  joined  in  a  petition 
to  the  court  of  general  sessions  asking  them  to  direct  the  county 
solicitors  to  sue  the  sheriff,  and  appointed  in  August  of  1773,  James 
Martin,  to  represent  the  town  in  the  action.  It  was  deemed  suffi- 
ciently important  to  justify  a  vote  of  "Thanks  to  the  town  of  Merri- 
mack for  there  care  in  writing  Cercular  to  us  on  this  weighty  affair." 

1773 — It  appears  that  one  Mr.  Noah  Parker,  who  was  the  sealer 
of  weights  and  measures,  got  into  trouble  with  the  town  on  that  ac- 
count, for  we  find  this  entry  on  the  24th  day  of  February,  1773 : 
"  Fourthly,  to  see  if  they  will  alow  the  town  clerk  to  sue  Mr.  Nor 
Parker  for  the  weights  and  measures  purchased  from  him  in  March 
1770."  Apparently  Mr.  Parker  died  or  left  town  some  other  way, 
for  at  a  later  date  it  was  voted  not  to  sue  him.  But  the  weights  and 
measures  were  not  forgotten,  for  we  find  that  a  later  article  inquires 
"  To  see  what  method  the  town  will  take  to  recover  the  Waights 
and  Measures  that  has  been  paid  for  by  the  town  this  some  time 
past." 

The  town  voted  "  That  the  selectmen  writ  to  Matthew  Patten 
Esq.,  to  provid  the  Waits  and  Measures  by  next  April  court,  or  ex- 
pect to  be  prosecute  for  want  thereof  as  he  received  the  town  money 
for  the  same." 

Again  the  town  weights  and  measures,  March  30,  1773  :  "To  see 
if  the  town  will  allow  Matthew  Patten  Esq.,  the  whole  or  what  part 
of  his  account  he  has  brought  in  against  the  town  of  Bedford,  for 
his  trouble  of  bying  and  bringing  up  the  Weights  and  Measures  for 
said  town." .  It  was  voted  "  not  to  allow  Matthew  Patten  Esq.,  his 
account  for  purchasing  and  bringing  up  the  Weights  and  Measures, 
as  we  think  it  to  be  extravagant." 

1775. — Matthew  Patten  was  made  chairman  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  for  Hillsborough  county,  and  was  reappointed  for  1776.  He 
was  commissioned  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  of  the  quorum  for 
Hillsborough  county  in  1784.  In  the  last  named  year  Zacheus 
Chandler  was  commissioned  a  coroner.  In  1789,  Stephen  Dole,  and 
in  1786,  John  Orr  were  commissioned  justices  of  the  peace. 

1778,  March  25,  Voted,  "That  the  selectmen  be  directed  to  de- 
mand of  Matthew  Patten  Esq.,  being  clerk  of  the  proprety  of  Nere- 
genzot  No.  5,  and  Messrs.  John  Goff  Esq.  of  Derryfield,  and  James 
Vose  of  Bedford  committee  of  said  propi-ety,  the  liece  and  pappers 


528  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

thereof  of  the  privileged  Lieutenant  John  Orr,  who  had  built  a  saw- 
mill upon  the  lots  No.  21  and  22  in  the  9th  range,  and  that  said 
Lieutenant  John  Orr,  shall  have  the  same  privileges  of  the  town  that 
he  had  of  the  proprieter." 

1780 — In  the  warrant  for  the  town  meeting  of  March  28,  there 
was  an  article  "  To  see  whether  the  town  will  allow  the  constables 
for  the  year  1780  any  reward  for  their  extraordinary  trouble,"  also 
"  To  see  whether  the  town  would  allow  Hugh  Matthews  and  Joseph 
Matthews  for  their  service  as  soldiers  in  the  year  1776,"  also  "To  see 
whether  the  town  will  raise  any  money  to  repair  the  meeting  house 
as  it  is  in  great  need  at  present,"  also  "  To  see  if  the  town  thinks 
proper  to  provide  a  town  stock  of  arms  and  ammunition  as  the  law 
directs,"  also  "To  see  whether  the  town  will  raise  money  to  build  a 
pound,  as  it  has  been  wanted  for  some  time  past  or  what  method 
they  will  take  to  build  one,  and  where  they  will  sett  it,"  also  "  As 
the  bridge  over  Piscataquog  River  in  the  town  of  Bedford  is  very 
much  out  of  repair,  and  will  in  a  little  time  be  dangerous  to  pass 
over,  it  is  to  see  what  method  the  town  will  purpose  to  repair  it." 
also  "  To  see  whether  the  town  will  vote  to  have  the  remaining 
part  of  the  grave-yard  fenced,  and  what  method  they  will  take."  It 
was  voted  to  pay  Mr.  O'Neil.  Voted  to  have  twenty-one  Sabbath 
days  preaching  during  the  year.  Voted  to  allow  the  constables 
$1,780  for  their  "extraordinary  trouble."  Voted  to  raise  150  pounds 
to  repair  the  meeting  house. 

1780 — "State  of  New  Hampshire  to  the  Worshipfull  Matthew 
Patten,  Esq.,  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  within  and  throughout 
the  said  state,  humbly  shows  Thomas  Boyce,  James  Vose,  and  Will- 
iam White,  all  three  now  selectmen  of  Bedford  in  the  County  of 
Hillsborough  and  state  aforesaid  for  the  present  year,  that  Peggy 
Littlefield  of  "Portsmouth  in  the  County  of  Rockingham  and  state 
aforesaid,  spinster  (a  free  malatto),  and  Hager  her  child  aged  one 
year,  have  lately  come  to  inhabit  in  said  town  of  Bedford,  having 
no  legal  settlement,  and  are  likely  to  become  chargeable  to  said 
town,  wherein,  Fact  Their  last  legal  settlement  was  in  Portsmouth 
aforesaid,  and  the  said  Peggy  she  hath  had  more  than  fourteen  days 
notice  to  depart  from  the  said  town  of  Bedford  with  her  said  child, 
has  not  departed  therefrom  but  neglected  it;  wherefore  your  com- 
plainants pray  warrant  may  issue  to  bring  the  said  Peggy  and  her 
child  aforesaid  before  you  to  the  end  said  Peggy  may  be  examined 
touching  the  premises,  that  she  may  be  sent  and  conveyed  to  said 
Portsmouth  where  she  properly  belongs,  agreeably  to  the  law  of 
said  state  in  such  case  made  and  provided.  Bedford,  March  24, 
1780."  Peggy  was  accordingly  delivered  to  the  constable  with 
orders  to  convey  her  and  her  child  to  the  constable  of  the  next 
town  "  in  the  way  to  said  Portsmouth." 

1781,  Feb.  28.  "To  see  what  method  the  town  will  take  to  pro- 
cure the  money  that  is  owing  Mr.  John  O'Neil  for  teaching  a  school 
in  said  Bedford  as  he  is  very  uneasy  about  it." 


EXTRACTS   FROM   THE   RECORDS.  529 

1781,  May  24 — Voted,  "  That  the  present  selectmen  pay  Robert 
McGaw  the  money  that  the  town  is  Endue  him." 

Voted,  "  To  allow  the  widow  Margaret  Moore  12  shillings  lawful 
money,  the  old  way,  per  week,  for  the  nursing  and  boarding  Will- 
iam Harrington  when  he  was  sick." 

The  need  of  improved  school  facilities  is  apparent  at  this  time 
for  1782,  April  24,  "  Voted  to  receive  Esquire  Pattens  acounts  ox- 
ibeted  by  Major  Goff." 

Voted  not  to  purchase  any  arms,  not  to  raise  money  to  build  a 
pound,  and  not  to  refence  the  grave-yard. 

There  seems  to  have  been  a  judgment  obtained  against  the  town 
in  favor  of  one  Jameson  for  in  the  warrant  of  October  2,  1783, 
appears  this  article,  "  Secondly :  whereas  we  are  informed  that  there 
is  an  execution  out  against  the  town  of  Bedford  in  favor  of 
Jameson  for  about  28  pounds,  and  whereas  we  cannot  procure  cash 
to  satisfy  the  same,  to  see  what  the  town  will  do  the  case."  "  The 
remonstrance  of  Partick  Flyng  and  others  were  put  over  at  a  late 
meeting  to  be  considered  at  this  meeting." 

At  the  town  meeting  of  November  21,  1783  it  was  voted  to  send 
Lieut.  Whitefield  Gilmore  to  the  convention  for  "  redress  of  greiv- 
ances"  in  this  state  to  be  held  at  Peterboro  on  November  25,  1783. 

"Patrick  Flyng  and  others  not  appearing  nothing  was  done  with 
respect  to  his  remonstrance." 

The  towns  of  Bedford  and  Merrimack  met  at  the  house  of  Na- 
thaniel Holt  in  Merrimack  on  Monday,  December  8,  1783,  to  choose 
a  representative  to  the  general  court.  They  chose  Judge  Thornton 
to  be  representative.  He  was  the  first  representative  of  the  town 
under  the  new  constitution.  A  letter  was  received  from  the  con- 
vention at  Peterboro  for  the  redress  of  greivances,  etc. 

At  a  meeting  held  on  December  15,  1783,  it  was  voted  "to  con- 
cur with  the  convention  held  at  Peterboro  for  the  redress  of  greiv- 
ances." 

1784,  November  10 — It  was  directed  that  the  militia  of  the  state, 
should  be  divided  into  25  regiments.  No.  9  comprised  Goffstown 
Dunbarton,  Weare,  New  Boston,  Bedford,  Francestown,  Antrim, 
and  Deering. 

1784 — The  town  seems  to  have  sued  the  proprietors  and  to  have 
gotten  judgment,  but  the  grounds  of  the  suit  are  not  disclosed. 
This  entry  appears  under  date  of  January  26,  "  Voted  that  execu- 
tion be  immediately  taken  out  against  the  committee  of  the  proprie- 
ters  of  Bedford,  viz.  Col.  John  Goffe,  Matthew  Patten,  and  Esquire 
James  Vose,  for  what  they  recovered  against  us  some  years  since  at 
the  Superior  Court  by  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford." 

March  12,  "Robert  Morrell  who  about  nine  months  since  threw 
himself  on  the  town  for  maintenance  desired  to  be  no  longer  under 
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530  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

the  care  of  the  town  there  being  an  alteration  in  his  circumstances. ** 
With  it  the  selectmen  complied. 

There  seems  to  have  been  a  standing  difficulty  between  the  town 
and  the  Selectmen  Thomas  Boise  and  James  Vose  for  the  years 
1778,  1779,  and  1780.  At  least  these  selectmen  sued  the  town, 
and  the  town  on  June  28,  1784,  voted  "not  to  pay  Thomas  Boise 
and  James  Vose  what  they  sue  for  but  to  stand  tryal  with  them  in 
the  law "  and  James  Underwood,  James  Martin,  and  Lieut.  John 
Orr  were  the  committee  chosen  for  the  above  purpose. 

1784,  December  23 — "  Voted  that  Lieut.  John  Orr  and  Mr.  James 
Underwood  assist  John  Rand  and  John  Wallace  Esq.  in  defending 
the  town  against  Thomas  Boies  and  James  Vose  who  have  com- 
menced an  action  against  said  Rand  and  Wallace  selectmen  A.  D. 
1783." 

"  Voted  that  Messrs.  James  Underwood,  Stephen  Dole  and  James 
Martin  be  a  committee  to  apply  to  the  Superior  court,  to  sit  by 
adjournment  in  May  next,  at  Amherst,  to  have  the  town  admitted 
as  defendant  in  the  action  James  Vose  and  Thomas  Boise  against 
John  Rand  and  John  Wallace  esquires  and  the  execution  to  issue, 
in  case  the  plaintiff  recovers,  against  the  inhabitants  of  said  Bedford ; 
and  like  wise  to  be  a  committee  to  bring  an  action  against  said 
Vose,  Boise  and  William  White  to  account  for  what  money  they 
have  received  for  the  town  of  Bedford,  and  ye  same  to  pursue  to 
final  judgment  and  execution." 

1785,  June  14 — A  vote  to  pay  the  town  of  Bedford  the  wages  of 
Robert  Jones  and  John  George  for  their  services  as  soldiers  at 
Cohes  in  the  year  1782,  was  brought  up,  read,  and  concurred. — 
Senate  journal. 

1785,  September  5 — "  Voted  to  recommend  to  Capt.  Dunlap  that  he 
call  the  town  together  to  choose  men  to  be  recommended  to  the 
Colonel  of  the  regiment  we  belong  to  for  militia  officers." 

1786 — The  town  voted  on  Oct.  10  upon  the  proposition  made  by 
the  General  Court  as  to  the  issuance  of  paper  money  by  the  state, 
and  it  voted  "  that  paper  money  be  admitted  in  to  bear  interest,  and 
that  it  be  a  lawful  tender  in  all  payments."  21  votes  for,  8  votes 
against  having  paper  money.  The  town  had  voted  to  let  the  use  of 
the  school  lands  at  vendue  to  the  highest  bidder,  for  the  term  of 
7  years.  The  land  was  in  the  possession  of  John  Orr  under  a  lease 
which  he  had  made  with  the  town  sometime  previously. 

Apparently  the  town  received  a  proposition  from  Jacob  McQuade 
that  he  have  the  use  and  improvement  of  the  school  land  "  so  long 
as  he  will  keep  himself  and  family  from  being  anyway  chargeable 
to  the  town,  or  so  long  as  the  town  thinks  proper."  But  the  vote 
previously  made  to  sell  the  use  of  the  land  at  public  auction  was  not 
rescinded  and  McQuaid  was  not  able  to  get  the  use  of  the  town 
school  land  as  a  condition  of  supporting  himself  and  his  family. 

1788,  February  8 — A  vote  so  far  granting  the  prayer  of  the  peti- 


EXTRACTS   FROM   THE   RECORDS.  531 

tion  of  Jerusha  McAllaster,  and  that  she  have  liberty  to  sell  ten 
acres  of  land  in  Bedford.  Also  one  quarter  of  a  saw  mill,  and  that 
she  have  liberty  to  bring  in  a  bill  accordingly  was  brought  up  read 
and  concurred.  (Senate.)  And  on  February  12  read  third  time 
and  enacted,  the  land  "being  a  part  of  No.  7  in  the  Seventh  Range 
in  said  town,"  and  that  the  mill  being  part  of  real  estate  of  her  late 
husband,  William  McAllaster. 

1790,  Jan.  4 — Voted  to  allow  Mr.  Jacob  McGaw  one  years  rent 
for  the  farm  that  Jacob  McQuaid  now  lives  on.  (Jacob  McQuaid 
was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  who  in  his  old  age  "  cast  himself  upon 
the  selectmen  for  support "  and  Mr.  McGaw  having  supported  him 
for  three  years  at  his  own  expense  felt  as  if  the  town  had  better 
bear  part  of  the  burden.) 

At  the  March  meeting  in  1787  it  was  voted  "that  the  representa- 
tive be  instructed  to  vote  that  the  courts  in  the  County  of  Hills- 
borough be  held  in  or  near  the  center  of  said  County."  This 
apparently  was  the  vote  about  which  considerable  discussion  had 
raged,  one  side  maintaining  that  Amherst  being  so  far  from  the 
center  of  the  county  it  was  unfair  for  citizens  in  its  remoter  pre- 
cincts to  be  required  to  go  so  far  to  attend  court  when  that  should 
be  necessary.  There  were  other  arguments  on  the  other  side  and 
in  favor  of  keeping  Amherst  as  the  county  seat. 

The  tide  of  discussion  at  one  time  rose  very  high,  but  at  last 
a  solution  of  the  difficulty  was  offered  by  one  thoughtful  voter,  he 
said  "  if  Amherst  was  so  far  to  one  side  of  the  center  of  the  county 
that  men  could  not  go  easily  to  court  they  don't  need  to  go,  let 
them  send." 

At  the  first  meeting  to  choose  representative  in  Congress  under 
the  newly  adopted  federal  constitution,  the  vote  stood  as  follows : — 
For  Abiel  Foster  3  votes,  Timothy  Farrar  34  votes,  Benj.  West 
26  votes,  Joshua  Atherton  1  vote,  John  Shepard  3  votes. 

The  electors  for  president  and  vice  president  were  Archibald 
McMurphy,  Samuel  Dana,  Major  Robert  Wallace,  Col.  George 
Gains,  John  Pickering  Esq. 

There  was  an  article  in  the  warrant  of  September  26,  1792,  as 
follows :  "  Fifthly :  to  see  if  the  town  will  vote  that  inoculation  for 
the  smallpox  may  be  done  in  Bedford  in  some  convenient  place  to 
be  under  such  restrictions  as  the  town  may  vote." 

1790 — Capt.  Stephen  Dole  of  Bedford  was  chosen  one  of  a  com- 
mittee of  two  "  to  make  sale  of  the  excise  on  spirituous  liquors  and 
other  excisable  articles  from  Oct.  1789,  to  Oct.  1790  at  public 
vendue  in  Hillsborough  county." 

1792 — By  the  militia  act  the  companies  in  Bedford  were  as- 
signed to  the  Third  Division,  4th  Brigade,  and  Ninth  Regiment. 
There  were  twenty-seven  regiments. 

1792 — There  was  an  article  in  the  warrant  for  March  24,  "Fourth 
to  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  set  off  the  three  short  ranges  and 


532  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFORD. 

part  of  the  two  first  long  ranges  in  said  town,  for  the  purpose  of 
composing  part  of  a  new  town,  agreeable  to  the  plan  mentioned  in 
the  petition  for  this  article." 

There  was  an  article  in  the  warrant  for  April  15,  1794,  "  To  see 
if  the  town  will  agree  to  submit  to  the  rules  of  Presbyterian  church 
government  and  appoint  a  commissioner  to  attend  Presbytery  at 
Londonderry  at  their  sessions  in  May  next,  in  order  that  the  said 
Presbytery  may  acknowledge  the  inhabitants  of  this  town  as  a 
congregation  under  their  immediate  care  and  grant  supplies  accord- 
ingly."    The  article  was  dismissed. 

The  last  complete  invoice  of  the  town  record  in  pounds  shillings 
and  pence  was  the  invoice  for  1794.  In  1795  the  town  invoices 
began  to  be  reckoned  in  dollars  and  cents,  but  the  assessments 
continued  in  pounds,  shillings  and  pence  until  1798.  The  state  law 
making  "  dollars  and  cents  legal  money  "  of  accounts  was  approved 
Feb.  20,  1794. 

1793 — "  The  training  band  belonging  to  Bedford  are  requested  to 
attend  at  the  meeting  house  in  said  town  on  Monday  the  third  day 
of  June  next  at  one  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon  with  arms,  etc.,  in 
order  to  chose  a  captian  and  subalterns  to  command  said  band. 
David  Patten  David  Piddle  selectmen.     Bedford  May  25,  1793." 

1795 — There  had  been  an  article  in  the  warrant  for  the  meeting 
of  August  13,  as  follows :  "  Fourthly :  to  hear  the  inhabitants  of 
that  part  of  Souhegan  east,  which  is  now  incorporated  and  assessed 
to  the  town  of  Merrimack,  respecting  the  three  public  roads  in  said 
Souhegan,  as  was  allowed  in  that  part  which  is  now  incorporated  in 
said  Bedford  and  to  take  such  measures  as  the  town  may  think 
proper."     But  it  was  voted  to  dismiss  the  article. 

1795 — It  was  voted  at  the  meeting  held  March  4,  "Not  to  raise 
any  money  for  supplying  the  pulpit  the  ensuing  year."  It  was  also 
voted  "  Not  to  tax  John  Gardner  toward  the  support  of  the  gospel 
until  he  change  his  religion." 

1797,  October  30 — "Voted  to  give  the  soldiers  who  enlist  $1.50 
bounty  when  they  appear  equipt,  and  $1.50  when  called  upon  to 
march,  and  to  make  them  up  $12  per  month  with  what  the  Conti- 
nental Congress  allows  when  in  actual  service." 

1799,  March  19 — "  Voted  to  give  10c  per  head  as  a  bounty  for 
crows  caught  and  killed  in  the  town  of  Bedford  from  the  first  day  of 
April  until  the  last  day  of  June,  present  year." 

David  Patten's  letter  of  March  31,  1800,  to  his  brother  James,  in 
Ohio,  states,  "  The  American  commerce  nourishes  much  better  than 
heretofore  in  consequence  of  our  small  but  gallant  Navy.  Officers 
&  men  distinguish  themselves  to  be  free  men.  In  this  Winter  1799- 
1800  five  keel  pieces  have  been  drawn  from  Henniker  to  Boston  of 
5£  Tuns  each  to  add  to  our  fleet."  The  road  was  through  Bedford 
and  the  timber  was  undoubtedly  drawn  by  oxen. 


EXTRACTS   FROM  THE   RECORDS.  533 

1802 — In  the  warrant  for  the  meeting  of  March  3,  there  was  an 
article  "  To  take  the  minds  of  the  qualified  voters  relating  to  a  peti- 
tion signed  by  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford  with 
others,  praying  that  a  part  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  with  a  part  of  the 
towns  of  Amherst,  New  Boston  and  Goffstown,  be  set  off  into  a  sep- 
arate town,"  but  it  was  voted  that  the  prayer  of  petition  be  not 
granted.  From  this  it  would  appear  that  a  renewal  of  the  desire  on 
the  part  of  the  West  Parish  to  be  set  off  from  Bedford  had  sprung  up. 

"  Voted  not  to  set  off  that  part  of  the  town  which  was  petitioned 
for  as  mentioned  in  the  seventh  article." 

The  movement  to  set  off  a  part  of  the  town,  to  be  joined  with  a 
part  of  Amherst,  New  Boston,  and  Goffstown,  to  form  a  new  town, 
was  taken  up  again  in  1803,  and  was  again  unsuccessful. 

1803 — In  the  warrant  for  the  meeting  of  September  26,  there  was 
an  article  "To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  that  such  of  the  inhabitants 
of  said  town  as  live  on  the  three  short  ranges  and  part  of  the  two 
first  long  ranges,  and  wish  to  be  incorporated  into  a  new  town  that 
they  should  (if  the  Legislature  of  said  State  think  proper)  be  dis- 
annexed  from  said  town."     This  article  was  voted  in  the  affirmative. 

The  care  of  the  town  poor  was  put  up  at  auction,  agreeable  to 
town  vote,  and  we  find  that  on  March  22,  1808,  "John  Mcintosh 
was  struck  off  to  James  Mcintosh  for  one  year  at  eighty-seven  cents 
per  week." 

John  Loring  and  wife,  State  paupers,  were  struck  off  to  Amos 
Martin  at  one  dollar  and  forty-seven  cents  per  week  until  the  twen- 
ty-second day  of  March,  1809. 

William  Boyce  was  struck  off  to  John  Gardner  for  one  year  at 
ninety  cents  per  week. 

Rachel  Lincoln  was  struck  off  to  John  Gardner  for  one  year  at 
seventy-three  cents  per  week. 

Israel  Lincoln  was  struck  off  to  John  Gardner  for  one  year  at 
eighty-seven  cents  jper  week. 

Hannah  Flyng  was  struck  off  to  Isaac  Atwood  for  one  year  at 
fifty  cents  per  week.     Hannah  Flyng  was  Patrick  Flyng's  widow. 

1808,  November  9 — "A  special  town  meeting  was  held  to  see 
what  additional  compensation  the  town  will  vote  to  give  each  of  the 
seventeen  soldiers  per  month  who  were  to  be  immediately  raised  in 
said  town,  and  held  in  readiness  to  be  called  into  the  United  States 
service,  over  and  above  the  United  States  pay  whilst  doing  military 
duty."     It  was  voted  to  dismiss  the  article. 

1809 — At  the  annual  meeting  it  was  voted  to  choose  the  minor 
town  officers  by  "  hand  vote,"  and  also  at  several  successive  meet- 
ings. 

1810,  March — "Voted  to  lease  the  meadow  lot,  belonging  to  the 
ministerial  and  school  rights,  for  999  years  from  the  date  of  the 
leases,  and  David  Patten,  Capt.  Richard  Dole  and  Moody  M.  Stev- 
ens were  named  to  make  the  leases."     It  was  also  voted  to  build  a 


534 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


house  for  the  poor  for  the  said  town,  and  William  Moor,  Phineas 
Aiken  and  Isaac  Riddle  were  chosen  a  committee  to  "  Report  at 
some  future  meeting  a  plan  and  place  where  to  set  said  house." 

1810,  March  27 — "Voted  to  give  John  Gardner  $5  as  a  present 
for  his  trouble  with  William  Boyce  in  his  last  sickness." 

"  Voted  to  build  a  hearse  the  ensuing  year  for  the  use  of  said 
town,  by  the  following  committee,  viz  :  Capt.  Nathan  Barnes,  Isaac 
Riddle  and  Samuel  Chandler." 

1811 — "Voted  that  Andrew  Walker  be  allowed  $5  out  of  the 
treasury  of  Bedford  for  a  counterfeit  bank  bill  said  Walker  took 
when  collector  of  taxes  for  said  town,  said  bill  being  taken  for 
taxes." 

1812 — "Voted  to  lease  the  meeting  house  lots  for  the  term  of 
999  years."  This  lease  was  sold  to  Patrick  McLaughlin  at  $4.50  an 
acre. 

1812,  March — "Voted  to  lay  out  1150  on  the  road  complained  of, 
and  that  one  gallon  of  rum  to  each  $20  of  said  sum  be  furnished  by 
the  selectmen  for  the  use  of  the  laborers,  apportioned  among  the 
several  highway  districts." 

1812 — In  the  meeting  for  September  9,  there  was  an  article  "To 
see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  raise  additional  pay  for  the  detached 
soldiers  of  said  town  when  called  into  actual  service,  and  if  so,  how 
much."  Agreeable  to  a  petition  of  eighteen  of  the  inhabitants  of 
said  town  this  article  was  dismissed. 

In  the  meeting  of  November  2,  the  vote  for  persons  to  represent 
the  state  in  congress  showed  that  Daniel  Webster,  Bradbury  Cilley, 
William  Hale,  Samuel  Smith,  Roger  Vose  and  Jonathan  Wilcox 
had  141  votes. 

The  division  line  between  Bedford  and  Merrimack  was  preambu- 
lated  by  the  selectmen  of  the  two  towns  on  November  the  9th,  1812. 
On  Nov.  19,  the  same  was  done  with  Goffstown,  and  on  November 
21,  with  New  Boston  and  with  Amherst. 

1814,  October  14 — "Voted  that  the  selectmen  purchase  powder 
and  balls  to  the  amount  of  $150  for  use  of  the  town." 

"Voted  to  allow  Joseph  Colley's  account  of  $21.50  for  the  con- 
veyance of  the  detached  soldiers  to  Portsmouth." 

1817,  March — "All  money  not  collected  and  paid  in  to  the  treas- 
ury by  the  first  day  of  June,  1818,  the  collector  to  lose  his  pound- 
age, and  all  money  not  collected  by  said  first  day  of  June,  the  col- 
lector is  to  pay  interest  therefor."  A  similar  vote  was  passed  for 
the  next  and  several  more  years. 

1818,  August  29 — "Voted  that  the  town  will  furnish  their  sol- 
diers on  muster  day  with  half  a  pound  of  powder  each." 

1820,  March — Upon  an  article  to  see  if  the  town  would  vote  a 
certain  sum  of  money  for  the  encouragement  of  vocal  music, 
was  voted. 


EXTRACTS   FROM  THE   RECORDS.  535 

On  a  proposition  of  dividing  Hillsborough  county,  92  voted  for 
and  6  against. 

A  committee  of  2  was  chosen  "  to  alter  the  seats  in  the  gallery  for 
the  better  accommodation  of  the  singers." 

1821 — Voted  that  the  Rev.  David  McGregor  preach  to  the  Pis- 
cataquog  Congregational  church  their  equal  proportion  of  the  public 
money  arising  from  the  sale  of  the  public  lands. 

1821 — A  condition  in  the  articles  of  sale  of  the  support  of  the 
poor  was  that  "  the  lowest  bidder  support  them  except  physic  and 
clothing." 

1823 — Voted  to  remit  the  ministerial  tax  of  Isaac  Riddle  jr.  for 
the  year  1821  on  all  his  fathers  property  taxed  to  him  that  year. 

Voted  to  build  a  Hearse  and  Hearse  house. 

On  an  article  to  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  lay  out  the  money 
raised  from  the  (sale  of)  the  oak  trees  on  the  common,  setting  out 
other  trees  and  decorating  the  common  otherwise  as  they  think 
proper,  it  was  voted  that  the  money  be  passed  into  the  treasury  of 
the  town. 

1823,  June — The  following  article  appeared  in  the  warrant :  "To 
hear  and  consider  the  Petition  of  Samuel  Barr  and  others  to  take 
the  votes  of  the  town  as  it  respects  a  dismission  of  the  Rev.d.  David 
McGregor  from  ministerial  charge  in  said  town,  agreeable  to  the 
articles  of  his  settlement ;  if  not  dismiss,  to  see  if  the  town  will  vote 
to  give  all  those  who  make  application  within  ninety  days,  their 
proportion  of  the  interest  money  that  arises  from  the  sale  of  minis- 
terial lands,  to  be  disposed  of  as  they  think  best."  The  motions  were 
denied. 

1824 — Dismissed  an  article  to  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  excuse 
any  inhabitant  of  said  town  his  proportion  of  Rev.  David  McGregor's 
salary  according  to  poll  and  estate,  except  those  who  may  be  mem- 
bers of  some  other  religious  society. 

A  committee  of  one  from  each  school  district  was  chosen  to  wait 
on  the  Rev  McGregore,  relative  to  the  "  unhappy  division."  They 
were :  Pbineas  Aiken,  Moody  M.  Stevens,  David  McQuesten,  Rich- 
ard Dole,  Samuel  Chandler,  Josiah  Gordon,  Wm.  Moor,  Stephen 
Thurston,  John  Moor,  Samuel  Barr,  Nehemiah  Kittredge  and  Solo- 
mon Gage. 

The  town  was  rebounded  into  23  highway  districts. 

1824,  August — On  an  article  to  take  into  consideration  the  action 
brought  by  Samuel  Moor  Jr.  vs.  Jonas  Harvell  of  Manchester,  for 
catching  fish  unlawfully,  it  was  voted  to  "  relinquish  all  the  interest 
which  they  have  "  in  such  action. 

1826,  March — "Voted  to  appropriate  the  interest  money  arising 
from  the  sale  of  ministerial  land  which  becomes  due  2nd  Mar.  1827, 
to  the  payment  of  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  if  he  can  be  retained,  and 
to  appropriate  the  interest  money  which  has  arisen  from  the  sale  of 
the  ministerial  land  for  the  two  preceding  years  to  the  payment  of 


536  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFOHD. 

the  note  given  to  the  Rev.  David  McGregore  for  his  salary  by  the 
committee  of  the  town." 

1827,  March — The  town  meeting  lasted  three  days,  there  being 
30  articles  in  the  warrant.  Chose  Wm.  Riddle,  Wm.  Moor,  Jr.  and 
Jos  Colley,  a  committee  to  ascertain  on  what  terms  a  farm  can  be 
purchased  for  the  poor  of  the  town  and  report  at  a  future  meeting. 

The  selectmen  were  authorized  to  procure  a  new  plan  of  the  town 
to  be  drawn  from  the  old  one. 

1827 — "Voted,  the  selectmen  sell  the  land  the  town  purchased  of 
David  Atwood  and  prosecute  the  person  who  tore  the  house  down,, 
if  they  can  find  out  who  did  it." 

1829,  April — "Voted  that  the  interest  money  arising  from  the  sale 
of  the  ministerial  land  becoming  due  the  first  of  March,  1828,  be  ap- 
propriated to  the  payment  of  the  salary  of  the  Rev.  Thos.  Savage, 
and  that  the  selectmen  assess  the  money  to  pay  the  balance  of  the 
note  given  on  settlement  with  Rev.  David  McGregore  for  his  salary 
as  pastor  of  said  town  and  that  the  Treasurer  pay  the  balance  of 
said  note  as  soon  as  he  receives  the  money." 

An  article  to  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  refund  the  money  which 
has  been  paid  for  taverners  and  retailers  licenses  the  present  year, 
was  dismissed. 

1829,  March — "Voted  to  choose  a  committee  of  3  to  purchase  a 
vfarm,  or  hire  one  for  the  poor.  Chose  Capt.  Wm.  Riddle,  Col.  Wm. 
Moor  and  Capt.  Jos.  Colley." 

An  article  to  see  if  the  town  will  appropriate  any  money  for  the 
purpose  of  keeping  a  school  for  teaching  sacred  music  in  Bedford 
the  coming  year  was  dismissed. 

"Voted  the  interest  of  the  Literary  Fund  be  appropriated  annu- 
ally for  the  use  of  Primary  schools." 

1831,  March — "Voted  that  three  persons  be  chosen  to  oversee 
the  poor  the  ensuing  year  and  to  purchase  a  farm  on  which  to  sup- 
port them  if  they  can  find  one  suitable.  The  committee  was  Joseph 
Colley,  Isaac  Riddle  and  John  McAllister." 

1832,  March — "Voted  to  sell  the  doctoring  of  the  poor  to  Dr. 
John  Wilson  for  $30.50,  and  he  is  to  doctor  all  that  come  chargea- 
ble to  said  town." 

"  Voted  to  divide  the  money  arising  from  the  sale  of  ministerial 
land  as  follows,  viz  :  That  the  members  of  each  regularly  constituted 
religious  society  in  town  have  then;  proportion  of  the  interest  money 
arising  from  the  sale  of  ministerial  land  according  to  poll  and  estate, 
and  those  who  do  not  designate  to  the  selectmen  at  taking  the  in- 
voice, the  money  to  be  paid  to  Mr.  Savage." 

"  Voted  that  it  be  the  duty  of  the  selectmen  to  inquire  as  to  which 
society  his  part  of  the  interest  money  shall  go  for  preaching  when 
they  take  the  invoice." 

A  similar  vote  was  passed  for  several  years  following. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  RECORDS.  537 

1833,  March — "Voted  not  to  buy  a  farm  and  not  to  raise  a  com- 
mittee to  see  what  a  farm  can  be  purchased  for." 

"  Voted  a  committee  of  three  be  chosen  to  ascertain  the  expense 
of  the  repairs  of  the  outside  of  the  old  meeting  house,  and  to  ascer- 
tain on  what  condition  the  owners  of  pews  in  said  houses  will  re- 
linquish their  rights  to  the  town  for  the  purpose  of  constructing  it 
into  a  town  house." 

"  Voted  that  if  any  sheep  shall  be  found  running  at  large  after  the 
first  day  of  May  and  before-  the  first  day  of  November  in  each  (year) 
by  the  knowledge  or  contempt  of  the  owner  or  person  having  care 
of  the  same,  they  will  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  ten  cents  per  head 
for  each  offense." 

1834,  March — "Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to  repair 
the  old  meeting  house  in  such  manner  as  they  may  think  necessary 
and  lay  out  any  sum  of  money  not  exceeding  $100." 

"  Voted  that  the  selectmen  lay  out  a  road  from  the  New  Boston 
Road,  so  called,  by  Franklin  Perry's  to  the  road  leading  from  David 
Sprague's  to  New  Boston." 

"  Voted  to  make  a  school  district  from  District  No.  1  by  associa- 
ting Rodney  McLoughlin,  James  and  Samuel  Morrison,  Stephen 
French,  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  Abijah  Hodgeman,  Benjamin  Dowse, 
William  Patten,  Adam  N.  Patten,  Ephraim  Snow,  Daniel  Barnet 
and  such  others  as  may  wish  to  associate  with  them." 

"  Voted  that  Mace  Moulton  be  an  agent  to  investigate  the  subject 
of  John  Hall's  claims  against  the  town  for  damage  done  by  turning 
over  his  load  near  Piscataquog  Bridge,  and  to  settle  with  him  to  the 
best  advantage  he  can  for  the  town." 

1835,  March — "Voted  to  purchase  a  farm  on  which  to  support 
the  poor,  and  William  Moor,  Junr.,  Isaac  Riddle  and  Gardner 
Nevens  were  chosen  to  purchase,  stock  the  farm  and  hire  an  agent 
to  carry  it  on  and  to  hire  money  on  credit  of  the  town  to  pay  there- 
for." 

The  farm  purchased  was  the  Daniel  Moor  place,  so  called,  and  the 
price  paid  was  $2,433. 

"  Voted  that  the  road  be  discontinued  leading  westerly  from  near 
Franklin  Perry's  to  near  the  New  Boston  line." 

1836,  March — "Voted  to  have  the  selectmen  examine  the  poor 
farm  and  sell  such  part  as  they  may  think  best." 

1837,  February — "Voted  to  receive  their  proportion  of  the  sur- 
plus revenue  and  to  demand  the  same  in  specie,  and  chose  Hon. 
Thomas  Chandler  agent. 

1837,  March — "Voted  the  agent  loan  the  surplus  revenue  to  indi- 
viduals in  town  on  good  and  sufficient  security." 

"Voted  to  choose  a  committee  of  three  to  confer  with  L.  C. 
French  and  others  respecting  the  expedience  of  repairing  the  out- 
side of  the  old  meeting  house,  provided  the  pew-holders  relinquish 
their  pews  in  said  house  for  the  purpose  of  converting  the  upper 


538  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

part  of  said  house  into  a  school  room  and  the  lower  part  into  a  town 
hall." 

1838,  August — A  report  of  the  committee  estimated  the  expense 
of  repairing  the  old  meeting  house  $532.30,  and  it  was  voted  to 
make  the  repairs  and  changes. 

1839,  March — "Voted  the  repairing  committee  proceed  to  finish 
the  town  house  to  the  best  manner  that  they  think  proper." 

1839,  August — "  Voted  that  the  selectmen  dispose  of  the  lower 
part  of  the  town  house  for  public  worship,  and  the  upper  part  for  a 
school  room  as  they  may  think  best." 

1841,  March — "Voted  not  to  allow  the  committee  their  bill  for 
moving  the  town  house." 

1842,  March — "  Voted  that  the  selectmen  settle  with  the  commit- 
tee for  moving  the  town  house,  after  having  deducted  the  subscrip- 
tion money  subscribed  for  moving  said  house." 

1843,  March — "Voted  not  to  instruct  the  selectmen  not  to  license 
any  person  to  retail  spirituous  liquors  the  ensuing  year." 

1844,  March — "Voted  to  instruct  the  selectmen  not  to  license 
any  person  to  mix  or  sell  spirituous  liquors  for  the  ensuing  year." 
Fifty-nine  voted  in  favor  and  forty-nine  against.  A  similar  vote 
was  passed  in  1846  and  1847. 

1845,  March — Adopted  the  following  resolution:  "Resolved  that 
the  selectmen  be  requested  and  instructed  to  keep  a  regular  account 
of  all  moneys  paid  into  the  town  and  also  all  moneys  paid  out  by 
the  town  and  give  each  bill  and  the  items  paid  for  and  received  pay 
for  in  a  general  account  and  lay  it  before  the  town  in  a  printed  sheet 
in  an  understanding  manner  at  the  next  annual  meeting  of  said 
town." x 

1845,  March — A  vote  of  thanks  was  returned  to  Jonas  B.  Bow- 
man for  his  service  as  moderator  and  the  selectmen  were  authorized 
to  draw  an  order  on  the  treasurer  for  $2  per  day  to  pay  him. 

1847,  March — "  Voted  to  raise  bof0  on  the  amount  of  school  money 
for  the  teachers'  institute  in  this  County." 

1849,  March — "  Voted  to  allow  anyone  who  prefers  to  pay  75c 
on  a  dollar  in  money  to  the  surveyor  of  highways  instead  of  $1  in 
labor." 

1849,  March — "Voted  to  commemorate  the  19th  of  Maj,  1850, 
which  is  a  century  from  its  incorporation." 

1849,  June — "  Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  instructed  to  require 
the  directors  of  the  Central  Railroad  to  cause  their  road  to  pass  over 
the  highway  near  Daniel  Mack's  house  either  by  raising  the  railroad 
or  cutting  down  the  highway,  or  both,  leaving  the  highway  in  as 
good  condition  as  it  was  before  they  commenced." 

1850,  March — "Voted  to  advance  the  sum  of  $300,  or  a  sum  not 
to  exceed  that  amount,  toward  publishing  the  history  of  the  town  " 

1  The  first  town  report. 


EXTRACTS   FROM  THE   RECORDS.  539 

1851,  March — "Voted  to  rebuild  granite  bridge  on  the  same 
ground  where  it  formerly  stood,  and  that  a  committee  of  three  be 
chosen  by  ballot  to  confer  with  the  authorities  of  Manchester,  and 
proceed  and  build  the  bridge  as  soon  as  may  be.  The  committee 
was  Xoyes  Poor,  William  P.  Riddle  and  Israel  Fuller." 

1851,  April — "  Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to  hire  a 
sum  of  money  not  exceeding  $9,000  for  the  purpose  of  rebuilding 
the  granite  bridge." 

1852,  March — In  reference  to  the  petition  of  William  P.  Riddle 
and  others  to  sever  a  part  of  Bedford  and  annex  the  same  to  the 
city  of  Manchester,  it  was  voted  that  the  town  oppose  the  prayer  of 
the  petitioners,  and  Deacon  John  French  was  chosen  agent  to  con- 
duct the  opposition. 

1853,  March — A  committee  consisting  of  Gardner  Xevens,  Adam 
Chandler,  and  Reuben  Dodge  was  chosen  to  confer  with  a  com- 
mittee of  the  petitioners  to  make  the  best  terms  that  they  can  for 
the  town  or  take  such  other  action  as  they  may  deem  necessary  on 
the  subject  of  annexation. 

1854,  March — "Voted  that  no  person  sell  spirituous  liqiiors  in 
town  the  current  year  and  no  liquor  be  allowed  to  be  sold,  and  that 
the  selectmen  be  instructed  to  prosecute  any  person  who  shall  sell 
spirituous  liquors  without  first  being  licensed." 

1854,  June — "Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  a  committee  to  settle 
with  the  city  of  Manchester  according  to  the  inventory  of  the  last 
year.  If  they  cannot  so  settle,  they  be  instructed  to  petition  the 
Legislature  for  an  amendment  of  the  third  section  of  the  act  of 
annexation." 

1855,  March — "Voted  to  instruct  the  selectmen  to  erect  a  suita- 
ble set  of  gravestones  at  the  grave  of  Titus  A.  Moore,  and  likewise 
to  cause  a  suitable  inscription  on  Primus  Chandler's  gravestone." 

1856,  March — On  motion  of  John  Barr"  Voted  that  the  select- 
men be  authorized  to  settle  with  the  city  of  Manchester  on  the  best 
terms  they  can,  and  if  they  cannot  settle,  they  may  refer  to  the  best 
men  that  can  be  obtained." 

"Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  instructed  to  build  a  fireproof  safe 
of  brick  for  the  keeping  of  the  books  and  papers,  to  be  built  in  the 
Town  House,  and  likewise  procure  a  fireproof  iron  safe  for  the  use 
of  the  town  clerk  to  keep  the  records  and  papers  in." 

1857,  March — "Voted  to  choose  an  agent  to  procure  the  original 
grant  of  the  ministerial  (lands)  to  Bedford,  and  Dr.  Peter  P.  WoodT 
bury  was  chosen  the  agent." 

1857,  March — "Resolved  that  on  and  after  the  first  day  of  April, 
1857  to  the  first  day  of  November  in  each  succeeding  year  that  no 
horse  or  horses,  neat  cattle  or  sheep  be  allowed  to  go  at  large  iD 
any  street,  highway,  or  common  in  any  public  place  in  the  town  of 
Bedford  without  a  herdsman  or  some  person  or  persons  driving  them, 


540  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD, 

on  the  penalty  that  the  owner  or  person  whose  keeping  and  use 
they  are  in,  forfeit  to  the  town  of  Bedford  $1  for  each  animal  above 
described  so  found  going  at  large  on  complaint  made  under  oath  to 
the  selectmen  of  the  town  who  are  authorized  and  required  for  the 
same,  and  all  money  arising  therefrom  going  to  the  use  of  the 
town." 

1857,  March — "  Voted  the  several  highway  surveyors  be  instructed 
when  necessary  to  call  out  the  districts  or  any  part  of  them  that 
may  be  necessary  to  break  out  the  roads  in  winter." 

1858,  March — A  set  of  by-laws  was  adopted  relating  to  animals 
running  at  large.  They  provided  that  "  No  sheep,  swine,  horses, 
ewes,  oxen,  cows,  or  other  cattle  shall  be  permitted  to  go  at  large  on 
any  highway,  lane,  alley,  common,  square,  or  other  public  place 
within  the  town."  The  penalty  was  not  less  than  $1  or  more  than 
$4,  and  any  person  finding  such  creatures  at  large  were  authorized 
to  impound  and  detain  the  same. 

1858,  March — "Voted  that  the  Town  Treasurer  collect  all  debts 
due  the  town  as  soon  as  convenient." 

1859,  March — "Voted  that  the  dwelling  house  upon  the  poor 
farm  be  established  as  a  house  of  correction,  and  the  following  by- 
laws and  regulations  were  adopted : 

"Article  1.  Every  inmate  of  the  House  of  Correction,  when  able 
to  labor,  shall  be  kept  diligently  employed  under  the  direction  of  the 
keeper. 

"  Article  2.  If  any  inmate  shall  refuse  to  obey  all  reasonable  re- 
quirements, he  shall  be  confined  in  some  way  or  put  on  short  allow- 
ance at  the  discretion  of  the  keeper. 

"  Article  3.  The  keeper  of  said  House  of  Correction  shall  retain 
all  persons  sent  there  for  violation  of  the  law. 

"The  overseer  of  the  poor  is  authorized  to  prepare  a  suitable 
place  to  retain  all  persons  who  may  be  sent  to  said  House  of  Correc- 
tion for  the  violation  of  the  law." 

1859,  March — "  Voted  that  all  those  that  pay  their  taxes  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  September  shall  receive  4%  discount  on  the 
same." 

1860,  March — Adam  Chandler,  Leonard  C.  French,  2d,  and 
Lucien  B.  Bowman  were  made  a  committee  with  full  power  to 
meet,  confer,  and  settle  with  the  original  committee  of  the  History  of 
Bedford,  and  that  such  committee  make  such  disposition  of  the 
remaining  histories  on  hand  as  they  may  think  expedient.1 

1  As  we  have  seen  the  town  at  its  meeting  of  March,  1850,  appropriated  $300  toward 
publishing  a  history  of  Bedford.  There  had  been  previously  appointed  by  the  town 
a  committee  of  three  men,  consisting  of  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  Thomas  Savage,  and 
William  Patten  to  attend  to  the  celebration  of  the  one  hundreth  anniversary  of  the 
town's  incorporation.  But  we  do  not  And  any  direct  vote  of  the  town  instructing 
them  to  prepare  a  history.  Yet  there  is  the  vote  of  $300  above  referred  to  toward 
publishing.  We  may  suppose,  therefore,  that  the  committee  considered  it  a  part  of 
their  duty  to  prepare  the  history  without  further  orders  from  the  town.  At  any  rate 
they  did  so.  The  sum  of  $300  was  not  sufficient  to  complete  the  work.  The  com- 
mittee, therefore,  finished  it  at  their  own  expense.  And  then  the  question  as  to 
who  owned  the  history,  when  it  had  been  printed,  naturally  arose.    It  had  been 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  RECORDS.  541 

1861,  March — "Voted  to  discount  8%  on  all  taxes  paid  before 
the  first  of  September." 

October — "Voted  to  furnish  an  armory  for  the  Bedford  Light 
Infantry,  and  to  remodel  the  lower  room  in  the  Town  House  for  that 
purpose."  The  manner  in  which  the  lower  room,  by  vote  of  said 
meeting  to  be  remodelled,  was  as  follows:  "Level  the  floor,  move 
the  desk  to  the  opposite  side  of  the  room,  open  the  door  where 
the  window  now  is  back  of  the  desk,  and  finish  an  armory  in  the 
west  end  of  the  entry." 

1862,  March — It  was  "Voted  to  give  the  selectmen  power  to 
sell  and  convey  the  poor  farm,  if  in  their  opinion  it  is  for  the  best 
interests  of  the  town."  The  farm  was  sold  to  a  Mr.  Greenough  for 
$5,000,  and  is  now  occupied  by  the  hens  of  George  H.  Wiggin. 

After  discussion  it  was  voted  to  adopt  the  following :  "  Resolved 
that  it  is  expedient  to  form  a  fire  insurance  company  for  the  town  of 
Bedford."  * 

generally  understood  that  each  volume  was  to  cost  $1,  but  the  additional  expenses 
of  the  committee  beyond  what  they  had  first  anticipated  made  it  necessary  for  them 
to  fix  the  price  at  $1.25  per  volume*  Some  feeling  arose  over  the  matter.  One  party 
feeling  that  the  original  appropriation  should  not  have  been  exceeded,  and  so  that 
the  history  should  be  obtainable  for  $1;  the  others  feeling  that  the  excess  payments 
made  by  the  committee  were  warranted,  and  that  the  price  of  $1.25  should  be  fixed 
so  as  to  cover  them. 

In  the  printed  town  report  of  1852-'53  is  to  be  found  this  item  in  the  account  of  O.  L. 
Kendall,  treasurer,  on  the  side  of  funds  received: 

"  To  receipt  of  committee  on  History  of  Bedford,  $232.61 " 

No  further  reference  is  found  to  the  matter,  until,  in  the  report  of  1858-'59,  the 
treasurer,  William  B.  Stevens,  credits  himself  with  this  among  other  items:  "Will- 
iam Patten  and  P.  P.  Woodbury's  receipt,  $232.61."  In  the  same  manner  the  item 
appears  in  the  report  of  the  following  year.  It  disappears  from  the  treasurer's 
report  the  next  year,  but  in  the  selectmen's  account  of  orders  drawn  are  to  be  found 
these  items: 

"  Balance  due  Book  Committee,  $67.69 

"  Selectmen  of  Bedford  delivering  up  Book  receipt,  232.61 

"  L.  B.  Bowman  for  committee  settling  with  Book  committee,  9.50  " 
The  sum  of  the  first  two  items  is  30  cents  more  than  $300.  The  .69  may  be  a  typo- 
graphical error  for  .19.  It  may  be,  therefore,  that  the  treasurer  paid  Messrs.  Patten 
and  Woodbury,  on  account  of  the  appropriation  of  $300,  the  sum  of  $232.61,  for  which 
the  selectmen  declined  to  give  an  order.  The  treasurer,  therefore,  kept  the  receipt 
as  his  voucher.  After  an  investigation  by  a  committee,  of  which  L.  B.  Bowman  was 
one,  and  who  was  paid  $9.50  for  its  services,  it  seems  that  the  selectmen  gave  an 
order  for,  not  only  the  $232.61,  to  take  up  the  receipt,  but  also  one  to  pay  to  the  book 
committeee  the  balance  of  the  $300  appropriated.  There  has  not  been  found  any  record 
of  the  money  being  returned  to  the  town,  although  the  histories  were  kept  by  the  com- 
mittee as  their  private  property.  It  is  possible  that  it  was  decided  in  the  settlement, 
that  the  appropriation  by  the  town  was  merely  in  aid  of  the  enterprise  of  preparing 
and  publishing  the  history  of  the  town.  This  is  all  the  more  probable  since  it  is 
plain  that  the  sum  of  $300  would  go  but  a  little  way  in  the  printing  of  a  history,  to 
say  nothing  of  the  work  of  preparation. 

The  histories  were  divided  among  the  members  of  the  committee.  Of  those 
awarded  to  William  Patten  a  large  number  were  burned  in  the  Are  which  destroyed 
Patten's  block  in  Manchester  several  years  later,  where  they  were  stored.  Those 
which  fell  to  Dr.  Woodbury  were  retained  by  members  of  his  family. 

!The  Bedford  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  company  was  an  organization  of  important 
the  town  for  twenty-three  years.  It  was  organized  in  1873  and  continued  until  1896, 
being  served  meanwhile  bv  the  following  officers: 

President  Nathaniel  Flint,  1873-'86;  President  Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  1886-'89;  President 
Henrv  L.  Peaslee,  1889-'96;  Secretary  Silas  A.  Riddle,  1873-'96;  Treasurer  James  T. 
Kendall,  1873-'78;  Treasurer  Nathaniel  Flint,  1878-'86;  Treasurer  Henry  L.  Peaslee, 
1886-'96. 

The  largest  amount  of  property  at  risk  at  any  one  time  was  $111,150  in  1891.  For 
the  first  twenty  years  of  its  existence  the  company  made  but  one  assessment  and 
but  two  losses  occurred,  which  amounted  to  $1,147.66.  Then  meeting  with  heavy 
losses  the  members  of  the  company  became  discouraged  and  disbanded,  honorably, 
with  all  losses  promptly  paid  as  follows: 

September,  1878.  $1,060.26  to  Mr.  Rundlett;  July,  1889,  $87.40  to  Mr.  Weisback;  Sep- 
tember, 1893,  $2,000  to  George  O.  Spencer;  July,  1896,  $1,900  to  Worthley  Bros.;  Sep- 
tember, 1896,  $2,000  to  Charles  B.  Beal. 


542  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1865 — A  selectmen's  census  gave  the  following  summary,  as  taken 
April  1 — Males,  569 ;  Females,  560 ;  Horses,  259 ;  sheep,  421,  dogs,  78 

1867,  March — "Voted  that  all  taxes  paid  prior  to  July  1  be  given 
a  discount  of  3%  ;  prior  to  September  1,  1%." 

1870,  March  8 — "Voted  to  allow  a  discount  of  b°f0  on  all  taxes 
paid  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  June ;  4  %  on  all  paid  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  July ;  3  %  on  all  paid  on  or  before  the  first  day  of 
August." 

1870 — On  the  question  of  establishing  the  counties  of  Amoskeag 
and  Monadnock,  it  was  voted  "  inexpedient." 

1871,  March — "Voted  to  raise  $500  to  purchase  a  new  hearse 
and  harness." 

A  committee  consisting  of  William  McAllister,  Rodney  M.  Rol- 
lins and  Silas  Holbrook  were  chosen  to  purchase  additional  land  for 
the  burial  ground  at  the  Centre. 

Theodore  A.  Goffe,  Joseph  H.  Stevens  and  John  Hodgman  were 
chosen  a  committee  to  dispose  of  worthless  books  and  papers  in  the 
Town  Clerk's  office. 

1872,  March — Voted  to  build  a  wall  on  the  South  side  of  the 
cemetery  from  the  gate  to  the  vestry  and  appropriated  $1000  for 
that  purpose. 

1874,  March — "  Voted  that  collector  of  taxes  shall  give  a  bond 
that  the  taxes  shall  be  collected  and  paid  in  before  the  first  day  of 
March,  1875." 

1875,  March — "Voted  to  pay  the  Moderator  $5  a  day  for  his 
services  commencing  with  the  present  meeting." 

1876,  March — "Voted  to  raise  a  sum  not  to  exceed  $5,000,  to 
build  a  new  Town  House." 

1876,  May — A  special  meeting  was  called  "to  see  if  the  town 
will  vote  to  locate  the  new  Town  House  on  land  of  Isaac  NT.  Riddle, 
East  of  the  vestry,  and  if  so,  instruct  then*  building  committee  to 
purchase  the  land  if  it  can  be  done  at  a  reasonable  price."  The 
article  was  dismissed.  The  following  resolution  was  adopted : 
"Resolved  that  the  selectmen  be  instructed  to  have  a  photograph 
taken  of  the  old  Town  House  to  be  framed  and  hung  up  over  the 
speaker's  desk  of  the  new  Town  House." 

1876,  October — The  report  of  the  Building  Committee: 

Foundation,  $261. 

Grading,  ,  56.50 

Stone  steps,  78. 

Build.  T.  H.  per  contract,  5,850. 

Extra  work  not  in  contract,  391.50 

Centrepiece  in  upper  hall,  20. 

Architects'  bill,  42.50 

Total,  $6,699.50 

Received  for  old  Town  House 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  RECORDS.  543 

"  Voted  that  a  sum  of  money  not  to  exceed  $200  be  appropriated 
and  put  in  the  hands  of  Committee  of  arrangements  for  dedication 
of  Town  Hall." 

"Voted  $500  to  furnish  the  house." 

1876,  November — The  selectmen  were  instructed  to  have  the 
Town  House  insured. 

1877,  March — Upon  an  article  to  see  if  the  town  will  aid  build- 
ing by  subscription  or  otherwise,  the  railroad  now  chartered  and 
known  as  The  Manchester  ifc'Ashburnham  Railroad,  and  make  the 
appropriation  for  the  same,  etc.,  it  was  voted  that  the  grantees  have 
leave  to  withdraw. 

An  article  to  see  if  the  town  will  build  a  tomb  was  dismissed. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted  :  "  Whereas  the  people  of 
the  town  of  Bedford  are  indebted  to  Hon.  Zechariah  Chandler  for 
the  sum  of  $100  for  enlarging  and  improving  the  cemetery  at  the 
center  of  the  town,  Resolved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  extended 
him  for  his  liberality." 

Also,  "  Whereas,  the  town  of  Bedford,  through  the  kindness  and 
liberality  of  our  former  townsman,  Freeman  P.  Woodbury,  of  the 
city  of  New  York,  and  Col.  George  W.  Riddle,  of  Manchester,  is 
the  recipient  of  a  beautiful  and  substantial  iron  gate  for  the  cem- 
etery at  Bedford  Centre,  therefore  Resolved;  that  a  vote  of  thanks  of 
the  town  be  extended  to  Freeman  P.  Woodbury,  Esq.,  and  Col. 
George  W.  Riddle  for  this  expression  of  the  interest  they  have 
always  manifested  in  our  welfare." 

1878 — The  annual  meeting  was  adjourned,  after  voting  for  State 
and  County  officers  and  representative,  all  other  articles  being 
indefinitely  postponed.  Upon  petition,  a  special  meeting  was  held 
March  28,  at  which  the  business  not  definitely  acted  upon  at  the 
earlier  meeting  was  considered. 

The  reason  for  this  unusual  action  was  this.  The  chairman  of 
the  board  of  selectmen  wrote  the  copies  of  the  wan-ant  and  signed 
them  with  his  own  name.  When  the  board  met  to  post  them,  the 
other  two  members  signed  only  one ;  that  was  posted  at  the  Town 
House;  another  was  posted  at  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  as  it 
was  in  the  evening,  it  was  not  noticed  that  it  did  not  bear  the  names 
of  a  majority  of  the  board.  This  observation  was  made  by  a  citizen 
when  he  arrived  to  attend  the  Sabbath  services  on  the  following 
day,  and  attention  was  called  to  it  but  it  was  too  late  to  remedy  it. 
The  meeting  thus  being  improperly  warned,  all  action  that  could  be, 
was  deferred  until  a  special  meeting  could  be  duly  warned  and  held. 

At  such  meeting  the  following  resolution  was  adopted :  '•''Resolved 
that  for  the  ensuing  year  and  until  otherwise  ordered  the  compensa- 
tion of  the  town  officers  herein  named  shall  be  as  follows,  to  wit : 
The  selectmen  shall  receive  $2  per  day  each ;  the  Town  Clerk 
shall  receive  $50  per  year.  The  superintending  School  Committee 
shall  receive  $40  per  year,  and  the  taxes  shall  be  collected  by  the 
lowest  responsible  bidder. 


544  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Also  "  that  the  Board  of  Health  is  from  this  time  abolished,  and 
that  the  Selectmen  appoint  no  officers  unless  specially  instructed  by 
the  town." 

An  article  to  see  if  the  town  would  vote  to  maintain  a  public 
pound  was  dismissed. 

1878,  November — "Voted  not  to  adopt  the  local  option  law  in 
regard  to  the  sale  of  cider  by  a  vote  of  25  to  22." 

1879 — The  following  is  an  inventory  of  the  taxable  polls  and 
personal  estate  of  the  town  for  the  year  1879, 


Polls, 
Horses, 

$34,400. 

17,218. 

Cows,  and  other  neat  stock, 

31,259. 

Sheep, 
Hogs,  ( 
Stock  in  banks, 

77. 

409. 

3,700. 

Carriages, 

1,725. 

Stock  in  trade, 

4,555. 

Money  at  interest, 
Mills, 

81,118. 
4,325. 

Stock  in  public  funds, 

9,100. 

Dogs, 

145. 

Total,  $188,031. 

1879,  March — "Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  authorized  to  dis- 
pense of  the  pound  and  dispose  of  the  land." 

The  sum  of  $10  was  appropriated  for  the  decoration  of  soldiers' 
graves,  and  an  annual  appropriation  has  since  been  made  for  such 
purpose. 

$75  was  appropriated  to  provide  curtains  and  stage  fixtures  for 
the  Town  Hall,  suitable  for  school  and  other  exhibitions. 

1880,  March — Another  attempt  to  adopt  the  local  option  law  in 
regard  to  the  sale  of  cider  was  ineffective.  A  road  machine  was 
bought  at  a  cost  of  $208. 

1881,  March — A  proposition  that  the  town  provide  a  tomb  was 
again  denied. 

1882,  March — A  resolution  was  adopted  that  the  dog  money, 
literary  fund  and  railroad  tax  be  divided  equally  among  the  eight 
outlying  school  districts  without  regard  to  poll  or  estate. 

November — The  selectmen  were  instructed  to  remove  all  adver- 
tising boards  from  the  limits  of  the  highway. 

1883,  March — The  sum  of  $135  was  appropriated  to  furnish 
maps,  globes  and  dictionaries  for  the  schools  of  the  town.  The 
following  resolution  was  adopted :  "  Resolved  that  the  Selectmen 
instruct  the  surveyors  of  highway  to  commence  the  use  of  the  road 
machine  by  the  20th  day  of  April." 

1884,  March — An  article  to  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  raise  a 


EXTRACTS   FROM   THE   RECORDS.  545 

sum  of  money  and  purchase  a  piano  for  the  Town  House  was 
dismissed.  Upon  this  action  by  the  Town  regarding  the  purchase 
of  a  piano  the  persons  particularly  interested  raised  the  sum  of  $300 
by  subscription.  With  this  they  purchased  from  a  dealer  in 
Manchester  a  piano  at  a  cost  of  $300.  It  is  now  in  use,  and  is  the 
property  of  the  subscribers. 

The  Selectmen  were  authorized  to  paint  the  Town  House. 

1884,  Xovember — "Voted  to  purchase  a  road  machine." 

1886,  March — "Voted  that  the  town  be  consolidated  into  two 
highway  districts,  and  that  the  breaking  out  of  roads  in  the  winter 
be  left  with  the  selectmen." 

1887,  March — "  Voted  that  the  repairing  of  the  highways  be  left 
with  the  selectmen." 

1888,  March—"  Voted  to  raise  $100  to  entertain  the  10th  Regi- 
ment, and  George  W.  Flint,  Horace  Townsend  and  Solomon  Man- 
ning were  named  as  a  committee  to  spend  the  amount." 

1888,  March — Voted  to  accept  the  bequest  of  the  late  Adam 
Chandler  in  his  last  will  and  testament :  Whereas,  the  late  Adam 
Chandler,  who  was  a  native  and  for  many  years  a  citizen  of  the 
town  of  Bedford,  has  made  a  bequest  in  and  by  his  last  will  and 
testament  in  favor  of  this  town,  in  the  following  terms,  to  wit :  I 
give  and  bequeath  unto  the  town  of  Bedford,  in  said  County  of 
Hillsborough  the  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars,  but  in  trust  for  the 
following  uses  and  purposes  and  upon  the  conditions  hereinafter  set 
forth.  That  said  town  by  its  officers  and  agents  shall  annually  for 
and  during  the  period  of  twelve  years  from  and  after  my  decease 
expend  the  entire  annual  income  of  said  sum  upon  the  old  burying 
ground  at  Bedford  Center,  in  repairing  and  improving  the  paths  and 
avenues  therein,  and  for  and  during  the  next  forty  years  succeeding 
said  twelve  years  above  mentioned,  to  annually  expend  the  entire 
annual  income  of  said  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  in  the  purchase 
of  miscellaneous  books  under  the  direction  of  officers  and  agents  for 
said  town,  but  with  the  approbation  of  some  one  of  my  descendants 
for  the  use  of  the  citizens  of  said  town ;  books  of  a  sectarian  and 
partisan  character  to  be  rejected ;  after  the  expiration  of  said  fifty- 
two  years  said  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  to  go  to  said  town  free  of 
said  trust  forever.  This  bequest  is  upon  the  following  conditions, 
to  wit :  that  said  town  at  a  legal  meeting  of  the  voters  therein  shall 
within  one  year  from  my  decease,  vote  to  accept  this  legacy ;  that 
said  town  shall  keep  said  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  constantly  at 
interest  at  a  rate  of  interest  not  less  than  the  savings  banks  in  this 
state  or  other  similar  institutions  shall  pay  from  time  to  time  ;  that 
the  interest  thereon  shall  be  collected  annually ;  that  said  town 
shall  faithfully  and  justly  expend  annually  said  income  for  the  said 
twelve  years  upon  the  grounds  of  the  old  burying  ground  at  the 
Center  as  aforesaid ;  that  said  town  shall  faithfully  and  justly  ex- 
pend annually  said  interest  for  the  next  forty  years  succeeding  said 
36 


546  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

twelve  years  in  the  purchase  of  books  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  provide 
or  furnish  a  suitable  place  to  keep  such  books  as  may  be  purchased 
as  aforesaid  and  suitable  provisions  for  delivering  such  books  to  per- 
sons entitled  to  use  them,  prior  to  the  termination  of  said,  twelve 
years.  If  said  town  shall  reject  or  decline  this  bequest,  or  fail  at 
any  time  to  comply  with  these  conditions  then  this  bequest  shall  be 
immediately  void." 

And  whereas  an  article  has  been  inserted  in  the  warrant  for  this 
meeting  as  follows  to  wit :  "  To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  accept 
the  bequest  made  in  its  favor  by  the  late  Adam  Chandler  in  his  last 
will  and  testament  and  if  so  to  take  such  action  as  may  be  neces- 
sary to  comply  with  the  provision  of  said  will." 

"And  whereas  the  matter  has  been  discussed  and  considered  at 
length,  therefore  be  it  Resolved,  that  we,  the  voters  of  said  town  of 
Bedford  in  legal  annual  meeting  assembled  now  within  one  year 
from  the  decease  of  said  Adam  Chandler,  do  vote  to  accept  the  said 
legacy  so  provided  for  this  town  as  aforesaid.  And  that  the  town 
treasurer  is  hereby  authorized  to  receive,  in  behalf  of  the  town,  the 
bequest  aforesaid,  and  that  he  is  hereby  instructed  to  deposit  the 
same,  in  the  name  of  the  town  in  the  Amoskeag  Savings  Bank  and 
to  draw  the  interest  thereof  annually.  And  the  selectmen  are  hereby 
authorized  and  instructed  to  fully  comply  with  the  provisions  of  said 
will."     Voted  to  accept  and  adopt  these  resolutions. 

1890,  March — "Voted  to  authorize  the  selectmen  to  offer  a 
reward,  not  exceeding  $50,  for  the  detection  and  conviction  of  any 
party  or  parties  who  maliciously  or  through  criminal  carelessness 
set  fires  in  any  forest,  wood-lot,  sprout  lot,  pasture,  field  or  any 
other  place,  within  the  limits  of  the  town  of  Bedford." 

1891,  March — "Voted  to  sell  the  road  machine  and  to  dismiss 
the  article  relative  to  buying  a  piano  for  the  Town  Hall."  A  reso- 
lution was  adopted  to  pay  the  Moderator  but  $2  a  day. 

A  layout  was  granted  the  N.  E.  Tel.  &  Tel!  Co.  to  erect  poles 
and  string  wires  on  the  direct  main  road  from  Manchester  to 
Merrimack,  via  Bedford  Centre. 

1893,  March — "Voted  to  leave  the  matter  of  purchasing  a  new 
road  machine  with  the  selectmen." 

1895,  March — "Voted  to  appropriate  $100  to  entertain  the  10th 
Regiment,  and  Solomon  Manning,  Quincy  Barnard,  Thomas  J.  Wig- 
gin,  Jacob  P.  Bursiel  and  Horace  Townsend  were  named  a  commit- 
tee to  expend  the  amount." 

It  was  also  voted  that  the  school  board  be  paid  for  their  services 
out  of  the  school  money. 

A  resolution  was  adopted  in  support  of  a  movement  for  a  railroad 
from  Milford  to  Manchester,  and  Solomon  Manning  and  Stephen 
Goffe  were  chosen  a  committee  to  assist  in  locating  said  road. 

1895,  March  12 — The  following  resolutions  were  offered : 

Resolved  That  the  citizens  of  Bedford  are  greatly  indebted  to 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  RECORDS.  547 

Mrs.  C.  II.  Woodbury  for  the  great  improvement  made  through  her 
efforts  in  our  cemetery  and  its  surroundings. 

Resolved,  That  the  citizens  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  recognizing 
these  improvements,  which  have  been  so  generally  made ;  recogniz- 
ing the  fact  that  such  improvements  greatly  enhance  the  beavity  of 
our  public  grounds,  and  tend  to  promote  the  welfare  and  prosperity 
of  our  town ;  so :  in  meeting  here  assembled  extend  to  said  Mrs. 
Francis  E.  Woodbury  a  vote  of  thanks  for  said  improvements,  with 
our  wishes  for  her  future  welfare  and  prosperity. 

Resolved :  that  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Wood- 
bury and  that  they  also  be  spread  upon  the  records  of  the  town. 

Voted  that  these  resolutions  be  accepted  and  adopted.  (Unani- 
mous.) Voted  to  extend  to  Mrs.  Woodbury  the  privilege  she  asks, 
which  was  to  improve  and  care  for  the  East  side  of  the  Center  cem- 
etery. 

1896 — The  following  is  an  inventory  of  the  taxable  polls  and 
personal  estate  of  the  town  for  the  year  1896: 


Polls,  . 

$27,900. 

Land  and  buildings, 
456  Horses, 
14  Oxen, 

460,789. 

23,440. 

710. 

960  Cows, 

25,820. 

7  Other  stock, 

190. 

8  Sheep, 
14  Hogs, 

398  Fowls, 

30. 
138. 
199. 

8  Carriages, 
Bank  Stock, 

475. 
1,000. 

Money  at  interest, 

89,585. 

Stock  in  trade, 

13,105. 

Mills, 

2,950. 

Total,  $646,831. 

1896,  March — The  sum  of  $125  was  appropriated  to  pipe  the 
AVest  side  of  Center  cemetery. 

It  was  voted  not  to  make  any  discount  on  taxes,  but  at  a  special 
meeting  April  10,  a  discount  of  3%  was  voted  on  all  taxes  paid  be- 
fore June  1. 

Location  of  poles  and  wires  was  granted  the  X.  E.  Tel.  &  Tel. 
Co.,  on  the  Dole  Road  and  the  River  Road,  between  the  Dole  road 
and  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Freeman  P.  Woodbury. 

1896,  November — Resolutions  were  adopted  in  favor  of  the  ex 
tension  of  the  electric  railroads  in  the  State,  and  a  steam  road  from 
Milford  to  Manchester. 

1897,  March — "Voted  to  authorize  the  selectmen  to  purchase  an 
iron  safe.  During  the  previous  years  several  articles  on  this  subject 
had  been  dismissed. 


548  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFOKD. 

A  resolution  was  adopted  in  favor  of  a  bill  pending  before  the 
legislature  for  building  the  Manchester  &  Milford  Railroad  and  de- 
claring the  finding  of  the  referees  that  "the  public  good  does  not 
require  such  road  "  as  unfair  and  against  the  interests  of  the  town. 

Representative  Edmund  B.  Hull  was  instructed  to  do  all  in  his 
power  to  bring  about  action  that  will  result  in  building  such  a  road. 

1898,  March — Resolutions  were  adopted  providing  for  the  publi- 
cation of  its  history  by  the  town  and  $75  was  appropriated  for  de- 
fraying the  expenses  of  the  initial  movement,  the  work  *to  be  in 
charge  of  a  committee  of  five,  to  be  appointed  by  the  selectmen  and 
moderator. 

The  committee  subsequently  named  was  :  John  A.  Riddle,  Quincy 
Barnard,  Arthur  W.  Holbrook,  William  M.  Patten,  and  Gordon 
Woodbury,  who  accepted  the  appointment  and  entered  upon  the 
discharge  of  their  duties. 

1899 — Permission  was  given  the  N".  E.  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co.  to  locate 
three  poles  on  the  Worthley  Road,  beginning  at  Manchester  fine 
and  extending  West. 

1899,  March — "Voted  to  return  to  the  old  system  of  repairing 
highways,  dividing  the  town  into  ten  districts."  Also  that  the 
Ladies'  Social  Circle  have  the  use  of  the  Town  Hall  for  entertain- 
ments free.  Also  to  accept  the  Xancy  Barr  bequest  of  $300,  the  in- 
come to  be  used  for  the  care  of  the  John  Ban*  lot  in  the  Centre 
Cemetery. 

Solomon  Manning  and  Stephen  Goffe  were  chosen  agents  of  the 
town  to  act  in  locating  the  railroad  and  station,  on  the  line  from 
Milford  to  Manchester. 

"  Voted  that  the  necessary  disbursements  of  the  committee  col- 
lecting and  compiling  matter  for  the  Town  History  be  paid  from 
the  town  treasury,  not  to  include  any  compensation  to  the  commit- 
tee for  their  services  and  the  books  when  published  to  be  the  prop- 
erty of  the  town." 

Permission  to  locate  poles  was  granted  the  N.  E.  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co. 
on  the  Pulpit  Road  from  the  Manchester  line  to  Rollin  H.  Allen's 
residence. 

1900,  March — The  sum  of  $500  was  appropriated  for  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  150th  anniversary,  the  anniversary  committee  to  make 
all  arrangements. 

Permission  was  granted  the  X.  E.  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co.  to  locate  poles 
on  the  road  from  Merrimack  line  to  Burn's  Corner,  Bedford  Centre, 
to  Gordon  place  from  the  Manchester  line  over  the  Boynton  road. 

1901,  March — "Voted  to  appropriate  $1,500  towards  the  expense 
of  producing  500  copies  of  the  Town  History,"  also  to  appropriate 
$225  for  buying  a  new  road  machine. 

The  selectmen  were  instructed  to  enforce  the  law  in  regard  to 
painting  signs  on  stone  or  nailing  boards  on  fences  or  putting  up 
forms  within  the  bounds  of  the  highway. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  RECORDS.  549 

Permission  was  granted  X.  E.  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co.  to  locate  poles  on 
South  Main  Street  from  the  Kilton  residence  to  the  John  B.  Lodge 
residence. 

1902,  March — The  sum  of  $600  was  appropriated  for  repairs  on 
the  Town  Hall. 

Edmund  B.  Hull,  Thomas  J.  Wiggin  and  Edward  P.  French 
were  chosen  a  committee  to  promote  the  building  of  an  electric  rail- 
way between  Manchester  and  Xashua  on  the  West  side  of  the  Mer- 
rimack River,  and  it  was  voted  to  give  a  right  of  way  through  the 
town  to  the  first  railroad  company  that  Avill  so  build. 


Societies  of  Bedford. 


The  first  agricultural  society  of  this  town  and  also  of  Hillsborough 
county  was  "  The  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Society  of  Bedford," 
formed  in  the  spring  of  1845,  and  continuing  until  November  21, 
1849. 

In  the  record  book  of  the  society  is  found  this  notice,  which  called 
the  people  together : 

It  is  the  ojnnion  of  many  of  the  farmers  of  Bedford  that  an  asso- 
ciation of  those  who  take  an  active  interest  in  that  delightful  occu- 
pation,— not  only  of  making  them  more  thorough  farmers,  but  of 
cultivating  their  minds  as  well  as  their  farms,  (and  the  community 
in  which  they  reside)  by  meeting  often  to  discuss  the  various  sub- 
jects connected  with  the  farming  interest. 

Therefore,  all  those  who  think  favorable  towards  the  subject,  are 
requested  to  meet  at  the  Town-house  in  said  town  of  Bedford,  on 
Saturday,  the  third  day  of  May  next  at  1  o'clock  P.  M. 

A  meeting  was  held  June  4,  1845,  with  Peter  P.  Woodbury  chair- 
man, at  which  time  it  was  voted  to  form  an  agricultural  society,  and 
a  committee  was  appointed  to  nominate  officers  for  the  same.  The 
committee,  Brooks  Shattuck,  James  Walker,  Capt.  John  Patten, 
William  Patten,  and  Ebenezer  Holbrook,  decided  that  the  officers 
consist  of  a  president,  two  vice-presidents,  a  secretary,  and  a  treas- 
urer. A  nomination  was  made  and  accepted,  and  the  following 
named  persons  were  elected  : 

Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  president. 

Capt.  John  Patten  and  Thomas  Holbrook,  vice-presidents. 

John  Adams,  secretary. 

Gardner  Kevins,  treasurer. 

Names  of  Members. 

Peter  P.  Woodbury,  William  Patten, 

John  Patten,  Ralph  Holbrook, 

Thomas  Holbrook,  Samuel  Patten, 

John  Adams,  Isaac  Gage, 


SOCIETIES   OF   BEDFORD.  551 

Samuel  Chandler,  Leonard  Walker, 

Leonard  C.  French,  Gardner  Nevins, 

James  Walkei-,  Adam  Chandler, 

Brooks  Shattuck,  Sherburn  Dearborn, 

Ebenezer  Holbrook,  Elijah  C.  Stevens, 

Stephen  French,  Jr.  H.  C.  Parker, 

David  Crowell,  William  P.  Riddle, 

John  Goffe,  Solomon  Manning, 

Ephraim  Snow,  George  Whitford. 
Thomas  Savage, 

Officers  for  1846: 
Samuel  Chandler,  president.  John  Adams,  secretary. 

James  Walker  and  Brooks  Shattuck,  treasurer. 

Thomas  Holbrook,  vice-presidents. 

Officers  for  1847  : 
Samuel  Chandler,  president.  John  Adams,  secretary. 

James  Walker  and  Brooks  Shattuck,  treasurer. 

Thomas  Holbrook,  vice-presidents. 

Officers  for  1848: 
Samuel  Chandler,  president.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  secretary. 

Adam  Chandler  and  Solomon  Manning,  treasurer. 

David  Atwood,  vice-presidents. 

Officers  for  1849 : 
Adam  Chandler,  president.  Stephen  French,  secretary. 

James  Walker  and  John  Adams,  treasurer. 

David  Atwood,  vice-presidents. 

In  addition  to  the  regular  officers  there  was  a  viewing  committee 
for  the  purpose  of  investigating  farms  of  the  town,  either  of  mem- 
bers of  the  society  or  others,  making  a  written  report  concerning  the 
state  of  the  same,  condition  of  crops,  etc.,  and  they  had  the  privilege 
of  making  any  remarks  or  offering  any  suggestions  which  might  be 
fitting. 

At  the  regular  quarterly  meetings  of  the  society,  which  were  held 
at  the  town  hall,  the  members  transacted  whatever  business  might 
come  before  them,  listened  to  essays  and  took  part  in  discussions,  a 
few  of  the  topics  of  which  were  "  Manures,"  "  Reclaiming  Waste 
Lands,"  "  Raising  Vines  and  Garden  Vegetables,"  "  Raising  and  Fat- 
tening of  Stock,"  "  The  Best  Way  of  Preparing,  Managing,  and 
Preserving  Hay."  Addresses  were  given  froni  time  to  time  by  the 
following  members  of  the  society :  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  Rev. 
Thomas  Savage,  Mr.  Brooks  Shattuck,  Mr.  James  Walker,  and  Mr. 
Thomas  Holbrook. 


552  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Hon.  Isaac  Hill  and  Levi  Bartlett,  Esq.,  delivered  lectures  for  the 
benefit  of  the  farmers. 

The  object  of  "  The  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Society  "  was  to 
increase  the  knowledge  of  the  farmers  in  their  occupation,  as  well  as 
to  cultivate  their  minds,  improve  their  surroundings,  and  be  a  help 
to  the  community  in  which  they  lived ;  and  although  the  society 
was  short-lived  it  paved  the  way  for  other  societies  with  similar  aims. 

Late  in  the  fifties  there  came  to  Bedford  a  man  named  Hey  wood 
with  a  recipe  for  making  a  fertilizer  which  he  called  "tafu."  He 
opened  a  school  of  instruction  in  the  town  house,  to  which  members 
were  admitted  who  had  bought  his  recipe.  The  price  was  five  dol- 
lars. He  claimed  for  his  compound  that  its  use  would  render  farm 
manure  entirely  unnecessary.  He  would  not  cart  it  out  for  it.  His 
plan  was  to  save  the  liquid  manures  but  to  discard  the  solids.  He 
sold  a  large  number  of  recipes  in  the  neighborhood.  For  a  few 
years  some  of  our  farmers  followed  his  teachings  in  this  regard  but 
do  so  now  no  longer. 

After  the  formal  and  regular  meetings  of  the  "Agricultural  and 
Mechanical  Society"  were  discontinued,  meetings  of  the  Bedford 
farmers  were  held  at  various  times  under  the  auspices  of  the  State 
Agricultural  society.  They  were  attended  by  farmers  from  neigh- 
boring towns,  and  were  addressed  by  John  D.  Lyman  of  Exeter, 
Colonel  Clough  of  Canterbury,  Joseph  Kidder  and  James  O.  Adams 
of  Manchester,  and  others.  Mr.  John  A.  Riddle  of  Bedford  pre- 
pared and  read  a  paper  on  "  Sterility  is  Laid." 

Mr.  Thomas  G.  Holbrook  was  a  frequent  speaker  and  contributed 
freely  to  the  discussions  of  the  meetings.  Brooks  Shattuck  was  also 
prominent  as  a  speaker.  At  one  meeting  the  attendance  was  so 
large  that  the  upper  floor  of  the  town  house  gave  signs  of  weakness. 
The  company  were  at  dinner  and  were  obliged  to  leave  the  building 
for  fear  of  its  collapse.  This  was  a  moving  cause  for  tearing  down 
the  old  and  erecting  the  new  town  house.  When  the  old  town 
house  was  torn  down  it  was  found  that  the  tenons  of  timbers  of  the 
second  floor  were  kept  in  their  places  by  not  over  two  inches. 

There  were  also  meetings  of  the  Bedford  lyceum,  a  society  com- 
posed of  the  younger  people  of  the  town  who  met  to  discuss  topics 
of  general  interest  aside  from  purely  agricultural  questions.  No 
record  is  preserved  of  their  organization.  They  discussed  such  topics 
as  "  Is  theory  better  than  practice  ?" 

With  the  outbreak  of  the  war  in   1861  meetings  for  purposes  of 


SOCIETIES   OF   BEDFORD. 


553 


D.  B.  Barnard, 
C.  E.  Bursiel, 
Hattie  A.  Bursiel, 
Mary  Cutler, 
S.  C.  Damon, 
.Mary  A.  Damon, 
Lewis  A.  Dudley, 
S.  C.  Duncklee, 
J.  Ed.  French, 
A.  J.  French, 
G.  M.  French, 
M.  F.  French, 
T.  Ferguson, 


Mrs.  J.  T.  Kendall, 
Emily  B.  Kendall, 
T.  F.  Kendall, 
Ella  F.  Kendall, 
I.  H.  Johnson, 
Henry  M.  Mathews, 
H.  C.  Parker, 
R.  M.  Rollins, 
E.  I.  Sherburne, 


general  discussion  were  succeeded  by  "  war  meetings,"  as  they  were 
called.  They  were  devoted  to  speeches  calculated  to  rouse  and  sus- 
tain patriotic  sentiment  in  the  town.  They  were  usually  held  in  the 
town  house,  sometimes  in  the  church,  and  were  very  largely  attended. 
When  the  war  was  over  meetings  of  the  lyceum  were  again  held, 
and  public  discussions  of  various  general  topics  not  of  agricultural 
interest  only  was  had. 

From  some  papers  of  the  Lyceum  association  it  is  learned  that 
in  1870  W.  W.  Wilkins  was  its  president,  and  J.  E.  French  secre- 
tary. In  1872  George  W.  Goffe  was  president,  Mrs.  F.  R.  French 
secretary,  and  W.  C.  Parker  treasurer.  Here  is  a  partial,  at  least,  list 
of  members : 

John  Foster, 

John  Gillis, 

T.  Goffe, 

Stephen  Goffe, 

S.  Gilmore, 

E.  Gault, 

Annie  S.  Goffe, 

G.  W.  Goffe, 

Florence  Goffe, 

Mrs.  Rob't  Hawthorne,  Lanette  Spurling, 

Mr.  Hadley,  Ira  C.  Tyson, 

Mrs.  Hadley,  W.  M.  Wilkins. 

O.  L.  Kendall, 

Xo  thorough  or  distinctive  organization  of  the  farmers  was  made, 
however,  until  the  Xational  Grange  came  into  existence  in  1873. 

NATIONAL  GRAXGE. 

The  Xational  Grange  was  permanently  organized  at  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  in  January,  1873,  by  Brother  O.  H.  Kelley  of  Minnesota, 
who  was  at  one  time  secretary  of  the  Xational  Grange.  The  idea 
of  a  national  organization  was  first  crudely  conceived  more  than 
five  years  before. 

In  its  principles,  the  Xational  Grange  would  endorse  the  motto : 
"  In  essentials,  unity ;  in  non-essentials,  liberty ;  in  all  things,  char- 
ity." Objects :  "  To  systematize  work  and  calculate  intelligently  on 
probabilities ;  meeting  together,  talking  together,  buying  together, 
selling  together,  acting  together  for  mutual  protection  and  advance- 
ment, as  occasion  may  require ;  to  induce  friendly  relations  in  busi- 
ness, remembering  that  '  Individual  happiness  depends  upon  gen- 
eral prosperity';  to  advance  the  cause  of  education  among  its 
members  and  extend  the  same  to  associates." 


554  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

The  ultimate  object  of  this  organization  is  for  mutual  instruction 
and  protection ;  to  lighten  labor  by  diffusing  a  knowledge  of  its 
aims  and  purposes,  expand  the  mind  by  tracing  the  beautiful  laws 
the  Great  Creator  has  established  in  the  universe,  and  to  enlarge 
views  of  creative  wisdom  and  power. 

The  National  Grange  is  composed  of  the  masters  and  past  masters 
of  the  state  granges,  and  their  wives  or  husbands,  if  fourth  degree 
members  in  good  standing  who  have  taken  the  degree  of  Pomona* 
and  the  officers  and  members  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
National  Grange. 

Any  person  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  having  no  inter- 
est in  conflict  with  the  purposes  of  the  order,  may  become  a  member, 
after  having  been  proposed,  elected  (paying  the  usual  fee)  and  com- 
plying with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  order. 

The  object  of  the  order  is  the  promotion  of  agricultural  and  other 
kindred  pursuits  by  inducing  cooperation  among  farmers  and  those 
alike  interested  for  their  mutual  benefit  and  improvement.  The 
grange  is  in  no  way  a  political  or  party  organization. 

The  first  national  officers  after  incorporation  were  as  follows : 

Master,  Dudley  W.  Adams,  Waukon,  Iowa;  overseer,  Thomas 
Taylor,  Columbia,  S.  C. ;  lecturer,  T.  A.  Thompson,  Plainview, 
Minn. ;  steward,  A.  J.  Yaughan,  Early  Grove,  Miss. ;  assistant  stew- 
ard, G.  W.  Thompson,  North  Brunswick,  N.  J. ;  chaplain,  A.  B. 
Grosh,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  treasurer,  F.  M.  McDowell,  Wayne, 
N.  Y. ;  secretary,  O.  H.  Kelley,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Flora,  J.  C.  Ab- 
bott, Clarksville,  Iowa ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss  C.  A.  Hall, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

After  five  years'  hard  labor,  and  when  efforts  were  being  crowned 
with  success,  Mr.  Kelley's  associates,  having  lost  their  early  enthu- 
siasm and  interest,  dropped  off  one  by  one  and  left  him  completely 
alone.  But  not  to  be  discouraged  by  this  he  met  the  discourage- 
ments bravely  until  other  associates  in  the  work  should  appear.  He 
organized  and  kept  up  the  work,  knowing  no  such  word  as  fail. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  GRANGE. 

The  New  Hampshire  State  Grange  was  organized  Tuesday,  De- 
cember 23,  1873,  and  incorporated  December  22,  1875.  There  had 
been  seventeen  granges  organized  in  the  state,  and  the  State  Grange 
was  composed  of  representatives  of  fifteen  of  the  subordinate  granges. 

Officers  were  elected  as  follows : 


SOCIETIES   OF   BEDFOED.  555 

Master,  Dudley  T.  Chase  ;  overseer,  Charles  H.  De  Rochment ; 
lecturer,  John  D.  Lyman ;  steward,  L.  T.  Sanborn ;  assistant  stew- 
ard, I.  A.  Reed  ;  chaplain,  J.  F.  Keyes ;  treasurer,  David  M.  Clough ; 
secretary,  C.  C.  Shaw ;  Flora,  Mrs.  A.  B.  Tallant ;  lady  assistant 
steward,  Mrs.  L.  T.  Sanborn. 

C.  C.  Shaw  was  appointed  general  deputy  for  the  state,  which 
position  he  held  by  reappointment  until  December,  1879.  The  first 
subordinate  grange  in  New  Hampshire  was  organized  at  Exeter  in 
August,  1873,  with  the  late  Rrother  John  D.  Lyman  as  first  master. 

The  voting  membership  of  the  State  Grange  consists  of  masters, 
with  their  wives  or  husbands,  of  seventeen  Pomona  and  257  subor- 
dinate granges.  If  the  master  of  any  grange  is  unable  to  attend  the 
annual  meeting,  a  delegate  is  chosen,  who,  with  wife  or  husband, 
attends  in  his  stead. 

POMONA  GRANGE. 

The  Pomona  Grange  is  a  county  institution  composed  of  masters 
and  past  masters  of  subordinate  granges,  and  their  wives  or  husbands 
who  are  fourth  degree  members,  and  such  fourth  degree  members  as 
may  be  recommended  by  the  subordinate  granges  as  qualified  to 
membership  in  the  county  grange. 

County  granges  have  the  oversight  of  education  and  business 
interests  of  the  order  in  their  respective  districts,  and  encourage, 
strengthen,  and  aid  the  subordinate  granges. 

Hillsborough  County  Pomona  Grange,  No.  1,  was  organized  April 
17,  1883,  with  242  charter  members,  for  the  above-named  purposes. 
Previously  there  existed  the  Hillsborough  county  council,  which 
was  a  semi-public  institution,  and  not  strictly  a  branch  of  the  order 
of  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 

There  are  thirty-six  subordinate  granges  represented  in  Hills- 
borough County  Pomona  Grange,  and  by  meeting  frequently  with 
the  several  subordinate  granges  the  Pomona  has  increased  the  in- 
terest in  grange  work,  and  has  made  its  power  and  influence  felt  in 
many  ways. 

NARRAGANSETT  GRANGE. 

January  16,  1875,  several  persons  met  at  the  vestry  in  Bedford 
Center  and  formed  an  association,  to  be  called  Narragansett  Grange, 
No.  46,  Patrons  of  Husbandry.  The  grange  had  thirty-three  charter 
members,  fourteen  of  whom  are  members  at  the  present  time. 


556  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Charter  members : 

Solomon  Manning,  Milton  N".  Flint, 

Samuel  E.  Morrison,  Mrs.  Anstrice  P.  Manning, 

Hugh  R.  Barnard,  Mrs.  Abby  Conner, 

Willard  C.  Parker,  Mrs.  Cornelia  B.  Flint, 

John  Ferguson,  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Parker, 

Stephen  Goffe,  Mrs.  Annie  S.  Goffe, 

William  F.  Conner,  Mrs.  Fannie  Flint, 

Albert  L.  Flint,  Mrs.  Nancy  Barnard, 

George  Flint,  Mrs.  Susan  S.  Campbell, 

Henry  Brewer,  Mrs.  Emeline  Townsend, 

Horace  Townsend,  Mrs.  Mary  Parkhurst, 

George  H.  Wiggin,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Barnard, 

Elbridge  J.  Campbell,  Miss  Martha  Barnard, 

Quincy  Barnard,  Miss  Eunice  Stevens, 

Joseph  S.  Parkhurst,  Miss  Eliza  Barnard, 

David  R.  Barnard,  Henry  T.  Barnard, 
Silas  A.  Riddle. 

The  following  named  persons  were  elected  to  office,  and  District 
Deputy  C.  C.  Shaw  of  Milford  instructed  the  members  in  the  work 
of  the  order : 

Master,  Solomon  Manning ;  overseer,  Samuel  E.  Morrison ;  stew- 
ard, Joseph  S.  Parkhurst;  assistant  steward,  Quincy  Barnard;  lady 
assistant  steward,  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Parker ;  chaplain,  Willard  C.  Parker ; 
treasurer,  Henry  T.  Barnard ;  secretary,  Hugh  R.  Barnard ;  gate- 
keeper, Stephen  Goffe ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Annie  Goffe ;  Pomona,  Mrs. 
Anstrice  P.  Manning ;  Flora,  Mrs.  Susan  S.  Campbell. 

The  specific  objects  of  the  grange  are  to  develop  a  better  and 
higher  manhood  and  womanhood  among  its  members;  to  foster 
mutual  understanding  and  cooperation ;  to  act  together  for  mutual 
protection  and  advancement ;  to  secure  entire  harmony,  good  will, 
and  brotherhood ;  to  suppress  personal,  local,  and  national  preju- 
dices, all  unhealthy  rivalry,  and  selfish  ambition ;  to  reduce  expenses, 
both  individual  and  corporate  ;  to  promote  the  welfare  and  increase 
the  influence  of  patrons  by  daily  example,  and  not  by  precept  only ; 
to  cultivate  the  intellectual  tastes,  and  promote  the  sociability ;  to 
relieve  any  of  the  oppressed  and  suffering  brotherhood  by  any  means 
at  its  command ;  to  inculcate  a  proper  appreciation  of  the  abilities 
and  sphere  of  woman ;  thus,  united  by  the  strong  and  faithful  tie  of 
agriculture,  to  mutually  labor  for  the  good  of  the  order,  our  country, 
and  mankind. 

Narragansett  Grange  has  tried  to  accomplish  these  objects  by  a 
proper  adherence  to  the  rules  and  regulations,  and  has  endeavored 


SOCIETIES   OF   BEDFORD.  557 

to  arouse  a  greater  interest  in  the  grange,  its  work,  and  the  work  of 
its  individual  members. 

Knowledge  has  been  increased  by  the  discussion  of  different 
questions  pertaining  to  farming  interests ;  members  of  the  grange 
have  been  benefited  morally,  socially,  and  intellectually  by  social 
intercourse ;  they  have  lengthened  their  chain  of  friendship  by 
acquaintance  with  other  granges.  Thus  the  grange  has  become 
a,  school  where  all  deserving  persons  of  the  town  may  come,  if  they 
will,  for  improvement. 

Officers  are  elected  at  the  first  meeting  in  December,  and  installed 
in  the  month  of  January  following. 

It  is  customary  in  case  of  death  of  a  brother  or  sister  of  the  order 
for  the  master  to  appoint  a  committee  whose  duty  it  is  to  draft  reso- 
lutions, which  are  read  before  the  grange,  adopted,  copied  in  the 
record  book,  -and  a  copy  sent  to  the  bereaved  family. 

The  time  of  meeting  was  in  the  beginning  twice  a  month,  on 
Thursday  evening,  but  was  afterward  designated  as  once  a  month, 
Thursday  evening,  on  or  before  the  full  of  the  moon,  and  the  time 
was  subsequently  changed  to  two  weeks  thereafter,  the  reason  for 
this  being  a  desire  to  get  together  more  frequently,  and  the  time 
was  finally  changed  to  the  first  and  third  Thursday  evenings  of  each 
month,  also  the  fifth  if  there  is  one,  and  so  it  remains  at  the  present 
time. 

During  the  year  1875  the  membership  was  increased  by  sixteen 
new  applicants,  making  a  total  of  49,  December  31,  1875. 

Officers  for  the  year  1876: 

Master,  Solomon  Manning ;  overseer,  Albert  L.  Flint ;  chaplain, 
George  H.  Wiggin;  steward,  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst;  assistant  stew- 
ard, William  F.  Conner ;  lecturer,  Samuel  E.  Morrison ;  treasurer, 
Henry  T.  Barnard ;  secretary,  Silas  A.  Riddle ;  gate-keeper,  Stephen 
Goffe ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Mrs.  Emeline  Townsend ;  Ceres, 
Mrs.  Annie  Goffe ;  Pomona,  Miss  Martha  Barnard ;  Flora,  Miss 
Lizzie  Wiggin. 

On  the  evening  of  January  30,  .1876,  Past  Master  Ward  Parker 
of  Merrimack  installed  the  officers,  and  all  partook  of  the  Harvest 
Feast,  the  first  of  which  there  is  any  record. 

The  first  record  of  a  discussion  is  found  in  the  minutes  of  Novem- 
ber 23,  1876,  the  disputants  being  Hugh  R.  Barnard,  Freeman  R. 
French,  Mrs.  Annie  S.  Goffe,  and  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Parker,  affirmative ; 
George  H.  Wiggin,  Henry  T.  Barnard,  Mrs.  Emeline  Townsend, 
and  Solomon  Manning,  negative. 


558  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

The  question  was :  Jtesolved,  That  the  right  of  suffrage  should 
be  conferred  upon  the  ladies. 

The  officers  for  1877  were  : 

Master,  Solomon  Manning;  overseer,  Albert  L.  Flint;  lecturer, 
George  H.  Wiggin;  steward,  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst;  assistant  stew- 
ard, William  F.  Conner  ;  chaplain,  Freeman  R,  French ;  treasurer, 
Henry  T.  Barnard ;  secretary,  Silas  A.  Riddle ;  gate-keeper, 
Stephen  Goffe;  lady  assistant  steward,  Mrs.  Emeline  Townsend; 
Ceres,  Mrs.  Annie  Goffe  ;  Pomona,  Miss  Martha  D.  Barnard ;  Flora, 
Miss  Lizzie  Wiggin. 

During  the  third  year  of  the  grange  great  progress  was  made 
in  a  financial  way.  The  first  few  years  that  the  grange  existed  the 
officers  were  exceptionally  faithful  to  then  duties,  and  few  were 
absent  from  the  meetings. 

In  1877  the  members  discussed  such  questions  as  were  helpful  to 
the  farmers.  Some  of  them  were, — "The  Potato  Beetle,"  "Hard 
Times,"  etc.  Theodore  Goffe  delivered  a  lecture  in  the  grange, 
"Overland  Route  from  Missouri  River  to  California,"  which  was 
interesting  and  instructive.  George  W.  Goffe  gave  a  lecture  on 
Robert  Burns,  which  was  a  studied  and  interesting  production. 

Twenty-one  members  had  been  added  to  the  roll  and  one  had 
been  lost  by  death,  leaving  a  total  membership  of  77,  December  31, 
1877. 

The  grange  was  first  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a  com- 
panion in  the  spring  of  1877,  the  occasion  of  this  sorrow  being  the 
death  of  Brother  James  T.  Kendall. 

Officers  for  1878 : 

Master,  George  H.  Wiggin;  overseer,  William  F.  Conner;  lec- 
turer, Hugh  R.  Barnard ;  steward,  Horace  Townsend ;  assistant 
steward,  Byron  T.  Atwood ;  chaplain,  Samuel  Seavey ;  treasurer, 
Milton  X.  Flint ;  secretary,  Silas  A.  Riddle ;  gate-keeper,  Theodore 
A.  Goffe ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Mrs.  Annie  S.  Goffe  ;  Flora,  Mrs. 
Emeline  Townsend ;  Pomona,  Miss  Lizzie  McAff ee ;  Ceres,  Mrs. 
Mary  Parkhurst. 

Installation  took  place  January  3,  1878,  the  ceremony  being- 
conducted  by  Past  Master  Solomon  Manning,  assisted  by  Willard  C. 
Parker. 

This  was  a  prosperous  year,  and  beside  paying  all  expenses  new 
supplies  were  added  in  the  kitchen.  Much  interest  was  taken  in 
essays  and  discussions,  and  the  sisters  edited  several  papers  during 
the  year. 


SOCIETIES    OF   BEDFORD.  559 

Officers  of  1879  were  installed  by  State  Master  Dudley  Chase  of 
Claremont,  as  follows : 

Master,  Solomon  Manning;  overseer,  William  F.  Conner;  lec- 
turer, Nathaniel  B.  Hull;  steward,  Horace  Townsend;  assistant 
steward,  Clinton  Bixby;  chaplain,  Samuel  Seavey;  treasurer, 
Milton  X.  Flint ;  secretary,  Silas  A.  Riddle ;  gate-keeper,  E.  Camp- 
bell ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Augusta  French ;  Pomona,  Adeline  C.  Leland ; 
Flora,  Mrs.  Addie  E.  Hull ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 
Parker. 

During  the  first  few  years  of  the  grange  it  was  customary  to  have 
social  functions  at  the  homes  of  different  brothers  and  sisters,  some- 
times by  invitation,  and  at  other  times  going  to  surprise  their 
friends.  Usually  supper  would  be  served,  followed  by  a  real  old- 
fashioned  good  time. 

Past  Master  George  A.  Wason  installed  the  officers  for  1880, 
as  follows : 

Master,  Hugh  R.  Barnard  ;  overseer,  Willard  C.  Parker ;  lecturer, 
Quincy  Barnard ;  steward,  Clinton  H.  Bixby ;  assistant  steward, 
George  H.  Wiggin,  Jr. ;  chaplain,  Solomon  Manning ;  treasurer,  Mil- 
ton N.  Flint ;  secretary,  George  H.  Wiggin ;  gate-keeper,  Timothy 
Townsend ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Anstrice  P.  Manning ;  Pomona,  Miss 
Mary  E.  Manning;  Flora,  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Parker;  lady  assistant 
steward,  Mrs.  Annie  H.  Farley. 

Memorial  day,  1880,  the  members  of  the  grange  formed  a  pro- 
cession and  marched  to  the  cemetery  to  assist  in  decorating  the 
soldiers'  graves  and  taking  part  in  the  exercises.  This  was  the  first 
time  the  grange  had  observed  the  day  in  a  creditable  manner. 

Much  interest  was  taken  in  the  discussions  of  the  year,  some  of 
the  subjects  being :  "  Planting  and  Grafting  Trees,"  "  Raising,  Har- 
vesting, and  Marketing  Fruit,"  "Corn,"  "Potatoes,  Butter,  and 
Cheese." 

This  year  closed  with  a  membership  of  105,  eight  having  been 
gained  and  one  lost  by  death. 

Officers  for  1881 : 

Master,  Willard  C.  Parker ;  overseer,  Nathan  W.  Brown ;  lec- 
turer, Quincy  Barnard ;  steward,  Charles  P.Farley;  assistant  stew- 
ard, George  II.  Wiggin,  Jr. ;  chaplain,  Solomon  Manning  ;  treasurer, 
Milton  N.  Flint ;  secretary,  George  H.  Wiggin ;  gate-keeper,  Tim- 
othy Townsend ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Anstrice  P.  Manning ;  Flora,  Mrs. 
Sarah  L.  Parker ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Farley ;  lady  assistant  steward, 
Miss  Etta  L.  Mace. 

This  installation  was  private.      Until  this  time  the  installations 


560  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

had  been  public  to  friends  and  the  members  of  patrons'  families. 
Worthy  State  Master  George  A.  Wason,  assisted  by  State  Secretary 
William  H.  Stinson,  installed  the  officers. 

Narragansett  Grange  held  its  first  fair  Thursday  evening,  March 
10,  1881. 

Some  of  the  questions  for  discussion  were :  "  How  Can  We  Best 
Support  the  Principles  of  the  Order?"  "  How  Best  to  Prepare  the 
Products  of  the  Farm  for  Market?"  "Deep  and  Shallow  Plough- 
ing." "  Can  the.  Bearing  Year  of  Fruit  Trees  be  Changed  ?  "  "  Poul- 
try on  the  Farm  as  a  Source  of  Income ;  What  Breeds  to  Keep." 
"  Pears  for  Home  Use  and  for  Market." 

Officers  for  1882  were  installed  as  follows: 

Master,  Willard  C.  Parker ;  Overseer,  Nathan  W.  Brown ;  lec- 
turer, Quincy  Barnard ;  steward,  Charles  P.  Farley  ;  assistant  stew- 
ard, George  H.  Wiggin,  Jr. ;  chaplain,  Solomon  Manning ;  treasurer, 
Milton  N.  Flint ;  secretary,  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Parker ;  gate-keeper,  Tim- 
othy Townsend ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Farley ;  Flora,  Miss  Ella  D. 
McAffee  ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Nathan  W.  Brown ;  lady  assistant  steward, 
Miss  Hattie  F.  Manning. 

Discussions  this  year  were  of  especial  interest  to  the  farmers : 
"  Cattle,  Breeds  for  the  Dairy,  the  Butcher,  and  for  General  Pur- 
poses." "  What  Advantages  have  Farmers  Derived  from  Adopting 
New  Machinery  and  New  Methods  ?  "  "  Building  and  Repairing  of 
Roads."  "  Does  it  Pay  for  New  Hampshire  Farmers  to  Invest  in 
Commercial  Fertilizers?"  "A  Farmer's  or  a  Mechanic's  Life, — 
which  Offers  the  Most  Inviting  Prospects  and  which  is  Most  Profit- 
able ?  "     "  The  Game  Laws, — Are  they  what  the  Farmer  Needs  ?  " 

Officers  elected  and  installed  for  1883: 

Master,  Willard  C.  Parker;  overseer,  Nathan  W.  Brown;  lec- 
turer, Mrs.  Maria  J.  Mitchell ;  steward,  Charles  P.  Farley ;  assistant 
steward,  Reuben  P.  Stevens;  chaplain,  Henry  L.  Peaslee;  treasurer, 
Milton  N.  Flint ;  secretary,  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Parker ;  gate-keeper,  Tim- 
othy Townsend ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove ;  Flora,  Mrs.  Sarah 
L.  Barnard  ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  N.  W.  Brown ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss 
Hattie  F.  Manning. 

Officers  for  1884: 

Master,  Charles  P.  Farley ;  overseer,  George  F.  Barnard ;  lec- 
turer, Mrs.  F.  Plummer ;  steward,  Newton  I.  Peaslee ;  assistant 
steward,  Reuben  P.  Stevens ;  chaplain,  Henry  L.  Peaslee ;  treasurer, 
Milton  N.  Flint ;  secretary,  Mary  A.  Gove ;  gatq-keeper,  Timothy 
Townsend;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Delia  Shepard;  Flora,  Miss  Ella  D. 
Palmer;  Ceres,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Farley;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss 
Hattie  L.  Stevens. 


SOCIETIES   OF  BEDFORD.  561 

Installation  by  past  state  master,  assisted  by  Past  Master  Willard 
C  Parker  of  this  grange. 

Discussions  of  the  year  were  of  the  following  subjects :  "  Fruit 
and  its  Adaptation  to  Bedford."  "  Feeding  of  Stock."  "  Is  a  Far- 
mer's Organization  Necessary?"  "What  are  the  Financial  Pros- 
pects of  the  Farmers  of  Bedford  for  the  Next  Five  Years  ?  " 

Officers  for  1885 : 

Master,  Charles  P.  Farley ;  overseer,  Eddy  W.  Stevens ;  lecturer, 
Mrs.  Annie  S.  Goffe ;  steward,  Frank  E.  Manning ;  assistant  stew- 
ard, Frank  W.  Tolford ;  chaplain,  Henry  L.  Peaslee ;  treasurer,  Mil- 
ton N.  Flint ;  secretary,  Mary  A.  Gove ;  gate-keeper,  George  F. 
Shepard;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Delia  Shepard;  Flora,  Mrs.  William  P. 
Shepard ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Farley ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss 
Mattie  Cutler. 

The  tenth  anniversary  of  the  organization  was  observed  by  a 
meeting  for  the  purpose,  January  16,  1885,  at  which  time  the  officers 
were  duly  installed  by  District  Deputy  Kimball  Webster,  assisted  by 
State  Secretary  N.  J.  Bachelder. 

Questions  for  discussion  were :  "  How  shall  we  Best  Improve  the 
Hours  Spent  Here?"     "Silos  and  Ensilage." 

Officers  for  1886  were  installed  by  District  Deputy  Kimball  Web- 
ster, assisted  by  Past  Master  C.  P.  Farley  of  this  grange  : 

Master,  Eddy  W.  Stevens ;  overseer,  John  F.  Gove ;  lecturer, 
Mrs.  Addie  E.  Hull ;  steward,  Frank  E.  Manning ;  assistant  steward, 
Frank  W.  Tolford ;  chaplain,  Nathaniel  B.  Hull ;  treasurer,  Solomon 
Manning ;  secretary,  Mary  A.  Gove  ;  gate-keeper,  Wilder  J.  Prince ; 
Pomona,  Martha  J.  Prince ;  Flora,  Martha  D.  Barnard ;  Ceres,  Nella 
A.  Stevens  ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Hattie  F.  Manning. 

Officers  for  1887  : 

Master,  Eddy  W.  Stevens ;  overseer,  John  F.  Gove ;  lecturer, 
Mrs.  Addie  E.  Hull ;  steward,  Frank  E.  Manning ;  assistant  steward, 
G.  Allen  Putnam ;  chaplain,  Henry  L.  Peaslee ;  treasurer,  Charles 
P.  Farley ;  secretary,  Willard  C.  Parker  and  William  F.  Conner ; 
gate-keeper,  Timothy  Townsend;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Angeline  Camp- 
bell ;  Flora,  Martha  D.  Barnard  ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Nella  A.  Stevens ;  lady 
assistant  steward,  Mrs.  Hattie  L.  Esterbrooks. 

State  Master  Charles  McDaniel,  assisted  by  Past  Master  R.  D. 
Gay  of  Amoskeag  Grange,  installed  the. officers. 

The  officers  for  1888 : 

Master,  John  F.  Gove ;    overseer,  Frank  E.  Manning ;    lecturer, 

Eddy  W.  Stevens ;  steward,  G.  Allen  Putnam ;    assistant  steward, 

Dana  K.  Brown ;  chaplain,  Henry  L.  Peaslee ;  treasurer,  Charles  P. 

Farley;     secretary,    William    F.    Conner;     gate-keeper,    Timothy 

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562  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Townsend  ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Angeline  Campbell ;  Flora,  Mrs.  Abbie 
Conner  ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss 
Bertha  E.  Parkhurst. 

Topics  for  discussion  were:  "Fish  and  Game  Laws  of  New 
Hampshire."  "  The  Tariff  Laws  of  our  Country."  "  Resolved,  That 
Agriculture,  to  be  Successful,  should  be  Conducted  More  Systemati- 
cally."    "Australian  Ballot  System." 

The  officers  for  1889: 

Master,  Charles  P.  Farley ;  overseer,  Frank  E.  Manning ;  lecturer, 
Eddy  W.  Stevens ;  steward,  G.  Allen  Putnam ;  assistant  steward, 
Dana  K.  Brown ;  chaplain,  Ezra  C.  Barnes  ;  treasurer,  John  F.  Gove ; 
secretary,  Mrs.  Addie  E.  Hull;  gate-keeper,  John  McAffee;  Po- 
mona, Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Barnard ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Sarah  Barnes ;  Flora, 
Mrs.  Susan  Brown;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss  Bertha  E.  Park- 
hurst. 

The  following  were  a  few  of  the  interesting  topics  for  discussion : 
"  Literary  Entertainments."  "  Public  Schools."  "  What  Branch  of 
Farming  is  Most  Profitable  to  Farmers  ?  "  "  Is  it,  or  is  it  not,  for 
the  Best  Interests  of  Xew  Hampshire  to  Colonize  the  State  with 
Foreigners  ? "  "  Duties  of  the  Patrons  in  Advancing  the  Interests 
of  the  Grange." 

Narragansett  Grange  was  invited  by  the  State  Grange  to  confer 
the  third  and  fourth  degrees  at  the  December  meeting  of  that  body 
in  Manchester.  The  regular  officers  did  the  work,  and  Brothers 
George  Barnard,  Charles  Wiggin,  William  S.  Manning,  and  Sisters 
Martha  Barnard,  Lizzie  Wiggin,  and  Hattie  F.  Manning  acted  as 
candidates.  The  work  was  done  in  a  very  acceptable  manner,  which 
did  credit  to  both  officers  and  candidates. 

Officers  for  1890: 

Master,  Charles  P.  Farley ;  overseer,  G.  Allen  Putnam ;  lecturer, 
Mrs.  Sarah  Barnes ;  steward,  Dana  K.  Brown ;  assistant  steward, 
Ed.  L.  Conner;  chaplain,  Ezra  C.  Barnes;  treasurer,  Frank  E.  Man- 
ning ;  secretary,  Mrs.  Addie  E.  Hull ;  gate-keeper,  William  F.  Con- 
ner; Ceres,  Miss  Martha  Barnard;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Susan  Brown; 
Flora,  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Barnard ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss  Josie 
Putnam. 

Topics  for  discussion  were:  "What  Effect  Has  the  Tariff  upon 
Agriculture  ?  "     "  Civil  Service  Reform." 

Officers  for  1891 : 

Master,  William  F.  Conner ;  overseer,  Orra  G.  Eilton ;  lecturer, 
Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove ;  steward,  Eddie  L.  Conner ;  assistant  steward, 
William  S.  Manning ;  chaplain,  Solomon  Manning ;  treasurer,  Joseph 


SOCIETIES   OF   BEDFORD.  563 

S.  Parkhurst;  secretary,  Eddy  W.  Stevens;  gate-keeper,  George  F. 
Shepard ;  Ceres,  Miss  Xellie  A.  Richards ;  Pomona,  Edith  L.  Shep- 
ard ;  Flora,  Hattie  F.  Manning ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss  Lizzie 
Wilkinson. 

Only  one  topic  for  discussion :  "  Is  Corn  a  Profitable  Crop  for 
Bedford  Farmers  to  Raise  ?  " 

The  grange  conducted  a  prize-speaking  contest  for  school  children 
during  the  winter  of  1891. 

Officers  for  1892: 

Master,  William  F.  Conner;  overseer,  Orra  G.  Kilton;  lecturer, 
Frank  E.  Manning ;  steward,  Ed.  L.  Conner ;  assistant  steward, 
William  S.  Manning;  chaplain,  Solomon  Manning;  treasurer,  Joseph 
S.  Parkhurst;  secretary,  Eddy  W.  Stevens;  gate-keeper,  Eugene  II. 
Webber ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Abby  Conner ;  Pomona,  Edith  L.  Shepard ; 
Flora,  Hattie  F.  Manning ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Amy  N.  Flint. 

Topics  discussed :  "  Resolved,  That  Commercial  Fertilizers  are  a 
Damage  to  the  Farmers  of  New  Hampshire."  "  Methods  of  Fight- 
ing Enemies  to  Farm  Crops."  "Which  Pays  Better  for  Same 
Money  Invested,  Cows  or  Poultry  ?" 

Officers  for  1893  : 

Master,  Orra  G.  Kilton ;  overseer,  William  F.  Conner ;  lecturer? 
Albert  L.  Flint;  steward,  Loren  E.  Charles;  assistant  steward, 
George  F.  Barnard ;  chaplain,  Solomon  Manning ;  treasurer,  Joseph 
S.  Parkhurst;  secretary,  Eddy  W.  Stevens ;  gate-keeper,  Frank  E. 
Manning ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Xella  Stevens ;  Flora,  Miss  Hattie  F. 
Manning;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Angeline  Campbell;  lady  assistant  steward, 
Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove. 

Officers  for  1894 : 

Master,  William  S.  Manning ;  overseer,  William  II.  Ryder ; 
lecturer,  Hattie  F.  Manning ;  steward,  Welcome  A.  Dunton ;  assist- 
ant steward,  George  F.  Barnard ;  chaplain,  Solomon  Manning ;  treas- 
urer, Joseph  S.  Parkhurst ;  secretary,  Eddy  W.  Stevens  ;  gate-keeper, 
Albert  C.  Hodgman;  Pomona,  Miss  Lizzie  Wilkinson ;  Flora,  .Mrs. 
Mary  Parkhurst ;  Ceres,  Miss  Georgia  F.  Way ;  lady  assistant  stew- 
ard, Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove. 

Topics  for  discussion  in  1894:  "Would  Participation  of  Women 
in  Public  Affairs  Tend  to  the  Welfare  of  the  Community  ? "  "  Re- 
solved, That  the  Farmers  of  To-day  are  Keeping  Pace  with  the 
Rest  of  the  World."  "  Resolved,  That  Our  Farms  are  Better  Sup- 
plied with  Tools  and  Appliances  than  Our  Kitchens."  "Can  the 
Social,  Educational,  or  Material  Interests  of  Bedford  be  Advanced  ? 
If  so,  How  ?  " 

In  the  afternoon  and  evening  of  January  17,  1895,  Xarragansett 


564  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Grange  celebrated  the  twentieth  anniversary  of  its  organization. 
The  afternoon  session  opened  at  1 :  30  p.  m.,  with  155  present. 

Address  of  welcome,  William  S.  Manning,  master ;  history  of  the 
grange,  E.  W.  Stevens;  song,  William  B.  French;  address,  Past 
Master  Solomon  Manning ;  remarks,  C.  C.  Shaw,  II.  O.  Hadley,  A. 
L.  Flint,  Joseph  Kidder,  Horace  Townsend,  Stephen  Goffe,  Quincy 
Barnard,  C.  P.  Farley,  E.  W.  Stevens,  and  Orra  G.  Kilton.  The 
officers  were  installed  by  State  Master  Bachelder,  assisted  by  General 
Deputy  Alonzo  Towle,  as  follows : 

Master,  William  S.  Manning;  overseer,  William  H.  Ryder; 
lecturer,  Hattie  F.  Manning ;  steward,  Welcome  A.  Dunton ; 
assistant  steward,  George  F.  Barnard ;  chaplain,  Albert  L.  Flint ; 
treasurer,  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst ;  secretary,  Eddy  W.  Stevens  ;  gate- 
keeper, Fred  H.  Flint ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Nella  A.  Stevens ;  Flora,  Mrs. 
Mary  A.  Parkhurst ;  Ceres,  Miss  Mary  E.  Manning ;  lady  assistant 
steward,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove. 

Supper  was  served  at  7  o'clock,  and  at  8  o'clock  patrons  came 
together  again  for  an  evening  session,  there  being  264  members 
present. 

Programme  :  Address,  State  Master  Bachelder  ;  original  poem  by 
a  charter  member,  and  read  by  Miss  Hattie  Manning ;  address,  Gen- 
eral Deputy  Towle ;  music,  Milton  George  and  Gerda  L.  Huntoon ; 
recitation,  William  H.  Ryder;  song,  William  B.  French;  essay, 
Dana  K.  Brown ;  song  by  the  choir ;  remarks  by  several  visiting 
patrons ;  song,  Walter  Kittredge  of  Merrimack ;  song,  A.  A.  Platts 
of  Merrimack. 

Officers  for  1896 : 

Master,  William  H.  Ryder ;  overseer,  Welcome  A.  Dunton ; 
lecturer,  Mrs.  Sarah  Hull ;  steward,  Miss  Martha  Barnard ;  assistant 
steward,  Edmund  B.  Hull;  chaplain,  Albert  L.  Flint;  treasurer, 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin ;  secretary,  Dana  K.  Brown ;  gate-keeper,  Albert 
C.  Hodgman ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Katherine  A.  Ryder ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  W. 
G.  Currier ;  Flora,  Mrs.  Susan  K.  Brown ;  lady  assistant  steward, 
Mrs.  Angeline  Campbell. 

Officers  for  1897 : 

Master,  William  H.  Ryder ;  overseer,  Welcome  A.  Dunton ; 
lecturei',  Sarah  M.  Hull;  steward,  John  Quaid;  assistant  steward, 
Edmund.  B.  Hull ;  chaplain,  Quincy  Barnard ;  treasurer,  Thomas  J. 
Wiggin ;  secretary,  Dana  K.  Brown,  Mary  A.  Gove ;  gate-keeper, 
Frank  H.  Barnard ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Mary  Currier  ;  Flora,  Mrs.  Susan 
K.  Brown ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Katherine  A.  Ryder. 

Topics  for  discussion :  "  Should  Bedford  Farmers  Increase  Their 


SOCIETIES   OF  BEDFORD.  565 

Acreage  of  Corn?"  "To  What  Extent  Should  Agriculture  be 
Taught  in  Our  Public  Schools  ?  "  "  What  Nature  Studies,  if  any, 
Should  be  Taught  in  Our  Public  Schools."  "  Postal  Savings  Bank 
and  Rural  Mail  Delivery."  "Canning  Fruit."  "Jellies."  "Pick- 
les." "  Vegetables  for  Dairy  Stock."  "  The  Raising  and  Marketing 
of  Milk."  "Butter  Making."  " New  Methods  in  Dairy  Farming." 
"  Special  Crops  for  Dairy  Fodder."  Those  who  took  part  in  the 
discussions  were :  J.  E.  French,  E.  B.  Hull,  W.  B.  French,  E.  W. 
Stevens,  J.  F.  Gove,  and  W.  A.  Dunton. 

Two  singing  schools  have  been  conducted  under  the  auspices  of 
the  grange.  The  first  instructor  was  Mr.  Hill  and  the  second  Mr. 
U.  Leroy  George.     Both  gentlemen  were  from  Manchester. 

Officers  for  1898: 

Master,  William  H.  Ryder,  E.  W.  Stevens;  overseer,  John  A. 
Quaid ;  lecturer,  Welcome  A.  Dunton ;  steward,  William  Henry 
Darrah;  assistant  steward,  Edmund  B.  Hull;  chaplain,  Albert  L. 
Flint ;  treasurer,  Thomas  J.  Wiggin  ;  secretary,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove ; 
gate-keep<3r,  John  W.  Riley;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Katherine  A.  Ryder, 
Mrs.  N.  A.  Stevens ;  Pomona,  Miss  Lillian  Kingsley ;  Flora,  Miss 
Rosa  Spencer ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Mrs.  Angeline  Campbell. 

Topics:  "Frauds  that  the  Farmer  Pays  For."  "The  Kitchen 
Garden  and  What  it  Should  contain."  "Outdoor  Adornment." 
"How  to  Grow  Good  Potatoes."  "Should  our  Native  Birds  be 
Protected  by  Law?"  "What  are  Some  of  the  Qualifications  of 
a  Good  Housekeeper?" 

Officers  for  1899: 

Master,  Eddy  W.  Stevens;  overseer,  John  F.  Gove;  lecturer, 
George  H.  Wiggin ;  steward,  John  Riley ;  assistant  steward,  Will- 
iam S.  Manning;  chaplain,  Miss  Annie  R.  Morrison;  treasurer, 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin ;  secretary,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove ;  gate-keeper, 
George  H.  Hardy;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Nella  A.  Stevens;  Pomona,  Miss 
Lillian  Kingsley ;  Flora,  Miss  Abbie  Gault ;  lady  assistant  steward, 
Mrs.  Georgia  F.  Manning. 

Topics :  "  How  Can  we  Improve  our  Worn  Out  Pastures  ? " 
"What  Should  be  the  Farmer's  Aim  in  Life?"  "How  May  we 
Best  Improve  our  Long  Winter  Evenings  ?  "  "  How  to  Make  Farm 
Life  Attractive."  "  Does  the  Mechanic  Receive  Better  Remunera- 
tion for  Labor  than  the  Fanner  ?  "  "  Do  we  Take  Sufficient  Interest 
in  the  Affairs  of  the  Town,  County,  and  State  ?  " 

Officers  for  1900  : 

Master,  Eddy  W.  Stevens ;  overseer,  George  F.  Barnard ;  lec- 
turer, Miss  Hattie  F.  Manning. ;  steward,  John  W.  Riley ;  assistant 


566  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

steward,  AVilliam  S.  Manning;  chaplain,  Albert  L.  Flint;  treasurer' 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin ;  secretary,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Gove ;  gate-keeper' 
George  H.  Hardy ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Nella  A.  Stevens ;  Pomona,  Miss 
Lillian  Kingsley ;  Flora,  Miss  Abbie  Gault ;  lady  assistant  steward, 
Mrs.  Angeline  Campbell. 

Topics :  "  Labor  Saving  Inventions."  "  Trans-Siberian  Railroad." 
"Among  what  Class  of  People  can  be  Found  the  Most  Successful 
Grumblers  in  the  Country?  Why?"  "Are  the  Holidays  Detri- 
mental to  Farm  Work?"  "What  is  the  Greatest  Need  of  the 
Grange  at  the  Present  Time  ?  " 

Officers  for  1901 : 

Master,  Edmund  B.  Hull ;  overseer,  Julius  H.  Putnam ;  lecturer, 
George  H.  Wiggin ;  steward,  Ernest  A.  Jenkins ;  assistant  steward, 
Frank  H.  Barnard ;  chaplain,  William  M.  Flanders ;  treasurer, 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin ;  secretary,  Miss  Evelyn  A.  Stevens ;  gate- 
keeper, Arthur  N.  Hodgman ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Hull ;  "Pomona, 
Mrs.  Susie  M.  Putnam ;  Flora,  Mrs.  Ella  M.  Tinker ;  lady  assistant 
steward,  Miss  Nellie  T.  Shepard. 

Topics :  "  Resolved,  That  Farming  is  More  Profitable  than  Thirty 
Years  Ago."  "Agricultural  College."  "  Hesolved,  That  our  Country 
Towns  Offer  Better  Inducements  than  our  Cities  for  our  Young 
People."  "  What  Legislation,  State  or  National,  is  Needed  for  the 
Improvement  of  the  Highways  ?  " 

Officers  for  1902 : 

Master,  Edmund  B.  Hull ;  overseer,  Julius  H.  Putnam  ;  lecturer, 
Mrs.  Minnie  S  Melendy ;  steward,  John  A.  Quaid ;  assistant  stew- 
ard, Frank  H.  Barnard ;  chaplain,  William  M.  Flanders ;  treasurer, 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin ;  secretary,  Miss  Evelyn  A.  Stevens ;  gate-keeper, 
Lewis  Gault ;  Ceres,  Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Hull ;  Pomona,  Mrs.  Grace  A. 
Quaid;  Flora,  Mrs  Clara  E.  Conner;  lady  assistant  steward,  Miss 
Nellie  T.  Shepard. 

Topics:  "What  is  Education?"  "Why  is  Education  Necessary 
to  Success  ?  "  "  Hesolved,  That  a  Man  shall  Obey  the  Laws  of  his 
Country  if  he  Believes  them  to  be  Morally  Wrong."  "  The  Raising 
and  Selling  of  Milk."  "Hesolved,  That  an  Electric  Road  would 
be  of  Benefit  to  the  Town."  "  What  are  the  Advantages  or  Dis- 
advantages of  our  Rural  Mail  Delivery  ?  "  "Small  Fruits."  "How 
to  Produce  Hay." 

DEATHS. 

1877.     James  T.  Kendall,  Mav  20. 
1880.     Elijah  C.  Cotton,  June  30. 


SOCIETIES   OF   BEDFORD.  567 

1881.     William  Flint,  April  15. 

Henrv  T.  Barnard,  October  16. 

1883.  Paul  T.  Campbell,  January  30. 
John  Ferguson,  May  24. 
Mary  A.  Parker,  Mav  8. 

1884.  Solon  C.  Gilmore,  March  31. 
Samuel  E.  Morrison,  June  15. 
Nina  A.  Straw,  November  14. 

1885.  Margaret  Townsend,  July  13. 
Annie  H.  Farley,  September  20. 

1886.  Alice  M.  Stevens,  August  28. 
Samuel  Seavey,  September  28. 

1887.  Annie  H.  Smith,  January. 
Eliza  J.  Stevens,  July  14. 

Past  Master  Willard*C.  Parker,  July  23. 

Lizzie  Farley,  wife  of  Past  Master  Farlev,  August  9. 

1889.  Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  April  18. 
.Delia  J.  Shepard,  April  18. 

1890.  Kate  J.  Wiggin,  January. 
Almira  B.  Ward,  January. 

1891.  Simon  Jenness,  January  18. 

Past  Master  George  H.  Wiggin,  October  26. 

1893.  Sarah  E.  Parker,  November  28. 

1894.  Myra  L.  Robinson,  March  23. 

1895.  Helen  M.  Barnard,  November  22. 
1897.     Grace  N.  Farley,  April. 

1899.  Edith  L.  Shepard,  March  12. 
Marv  A.  Parkhurst,  Julv  1. 

1900.  Silas  A.  Riddle,  March  16. 
Cornelia  B.  Flint,  July  8. 
Timothy  Stevens,  August  24. 
Stephen  Goffe,  September  7. 
Freeman  R.  French,  December  13. 

1901.  Annie  Wiggin,  April  2. 
Hannah  Flint,  February  2. 

LAFAYETTE  LODGE  OF  MASONS,  No.  41. 

Previous  to  1824  citizens  of  Bedford  were  holding  conferences 
with  a  view  of  forming  a  lodge  of  Masons  nearer  home  than  those 
which  then  existed  at  Amherst,  Concord,  Dunstable,  and  Goffstown. 
A  general  meeting  was  held  at  the  house  of  Thomas  Rundlett  on 
March  4,  1824,  at  which  a  petition  for  the  granting  a  charter  for 
Lafayette  lodge  was  framed,  and  Robert  Dunlap  was  nominated  to 
be  master,  Thomas  Rundlett  to  be  senior  warden,  and  John  Moor  to 
be  junior  warden.  The  petition  was  granted  by  the  grand  lodge, 
and  these  were  the  charter  members  :  Josiah  Gordon,  Joseph  Colley, 


568  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Jonathan  Dowse,  John  Martin,  Diocletian  Melvin,  James  Darrahr 
Jr.,  William  McDoel  Ferson,  William  P.  Riddle,  Jesse  Richardson, 
Otis  Batchelder,  John  Moor,  James  McKeen  Wilkins,  Joseph  E.  A. 
Long,  James  Harvell,  Robert  Dunlap,  Thomas  Dunlap,  Samuel 
Chesman,  John  Goffe,  Adam  Gilmore,  Lewis  F.  Haines,  John  Lang- 
ley,  Adam  Smith,  Jr.,  and  Thomas  Harris  of  Bedford,  William  Wal- 
lace, and  Thomas  Pollard,  Jr.,  of  Goffstown,  and  Mace  Moulton  of 
Amherst. 

The  organization  Avas  completed  by  the  election  of  Joseph  Colley, 
treasurer,  and  James  McKeen  Wilkins,  secretary,  and  the  appoint- 
ment of  William  McDoel  Ferson,  senior  deacon,  William  Wallace, 
junior  deacon,  James  Darrah,  Jr.,  and  William  P.  Riddle,  stewards, 
and  Otis  Batchelder,  tyler. 

A  hall  over  the  store  of  Gen.  William  P.  Riddle  was  fitted  up  for 
a  lodge  room,  and  formally  dedicated  on  September  1,  when  the 
lodge  was  formally  chartered.  The  address  was  delivered  in  the 
meeting-house  by  Rev.  Joseph  E.  A.  Long.  The  last  meeting  of 
the  lodge  was  held  in  Bedford,  June  4,  1845 ;  its  home  was  then 
moved  to  Manchester,  to  the  Dunlap  block,  where  the  first  meeting 
was  held  August  13.  The  masters,  with  their  years  of  service,  dur- 
ing its  stay  in  Bedford,  were :  Robert  Dunlap,  1824,  '25,  '33,  '44, 
'45;  John  Moor,  1826;  Joseph  Colley,  1827,  '35;  Diocletian  Mel- 
vin, 1828;  Otis  Batchelder,  1829;  Thomas  G.  Peckham,  1830, '31 
Thomas  Rundlett,  1832;  John  Wells,  1834;  William  McDoel  Fer- 
son, 1836,  '37,  '38;  Jonathan  Dowse,  1839,  '40,  '41,  '42,  '43. 

GOLDEN  CROSS   COMMANDERY. 

Thomas  Savage  Commandery,  No.  192,  United  Order  of  the 
Golden  Cross,  was  instituted  in  Bedford,  April  25,  1882,  and  has 
had  a  prosperous  existence.  It  should  be  said  that  more  attention 
has  been  paid  to  the  benevolent  and  business  features  of  the  order 
than  to  its  social  possibilities.  Its  regular,  stated  meetings  are  held 
quarterly,  special  meetings  being  called  if  business  demands  at  other 
times.  The  largest  number  of  members  at  any  time  has  been  forty- 
five,  and  the  present  number  is  forty.  It  was  named  for  a  much 
honored  pastor,  long  at  the  head  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in 
town. 

There  were  twenty  charter  members,  as  follows  : 
William  McAfee,  Orline  M.  McAfee, 

W.  Clinton  Parker,  S.  Lizzie  Parker, 


SOCIETIES   OF   BEDFORD.  569 

Stephen  Goffe,  Annie  S.  Goffe, 

Henry  L.  Peaslee,  Elizabeth  J.  Cotton, 

George  W.  Flint,  Fannie  M.  Flint, 

Charles  P.  Farley,  Lizzie  A.  Farley, 

Solon  C.  Gilmore,  Mary  E.  Gilmore, 

Newton  I.  Peaslee,  Mary  L.  Peaslee, 

George  L.  Walch,  Frank  H.  Rowe,  M.  D. 

Frances  A.  Pressey,  Fred  Cotton. 

The  following  were  the  first  officers :  Past  noble  commander, 
Charles  P.  Farley ;  noble  commander,  W.  Clinton  Parker ;  prelate, 
Henry  L.  Peaslee  ;  herald,  Fred  Cotton ;  noble  keeper  of  records, 
Annie  S.  Goffe ;  financial  keeper  of  records,  George  W.  Flint ; 
treasurer,  Orline  M.  McAfee ;  warden  inner  gate,  Mary  L.  Peaslee ; 
warden  outer  gate,  Newton  I.  Peaslee  ;  medical  examiner,  Frank 
H.  Rowe,  M.  D. 

The  noble  commanders  have  been:  W.  Clinton  Parker,  F.  H. 
Rowe,  Charles  P.  Farley,  Henry  L.  Peaslee,  John  F.  Gove,  G.  Allen 
Putnam,  George  L.  Walch,  William  S.  Manning,  and  Mary  A.  Gove. 
C.  P.  Farley  has  held  the  position  at  various  times  for  nineteen 
terms,  and  Henry  L.  Peaslee,  for  ten  terms.  Ella  D.  Walch  has 
served  as  noble  keeper  of  records  for  twenty-one  terms,  and  Annie 
S.  Goffe  and  Sarah  H!  Smith  for  nine  terms  each. 

Sarah  L.  Barnard  has  held  the  position  of  treasurer  for  twenty 
terms,  Orline  M.  McAfee  for  thirteen  terms,  and  Mary  L.  Peaslee, 
for  seven  terms. 

George  F.  Barnard  has  been  the  financial  keeper  of  records  twenty 
terms,  Newton  I.  Peaslee  nine  terms,  and  H.  L.  Peaslee  eight  terms. 
The  above  four  offices  are  occupied  by  officers  who  constitute  the 
business  force  of  the  order. 

The  amount  of  insurance  carried  by  members  at  the  present  time 
is  $47,500;  the  number  of  deaths  has  been  eight,  and  the  total 
amount  of  benefits  paid  to  families  of  deceased  members  has  been 
$9,000. 


Library. 


There  was  a  circulating  library  in  Bedford  as  early  as  May  28, 
1789.  The  date  of  the  foundation  of  the  Peterborough  library, 
which  is  usually  stated  to  have  been  the  first  public  library  formed 
in  the  state,  is  December  21,  1799. 

At  a  meeting  held  at  the  dwelling  house  of  Isaac  Riddel,  Inn- 
holder  in  Bedford,  by  a  Number  of  Subscribers  for  the  purpose  of 
erecting  a  Library  to  be  kept  in  sd  Bedford  held  according  to  the 
appointment  of  sd  subscribers  on  Thursday,  the  28th  dav  of  May 
1789. 

1st  Voted  Zechariah  Chandler  Esqr  Moderator  to  regulate  sd 
meeting 

2ly  Voted  that  David  Patten  serve  as  Clerk  untill  another  is 
chosen  in  his  stead. 

3ly  Voted  that  this  meeting  stands  adjourned  untill  the  first  Mon- 
day in  July  next  to  meet  at  the  said  Isaac  Riddels,  at  one  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon  and  that  the  Clerk  set  up  Three  Notifications  for  said 
meeting  one  at  Squire  Chandlers  one  at  Capt  Doles  &  one  at  Isaac 
Riddels  all  in  sd  Bedford 

July  6th  1789  Met  according  to  adjournment — Voted  That  Jno  Orr 
Zechariah  Chandler  Esqrs  &  David  Patten  be  a  Committee  to  form 
Regulations  for  said  Library. 

(From  an, old  manuscript  in  the  possession  of  John  A.  Riddle.) 

The  books  were  all  covered  with  leather,  and  were  kept  at  the 
house  of  Deacon  John  Houston,  afterwards  in  Riddle's  store.  Some 
of  the  books  comprised  in  it  are  still  in  use  in  town  in  a  good  state 
of  preservation.  The  list  of  original  subscribers  and  the  catalogue 
and  book  of  records  of  the  proprietors  were  preserved  among  the 
effects'  of  the  late  Samuel  Chandler.  His  granddaughter,  Mrs. 
Eugene  Hale,  removed  them  with  other  property  of  her  grandfather 
to  her  home  in  Ellsworth,  Me.  Fire  destroyed  her  residence  there, 
so  a  complete  account  of  the  early  library  of  Bedford  is  lacking.  It 
appears,  however,  that  most  of  the '  older  and  more  important  fami- 
lies in  town  were  included   among  the   subscribers,  and  that  quite  a 


LIBRARY.  571 

large  and  well  selected  lot  of  books  were  in  vise  through  the  town 
from  an  early  date,  until  about  1848. 

Town-meeting  day,  in  November  of  that  year,  the  proprietors  sold 
at  auction  on  the  town  house  steps,  what  remained  of  the  books. 
The  library  was  incorporated  as  appears  from  the  following  act.1 

About  1872  another  subscription  library  was  started  in  town 
by  George  W.  Goffe.  Persons  interested  subscribed  money  and  con- 
tributed books  to  form  a  free  circulating  library.  A  case  for  the 
books  was  purchased  (Clinton  H.  Bixby  made  it)  and  placed  in  the 
vestry.  There  were  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  volumes  at  one 
time.  The  first  librarian  was  Silas  A.  Riddle.  The  books  were  in 
considerable  demand  and  the  library  was  well  patronized. 

The  whole  subject  of  town  libraries  and  town  appropriations  for 
their  support  began  to  -be  agitated  throughout  the  state  about  1890. 
By  the  terms  of  an  act  passed  in  1892,  a  town  library  became  possi- 
ble in  Bedford,  the  provisions  of  the  Public  Statutes  giving  state 
encouragement  to  such  an  enterprise  having  been  adopted  at  the 
annual  town-meeting.  Rev.  A.  D.  Smith,  John  A.  Riddle,  and 
George  M.  Davis,  M.  D.,  were  chosen  the  first  board  of  trustees. 
One  of  the  first  acts  of  the  board  was  to  circulate  a  paper  among 
the  subscribers  of  the  old  library  transferring  their  interest  in  it  to 
the  town.  Their  consent  having  been  secured,  137  volumes  were 
thus  obtained  as  a  nucleus  for  a  free  public  library.  Later  there 
were  added  from  other  sources  a  few  more  volumes.     In  December, 

1  An  act  for  incorporating  certain  persons  by  the  name  of  the  Proprietors  of  the 
Social  Library  in  Bedford. 

That  William  McAfee,  Adam  Smith,  John  Bevins,  James  Moor,  William  Moor, 
Stephen  Dole,  David  Stevens,  John  Houston,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  Joseph  Bell,  John 
Patten,  Samuel  Chandler,  Josiah  Gorden,  Roger  Vose,  Stephen  French,  Isaac  Rid- 
dle, Thomas  Wallace,  Hugh  Riddle,  John  Aiken,  Phineas  Aiken,  John  Craig, William 
Riddle,  Samuel  Gilcrest,  David  Patten,  John  Orr,  Robert  Dunlap,  Theodore  A.  Goffe, 
Elisha  Lincoln,  Jr.,  Aaron  Gage,  Joseph  Nicols,  Joseph  Moor,  Asa  Barns,  George 
Orr,  Josiah  Caldwell,  Thomas  Chandler,  John  Houston,  Joseph  Houston  and  Benja- 
min Sprake,  proprietors  of  said  Library  and  all  such  as  may  hereafter  become  pro- 
prietors of  the  same,  be  and  they  are  hereby  incorporated  into  a  body  politic  by  the 
name  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Social  Library  in  Bedford,  with  continuation  and  suc- 
cession forever,  with  all  the  powers  and  privileges  incident  to  corporation  of  a  like 
nature  and  may  enjoin  penalties  of  disfranchisement  or  fine  not  exceeding  four  dol- 
lars for  each  offence  and  make  purchases  and  receive  subscriptions,  grants  and  do- 
nations of  personal  estate,  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars. 

And  be  it  further  enacted  that  the  said  Society  be,  and  they  are  hereby  authorized 
to  assemble  at  Bedford,  aforesaid,  on  the  last  Tuesday  in  February,  annually,  to 
choose  all  such  officers  as  may  be  found  necessary  for  the  orderly  conducting  the 
affairs  of  said  corporation  who  shall  continue  in  office  until  others  are  chosen  in 
their  room,  and  that  said  corporation  may  assemble  as  often  as  may  be  found  neces- 
sary for  filling  up  any  vacancies  which  may  happen  in  said  office  and  for  transact- 
ing all  other  business,  excepting  the  raising  of  money,  which  shall  always  be  done 
at  their  annual  meeting  and  at  no  other  time,  at  which  annual  meeting  they  shall 
vote  all  necessary  sums  for  defraying  the  annual  expense  of  said  library  and  for 
enlarging  the  same  and  shall  make  such  rules  and  by-laws  for  the  government  of 
said  corporation  as  may  by  them  be  found  necessary,  provided  the  same  be  not  re- 
pugnant to  the  constitution  and  laws  of  this  State. 

John  Orr  and  Adam  Smith  were  authorized  to  call  the  first  meeting.  This  act  was 
approved  June  16,  1802,  by  J.  T.  Oilman,  Governor. 


572  HISTORY  OP  BEDFORD. 

105  new  volumes  under  the  conditions  of  the  law  were  received, 
and  some  of  the  ladies  of  the  town  did  the  work  of  preparing  them 
for  distribution.  The  library  was  first  opened  to  the  public  February 
16,  1893,  with  Jasper  P.  George,  librarian.  He  continued  to  act 
efficiently  in  that  capacity  until  1898,  when  he  removed  from  town. 
He  was  succeeded  temporarily  by  Mrs.  Milton  P.  George,  his  son's 
wife,  and  later  the  same  year  by  Mrs.  Charles  P.  Woodbury,  who  is 
still  in  charge. 

During  the  nearly  ten  years  of  the  library's  history,  the  number 
of  volumes  in  its  possession  has  steadily  increased  from  242  at  the 
time  of  its  opening  to  about  1,200  volumes.  While  the  larger  num- 
ber have  been  through  purchase,  the  town  making  an  annual  volun- 
tary appropriation  for  the  purpose,  there  have  been  many  volumes 
acquired  by  donation  from  public- spirited  citizens  and  friends  of 
the  town.  The  books  have  been  stored  in  a  small  room  in  the  ves- 
try, made  suitable  and  fitted  for  library  purposes  in  1895. 


Slavery  in  Bedford. 


There  is  abundance  of  indisputable  evidence  that  there  were  slaves 
in  Bedford,  and  that  they  were  held  there  as  property  for  many 
years.  Some  of  the  earliest  settlers  had  such  property,  and  the  cen- 
sus of  1767,  made  for  the  province,  reports  under  the  caption  of 
slaves  in  Bedford,  six  males  and  three  females  ;  that  of  1775,  under 
the  head  of  "  Negroes  and  Slaves  for  Life,"  10.  What  proportion 
of  these  were  slaves  for  life  and  what  for  a  shorter  term  does  not 
appear. 

There  is  to  be  found  among  some  old  papers  relating  to  the  town, 
the  following  interesting  document,  which  reads  : 

"Boston,  Nov.  11,  1740.  Received  of  Mr.  Zechariah  Chand- 
ler 110  pounds  in  full  for  a  negro  boy,  sold  and  delivered  him  for  my 
master,  John  Jones. 

"(Signed)  William  Merchant,  Junr." 

It  is  easy  to  imagine  Mr.  Chandler  making  that  purchase.  At  the 
close  of  the  long  winter  on  his  farm,  he  goes  to  Boston  with  a  load 
of  such  merchandise  as  may  have  been  accumulated  by  himself  and 
the  women  of  his  family — woolen  and  linen  yarn,  homespun  cloth 
which  they  have  woven,  linen  towels  and  tablecloths,  butter  and 
cheese.  He  goes  by  boat  on  the  river  part  way,  or  by  sled  or  wagon. 
Having  disposed  of  his  load  of  produce,  it  occurs  to  him  that  a  slave 
might  be  used  to  advantage  in  clearing  up  his  farm.  Did  he  buy 
him  at  auction,  or  did  he  buy  him  of  Mr.  Jones  at  private  sale? 
Being  a  thrifty  man,  he  does  not  select  a  full  grown  slave,  but  a  boy, 
that  something  may  be  gained  from  his  development.  So  he  closes 
his  trade  with  Mr.  Jones'  clerk,  taking  the  slave  boy  along  to  his 
Bedford  home  when  he  returns.  How  he  was  cared  for  upon  arrival 
there  is  not  known.  Did  Mr.  Chandler  and  his  neighbors,  who  like 
him  held  slave  property,  build  a  cabin  for  them  apart  from  the  house, 
or  lodge  them  under  the  same  roof  as  the  family  ?  Probably  the 
latter.  Did  they  eat  at  the  family  table,  or  take  their  bowl  of  por- 
ridge by  themselves,  seated  upon  a  bench  in  the  corner?     Did  the 


574  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

adult  slave  wear  a  brass  collar  with  his  master's  name  upon  it,  as 
many  of  the  Southern  negroes  did  at  that  time  ?  Was  he  taught  to 
read  ?  Did  they  take  him  to  church  Sundays,  and  so  on  a  score  of 
queries  whose  answers  would  be  interesting  but  are  likely  never 
to  be  known. 

Just  who  of  Mr.  Chandler's  neighbors  and  fellow-townsmen  pos- 
sessed slaves  is  not  altogether  certain,  nor  where  the  ten  were  located 
in  1775.  James  Walker  was  a  slave  owner,  undoubtedly,  for  when 
he  died  in  1786,  mention  is  made  of  his  black  servant  Cato.  There 
were  slaves  in  the  Moore  family,  as  witness  Titus  Moore  who  was 
living  in  Bedford  as  late  as  1854.  Col.  Daniel  Moore  had  two  slaves, 
Peter  and  Dinah.  Peter  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  on  the 
River  road. 

In  a  sketch  of  Bedford,  prepared  by  Dr.  P.  P.  Woodbury  and  Al- 
fred Foster,  and  published  in  1824,  in  Vol.  1,  X.  H.  Hist.  Society's  Col- 
lections, it  is  stated  that  "  Primus  Chandler  was  a  man  of  color  "  who 
lost  his  life  at  the  battle  of  The  Cedars,  May  19,  1776.  Port  Cedars 
was  about  forty-five  miles  southwest  of  Montreal.  There  was  a 
Primus  Chandler  in  Bedford  and  his  wife  Flora,  and  they  had  two 
children,  Hannah  and  Eri.  The  question  arises  if  the  first  Primus 
was  not  the  father  of  the  Primus  Chandler,  who,  with  his  wife  Flora, 
lies  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  near  the  River  road.  The  second 
Primus  Chandler,  after  becoming  too  old  to  care  for  himself,  gave  up 
his  property  to  the  town  on  condition  that  it  provide  him  a  home  as 
long  as  he  live.  He  made  his  home  thereafter  at  the  town  poor 
farm.  After  his  death,  March  10,  1853,  Adam  Chandler  inquired  in 
town-meeting  if  any  of  this  property'  was  left  after  providing  for 
Primus'  support.  This  resulted  in  the  erection  of  a  suitable  tomb- 
stone, which  now  marks  his  grave,  the  town  paying  for  the  inscrip- 
tion. If  this  surmise  is  con-ect,  then  the  Primus  Chandler  who  lost 
his  life  in  our  War  for  Independence  was  possibly  the  slave  pur- 
chased by  Mr.  Zechariah  Chandler  as  recorded  above. 

There  was  Flora  Bell,  the  slave  of  John  Bell,  and  her  son  Ephraim 
Boston. 

A  black  boy,  "  Billy  Barnes  "  by  name,  lived  for  several  years  with 
Gardner  Xevins  on  Joppa  hill,  about  1845-1850.  It  is  related  of 
him  that  he  and  another  negro  boy  were  brought  from  Africa  to 
Boston  by  a  sea  captain  who  destined  them  for  slaves.  This  was 
after  slavery  was  prohibited  in  Massachusetts.  The  captain  was 
arrested  and  his  intended  slaves  forfeited.  Hon.  Isaac  ().  Barnes,  who 


SLAVERY   IN   BEDFORD.  575 

was  United  States  marshal  for  Massachusetts,  gained  possession  of 
this  boy  (hence  his  name,  Billy  Barnes)  and  placed  him  in  a  good 
home  with  Mr.  Nevins. 

Jesse  Hartwell  was  a  colored  man,  part  Indian  and  part  negro,  but 
he  was  not  a  slave.  He  lived  with  his  mother  and  two  sisters,  accu- 
mulating considerable  property,  owning  a  pew  in  Bedford  church, 
and  was  altogether  a  man"  of  considerable  responsibility.  He  once 
owned  a  part  of  the  farm  now  owned  by  Mr.  William  M.  Patten. 
A  short  time  before  his  death,  he  built  the  house  at  Goffe's  Falls 
now  occupied  by  Mr.  Julius  H.  Putnam.  He  was  the  first  man  to 
introduce  blooded  live  stock  into  the  town.  Jesse  Hartwell  was  an 
exceedingly  black  man;  very  tall,  straight,  and  fine  looking.  He 
walked  regularly  to  church,  and  attended  Sunday-school,  but  did 
not  sit  in  the  slaves'  pew,  probably  because  he  never  was  a  slave. 
He  occupied  a  pew  about  where  the  late  Stephen  Goffe  sat.T  He 
never  was  married. 

Titus  Moore  was  the  slave  of  Elder  William  Moore.  He  was  born 
in  1767,  and  died  September  27,  1854.  He  never  married.  After 
his  freedom  he  lived  at  Joseph  Patten's  most  of  the  time.  He  was 
an  erect,  good-looking  man,  much  respected  throughout  the  town. 
He  was  a  famous  teamster.  He  could  make  a  pair  of  cattle  pull  all 
they  could  and  a  little  more  if  he  wanted  them  to.  He  died  at  the 
poor  farm,  although  he  had  accumulated  quite  a  little  property.  In 
his  chest  several  packages  of  small  sums  of  currency  were  found  after 
his  death.  He  is  buried  in  the  South  yard.  The  town  erected  his 
gravestone  in  accordance  with  a  vote  in  town-meeting,  paying  for  it 
out  of  the  proceeds  of  money  Titus  had  left  to  the  town. 

The  slaves  were  industrious,  and  after  receiving  their  freedom 
acquired  some  property.  They  were  regular  attendants  at  church, 
where  they  occupied  the  "slaves'  pew,"  so  called.  This  was  the  back 
body  pew,  entered  from  the  north  aisle  of  the  church.  The  pew  is 
now  removed.  They  were  seen  occasionally  at  town-meeting.  Titus 
was  a  Whig,  and  Primus  a  Democrat  until  Jackson's  visit  to  New 
Hampshire  in  1888.  The  president  declined  to  recognize  the  black 
man's  salute  which  so  incensed  Primus  that  ever  after  he  refused  to 
vote  the  Democratic  ticket. 

An  interesting  letter  which  Colonel  Goffe  wrote  from  Penacook  to 
Governor  Wentworth  under  date  of  May  5,  1746,  says : 

1  One  of  the  congregation  objected  to  sitting  next  to  a  black  man,  and  on  that  ac- 
count Isaac  Atwood  exchanged  pews  with  him,  saying  that  he  considered  it  an  honor 
to  sit  near  a  black  man  in  church. 


576  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

The  white  man  that  is  killed  is  one  Thomas  Cooke  ;  the  other  is 
Mr.  Stevens,  the  minister's  negro. 

Goffe  had  been  sent  up  the  river  with  a  small  force  of  men  against 
some  troublesome  Indians.  The  inquiry  naturally  arises  why  he 
should  have  called  the  minister's  negro  "  Mr."  Was  it  because  he 
was  attached  to  so  distinguished  an  individual  as  a  minister  ?  It  is 
known  that  the  Rev.  Mr.  McGregore,  the  Londonderry  minister,  had 
a  slave,  so  that  it  seems  clear  that  there  was  no  very  strong  feeling 
in  New  Hampshire  against  the  owning  of  such  property  in  those 
days.  Some  of  our  most  well-to-do  and  progressive  settlers  owned 
slaves,  but  others  did  not. 

In  1714  a  law  of  the  province  was  passed  prohibiting  the  holding 
of  Indians  as  slaves,  but  nothing  was  said  with  regard  to  negroes. 

When  slavery  actually  ceased  to  exist  in  New  Hampshire  has  been 
the  subject  of  considerable  investigation  and  discussion  by  eminent 
historians  of  the  state.  In  Vol.  14  of  the  N.  II.  State  Bapers,  the 
editor,  Rev.  Nathaniel  Bouton,  treats  of  the  subject  at  some  length, 
and  maintains  that  (1)  while  slavery  was  never  established  by  au- 
thority of  law  in  New  Hampshire,  it  was  tolerated  and  regulated 
from  time  to  time  so  that  Indian  and  negro  servants  were  owned 
and  held  as  property.  (2)  That  the  effect  of  the  adoption  of  the  first 
and  second  articles  of  the  Bill  of  Rights  (1784)  was  the  abolition  of 
slavery  in  New  Hampshire,  whether  actually  designed  to  produce 
that  result  or  not.  In  support  of  this  he  cites  the  census  returns :  in 
the  enumeration  of  1767,  there  were  633  "  slaves  "  in  the  province ; 
in  1777,  the  number  of  "negroes  and  slaves  for  life  "was  657;  in 
1790,  six  years  after  the  adoption  of  the  state  constitution,  there  were 
158  "  slaves  ";  in  1800,  only  8 ;  none  in  1810  and  1820,  3  in  1830  and 
in  1840.  His  explanation  of  those  returned  after  1784,  is  that  a  por- 
tion of  them  remained  in  the  families  where  they  had  lived  and  were 
inadvertently  reckoned  as  slaves  by  the  enumerators,  "  no  discrimin- 
ation being  made  in  regard  to  condition,  though  actually  free."  A 
second  proof  cited  was  that  previous  to  the  adoption  of  the  constitu- 
tion, slaves  had  been  rated  and  taxed  to  their  owners,  but  such  prac- 
tice was  discontinued  soon  after.  A  new  proportion  for  taxation  was 
made  by  the  legislature  contemporaneously  with  the  making  of  the 
constitution ;  it  was  drafted  just  before  and  enacted  just  after.  It 
provided  for  a  tax  "  on  male  and  female  negroes  and  mulatto  servants 
from  16  to  45  years  of  age."  But  when  a  new  proportion  was  made 
in   1789,  this  item  was  omitted.     It  is  noted  that  when  this  latter 


SLAVERY   IN   BEDFORD.  577 

bill  was  submitted  it  contained  the  slave-taxing  provision,  but  in  the 
consideration  given  the  measure  that  item  was  stricken  out,  and  with 
its  enactment,  February  8,  1789,  "slaves  ceased  to  be  known  and 
held  as  property  in  New  Hampshire."  He  further  quotes  from  a 
letter  of  Judge  Charles  Doe,  of  December  6,  1875,  which  reads  : 

It  seems  to  me  that  a  statement  of  the  two  facts  that  slaves  were 
included  in  the  act  of  1784  and  were  by  an  erasure  of  the  Ms.  omit- 
ted in  the  act  of  1789 — intentionally  omitted — and  the  third  fact,  that 
they  were  taxed  as  property  to  their  masters  for  several  years  under 
the  act  of  1784,  and  probably  every  year  until  the  act  of  1789,  will 
throw  more  light  on  the  intention  of  New  Hampshire  to  abolish 
slavery  than  anything  else  there  is  in  print. 

When  the  agitation  for  national  abolition  was  in  progress,  the 
New  Hampshire  legislature,  in  1857,  passed  an  act  prohibiting 
slavery,  but  it  is  probable  that  this  was  done  for  the  moral  effect 
upon  the  cause,  rather  than  that  there  was  need  of  such  legislation 
in  this  state.     It  provided : 

That  neither  descent,  near  or  remote,  from  a  person  of  African 
blood,  whether  such  a  person  is  or  may  have  been  a  slave,  nor  color 
of  skin,  shall  disqualify  any  person  from  becoming  a  citizen  of  this 
state,  or  deprive  such  person  of  the  full  rights  and  privileges  of  a 
citizen  thereof. 

Sec.  2.  Any  slave  who  shall  come  or  be  brought  into  or  be  in  this 
state  with  the  consent  of  his  master  or  mistress,  or  who  shall  come 
or  be  brought  into  or  be  in  this  state  involuntarily  shall  be  free. 

It  was  provided  that  a  person  holding  or  attempting  to  hold  a 
person  in  slavery  should  be  guilty  of  felony,  and  be  confined  to  hard 
labor  for  a  term  of  not  less  than  one,  nor  more  than  five,  years.1 

1  The  following  interesting  document  was  found  among  the  papers  of  the  late  CoK 
Daniel  Moore,  and  is  pertinent  to  this  subject: 

Know  all  men  by  these  Presents,  that  I,  Robert  Griffin  of  Bedford,  in  the  County 
of  Hillsborough  and  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  Yeoman,  In  consideration  of  ihe 
sum  of  Thirteen  Pounds  and  six  pence.  Lawful  money.  Paid  b.v  Oapt.  Daniel  Moore 
of  the  aforesaid  Town,  County  and  Province,  The  Receipt  whereof  I  do  hereby 
acknowledge,  have  bargained.  Sold  and  by  these  Presents  do  Bargain.  Sell  and  Con- 
vey, unto  him,  the  said  Daniel  Moore,  a  certain  Negro  Boy  Slave,  Named  Bristo, 
about  Twenty-three  months  old:  a'so  a  cow  about  three  years  old  of  a  red  and 
white  color.  T>  have  and  to  hold  the  S  id  Negro  Slave  and  C>w,  unto  him  the  said 
Daniel  Moore,  his  Executors,  Administrators  and  Assigns,  for  ever.  And  the  said 
Robert  Griffin  do  hereby  Covenant  with  the  said  Daniel  Moore,  that  I  have  good 
right  to  sell  and  convey  the  Said  Negro  Slave  and  Cow.  in  manner  aforesaid,  and 
that,  until  the  delivery  hereof,  T  am  the  lawful  owner  of  the  Same.  And  that  I,  n>y 
Heirs,  Executors,  administrators  and  assigns,  Shall  and  will  forever  Warrant  the 
same  to  the  said  Daniel  Moore,  his  Executors,  administrators  and  assigns. 

In  witness  whereof,  I.  the  Said  Robert  Griffin,  have  hereunto  set  my  Hand  and 
Seal,  the  first  day  of  Nov.,  in  the  Fourteenth  year  of  his  Majesties  (King  Ceorge  the 
Third's)  Reign,  And  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  A.  D.  1773,  Signed.  Sealed  and  delivered. 

Robert  Griffin,  (L.  S.) 
In  presence  of 

Samuel  Marshall, 
John  Morrison. 

38 


Changes  in   Manners  and  Customs. 


The  customs  and  manners  of  the  early  settlers  of  Bedford  were 
much  the  same  as  those  of  other  pioneers  in  New  England.  The 
grant  was  covered  with  the  "  forest  primeval,"  a  condition  that  can 
be  realized  by  the  present  generation  only  through  aid  of  the  imagi- 
nation. The  growth  of  bushes  and  the  accumulation  of  fallen  brush 
from  trees  that  had  stood  for  scores  of  years  made  the  forests  almost 
impenetrable  except  as  the  paths  of  the  wild  beasts  which  then 
abounded,  or  their  fellow  occupants  of  the  country,  the  Indians, 
were  sought  out.  Here  and  there  upon  the  hills  and  knolls  might 
be  found  a  lighter  growth,  and  such  places  were  hit  upon  as  the 
most  inviting  for  "clearings,"  when  a  person  resolved  to  venture 
from  the  older  settlements.  Thus,  in  the  early  occupancy  of  the 
town,  we  find  Robert  Walker  locating  near  the  north  part,  although 
his  fellows  were  settled  near  the  Merrimack.  Of  course,  at  first, 
these  settlements  were  connected  only  by  a  bridle  path.  As  loca- 
tions in  new  places  were  selected  and  made,  these  increased  in 
number.  They  were  the  precursors  of  the  highways,  but  oftentimes 
long  in  advance.  No  beast  of  burden  accompanied  the  early  settlers, 
to  say  nothing  of  vehicles.  Whatever  was  transported  then  was 
**  packed  "  upon  the  back. 

The  method  of  living  was  then  primitive  and  simple  ;  the  woods 
abounded  in  game  and  the  river  with  fish,  Amoskeag  being  a  most 
famous  place  for  the  latter.  Domestic  meat  was  a  great  rarity  for 
many  years,  and  when  it  came  to  be  used  the  custom  of  "  exchange  " 
largely  prevailed.  When  a  settler  killed  a  veal  or  some  other  ani- 
mal for  meat  he  divided  it  among  his  neighbors,  who  made  a  similar 
distribution  and  return  when  they  had  an  animal  it  was  deemed  best 
to  slaughter,  the  poor  widow  always  having  a  piece  and  the  minister 
not  being  forgotten. 

When  a  neighbor  wished  for  help  to  break  up  his  ground  and  a 
number  of  yoke  of  oxen  were  necessary,  all  he  had  to  do  was  to  let 


CHANGES   IN  MANNERS  AND   CUSTOMS.  579 

it  be  known,  and  not  only  the  oxen  and  plough  could  be  had,  but  a 
man  to  drive.  The  inhabitants  generally  were  well  acquainted  with 
each  other, — their  circumstances  and  wants.  The  needy  and  desti- 
tute always  found  a  helper,  and  that,  too,  with  a  good  and  generous 
heart.  There  was  no  aristocracy, — all  considered  themselves  on  an 
equal  footing.  At  the  present  day,  though  there  is  in  this  town 
more  than  the  usual  equality  of  condition,  there  is  some  change  from 
former  years.  Our  grandmothers  were  robust,  hardy  women,  not 
unwilling  to  work  in  the  field,  reaping  grain,  etc.,  as  occasion  re- 
quired. Such  entries  as  the  following,  in  Matthew  Patten's  Journal, 
•ere  not  uncommon: 

August  20,  1763.  I  worked  at  the  meadow,  and  I  got  100  cocks 
this  week,  and  there  came  up  a  shower  about  the  middle  of  the 
afternoon,  and  catch ed  about  20  cocks  ready  for  raking.  This  week 
Alex'r  Orr's  wife  reaped  a  little  more  than  half  a  day. 

At  length  enough  clearing  would  be  made  to  put  into  culture  a 
little  corn,  but  it  had  not  become  so  plenty  seven  years  after  settle- 
ment but  that  settlers  felt  the  need  of  going  to  Penacook  "  to  buy 
corn."  It  was  such  a  mission  in  1744  that  Burns  and  McQuade 
were  upon  when  the  latter  was  killed  by  Indians  near  Sun  cook. 
During  the  earlier  years  of  corn  raising  the  only  method  of  crushing 
it  into  meal  was  by  hand  power  upon  a  hollowed  stone.  Soon  after 
the  town  was  incorporated,  however,  a  grist-mill  was  established, 
followed  by  many  others  before  the  century  closed. 

The  cultivation  of  crops  was  discouraging,  even  after  the  trees 
had  been  felled  and  the  timber  burned.  The  implements  were 
crude  and  few  in  kind.  Even  after  oxen  were  obtained,  the  ploughs 
were  of  simple  sort,  made  almost  entirely  of  wood,  with  the  merest 
iron  point,  and  mould  board  covered  with  bits  of  sheet  iron  to  make 
it  more  durable.  The  shovels  were  coarse  wooden  affairs,  and  the 
hoes,  the  most-used  farm  implement,  of  the  clumsiest  sort. 

The  situation  was  most  favorable  for  the  development  of  self- 
reliance,  and  the  settlers  were  industrious — the  industry  born  of 
ambition.  They  wished  to  hasten  the  day  when  the  log  hut  could 
be  succeeded  by  a  framed  dwelling,  to  rid  their  "  cleared  land "  of 
stumps  that  the  labor  of  cultivation  might  be  lessened,  and  they 
worked  with  a  will.  When  the  first  framed  dwelling  was  erected  in 
Bedford  is  unknown,  but  it  was  probably  by  James  Walker  or  Sam- 
uel Patten.  There  were  many  obstacles  in  the  path  of  progress. 
The  Indians  of  the  neighborhood  were  not  on  the  friendliest  of  terms. 


580  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

Relations  with  earlier  settlers  of  the  white  race  in  New  England  had 
developed  their  earnest  hostility.  The  proprietors  of  Souhegan  East 
had  laid  out  the  "  home  lots  "  upon  the  banks  of  the  stream  up  and 
down  which  the  Indians  were  wont  to  travel  in  their  journeyings 
between  Dunstable  and  Pawtucket  on  the  south  to  Penacook  and 
Winnipiseogee  on  the  north.  In  1740,  the  "old"  French  and  In- 
dian war  was  declared,  only  three  years  after  the  Walker  brothers 
came  to  reside  permanently  in  Bedford  as  the  first  settlers.  In  1744, 
the  expedition  from  New  England  to  Cape  Breton  was  started,  and 
a  decade  later  one  to  Crown  Point,  to  both  of  which  Bedford  con- 
tributed. From  the  earliest,  then,  the  Indians  were  a  constant 
menace.  There  was  reason  for  the  ever-present  fear  of  attack  from 
these  vengeful  savages.  For  better  security  the  Bedford  settlers 
built  four  and  perhaps  five  garrison  houses.  One  was  on  the  Robert 
Walker  farm  in  the  north  part  of  the  town,  another  on  the  Goffe 
farm,  and  a  third  on  the  Samuel  Patten  place.  It  is  also  said  that 
there  was  a  fourth,  on  the  James  Walker  (father  of  Josiah)  place. 
The  fifth  was  on  the  Orr  place. 

Whether  to  work  or  to  meeting,  the  settlers  went  armed,  and  upon 
hooks  on  the  kitchen  wall  always  hung  the  shot-gun,  ready  for  in- 
stant use. 

The  clothing  was  all  home  made.  Each  settler  raised  his  "  patch  " 
of  flax  and  in  the  care  of  it  many  of  them  became  expert.  It  had  to 
be  pulled,  rotted,  broke,  swingled  and  combed,  ready  for  the  work  of 
spinning,  at  which  the  women  of  the  family  were  skilled  ;  after  be- 
ing woven  it  was  washed  and  bleached  for  the  finer  garments.  The 
boys  wore  tow  trousers  and  short  frocks.  The  securing  of  woolen 
garments  was  at  first  more  difficult,  as  the  growing  sheep  suffered 
much  from  the  wild  animals  that  pervaded  the  forest.  A  failure 
here  meant  the  securing  of  wool  from  some  of  the  settlers  of  older 
towns,  for  some  woolen  clothing  was  necessary  for  the  winter 
months.  The  wool  was  usually  carded  by  the  women,  who  also 
spun,  wove,  and  "  made  up  "  the  cloth.  For  common  use,  it  was  of 
color  known  as  "  sheep's  gray."  It  was  made  of  black  and  white 
wool  mixed,  but  some  of  it  was  dyed  by  the  use  of  bark  or  as  it  be- 
came possible  to  secure  it,  indigo.  Then  much  use  was  made  of  the 
skins  of  animals  for  caps,  and  even  trousers  for  the  severer  cold 
weather. 

The  food  of  the  settlers  was  necessarily  very  plain  from  the  con- 
ditions above  outlined.     Game  and  fish  were  procurable,  but  there 


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was  little  of  pastry.  Corn  bread  made  from  coarse  meal  was  in  use 
and  rye  gradually  came  to  supplement  it.  The  common  food  was 
rye  and  Indian  mixed ;  but  wheat  flour  was  long  a  luxury ;  it  was 
used  chiefly  on  Thanksgiving  day  and  other  festival  occasions.  Bean 
porridge  was  a  most  useful  dish.  Broths  were  the  common  food, 
particularly  barley  broth,  which  was  the  food  for  morning,  noon,  and 
night,  at  some  seasons  of  the  year.  Milk  was  quite  a  luxury ;  tea 
and  coffee  were  rarities  seldom  enjoyed.  The  favorite  dish  was 
Haggis  pudding.  It  was  made  of  a  sheep's  stomach,  which  was 
carefully  cleaned  and  filled  with  various  other  internal  organs  of  the 
animal.     Then  the  pudding  was  served  up  and  boiled. 

There  was  much  uncertainty  attending  the  farm  crops.  There 
was  always  a  plenty  to  do  for  the  sustenance  of  the  family.  No 
occasion  for  savings  banks  in  those  days.  The  men  constantly  held 
themselves  in  readiness  to  respond  to  go  against  the  enemy,  whether 
the  threatening  was  on  the  very  borders  of  the  settlement  or  as  re- 
mote as  Cape  Breton  or  Crown  Point. 

In  old  times  there  was  a  custom  of  digging  pits  or  caves  in  a  dry, 
warm  spot,  in  a  pasture  or  near  the  woods,  about  four  feet  deep  and 
four  feet  wide.  They  were  frequently  longer  than  this.  Into  this 
pit  were  put  all  kinds  of  vegetables  and  fruits,  such  as  potatoes,  cab- 
bages, apples,  etc.,  for  preservation  during  the  winter.  A  layer  of 
plank,  with  a  covering  of  earth  a  foot  or  more  in  depth,  was  put  on 
top,  and  a  hole  was  left  for  ventilation.  There  may  still  be  seen 
three  specimens  of  these  pits  about  ten  rods  north  of  the  cemetery  at 
the  Center,  in  Mr.  John  A.  Riddle's  pasture.  They  were  probably 
used  by  Isaac  Riddle,  senior. 

When  other  less  pressing  needs  had  been  attended  to  work  was 
put  in  upon  making  the  bridle  paths  into  highways.  The  bridle  path 
was  broadened  by  felling  and  clearing  away  the  trees,  and  then  the 
stumps. 

This  accounts  for  the  lack  of  regularity  in  direction  of  the  estab- 
lished highways.  Farmers  with  their  wives  on  pillions  behind  them, 
rode  to  meeting  on  horseback.  The  earlier  transportation  from  one 
place  to  another  of  commodities  too  bulky  or  too  heavy  to  be  taken 
upon  horseback,  was  by  a  heavy  sort  of  ox  sled  over  the  bare  ground. 
Following  the  "  one-horse  shay,"  with  its  two  wheels  and  long  thills, 
came  two-wheeled  carts.  Light  wagons  did  not  come  into  use  until 
after  1800  ;  at  first  the  body  sat  directly  upon  the  axles ;  then  came 
the  leather  "thorough  braces,"  to  be  succeeded  by  the  steel  springs 


582  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

which  alone  have  been  familiar  to  the  present  generation.  The  first 
wagon  was  owned  by  Stephen  French,  and  Seth  Page  obtained  the 
second  from  Samuel  Hodge  of  Francestown. 

The  matter  of  fire  and  light  was  a  constant  care  in  those  days- 
The  means  of  warmth  was  the  huge  fireplace  with  its  back  log  and 
fore  log ;  many  houses  were  so  constructed  that  this  fuel  could  be 
drawn  directly  into  the  kitchen  with  a  horse  to  a  point  whence  it 
could  be  handily  rolled  into  place.  The  boys  roamed  the  woods  for 
pitch  knots,  or  gathered  birch  bark  to  furnish  light  so  that  work  could 
be  carried  on  or  reading  be  done  when  darkness  had  come  on. 
Many  a  scholar  of  Bedford  who  has  afterwards  become  distinguished 
in  public  and  private  life  has  studied  his  lessons  by  this  light.  This 
means  of  illumination  was  followed  by  the  "  tallow  dip,"  and  after 
many  years  by  the  whale  oil  lamp.  A  constant  care  was  the  keeping 
of  "  live  coals  ";  the  fire  once  out  it  became  necessary  to  go  to  some 
neighbors,  however  great  the  distance,  to  secure  fire.  That  was 
simpler  than  to  start  a  blaze  by  means  of  the  steel  and  flint,  or  other 
means  of  originating  fire.  Lucifer  matches  did  not  come  into  use 
until  about  1830. 

The  means  of  measuring  time  were  primitive  in  those  days.  Water 
clocks  were  rare  and  hour  glasses  were  unreliable  unless  turned  on 
the  instant.  Some  families  had  a  sun-dial,  but  others  had  a  noon 
mark  on  the  window-sill,  which  latter  was  most  generally  relied  upon. 
Tallow  candles  were  also  used  to  mark  the  passage  of  time.  It  was 
easily  learned  how  long  a  candle  of  a  certain  size  would  burn. 

The  devices  resorted  to  in  cooking  were  as  remarkable,  from  the 
standpoint  of  a  twentieth  century  citizen.  There  was  the  green  hard- 
wood stick  or  "  lug  pole  "  over  the  fireplace,  followed  by  the  iron 
crane  with  pot  hooks  and  trammel  for  meeting  the  needs  of  boiling. 
The  roasts  were  hung  by  a  stout  cord  from  the  oaken  mantelpiece, 
and  turned  constantly  by  one  of  the  children  until  cooked.  The 
baking  was  done  in  the  hot  ashes,  while  a  long  legged  spider  made 
cooking  by  frying  possible.  Then  came  the  "  Dutch  ovens  "  of  stone 
and  clay  out  of  doors  ;  next  the  tin  oven,  and  later  still  the  great  brick 
oven,  long  before  stoves  were  successfully  constructed. 

Following  the  work  of  clearing  came  the  building  of  stone  walls, 
no  year  being  allowed  to  pass  by  an  enterprising  farmer  that  several 
rods  of  such  permanent  fence  were  not  added  to  enclose  his  holdings. 

Those  days  were  not  lacking  in  sociability.  The  women  met  at 
a  neighbor's  house  from  time  to  time  and  carded  wool  or  spun  flax, 


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or  may  be  it  was  a  quilting,  the  men  folks  joining  them  for  the  even- 
ing; after  a  supper  of  baked  beans,  all  returned  to  their  homes, 
drawn  by  the  ox  team  driven  by  the  farmer  of  the  company  living 
farthest  away  from  the  place  of  assembly. 

The  people  of  those  days  were  not  notably  abstemious  as  regards 
strong  drink.  Before  tea  and  coffee  or  the  accepted  beverages  of  the 
present  day  became  in  any  way  common  or  their  use  general,  intoxi- 
cants were  comparatively  plenty.  A  supply  of  New  England  rum  was 
regarded  as  necessary,  after  the  farms  became  well  established,  for  the 
task  of  haying,  or  any  other  work  requiring  close  application  or  an 
unusual  force  of  men,  as  the  raising  of  a  building,  the  construction  of 
a  road,  or  the  burning  of  a  clearing.  When  it  was  voted  to  repair  a 
certain  road  in  town  it  was  provided,  as  the  town  records  show,  that 
"  a  gallon  of  rum  for  every  $20  "  of  the  appropriation  should  be  fur- 
nished. And  until  near  the  middle  of  the  last  century,  the  records 
of  the  town  contain  the  record  of  the  granting  of  innholders  licenses 
to  several  citizens  each  year  with  the  privilege  of  dispensing  drams. 
This  custom  of  using  intoxicants  was  so  widespread  as  to  attend 
church  affairs ;  so  much  was  this  so  that  it  was  deemed  worthy  of 
note  when  the  "new  meeting-house"  was  raised  in  1832,  that  no 
intoxicating  liquors  were  furnished.  Cider  mills  were  numerous 
throughout  the  town,  following  closely  the  time  that  the  apple  or 
pear  orchards  reached  the  bearing  stage. 

Changes  have  taken  place  at  the  present  day,  some  for  the  better 
and  some  for  the  worse.  Customs  used  to  prevail  of  which  it  may 
be  said,  "They  were  more  honored  in  the  breach  than  the  observ- 
ance." Of  these,  one  was  having  ardent  spirits  at  funerals,  a  prac- 
tice that  was  once  almost  universal.  It  is  said  that  at  the  funeral  of 
Major  Goffe,  a  barrel  of  rum  was  set  out  before  the  house  for  all  to 
help  themselves,  and  it  was  all  gone  before  night. 

Then  with  regard  to  the  Sabbath,  it  was  formerly  better  observed 
than  now.  The  following  article  appears  in  the  town-meeting  war- 
rant for  1779:  "As  for  some  time  past  the  Sabbath  has  been  greatly 
profaned  by  persons  travelling  with  burthens  upon  the  same,  when 
there  is  no  necessity  for  it, — to  see  whether  the  town  will  not  try  to 
provide  some  remedy  for  the  same,  for  the  future."  Catechistical 
instruction  in  families  and  schools,  now  so  much  neglected,  then  gen- 
erally prevailed,  while  now  the  Sabbath-school  system  presents  some 
advantages  not  then  enjoyed. 

It  is  related  of  Deacon  Orr,  father  of  the  late  John  Orr,  Esq.,  a  man 


584  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

remarkable  for  Scotch  wit  and  fondness  for  joke,  that  at  one  time  he 
went  to  Boston  to  sell  his  butter  and  other  produce,  and  having  got 
through  at  the  close  of  the  day  and  being  greatly  fatigued,  he  put  up 
at  a  place  of  entertainment  in  Boston,  and  being  asked  what  he  would 
have  for  supper,  spoke  of  his  fatigue,  and  said  he  would  like  some- 
thing to  restore  his  spirits.  The  landlady  suggested  a  cup  of  tea 
would  be  good  for  him,  which  he  readily  accepted,  and  of  which  he 
drank  several  cups.  After  he  had  done  the  lady  said  it  was  custom- 
ary to  turn  the  cup  upside  down  to  signify  no  more  was  wanted.  He 
apologized,  and  said  he  would  remember  it.  The  next  morning,  in- 
stead of  a  cup  of  tea,  he  took  at  breakfast  a  bowl  of  bread  and  milk, 
and  not  wanting  the  whole,  he  finished  and  then  turned  the  bowl 
upside  down  with  the  contents  on  the  table.  The  hostess  adminis- 
tered a  severe  reprimand,  but  he  pleasantly  replied  she  must  not 
blame  him  for  following  her  direction. 

There  is  another  anecdote  related  of  the  same  man  who  so  sadly 
misunderstood  the  Boston  landlady.  People  then  were  less  scrupu- 
lous in  the  use  of  language  than  now.  On  one  occasion  some  words 
escaped  him  that  were  thought  highly  out  of  character,  and  they  got 
to  the  ears  of  the  minister ;  one  said  to  another,  I  must  certainly  re- 
buke him  for  using  such  terms.  The  other  said  you  had  better  let 
Orr  alone.  However,  on  one  occasion,  when  several  of  the  clergy 
were  together,  and  Deacon  Orr  among  them,  one  of  them  repri- 
manded him  for  the  objectionable  language.  "How  could  you  suffer 
yourself  to  speak  so?  Why  was  it?"  The  expression  was  men- 
tioned to  him.  "  And  what  o'  that,"  said  he,  "  d'ye  expect  me  to  be 
a'  spirit  and  nae  flesh  ?" 

The  murder  of  McQuade  by  Indians  has  been  alluded  to.  Burns, 
the  survivor,  had  to  bear  occasionally  the  ridicule  of  one  of  his  neigh- 
bors, who  called  in  question  his  courage  in  this  affair.  He  intimated 
that  Burns'  imagination  had  conjured  up  the  Indians,  or,  perad ven- 
ture, if  it  was  by  Indians  they  were  squaws — not  warriors.  At  one 
time,  one  Caldwell  threw  this  up  to  Burns  at  his  house.  "Well, 
well,  perhaps  you  may  yet  be  scared  by  Indians — squaws  or  not." 
Very  soon  Caldwell  set  out  for  home ;  it  was  just  on  the  edge  of 
evening.  He  had  no  sooner  gone  than  Burns  took  down  his  wig, 
and  putting  it  on  followed  Caldwell.  He  soon  approached  him,  and 
stepping  cautiously,  broke  the  dry  twigs  off  as  he  passed  along; 
Caldwell,  hearing  the  sound,  immediately  suspected  it  was  an  In- 
dian, and  jumped  into  the  bushes,  where  he  stood  still;  Burns  did 


CHANGES   IN   MANNERS   AND  CUSTOMS.  585 

the  same.  Caldwell  ventured  out,  and  looking  round  very  circum- 
spectly, moved  on  again ;  Burns,  too,  stepped  out  and  moved  on 
after  him,  breaking  more  twigs  off  as  he  passed  along.  The  moment 
Caldwell  heard  the  steps  of  the  supposed  Indian  he  would  dart  into 
the  bushes,  and  Burns  would  do  the  same.  At  last,  Caldwell  could 
endure  it  no  longer,  and  he  set  out  on  the  run  at  the  top  of  his 
speed.  In  getting  to  the  nearest  house  he  had  to  pass  a  small  brook, 
over  which  was  a  single  square  stick  of  timber,  which  served  for 
foot  passengers  to  pass  over  without  getting  wet.  But  Caldwell  took 
the  safe  cut,  and  terror  giving  wings  to  his  speed,  went  directly 
through  the  brook  at  two  bounds,  up  the  bank,  and  into  the  house  of 
his  friends,  about  four  rods  off.  When  fairly  in,  and  as  soon  as  he 
could  get  his  breath,  he  cried  out,  "Where's  the  gun?"  There 
happened  to  be  only  a  single  person  in  the  house  at  the  time,  a 
female.  "I  say — give  me  the  gun,  I  have  seen  a  thousand  Indians 
in  the  woods ;  they  will  be  here  in  a  moment."  On  this,  in  came  the 
owner,  making  serious  inquiries  what  was  the  matter.  "  Oh,"  said 
Caldwell,  "  I  have  just  come  from  Burns',  and  1  have  seen  a  thou- 
sand Indians,  and  they  will  be  here  in  a  moment ;  no  doubt  they  are 
now  looking  through  the  cracks  of  the  house."  "Oh,"  said  Moor, 
the  owner  of  the  house,  "it's  nothing  else,  Caldwell,  but  Burns,  who 
is  making  a  fool  of  you ;  come  with  me  down  to  the  brook,  and  I 
have  no  doubt  you  '11  see  him."  To  cut  the  story  short,  the  result 
was  that  Burns  was  never  troubled  with  any  more  slurs  on  his  valor. 
There  was  a  great  deal  of  primitive  simplicity  and  warmhearted- 
ness among  the  first  settlers.  They  were  principally  established 
near  the  river,  but  John  Orr  (already  mentioned),  Benjamin  Smith, 
and  William  Moor  selected  farms  west  of  Strawberry  Hill.  Being 
separated  from  the  main  settlement  by  miles  of  dense  forest,  they 
were  warmly  attached  to  each  other,  and  as  Mr.  Orr  had  not  been 
accustomed  to  labor  in  his  native  country,  he  would  have  found  it 
difficult  to  get  along  with  his  work  if  his  more  skilful  neighbors  had 
not  cheerfully  lent  him  assistance.  "  Indeed,"  said  Catherine,  wife 
of  Benjamin  Smith,  more  than  sixty  years  afterwards,  "  I  am  sure 
Billy  and  Ben  never  grudged  the  time  they  spent  helping  John  On- 
to clear  his  land,  for  he  was  a  father  to  us  all,  and  they  were  never 
with  him  without  hearing  something  that  did  them  good.  When 
there  was  any  difficulty,  we  were  all  but  one  family;  we  were 
healthy  and  contented  ;  the  only  thing  we  missed  was  our  sanctuary 
privileges.     We  could  seldom  hear  a  single  sermon  without  going 


586  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

to  Londonderry.  But  we  did  na'  always  stay  at  home.  Annis  Orr 
[grandmother  of  Rev.  Silas  Aiken]  and  I  carried  my  Robert  in  our 
arms  when  he  was  ten  months  old,  traveling  on  foot,  to  Mr.  Mc- 
Gregor's meeting ;  Ben  went  with  us,  but  he  did  us  little  good,  for 
he  was  not  worth  a  fig  to  carry  a  bairn.  It  was  a  weary  journey, 
but  we  had  a  good  will  to  the  way,  and  were  never  a  hair  the  worse 
for  it.  We  had  a  day's  preaching  once  in  a  while  in  some  barn.  In 
one  instance,  Margaret  Orr  left  her  children  at  home  and  went  with 
John  to  meeting ;  but  she  got  no  good  of  the  sermon  for  thinking 
of  the  little  ones  she  had  left  at  home.  '  They  might  be  careless, 
and  tittle-tottle  down  to  the  brook,  and  fall  in  and  be  drowned ;  I  '11 
not  do  so  again,'  said  she.  The  next  Sabbath,  John,  and  such  of  the 
children  as  were  able,  went  to  meeting,  and  Margaret  stayed  at  home 
to  take  care  of  the  baby ;  and  taking  her  Bible  to  read  a  little,  the 
child  slipped  out  and  was  gone.  As  soon  as  she  missed  it  she  ran 
to  the  brook,  but  it  was  too  late.  She  could  only  wade  into  the 
water  and  draw  it  out,  take  it  in  her  arms,  carry  it  home,  a  corpse, 
and  watch  in  silence  till  the  meeting  was  done." 

The  above  information  is  from  the  late  Miss  Ann  Orr,  who  had  it 
from  the  lips  of  old  Mrs.  Smith.  The  following,  from  the  same 
source,  is  a  graphic  sketch  of  the  death-bed  scene  of  a  good  man.  In 
1752,  John  Orr  was  seized  with  a  malignant  fever;  he  seemed  to  be 
aware  that  this  might  be  his  last  sickness.  "  He  sent  for  us  all," 
said  the  venerable  Mrs.  Smith,  when  she  was  more  than  eighty 
years  of  age,  "and  we  gathered  around  his  dying  bed,  and  there 
was  mourning  there,  such  mourning  as  could  not  now  be  heard 
around  the  death-bed  of  a  father.  He  took  Matthew  Patten  by  the 
hand  and  told  him  that  he  must  now  take  his  place  in  town  affairs. 
1  See  that  the  records  are  fairly  kept,  and  everything  done  in  an 
orderly  manner.'  He  gave  each  one  of  us  such  advice  as  he  knew 
we  needed."  "And  you  remember  it  yet,  I  suppose  ?  "  said  Miss  Orr. 
"How  can  I  e'er  forget  it?  Tis  the  last  thing  I  shall  think  of  in 
this  world,  if  I  have  my  senses." 

Mr.  Orr  was,  no  doubt,  a  fine  specimen  of  a  shrewd,  pious,  plain- 
hearted  Scotchman,  such  as  Scott  has  represented  the  father  of 
Jeannie  Deans,  in  the  "  Heart  of  Mid-Lothian." 

In  the  early  days  great  flocks  of  wild  pigeons  used  to  fly  over  the 
town.  The  season  of  their  flight  was  northward  in  April  and  May 
to  the  woods  of  Maine,  where  they  mated  and  hatched  their  young. 
In  the  fall  they  flew  southward,  usually  about  October.     Sometimes 


CHANGES   IN   MANNERS   AND   CUSTOMS.  587 

stray  birds  remained  during  the  summer  and  nested  here,  but  the 
greater  quantity  came  and  went  in  the  summer  and  fall.  They 
were  caught  in  great  numbers  with  nets  spread  over  "beds"  or 
"pigeon  stands,"  which  may  be  described  as  follows:  A  piece  of 
ground  about  ten  feet  long  and  fifteen  feet  wide  was  selected, 
usually  in  an  opening  near  the  woods,  and  from  it  the  turf  was- 
entirely  removed.  Tall,  dead  trees  were  cut  down  and  set  into  the 
ground  along  two  sides.  The  pigeoner  then  visited  the  bed  at 
intervals,  and  scattered  about  on  it,  as  bait,  buckwheat  or  corn,  so 
that  the  birds  might  be  accustomed  to  find  there  a  supply  of  food. 
They  would  gather  on  the  dead  trees,  and  come  down  in  flocks  to 
feed.  When  the  birds  had  been  well  baited  for  a  week  or  ten  days 
— the  length  of  time  varied  with  different  pigeoners — the  net  was 
"set."  This  was  done  as  follows:  The  net  was  attached  by  one  of 
its  long  sides  to  the  ground  on  one  edge  of  the  bed.  A  spring  pole 
about  five  feet  high  was  set  in  the  ground  on  a  line  with  the  other 
side,  and  some  thirty  feet  from  the  corner,  from  which  a  rope  ran 
through  the  loose  edge  of  the  net  to  the  other  pole,  which  was 
erected  at  about  the  same  distance  from  the  first  corner  in  a  bough 
house,  or  shelter  made  of  boughs,  where  the  pigeoner  was  concealed. 
Before  he  hid  himself,  he  gathered  back  the  loose  edge  of  his  net  by 
bending  down  the  spring  poles  at  each  corner  where  the  net  was 
fastened.  A  forked  stick  or  flier  about  three  feet  long  was  laid 
horizontal,  and  braced  at  the  butt  end  by  a  hub  driven  into  the 
ground,  the  forked  end  being  placed  on  the  rope  and  lightly  fastened 
to  it.  The  purpose  of  the  flier  was  to  raise  the  loose  side  of  the  end 
so  that  when  it  was  sprung  it  would  pass  over  the  birds  as  it  fell. 
When  a  sufficient  number  of  birds  had  gathered  on  the  bed,  a  slight 
pull  on  the  rope  loosened  its  fastenings,  the  poles  sprang  up  straight, 
and  the  net,  flying  over  the  birds,  caught  them.  In  order  to  induce 
the  birds  to  come  down  from  the  pigeon  stand  on  to  the  bed,  a 
"  stool  pigeon,"  or  "  hoverer,"  was  used.  This  was  the  name  given 
to  a  bird  caught  alive,  and  whose  eyes  were  sewed  up.  After  this 
he  was  fastened  to  one  end  of  a  stick  some  eight  feet  long,  and  the 
other  end  was  so  fixed  into  the  ground  as  to  allow  the  end  where 
the  bird  was  to  rise  or  fall  as  he  was  lifted  by  a  cord  running  to  the 
bough  house.  The  bird  was  raised  by  the  cord  fastened  to  the  end 
of  the  stick  to  which  he  was  bound,  the  other  end  of  the  stick  rest- 
ing on  its  swivel  end,  his  fluttering  attracted  the  birds  on  the  stand, 
and  they  would  fly  down  more  quickly.     Sometimes  a  whole  flock 


588  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD.      . 

which  was  flying  over  would  be  induced  to  alight  in  this  way. 
From  twenty-five  to  thirty  dozen  were  frequently  caught  at  one 
haul. 

Among  the  men  who  were  noted  pigeoners  were  :  David  Sprague, 
Nathan  Kendall,  Daniel  H.  Ferguson,  David  Stevens,  Thomas  Har- 
ris, Elijah  Atwood,  and  Samuel  E.  Morrison,  who  was  the  last  man 
iu  town  to  catch  the  birds  in  this  way.  Shooting  the  birds  on  the 
stands  put  an  end  to  catching  them  by  nets.  When,  also,  people 
here  ceased  to  raise  grain  in  any  quantity,  the  birds  had  no  induce- 
ment to  come,  and  were  found  afterward  in  the  western  country. 
The  last  of  pigeoning  in  Bedford  was  about  1865  or  1870.  When 
taken  the  birds  were  usually  thin  in  flesh,  so  that  usually  they  were 
brought  home  alive  from  the  beds  and  fattened  on  corn  and  water 
for  about  two  weeks  in  a  pigeon  house;  then  they  were  killed, 
picked,  and  taken  to  Boston  to  market,  where  they  sold  at  from  nine 
shillings  to  two  dollars  a  dozen.  As  many  as  a  thousand  dozen 
were  caught  here  in  one  season. 

Early  Settlement  of  Ohio. 

Senator  Hoar  said  of  this  settlement  "  that  it  was  one  of  the  very 
greatest  in  the  history  of  liberty — the  saving  that  vast  territory  from 
which  afterwards  came  five  mighty  states  to  freedom  forever." 

It  was  but  shortly  after  the  declaration  of  peace  after  the  Revo- 
lution that  the  attention  of  New  Englanders  was  turned  to  the  fer- 
tile lands  of  the  "Ohio  country."  In  the  spring  of  1788  a  colony 
of  several  families  started  thence  from  Bedford,  N.  H.,  and  settled 
at  Marietta,  the  first  settlement  of  which  (the  oldest  in  Ohio)  was 
commenced  that  year.  Other  families  followed  the  next  spring,  and 
it  had  already  become  known  as  "  the  city  of  Marietta." 

Passes  or  licenses  were  issued  to  those  immigrants  by  the  local 
authorities,  setting  forth  as  follows  : 

To  all  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come,  greeting.  Know  ye 
that  the  Bearer  hereof  David  Patten  is  a  Native  of  the  Town  of 
Bedford  in  the  County  of  Hillsborough  and  State  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

His  moral  conduct  has  been  so  circumspect  that  for  aught  we 
know  he  deserves  the  character  of  a  sobei",  honest,  and  inoffensive 
man,  and  may  be  received  into  the  communion  by  any  Christian 
society  or  family  without  fear  or  dread  of  harm,  and  whereas  that 
he  now  entertains  a  desire  to  travel  from  hence  to  Pittsburg  and  the 
adjacent  country  on  the  Ohio  river,  we  hereby  grant  him  license  and 
recommend  to  all  civil  officers  and  others  to  let  him  pass  and  repass 


CHANGES  IN  MANNERS  AND  CUSTOMS.  589 

unmolested,  as  they  would  any  free  citizen  of  the   United   States 
worthy  of  this,  his  character. 

Given  at  Bedford  this  17th  day  of  May  A.  D.  1788. 

Willm  Moor  Junr. 
Jesse  Worcester, 
Stephen  Dole, 

Selectmen. 

One  of  the  selectmen,  Jesse  Worcester,  was  father  of  the  lexi- 
cographer Worcester.  Upon  the  back  of  the  license  was  endorsed : 
All  civil  magistrates  of  the  United  States  unto  whom  the  bearer 
hereof  may  have  occasion  to  make  application  are  requested  to 
permit  him  to  pass  and  repass  agreeable  to  the  within  commenda- 
tion. 

Signed  by  us  for  that  intent,  in  behalf  of  respected  counties  and 
towns  to  which  we  belong. 

For  County  of  Hillsborough, 

John  Orr, 

Just.  Peace. 
For  county  of  Middlesex, 

Parker  Varxum, 
Justice  of  Peace. 

For  some  reason  the  person  named  in  the  above  license  did  not 
set  out  as  was  intended,  but  his  brother,  James  Patten,  a  late  Revo- 
lutionary soldier,  and  others  from  Bedford,  did  set  out. 

The  difficulty  of  conveying  intelligence  between  the  different  sec- 
tions of  country  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that  a  letter  written 
in  June,  1789,  declares : 

"  I  gladly  embrace  the  opportunity  to  send  you  a  line  pr  Robert 
Walker,  being  the  first  I  have  had  since  you  removed  from  Bedford. 
We  have  earnestly  expected  a  line  from  you  before  this  time.  We 
had  account,  by  the  way,  of  Doctor  Donar  of  Roxberry,  who  met 
them  on  Aleganie  Mountain  on  their  journey,"  and  "  by  a  letter  from 
Joseph  McAlpine,"  and  "  an  account  following  the  spring  by  Capt. 
Dodge  of  Windham  in  the  Bay  Government." 

June  12,  1789,  Lieutenant  Smith  and  family,  of  Bedford,  set  off 
for  the  Ohio.  The  news  was :  "  The  youngsters  are  doing  as  we  are 
told  will  be  at  the  last  day — marrying  and  giving  in  marriage."  In 
1790,  Ensign  Patterson  arrived  from  the  West,  bringing  a  letter. 
He  told  Mr.  Patten  that  he  thought  his  son  James  wanted  a  fine 
shirt,  which  he  proposed  to  carry  to  him.  His  father  wrote  a  letter, 
December  1,  1790,  saying ~\ 


590  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

"  We  have  no  linen  at  present  to  make  one  of.  We  called  on  Rob- 
ert Spear  for  the  linen  he  owes  you,  and  he  has  none,  but  promised 
he  will  pay  the  cloath  in  the  spring.  He  would  have  let  me  have 
his  own  shirt,  but  it  is  much  worn  with  divers  patches  and  holes 
that  need  patches,  which  I  would  not  take  for  I  think  it  is  only  fit  to 
make  baby  things  of." 

The  following  year,  1791,  word  came  that  one  of  the  early  colo- 
nists from  Bedford,  James  Patten,  who  had  been  -a  soldier  in  the 
Revolution,  with  Isaac  Choat  of  Liester,  in  the  county  of  Worcester, 
and  three  others,  were  taken  prisoners  by  the  Indians  and  marched 
or  taken  to  an  Indian  town  about  150  miles  from  Detroit.  The 
march  was  made  in  the  month  of  January,  and  the  prisoners 
"  stripped  almost  as  naked  as  they  were  born,  in  that  inclement  sea- 
son of  the  year,  besides  being  much  beat  and  abused."  Mr.  Choat 
escaped  and  came  to  Bedford  to  inform  the  parents  of  the  captive 
of  his  situation,  and  "  he  supposed  he  could  be  purchased  from  the 
Indians  for  $100." 

The  father,  Matthew  Patten,  had  been  an  active  business  man, 
well  known  throughout  the  whole  state  as  a  land  surveyor,  justice 
of  the  peace,  one  of  the  committee  of  safety,  judge  of  probate  for 
the  county  of  Hillsborough,  representative  to  the  general  court,  etc., 
yet,  owing  to  the  hard  times  following  so  shortly  after  the  Revolu- 
tion, he  was  unable  to  raise  the  requisite  sum  without  making  an 
appeal  to  his  friends  as  follows : 

And  being  moved  by  paternal  affection  as  well  as  humanity,  I 
have  used  my  utmost  endeavors  to  borrow  the  money,  but  have  not 
been  able  to  procure  it,  or  any  part  of  it.  And  being  advised  by  a 
number  of  my  good  neighbors  to  raise  said  sum  by  subscription, 
these  are  therefore  to  pray  for  assistance  of  all  my  friends  and  neigh- 
bors to  advance  to  me  such  sum  as  they  please  to  enable  me  to  re- 
deem my  son  out  of  the  hands  of  his  cruel  savage  enemies,  whose 
tender  mercies  are  cruelties,  hereby  assuring  every  person  who  may 
advance  any  money  they  shall  be  paid  as  soon  as  it  is  in  my  power 
to  do  it,  with  the  hearty  thanks  of  their  humble  suppliant. 

The  money  was  raised  (thirty-seven  subscribers),  forwarded  by 
special  messenger  to  Montreal,  and  thence  to  Detroit.  Notwith- 
standing all  the  exertions,  Patten  was  held  in  captivity  three  years. 
In  June,  1795,  he  was  bought  for  $70,  one  half  down  and  the  bal- 
ance in  a  month,  when  he  was  to  be  delivered  up.  The  Indian 
changed  his  mind,  and  he  was  afterwards  exchanged  for  another. 
"Want  and  poverty  set  him  to  work  to  put  some  clothes  on  his 
back."     He  was  "without  clothes,  money,  or  friends."     When  he 


CHANGES   IN   MANNERS   AND   CUSTOMS.  591 

returned  to  the  Ohio  settlement  he  found  that  he  had  been  con- 
sidered dead ;  his  land  had  been  taken  possession  of  by  the  Ohio 
company ;  his  father  had  died,  and  the  estate  had  been  settled  with- 
out him,  but  his  brother  assured  him  it  would  be  made  right.  The 
first  letters  were  sent  by  private  parties  going  to  and  fro.  The  first 
letters  by  mail  were  directed  to  Concord  post-office  (1797),  and  soon 
afterwards  to  Amherst  post-office,  till  1823,  when  the  first  one  was 
sent  to  Bedford  post-office.  Such  were  some  of  the  hardships  and 
experiences  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  Ohio  country. 


Changes  in  the  Occupancy  of  Farms. 


To  the  preparation  of  the  following  chapter  upon  the  changes  in 
the  occupancy  of  farms  in  Bedford,  much  time,  labor,  and  study  has 
been  given.  The  facts  to  be  ascertained  were  of  such  character  as 
to  depend  very  largely  upon  the  memory  of  some  one,  and  to  deter- 
mine them  as  fully  as  may  be  many  inquiries  had  to  be  made.  Re- 
ports received  had  to  be  compared  with  one  anothei',  and  with  mate- 
rial facts  still  observable.  Helpful  information  has  been  obtained 
from  several  aged  people,  particularly  from'  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward 
Barr,  Isaac  P.  Hodgman,  Charles  H.  Kendall,  Solomon  Manning,  and 
Horace  Campbell. 

A  striking  fact  in  the  study  of  the  subject,  covering  the  period  of 
fifty  years  past,  is  the  small  number  of  places  that  retain  the  family 
names  of  the  occupants  in  1850.  In  District  No.  1,  there  are  the 
names  of  Woodbury,  Barnard,  Kendall,  French,  Goffe,  Riddle,  Far- 
ley, Cutler,  and  Campbell ;  In  District  No.  2,  the  names  of  Moore, 
Parker,  and  Burns  are  to  be  found,  but  on  other  farms  than  in  1850; 
in  No.  3,  Darrah  and  Walker ;  in  No.  4,  Mrs.  Fanny  (Parker) 
Bailey  lives  upon  the  Parker  place,  and  Taffe  continues  to  live  in 
the  district ;  in  No.  5,  there  are  Hodgman,  French,  and  Patten ;  in 
No.  6,  Holbrook,  Worth  ley,  and  Bursiel ;  In  No.  7,  Barr,  Vose,  and 
Dunlap ;  in  No.  8,  Tolford,  Webber,  Tinker,  Holbrook,  Gage,  and 
French ;  in  No.  9,  Gage,  Shepard,  Stevens,  and  Manning ;  and  in 
No.  10,  Flint,  Nichols,  and  Campbell.  From  the  Goffstown  line  to 
Merrimack,  through  the  ceutre,  there  are  only  two  farms  now  held 
by  persons  of  the  same  name  as  in  1850, — that  of  Charles  Kendall 
and  that  of  John  A.  Riddle.  Of  the  family  name  of  Patten,  Riddle, 
Kendall,  Goffe,  Walker,  and  Moore,  which  were  so  numerous  among 
the  earlier  dwellers,  only  one  of  each  remains. 

Many  of  the  family  names  once  well  known  in  Bedford  are  now 
held  by  no  one.  Among  them  are:  McDuffie,  Scoby,  Peebles,  Cald- 
well, Dole,  Colley,  Bell,  Barron,  Sprague,  Orr,  Houston,  Nevins, 
Barnes,  and  Chandler. 


CHANGES   IN   THE    OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  593 

The  English  population  of  Bedford  originated  in  different  sections 
of  Massachusetts.  Some  came  from  Billerica,  as  the  Kittredge, 
Sprague,  Dowse,  and  Manning  families ;  some  from  towns  south  of 
Boston, — Plymouth,  Abbington,  and  Norton,  as  the  Lincoln,  Gard- 
ner, Chubbuck,  Atwood,  and  Shepard  families  ;  and  some  from  Rox- 
bury,  Brighton,  and  that  neighborhood,  as  the  Chandler  and  Hoi- 
brook  families. 

At  the  one  hundredth  and  fiftieth  anniversary  celebration  of  the 
town,  there  wrere  only  two  couples  that  had  been  united  previous  to 
the  centennial  year.  They  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Barr  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  P.  Hodgman.  Mr.  Barr  and  Mrs.  Hodgman  have 
since  died. 

In  the  following  description  the  occupants  of  a  place  have  been 
given  in  successive  order,  without  explanation,  unless  there  seemed 
to  be  some  particular  reason  for  comment. 

DISTRICT  NO.  1. 

John  McLaughlin  (1),  first  town  clerk  of  Bedford,  lived  on  what 
is  now  known  as  the  Gordon  farm,  north  of  the  present  house,  and 
on  the  east  side  of  the  road  near  the  Bradbury  Rowe  place.  "Win. 
Barnett  (2)  lived  on  the  south  side  of  the  Gordon  farm,  on  the  hill 
near  F.  F.  French's  land,  and  on  the  east  side  of  the  old  range  line 
road,  now  discontinued.  This  road  used  to  run  from  Phineas 
French's  due  north  over  the  hill  and  came  out  opposite  the  Gordon 
house.  Mr.  Kenicum  (3)  and  Amos  Gardner  lived  on  the  west  side 
of  the  Gordon  farm.  Here  is  where  Samuel  Gardner  was  born. 
James  Little,  for  several  years  town  treasurer  in  the  early  history  of 
the  town,  also  lived  here,  probably  before  Mr.  Kenicum,  but  the  land 
is  still  known  by  the  name  of  Kenicum.  The  cellar  is  in  a  good  state 
of  preservation  ;  red  roses  are  growing  near  where  the  house  stood. 
Samuel  Gordon  bought  of  John  McLaughlin,  and  later  sold  to  his 
brother,  John  Gordon,  at  an  early  period  of  the  settlement.  John 
lived  and  died  on  this  farm.  It  was  afterwards  owned  by  Josiah 
Gordon,  who  built  the  present  house  (4)  in  1810 ;  later  by  Adam 
Gordon  and  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  son  and  son-in-law  of  Josiah 
Gordon,  Esq.  It  was  for  many  years  the  home  of  Miss  Jane  Gor- 
don, his  daughter,  and  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Charles  II.  Woodbury, 
Miss  Martha  R.  Woodbury,  and  Dr.  George  E.  Woodbury,  and 
occupied  by  John  W.  McDole.  The  present  barn  was  built  by 
Charles  H.  Woodbury.  Josiah  Sanborn,  Charles  Shepard,  Samuel  C. 
Jenkins,  Hugh  R.  French,  John  P.  Conner,  William  McDole,  George 
Palmer,  Charles  Pillsbury,  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst,  Pomphret  P.  Smith, 
and  George  B.  Turney,  at  different  times,  have  lived  in  the  Gordon 
house.  This  farm  has  been  owned  by  Gordons  and  "Woodburys 
39 


594  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

since  its  earliest  settlement.  Pharez  Shirley  (5),  William  Bursielr 
his  son  Leonard,  and  Dea.  James  French  have  lived  where  Daniel  S. 
Campbell  lived  on  a  part  of  the  Gordon  farm.  It  is  now  owned  by 
Edward  D.  Campbell  and  the  house  is  unoccupied.  Robert  Lincoln 
(6)  lived  where  Stephen  French,  senior,  built,  lived,  and  died.  He 
bought  the  land  of  Lincoln.  This  house  was  constructed  for  two 
families.  Captain  Leonard  French,  his  son,  Freeman  R.,  lived  in  the 
west  end  where  his  widow,  Augusta  A.,  and  her  daughter,  Myra, 
now  live.  Rev.  Daniel  L.  French,  his  son,  Hugh  R.  French,  Isaiah 
Johnson,  Judge  James  Savage,  John  F.  Gove,  and  John  M.  Quaid, 
lived  in  the  east  end  where  Emerson  E.  Dinsmore  now  lives.  The 
barn  now  standing  was  built  by  F.  R.  French.  John  Lincoln  once 
lived  on  this  farm ;  the  house  (7)  stood  about  fifty  rods  southeast  of 
Freeman  R.  French's.  The  house  was  burned  while  occupied  by 
Robert  Walker.  He  was  drying  powder  before  the  fire,  went  away 
and  left  it,  and  a  spark  snapped  out  and  ignited  the  powder. 

Frederick  F.  French  (8)  built  and  lived  where  his  widow,  Al- 
mira  French,  and  her  son,  William  B.,  now  live.  Mrs.  French  built 
the  barn.  He  first  built  and  lived  where  his  son,  William  B.  French, 
(9)  afterward  lived.  These  buildings  were  struck  by  lightning  and 
burned  August  23,  1902.  The  neat  cattle  were  all  burned;  the 
horses  being  in  the  pasture  were  saved. 

Samuel  McDole  (10)  lived  where  Alford  Jones  now  lives  in  the 
house  built  and  owned  by  F.  F.  French,  standing  on  the  east  side  of 
the  cross-road  running  from  Dea.  Phineas  French's  toward  Capt. 
Leonard  French's. 

Widow  William  Barnes  (11),  Wiseman  Wallace,  Orin  Mudge, 
Daniel  Marshall,  Calvin  Snow,  Zaccheus  Litchfield,  Mrs.  Albert  Rid- 
dle, Daniel  McLaughlin,  his  son,  John  G.  McLaughlin,  Walter  E. 
Schneider,  Ephraim  Fosher,  Clarence  N.  Davis,  and  Mrs.  Ann  Town- 
send  lived  where  William  McDole  and  his  son,  Willie  G.,  now  live. 
The  house  stands  on  the  north  side  of  the  road  leading  from  Dea. 
Phineas  French's  to  Bedford  Center. 

Rev.  John  Houston  (12)  built  where  Chandler  Spofford  later  lived. 
Alfred  Foster  and  Rev.  David  McGregore  both  lived  here  at  the 
same  time  before  Mr.  Spofford.  Alfred  Foster  died  in  May,  1827. 
At  the  previous  March  election  he  was  chosen  register  of  deeds  for 
Hillsborough  county  without  much  opposition,  showing  the  high  es- 
teem in  which  he  was  held.  In  consequence  of  his  death  the  court 
appointed  Ezra  Prescott  to  take  his  place.  These  buildings  were  re- 
built by  Dea.  Charles  Gage,  and  were  occupied  by  him  for  many 
years ;  later  by  Dr.  Frank  H.  Rowe,  and  now  by  Horace  Townsend. 

On  the  opposite  side  of  the  road  widow  Alfred  Foster  (13),  William 
Boynton,  Joseph  Marshall,  David  Cheney,  Dr.  William  W.  Wilkins, 
Gardner  jNevins,  and  David  Swett  lived  where  John  Roby  now 
lives.  Rufus  Merrill  (14),  son  of  Adam  Merrill,  and  Daniel  Bar- 
nard lived  where  his  sons,  David  R.  and  Hugh  R.,  and  daughters, 
Martha  D.  and  Eliza  E.,  later  lived,  and  where  George  F.  Barnard 


CHANGES   IN    THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  595 

now  lives.  The  original  buildings  were  built  in  1827  by  Rufus  Mer- 
rill and  were  burned  June  22,  1840.  In  a  few  days  after  the  lire  ten 
or  twelve  men  met  to  assist  Mr.  Merrill  in  hewing  timber  to  erect 
buildings  on  the  same  ground.  In  1844  Mr.  Merrill  sold  this  farm 
to  Daniel  Barnard. 

Ensign  Chubbuck  (15)  lived  on  the  Globe  lot,  about  sixty  rods 
north  of  Dr.  P.  P.  Woodbury's  residence.  It  is  now  owned  by  F.  R. 
French.  He  kept  a  public  house  of  entertainment,  called  the  Globe 
tavern. 

John  Houston  (10),  son  of  Rev.  John,  built  where  Adam  Merrill, 
his  sons,  Rufus  and  Joseph,  David  McAfee,  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury 
and  his  son,  Charles  H.  Woodbury,  lived.  The  house  was  remodeled 
and  a  new  barn  built  by  Charles  H.  Woodbury.  The  place  is  now 
owned  by  his  widow,  and  by  Martha  R.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Peter  P. 
Woodbury,  and  Dr  George  E.  Woodbury,  his  son.  Dr.  Woodbury 
formerly  lived  on  the  Rowe  place,  just  north  of  the  Gordon  house, 
which  he  exchanged  for  this  house  with  David  McAfee  in  1832. 
Mr.  Houston  built  the  house,  but  got  into  such  financial  difficulties 
that  Mr.  McGregore  came  to  own  it.  He  exchanged  with  his  father- 
in-law,  Adam  Merrill,  for  his  farm  in  Falmouth,  Me.  Mr.  McGregore 
kept  school  in  the  west  side  of  this  house,  up  stairs,  in  1830,  the 
benches  for  the  scholars  being  placed  around  the  room.  When  Rev. 
David  McGregore  was  ordained  in  1804  a  dance  was  held  in  this 
house,  lasting  all  night ;  Ezekiel  Gardnei  stood  on  the  hearthstone 
and  whistled  for  music.  The  Bedford  Grenadiers  first  trained  in  the 
long  room  of  this  house. 

Oliver  Kendall  (17)  built,  in  1840,  and  lived  in  the  house  after- 
ward occupied  by  Dr.  Maurice  Stark,  and  now  by  Clarence  N.  Davis. 

Mr.  Kendall  (18)  built  the  small  house  next  to  his  own,  which 
was  used  for  a  shoe  shop,  post-office,  and  store,  later  for  tenants,  and 
occupied  by  Silas  Campbell,  Solomon  Sawyer,  and  George  Camp- 
bell.    It  is  at  present  used  as  a  private  laundry. 

Thomas  Kendall  (19)  built,  in  1850,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death,  and  where  his  daughter,  Miss  Ella  J.  Kendall,  lived.  When 
built  the  house  was  arranged  for  two  families.  At  one  time  it  was 
occupied  by  Nathan  Kendall,  his  father,  and  for  several  years  by 
his  brother,  James  T.  Kendall.     It  is  now  unoccupied. 

The  parsonage  (20)  was  built  in  1866,  where  the  brick  meeting- 
house had  stood.  It  has  been  occupied  by  Rev.  Arthur  Little, 
Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  Rev.  D.  Herbert  Colcord,  Rev.  Albert  D.  Smith, 
Rev.  Charles  II.  Fields,  Rev.  William  C.  Lindsey,  and  now  by  Rev. 
Albert  P.  Watson. 

David  Gillis  (21),  blacksmith,  Chandler  Spofford,  James  Moore, 
John  P.  Conner,  Rev.  John  Upton,  Baptist  minister,  Gilman  R. 
Gardner,  and  James  Howe,  in  turn  lived  in  a  house  which  was  owned 
by  Isaac  Riddle.  He  sold  it  in  1857  to  George  W.  Goffe,  who  built 
the  present  buildings  and  occupied  them  until  1860.  They  were 
afterward  owned  by  James  T.  Kendall.     He  lived  in  them  until  his 


596  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

death,  then  his  widow  and  their  sons,  Willis  B.,  George  M.,  and 
Elmer  E.  Kendall,  and  Sylvanus  Campbell  lived  there.  It  is  now 
occupied  by  Treftie  Thibault. 

Nathan  Kendall  (22)  built  in  1826,  and  lived  where  his  son, 
Charles  H.  Kendall,  now  lives. 

Amos  Gardner  (23)  and  his  son  Samuel  lived  on  land  of  C.  II. 
Kendall.  The  house  is  gone.  It  stood  about  ten  rods  south  of 
Charles  P.  Woodbury's,  on  the  range  line.  This  place  was  owned 
by  Amos  Jones  Gardner,  eldest  son  of  Amos,  who  gave  it  to  his 
father  for  a  home  while  he  lived. 

Samuel  Bowman  (24),  Josiah  Sanborn,  Henry  McGrath,  Willard 
Gardner,  John  Dickinson,  Cyrus  P.  Bryant,  Neil  Fullerton,  Ezra 
Pearson,  Charles  H.  Moore,  his  sister,  Mary  Annis  Moore,  and 
Charles  Gaffney,  in  turn  lived  where  Charles  P.  Woodbury  now 
lives.  The  present  house  was  built  by  Ezra  Pearson ;  the  barn  by 
Neil  Fullerton. 

Charles  H.  Moore  (25)  built  and  lived  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
road  in  1874,  where  Dr.  David  P.  Campbell,  Lovell  Nichols,  Jasper 
P.  George,  his  son,  Milton  B.  George,  and  Charles  F.  Cram  lived,  and 
where  John  M.  Quaid  now  lives.  Samuel  Tirrell  (26),  Thomas  Camp- 
bell, who  built  the  present  house,  his  son,  Henry,  Joseph  Butterfield, 
Moses  and  Daniel  Marshall,  James  Fullerton,  Alford  Jones,  Damon 
and  Putnam  Jenkins,  Charles  Fullerton,  Hiram  C.  Squires,  and  My- 
ron Tenney  lived  in  a  house  now  unoccupied  which  stands  at  the 
end  of  a  branch  of  the  Ministerial  road. 

Isaac  Riddle,  Esq.  (27),  built  and  lived  where,  later,  his  son  Isaac, 
Joseph  Flint,  Levi  Woodman,  Mr.  Smith,  Michael  Boynton,  Joseph 
II.  Stevens,  Dr.  William  B.  Stevens,  Lorenzo  Carr,  Isaac  N.  Riddle, 
and  Silas  A.,  sons  of  Isaac,  lived,  and  where  John  A.,  son  of  Isaac, 
now  lives.  Isaac  N.  Riddle  built  the  present  barn.  The  occupants, 
from  Levi  Woodman  to  Lorenzo  Carr,  inclusive,  were  tenants  of 
Esquire  Riddle.  The  farm  has  never  been  out  of  the  Riddle  name 
since  Isaac  Riddle  bought  it  in  1782. 

Rev.  John  Houston  (28)  built,  lived,  and  died  where  his  son,  Rob- 
ert, and  grandson,  John,  Rodolphus  D.  Briggs,  son-in-law  of  John, 
Capt.  Thomas  J.  Rollins,  Lorenzo  Carr,  Putnam  Jenkins,  Gardner 
Nevins,  Charles  II.  Moore,  and  Henry  T.  Barnard  subsequently 
lived,  and  where  Quincy  Barnard,  and  his  son,  Frank  H.,  now  live. 
Maria  and  Margaret  Houston,  tailoresses,  daughters  of  Robert,  lived 
there,  and  also  Ann  Orr,  who  taught  school  in  the  kitchen. 

Samuel  Gardner  (29)  took  down  the  wing  which  he  had  built  on 
to  the  Matthew  Patten  house,  and  rebuilt  it  where  he  lived  and 
died.  Mrs.  Martha  Gardner,  his  daughter-in-law,  Dr.  Frank  H. 
Rowe,  Timothy  Townsend,  his  widow,  Ann  Townsend,  also  lived 
there.  The  house  stands  near  the  railroad  station  on  the  east  side 
of  the  Bell  road.  It  is  now  owned  by  James  R.  Leach,  and  occu- 
pied by  the  station  agent,  N.  E.  Vincent. 

John  F.  Gove  (30)  built  where  he  now  lives,  near  the  vestry  on 
the  north  side  of  the  road. 


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CHANGES   IN    THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  597 

Widow  Robert  Walker  (31),  her  son,  Greenleaf,  her  daughter, 
Miss  Elvira,  and  her  granddaughter,  Miss  Mary  A.  Manning,  and 
Benjamin  Hall,  lived  near  the  church;  the  house  is  now  owned  by 
Mrs.  C.  H.  Woodbury.  William  Riddle  gave  the  land  for  this 
house,  and  the  neighbors  built  it,  as  they  did,  also,  two  others  pre- 
viously mentioned,  that  of  widow  (13)  Alfred  Foster  and  the  widow 
(11)  Barnes. 

Gawn  Riddle's1  (32)  son,  William,  and  grandson,  Benjamin  F., 
John  Goffe,  and  his  son,  George  W.,  lived  where  Thomas  A.  Lane, 
and  his  son,  Fred  F.,  now  live.  Mr.  Tarbell  and  David  Swett 
bought  the  farm  at  George  W.  Goffe's  auction,  and  sold  it  to  a  man 
named  Jones,  of  whom  it  was  purchased  by  T.  A.  Lane.  The  house 
stands  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallace  road  at  the  corner  of  the 
Center  road.  The  barn  at  the  Goffe  place  has  been  twice  burned 
and  rebuilt,  first  in  about  1856-'57,  and  the  second  time  in  1871. 
Both  fires  occurred  in  the  fall  of  the  year,  as  late  as  November.  A 
singular  circumstance  connected  with  these  fires  was  that  one  horse, 
a  pair  of  oxen,  and  several  cows  were  burned  at  both.  At  each  of 
them  a  cow  broke  from  her  stanchion  and  fell  out  of  a  doorway, 
about  middle  way  of  the  tie-up,  seven  or  eight  feet  into  the  yard 
below,  and  thus  escaped  being  burned. 

Richard  McAllister  (33)  lived  in  an  old  house  which  stood  a  few 
rods  west  of  where  William  Riddle  (34),  son  of  William  Riddle, 
Esq.,  built,  and  where  his  daughter,  Laura,  William  R.  French, 
Joseph  H.  Stevens,  his  widow,  Mary  Jane  Stevens,  Andrew  Kimball, 
Alfred  B.  Lampher,  Silas  Campbell,  Harrison  Campbell,  Fred  F. 
Lane,  and  Ora  Kelton  lived,  and  Avhere  John  H.  Bartlett  and  Clar- 
ence Butler  now  live. 

David  Riddle  (35)  lived  on  the  William  White  place,  which  stood 
on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallace  road.  Nearly  opposite  he  built  a 
house,  about  1826,  where  his  son,  John  D.  (36),  Charles  H.  Moore, 
Abner  L.  Hadley,  Byron  T.  Hadley,  Samuel  Perkins,  and  George  F 
Barnard  lived  later.  The  barn  was  built  by  Charles  H.  Moore ;  both 
house  and  barn  were  burned  July  7,  1903.  North,  on  the  west  side 
of  the  road,  stood  a  house  owned  by  George  F.  Barnard  (37),  and 
occupied  by  Miss  Martha  Barker,  Corwin  J.  Parker,  and  Clifton 
Campbell.  It  was  the  ell  of  the  David  Riddle  house,  and  was  moved 
there  by  Charles  H.  Moore.     It  was  destroyed  by  fire. 

Fergus  Kennedy  (38)  lived  about  six  rods  east  of  Nathan  Cut- 
ler's (39).  At  an  early  period  Hugh  Campbell  lived  on  this  place. 
Campbell  afterwards  built  (40)  and  lived  in  the  field  between  the 
old  Orr  schoolhouse  and  James  McQuaid's.  James  McQuaid  (built  ?) 
and  lived  (41)  in  a  house  which  stood  on  the  south  side  of  the  Coun- 
ty road  east  of  the  Riddle  brook  on  the  top  of  the  hill.  The  school- 
house  stood  at  the  foot  of  the  hill,  by  the  large  stone  on  the  old  road 
from  the  farm  of  the  late  John  Orr  to  the  center  of  the  town.  Camp- 

1  The  History  of  1850  states  that  Gawn  Riddle,  the  elder,  lived  here,  but  later  in- 
formation shows  that  William,  son  of  Gawn,  who  built  the  house,  was  but  14  rears 
old  when  his  father  died  in  1779,  and  so  we  infer  that  Gawn  Riddle  never  lived'here. 


598  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

bell  married  Molly,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Smith.  Old  and  young 
Drs.  Cutler  lived  where  a  son,  Nathan,  and  a  grandson,  Nathan  W., 
and  his  son,  Warren  N,  now  live.  John  Smith,  a  name  of  celeb- 
rity, Englishman,  deerskin-breeches  maker,  lived  in  the  old  Fergus 
Kennedy  house  for  many  years. 

John  Riddle  (42),  oldest  son  of  Gawn,  first  built  and  lived  where 
his  son,  Gawn,  and  grandson,  Albert  Riddle,  Isaac  Cutler,  his 
widow,  Martha  H.  Cutler,  their  son,  Isaac  Harvey,  and  their  daugh- 
ter, Laura,  lived,  and  where  Newton  I.  Peaslee  now  lives. 

Richard  Chase  (43),  and  James  Gardner  lived,  about  twenty  rods 
west  of  where  the  late  Isaac  Cutler  lived.  The  buildings  stood  on 
the  north  side  of  the  Joppa  road.  They  are  now  gone,  but  the  well 
can  be  seen  near  the  road. 

Charles  S.  Campbell  (44)  built  where  he  now  lives,  on  the  north 
side  of  the  Joppa  road. 

Charles  P.  Farley  (45)  built  where  he  now  lives.  Abner  Camp- 
bell and  Maj.  Daniel  Moore  lived  in  an  old  house  that  stood  on  this 
site. 

Gregg  Campbell  (46),  Ezekiel  Gardner,  and  Charles  Flint  lived 
where  Senter  Farley  and  John  F.  Gove  later  lived.  Connected 
with  this  place  is  a  wheelwright  shop  (47).  Some  seventy  years 
ago  Gregg  Campbell  made  a  pair  of  cart  wheels  there.  Not  long 
since  they  were  changed  from  narrow  felloes  to  Avide,  and  the  wheel- 
wright found  them  in  good  condition,  and  remarked  that  they  were 
good  for  twenty-five  years  of  service  more.  While  Mr.  Flint  owned 
this  place  the  shop  was  burned  one  Saturday  night  in  1839  while  he 
was  out  of  town.  This  being  the  only  wheelwright  shop  in  the 
vicinity,  the  people  keenly  felt  its  loss,  and  at  once  set  about  rebuild- 
ing. They  contributed  the  necessary  material,  such  as  each  man 
happened  to  have  most  readily  at  hand  ;  they  combined  their  labor, 
also,  and  by  the  next  Saturday  night  the  present  shop  was  ready  for 
occupancy. 

Elbridge  J.  Campbell  (48)  built  where  he  now  lives,  at  the  top  of 
the  hill  on  the  north  side  of  the  Joppa  road.  This  is  one  of  the 
most  sightly  locations  in  Bedford  ;  from  it  one  can  see  into  ten  or 
twelve  of  the  surrounding  towns.  West,  on  the  south  side  of  Joppa 
road,  Isaac  Campbell  (49),  Elbridge  J.  Campbell,  George  Campbell, 
and  Edward  Haddo  lived,  where  Joseph  Brenette  now  lives.  This 
house  was  moved  there  by  Isaac  Campbell  from  the  Joppa  store. 
West,  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  Mrs.  Harriet  Adams  (50)  and 
David  J.  Campbell  lived,  where  Fred  Webber  now  lives.  This 
house  was  moved  by  Elbridge  J.  Campbell  from  opposite  John 
Mullet's,  and  was  the  one  occupied  by  Sophia  Hayes. 

Robert  Morrill  (51)  lived  on  Morrill  hill,  so-called,  about  seventy- 
five  rods  southeast  of  Elliot  S.  Campbell's.  Paul  T.  Campbell  (52) 
built  and  lived  where  his  son,  Elliot  S.,  and  his  son-in-law,  Edward 
L.  Conner,  now  live.  A  part  of  the  buildings  are  the  old  Richard 
McAllister  house,  which  stood  at  the  foot  of  the  hill  west  of  William 
Riddle's. 


CHANGES    IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  599 

In  the  pasture  on  the  south  side  of  the  North  Amherst  road  is  a 
house  (52^ )  occupied  by  David  P.  Campbell  for  many  years.  It  is 
now  unoccupied. 

Stephen  Goffe,  Sr.  (54),  his  widow,  Mary  Cutler  Goffe,  his  son, 
Stephen,  and  his  widow,  Annie  Goffe,  lived  where  John  G.  Sharpe 
now  lives. 

Samuel  Patterson  (53)  and  Stephen  Goffe,  Sr.,  lived  in  a  house  on 
the  south  side  of  the  road  east  of  the  present  buildings,  which  were 
built  by  Stephen  Goffe,  Sr.  Nathaniel  Patterson  (55)  lived  on  the 
same  farm,  a  few  rods  south  of  the  Isaac  Atwood  place.  The  house, 
when  occupied  by  Patterson  and  his  sister  Peggy,  was  burned  down. 
The  inmates,  it  is  said,  lived  far  from  harmoniously.  Dea.  John 
Houston,  a  neighbor,  and  most  pacific  man,  as  the  flames  were  doing 
then-  work,  remarked,  "  We  see  a  house  divided  against  itself  cannot 
stand." 

Gawn  Riddle,  son  of  Gawn,  built  and  lived  (56),  and  Edward  P. 
French,  Adam  McAffee,  Frank  McAffee,  and  Henry  H.  Smith  sub- 
sequently lived,  where  Daniel  Murphy  now  lives.  Mrs.  Submit 
Walker  Atwood  and  Miss  Sarah,  daughters  of  Robert  Walker,  and 
sisters  of  Gawn  Riddle's  wife,  were  tailoresses  and  lived  here. 

George  Orr  (57)  built  and  lived  where  his  daughter,  Miss  Ann, 
Ebenezer  Fisher,  Samuel  Sawyer  (both  of  whom  married  daughters 
of  Orr),  Alfred  Yickery,  shoemaker,  and  afterwards  photographer, 
now  living  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  David  Crowell  lived,  and  where 
Elbridge  G.  Gilmore,  and  his  daughter,  Miriam  B.  Gilmore,  recently 
lived.  The  house  is  now  unoccupied.  .The  present  barn  was  built 
by  Solon  C.  Gilmore. 

Theodore  A.  Goffe  (58),  son  of  Stephen  Goffe,  Sr.,  built  and  lived 
where  John  M.  Blood,  Robert  Ormsby,  and  Frank  Whitman  later 
lived.  The  place  is  now  owned  by  George  W.  Rief  of  Manchester. 
The  house  stands  on  the  east  side  of  the  Wallace  road,  north  of 
Gawn  Riddle's,  and  is  unoccupied.  North,  on  the  west  side  of  the 
same  road,  Isaac  Atwood,  Sr.  (59),  built  and  lived  where  Benjamin 
Hall,  Hugh  R.  French,  and  Dr.  George  M.  Davis  later  lived,  and 
where  Ervin  R.  French  now  lives.  The  house  was  rebuilt  by  Ben- 
jamin Hall. 

Isaac  Atwood  (60)  also  built  just  opposite,  where  Daniel  Mc- 
Laughlin, John  Conner,  Cyrus  P.  Bryant,  and  George  M.  French 
later  lived,  and  where  his  widow,  Mary  F.  French,  now  lives. 
George  M.  French  rebuilt  the  house.  Mr.  French  carried  on  an 
extensive  business  here,  dealing  in  new  milch  cows  and  beef  cattle 
until  his  death,  after  which  his  son  Ervin  continued  the  business. 

John  Riddle,  brother  to  Gawn,  the  original  settler,  had  two  daugh- 
ters, Mary  and  Elizabeth,  who  lived  ^61)  on  the  Isaac  Atwood  farm- 
Mary  died  about  1818.  The  house  stood  on  the  east  side  of  the 
farm  near  the  curve  of  the  Manchester  &  Milford  railroad. 

North,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  James  Patterson  (62),  Dea. 
John  Houston,  his  sons,  John  P.,  Rufus,  and  Robert,  and  George 


600  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

W.  Flint,  lived  where  Harrison  Campbell  now  lives.  The  house  was- 
remodeled,  and  a  new  barn  was  built  by  George  W.  Flint. 

Thomas  Townsend  (63)  lived  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallace 
road  opposite  the  house  in  which  Isaac  Dow  (64),  Charles  Damon, 
Stephen  C.  Damon,  and  Charles  P.  Woodbury  in  turn  lived,  and 
where  James  R.  Leach  now  lives.  John  P.  Houston,  son  of  Deacon 
John,  built  the  house  for  a  wheelwright  shop.  Mr.  Dow  made  cof- 
fins here.  Submit  Walker  and  Eliza  Jane  Atwood,  daughter  of 
Isaac,  who  lived  in  this  house,  were  tailoresses.  The  Townsend  house 
was  removed  to  District  No.  6.  The  house  where  Nelson  Regnor 
and  Charles  L.  Davis  (65)  lived,  now  occupied  by  Fred  Fosher,  was 
moved  from  near  William  McAffee's  by  Stephen  C.  Damon. 

Stephen  Damon  (66)  built  and  lived  where  Gawn  Riddle,  the 
original  ancestor  of  the  Riddles,  first  settled.  The  house  is  now 
occupied  by  his  son,  Stephen  C.  Damon.  It  stands  over  the  origi- 
nal cellar  hole,  just  east  of  the  mill  pond.  Just  southeast  stood  the 
Riddle  garrison  house,  in  what  is  now  the  lumber  yard. 

George  W.  Goffe  (67)  built  where  Nelson  Fosher  and  Michael 
Ceror  in  turn  lived,  and  where  Fred  G.  Holbrook  now  lives.  It  is 
the  first  house  east  of  S.  C.  Damon's.  About  fifty  rods  east,  George 
W.  Goffe  (68)  built  where  Leonard  Farley  and  Henry  T.  Barnard 
later  lived,  and  where  Mrs.  Susan  S.  Campbell  now  lives. 

Putnam  Jenkins  (69)  built  where  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst  now  lives. 
J.  Wilder  Prince  and  Fred  F.  Lane  also  lived  here.  Albert  Hill 
(70)  built  and  lived  where  Freeman  Parker,  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  Dr. 
Frank  II.  Rowe,  Dr.  Joseph  C.  Taylor,  and  Edward  L.  Conner  later 
lived,  and  Avhere  Burt  N.  Davis  now  lives.  At  the  junction  of  the 
Amherst  and  North  Amherst  road  stands  No.  1  schoolhouse.  Mr. 
Philbrick  (71),  David  Brooks,  a  blacksmith,  Leonard  Farley,  and 
Nelson  Fosher  lived  where  his  son,  Irving  J.  Fosher,  now  lives. 
The  house  stands  on  the  north  side  of  the  Amherst  road. 

Andrew  J.  Butterfield  (72),  Samuel  Seavey,  Reuben  Bugbee,  and 
William  McDole  lived  where  Herbert  N.  Fosher  now  lives.  The 
buildings  were  burned,  and  were  rebuilt  by  Nelson  Fosher.  On  the 
north  side  of  the  road  Albert  Hill,  Mr.  Dale,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Shepard 
(73)  and  her  son,  William  P.  Shepard,  lived,  and  William  McDole 
later  lived.  The  house  was  built  by  George  W.  Goffe,  and  is  now 
occupied  by  Charles  H.  Tarbell  and  his  son,  Dr.  Wallace  II.  Tarbell. 

Seth  P.  Campbell,  2d  (74),  Mrs.  Jeffers,  and  Damon  Jenkins  lived 
where  Silas  Campbell  now  lives.  This  was  formerly  the  Union 
schoolhouse,  and  stood  near  the  Amherst  line.  It  was  moved  by 
Mr.  Campbell  to  its  present  location  from  the  North  Amherst  road 
near  the  Greeley  farm. 

Nelson  Fosher  (75)  built  where  he  now  lives,  on  the  north  side  of 
the  Amherst  road  near  Fred  A.  French's  store. 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  601 

DISTRICT  XO.  2. 

Adam  Dickey  (76),  Isaac  Gage,  his  son,  Aaron  Q.,  Moses  Paige, 
Jonathan  Corliss,  Orvis  J.  Blodgett,  Frank  Gage,  and  Herbert  Ste- 
vens lived  where  Milton  E.  Badger  later  lived,  one  fourth  mile  west 
of  Smith's  corner,  on  the  road  leading  to  Thompson's  corner. 

Robert  Matthews  (77),  Willard  Parker,  George  Hodgman,his  son, 
John  P.,  Clinton  P.,  son  of  Isaac  P.  Hodgman,  and  Mr.  Morse  lived 
where  John  D.  Rouse  now  lives.  George  Hodgman  built  the  pres- 
ent brick  house.  On  this  place  was  a  cider  mill  six  rods  southeast 
of  the  buildings. 

Jonathan  Dowse  (78)  built  and  lived  where  Ward  Thompson, 
William  Moore,  and  Timothy  Moore  later  lived,  and  where  Thomas 
W.  Moore  now  lives.  The  house  stands  at  the  northeast  corner  of 
the  cross-roads.     The  house  was  rebuilt  by  Thomas  W,  Moore. 

John  Parker  (79),  lived  where  James  Kendall,  John  Kinson,  and 
Albert  B.  Corliss  lived.  Corliss  built  a  new  house  and  barn,  which 
with  the  old  house  were  destroyed  by  fire.  These  buildings  stood 
on  the  west  side  of  the  road.  Kendall  had  a  blacksmith  shop  on  the 
east  side. 

Joseph  Wallace  (80),  Abijah  Hodgman,  Jesse  Parker,  Thomas 
W.  Moore,  Cor  win  J.  Parker,  and  Wilson  W.  Moore  lived  where 
William  Burns  now  lives.  The  present  house  was  built  by  Thomas 
W.  Moore,  and  stands  on  the  east  side  of  the  road. 

Thomas  Wallace  (81),  George  O.  Wallace,  John  McAffee,  and 
Xathan  Adams  in  turn  lived  where  Stanislaus  Lavoie  now  lives.  Mr. 
McAffee  carried  on  tbe  brickmaking  business  very  successfully  on 
this  farm.  The  house  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  and  is  the 
last  house  in  Bedford,  near  the  Merrimack  town  line.  The  present 
barn  was  built  by  Mr.  McAffee. 

South  of  the  road  leading  from  the  range  line  road  to  Charles 
Gage's,  out  in  the  field,  Donald  Donelly  (81|)  built,  and  lived  where 
Peter  Matott  now  lives. 

William  Caldwell  (82),  John  Moore,  Joseph  C.  Moore,  Benjamin 
Gage,  Capt.  John  Burns,  Wiseman  C.  Burns,  and  Geo.  W.  Gage  lived 
where  Charles  H.  Gage  now  lives.  The  house  stands  on  the  south 
side  of  the  crossroad  leading  from  near  Isaac  P.  Hodgman's  to  Eddy 
W.  Stevens'.     George  Gage  built  the  present  house. 

Dea.  John  Orr,  his  son,  Hon.  John,  Samuel  Patten,  his  son,  Samuel 
H.,  lived  where  Albert  L.  Flint  now  lives.  The  brick  house  now 
standing  (83)  was  built  by  Samuel  Patten,  the  brick  annex  to  the 
house  and  the  present  barn  by  Albert  L.  Flint.  The  original  Orr  (84) 
house  stood  six  rods  southwest  of  the  brick  house  which  stands  on 
the  road  leading  from  Bedford  Center  to  Nashua.  About  north  of 
the  barn,  some  ten  rods,  right  over  the  run,  perhaps  two  rods  west 
of  the  road,  stood  the  garrison  house  of  Mr.  Orr.  The  well  can  be 
located  at  the  present  time.  In  digging  a  drain  it  was  found  within 
the  foundation  stones  upon  which  the  structure  had  rested. 


602  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Fred  Stevens  (85)  built  and  lived  where  Gilbert  Brown  lived. 
The  house  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  and  is  where  William 
Story  now  lives. 

James  McQuigg  (86),  Matthew  McAffee,  his  son,  Samuel,  and 
grandson,  Alfred,  lived  where  Eddy  W.  Stevens  now  lives.  Rooms 
were  annexed  to  the  north  end  of  this  house  in  1859  or  1860  by  H. 
R.  French,  making  it  suitable  for  two  families.  Hugh  R.  French, 
Daniel  McLaughlin,  his  son-in-law,  Greenleaf  Walker,  Corwin  J. 
Parker,  Edward  H.  Patten,  J.  Elmer  Esterbrooks  lived  in  this  new 
part,  where  William  S.  Melendy  now  lives.  Timothy  Stevens  and 
his  son,  Reuben  P.,  lived  in  the  south  side.  The  McAffee  barns 
were  removed  and  the  present  one  built  by  E.  W.  Stevens. 

Dea.  Benjamin  Smith  (87),  Capt.  Samuel  Campbell,  Jesse  Parker, 
John  Armstrong,  his  son,  John  D.,  George  M.  Way,  and  Timothy 
Stevens  lived  on  what  is  known  as  the  Armstrong  place.  The 
house  wras  removed  by  the  Manchester  &  Milford  railroad.  The 
track  runs  over  the  site.  During  the  construction  of  the  railroad 
the  barn  was  burned. 

Waldron  (88),  a  tanner,  lived  where  Phineas  C.  French,  David 
Campbell,  and  Edward  II.  Patten  lived.  Afterwards,  John  Ov  Parker 
of  Manchester  owned  the  place,  and  the  buildings  were  removed. 
The  buildings  stood  near  the  junction  of  the  Wallace  road  with 
the  Nashua  road,  on  the  east  side.  Many  years  ago  a  stone  post 
was  erected  at  the  junction  of  these  roads  to  be  used  as  a  guide  post. 
When  it  was  being  set  a  human  skeleton  was  dug  up  at  this  place. 
A  barn  (89)  was  built  on  this  place  by  Samuel  and  Irving  Bryant  on 
the  opposite  side  of  the  road.  It  is  now  owned  by  Edmund  B.  Hull. 
During  the  construction  of  the  Manchester  &  Milford  road  it  was 
used  as  a  boarding-house. 

James  Smith  (90), brother  of  Adam  Smith,  Hugh  Riddle, his  son- 
in-law,  Willard  Parker,  and  his  son,  Willard  C,  lived  wThere  Charles 
II.  Wiggin  now  lives.  Riddle  built  the  present  brick  house,  and 
Williard  Parker  the  barn.  There  has  been  a  cider  mill  on  this  place 
from  its  earliest  settlement.  It  was  here  that  Willard  C.  Parker  met 
his  death  by  falling  from  an  apple  tree  while  hiving  a  swarm  of  bees, 
sustaining  a  fatal  injury  to  the  spine.  He  lived  about  six  weeks 
under  the  most  intense  suffering. 

Thomas  Wells  (91)  lived  in  a  little  house  which  stood  in  the  brick 
yard.  The  house  was  occupied  only  while  brick  making  was  going 
on.  It  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  Hackett  place,  but  is  now  gone. 
It  was  called  the  Clay  house  from  the  name  of  an  occupant. 

Another  house  (92)  also  stood  on  the  meadow  road,  east  from  the 
Hackett  place,  and  was  used  only  during  the  brick  making  season. 
It  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  road  on  land  owned  by  Daniel 
Parker. 

Wiseman  C.  Burns  (93)  lived  on  the  south  side  of  the  meadow 
road,  which  leads  Avest  from  Thompson's  corners  to  Hackett's.  The 
house  is  now  gone. 


CHANGES    IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  603 

Eleazer  Dole  (94),  Thomas  Hackett,  John  Moulton,  William  Burns, 
and  Wilbur  C.  Damon  lived  on  the  east  side  of  the  Nashua  road  in 
a  house  now  unoccupied.  Hackett  (95)  afterwards  built,  and  lived 
on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road  where  his  widow,  Maria  Hackett, 
lived. 

The  schoolhouse  of  District  No.  2  stands  a  little  west  of  the  corner 
on  the  cross-road. 

William  Burns  (96),  Richard-  Gregg,  David  McGregor  Moore, 
James  C.  Moore,  and  Thomas  Hackett  lived  where  Otis  K.  Quimby 
now  lives.  The  house  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the  Nashua  road, 
south  of  Hackett's  corner. 

South,  on  the  same  road,  Daniel  Moore  (97),  son  of  Colonel  Will- 
iam, built  and  lived  where  Daniel  Parker  and  Ephraim  C.  Hardy 
later  lived ;  during  the  latter's  occupancy  the  barn  was  burned  by  an 
incendiary,  it  was  thought. 

Mervin  Waldron,  Edward  H.  and  John  A.  Patten,  Frederic  Weis- 
bach,  Emil  Poehlman  lived  on  what  is  known  as  the  Hardy  farm. 
All  the  buildings  were  burned  during  Poehlman's  occupancy ;  the 
house  was  not  rebuilt,  but  Mr.  Poehlman  rebuilt  the  barn.  Poehl- 
man moved  to  the  opposite  side  of  the  road  and  lived  in  the  house 
where  John  Burns  (98),  George  Way,  Thomas  Hackett,  Benjamin 
Dowse,  and  Charles  A.  Snell  later  lived. 

South,  on  the  line  between  Merrimack  and  Bedford,  Joseph  Scobey 
(99),  Col.  William  Moore,  his  son,  William,  and  Aaron  Q.  Gage  lived 
where  Thomas  S.  Burns  now  lives.  This  is  the  original  Moore  farm. 
There  has  been  a  large  amount  of  brick  made  on  this  farm,  as  well 
as  on  the  Hardy  farm  and  the  Hackett  place  ;  more,  perhaps,  than  on 
any  other  places  in  town.  The  name  of  Scobey,  though  long  extinct 
in  town,  is  found  among  the  inscriptions  on  several  tombstones  in  the 
old  graveyard. 

A  few  rods  east  of  the  Moore  farm  Timothy  F.  Moore  (100)  built, 
and  lived  where  William  Moore  later  lived,  and  where  Newman  J. 
Blood  now  lives. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  road,  running  west  from  District  No.  2 
schoolhouse,  near  the  junction  with  the  Shepard  Mills  road,  stood  a 
house  built  for  Isaac  Chickering  Moore  (101)  by  his  father,  James. 
He  was  baptized  as  Isaac  Moore,  but  was  called  Chickering  Moore 
for  a  man  by  that  name  in  Amherst,  to  whom  he  was  apprenticed. 
Robert  Campbell  also  lived  there. 

Just  north  Elder  William  Moore  (102),  the  first  settler,  his 
son,  James,  Edward  A.  Greenough,  and  George  H.  Wiggin  lived 
where  the  latter's  widow,  and  his  son,  George  H.,  now  lives.  This 
farm  was  purchased  by  the  town  with  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  the 
ministerial  lands,  of  James  Moore  about  1834,  for  a  town  farm.  A 
part  of  the  purchase  money  came  also  from  the  surplus  revenue  dis- 
tributed by  the  United  States  government.  It  was  used  for  that  pur- 
pose about  twenty-five  years,  and  then  sold  to  Edward  A.  Green- 
ough.    Among  the  superintendents  of  the  town  farm  were  Samuel 


604  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

G.  Colley,  Joseph  C.  Moore,  Mr.  Cotton,  James  Morrison,  Benja- 
min Hall,  Lemuel  C.  Wright,  and  William  Flint. 

Col.  Daniel  Moore  (103),  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  army, 
built  the  house  now  standing  on  the  Beal  farm.  He  was  colonel 
of  the  Ninth  regiment.  Daniel  Gault,  Charles  Lougee,  and  Silas 
Campbell  also  lived  there.  The  house  stands  on  the  north  side  of 
the  road  leading  to  Swett's  mills,  and  is  now  occupied  by  John  L. 
Bullis.  Stephen  Dole,  Esq.  (104), -built  and  lived  a  few  rods  east  of 
Daniel  Moore,  where  Joseph  Colley,  Esq.,  Moses  Noyes,  Daniel 
Jaquith,  John  Lougee,  Bradford  Beal,  and  his  son,  Charles  B.,  later 
lived.  The  buildings  were  struck  by  lightning  and  burned.  Pre- 
vious to  this  fire  Bradford  Beal  had  built  a  large  barn,  connecting 
it  with  the  house  by  a  long  and  conveniently  arranged  shed. 

On  the  road  from  Shepard's  mills  to  Merrimack,  and  south  of  the 
cross  road  from  No.  2  schoolhouse  to  Swett's  mills,  Samuel  Gerrish 
(105),  Robert  Moore,  his  son,  Charles  H.,  Daniel  Parker,  in  turn 
lived  where  the  latter's  widow,  Mary  A.  Parker,  and  her  sons,  Per- 
ham  and  Peter,  now  live.  The  present  barn  was  built  by  Daniel 
Parker ;  the  house  was  built  by  Robert  Moore.  Mr.  Parker  carried 
on  the  brick-making  business  here  quite  extensively  for  several 
years. 

Thomas  Atwood  (106)  built  and  lived  on  the  east  side  of  the  road 
where  Henry  Hale,  Alfred  Fosdick,  Henry  M.  Carrol  later  lived. 
The  buildings  were  burned  accidentally  in  the  winter  of  1888. 

Southwest,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road,  Robert  Wallace  (107), 
Lemuel  N.  Wright,  John  D.  Armstrong,  and  Wilson  R.  Blood  in 
turn  lived,  where  Edward  Blood  now  lives.  Robert  Wallace  kept 
store  at  this  place. 

North  of  the  cross  road,  on  the  road  from  Merrimack  to  Shepard's 
mills,  Thomas  Matthews  (108),  Deacon  William  Moore,  his  son, 
James,  and  his  widow,  Joseph  C.  Moore,  Thomas  M.  Huse,  and 
Samuel  Jenkins  successively  lived  where  Farnham  Jenkins  and  Ern- 
est Jenkins,  son  and  grandson  of  Samuel,  now  live. 

Horace  White,  for  many  years  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening 
Post,  is  a  grandson  of  Deacon  William  Moore. 

DISTRICT  No.  3. 

James  Darrah,  Jr.  (109),  built  and  lived  in  the  first  house  in  Bed- 
ford, north  of  the  Merrimack  line,  where  his  son,  James,  his  widow, 
Cynthia  W.  Darrah,  lived,  and  where  their  son,  William  W.,  now 
lives.  The  house  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the  road.  Directly 
opposite  stands  a  little  house  built  by  Mr.  Darrah  for  his  wife  and 
daughters  to  weave  and  spin  in.  James  Darrah,  Sr.  (110),  the  orig- 
inal settler,  and  his  son,  Isaac,  lived  where  Wingate  M.,  son  of  the 
above,  lived,  and  where  Carrol  McQuesten  now  lives.  The  barn  on 
this  place  was  built  and  the  house  remodeled  by  AVingate  M.  Darrah. 
Both  were  destroyed  by  fire  Nov.  12,  1903. 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  605 

Next  north,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  Berniee  Prichard  (111) 
huilt  and  lived,  where  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Ellen  N.  Vickery  lived, 
and  where  Edward  Garceau  now  lives.  Mr.  Prichard  was  a  mill- 
wright and  carpenter  by  trade. 

Next  north  on  the  same  side  of  the  road  Hugh  (112)  and  Joseph 
Moore,  and  his  son,  Gilman  H.,  successively  lived,  where  Charles 
Beland  now  lives. 

North  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Amos  Martin  (113),  Ira  Mc- 
Allister, Bartlett  Morse,  David  Miller,  and  P.  T.  Abbott  in  turn  lived, 
where  Lewellyn  Dwire  now  lives. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  road,  John  C.  Ferguson  (114)  built  and 
lived  where  Peter  Gamache  now  lives. 

Next  north  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  Samuel  Smith  (115) 
built  and  lived  where  Daniel  H.  Ferguson  later  lived,  and  where 
James  L.  Mitchell  now  lives.  The  house  stood  a  little  north  of  the 
Ferguson  house,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road.  The  present  house 
was  remodeled  by  J.  L.  Mitchell.  Daniel  H.  Ferguson  and  John 
Chase  of  Dunbarton  put  in  the  first  carding  or  spinning  machines 
in  the  Manchester,  mills.  John  Vickery  (116)  formerly  lived  on  this 
farm. 

Andrew  Savage  (117),  Dwelly  Mitchell,  Charles  Ball,  Charles  S. 
Kidder,  Sylvester  Hayward,  Frederic  L.  Moody,  and  George  Gooch 
lived  in  turn  where  John  Dwire  now  lives.  The  house  is  on  the 
east  side  of  the  road,  near  the  top  of  the  hill.  On  the  opposite  side 
of  the  road,  a  little  to  the  north,  stands  a  small  house  and  barn  built 
by  Peltiah  T.  Abbott  (117^),  now  unoccupied. 

On  the  same  side  of  the  road  William  Moor  (118),  his  son-in-law, 
Thomas  G.  Worthley,  and  Harris  J.  Ryder  lived  where  his  son,  Nat 
J.  L.  Ryder  lived.  The  house  is  now  unoccupied.  A  few  rods 
north  from  this  place,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  stands  No.  3 
schoolhouse.  Thomas  Harris  (119),  Ephraim  C.  Hardy,  Orville 
Giles,  Mr.  Vance,  dancing  master,  Abner  L.  Had  ley,  and  his  son, 
Byron  T.,  lived  where  his  widow,  Julia  A.  Hadley,  now  lives. 

Lieut.  John  Patten  (120)  built  and  lived  where  his  son,  Captain 
John,  Gilmore  Evelyth,  and  William  H.  Minot  lived,  and  where 
Orwelden  Frachure  now  lives.  A  few  rods  east  of  this  place  Moses 
Barron  (121),  the  original  settler,  built  and  lived.  Here  was  born 
the  first  white  male  child  in  town.  His  name  was  Silas,  and  he  was 
the  son  of  Moses  Barron,  who  came  from  Chelmsford  to  Bedford 
about  1740,  and  settled  on  this  farm.  By  reference  to  the  early 
records  of  the  town  we  find  he  occupied  a  prominent  place  in  the 
community.  He  was  a  large  landowner,  possessing  about  3,000 
acres  in  Bedford,  Merrimack,  and  Amherst.  He  died  in  1770.  His 
estate  was  the  first  settled  by  the  probate  court.  He  had  two  wives, 
by  whom  he  had  sixteen  childi-en,  whose  descendants  are  scattered 
through  different  states  of  the  Union.  Silas  was  the  third  child  of 
his  first  wife,  and  removed  to  the  then  province  of  Maine,  his  occu- 
pation being  that  of  surveyor  of  land.     He  never  married,  and  died 


606  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

about  1816,  aged  seventy-six.  On  this  place  was  formerly  a  cider 
mill. 

James  Thompson  (122)  lived  on  a  knoll  a  few  rods  north  of  John 
Patten's.  The  buildings  are  gone.  On  this  farm  Capt.  John  Patten 
was  killed  by  the  fall  of  a  tree,  January  31,  1851. 

Between  the  railroad  track  and  the  river,  near  Moore's  Crossing 
station,  Jesse  Hartwell  (123)  built  where  Cyrus  Moore  and  John 
Hoffman  later  lived,  and  where  Julius  H.  Putnam  now  lives. 

There  was  a  station  (124)  on  the  Concord  railroad  formerly  called 
Goffe's  Falls.  Later,  in  about  1868,  it  was  removed  to  the  Manches- 
ter side  of  the  river,  and  for  several  years  Bedford  had  no  station. 
Recently  it  has  again  been  established  as  a  flag  station,  and  is  called 
Moore's  Crossing.  One  end  of  the  building  was  used  as  a  station, 
the  other  for  the  station  agent's  residence.  Among  the  station  agents 
were  the  following :  C.  H.  Wheeler,  J.  Y.  McQuesten,  Isaac  Darrah, 
and  Mr.  Towles. 

On  the  south  side  of  the  Ferry  road  (124^)  there  is  an  old  house 
built  and  owned  by  the  Amoskeag  Land  and  Water  Power  Com- 
pany. It  was  for  the  use  of  their  agents,  who  tended  the  locks.  Mr. 
Russel  Moore  was  the  first  of  such  agents,  and  he  boarded  the  fore- 
men who  had  charge  of  the  help  while  the  railroad  bridge  was  being 
built.  A  flag  station  only  was  established  here  at  first,  which  he  also 
tended. 

Nathaniel  Moore  (125)  built  and  lived  where  Edwin  A.  Loomis 
lived,  and  where  George  H.  Moses  now  lives.  The  house  stands  on 
the  north  side  of  the  Ferry  road  near  the  station.  Near  by,  on  the 
same  side  of  the  road,  is  a  tenement  house  (126)  owned  by  the  Dun- 
ton  brothers.  Ephraim  Bushnell  (127),  Deacon  Jonathan  Rand, 
Robert  K.  Darrah,  Russel  Moore,  and  his  son,  Ira  A.,  George  A. 
Dunton,  lived  where  Welcome  Dunton  now  lives.  The  house 
stands  on  the  west  side  of  the  River  road,  north  of  the  Ferry  road. 

Next  north  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Samuel  Fugard  (128) 
lived  where  John  G.  Moore  built,  lived,  and  died.  Jerome  Sturte- 
vant,  his  son-in-law,  later  lived  here,  and  Arthur  W.  Davis  now 
occupies  it.  This  is  the  farm  the  town  bought  and  gave  to  Samuel 
Fugard,  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

On  the  opposite  side  of  the  road,  north  of  the  County  road, 
Marcus  L.  Fogg  (129)  built  and  lived  where  Henry  A.  Smith  later 
lived.     It  is  now  occupied  by  Joseph  Gamache. 

Joseph  H.  Ward  (130)  built  and  lived  where  John  H.  Emery 
later  lived,  and  where  his  widow,  Martha  J.  Emery,  and  her  son, 
Walter  H.,  now  live.  The  house  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the 
road. 

Also  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  Deacon  Stephen  Thurston  (131), 
James  Walker,  William  Walker,  and  Arthur  F.  Califf  in  turn  lived. 
The  farm  is  now  owned  by  Celibert  Maynard.  Deacon  Thurston's 
first  wife  was  a  sister  of  Rev.  Dr.  Parish  of  Byfield,  Mass.,  and 
mother  of   Philomelia,  second    wife    of   the   missionarv  Newell  in 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  607 

India.  Deacon  Thurston  furnished  the  first  settlers  of  Amoskeag 
with  milk,  carrying  it  in  jugs  holding  two  and  four  quarts  each. 
This  was  before  Manchester  was  settled. 

On  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Josiah  Walker  (132)  built  and  lived 
where  Joseph  T.  Savage  and  his  son-in-law,  Charles  Tewksbury, 
later  lived  and  where  Frank  E.  French  now  lives. 

Robert  and  James  Walker,  brothers  (133),  cleared,  built,  and 
lived  on  the  land  where  James  and  Josiah  Walker,  son  and  grand- 
son of  first  James,  and  Edward,  son  of  Josiah,  successively  lived, 
and  where  Miss  Mary  A.  Walker  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Rowena 
Walker  Dodge,  now  live.  This  farm  has  been  recently  sold  to 
Perham  and  Everett  Parker. 

The  Walker  garrison  house  stood  in  the  field  a  few  rods  east  of 
the  river  road  and  nearly  opposite  the  Edward  Walker  house. 
Robert  and  James  Walker  were  the  first  settlers  of  Bedford.  The 
present  house  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  at  the  top  of  the 
hill,  and  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  town. 

North  of  the  Merrimac  line  on  the  west  side  of  the  back  river 
road  William  Montey  (134)  built  where  he  now  lives. 

Barney  Cain  (135),  or  McCain,  lived  a  few  rods  south  of  the 
present  buildings  (136),  which  Dwelly  Mitchell  built  and  which 
Williams  D.,  son  of  Dwelly,  later  occupied,  and  where  Mary  Sars- 
field,  her  father,  Patrick  Sarsfield,  and  William  T.  Brent  lived. 
The  house  stands  on  the  east  side  of  the  road. 

Daniel  Muzzy  (137),  Solomon  Gage,  Joseph  B.  Smith,  and  hi» 
son,  Benjamin,  successively  lived  where  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Smith  and 
her  son,  George  W.,  now  live.  The  house  stands  at  the  junction  of 
the  back  river  road  and  the  road  running  west  to  Thompson's  corner. 

Freeman  Thibaudeau  (137)4)  built  where  he  now  lives,  north  of 
Smith's  corners  on  the  east  side  of  the  road. 

North,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  Solomon  Gage  (138),  Amos 
Harris,  Samuel  Lord,  his  sons,  John  and  James,  and  William  Mer- 
riam  lived,  where  Napoleon  Larouche  now  lives. 

Otis  Quimby  (139)  built  and  lived  on  the  west  side  of  the  road, 
where  William  Pellerin  later  lived,  and  where  Gustaff  Pearson  now 
lives. 

Alva  R.  Mack  (140)  built  and  lived  where  Gustaff  Halmber  now 
lives,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road. 

Orlando  Proctor  (141)  built  and  lived  on  the  same  side  where 
Rufus  Mack  lived  and  where  Peter  Villenevue  now  lives. 

Herbert  A.  Mack  (142)  built  and  lived  on  the  west  side  where 
Arthur  Thibaudeau  now  lives. 

Peter  Matott  (143)  built  and  lived  in  the  house  now  owned  by 
Fred  Hoffman. 

Opposite  the  old  graveyard,  William  T.  Brent  (144)  lived  where 
Mr.  Herzog  now  lives. 

Charles  Haley  (145)  built  where  he  now  lives. 

Job  Fletcher  (146)  built  where  Frank  Odell  now  lives. 


608  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

Anthony  Sharkey  (146^)  built  where  he  and  his  son  Louis  now 
live  in  a  log  house,  west,  on  the  plank  road. 
Ed  Mason  (147)  built  where  he  now  lives. 

DISTRICT    NO.   4. 

Daniel  Roby  (148)  built  and  lived  where  John  R.  Young  later 
lived,  and  where  Edgar  Brown  now  lives.  Mr.  Roby  went  to 
California  in  1849.  His  wife  and  her  mother,  Mrs.  Samuel  Smith, 
occupied  the  house  after  he  went  away.  This  house  stands  on  the 
county  road  east  of  the  back  river  road. 

A  Mr.  Schlaughk  (148^)  built  about  thirty  rods  south  of  the 
road ;  the  buildings  were  destroyed  by  fire  a  few  years  later. 

Just  east,  on  the  County  road,  Gottlieb  Hoffman  (149)  built  and 
lived  where  Daniel  McLaughlin  later  lived,  and  where  John  B. 
Gamache  now  lives. 

Where  Martin  Bullock  (150),  Michael  Boynton,  and  Thomas 
Taffe  lived,  the  house  is  gone.  Edward  A.  Porter  (150^)  built  and 
lives  near  this  place. 

A  schoolhouse  (151)  stood  in  the  northeast  corner  of  Rodney  M. 
Rollins'  field, — the  second  schoolhouse  in  town.  It  was  afterward 
occupied  as  a  dwelling  house  by  Rebecca  and  Sally  Wallace,  and  is 
now  gone. 

A.  Kidder  (152)  lived  a  little  east  of  the  old  schoolhouse  in  the 
fork  of  the  road.  The  house  is  now  gone.  Benjamin  Baker's  edge 
tool  shop  (153)  stood  south  of  the  bridge  and  east  of  the  road. 

Capt.  William  Patten  (154)  built  and  lived  where  Rodney  M. 
Rollins,  John  Adams,  John  McNeil,  and  Edmund  Kendall  later 
lived,  and  where  Alfred  Porter  now  lives ;  his  son  Edward  A.  Porter 
also  lived  here.     Mr.  McNeil  went  to  California  in  1849. 

Primus  Chandler  (155)  built  and  lived  where  Thomas  Taffe  later 
lived,  and  where  Charles  D.  Taffe  and  sisters  now  live.  The  house 
stands  on  the  east  side  of  the  River  road.  The  present  buildings 
stand  on  the  site  of  the  Primus  Chandler  house,  but  were  built  by 
Mr.  Taffe. 

William  McDougal  (156)  lived  south  of  the  Samuel  Chandler 
house.  The  house  stood  in  what  was  Mr.  Chandler's  garden,  near 
the  west  side  of  the  road.  Mr.  McDougal  kept  bachelor's  hall,  did 
the  cooking  for  two  persons  besides  himself,  and  on  the  day  of  his 
death  he  had  bread  enough  baked  to  last  the  family  until  after  the 
funeral.     He  dropped  dead  while  sitting  in  his  chair. 

Just  north,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  Samuel  Chandler  (157), 
father  of  Hon.  Zechariah  Chandler,  built  and  lived  where  his  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Mary  J.  Lee,  later  lived,  and  where  Samuel  P.  Duncklee 
now  lives.  Mr.  Chandler  was  a  merchant  and  kept  a  store  which 
stood  a  few  feet  north  of  his  house.  It  was  afterward  built  over 
into  a  dwelling  house  and  occupied  by  Kneeland  Truel.  The  farm 
has  been  recently  purchased  by  Gordon  Woodbury. 


THE   WALKER   HOUSE. 


THE  CHANDLER  HOUSE. 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  609 

Just  opposite,  Zechariah  Chandler  (158),  who  descended  from  one  of 
the  original  proprietors,  lived  where  his  daughter,  Sarah  Chandler, 
Hannah  M.  Rollins,  and  her  son,  Rodney  M.,  lived,  and  where  Mrs. 
Abby  R.  Rollins  and  her  son,  Rodney  F.,  now  live.  The  buildings 
were  rebuilt  by  R.  M.  Rollins.  It  seems  highly  probable  that 
Thomas  Chandler,  father  of  Zechariah,  and  who  came  to  Bedford  at 
a  very  early  date,  built  these  buildings  and  occupied  them.  This 
was  the  first  house  of  entertainment  between  Nashua  and  Concord 
on  this  road. 

About  fifty  rods  north  of  Chandler's  on  the  east  side  of  the  road 
stands  No.  4  schoolhouse. 

Samuel  Patterson,  father  of  Samuel,  who  lived  at  the  Stephen 
Goffe  place,  lived  in  a  house  (159)  which  stood  on  the  east  side  of 
the  River  road  nearly  opposite  where  Capt.  Thomas  Chandler 
built  and  lived.  He  first  (160)  built  on  the  north  line  of  the 
Chandler  farm,  a  few  rods  south  of  Deacon  Richard  Dole's  fulling 
mill.  This  mill  stood  where  the  cider  and  grist-mill  now  stands 
on  the  south  side  of  the  brook.  The  house  stood  nearly  south,  on 
the  north  line  of  the  Chandler  farm,  so  called.  He  afterwards 
built,  as  above  stated,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road  from  Chandler's, 
and  there  James  Martin,  the  first  deputy  from  Bedford  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war,  lived.  Colonel  White  of  Massachusetts  owned  the 
land.  He  met  Patterson  in  Boston  directly  after  he  landed  from 
Ireland,  and  agreed  with  him  to  settle  upon  his  land.  Patterson  had 
a  number  of  sons. 

Thomas  Chandler  (161)  built  and  lived  at  the  junction  of  the 
River  and  meeting-house  roads,  where  his  son,  Adam,  Hon.  George 
Foster,  his  widow,  Salome  F.  Foster,  and  her  sons,  Charles  E.  and 
Herman  Foster,  lived.  Mr.  Foster  built  a  large  barn  on  this  place, 
and  after  his  death  it  was  burned,  late  in  1896,  and  rebuilt  by 
his  widow.  This  place  is  now  owned  by  Gordon  Woodbury  and 
occupied  by  Frank  S.  Crowell.  The  barn  has  been  moved  by  Mr. 
Woodbury  to  the  west  side  of  the  lot.  In  the  early  days,  Mr. 
Chandler  kept  a  tavern  stand  here.  It  was  considered  one  of  the 
best  kept  hostelries  of  its  time.  It  was  called  the  "White  Horse 
Tavern,"  and  he  was  a  strictly  honest  landlord.  Teaming  was 
very  extensive  at  that  time  from  northern  New  Hampshire  and 
Vermont  to  Boston.  Teams  would  stop  a  little  earlier,  or  travel 
a  little  later,  for  the  sake  of  putting  up  for  the  night  with  Mr. 
Chandler. 

Just  north,  on  the  same  side  of  the  river  road,  John  Goffe  (162) 
built  and  lived,  where  his  brother-in-law,  John  Parker,  lived,  and 
where  Col.  Edward  L.  Bailey,  son-in-law  of  John  Parker,  and  his 
son,  Louis,  now  live. 

Whitefield   Craig    (163),  Philip   Flanders,  and  Mrs.  Fisk   lived 
north  of  this  place  near  Thomas  Rundlett's  house.    When  Mrs.  Fisk 
lived  there  the  house  was  broken  into  and  robbed.     This  house  was 
built  out  of  the  old  hat  shop. 
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610  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Thomas  Rundlett  (163^)  built  and  lived  a  few  rods  north  of  the 
late  John  Parker.  He  was  a  hatter  by  trade  and  carried  on  an 
extensive  business.  This  house  was  moved  away,  and  is  now  occu- 
pied by  Warren  G.  Currier. 

Daniel  Kendrick  (165)  built  and  lived  where  William,  son  of 
Theodore  A.  Goffe,  lived,  in  a  house  which  stood  a  few  rods  north 
of  Mr.  Rundlett's,  between  his  house  and  the  mill  pond.  Theodore 
A.  Goffe  also  lived  here  a  few  years  in  his  old  age.  The  house  was 
moved  north,  on  the  east  side  of  the  River  road,  and  is  now  occupied 
by  Edward  P.  French.  John  A.  McGaw  removed  both  (163^,  165) 
the  William  Goffe  and  the  Rundlett  houses,  and  in  1859  built  (164) 
and  lived  where  his  widow,  Nancy  McGaw,  and  son-in-law,  Freeman 
P.  Woodbury,  lived,  and  where  Mrs.  Freeman  P.  Woodbury  and 
her  son,  Gordon,  now  live.  The  house  was  remodeled  and  enlarged 
by  Mrs.  Woodbury  in  1891. 

Thomas  Newman  (166),  Eleazer  Dole,  and  William  Rundlett 
lived  on  the  east  side  of  the  road.  The  buildings  were  burned 
February  19,  1878.     Mr.  Rundlett  went  to  California  in  1849. 

Hannah  Hawes  (167),  sister  of  Theodore  A.  Goffe,  lived  in  a 
little  house  now  removed.  A  Mr.  Peabody,  a  blacksmith,  and 
Whitefield  Craig  also  lived  there.  It  stood  south  of  the  Crosby 
brook  on  the  east  side  of  the  road  at  the  foot  of  the  hill.  It  was 
built  by  Mr.  Goffe  for  Mrs.  Hawes. 

A  few  feet  north  of  this  house,  across  the  brook,  stood  a  two- 
story  house  (168)  on  the  site  of  the  building  now  used  as  a  laun- 
dry. Rev.  Samuel  Abbott  and  his  son,  Stephen  G.,  lived  there. 
Both  father  and  son  were  Baptist  ministers.  Mr.  Abbott,  Sr., 
carried  on  a  shop,  making  old-fashioned  slat  curtains,  and  the  twine 
used  in  their  construction.  The  shop  stood  on  the  west  side  of  the 
road,  on  the  north  end  of  the  present  mill  dam.  Rev.  Stephen  Ganno 
Abbott,  in  later  life,  was  United  States  consul  to  Colombia,  South 
America.  Kneeland  Truel  also  lived  here,  and  many  others  who 
worked  at  various  times  in  Mr.  Bowman's  mills,  formerly  Goffe's. 
Mr.  McGaw  took  the  house  down  when  he  built  the  laundry.  In 
early  life  the  Rev.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace  was  a  painter  by  trade,  and 
worked  in  the  other  end  of  the  Abbott  shop.  John  Rand  also 
worked  there. 

Near  to  the  laundry  stood  a  small  (169)  house  which  was  burned 
in  1844.  Otis  Batchelder  lived  in  it.  He  and  William  Goffe  married 
sisters.     Just  south  of  the  Batchelder  house  stood  the  tannery. 

George  W.  Goffe  (170)  built  the  house  where  William  Wind- 
rick,  Samuel  Seavey,  and  Daniel  L.  Felch  lived,  on  the  road  leading 
to  the  river  landing,  and  where  Thomas  W.  Taffe  now  lives. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  road  leading  to  the  landing  stood  Goffe's 
garrison  house.     Its  exact  location  is  not  now  known. 

Lucien  B.  Bowman  (171)  built  and  lived  where  Robert  Miller,  Eli- 
jah C.  Stevens,  Frank  Harville,  and  Henry  Sanderson  later  lived. 

Col.   John   Goffe    (172),   his   son,   Major   Goffe,   and   grandson, 


CHANGES   IX    THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  611 

Theodore  A.  Goffe,  lived  in  a  house  near  where  Col.  Thomas  P. 
Pierce  built  and  lived,  and  where  Capt.  Samuel  T.  Soper  afterwards 
lived.  This  house  is  now  owned  by  Gordon  Woodbury,  and  is 
occupied  by  John  Taylor.  Captain  Soper  followed  the  sea  for 
many  years,  and  was  made  commander  of  his  vessel  when  quite  a 
young  man.  The  original  Goffe  house  stood  very  near  the  present 
one.  It  was  removed  by  Colonel  Pierce  when  he  built  the  present 
one.  On  this  place  Mr.  Woodbury  built  a  new  barn  in  1898.  Phin- 
eas  G.  Adams  once  owned  this  place. 

Capt.  Thomas  McLaughlin  (173),  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  Deacon 
Richard  Dole,  Daniel  Gordon,  Wadleigh  Noyes,  James  P.  Dennison, 
Robert  Fulton,  William  A.  Putney,  and  Henry  W.  Campbell  lived 
where  Melvin  Kelton  now  lives.  His  son,  Ora  G.,  formerly  lived 
here.     Robert  Fulton  went  to  California  in  1849. 

Lucien  B.  Bowman  (174),  Deacon  Daniel  Balch,  David  P.  Dur- 
gin,  Napoleon  Bournival,  and  Walter  M.  Strong  lived  where  Edward 
E.  Stewart  now  lives. 

Napoleon  Bournival  (175)  built  and  lived  where  -  Celibert  May- 
nard  now  lives. 

John  Regan  (176)  built  and  lived  in  the  house  now  owned  by 
Edward  P.  French,  and  occupied  at  different  times  by  John  Hall, 
Alva  Pinkham,  Herbert  A.  Mack,  and  at  present  by  Ceylon  J.  and 
Arthur  C.  Brown. 

Daniel  Wheeler  (177),  who  once  collected  toll  at  the  Granite 
bridge,  and  Warren  G.  Currier  lived  where  Edward  P.  French  now 
lives. 

Enoch  Stevens  (178)  and  Charles  Canfield  lived  where  James  C. 
Gilman  now  lives. 

Arnold  Wyman  (179)  built  and  lived  where  Thomas  J.  Wiggin 
now  lives.  The  buildings  were  burned,  and  Mr.  Wiggin  built  those 
he  now  occupies. 

Robert  Currier  (180)  lived  where  his  son,  Warren  G.,  now  lives. 
This  is  the  old  Thomas  Rundlett  house. 

There  is  a  set  of  buildings  (181)  on  the  river  bank  built  for  a 
rendering  establishment.  They  are  now  owned  by  Gordon  Wood- 
bury, and  are  used  as  a  tenement  block. 

Lewis  Rice  (182)  built  the  house  on  the  west  side  of  the  River 
road  south  of  Edmund  B.  Hull's.  It  is  now  owned  by  Gordon 
Woodbury.  This  house  formerly  stood  very  near  Mr.  Hull's,  but 
was  removed  to  its  present  location. 

The  one  formerly  used  as  a  soapery  was  also  built  by  Mr.  Rice 
(183),  and  is  now  owned  by  Mr.  Woodbury.  Both  of  these  are 
tenement  houses. 

Thomas  J.  Wiggin  (184)  built  where  Nathaniel  B.  Hull  lived, 
and  where  the  latter's  son,  Edmund  B.,  now  lives.  The  present 
barn  was  built  by  Edmund  B.  Hull. 

Matthew  Little  (185),  Thomas  McAffee,  Adam  Gilmore,  and 
Adam,  his  son  (the  latter  went  to  California  in  1849),  Dr.  Lindsey, 


612  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

John  D.  Riddle,  Samuel  Batchelder,  John  Stevens,  and  Isaac  Brown 
lived  where  Eugene  F.  Buswell  now  lives.  The  house  stands  on 
the  west  side  of  the  River  road. 

Nearly  opposite,  a  little  to  the  north,  Daniel  George  (186)  built 
and  lived  where  Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  2d,  and  Gustave  Schlaugh 
lived,  and  where  John  B.  Lodge  and  Charles  C.  Brock  now  live. 
John  B.  Lodge  (186^)  built  where  John  E.  Ring  now  lives. 

Gilman  E.  Gale  (187)  built  and  lived  where  Mr.  Balch,  John  H. 
Durgin,  Allen  Partridge,  and  his  son,  Albert,  lived,  and  where 
George  F.  Putnam  now  lives. 

Daniel  George  (188)  built  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  nearly 
opposite  Mr.  Putnam's  where  Samuel  W.  Dunbar  and  Frank  H. 
Brickett  lived.  These  buildings  were  partially  destroyed  by  fire  in 
November,  1889,  and  two  children  were  burned  to  death.  The 
buildings  were  repaired  by  Mr.  Dunbar,  and  are  now  occupied  by 
Nat  J.  L.  Ryder. 

William  Hartshorn  (189)  built  the  barn  and  Nathan  Parker  built 
the  house  where  George  E.  Nute,  John  S.  Philbrick,  his  son,  Loren, 
and  John  E.  Ring  lived.  It  is  the  last  house  in  Bedford  on  the 
River  road,  and  is  where  Ora  G.  Kelton  now  lives. 

On  the  meeting-house  road,  going  towards  the  Center  from 
Chandler's  corner,  the  first  house  to  the  left,  George  Wyman  (190), 
brother  of  Arnold  Wyman,  built  and  lived  where  Samuel  Seavey, 
Mrs.  Sargent,  George  W.  Goffe,  Isaac  Russ,  John  W.  Brown,  his 
widow,  Susan  Brown,  and  son,  Dana  K.,  and  Herbert  A.  Mack  later 
lived.  The  house  is  now  owned  by  Gordon  Woodbury  and  occu- 
pied by  Henry  W.  Darrah. 

Robert  Young  (191),  -lames  P.  Walker,  Moses  Johnson,  George 
Griffin,  Theron  Forbes,  Zebina  Woodbury,  Mr.  Hoyt,  and  John  F. 
Gove  in  turn  lived  on  land  now  owned  by  Gordon  Woodbury.  The 
buildings  were  moved  there  by  Thomas  Rundlett,  and  were  burned 
August  25,  1894.  Frank  Gray  had  also  occupied  the  house.  Fred 
Ray  was  living  in  it  at  the  time  of  the  fire.  The  house  stood  on 
the  north  side  of  the  road. 

Further  west,  on  the  south  side  of  the  road,  a  little  back  from  the 
highway,  Ferdinand  Reuiter  (192)  built  and  lived  where  George  W. 
Hamlin,  Stanislaus  Lavoie,  and  Homer  Pepin  lived.  These  build- 
ings were  also  burned  January  4,  1899. 

At  the  four  corners  John  Goffe  (193)  built  the  house  where  Cal- 
vin Snow  and  his  son,  Gilman,  lived.  Ira  Campbell  also  lived  there. 
It  stands  on  the  east  side  of  James  E.  French's  farm,  and  is  still 
called  the  Snow  house.     It  is  now  unoccupied. 

John  Weber  (194)  built  and  lived  where  his  son-in-law,  August 
Schinck,  lived.  The  buildings  were  burned.  The  house  stood  on 
the  east  side  of  the  road  from  the  center  of  the  town  to  Goffe's 
Falls,  about  ten  rods  north  of  the  brook. 

Nearly  opposite  to  Mr.  Schincks  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  Fer- 
dinand Riedell  (195)  built  and  lived  where  Lewis  Gersbach  and  his 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  613 

son,  Lewis,  lived.  The  house  was  long  unoccupied,  but  a  family  is 
now  living  there. 

Samuel  Patten,  son  of  first  John,  built  and  lived  on  top  of  the 
hill  in  a  pasture  now  owned  by  Alfred  Porter.  The  house  (196) 
stood  about  five  rods  east  of  the  road.  The  map  in  the  History  of 
1851  places  this  house  west  of  the  road,  but  the  best  evidence  is 
that  it  was  east.  Joseph  Patten  (197),  his  son,  built  and  lived 
about  twenty  rods  east  of  this  place.  The  buildings  have  long  been 
gone. 

The  Patten  Garrison  house  stood  southeast  of  the  Samuel  Patten 
(196)  house  on  the  east  side  of  the  road. 

William  Boynton  (198)  built,  in  1847,  and  lived  where  Hiram 
Mace,  Daniel  Greene,  Mr.  Williams,  the  Plummer  brothers,  Edgar 

A.  and  Frank  P.,  Albert  J.  Knight,  John  M.  Hill,  Fred  Englehardt, 
Frank  Livingston,  and  Carl  Fischner  lived  in  turn,  and  where  John 

B.  Chartrand  now  lives.  This  house  stands  at  the  end  of  a  road 
which  runs  south  from  the  Boynton  road  about  half  way  across  the 
plains.     Frank  Plummer  followed  the  sea  for  many  years. 

DISTRICT  No.  5. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  range  line  road  and  about  one  third  of  a 
mile  north  of  the  four  corners  known  as  Thompson's  corners,  Aaron 
and  Solomon  Gage  (199)  built  for  their  sister,  Mrs.  Muzzy,  the 
house  where  Dwelly  Mitchell,  Alexander  Patten,  and  Dea.  John 
Parker  lived,  and  where  Isaac  P.  Hodgman  and  his  son,  John  M. 
Hodgman,  now  live.  The  house  was  rebuilt  by  Isaac  P.  Hodgman. 
John  M.  Hodgman  built  the  present  barn. 

Archibald  Lawson  (200)  lived  about  sixty  rods  southeast  of  Isaac 
P.  Hodgman.  He  was  from  Braintree,  Mass.,  and  kept  bachelor's 
hall  many  years.  Amos  Harris  ploughed  up  here  a  sickle  of  very 
old  construction.     The  house  is  now  gone. 

About  one  half  mile  north  of  Mr.  Hodgman's,  on  the  east  side  of 
the  road,  Adam  N.  Patten  (201)  built  and  lived  on  what  is  known 
as  the  Highland  farm.  Afterwards,  Major  Daniel  Moore,  Mr.  Rugg, 
William  P.  Newton,  Daniel  McLaughlin,  Mrs.  Reed,  William  Bailey, 
John  Stevens,  James  E.  Gault,  George  E.  Gault,  William  Young, 
Daniel  and  Joseph  Emery  lived  there  in  turn,  and  there  Fred  T. 
Corliss  now  lives. 

North,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  same  road,  Patrick  Fling  (202), 
John  McAffee,  James  Morrison,  and  his  son,  Samuel  E.,  Mrs.  Eliza 
A.  Stevens  and  her  daughter,  Eunice,  lived  where  Lyman  M.  Kinson 
now  lives.  The  old  house  was  moved  from  the  Samuel  McAffee 
place  by  Patrick  Fling.  Ephraim  Parker  and  Ephraim  Hutchins 
lived  here  while  Mr.  Morrison  was  superintendent  of  the  town  farm. 
James  Morrison  built  the  present  house  in  1850,  and  Lyman  M.  Kin- 
son  built  the  barn. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  same  road,  Joseph  P.  Emery  (203)  built 
where  he  now  lives. 


614  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Samuel  Morrison  (204),  brother  of  James,  built  and  lived  on  the 
east  side  of  the  road  where  Thomas  M.  Ferguson  lived,  and  where 
his  daughter,  Hattie  L.,  now  lives. 

Patrick  Cochran  (205)  built  and  lived  where  William  Dolan,  John 
Shea,  Jr.,  and  Frank  T.  Ferguson  lived,  and  where  Daniel  W.  Eaton 
now  lives.     The  house  stands  in  the  field  several  rods  from  the  road. 

North  of  this  house,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  Fred  Hebert 
(206)  built  and  lived,  where  William  Jennings  now  lives. 

North  of  the  Ferguson  house,  Granville  Heselton  (207)  built, 
where  his  widow,  Lilla  M.  Heselton,  now  lives. 

On  the  south  side  of  the  County  road,  about  twenty-five  rods  from 
the  junction  of  the  Bedford  Center  and  Goffe's  Falls  roads,  Napoleon 
Philbert  (208)  built  and  lives  in  a  log  house. 

West,  on  the  south  side  of  the  road,  Louis  St.  John  (208^)  built 
where  he  now  lives. 

West,  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  Louis  Monte  (209)  built 
where  he  now  lives. 

Thomas  Marshall  (209^  )  built  and  lives  still  farther  west,  on  the 
same  side  of  the  road. 

Fred  St.  Louis  (210)  built  where  he  now  lives,  on  the  south  side 
of  the  road. 

About  one  fourth  mile  from  here,  Harry  Atwood  (210^)  built 
where  he  now  lives,  on  what  was  formerly  a  woods  road,  called  the 
plank  road.  In  the  olden  days  there  has  been  more  large  timber, 
both  pine  and  oak,  drawn  over  this  road  by  oxen  to  Goffe's  Falls 
landing,  to  be  rafted  to  Lowell  and  Newburyport,  than  on  any  other 
road  leading  to  the  Merrimack  river.  Some  of  the  largest  oak  and 
pine  timber  in  town  was  found  in  this  vicinity.  The  oak  was  mostly 
used  for  ship  building. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  County  road,  James  Houston  (211), 
brother  of  Rev.  John,  and  Samuel,  a  blacksmith  and  a  son  of  James, 
lived  where  Dea.  John  Parker,  Benjamin  Dowse,  Christian  Schnei- 
der, and  John  Huskie  lived,  and  where  his  son,  John  Huskie,  now 
lives.  Samuel  Houston  was  totally  blind  the  latter  part  of  his  life ; 
rather  fond  of  conversation,  he  loved  to  tell  of  a  quaint  reply  that  he 
once  heard  given  to  the  inquiry,  "  What  is  the  difference  between 
the  Presbyterian  and  Congregationalist  ?  "  "  Oh  !  the  difference  is 
this,  the  Congregationalist  goes  home  and  eats  a  regular  dinner  be- 
tween services,  but  the  Presbyterian  postpones  his  till  after  meeting.'1 
This  Dowse  place  is  where  Mr.  McGregore,  when  a  youth,  passing 
through  town  from  Londonderry  to  Chestnut  Hills,  took  refuge 
from  the  pursuit  of  a  very  large  black  snake  that,  with  head  erect, 
chased  him  something  like  a  mile.  Mr.  McGregore  was  lame  and 
walked  with  a  cane.  He  said  the  snake  carried  his  head  as  high  as 
his  own.  He  fought  him  with  his  cane  and  thus  managed  to  keep 
out  of  his  harm.  It  is  said  a  snake  of  immense  proportions  used  to 
be  seen  in  these  woods. 

Further  west  on  the  same  road,  John  Harrison  (212)  built  where 
he  now  lives. 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  615 

On  the  Manchester  and  Merrimack  road,  Samuel  Currier  (213), 
Abijah  Hodgman,  his  sons,  Abijah,  Jr.,  and  Frederic,  lived  where 
James  E.  Gault  now  lives.  Abijah  Hodgman  built  the  present 
house,  and  his  son  Frederic  built  the  barn. 

Jonathan  Currier  (214),  brother  of  Samuel,  lived  on  the  north  side 
of  this  farm,  about  fifty  rods  northeast  of  James  E.  Gault.  Also,  'at 
an  early  period,  Alexander  Orr  lived  at  the  same  place.  Orr  mar- 
ried Jane  McConihe  of  Merrimack,  and  John  Gault,  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  married  Orr's  daughter,  Molly,  and  Daniel  McLaughlin  mar- 
ried Fanny,  a  daughter  of  Gault.  On  the  same  farm,  at  the  north 
side,  lived  Judge  James  Underwood,  first  on  the  list  of  lawyers,  a 
relative  of  the  Litchfield  family  of  that  name.  At  one  time  families 
by  the  names  of  Kent  and  Campbell  lived  at  this  place. 

West  of  Mr.  Gault's,  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  Timothy  Con- 
ner and  John  Shea  (215)  built  and  lived  where  Robert  Cronshaw, 
Herbert  Wetherbee,  Edward  Rogers,  William  Jennings,  and  Martin 
Campbell  lived,  and  where  Harvey  Schofft  now  fives. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  range  fine  road,  north  of  the  County  road, 
Alexander  Brooks  (216)  built  where  he  now  lives. 

The  range  line  road  runs  north  and  south  at  this  place ;  the 
County  road  runs  east  and  west.  These  roads  are  crossed  by  the 
Manchester  and  Merrimack  road, "running  from  northeast  to  south- 
west, forming  six  corners.  This  is  a  very  unusual  circumstance,  and 
we  have  been  told  that  there  is  not  another  of  the  kind  in  any  New 
England  town. 

Southwest  of  Daniel  W.Eaton's,  in  what  is  now  woodland  and  off 
of  the  road,  John  McLaughlin  (217)built  and  lived  on  the  south  side 
of  the  McLaughlin  farm.  John  McLaughlin  first  lived  on  the  Gordon 
farm,  as  before  mentioned,  in  District  No.  1.  Rev.  John  Houston, 
when  first  married,  lived  here  with  John  McLaughlin. 

John  McLaughlin,  Jr.  (218),  built  a  house  just  south  of  the  house 
now  occupied  by  Martin  Kelley.  It  is  said  to  have  contained  only 
one  room.  Here  his  children  were  born,  and  when  his  son  Patrick 
married  Deborah  Martin,  another  room  was  added  to  their  humble 
home,  and  his  mother  was  wont  to  remark,  with  great  pride  and 
satisfaction,  that  "  it  was  a  fine  peeled  egg  that  Debby  came  to  when 
she  was  married." 

Patrick's  son  Rodney  (219)  built  and  lived  in  the  house  standing 
just  north  of  his  father's.  In  this  house  his  children  and  one  grand- 
daughter were  born.  In  front  of  this  house  stands  an  ancient  elm 
noted  for  its  beauty  and  size.  It  was  probably  planted  by  Patrick 
McLaughlin,  as  his  little  daughter  Hannah  held  the  young  tree  while 
it  was  being  planted.  It  was  here  Mrs.  Lucy  W.  Gault,  Lemuel  B. 
Gault,  Daniel  Gault,  George  Whitford,  Frederic  Wright,  Charles 
Brooks,  John  Pearsons,  Robert  K.  and  Granville  Heselton  lived,  and 
there  Martin  Kelley  now  lives. 

West,  on  the  south  side  of  the  same  road,  Calvin  Snow  (220) 
built  and  lived  where  Daniel  McLaughlin,  son  of  Patrick,  Greenleaf 


616  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Walker,  George  McLaughlin,  son  of  Daniel,  Samuel  Seavey,  .John 
Mclntire,  and  Daniel  Murphy  lived,  and  where  Frank  H.  Brickett 
now  lives. 

Ephraim  Snow  (221),  brother  of  Calvin,  built  and  lived  where 
his  widow,  Mariah  Snow,  her  son-in-law,  George  McAllister,  George 
Wilkins,  and  Martin  Campbell  later  lived.  The  house  is  now  unoc- 
cupied. Mr.  Snow  remained  a  bachelor  until  late  in  life,  and  on  the 
occasion  of  his  marriage  the  following  poem  was  produced : 

"  We  hear  of  women  petrified, 

And  turned  to  stone,  you  know, 
But  here  is  something  wonderful, 
A  woman  turned  to  Snow. 

"  May  their  wedded  life  be  joyous, 
And  happiness  e'er  flow, 
And  they  be  blessed  with  sundry  small 
And  thawless  banks  of  Snow." 

Jean  Patten  (222),  a  weaver,  and  daughter  of  Hon.  Matthew, 
lived  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road  in  a  little  house  which  had 
been  Calvin  Snow's  cooper  shop. 

On  the  southeast  side  of  Bell  hill,  in  the  field,  on  an  old  road, 
John  Bell  (223)  lived  about  sixty  rods  southwest  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Savage.  This  was  his  first  settlement.  It  was  a  log  house  and 
stood  on  land  of  Adam  N.  Patten,  called  the  "  Old  Orchard."  Daniel 
Gould  once  lived  in  this  house.  Bell  moved  from  here  to  the 
"Thirds"  (223^),  so  called,  about  fifteen  rods  northeast  of  where 
Martin  Kelley  now  lives.  His  gravestone  can  be  seen  in  the  old 
graveyard. 

John  Bell  (224),  son  of  the  first  John,  built,  lived,  and  died  on  the 
southwest  side  of  Bell  hill,  on  land  now  owned  by  George  F.  Bar- 
nard. 

Joseph  Bell  (225),  son  of  the  above,  built  and  lived  on  the  County 
road  where  it  crosses  the  road  from  Bedford  Center  to  Nashua.  He 
was  a  blacksmith  by  trade. 

Flora  Bell  (226),  his  slave,  lived  near  by,  on  land  owned  by  the 
late  Ann  Orr.  She  had  one  son,  called  Boston  Bell.  The  Bells 
formerly  owned  the  whole  square  bounded  by  the  four  corners. 

John  Gault  (227),  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  built  and  lived  where 
Moses  Noyes,  Daniel  Barnard,  David  Crowell,  George  D.  Whitford, 
Solon  C.  Gilmore,  Edgar  Breed,  and  John  Blood  lived,  and  where  J. 
Elmer  Esterbrooks  now  lives.  The  original  house  was  burned  and 
the  present  one  built  by  David  Crowell.  The  barn  was  rebuilt  and 
enlarged  by  Mr.  Whitford. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  range  line  road  a  few  rods  north  of  the 
six  corners  stands  No.  5  schoolhouse. 

North  of  the  schoolhouse,  on  the  east  side  of  the  same  road,  Rev. 
Thomas  Savage  (228)  lived  nearly  forty  years  in  the  brick  cottage 
built  for  him  by  Capt.  William  Patten.  Frederic  L.  Wallace,  Mrs. 
John  Huse,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  W.  W.  Wilkins,  also  lived  here.     It  was 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  617 

afterwards  owned  and  occupied  by  John  Hodgman  and  now  by 
Henry  C.  Wallace. 

William  Holmes  (229)  lived  on  the  Reed  place  about  seventy-five 
rods  northeast  of  James  E.  French's,  on  land  owned  by  Freeman 
French.  James  Linn  (230),  Stephen  French,  Sr.,  Stephen  French,  Jr., 
Stephen  French,  3d,  lived  where  James  E.  French,  son  of  Stephen 
French,  3d,  now  lives.  The  present  house  was  built  by  Stephen 
French,  3d.  The  barn  was  remodeled  and  enlarged  by  his  son,. 
James  E.  Stephen  French,  his  son  and  grandson,  Stephen,  were 
tanners  by  trade,  and  for  more  than  seventy-five  years  carried  on 
the  most  extensive  business  of  the  kind  in  town.  The  tannery  build- 
ings contained  more  than  twenty  vat?,  and  stood  a  little  east  of  the 
old  house,  which  was  between  the  present  one  and  the  road. 

James  Linn's  daughter  married  Dea.  James  Wallace.  Linn  after- 
wards lived  and  died  at  James  Wallace's.  Dea.  James  Wallace  first 
lived  in  a  log  house,  which  (230*^ )  stood  at  the  foot  of  the  hill  east 
of  the  town  house  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  near  where  Chan- 
dler Spofford  formerly  lived,  and  on  land  now  owned  by  John  Roby. 
He  afterwards  built,  lived,  and  died  in  a  house  that  was  destroyed 
by  fire.  On  this  site  (231)  Stephen  French,  Jr.,  built  the  present 
brick  house,  which  was  considered  one  of  the  best  of  its  time. 
Deacon  Phineas,  his  son,  lived  here,  also  Edward  P.  French,  Dr. 
W.  W.  Wilkins,  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  and  Frederic  Hodgman,  who 
remodeled  the  buildings  and  built  the  stable.  Fred  A.  French  now 
lives  here. 

Hon.  Matthew  Patten,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  town,  lived  on 
the  plains  (231^),  on  the  second  piece  of  land  that  was  cleared  in 
town,  and  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Schinck.  Near  the  old  cellar  stands 
an  apple  tree  called  the  "red  streak,"  which  he  planted.  It  is  still 
bearing  fruit  of  good  quality  and  fine  flavor.  Mr.  Patten  ( 232 )  in 
1784  built  and  lived  where  his  son,  David,  Esq.,  and  two  sisters,  Polly 
and  Sarah,  lived  and  died.  Samuel  Gardner  also  lived  here,  caring 
for  the  old  ladies  through  the  last  years  of  their  lives.  Willard  Gard- 
ner, Benjamin  Dowse,  John  Hodgman,  George  Hodgman,  Frederick 
Hodgman,  Mrs.  Sarah  Churchill,  Miss  Martha  Parker,  and  George  E. 
Gault,  also  lived  in  this  house.  These  buildings  stand  in  the  field 
southeast  of  Adam  N.  Patten,  and  are  now  unoccupied.  Adam  N. 
Patten  (233)  built  and  lived  on  the  Matthew  Patten  farm,  where  his 
son,  William  M.,  now  lives. 

Alexander  Patten  (234),  son  of  Matthew,  Del  worth  Shepard, 
and  Daniel  McLaughlin  lived  on  the  east  end  of  James  E.  French's 
farm.  The  house  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  road  and  is  now 
gone. 

DISTRICT  No.  6. 

Andrew  Brymner  (235)  and  Andrew  Smith  lived  where  John 
Schaller  now  lives.  The  house  stands  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Boynton  road  near  the  Manchester  line. 


618  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Fred  Ray  (23(3)  built  where  he  now  lives.  The  barn  was  built 
from  the  frame  of  the  Dea.  David  McQuesten  house,  which  stood  on 
the  River  road. 

Miss  Lochlan  (237)  built  across  the  road,  a  few  rods  southwest  of 
Fred  Ray's,  where  Andrew  Jackson  Butterfield  and  Page  Campbell 
lived.     The  house  was  burned. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  Boynton  road  and  west  of  the  Wallace 
brook  George  W.  Riddle  (238)  built  where  Frederic  Scheer,  Loren 
E.  Charles,  and  Charles  Carrol  lived,  and  where  Edward  L.  White 
now  lives. 

Just  north  of  the  Gordon  house,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  Dr. 
Paul  Tenney*(239),  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  David  McAfee,  Brad- 
bury M.  Rowe,  and  John  W.  McDole  lived,  where  Robert  Currie 
now  lives. 

Elisha  Lincoln  (240)  built  and  lived  where  John  Parker  and 
Oliver  Townsend  lived.  This  house  is  now  gone.  The  cellar  is 
near  the  Beard  place,  on  the  east  side  of  the  old  road  to  Manchester, 
in  Mr.  Scheer's  pasture,  and  is  more  particularly  known  as  the  Mont- 
gomery place. 

Francis  Barnet  (241),  Abel  Beard,  Zacheus  Greeley,  father  of 
Horace  Greeley,  Horace  Greeley  himself,  Joseph  Roby,  and  John 
Ferguson  lived  on  the  Beard  farm  in  a  house  which  stood  about 
twenty  rods  west  from  the  present  house  (242),  which  was  built  and 
owned  by  Gen.  William  P.  Riddle.  In  it  Joseph  Riley,  Joseph  Man- 
ning, Albert  Riddle,  George  W.  Riddle,  son  of  William  P.  Riddle, 
Horace  Holbrook,  Thomas  Blackstock,  and  Mr.  Sharpe  lived,  and 
here  Dea.  Walter  Gage  now  lives.  Undoubtedly  this  farm  was  set- 
tled by  the  Lincolns.  When  Horace  Greeley's  father,  Zacheus,  left 
Bedford,  about  1820,  he  owed  Mrs.  Harnden  two  dollars  for  picking 
hops  eight  days,  at  twenty-five  cents  a  day.  When  Horace  Greeley 
had  reached  a  position  of  prominence  O.  L.  Kendall,  the  postmaster, 
wrote  him  that  Mrs.  Harnden  was  in  poverty,  and  would  much  ap- 
preciate the  payment  of  his  father's  debt.  The  famous  editor  imme- 
diately sent  five  dollars  to  Mr.  Kendall,  asking  him  to  pay  it. 

North,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road,  Christopher  Rice  (243), 
David  Atwood,  and  his  son,  Daniel  G.,  lived,  where  Daniel  W.,  son 
and  grandson  of  the  above,  now  lives.  David  Atwood  was  an  ex- 
tensive cabinet-maker.  He  and  his  son,  Daniel  G.,  also  made  ox 
yokes,  which  were  the  best  to  be  found  in  this  vicinity.  At  that 
time  these  yokes  were  in  great  demand  as  most  of  the  teaming  and 
farm  work  were  done  with  oxen.  Daniel  W.  has  extensively  re- 
paired both  house  and  barn,  and  it  is  known  as  the  "  Old  Cabinet " 
farm. 

John  Wilson  (244),  the  widow  of  Samuel  Moore,  Joseph  Atwood, 
David  Crow  ell,  and  James  A.  Parker  lived  where  Leonard  Bursiel  later 
lived.  This  was  the  Thomas  Townsend  house.  It  stood  nearly 
opposite  James  R.  Leach's,  and  was  moved  to  its  present  location  by 
John  Wilson,  and  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Daniel  W.  Atwood. 


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Eliphalet  Bursiel  (245)  built  and  lived  about  twenty  rods  south- 
west of  the  Wallace  bridge.  The  place  was  afterward  occupied  by 
Peter  Kean  and  his  brother  Michael. 

Thomas  Bursiel  (246)  built  and  lived  where  his  son,  Charles  E., 
now  lives,  north  of  the  Beard  farm,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  and 
back  in  the  field.     The  barn  has  been  enlarged  by  C.  E.  Bursiel. 

John  Wallace  (247)  and  his  son,  Thomas,  lived  where  Eliphalet 
Bursiel  lived,  and  where  Frank  D.  Holbrook  now  lives.  The  house 
stands  north  of  C.  E.  Bursiel's,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road.  The 
old  house  (247^)  was  moved  to  Piscataquog  village  by  Frederic 
Wallace,  a  grandson  of  John,  and  is  now  standing  on  the  corner  of 
South  Main  and  Milford  streets.  It  was  drawn  by  eighty  yoke 
of  oxen,  and  three  days  were  occupied  in  moving  it.  A  man  named 
Call  came  down  from  Concord  to  superintend  the  work ;  he  brought 
the  first  jack  screw  into  town. 

Dea.  William  Boies  (248),  Samuel  Barr,  his  sons,  Cyrus,  Frye  and 
Frank,  Ebenezer  Holbrook,  and  Ephraim  C.  Heald  lived  where  Jo- 
seph G.  Holbrook,  and  his  son,  Alonzo  H.,  now  live.  The  present 
house  is  the  third  built  on  this  site ;  Mr.  Boies  built  the  first  one, 
Frye  Barr  the  second,  and  the  present  one  was  built  by  Joseph  G. 
Holbrook.  One  Monday  morning,  it  is  said,  Boies  saw  one  of  his 
neighbors  sitting  on  a  log  by  the  side  of  the  road.  Said  Deacon 
Boies :  "  What  are  you  doing  here,  man,  so  early  in  the  morning  ?  " 
"  I  was  thinking  what  Mr.  Houston  was  preaching  about  yesterday, 
and  I  could  na  make  the  preaching  come  together."  Boies  replied : 
"  Trouble  yourself  na  about  that,  man, — a'  ye  have  to  do,  man,  is  to 
fear  God  and  keep  his  commandments."  His  neighbor  used  to  say : 
44  That  was  the  best  preaching  for  me  I  ever  heard ;  always,  when 
perplexed  about  texts  of  Scripture  and  preaching,  that  advice  of  Mr. 
Boies  put  the  matter  at  rest."  A  few  rods  northeast  of  this  place, 
across  the  Wallace  brook,  stands  No.  6  schoolhouse. 

Andrew  Savage  (249)  built  and  lived  where  Ira  Ferson,  George 
Taylor,  and  Frank  Taylor  lived,  and  where  Isaac  Blake  now  lives. 
This  is  the  first  house  east  of  No.  6  schoolhouse. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  road  leading  from  Wallace  bridge  to 
Plummer  hill,  Calvin  Clement  ( 250)  lived  where  Jacob  N.  Rundlett 
now  lives.  The  original  settler  was  a  man  named  Valentine  Sulli- 
van, a  Revolutionary  soldier  who  lost  his  life  in  the  army. 

North,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose  (251)  and 
Samuel  Adams  lived  where  James  Fullerton  now  lives.  The  original 
Vose  house  (251^)  stood  about  six  rods  northwest  of  the  present 
one.  Samuel  Vose  settled  on  the  Merrimack  river.  It  is  said  he 
found  a  pear  tree  near  Sebbins  pond  which  he  transplanted  to  this 
farm.  The  tree  is  still  standing  near  the  present  house  and  bearing 
fruit. 

North,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  Samuel  Brown  lived  in  a 
house  which  stood  where  Benjamin  Plummer  (252)  built  and  lived 


620  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

and  where  George  W.  Butterfield  later  lived.     It  is  now  owned  by 
George  Caldwell. 

North,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  Henry  J.  Plummer  (253) 
and  his  son,  Henry  S.,  lived  where  W.  H.  Stearns  now  lives.  The 
house  stands  at  the  end  of  the  road.  The  barn  was  struck  by  light- 
ning and  burned  in  1890. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  road  running  east  to  Manchester,  James 
Vose  (254),  brother  of  Samuel,  Brooks  Worthley,  his  son,  David, 
lived  where  his  widow,  Persis  Worthley,  and  her  sons,  Frederic  and 
Sumner  P.,  now  live.  The  buildings  were  burned  and  were  rebuilt 
by  the  present  owners.  East,  on  the  south  side  of  the  road,  Frank 
Plummer  (255)  built  where  he  now  lives. 

James  H.  Fullerton  (256)  built  and  lived  where  Frederic  Scheer 
later  lived.  The  house  stands  east  from  Plummer's  on  the  south 
side  of  the  road.  East,  on  the  south  side  of  the  road,  Parker 
Worthley  (257)  built  and  lived  where  Daniel  W.  Butterfield  and 
his  son,  Walter,  later  lived,  and  where  John  Dailey  now  lives.  On 
the  north  side,  and  east  of  Dailey' s,  Isaac  Dewey  (258)  built  and 
lived  where  Fred  M.  Barnard  now  lives.  North  of  Barnard's,  on  a 
cross-road,  Ernest  G.  Carswell  (259)  built  where  he  now  lives.  On 
the  south  side  of  New  Boston  road,  west  of  its  junction  with  the 
Wallace  road,  Gilbert  Brown  (259^)  built  and  lives. 

Where  Mr.  Carlton  (260)  built  and  lived  the  house  was  burned, 
and  it  was  rebuilt  by  him  on  the  same  site.  The  house  stands  on 
the  north  side  of  the  road  from  Wallace  bridge,  near  its  junction 
with  the  New  Boston  road.  Later,  Thomas  Martin  lived  here.  It 
is  now  owned  by  Bishop  Bradley  of  Manchester,  having  been  given 
to  the  Catholic  church  by  Mr.  Carlton. 

Samuel  Moore  (261)  built  and  lived  where  David  Ames,  George 
F.  Elliott,  William  Rogers,  his  son,  Wesley,  and  M.  V.  B.  Kenney 
later  lived.  The  house  stands  on  the  north  side  of  the  New  Boston 
road,  west  of  its  junction  with  the  Wallace  road.  On  this  place  Mr. 
Kenney  (262)  built  the  new  house  where  he  now  lives,  on  the  north 
side  of  the  road  east  of  the  junction. 

George  Clark  (263)  built  where  he  now  lives,  on  the  north  side  of 
the  road. 

Ira  Ferson  (264)  built  and  lived  where  George  Bowen  now  lives. 

East,  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  Frank  X.  Douvelle  (265)  built 
where  he  now  lives.     North,  on  the  cross-road,  Stanislaus  Hebert 

(266)  built  where  he  now  lives.     On  the  north  side  of  the  road,  the 
last  house  in  Bedford  near  the  Manchester  line,  Michael' Gibbons 

(267)  built  where  Hugh  Cunningham  now  lives. 

John  Kerwin  (268),  adopted  son  of  Dennis  Kerwin,  lived  in  a 
small  house  near  the  Manchester  line  on  the  south  side  of  the  road. 
Mrs.  Blackburn  (269)  built  where  Dennis  Kerwin  lived,  and  where 
his  widow  now  lives.  Mr.  Kerwin  carried  on  an  extensive  rendering 
establishment  here  many  years,  accumulating  a  comfortable  fortune. 

Samuel  Shea  (270),  son-in-law  of  Dennis  Kerwin,  built  and  lived 


CHANGES  IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  621 

where  his  widow  now  lives.  The  house  stands  west  of  Mr.  Ker- 
win's,  on  the  south  side  of  the  road. 

James  Curtis  (271)  built  on  a  private  way  about  fifty  rods  south 
of  the  highway,  where  his  widow,  Mrs.  Ann  Curtis,  and  her  daugh- 
ter, Miss  Maddie,  now  live.  Mr.  Curtis  carried  on  an  extensive 
butchering  business  here  for  many  years.  He  supplied  Manchester 
people  with  meat  in  the  early  days  of  the  city. 

West,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  Robert  K.  Heselton  (272) 
built  where  he  now  lives.  Charles  Clapp  (273)  built  where  he  now 
lives.  Andrew  Walker  (274),  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  and  Michael 
Boynton  lived  where  his  grandson,  George  Boynton,  now  lives. 
This  house  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  leading  north  to 
Goffstown  from  the  New  Boston  road.  It  is  the  only  house  on  the 
road  in  Bedford. 

John  Moore  (275),  his  son,  Captain  John,  his  grandson,  Robert 
Moore,  James  Fullerton,  Peter  Kean,  Frank  Taylor,  and  Frank 
Muzzy  lived  where  Henry  Hoyt  now  lives.  The  present  buildings 
were  built  by  Peter  Kean  on  the  site  of  the  old  ones.  William 
Kennedy  (276)  lived  on  the  south  side  of  this  farm.  The  house  is 
gone. 

A  Mr.  Knapp  (277),  a  Mr.  King,  and  James  Campbell  lived  south 
of  Hoyt's,  on  land  now  owned  by  Daniel  W.  Atwood.  The  house 
is  gone.  The  Knapp  family  went  to  the  Pennsylvania  oil  regions 
in  an  ox  team,  starting  from  the  front  of  the  town  house.  The 
neighbors  all  contributed  food  and  goods.  When  he  reached  the 
Connecticut  river  he  wrote  back  saying  that  he  thanked  God  he  was 
out  of  the  hands  of  the  Philistines.  When  settled  in  his  new  home 
he  wrote  to  friends  here  saying  that  he  had  been  elected  town  clerk, 
and  "  God  only  knows  what  the  future  has  in  store  for  me,"  and  he 
hoped  he  would  be  "  better  prepared  for  Heaven." 

DISTRICT  NO.   7. 

On  the  Ministerial  road  near  its  junction  with  the  McAllister 
road,  Harrison  Campbell  (278)  built  and  lived  where  Samuel  Man- 
digo  and  James  B.  Turney  later  lived,  and  where  Edmund  Fosher 
now  lives. 

At  the  junction  of  the  Wallace  road  with  the  McAllister  road 
Adam  Campbell  (279)  lived  where  his  son  Eugene  now  lives.  This 
house  was  built  by  Samuel  Gardner,  and  was  moved  from  the  Mat- 
thew Patten  place  early  in  the  fifties.  John  Dickinson  rode  on  the 
ridge-pole  to  lift  the  limbs  of  the  trees  over  the  chimney,  as  the 
house  was  drawn  along.  Every  once  in  a  while  he  would  crow  like 
a  rooster  or  squeal  like  a  pig. 

John  Welch  (280)  built  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallace  road 
where  he  how  lives.  The  first  house  was  burned  and  Mr.  Welch 
rebuilt  on  the  same  site. 

George  W.  Goffe  (281)  built   the   house  where   Seth  Campbell 


622  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

and  Jane  Currier  later   lived.     The  house  was  burned.     It  stood 
north  of  John  Welch's,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road. 

North,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  George  Welch  (282)  built 
and  lived.     The  house  was  burned  and  rebuilt. 

Thomas  Campbell  (283)  and  his  sons,  Thomas  and  Daniel,  lived 
in  a  house  which  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the.  Ministerial  road 
near  its  junction  with  the  Wallace  road.  The  house  is  now  gone. 
Thomas  Campbell,  Jr.,  went  to  California  in  1852. 

Joseph  Houston  (284),  brother  of  Rev.  John  and  John  Orr  Hous- 
ton, lived  on  land  now  owned  by  Thomas  A.  Lane.  Joseph  Hous- 
ton married  a  daughter  of  John  Orr,  Esq.  The  house  stood  on  the 
right  hand  side  of  the  road  leading  west  from  the  Wallace  road  to 
Joppa  road,  west  of  the  brook.  It  was  afterward  owned  by  Joseph 
H.  Stevens,  and  was  full  of  white  birch  wood  at  the  time  it  was 
burned. 

Simeon  Chubbuck  (285),  grandfather  of  Fanny  Forester,  wife  of 
the  missionary,  Adoniram  Judson,  lived  on  what  is  known  as  the 
Chubbuck  place.  The  house  stood  a  little  south  of  John  Orr  Hous- 
ton's, on  the  west  side  of  the  road.  The  cellar  hole  is  to  be  seen. 
This  was  the  last  log  house  standing  in  Bedford. 

A  son  of  Simeon  Chubbuck  and  Mr.  McKinney's  son,  who  lived 
on  the  Vose  place,  in  an  old  house  (306)  which  stood  opposite 
the  present  Yose  house  (307),  started  a  store  near  the  Chubbuck 
buildings.  The  money  to  purchase  the  stock  was  furnished  by 
Capt.  John  McAllister  on  Robert  Walker's  endorsement.  The 
business  was  not  a  success,  and  in  consequence  Mr.  Walker  was 
obliged  to  part  with  the  hill,  since  known  as  the  McAllister  hill,  to 
Mr.  McAllister. 

About  forty  rods  east  of  Simeon  Chubbuck  is  where  Emigrant 
Chubbuck  (286)  lived. 

Daniel  Vose  (287),  Adam  Campbell,  and  John  Kinson  in  turn 
lived  where  George  N.  Signor  now  lives.  Mr.  Vose  went  West, 
was  gone  several  years,  came  back,  and  lived  at  this  place  a  number 
of  years  more.  The  house  stands  at  the  junction  of  the  Wallace 
road,  and  the  road  leading  southwest  to  the  Joppa  road. 

Robert  Walker  (289)  built  and  lived  in  one  of  the  first  houses  in 
town. 

Jesse  Walker  (288),  Charles  Gage,  William  R.  Woodbury,  and 
John  McNeil  in  turn  lived  on  land  owned  by  the  late  William  Mc- 
Allister. The  house  was  taken  down  and  rebuilt  by  Clinton  Bixby, 
west  of  Solomon  Manning's  in  District  No.  9,  and  is  that  in  which 
Seth  Campbell  now  lives  (384). 

Robert  Walker  and  Samuel  Patten,  it  is  said,  exchanged  places. 

About  twenty  rods  southeast  of  these  buildings  stood  the  Walker 
garrison  house.     The  well  located  in  it  is  still  in  existence. 

John  Swan  (290)  lived  on  the  west  side  of  the  McAllister  road 
about  one  fourth  mile  north  of  where  the  roads  cross  on  land  owned 
by  Thomas  E.  Ban*. 


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Charles  Adams  and  Edmund  Fosher,  Jr.,  lived  in  a  house  built 
by  James  R.  Leach  (291)  on  the  east  side  of  the  McAllister  road 
where  George  J.  Lahey  now  lives.  In  a  house  which  stood  be- 
tween this  house  and  the  road,  Levi  Whitman,  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier, once  lived.  In  this  house  Joseph  Greely,  a  colored  man,  was 
married  to  Mrs.  Sidney,  a  white  woman,  by  Isaac  Riddle,  Esq.,  in 
1844.  Mr.  Riddle  used  the  Episcopal  prayer-book  for  the  service, 
but  the  ring  was  omitted.  Mrs.  Greely  afterward  was  accustomed 
to  use  an  umbrella  on  sunny  days  because,  as  she  said,  Mr.  Greely 
did  not  want  her  to  get  tanned. 

Hugh  Riddle  (292),  James  Aiken,  and  Robert  Adams  lived 
where  Capt.  John  McAllister,  his  sons,  William  and  Isaac,  and  Mrs. 
Martha  J.,  widow  of  William,  lived,  and  where  Homer  Peppin  now 
lives.  The  Riddle  house  (293)  was  about  forty  rods  northeast  of 
the  present  buildings.  Mr.  Aiken  was  a  tanner,  and  traces  of  his 
tan  vats  are  still  visible. 

John  Mullett  (294)  lived  where  his  widow  and  two  daughters, 
Misses  Susan  J.  and  Sarah  E.,  George  E.  Gault,  Clinton  Ban*,  Mrs. 
Achsah  Roby,  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Sarah  K.  Martin,  and  Winthrop 
Hoyt  successively  lived.  The  house  stands  at  the  junction  of  the 
McAllister  and  New  Boston  roads,  in  the  southwest  corner,  and  is 
now  owned  by  Rollin  Allen  of  Boston. 

Joseph  Cochran  (295),  Andrew  Moore,  John  McAllister,  Jr., 
Joseph  Butterfield,  and  Calvin  and  Ephraim  W.,  sons  of  Joseph, 
lived  where  Mrs.  Forest  F.  Shaw  now  lives.  The  house  stands  on 
the  south  side  of  the  Xew  Boston  road.  Joseph  Cochran  was  killed 
by  the  fall  of  a  tree  directly  opposite  John  Mullett's  house. 

Opposite  the  Butterfield  place  stood  a  house  once  occupied  by 
Samuel  Major  (296),  a  tailor  by  trade. 

Patrick  Larkin  (298),  Andrew  Aiken,  William  D.  McPherson  and 
his  son,  Robert  B.,  and  Milton  W.  Spencer  lived  where  his  widow 
and  son,  George  O.,  later  lived.  The  original  house  was  rebuilt 
by  Mr.  Spencer,  and  was  burned ;  after  which  his  widow,  and  his 
son,  George  O.,  built  and  still  live  at  their  present  location  (297), 
which  is  situated  on  the  north  side  of  what  was  a  part  of  the  Butter- 
field farm  north  of  the  New  Boston  road.  The  fire  which  de- 
stroyed the  buildings  at  the  McPherson  place  occurred  in  the  even- 
ing while  the  family  were  away.  Several  horses  and  a  herd  of  Hol- 
stein  cattle  were  burned.  This  was  the  second  time  that  Mr.  Spen- 
cer's buildings  were  entirely  consumed  by  fire.  Since  occupying 
their  present  home  the  barn  was  struck  by  lightning  and  burned 
during  a  terrific  thunder  shower  in  November,  1900.  The  cattle 
and  horses  were  saved.  The  barn  was  rebuilt  by  George  O.  Spen- 
cer. Patrick  Larkin  married  Robert  Adams'  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
When  Larkin  asked  Adams  for  his  daughter  Adams  said  he  did  not 
know  as  he  had  any  particular  objection  against  him,  but  he  did 
not  like  the  Catholic  religion.  Larkin's  parents  were  Catholics,  and 
Adams  was  a  Scotch  Presbyterian.     Larkin  obviated  the  objection 


624  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

by  the  shrewd  remark,  "  If  a  man  happened  to  be  born  in  a  stable 
would  that  make  him  a  horse  ?  " 

Fergus  Kennedy  (299)  lived  on  the  Barr  place.  The  house  was 
of  logs  and  stood  about  eight  rods  west  of  William  D.  McPherson's. 

James  McPherson  (300)  built  and  lived  in  the  brick  house  where 
his  son,  Onslow  F.,  Thomas  Spencer,  and  Ezra  C.  Barnes  lived,  and 
where  Hiram  K.  Roberts  now  lives.  It  is  the  last  house  in  Bedford, 
and  is  one  fourth  mile  from  the  Goffstown  line. 

Jesse  Richardson  (301)  built  and  lived  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
road,  between  James  McPherson  and  William  D.  McPherson.  He 
was  a  painter  by  trade. 

Sophia  Hayes  (302)  lived  in  a  small  house  on  the  northwest 
corner  of  the  McAllister  and  New  Boston  roads,  opposite  John 
Mullett's.  It  was  afterward  used  by  Mr.  Richardson  as  a  paint  shop, 
and  is  now  gone. 

Thomas  Boies  (303)  and  Samuel  Barr  lived  on  the  north  side  of 
the  New  Boston  road  opposite  the  present  house  of  Edward  Barr. 
The  well  is  still  there  but  the  house  is  gone.  Thomas  and  John 
Barr  (304),  sons  of  Samuel,  built  and  lived  where  Edward,  son  of 
Thomas,  lived,  and  where  Thomas  E.  Barr,  grandson  of  Thomas, 
now  lives.  John  Barr,  his  widow,  Clarrissa  E.  Barr,  and  daughter, 
Mrs.  Mary  H.  Swallow,  lived  in  the  west  end  of  this  house  where 
Winthrop  Hoyt  now  lives.  Daniel  W.  Atwood  at  one  time  lived 
here. 

David  H.  Barr  (305),  son  of  John,  built  and  lived  on  the  north 
side  of  the  road,  where  his  widow,  Lucy  A.  Barr,  lived,  and  where 
his  son,  Ira,  now  lives.  There  have  been  six  houses  on  the  Barr 
farm. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  New  Boston  road,  near  its  junction  with 
the  Wallace  road,  stands  the  No.  7  schoolhouse. 

John  McKinney's  house  (306)  stood  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
road  from  where  Joshua  Vose  (307)  built  and  lived.  The  late  Jus- 
tin E.  Vose  lived  here,  and  John  G.  Vose  now  occupies  it.  The 
house  stands  on  the  north  side  of  the  New  Boston  road,  west  of  the 
Wallace  road.  Joshua  Vose,  Jr.  (308),  built  and  lived  west  from 
his  father,  where  Nelson  Regnor  and  Frank  H.  Brickett  later  lived. 
The  house  is  gone. 

North  of  Vose's,  and  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  stood  the  origi- 
nal Dunlap  house  (309)  built  by  Maj.  John  Dunlap.  Opposite,  on 
the  east  side  of  the  Wallace  road  Robert,  son  of  Major  John,  built 
(310)  and  lived  where  Edwin,  and  Alfred,  his  sons,  lived,  and  where 
Robert,  son  of  Edwin,  now  lives.  This  farm  has  always  been  in  the 
Dunlap  name. 

William  McPherson  (311)  lived  on  the  west  side  of  the  Wallace 
road,  near  the  Goffstown  line.  Sewell  Stratton  lived  here  and  was 
found  dead  in  this  house. 

John  McPherson  (312),  Isaac  Giddings,  and  Benjamin  Dodge 
lived  where  Michael  Boynton  lived.     The  house  is  now  gone.     This 


CHANGES   IN  THE   OCCUPANCY  OF  FARMS.  625 

was  the  original  McPherson  place.  It  stood  at  the  end  of  a  cross 
road  running  north  from  the  New  Boston  road  near  the  Gilmore 
place.  Mr.  Farnsworth  (313)  lived  south,  on  the  west  side  of  the 
road.  Abner  Page  lived  there  at  the  same  time.  They  married  sis- 
ters. 

Whitefield  Gilmore  (314)  and  Sylvanus  Johnson  lived  where 
Jonathan  Haynes  lived.  The  house  stood  about  ten  rods  from  the 
New  Boston  road  on  the  west  side  of  a  road  leading  north,  and 
which  turns  off  of  the  New  Boston  road  about  one  half  mile  west  of 
Vose's  corner.     The  house  was  burned,  but  the  barn  remains. 

DISTRICT  NO.  8. 

On  a  side  road,  probably  once  the  original  New  Boston  road,  and 
about  a  mile  west  of  Vose's  corner,  one  Stratton,  Samuel  Eaton  (315), 
Timothy  Townsend,  and  Jesse  Witherspoon  lived  where  his  son, 
George  H.,  now  lives.  The  farm  is  known  as  the  Stratton  farm  from 
the  name  of  the  original  owner. 

Just  south,  at  the  end  of  the  cross-road  Nathaniel  Baldwin  (316), 
Phineas  C.  French,  David  M.  K.  Philips,  and  his  son,  Albert,  lived 
where  Henry  C.  White  now  lives. 

Nathaniel  Manning  (317)  lived  on  the  north  side  of  the  New 
Boston  road,  north  of  G.  H.  Witherspoon's.  The  buildings  are  gone. 
This  is  the  site  of  the  original  Manning  homestead,  but  the  build- 
ings have  been  gone  so  long  a  time  that  a  pine  tree  nearly  two  feet 
through  is  growing  in  the  cellar  hole. 

Where  Samuel  Morrison  (318),  Robert  Gilchrist,  Moses  Gage,  and 
Scott  Gage  lived  the  house  has  been  removed.  It  stood  about  three 
fourths  of  a  mile  north  of  Tinker's  corner,  on  the  same  road,  and  was 
the  last  house  in  Bedford. 

Southeast,  at  the  end  of  a  lane,  is  the  house  where  John  Arm- 
strong (319),  George  Webber1,  and  Orin  Webber  lived.  The  house 
is  unoccupied.  Orin  Webber  (320)  afterwards  built  where  he  now 
lives,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Gage  farm. 

A  little  south  of  Orin  Webber's,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road, 
David  and  William  McClary  (321)  and  James  McDole  lived  where 
Coombs  Tarr  and  his  son,  William  H.,  now  live. 

The  Peabody  house  (322),  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  south,  is 
occupied  by  Jonathan  Wan-en.  Peabody  was  a  cousin  of  George 
Peabody,  the  philanthropist.  He  married  Robert  Patten's  daughter, 
and  moved  here  from  Danvers,  Mass.,  and  built,  lived,  and  died  in 
this  house. 

Robert  Patten  (323)  and  William  Tolford,  his  son-in-law,  lived 
where  Lewis  Warren  now  lives.  Patten's  settlement  was  the  first 
in  that  part  of  the  town,  after  the  Revolutionary  war. 

Elbridge  Tolford  (324)  built  where  George  P.  Tarr  now  lives. 
The  old  place  is  west  of  the  road  and  Elbridge's  is- east. 

Elijah  Buxton  (325),  Joseph  Tinker,  Samuel  Witherspoon,  James 
41 


626  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Foster  Tinker,  David  Witherspoon,  Dea.  Walter  Gage,  in  turn  lived 
where  John  H.  Rand  and  his  son,  Filmore  C,  now  live.  It  is 
known  as  the  Tinker  farm.  The  house  stands  near  the  junction  of 
the  New  Boston  road  with  the  north  and  south  roads. 

East,  on  the  New  Boston  road,  George  Mudge  (326)  built  and 
lived  where  Joseph  P.  Gage,  Hannah  Palmer,  and  Henry  Balmforth 
later  lived,  and  where  Alva  Pinkham  now  lives. 

East,  at  the  junction  of  the  New  Boston  road  with  the  road  to 
Joppa,  Albert  Boyce  (327)  built  and  lived  where  James  F.  Tinker 
now  lives.  On  the  road  leading  from  New  Boston  road  to  Joppa 
on  the  east  side,  Matthew  Bryant  (328),  John  Pratt,  David  Stevens, 
and  George  Webber  successively  lived  where  Charles  Ramig  now 
lives. 

South,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Ezra  Baldwin  (329),  Sewell 
Stratton,  and  Roger  S.  Spaulding  lived,  where  Henry  Cummings 
later  lived.  The  house  was  burned.  Mr.  Cummings  then  built  the 
present  house  and  lived  there,  succeeded  by  C.  K.  Twiss,  Daniel  T. 
Smith,  and  Frank  L.  Robinson,  the  latter  the  present  occupant. 
West  of  Tinker's  corner,  on  the  south  side  of  the  New  Boston  road, 
stood  the  house  where  Gilman  R.  Gardner  (330)  lived. 

John  Barnes  (331)  lived  on  land  now  owned  by  William  H.  Tarr, 
northeast  of  George  Tinker's.  Where  Alexander  Patten  (332)  and 
Benjamin  Stevens  lived,  the  buildings  are  gone.  They  stood  near 
George  Tinker's,  about  northeast,  out  in  the  pasture. 

Dea.  John  Craig  (333)  and  Joseph  Tinker  lived  where  his  son, 
George  A.  Tinker,  now  lives,  just  north  of  No.  8  schoolhouse,  at  the 
end  of  the  road.     This  is  the  old  Deacon  Craig  place. 

David  French  (334)  built  and  lived  where  his  nephew,  Ebenezer 
French,  David  Wright,  Mr.  Dodge,  Elbridge  G.  Newton,  Dr.  Alfred 
J.  French,  and  Milton  W.  Spencer  later  lived.  The  buildings  were 
burned  during  Mr.  Spencer's  occupancy.  They  stood  on  the  east 
side  of  the  road  leading  north  from  Joppa  to  New  Boston  road, 
about  one  half  a  mile  north  of  the  cemetery. 

Thomas  IT.  Gage  (335)  built  and  lived  where  Milton  W.  Spencer 
and  Dea.  Walter  Gage  lived,  and  where  Herbert  R.  Fulton  now 
lives.  The  house  stands  north  of  the  Eben  French  place,  on  the 
west  side  of  the  road.  North,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Ebenezer 
C.  French  (336)  built,  lived,  and  died  where  his  sons-in-law,  George 
A.  King  and  George  H.  Shepard,  now  live.  The  barn  was  struck 
by  lightning  and  burned,  and  was  rebuilt  by  Mr.  King. 

At  the  junction  of  this  road  with  the  New  Boston  road,  John 
Craig  (337)  built  where  Franklin  Wright  and  Asa  Carley  later  lived, 
and  where  Jacob  P.  Buswell  now  lives. 

On  the  road  leading  northwest  from  the  New  Boston  road,  about 
one  half  mile  west  of  No.  8  schoolhouse,  Abiel  Holbrook  (338)  built 
and  lived.  The  house  was  burned,  and  rebuilt  by  Mr.  Holbrook. 
His  nephew,  Silas  Holbrook,  rebuilt  the  barn  and  occupied  the  house 
until  his  death.     Ralph  Holbrook,  Clark  G.  Mudge,  and  Frank  W. 


THE   OILCHRIST   TAVERN    (HOLBROOK   HOUSE). 


THE  JOPPA   STORE. 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY  OF  FARMS.  627 

Tolford  also  lived  there.  Tellis  Mayhew  is  the  present  tenant. 
The  place  is  owned  by  Joseph  G.  Holbrook. 

Northwest  on  this  road,  on  the  east  side,  stands  the  house  where 
Samuel  Gilchrist  (339),  Dea.  John  Holbrook,  and  Thomas  G.,  his 
son,  lived,  and  where  Arthur  W.  Holbrook,  a  grandson  of  Thomas, 
now  lives.  A  little  north,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  Ralph  Hol- 
brook (340)  built  and  lived  where  his  son,  Ralph,  and  Granville 
Parker  later  lived.  The  buildings  were  burned  while  occupied  by 
Mr.  Parker.  The  land  on  Deacon  Holbrook's  farm  is  the  highest 
land  cultivated  in  Bedford. 

Ebenezer  Holbrook  (341)  lived  a  few  rods  north  of  his  brother 
Ralph,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road ;  Silas  Shepard  also  lived 
there.     The  house  was  removed,  and  the  barn  blew  down. 

On  this  same  road,  near  the  New  Boston  line,  is  the  Griggs  place 
(342).  Alexander  Caldwell,  David  White,  Benjamin  Shepard,  and 
John  Holt,  a  blacksmith,  also  lived  there. 

At  the  four  corners  of  the  Goffstown  and  New  Boston  road  is 
where  David  Sprague,  Jr.  (343)  and  Walter  Gage  lived,  and  where 
Joseph  P.  Caldwell  now  lives.  Going  south  from  the  four  corners, 
on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  David  Sprague,  Sr.  (344),  William  Ho- 
bart,  a  blacksmith,  Ephraim  Kendall  and  his  son,  Ephraim,  and 
George  F.  Stewart  lived  where  Carl  A.  Nordstrom  now  lives.  The 
Sprague  family  came  from  Billerica,  Mass. 

South,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Moses  Dennis  (345),  Isaac  Gil- 
more,  his  son,  Elbridge  G.,  Parker  Butterfield,  and  Thomas  Richards 
lived  where  Benjamin  W.  Richards  now  lives. 

The  next  house  south  and  on  the  west  side  of  the  road  is  where 
Benjamin  Sprague  (346),  brother  of  David  Sprague,  Sr.,  Leonard 
C.  French,  2d,  and  Clinton,  son  of  Leonard  C,  2d,  lived.  This  place 
is  now  owned  by  Dodge  &  Barnard,  of  Goffstown,  lumber  dealers. 
The  barn  on  this  place  was  built  by  Leonard  C.  French,  2d.  The 
Pulpit  is  located  on  this  farm. 

South,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  Nehemiah  Kittredge  (347) 
built  and  lived  where  his  son,  Nehemiah,  and  Enoch  Gage  later  lived, 
and  where  Alfred  B.  Campbell  now  lives.  Indian  Rock  is  located  on 
this  farm.  South,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Nehemiah  Kittredge, 
Jr.  (348),  built  and  lived  where  Frank  S.  Dearborn  later  lived.  The 
house  is  unoccupied. 

DISTRICT  NO.  9. 

About  one  half  mile  south  of  the  County  road,  west  of  Shepard's 
brook,  John  Mcintosh  (349)  built  and  lived.  Isaac  Gage,  Jr. 
(known  as  Mcintosh  Gage),  also  lived  in  this  house.  He  afterwards 
built  and  lived  in  a  house  (348^)  which  stood  a  few  rods  southeast 
of  the  original  one.  His  sons,  Edward  A.  and  Thomas  U.  Gage, 
Henry  T.  and  Quincy  Barnard,  and  William  U.  Gage,  brother  of  the 
above,  also  lived  here.  During  his  occupancy  this  house  was  burned, 


628  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFORD. 

"and  lie  rebuilt  on  the  site  of  the  Mcintosh  house,  where  his  son, 
William  F.,  lived,  and  where  Sarah  and  Addie  L.  Gage  now  live. 

On  an  old  road  leading  from  Col.  Daniel  Moore's  to  John  Mcin- 
tosh's, about  one  half  mile  northwest  of  where  Charles  B.  Beal  lived, 
is  where  John  Gault  (349^),  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  that  name, 
lived,  and  it  is  probable  that  he  afterwards  lived  at  the  Bell  place. 

Southwest,  on  the  road  leading  from  Parker's  corner  to  Swett's 
mills,  Thomas  Bennett  ( 350),  John  II.  McConihe,  Thomas  U.  Gage, 
William  O.  Noyes,  Reuben  Bowers,  Conrad  Weishaupt,  and  his  son, 
Frank,  lived  where  Nelson  Marchant  now  lives. 

West,  on  the  north  side  of  the  same  road,  David  and  William  Mc- 
Clary  (351),  Abiel  Stevens,  his  son,  David,  a  Revolutionary  soldier, 
Moody  M.  Stevens,  son  of  David,  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  and  Miss  Abi- 
gail Stevens  lived,  where  David,  son  of  Moody,  now  lives. 

David  Swett  (352)  built  and  lived  where  Joseph  Conery  lived, 
:and  where  John  E.  Stowell  now  lives.  The  house  stands  across  the 
road  from  Swett's  saw  and  grain  mills,  sometimes  called  Aiken's  or 
Parker's  mills. 

North,  on  the  County  road,  Nathan  Butler  (353)  and  William 
Cady  lived,  where  Frank  S.  White  now  lives.  The  present  house 
was  built  by  Frank  S.  White.  East  of  this  place,  on  the  north  side 
of  the  County  road,  Sanford  and  Alfred  Roby  (354),  William  C. 
Adams,  and  Amos  E.  Hadley  lived,  where  Frank  A.  and  William  H. 
Whittemore  now  live.  Just  west  of  Shepard's  brook,  on  the  north 
side  of  the  County  road,  in  Freeman  R.  French's  pasture,  is  where 
John  Gardner  (355),  the  original  settler,  father  of  Ezekiel  Gardner 
and  father  of  Gilman  R.  Gardner,  lived.  The  house  is  gone.  David 
Cady  (356),  his  son,  William,  and  Hiram  Mace  lived  east,  across 
the  brook  from  this  place.     The  house  is  gone. 

Sherborn  Dearborn  (357)  lived  where  his  son,  Sherborn,  Jr.,  Mrs. 
Mary  A.  Parker,  her  son,  Trueman,  and  Peter  Laduc  lived  where 
Otto  Grantz  now  lives.  The  buildings  first  erected  on  this  site  were 
destroyed  by  fire,  July  17, 1847.  The  original  Dearborn  house  (358) 
stood  east  of  the  present  barn,  on  the  north  side  of  the  road.  South 
of  the  present  buildings,  nearly  opposite  the  old  house,  stands  a  small 
dwelling  house  (359)  which  was  formerly  built  for  a  shop.  The 
present  buildings  were  erected  by  Sherborn  Dearborn,  Jr.  The  barn, 
when  partly  built,  was  blown  down,  and  rebuilt  by  Mr.  Dearborn. 

David  K.  Ball  (360)  built  and  lived  on  the  north  side  of  the 
County  road,  and  west  of  the  road  from  Shepard's  mills.  The 
buildings  stood  on  the  Dearborn  farm.  Mr.  Ball  occupied  them 
only  for  a  short  time,  after  which  they  were  removed. 

Brooks  Shattuck  ( 361 )  built  and  lived,  and  John  P.  Connor  lived, 
where  George  Shattuck,  son  of  Brooks,  Robert  Fulton,  and  Edward 
Schneider  lived,  and  where  his  widow,  Mrs.  Edward  Schneider,  and 
her  son,  Edward  E.,  now  live.  The  house  stands  on  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  Shepard's  mill  road  and  the  County  road. 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY   OF   FARMS.  629 

David  Cheney  (362),  Samuel  Batchelder,  his  son,  Walter,  and 
John  Roby  lived  where  George  H.  Hardy  now  lives. 

Hugh  Orr  (363),  brother  of  John,  Esq.,  Elijah  Chandler,  his  son, 
Capt.  William,  Brooks  Shattuck,  Isaiah  Johnson,  Solon  D.  Pollard, 
Alfred  Roby,  and  James  A.  Parker  lived  where  James  Melendy  later 
lived.  During  Mr.  Melendy's  occupancy  the  house  was  burned,  and 
the  new  one  (364),  built  by  him  on  the  south  side  of  the  road  near 
the  barn,  is  now  occupied  by  Mrs.  Judith  A.  Hardy. 

Dea.  John  Aiken  (365),  Dea.  Phineas  Aiken,  George  and  William 
Campbell,  brothers,  Hosea  Elliot,  Asa  Jeffs,  and  William  R.  French 
lived  where  Frank  H.  Brown,  and  his  son-in-law,  Frank  E.  Manning, 
now  live.  The  original  Aiken  house  (366)  stood  about  forty  rods 
north  of  the  present  house,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road  which  is  now 
discontinued.  Individuals  working  at  Dea.  Phineas  Aiken's  remem- 
bered that  his  mother,  in  the  absence  of  the  person  who  usually  sat 
at  the  head  of  the  table,  would  ask  the  blessing. 

On  the  road  leading  from  Butler's  corner  to  Joppa,  about  half  a 
mile  north  on  the  west  side,  there  is  a  cellar  hole,  where  stood  the 
house  of  Daniel  Gault  (367).  A.  Jewett  lived  there  later.  The 
house  was  burned. 

On  the  west  side  of  this  same  road,  farther  north,  Benjamin  Bar- 
ron (368),  Daniel  Swett,  William  Sargent,  William  Flint,  Herbert 
R.  Fulton,  and  Newton  I.  Peaslee  lived,  where  Fred  E.  Parkhurst 
now  lives.  North,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  Matthew  Patterson 
(369),  Moses  Swett,  1st,  2d,  and  3d,  lived  where  Stillman  Parkhurst 
and  his  son,  John,  now  live.  The  old  house  (370)  was  moved  to 
the  opposite  side  of  the  road,  and  the  present  one  built  by  Stillman 
Parkhurst. 

At  the  corner  of  Joppa  and  North  Amherst  roads,  Henry  Park- 
hurst (371)  and  Simon  Jenness  lived,  where  Alexander  McLane  now 
lives. 

East,  on  the  North  Amherst  road  on  the  south  side,  Ebenezer 
Swett  (372),  and  his  son,  Frederic,  lived,  where  Samuel  Swett, 
Charles  E.  Bursiel,  and  Elijah  Cotton  lived,  and  where  Mrs.  Laura 
P.  Quint  and  Mrs.  Cotton  now  live.  The  buildings  were  burned, 
and  were  rebuilt  by  Mrs.  Cotton. 

East,  on  the  south  side  of  the  road,  Daniel  Robbins  (373)  built 
and  lived  where  Timothy  Townsend  later  lived,  and  where  Charles 
L.  Davis  now  lives. 

East,  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  Horace  Townsend  (374)  built 
and  lived  where  Wesley  W.  Rogers  now  lives.  On  the  south  side 
of  the  road,  Ebenezer  Hartshorn  (375)  built  and  lived  where  Peter 
Woods,  Alfred  Quaid,  William  F.  Conner,  Henry  Plummer,  George 
E.  Gault,  Arthur  Dow,  and  George  H.  Gault  later  lived.  The  house 
is  occupied  by  Leland  Kenney. 

On  the  road  from  Shepard's  mills  to  Joppa,  Thomas  Shepard 
(376),  Reuben  Jones,  Lorenzo  D.  Perry,  and  Putnam  Jenkins  suc- 
cessively lived  where  Albert  Jenness  now  lives. 


630  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Andrew  J.  Butterfield  (377),  Peter  Woods,  Mrs.  Plummer,  Samuel 
Seavey,  and  John  Smith  lived  in  a  house  which  stood  on  the  north 
side  of  the  Joppa  road,  and  west  of  the  small  brook.  This  house 
stood  on  land  now  owned  by  Albert  M.  Jenness.  It  was  moved 
from  the  Brooks  Shattuck  farm  by  Mr.  Butterfield,  and  was  a  part 
of  the  original  house  moved  by  S.  C.  Damon  to  District  No.  1. 

Dea.  Matthew  Miller  (378),  Capt.  George  Shepard,  his  son,  Silas, 
Ephraim  C.  Hardy,  Hiram  Mace,  Alford  Jones,  Edwin  Whitford, 
and  William  McAffee  lived  where  George  L.  Walsh,  son-in-law  of 
Mr.  McAffee,  now  lives.  Mr.  McAffee  went  to  California  in  1849. 
John  P.  Houston  (379)  built  and  lived  where  Thomas  Shepard, 
John  H.,  and  Charles  F.,  sons  of  Thomas,  lived,  and  where  George 
F.,  son  of  Charles  F.,  now  lives.  Mr.  Houston  bought  the  land  from 
Deacon  Aiken.  It  was  the  west  end  of  his  farm.  The  mills  had 
been  carried  on  by  Mr.  Aiken,  and  in  them  Mr.  Houston  sawed  out 
house  frames  and  sent  them  to  Lowell,  all  ready  to  put  up.  There 
were  some  fine  pine  trees  here.  Mr.  Perry  cut  four  very  tall,  straight 
sticks,  and  carried  them  to  Nashua  by  ox  teams  at  the  time  the  Uni- 
tarian church  was  being  erected.  They  now  form  the  four  fluted 
columns  in  froDt  of  the  edifice  which  stands  near  the  armory  build- 
ing. 

East,  on  the  north  side  of  the  old  road  from  Shepard's  mills  to 
Aiken's,  James  Gardner  (380)  built  and  lived,  where  Solon  D.  Pol- 
lard, William  F.  Conner,  and  Albert  M.  Jenness  later  lived.  The 
house  is  unoccupied. 

About  one  fourth  of  a  mile  north  of  Shepard's  mills,  on  the  west 
side  of  the  range  line  road,  Isaac  McKean  (381),  John  Arbuckle, 
Robert  Campbell,  and  Page  Campbell  successively  lived. 

North,  on  this  road,  Barney  Cain  (382),  John  Morrison,  and  Will- 
iam Campbell  lived.  This  place  has  been  known  as  the  McGaw  and 
Clark  place,  being  formerly  owned  by  these  parties,  but  never  occu- 
pied by  them.  North,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  Patty  Campbell 
(383)  lived.     These  houses  are  gone. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  road,  east  from  Shepard's  mill  and  east  of 
the  range  line  road,  stands  No.  9  schoolhouse.  East,  on  this  same 
road,  Clinton  Bixby  (384)  built  and  lived  where  Frank  Colby  later 
lived,  and  where  Seth  P.  Campbell  now  lives.  This  was  formerly 
the  Jesse  Walker  house,  mentioned  in  District  No.  7. 

On  a  cross-road  leading  northwest  from  the  Amherst  road,  George 
Fletcher  (385)  and  James  Gardner  lived  where  Mrs.  Louisa  A.Web- 
ber and  her  son,  Eugene,  now  live. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  road,  Joshua  Bailey  (386),  Samuel  Need- 
ham,  George  W.  Campbell,  Horace  S.  Campbell,  and  Newton  I. 
Peaslee  lived  where  George  E.  Gault  now  lives. 

Seth  Page  (387)  built  and  lived  where  Seth  Campbell,  David 
Page,  Horace  Campbell,  Daniel  S.  Campbell,  Corwin  J.  Parker, 
Charles  H.  Gault,  Louis  Marchant,  Loren  E.  Charles,  Albert  Chase, 
and   Conrad  Myers  later  lived,  and  where  George  H.  Gault  now 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY  OF   FARMS.  631 

lives.  The  present  house  was  built  by  Daniel  S.  Campbell,  and 
stands  at  the  end  of  the  road. 

William  Campbell  (388),  Garnet  Rowell,  Benjamin  Proctor,  and 
Solomon  Manning  lived  where  his  son,  Solomon,  now  lives.  This 
house  stands  on  the  south  side  of  the  North  Amherst  road. 

William  S.  Manning  (389)  built  where  he  now  lives,  near  his 
father.  William  Campbell,  who  introduced  the  hop  plant  into  this 
town  at  an  early  period,  lived  on  this  farm. 

DISTRICT   NO.    10. 

On  the  Joppa  road,  on  the  east  side  of  the  road,  about  one  fourth 
mile  north  of  Jenness  corner,  James  Mann  (390),  father  of  Eleanor 
Mann,  Ruf  us  Parkhurst,  and  his  widow,  Mrs.  Louisa  Parkhurst,  lived 
where  Henry  L.  Peaslee  now  lives.  Mr.  Mann  was  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Ohio. 

Bert  L.  Peaslee  (391),  son  of  Henry  L.  Peaslee,  built  where  he 
now  lives,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road. 

Joseph  Flint  (392)  built  and  lived  a  few  rods  north  of  this  place 
on  the  east  side  of  the  road.  The  house  was  moved  by  Putnam 
Jenkins  to  where  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst  now  lives  in  District  No.  1. 

James  Campbell  (393)  and  Nathaniel  Flint  lived  where  Milton 
N.  Flint  now  lives.  The  house  was  rebuilt  and  also  a  new  barn 
was  erected  by  Milton  N.  Flint. 

Edward  Lyon  (394),  Eber  Pike,  Reuben  Bugbee,  and  Albert  Jen- 
ness lived  where  Frank  Colby  now  lives.  The  place  is  now  owned 
by  Milton  N.  Flint. 

William  Flint  (395),  Ezekiel  Abbott,  and  George  Parkhurst  lived 
where  William  Schwartz  now  lives.  This  is  the  last  house  in  Bed- 
ford on  the  road  leading  southwest  from  the  Joppa  road  to  Am- 
herst, and  is  on  the  west  side  of  the  road. 

No.  10  schoolhouse  stands  on  the  east  side  of  the  Joppa  road  near 
John  M.  Sargent's  house. 

Asa  Barnes  (396),  one  of  the  original  proprietors,  lived  where  the 
late  Nathan  Barnes,  Gardner  Nevins,  his  son-in-law,  William  Bailey, 
Oliver  Clark,  and  Charles  Tarbell  later  lived,  and  where  Thomas  D. 
Sargent,  and  his  son,  John  M.,  now  live.  The  house  stands  on 
the  Joppa  road,  a  few  rods  south  of  Bedford  Center  road. 

Blanchard  Nichols  (397),  Mr.  Ferson,  William  H.  H.  Nichols, 
and  Frank  Nay  lived  where  James  Sargent  now  lives.  The  build- 
ing was  formerly  the  Joppa  store,  and  stands  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Joppa  road  north  of  the  cross-road. 

John  Richardson  (398),  David  Stevens,  Stillman  A.  Shepard,  his 
widow,  Mrs.  Jane  Shepard,  and  her  son,  Harry  A.  Shepard,  and 
Alonzo  H.  Bowdoin  lived  where  Samuel  Adams  now  lives,  opposite 
the  cemetery. 

At  the  junction  of  the  road  to  the  Pulpit  and  the  road  to  Tinker's 
corner,  Stephen  Nichols  (399),  brother  of  Benjamin  and  Blanchard, 


632  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

John  Shepard,  a  blacksmith,  and  his  son,  John  W.,  formerly  lived. 
The  house  is  now  occupied  by  William  C.  Adams.  Jesse  Worces- 
ter (400),  father  of  J.  E.  Worcester,  the  philologist  and  geographer, 
lived  in  a  house  which  stood  opposite  the  one  where  Benjamin 
Nichols  (401),  his  son,  B.  Walter,  lived,  and  where  his  widow,  Mrs. 
B.  Walter,  and  her  son,  Benjamin  W.,  now  live.  The  house  is 
about  one  half  mile  north  of  Joppa  on  the  road  to  Tinker's  corner. 
The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  poem  by  John  O.  French : 

) 

"  There  Worcester  that  (noble  name) 
From  whom  a  bright  descendant  came. 
He  lived  just  over  '  Joppa  hill,' 
And,  as  you  cross  a  rippling  rill, 
You  rise  a  summit,  there's  the  spot 
(Where  Nichols  now  has  cast  his  lot), 
Where  Joseph  E.,  in  boyhood  days, 
Indulged  in  many  prattling  plays, 
Not  dreaming,  ere  his  locks  were  gray, 
Our  Anglo-Saxon  he  should  sway." 

Cornelius  Barnes  (402),  brother  of  Asa,  lived  between  the  grave- 
yard and  the  foot  of  the  hill.  The  house  is  now  gone.  This  loca- 
tion is  on  the  road  from  Joppa  to  the  Pulpit,  on  the  south  side  of 
the  Bedford  Center  road. 

Capt.  Ebenezer  Perry  (403)  built  and  lived  where  Deacon  John 
French,  Deacon  James  French,  Leonard  J.  Brown,  Josiah  Taylor, 
Charles  Clement,  and  Samuel  Adams  lived,  and  where  H.  I.  Faucher 
now  lives.  Nathan  Barnes  (404),  the  original  proprietor,  lived  in  a 
house  just  east  of  the  present  one,  afterwards  occupied  by  Thomas 
Tay,  a  traveling  shoemaker. 

Nathan  Barnes,  Nehemiah  Kittredge,  Ned  Lyon,  James  Campbell, 
and  others  hauled  clay  from  the  south  part  of  the  town,  and  burned 
brick  on  the  farm  of  Deacon  John  French.  Kittredge  said  they 
went  over  stones  in  the  road  as  high  as  the  hub  of  the  wheel.  The 
custom  was,  in  those  days,  to  haul  the  clay  and  burn  it  into  brick 
near  the  building  where  it  was  to  be  used. 

Mrs.  McQuaid  (405),  Adam  Butterfield,  and  William  Adams 
lived  at  the  foot  of  Joppa  hill  on  the  north  side  of  the  road.  The 
house  is  now  gone.  The  original  house  was  burned,  and  was  rebuilt 
by  William  Adams.  On  the  south  side  of  the  road  the  widow  of 
Robert  Adams  (406)  lived  where  her  sons,  Thomas  and  Reuben, 
now  live.  About  fifty  rods  northeast  from  here,  in  the  field,  Ezekiel 
Gardner  (407)  and  James  Campbell  lived.     The  house  is  now  gone. 

At  the  top  of  the  hill,  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  Page  Camp- 
bell (408),  Ira  Campbell,  Horace  Campbell,  Samuel  Adams,  and 
William  C.  Adams  lived.  This  house  was  formerly  the  McKean 
house  which  stood  on  the  cross-road  near  Shepard's  mills,  and  was 
moved  here  by  Page  Campbell. 

On  the  Center  road,  going  east  from  Joppa,  John  Rand  (409), 
John  Orr  Houston,  Seth  Campbell,  Samuel  Adams,  and  William 


CHANGES   IN   THE   OCCUPANCY  OF  FARMS.  633 

Cotter  lived  where  Horace  Campbell  and  his  sons,  Edward  and  Ai, 
now  live. 

Isaac  Campbell  (410)  lived  east  of  this  place  at  the  top  of  the  hill, 
on  the  north  side  of  the  road.  The  buildings  were  a  part  of  the 
Simeon  Chubbuck  house.  They  are  now  gone.  The  progenitors 
of  the  Campbell  family  came  to  this  town  from  New  Salem  or  that 
vicinity. 

The  following  upon  this  subject  relative  to  Piscataquog  village  is 
taken  from  the  History  of  1850  : 

"At  the  village  of  Piscataquog  William  Parker  first  built  and  lived 
near  where  the  tavern  now  stands.  He  afterwards  built,  lived,  and 
died  on  the  west  side  of  the  road,  on  the  hill  where  Lewis  F.  Harris, 
a  son-in-law,  now  lives.  The  corner  store  is  the  second  one  on 
the  same  place.  Samuel  Abbot,  a  celebrated  scythe  maker,  lived 
on  the  rise  of  ground  where  the  widow  of  the  late  Robert  Parker 
now  lives.  Abbot  afterwards  lived  in  Antrim  and  Francestown, 
where  he  manufactured  scythes  for  Peter  and  Mark  Woodbury. 
Samuel  Moore  lived  in  the  mill  yard  a  few  rods  west  of  the  present 
mills,  now  owned  by  Widow  David  Hamlet.  Thomas  Parker  built 
and  lived  where  Gen.  William  P.  Riddle  now  lives.  Jonathan  Pal- 
mer, son-in-law  of  Mr.  Parker,  a  merchant,  built,  lived,  and  died 
where  Israel  Fuller  now  lives.  His  funeral,  July,  1825,  was  the 
second  attended  in  this  town  by  the  present  pastor  (Mr.  Savage), 
Capt.  Nathan  Barnes  being  the  first.  James  Parker,  Esq.,  built, 
lived,  and  died  where  James  Walker  now  lives.  Jotham  Gillis  lived 
a  few  rods  south  of  Dr.  Henry  C.  Parker's ;  he  kept  a  house  of  enter- 
tainment. Daniel  Mack,  Daniel  Parker,  Frederick  G.  Stark,  Widow 
David  Hamlet,  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  Benjamin  F.  Wallace,  and  Noyes 
Poor  built  the  houses  they  still  occupy.  Mace  Moulton  built  and 
lived  where  Samuel  Brown  now  lives.  Dr.  William  Wallace  lived 
in  the  house  opposite  Daniel  Mack,  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Barnes. 

"  David  Riddle  built  and  lived  where  Widow  Lund  now  lives. 
John  Moore  lived  where  Ephraim  and  James  Harvill  now  live. 
Robert  Gilmore  where  Dea.  Samuel  McQuesten  lives." 


Fatal  Casualties,  Remarkable  Cases  of 
Preservation,   etc. 


Many  accidents,  both  serious  and  fatal,  have  undoubtedly  occurred 
within  the  town  from  time  to  time  since  its  settlement.  Some  have 
gone  to  oblivion,  but  the  record  of  others  has  been  preserved. 
Matthew  Patten's  diary  states,  perhaps,  one  of  the  most  singular 
incidents  of  preservation,  as  follows : 

March  30,  1755.  Our  son  John  was  taken  very  bad  in  after- 
noon, so  that  we  almost  dispared  of  his  life.  He  was  eased  in  the 
afternoon  by  giving  him  chamber  lye  and  molasses,  sweet  oyl  and 
neatsfoot  oyl. 

He  served  as  lieutenant  in  the  American  army  in  the  Revolution- 
ary war  and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-one. 

Also  this  entry : 

June  2,  1766.  John  Frain  was  found  in  the  eddy  below  Patter- 
son's Brook,  and  I  was  notified  as  a  selectman  to  go  and  see  him 
buried. 

Sept.  9,  1768,  Alexander  McCormick  of  Bedford  was  killed  by 
the  fall  of  a  tree;  the  coroner's  inquest  is  still  in  existence  and 
reads  as  follows : 

Province  of ")  An  Inquisition  Indented  Taken  at  Bedford  within  said 
New  Hamp  j  Province  the  ten  day  of  September  in  the  eighth  year 
of  his  Majestyes  Reign  George  the  3d  &c  1768  Before 
James  Underwood  Esqr  one  of  his  Majestyes  Justices 
of  the  Peace  for  said  Province  upon  View  of  the  Body 
of  Alexr  McCormack  of  Bedford  in  sd  Province  then 
&  there  being  Dead  by  the  oaths  of  John  Goffe  Esqr 
foreman  William  Moor  Daniel  Moor  John  Mc  Quig 
Thomas  Murdough  Gane  Riddle  Richard  Mc  Allester 
John  Aiken  Hugh  Orr  James  Smith  Charles  Black 
Robert  Morril  Alexr  Grag  &  Jacob  Mc  Quiad  Good  & 
Lawful  men  of  Bedford  &  Litchfield  within  the  Prov- 
ince aforesaid  who  being  Charged  &  sworn  to  enquire 
for  our  said  Lord  the  King  when  &  by  what  means 
&  how  the  said  Alexr  McCormack  Came  to  his  death 
who  upon  there  oaths  say  that  yesterday  the  sd  Alexr 


FATAL   CASUALTIES,   ETC.  635 

M°  Cormack  Came  to  his  death  by  the  Providence  of 
God  by  the  fall  of  a  tree  AND  so  the  Juriors  afore- 
said say  upon  there  Oaths  that  the  aforesd  Alexr 
McCormack  in  manner  &  form  aforesd  was  killed  and 
Came  to  his  Death  by  miffortune  IN  witnefs  whereof 
as  well  &  the  Justice  aforesaid  as  the  Juriors  aforesd 
to  this  Inquifition  have  Interchanably  put  to  our  hands 
and  seals  the  day  &  year  abovesaid 

John  Goffe 
William  Moore 
Daniel  Moor 
John  Mc  Quig 
Thomas  Murdough 
Gan  Riddell 
Richard  mcAllster 
John  Aiken 
Hugh  Orr 
James  Smith 
Charles  Black 
Robf  Morrill 
Alex'  Quegg 
Jacob  Mc  Quaid 
James  Underwood  Justice  of  Peace 

July  16,  1770 — Joseph  Moor  was  killed  at  the  raising  of  Piscat- 
aquog  bridge. 

May  5,  1775 — John  Patterson  was  killed  at  the  raising  of  Lieut. 
John  Little's  barn.  At  another  time,  his  brother,  Robert  Patterson, 
had  been  at  the  raising  of  Matthew  Patten's  barn  and  on  the  same 
day  was  drowned  in  the  Merrimack  river  near  the  big  rock  at  the 
mouth  of  Crosby's  brook.  Several  individuals  at  different  times 
have  been  drowned  in  this  river.  In  one  instance,  a  party  were 
crossing  in  a  boat  in  the  evening  after  attending  an  infair  at 
Deacon  Dole's.  The  boat  was  upset  and  Mrs.  Griffin  and  her  hus- 
band were  drowned.  Mrs.  Griffin  was  a  daughter  of  Major  John 
Goffe. 

About  1776  or  1777,  Luke  Eagan,  who  at  the  time  was  keeping 
school  in  Bedford  at  or  near  Capt.  Thomas  Chandler's,  was  return- 
ing one  Sabbath  evening  in  the  winter  from  Londonderry  where  he 
had  been  to  spend  the  Sabbath  with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Davidson.  After 
crossing  the  river  he  was  misled  into  a  wood  path  and  was  found 
dead  next  morning  not  far  from  John  G.  Moore's,  probably  over- 
come by  the  cold.  This  man  had  been  well  educated  in  the  Roman 
Catholic  faith  and  had  taken  priest's  orders,  but  having  become 
a  Protestant  had  been  excommunicated.  He  had  served  a  short 
time  in  the  Revolutionary  army.  On  Monday  morning  after  his 
death,  the  scholars  assembled  as  usual,  and  about  ten  in  the  morning 
his  bodv  was  discovered  by  some  men  who  were  passing. 


636  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

A  man  named  Samuel  Truell  was  drowned  in  the  Merrimack  river 
at  Colonel  Goffe's  ferry  May  1,  1783 ;  also  a  son  of  Dea.  Jonathan 
Rand. 

Lieut.  Whitefield  Gilmore  was  killed  accidentally  May  12,  1786. 
There  was  in  a  field  on  his  farm  a  boulder,  partly  buried  in  the 
earth.  After  removing  the  dirt  around  it,  several  yoke  of  oxen 
were  hitched  on,  and  with  long  levers  it  was  pried  out  on  the  bank. 
After  unhitching  the  oxen,  and  in  removing  the  levers,  the  bank  on 
which  the  stone  rested  caved  in,  and  it  fell  back  on  the  levers,  one 
of  which  flew  against  Mr.  Gilmore  with  such  force  as  to  cause  his 
death,  in  the  forty-first  year  of  his  age. 

December  11,  1788,  William  Patterson  was  drowned  in  the  Mer- 
rimack river  at  Goffe's  Falls.  His  body  was  brought  to  Capt. 
Samuel  Moore's  house  where  an  inquest  was  held. 

About  the  year  1791  or  1792,  at  a  training  in  the  Center,  Joseph 
Bell  had  his  ankle  shattered  by  the  firing  of  a  cannon.  He  was* 
lame  for  life. 

This  account  of  extremes  of  temperature  has  been  kept : 

On  May  19,  1780,  occurred  the  famous  "dark  day,"  which  cast 
its  gloom  and  dread  of  the  judgment  day  over  a  large  area,  includ- 
ing the  whole  of  New  England  and  westward  as  far  as  Albany, 
N.  Y.  It  extended  along  the  sea-coast  southward,  and  as  far  as 
settlements  extended  northward.  In  the  morning  a  dark  cloud, 
accompanied  by  thunder,  was  noticeable  in  the  west  and  northwest. 
At  9  a.  m.  the  darkness  began,  and  noontide  was  dark  as  evening; 
candles  were  lighted ;  the  farmyard  fowls  went  to  roost ;  cattle 
eagerly  sought  refuge  about  the  barns,  and  various  night  birds 
appeared.  Objects  could  be  seen  but  a  short  distance  away,  and  the 
clouds  had  a  strange  brassy  color.  By  3  p.  m.  the  darkness  had 
disappeared,  leaving  only  the  appearance  of  an  ordinary  cloudy  day, 
but  returned  at  evening  with  still  greater  intensity,  and  continued 
until  midnight,  even  though  the  moon  was  full  the  night  before. 
The  darkness  lasted  in  all  about  fourteen  hours,  and  was  attributed 
to  the  smoke  from  many  fires  westward,  combined  with  a  heavy  fog 
from  the  sea. 

A  "yellow  day,"  also  thought  to  be  the  result  of  great  fires  farther 
north,  occurred  September  6,  1881.  The  yellow,  brassy  color  of  the 
clouds  was  noticed  in  early  morning ;  by  noon  artificial  lights  were 
necessary ;  the  sun  was  only  occasionally  visible,  and  then  of  a 
bright  red  color ;  grass  seemed  more  intensely  green  and  colors  of 
all  kinds  were  unnaturally  vivid ;  fires  and  lighted  lamps  burned 
with  a  white  light.  This,  like  the  "  dark  day,"  caused  apprehension 
in  the  minds  of  many ;  parents  came  for  their  children  in  school, 
and  in  some  places  schools  were  closed  for  the  afternoon.  Natural 
conditions  returned  about  5  p.  m. 

The  "great  white  frost"  of  1794  was  an  event  long  remembered 
by  those  who  suffered  from  its  destructiveness.  It  seems  the  spring 
was  remarkably  forward  that  year,  so  that  on  May  17  winter  rye  on 


FATAL  CASUALTIES,   ETC.  637 

burnt  ground  was  in  bloom  and  apples  about  the  size  of  small 
marbles  had  developed.  On  the  morning  of  May  18,  the  rye  was 
killed  to  the  ground  and  the  apples  wholly  destroyed,  except  where 
they  had  been  protected  by  coverings,  or  by  burning  brush  fires. 
It  was  remarked,  in  some  localities  of  the  state,  where  the  canker- 
worm  had  become  troublesome,  they  met  the  same  fate  as  the  apples ; 
thus  the  farmer  had  at  least  one  source  of  satisfaction  in  contem- 
plating the  general  destruction  of  crops.  In  this  town,  but  few 
pieces  of  corn  escaped,  and  these  were  located  on  very  high  ground ; 
one  cornfield  was  on  the  high  hill  north  of  the  residence  now  occu- 
pied by  Solomon  Manning,  another  on  Morrill  hill  east  of  the  same 
residence.  Tradition  relates  that  corn  from  these  fields  was  sold 
for  seed  at  $10  and  $12  per  bushel,  illustrative  of  the  trait  in  human 
nature  which  leads  men  to  take  advantage  of  the  misfortunes  of 
others. 

On  the  morning  of  January  19,  1810,  it  is  said  a  change  in  tem- 
perature of  50  degrees  took  place  in  18  hours,  thus  making  the  day 
memorable  as  "cold  Friday."  It  is  related  of  a  former  resident, 
that  he  started  out  that  morning  to  labor  in  the  woods,  but  before 
proceeding  ten  rods  from  his  home  found  his  cheeks  badly  frostbit- 
ten and  his  noon-day  lunch  frozen  solid.  A  fierce  wind  prevailed 
all  day.     The  thermometer  registered  but  — 15°  or  — 20°. 

In  1816  snow  is  said  to  have  fallen  every  month  in  the  year. 

April  6,  1804 — Mrs.  Isaac  Riddle,  daughter  of  Captain  James  and 
Margaret  Aiken,  was  killed  by  falling  from  her  horse.  Her  death 
was  very  sudden.  She  was  going  on  horseback  to  visit  her  brother- 
in-law,  William  Riddle,  who  had  broken  his  leg  in  the  sawmill. 
Her  neck  was  dislocated,  and  she  died  in  an  hour  at  the  age  of  40. * 

1  Extract  from  Rev.  Mr.  McGregore's  sermon  on  the  death  of  Mrs.  Riddle.  The 
occasion  of  it  is  thus  stated. 

"  SermoD  delivered  at  the  funeral  of  Mrs.  Ann  Riddle,  whose  death  was  occasioned 
by  her  horse  falling  with  her  to  the  ground  at  her  own  door;  she  survived  the  injury- 
she  had  received  in  consequence  of  the  fall  scarcely  an  hour,  when  death  came,  cut 
asunder  the  slender  thread  of  life  and  closed  the  melancholy  scene." 

The  text  is:— "Truly  as  the  Lord  liveth  and  as  thy  soul  liveth,  there  is  but  a  step 
between  me  and  death." 

After  an  introduction  and  remark  on  the  text,  the  sermon  proceeds: 

"  Last  Thursday  at  Mr.  Bell's  funeral,  you  will  doubtless  remember  that  I  endeav- 
ored to  enforce  the  duty  of  watchfulness  in  the  way  of  habitual  and  actual  prepara- 
tion for  death  from  these  words',  '  Watch,  therefore,  for  ye  know  not  the  hour  your 
Lord  doth  come.'  Mrs.  Riddle  was  then  present,  but  could  she  have  supposed  that 
she  had  not  twenty -two  hours  to  live?  Could  she  have  supposed  it  more  than  any 
other  person  who  was  there  present  that  day?  Was  not  her  health  as  firm,  and  had 
she  not  as  good  grounds,  to  all  appearance,  to  presume  on  a  few  years  of  time  as 
any  person  has  who  is  here  this  day?  Yet  how  short  the  transition  from  life  to 
death!  And  how  applicable  were  the  words  of  our  text  that  day  to  her  situation! 
For  one  moment  gave  the  cruel  wound,  one  hour  sealed  her  eyes  in  death  and  she 
shall  not  awake  from  this  sleep  of  a  temporal  death  until  the  Heavens  are  no  more. 

"But  oh!  the  dismal  scene  of  that  distressing  hour  which  numbered  her  with  the 
dead!  All  motionless  she  lay  for  a  time,  while  every  possible  exertion  was  made 
for  her  relief  and  restoration.  At  length  she  opened  her  eyes,  which  seemed  to 
yield  a  faint  ray  of  hope  to  her  surrounding  family  and  friends.  She  then  lifted  her 
hands  in  devotion,  and  after  having  in  broken  accents  supplicated  mercy  and  com- 
mitted her  soul  to  her  God,  her  strength  failed.  She  stretched  herself  upon  the 
bed  and  breathed  her  last,  without  a  struggle  and  without  a  groan." 

Towards  the  close  of  the  sermon,  the  mourners  are  thus  noticed: 

"  1  shall  now  close  the  discourse  by  an  address  to  the  relations  and  friends  of  the 
deceased.  And  to  you,  dear  sir,  the  husband  of  the  deceased,  I  would  observe  that 
your  prospects  last  Friday  morning  were  very  different  from  your  prospects  and 
expectation  that  day  fifteen  years  before.    Fifteen  years  ago  last  Friday  morning 


638  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

March  26,  1822 — Dr.  P.  P.  Woodbury  was  called  to  the  son  of 
Capt.  Rufus  Merrill,  two  years  old,  who  was  suffocating,  apparently, 
from  some  foreign  substance  in  the  trachea,  or  throat.  A  probang 
was  passed  into  the  stomach  through  the  esophagus  or  swallow,  but 
to  no  good  effect.  The  child  had  frequent  fits  of  suffocation,  and 
would  lay  perfectly  senseless.  The  doctor  performed  the  operation 
of  tracheotomy.  An  incision  being  made  into  the  windpipe,  a  white 
bean  of  the  largest  size  was  extracted,  perfectly  dry ;  it  had  been  in 
the  trachea  two  hours.  During  the  operation  the  child  was  sense- 
less, and  had  no  need  of  being  held,  and  was  to  all  appearances  dead, 
exhibiting  no  motion  whatever.  In  less  than  three  minutes  the  child 
was  playing  with  a  watch.  Not  twenty  drops  of  blood  were  lost  in 
the  operation ;  the  child  recovered  and  the  wound  healed,  without 
any  untoward  symptoms. 

July  24,  1824 — Doctor  Woodbury  was  called  to  visit  Miss  Edie 
Mclntire,  who  had  been  taking  away  rye  in  the  sheaf,  on  the  beam 
of  a  barn.  By  some  misstep,  she  fell  the  distance  of  seven  or  eight 
feet,  and  struck  directly  on  the  sharp  point  of  a  stake,  erect  in  a  cart 
below,  from  which  situation  one  man  was  not  able  to  extricate  her. 
So  completely  was  the  girl  transfixed  with  the  stake  that  it  was  nec- 
essary to  break  it  off  at  its  insertion  in  the  cart  body,  and  it  was  car- 
ried, with  the  girl  upon  it,  some  distance  from  the  barn  before  it  was 
taken  from  her.  The  stake  first  struck  on  the  fleshy  part  of  the 
ischium,  and  passed  laterally  into  the  lower  bowels  about  two  inches, 
thence  through  the  rectum  to  the  left,  up  the  body  in  an  oblique, 
direction,  and  out  at  the  left  breast,  about  three  inches  from  the  nip- 
ple. It  fractured  three  ribs  in  its  passage,  the  stake  passing  through 
the  body  twenty-seven  inches.  It  was  five  inches  in  circumference 
at  largest  end.  It  came  out  of  the  breast  six  or  seven  inches,  so 
that  she  could  take  hold  of  it  with  both  hands  while  the  stake  was 
in  her.  It  was  made  of  a  young  hemlock,  and  the  bark  with  the 
knots  was  just  stripped  off.  The  stake  is  now  deposited  in  the 
medical  institution  at  Dartmouth  college.  Edie  was  a  grown  girl, 
large  size,  aged  fifteen. 

you  doubtless  beheld  the  partner  of  your  joys  with  raptures  of  delight  as  the 
mother  of  your  first-born,  and  it  was  then  you  doubtless  began  to  flatter  yourself 
with  the  pleasing  prospect  of  a  rising  family,  but  oh!  sir,  little  did  you  think  on  that 
joyful  occasion  that  you  should  behold  the  darling  of  your  bosom  exactly  at  the 
close  of  fifteen  years  from  that  time,  lying  a  lifeless  corpse  by  such  a  sudden, 
surprising  and  unexpected  proof  of  Divine  Providence. 

"The  companion  of  your  bosom  has  gone.  She  whose  tender  care  and  watchful- 
ness over  your  children  seemed  to  protect  them  from  harm;  she  whose  prudence, 
industry,  and  skill  secured  your  interest;  she  who  was  always  generous  without 
profusion  and  always  friendly  without  affected  fondness;  she  who  was  benevolent 
and  hospitable  without  ostentation,  who  could  rationally  rejoice  with  those  who 
rejoice  and  feelingly  weep  with  those  who  wept;  and  finally  she  whose  greatest 
pride  was  to  make  you  comfortable  and  happy,  is  no  more.  She  sleeps  in  death, 
and  though  dead,  yet  she  as  a  silent  monitor  informs  you  there  is  but  a  step  between 
you  and  death." 
After  addressing  the  children,  the  parents  of  the  deceased  are  thus  exhorted: 
"To  you,  the  parents  of  the  decaased,  I  maysay  with  peculiar  application,  there 
is  but  a  step  between  you  and  death.  You  are  now  b  th  advanced  in  years;  you 
doubtless  begin  to  feel  your  journey  in  your  bones.  Last  week  one  of  you  was 
called  upon  to  lay  a  brother,  and  this  day  the  other  a  daughter  in  the  grave.  You 
see  then  the  aged  anrl  middle-aged  are  laid  in  the  dust.  According  to  the  course  of 
Nature,  your  steps  toward  death  are  almost  accomplished.  '  Be  ye,  therefore,  also 
ready,  for  in  such  an  hour  as  ye  think  not,  the  Son  of  Man  cometh.'  " 


FATAL   CASUALTIES,  ETC.  639 

"  On  my  arrival,"  says  Dr.  Woodbury,  "  I  found  her  on  a  bed  with 
her  common  clothes  on, — her  friends  thought  her  dying.  I  was 
requested  not  to  do  much  for  her  for  fear  she  would  die  with  more 
pain ;  her  pulse  was  scarcely  perceptible ;  her  breathing  short  and 
hurried,  with  a  cold  sweat  on  her  skin ;  she  had  an  extremely  ghastly 
countenance ;  did  not  incline  to  say  much ;  submitted  to  what  was 
done  for  her  without  any  apparent  concern  or  sensation.  She  said  she 
had  no  pain — made  no  complaint — but  was  very  faint.  There  was 
but  a  trifling  hemorrhage  from  the  wounds.  After  the  application 
of  simple  dressings  to  the  wounds  1  endeavored  to  excite  the  system. 
She  soon  began  to  breathe  better — her  pulse  began  to  be  more  per- 
ceptible, and  her  skin  grew  more  moist  and  warm ;  I  now  left  her 
for  the  night.  Without  more  particulars,  suffice  it  to  say,  she  recov- 
ered. In  her  first  attempts  to  walk,  her  body  inclined  a  little  to  the 
left,  but  she  soon  became  erect.  Six  weeks  from  the  time  of  the 
accident  she  was  able  to  attend  school,  sixty  rods  from  home.  Dur- 
ing confinement  I  bled  her  five  times.  She  subsisted  seventeen  days 
wholly  on  water,  in  which  Indian  meal  had  been  boiled.  The  next 
year  I  saw  the  girl,  robust  and  hearty,  living  at  the  house  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Shepard,  where  she  was  when  the  accident  happened." 

April,  1826 — Mr.  John  W.  Moore  fell  from  a  building  on  which 
he  was  at  work,  at  his  brother's,  Capt.  Robert  Moore,  and  died  in  a 
few  hours.  This  providence  was  the  more  remarkable,  as  it  was  just 
one  month  from  the  death  of  his  wife.  \ 

In  the  winter  of  1829  Jonathan  Campbell  was  found  in  a  pasture 
not  far  from  the  Chubbuck  place  frozen  so  badly  that  he  died  in  a 
few  days. 

1830 — Alexander  McCoy  was  killed  at  Piscataquog  village  by  a 
boy  in  a  passion.1 

October  14,  1834 — Elbridge  J.  Campbell,  then  two  years  and 
eleven  months  old,  accompanied  the  hired  girl  when  she  went  after 
the  cow,  which  had  been  turned  to  pasture  on  Morrill  hill.  This 
hill  is  now  a  part  of  the  farm  owned  by  Solomon  Manning. 

Not  finding  the  cow  readily,  the  girl  left  the  boy  under  a  chest- 
nut tree,  telling  him  to  stay  until  her  return.  Some  time  after,  when 
she  came  for  the  boy,  he  was  nowhere  to  be  seen.  Having  become 
restless  at  being  left  alone  so  long,  he  had  wandered,  no  one  knew 
whither.  His  parents  had  gone  to  Chester  for  a  visit,  and  we  can 
imagine  the  feelings  of  the  girl,  when  diligent  search  from  3  o'clock 
p.  m.  until  late  in  the  evening  failed  to  discover  the  missing  child. 
The  next  day  100  people  joined  in  the  search,  it  having  been  agreed 
that  a  gun  should  be  fired  when  the  boy  was  found.  All  day  long 
they  searched,  and  not  till  6  o'clock  p.  m.  was  the  welcome  sound 
of  the  signal  gun  heard.  Hastily  the  people  followed  its  sound.  It 
led  them  to  a  swamp  at  the  eastern  base  of  Morrill  hill.  Here,  cling- 
ing to  a  log,  the  child  was  found  by  Seth  P.  Campbell. 

1  The  boy  was  a  stepson  of  McCoy,  and  became  angered  at  the  treatment  of  his 
mother  by  McCoy,  and,  seizing  the  tongs,  he  struck  him  on  the  head,  killing  him 
instantly.  The  boy  was  arrested,  taken  to  Amherst  jail,  indicted,  and  tried,  but  the 
jury  acquitted  him. 


640  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

It  seems  the  boy  had  heard  voices  calling  him  before  this,  but  was 
too  much  frightened  to  reply  until  he  heard  the  familiar  voice  of 
some  one  he  knew.  The  log  lay  in  a  wet  place,  and  the  boy,  after 
falling  off  during  the  night,  had  crawled  upon  it  once  more.  He 
was  thinly  clad,  and  all  felt  that  his  exposure  to  the  cold  October 
night,  his  hunger  and  fright,  all  combined  to  make  a  very  narrow 
escape. 

June  15,  1837 — A  great  hail-storm,  about  3  o'clock  p.  m.,  passed 
over  the  place,  doing  great  damage  to  window  glass,  crops,  etc.  The 
funeral  procession  of  General  Riddle's  wife  was  passing  from  Piscat- 
aquog  village  to  the  Center  burying-ground,  and  the  horses  became 
almost  unmanageable.  The  hailstones  were  very  large,  and  some  of 
them  were  seen  on  the  ground  next  day.  The  stones  pierced  the 
tops  of  the  covered  carriages,  and  made  such  marks  on  the  build- 
ings that  they  were  noticeable  until  recently. 

In  1837,  Bradford  Chandler,  a  son  of  Capt.  William  Chandler, 
was  killed  in  a  factory  at  Nashua,  N.  H.  He  was  eighteen  years 
old,  and  was  buried  in  Bedford  cemetery. 

September,  1839 — Two  sons  of  D  welly  Mitchell,  aged  fourteen 
and  sixteen,  with  another  boy,  went  out  in  a  skiff,  one  Sabbath 
morning,  on  the  Merrimack ;  the  boat  was  upset,  and  the  two  broth- 
ers were  drowned.  The  bodies  were  found  a  few  days  after  near 
the  place. 

In  March,  1845,  a  dreadful  murder  was  committed  at  Manchester, 
in  the  evening,  on  the  body  of  Jonas  L.  Parker,  which  awakened  the 
deepest  interest  in  this  town,  because  Parker  had  lived  here  some 
years  and  was  well  known  among  us.  His  murderer  was  never 
found. 

In  1845  Phineas  Campbell,  son  of  Thomas  Campbell,  was  killed 
by  a  falling  tree. 

In  1846  David  Campbell  killed  a  black  snake  eight  feet  long.  It 
was  of  the  variety  known  as  a  racer,  having  a  white  ring  around  its 
neck.  Mr.  Campbell  was  haying  near  Cow  hill  (now  a  part  of  the 
farm  owned  by  John  Roby)  when,  hearing  his  dog  making  sounds 
of  distress,  he  started  to  investigate.  He  soon  found  the  snake  chas- 
ing the  dog  and,  hastily  raising  his  gun,  fired.  His  snakeship  at 
once  fell  out  of  the  race. 

James  Gardner  caught  a  pickerel  in  Sebbins'  pond  that  weighed 
seven  pounds.  Amos  Harris  caught  a  pickerel  in  the  same  pond 
which  weighed  six  pounds. 

1847 — Emerson  Campbell,  son  of  Robert  Campbell,  a  boy  about 
ten  years  of  age,  was  drowned  in  Sewell  Stratton's  pond. 

July  17,  1847 — Sherborn  Dearborn's  house  and  other  buildings 
were  burned. 

Woodbury  Roby  was"  drowned  in  Pulpit  brook. 

October,  1849 — A  young  man  by  the  name  of  Jewett  was  killed 
by  falling  from  a  chestnut  tree.  The  tree  was  in  Amherst ;  the 
funeral  was  attended  at  his  father's  in  this  town. 


FATAL   CASUALTIES,   ETC.  641 

November  5,  1849 — David  Houston  went  to  Manchester  one 
Monday  morning,  was  seen  during  the  day,  and  started,  as  was  sup- 
posed, to  come  home  towards  evening,  and  it  was  presumed  he  had 
fallen  into  the  Merrimack  or  Piscataquog,  river.  His  body  was 
found  near  Hudson,  June  22,  1850. 

April,  1850 — Otis  Hardy,  of  Piscataquog  village,  in  a  fit  of  deli- 
rium tremens,  committed  suicide  by  cutting  his  throat.  He  left  a 
wife  and  children. 

July,  1850 — Bradford  Leach,  aged  twenty-five,  was  drowned  in 
the  Piscataquog  river,  near  the  village. 

January  31,  1851 — Capt.  John  Patten,  who  lived  on  the  River 
road,  in  the  house  long  occupied  by  William  Minot,  was  killed  by 
the  fall  of  a  tree.  It  may  be  stated  that  three  men  have  been  killed 
in  this  town  by  falling  trees.  Mr.  Cochran,  many  years  ago  in  the 
north  part  of  the  town ;  Mr.  Phineas  Campbell  and  Capt.  John  Pat- 
ten, above  referred  to. 

In  1852,  Ephraim  Parker,  a  brother  of  James  Amherst  Parker, 
who  was  living  at  the  time  in  the  family  of  William  French,  on  the 
William  Riddle,  Jr.,  farm,  took  an  overdose  of  laudanum,  from  which 
he  died.  It  was  a  case  of  suicide,  and  although  every  effort  was 
made  to  revive  him  by  walking  him  up  and  down  the  hill  in  front 
of  the  house  for  a  long  time,  he  could  not  be  roused  from  his  stupor, 
and  died.     He  was  nineteen  years  of  age. 

November  15,  1853 — Charles  Boynton  was  found  dead  in  the 
road  about  forty  rods  north  of  the  house  formerly  owned  and  occu- 
pied by  Joseph  C.  Moore,  now  occupied  by  Farnham  Jenkins.  The 
circumstances  of  his  death  appear  to  be  these :  The  night  before  he 
left  William  Moore's  about  8  o'clock,  and  on  arriving  at  the  Joseph 
Seymour  house,  now  the  Jenkins  house,  his  horse  stopped  suddenly, 
precipitating  him  out  of  the  wagon  on  to  the  ground.  The  horse 
started  up,  brought  the  forward  wheel  of  the  wagon  upon  Mr.  Boyn- 
ton's  neck,  which,  remaining  there  for  some  time,  strangled  him.  He 
was  buried  in  the  graveyard,  near  the  meeting-house  on  the  west 
side  of  the  meeting-house  near  the  hill  where  it  descends  toward 
the  northwest — the  paupers'  field. 

May  4,  1854 — Stephen  Damon,  father  of  Dea.  Stephen  Churchill 
Damon,  was  killed  in  his  sawmill  on  Riddle  brook.  He  was  sup- 
posed to  have  been  hit  by  the  up-and-down  saw  frame. 

A  few  years  after  the  death  of  Stephen  Damon,  a  young  man, 
William  Gillispy  by  name,  lost  his  arm  by  the  circular  saw,  while 
working  in  the  lower  mill.  These  accidents,  with  a  few  cuts,  bruises, 
and  finger  losses,  are  all  the  noticeable  casualties  in  Damon's,  now 
Holbrook's,  mills  since  1849. 

June  9,  1856 — B.  Orlando  Hall,  son  of  Benjamin  Hall,  was  riding 
a  log  in  the  mill  pond  in  Damon's  mill,  when  the  log  turned,  and  he 
was  drowned.     He  was  eighteen  years  and  ten  months  old. 

July  7,  1856 — Albyron  Pierce  Rundlett  was  drowned  in  the  Mer- 
rimack river,  at  the  age  of  eight  years.  He  was  enticed  from  school 
42 


642  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

to  go  in  swimming  by  two  larger  boys,  Silas  Darrah  and  Clarence 
Darrah.  He  was  unable  to  swim,  and  getting  into  deep  water  could 
not  save  himself.  He  was  drowned  just  below  the  mouth  of  Bow- 
man's brook.  His  father,  who  was  working  about  a  mile  from  the 
place,  was  summoned,  and  his  knowledge  of  the  currents  enabled  him 
to  locate  the  body  without  delay.  He  dove,  and  brought  the  body 
to  the  shore  on  the  first  trial.  All  efforts  at  resuscitation  were  una- 
vailing, the  body  having  been  in  the  water  about  one  half  hour. 

June,  1862 — John  F.  Moore,  son  of  John  Moore,  born  in  Merri- 
mack, N.  H.,  and  Calvin  Dodge,  son  of  Benjamin  Dodge,  both  fifteen 
years  of  age,  were  drowned  near  Goffe's  Falls,  in  the  Merrimack 
river. 

August  16, 1864 — Charles  Leach  Parker,  son  of  Col.  Daniel  Parker 
and  Mary  Way  Parker,  aged  three  years  and  eight  months,  met  his 
death  by  accident.  A  pair  of  steers  ran  away  with  a  cart  in  which 
he  was,  tipping  it  over  and  killing  him. 

1864 — A  stranger,  supposed  to  be  a  foreigner,  and  apparently  about 
sixty-five  years  of  age,  met  his  death  by  falling  through  the  railroad 
bridge  near  Mr.  Isaac  Darrah's  mill.  His  occupation  and  residence 
are  unknown.  He  was  walking  from  Worcester,  and  had  taken  the 
wrong  road. 

July  16,  1864 — Edward  Payson  French,  son  of  Hugh  Riddle 
French,  was  drowned  in  Sawyer's  deep  hole  in  Riddle's  brook,  near 
Miriam  Gilmore's  house,  the  old  Orr  place.  He  was  thirteen  years 
of  age. 

April  23,  1869 — Jed  Frye  Patterson,  aged  two  years,  an  infant, 
was  accidentally  scalded  to  death.  He  sat  down  in  a  pail  of  boiling 
water. 

October  22,  1869 — Sherborn  Dearborn,  aged  sixty,  was  killed  by 
the  kick  of  his  horse.  He  was  on  his  way  home  from  Manchester 
and  stopped  at  Mrs.  Lochran's  house  on  the  plains.  The  house 
stood  a  few  rods  east  of  the  top  of  the  hill  on  the  road  from  Man- 
chester. It  was  afterwards  burned.  His  body  was  found  with  his 
back  broken.  Word  was  brought  to  Mr.  F.  F.  French,  who  sent 
Damon  Jenkins  and  John  D.  Rowe  to  carry  him  home.  He  lived  a 
few  days  after  that.  He  was  a  man  of  great  natural  ability,  but 
with  some  irregularities  of  conduct. 

August  5,  1870 — Louisa  Robie,  aged  twenty-seven,  wife  of  Alfred 
Robie  (before  her  marriage  she  was  a  Plummer  of  Chestnut  Hill), 
drowned  herself  in  Piscataquog  river. 

1872. — Four  children  of  Walter  Gage  died  from  an  epidemic  of 
scarlet  fever.  Their  names  were  Esther,  who  died  April  1 ;  Ida, 
April  2  ;  Lizzie,  April  2,  and  Frank  April  9. 

March  27,  1873 — Daniel  Campbell,  son  of  Page  Campbell,  aged 
twenty-one,  was  killed  on  the  railroad.  He  was  a  brakeman  on  a 
road  out  of  Worcester,  and  the  accident  took  place  near  there. 

June  18,  1876 — Johanna,  wife  of  John  Regan,  thirty-nine  years 
of  age,  was  killed  on  the  New  Hampshire  Central  railroad  near 


FATAL  CASUALTIES,  .ETC.  643 

Goffstown.     She  was  walking  on  the  track  and  did  not  notice  the 
approach  of  the  train. 

1878 — Four  children  of  Edward  Payson  French  and  two  of 
Frank  Harvill  died  within  a  few  days  of  one  another  from  an  epi- 
demic of  diphtheria :  April  5,  Josie  P.  French,  aged  five ;  April  7, 
Hattie  B.,  aged  seven ;  April  8,  Mary  J.,  aged  eleven ;  May  3, 
Frank  R.,  aged  fourteen ;  May  17,  Neddie  S.  Harvill,  aged  two  ; 
May  24,  Charles  S.  Harvill,  aged  five. 

March  18,  1881 — Alonzo  Huntoon,  an  express  messenger  who  ran 
through  to  Boston  on  the  11  o'clock  train  south,  fell  from  his  car  a 
short  distance  below  Goffe's  Falls.  It  is  probable  that  he  was 
thrown  out,  while  sitting  in  a  chair,  as  the  train  rounded  a  curve,  as 
a  broken  chair  was  found  near  him.  He  was  not  missed  until  the 
train  reached  Nashua.  A  message  was  forwarded  to  Manchester 
and  an  employee  dispatched  on  the  down  freight  in  search  of  him. 
He  was  found  about  one  half  mile  below  Goffe's  Falls  in  an  uncon- 
scious condition,  lying  between  two  tracks.  He  was  conveyed  to 
his  home,  357  Central  street,  Manchester,  where  he  was  found  to  be 
suffering  from  concussion  of  the  brain.  He  died  at  thirteen  minutes 
past  six  that  evening.  He  had  worked  for  the  express  company 
about  ten  years,  three  of  which  he  had  run  on  this  particular  train. 
Mr.  Huntoon  was  born  in  Westford,  Mass.,  and  was  thirty-one  years 
of  age. 

September  8,  1882 — George  F.  Gage,  aged  thirty-eight,  a  brother 
of  Charles  Gage,  was  accidentally  killed  while  going  to  Goffstown 
fair  with  a  load  of  stock  in  a  cart.  He  was  sitting  on  the  spire,  and, 
as  the  team  was  going  up  Vose  hill,  he  fell  off  and  the  cart  ran  over 
him  and  injured  him  so  that  he  died  in  a  few  days. 

May  1,  1883 — Reuben  Bugbee,  aged  seventy-three,  committed 
suicide  by  hanging  himself  in  his  barn.  The  barn  stood  where  Her- 
bert Fosher's  barn  now  stands.  It  was  burned  and  the  new  one 
stands  where  the  old  one  did.  The  cause  of  his  death  was  insanity. 
When  found  his  toes  just  touched  the  floor.  He  left  a  widow  but 
no  children. 

1883 — Willie  J.  Folsom,  of  Salisbury,  N.  H.,  aged  nineteen,  was 
drowned.  He  was  in  the  employ  of  Thomas  J.  Wiggin  on  the  River 
road,  and  went  in  swimming  in  the  river.  His  body  was  found  at 
the  foot  of  Griffin's  falls,  near  the  mouth  of  Crosby's  brook. 

Heavy  frost  did  serious  damage  to  fruit  trees  and  farm  crops 
May  30  and  31,  1884.  Snow  fell  in  the  north  part  of  the  state  and 
the  ground  in  this  vicinity  froze  to  the  depth  of  a  quarter  of  an  inch. 
Among  the  losses  cited  in  the  daily  papers  of  those  dates  were : 
Stevens  Brothers  of  Bedford  lost  one  and  one  half  acres  of  sweet 
corn,  one  and  one  half  acres  of  tomato  plants,  two  acres  of  beans, 
three  acres  of  early  potatoes,  and  one  acre  of  spinach.  Their  loss 
was  estimated  at  several  hundred  dollars.  Stevens  &  Emerson  of 
Bedford  lost  one  acre  of  peas  in  bloom.  Other  small  gardeners  lost 
heavily  of  fruits,  the  grape  suffering  the  most. 


H44  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

June  8,  1886 — Clark  N.  Mudge,  son  of  George  Madge,  was  fish- 
ing from  a  boat  on  Baboosic  pond.  He  got  out  of  the  boat  and  on 
to  a  large  rock,  whence  he  slipped  into  the  water  and  was  drowned, 
lie  was  twenty-three  years  old,  and  was  living  at  the  time  on  the 
Enoch  Gage  place  in  West  Bedford. 

June  18,  1887 — Willard  Clinton  Parker  fell  from  a  tree,  while 
hiving  a  swarm  of  bees,  striking  upon  his  shoulders  and  back  and 
causing  a  fracture  of  the  spine.  Paralysis  ensued  and  he  lay  help- 
less for  nearly  six  weeks,  when  death  came  to  his  relief. 

April  17,  1888 — William  F.  Gage,  son  of  W.  U.  Gage,  committed 
suicide.  He  was  thirty-one  years  of  age.  His  body  was  found  in 
the  Shepherd  brook  beside  the  County  road.  He  drove  over  near 
the  brook,  tied  his  horse  and  jumped  into  the  water.  Despondency 
was  the  probable  cause. 

November  8,  1889 — Two  children,  Lillian  Ricard,  aged  five,  and 
Uarl  E.  Holt,  aged  four,  were  burned  to  death  in  a  fire  which 
destroyed  the  barn  and  part  of  the  house,  formerly  owned  by 
Samuel  H.  Dunbar,  and  which  stood  on  the  west  side  of  the  River 
road  near  the  Manchester  line.  The  children  were  playing  with 
matches  and  the  buildings  took  fire  in  consequence.  When  found 
their  bodies  were  almost  entirely  consumed. 

August  28,  1892 — David  Page  Campbell,  aged  fifty-five,  went 
out  of  the  little  house  on  the  top  of  the  hill  near  the  William 
McAllister's  place,  and  hung  himself  to  the  limb  of  a  tree  near  the 
wall.  His  body  was  found  by  Emerson  Campbell.  The  reason  for 
his  rash  act  is  not  known. 

October  27,  1895 — John  P.  Adams,  son  of  Charles  Adams,  aged 
sixteen  years,  was  coming  down  the  hill  near  the  Vose  place  when 
he  stumbled  and  fell  on  the  gun  which  he  was  carrying.  The 
charge  entered  his  head,  and  he  was  killed  instantly. 

October  16,  1896 — Mary  A.  Calef,  wife  of  Arthur  Calef,  was 
found  dead  in  a  field  with  her  head  in  a  spring.  It  was  supposed 
that  she  had  a  fit  and  fell  into  the  spring.  Her  face  only  was  in  the 
water.  Her  husband  afterwards  lost  his  mind,  and  was  taken  to 
the  Concord  asylum. 

December  2,  1899 — Charles  W.  Campbell,  son  of  Silas  Campbell, 
was  killed  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  while  working  on  the  railroad. 

George  Washington  Campbell,  son  of  George  Campbell,  was  killed 
in  the  Manchester  railroad  yard.     He  worked  on  the  railroad. 

July  18,  1901 — Jerome  Sturtevant  committed  suicide  by  hanging 
himself  with  a  trace  chain  to  a  tree  in  the  orchard  back  of  his  barn 
on  the  River  road.     Temporary  insanity  was  the  cause. 

May  1,  1902 — John  R.  Rouse  was  accidentally  killed.  He  was 
coming  home  from  Manchester  and  stopped  at  Davis'  store  to  buy 
some  bananas  for  his  children.  While  he  was  in  the  store  his  horse 
started  and  he  ran  after  him.  His  foot  slipped  off  the  step  and  he 
fell  under  the  moving  wheels  which  passed  over  him,  crushing  his 
head  so  that  he  died  instantly. 

November  22,  1902— Captain  Edwin  Whitford  was  killed  by  the 


LONGEVITY. 


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kick  of  a  horse.  The  accident  took  place  in  the  early  morning  at 
the  barn  of  his  brother-in-law,  W.  M.  Patten. 

June  16, 1903— Robert  P.  Yuill,  the  hired  man  of  Mrs.  Forrest  F. 
Shaw,  committed  suicide  by  shooting.  The  rash  act  was  performed 
in  the  morning,  on  the  lawn  in  front  of  the  house. 

October  21,  1903— Waldo  T.  Worcester  of  Concord  was  drowned 
at  Goffe's  falls.  He  was  shooting  the  rapids  with  a  companion  in  a 
canoe,  which  overturned,  precipitating  them  both  into  the  river. 
The  companion  escaped,  but  Mr.  Worcester  was  drowned.  His  body 
was  not  recovered. 

The  following  copy  of  an  old  subscription  paper  preserved  in 
tOAvn  may  be  of  interest : 

Bedford  11th  January  1814 
We  whose  names  are  underwritten  takeing  into  consideration    the    distressed 

scituation  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Portsmouth  who  have  been  deprived  of  much  of 

their  property  by  the  late  destructive  fire,  do  hereby  engage  to  pay  or  deliver  to  the- 

person  who  shall  present  this  paper  to  us  such  sum  of  money  or  other  specific  arti- 
cles as  are  affixed  to  our  names  respectively  for  the  relief  of  the  sufferers 

Josiah  Walker, 

Samuel  Chandler, 

Richard  Dole, 

Z.  Chandler, 

Thomas  Chandler, 

Thomas  Runlet, 

Theodore  A.  Goffe, 

Joseph  Patten, 

Solomon  Gage, 

James  Darrah  junior, 

Robert  K.  Darrah, 

Daniel  Harris, 

Samuel  Smith 

Margaret  Dickey, 

Thomas  Harris, 

Thomas  Harris,  Junior, 

Willard  Harris, 

Moses  Davis, 

Deacon  Ephraim  Abbott, 

Jonathan  Rand, 

James  Darrah, 

Amos  Martin, 

Wid  Hannah  Patten, 

John  Patten 

Rebecca  Wallace, 

Isaac  Riddel, 

Margaret  Orr 

Isaac  Atwood 

David  S.  Gillis, 

Frederick  A.  Mitchell, 

Stephen  French, 

Allen  Tirrel 

William  Barns, 

Robt  Houston 

David  Patten, 

Patrick  McLaughlin 

Isaac  Atwood  Junr, 

Levi  Cochrane 

William  Riddel, 
Reed  from  the  Inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford  by  the  hands  of  Mr  Isaae 

Atwood  and  Patrick  McLaughlin  114  Dollars  in  cash  37  bushels  corn  two  small  pes 

cotton  cloth  2  prs.  stockings  1  small  jacket  for  the  relief  of  the  sufferers  by  the  late 

fire  in  this  town. 

Portsmouth,  Jan.  26,  1814. 
John  Haven,  for  the  Committee  of  donations. 


$1. 

D.  McGregore, 

2  bu  of  corn, 

2. 

S.  French, 

2  bu.  of  corn, 

2. 

josiah  Gordon, 

2  bu.  of  corn, 

2. 

John  Houston, 

1  bu.  of  corn, 

3. 

Nancy  Houston, 

6  yds.  shirting  1  sheet, 

1. 

John  Orr, 

$10. 

3. 

William  Moor, 

5. 

1. 

David  Stevens, 

3. 

1. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

2. 

2. 

David  Stevens  jr., 

1. 

1. 

Robert  Wallace, 

2. 

.25 

Enoch  Dole, 

1. 

1. 

Robert  Moor, 

.50 

.25 

Sam  Barron, 

.50 

.50 

Jesse  Parker 

1  bu.  of  corn, 

.50 

True  Moor, 

1  ■'■>  bu.  of  corn. 

.50 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

5. 

.37 

Thomas  Kearney, 

1. 

.25 

Hugh  Riddel, 

2. 

.50 

Samuell  McAffee, 

1.50 

2. 

Benj.  Gage, 

1. 

1. 

Abel  Beard, 

1  bu. of  corn, 

1. 

Samuell  Bangs, 

l  bu.  of  corn, 

1. 

John  Moor, 

1  bu.  of  corn. 

.50 

Andrew  Walker, 

1  bu. of  corn, 

6. 

Jacob  Vose 

1  bu.  of  corn, 

2. 

David  Atwood, 

2. 

.75 

Roger  Vose, 

1  bu.  of  corn, 

.25 

Deacon  Holbrook, 

2  bu.  of  corn, 

1. 

Deacon  Craig, 

1  bu.  of  corn. 

3. 

Benj.  Sprague, 

1  bu.  of  corn, 

.50 

David  Sprague, 

V2  bu.  of  rie, 

.25 

John  Armstrong, 

Va  bu.  corn, 

1. 

James  McCleary, 

V2  bu.  of  corn. 

1. 

Benj.  Sprague, 

1  bu.  of  corn, 

1. 

Ezra  Baldwin, 

1.50 

1.50 

Benjamin  Nichols, 

1.50 

.50 

Matthew  Briant, 

1.50 

3. 

Ebenezer  French 

1.50 

LONGEVITY. 

Mrs.  Margaret  Aiken  lived  to  be  ninety-seven, 
professor  of  religion  more  than  seventy  years, 
children  baptized  in  the  old  meeting-house. 


She 
She 


had  been  a 
had  twelve 


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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Mrs.  Sarah  Colburn  lived  to  be  ninety-six.  She  had  heard 
Whitefield  preach  in  Dracut. 

Deacon  Benjamin  Smith,  one  of  the  first  elders,  came  with  his 
wife,  then  a  girl,  from  the  north  of  Ireland  (1738)  he  being  nine- 
teen and  she  twenty-one.  They  were  married  in  Londonderry  soon 
after  their  arrival,  after  which  they  came  to  this  town  and  lived 
together  in  the  married  state  seventy-two  years. 

Mrs.  Rundlett  died  in  1845  at  the  age  of  ninety-five. 

1837.  There  were  seven  persons  died  whose  united  ages  would 
be  five  hundred  and  fifty  years,  viz.,  Deacon  John  Craig,  seventy- 
four;  Mrs.  Sarah  Moor,  eighty-one;  Mrs.  Joseph  Tinker,  seventy- 
six;  Mrs.  Hannah  Merrill,  eighty-one;  Mrs.  Ann  M.  Riddle,  sev- 
enty-two ;  Mr.  John  Wallace,  ninety ;  Deacon  Stephen  Thurston, 
seventy-six. 

1839.  There  were  seven  persons  died  whose  united  ages  would 
be  five  hundred  and  eighty-eight  years,  viz.,  Mr.  Joseph  Patten, 
eighty ;  Mr.  John  Moor,  ninety-three ;  Mr.  Benjamin  Sprague, 
eighty-seven ;  Mrs.  Hannah  Patten,  seventy-seven ;  Mr.  David 
Stevens,  eighty-six ;  Mr.  David  Riddle,  eighty-four ;  Mrs.  Benjamin 
Sprague,  eighty-one. 

The  following  inhabitants  of  Bedford  have  lived  to  be  over  eighty 
years  of  age : 


Almira  L.  Johnson, 

80 

Samuel  Muzzey, 

94 

Sarah  Walker, 

90 

Betsy  Stenchfield, 

87 

Rebecca  Plummer, 

86 

Ephraim  Parker, 

90 

Dolly  Campbell, 

83 

Eliza  B.  G.  Woodbury, 

88 

Samuel  Gardner, 

89 

K.  Heselton, 

80 

Nathaniel  B.  Hull, 

80 

Paul  T.  Abbott, 

83 

Thomas  Hackett, 

80 

Mary  B.  Cotton, 

83 

Holmes  Carr, 

80 

Betsey  Kittredge, 

80 

Lydia  French, 

82 

Blanchard  Nichols, 

84 

Sally  Butterfield, 

87 

David  B.  Durgin, 

81 

Sophia  M.  Moore, 

82 

B.  Esienzimmer, 

81 

Nancy  Ferguson, 

91 

Hannah  Carr, 

86 

Sarah  Whittaker, 

87 

Benjamin  Nichols, 

83 

Jane  Gordon, 

89 

Nancy  Goffe  McGaw, 

83 

John  Dunlap, 

84 

Isaac  Cutler, 

82 

Achsah  Roby, 

81 

Thomas  G.  Holbrook, 

87 

Elizabeth  Cutler, 

82 

Submit  W.  Holbrook, 

88 

Frederick  W.  Scheer, 

91 

Dwelly  W.  Mitchell, 

90 

Hannah  Atwood, 

88 

Henry  J.  Plummer, 

90 

Joseph  H.  Tinker, 

87 

Clarissa  E.  Ban1, 

85 

Elvira  Walker, 

85 

Abram  Ceroy, 

99 

Abigail  Twombly, 

84 

Betsey  Bean, 

84 

Adam  N.  Patten, 

81 

Lucinda  E.  Clement, 

87 

Lydia  Parkhurst, 

81 

David  Sprague, 

81 

Elijah  H.  Burns, 

83 

Annie  C.  French, 

84 

Rufus  Merrill, 

85 

Sarah  Butler, 

88 

LONGEVITY. 

647 

Thomas  W.  Moore, 

85 

Thomas  Barr, 

90 

Sarah  Woods, 

98 

John  Barr, 

85 

Jane  P.  Gage, 

83 

Ephraim  Snow, 

81 

Benjamin  Dowse, 

99 

Joseph  Moore, 

81 

Hannah  D.  Currier, 

S3 

Nancy  Walker, 

88 

Maria  Worthley, 

81 

Reuben  Bowers, 

95 

Lucy  B.  Sheppard, 

83 

Cyrus  Fosdick, 

84 

Willard  Parker, 

83 

David  Cheney, 

92 

Lydia  Head, 

87 

Mary  Way, 

80 

Nathan  Butler, 

86 

John  Sheppard, 

86 

Rebecca  Roby, 

80 

Submit  W.  Darrah, 

86 

Martha  Barron, 

81 

Isaac  Gage, 

86 

Sybil  Moore, 

84 

Abigail  Hodgman, 

90 

Olive  Dunlap, 

84 

Nancy  F.  French, 

82 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

89 

David  Atwood, 

90 

John  Way, 

83 

Isaac  Darrah, 

80 

Nancy  Houston, 

98 

Robert  Dunlap, 

86 

Leonard  C.  French, 

83 

Allen  Peabody, 

83 

Samuel  Chandler, 

95 

Theodore  A.  Goffe, 

91 

Jennie  Wetherspoon, 

83 

Mrs.  Thomas  Chandler, 

80 

Mahala  Cheney, 

82 

Jotham  Gillis, 

97 

Thomas  Chandler, 

93 

David  Swett, 

87 

Mary  Eveleth, 

90 

Mrs.  I.  P.  Hodgman, 

81 

Dolly  Riddle, 

80 

Oliver  L.  Kendall, 

88 

Mrs.  B.  Nichols, 

90 

Joshua  Vose, 

84 

Caroline  C.  Ormsby, 

87 

Eliza  Goffe  Parker, 

91 

Edward  Barr, 

87 

Lavina  Adams, 

96 

Hannah  Flint, 

85 

Lucy  W.  Hadley, 

81 

Almira  Leavitt, 

82 

Elizabeth  Cady, 

82 

Charles  Tarbell, 

83 

Caroline  E.  Parker, 

80 

Thomas  F.  Kendall, 

81 

Fannie  D.  Moore, 

95 

Mary  Taffe, 

82 

Benjamin  Hutchinson, 

81 

Joshua  Vose, 

81 

Mary  P.  Jones, 

84 

Deacon  John  French, 

80 

Emily  Kidder, 

82 

George  Hodgman, 

96 

Senter  Farley, 

84 

Mary  Tinker, 

83 

John  W.  Brown, 

87 

Gottlieb  Hoffman, 

85 

Mary  Ann  Roby, 

80 

Harriet  Wilson, 

94 

Abijah  Hodgman, 

88 

Mary  C.  Goffe, 

89 

William  McAfee, 

86 

Asenath  Bugbee, 
Sarah  Ann  Stevens, 

86 

85 

Living  January  1,  1901 : 

Benjamin  Hall, 

82 

Isaac  P.  Hodgman, 

86 

Bradford  Beal, 

84 

Stillman  Parkhurst, 

86 

James  FYench, 

83 

Robert  Fulton, 

90 

Moses  Gage, 

86 

Dolly  Patten, 

90 

Hannah  P.  Morrison, 

81 

Charles  H.  Kendall, 

84 

Betsey  Bursiel, 

87 

Mrs.  Louisa  Parkhurst, 

88 

Anna  Parker, 

81 

Mrs.  Thomas  Fuller, 

90 

Statistics   of  Taxation. 


Facts  relative  to  the  taxation  that  has  been  borne  by  taxable  per- 
sons of  the  town  of  Bedford  for  the  past  one  hundred  and  more 
years  are  here  presented.  The  date  for  the  beginning,  1799,  was 
taken,  because  it  was  the  first  in  which  the  invoice  was  made  in  the 
denomination  of  dollars  and  cents.  The  terms  previously  used  had 
been  pounds,  shillings,  and  pence. 

Such  items  have  been  taken  from  the  invoices  as  were  deemed  of 
the  greatest  interest  for  reference  and  comparison,  and  they  have 
been  reduced,  when  necessary  and  possible,  to  a  basis  which  means 
the  same  for  the  entire  period.  The  items  selected  are :  the  rate 
upon  each  $100  worth  of  property :  the  total  tax  assessed  for  all 
purposes;  the  total  amount  specially  voted  for  the  care  of  high- 
ways ;  the  same  for  "  town  charges  " ;  the  amount  raised  for  the  sup- 
port of  schools,  and  the  total  invoice  valuation  of  the  town. 

It  has  been  impossible  to  give  the  last  two  items  for  the  entire 
period.  Up  to  1875  it  was  not  the  practice  to  make  a  total  sum- 
mary of  the  valuation  of  the  property  of  the  iudividual  taxpayers. 
It  was  decided,  in  the  preparation  of  the  table,  therefore,  to  give  the 
total  for  the  earlier  part  of  the  period,  for  only  the  decennial  years, 
since  the  work  of  addition  for  each  year  would  require  so  much 
time.  The  total  for  such  other  years  in  that  time  as  are  given  were 
found  in  some  papers  at  the  state  offices,  or  elsewhere,  when  search 
was  being  made  for  other  matter. 

For  a  portion  of  the  time  the  column  of  school  tax  is  incomplete. 
The  cause  of  this  is  similar  to  that  related  as  to  invoice  valuation, 
no  record  of  the  selectmen's  warrant,  committing  the  taxes  to  the 
collector  and  containing  such  items,  being  found  for  those  years  in 
the  town  books. 

The  item  of  "town  charges"  means  the  amount  voted  by  the 
town  to  be  raised  over  and  above  that  voted  for  specific  purposes, 
or  required  by  general  law  to  be  raised  for  certain  town  purposes. 
Provisions  of  the  latter  kind  relative  to  schools  and  highways  have 
now  existed  for  many  years. 


STATISTICS   OF   TAXATION.  649 

For  the  first  third  of  the  period  covered  by  the  table  care  of  the 
highways  was  provided  by  voting  a  certain  sum  "on  a  poll  and 
other  estate  in  proportion,"  and  for  the  first  few  years  it  was  ex- 
pressed in  hours  of  labor  rather  than  by  money  terms.  Until  within 
a  comparatively  few  years  a  taxpayer  had  the  option,  at  least,  of 
meeting  his  highway  tax  by  labor  of  person  or  of  team. 

The  determining  of  the  tax  rate  for  the  last  thirty  years  has  been 
an  easy  task,  since  it  has  been  the  same  as  the  tax  upon  a  poll,  a  law 
having  been  then  enacted  that  "  in  making  the  annual  invoice  each 
poll  shall  be  reckoned  at  1100."  Previous  to  1872  the  only  way  of 
determining  the  rate  from  the  records  was  to  divide  a  person's  total 
tax  by  the  total  valuation  of  his  taxable  property.  It  was  thought 
that  having  this  column  complete  would  prove  of  enough  interest  to 
warrant  such  labor. 

The  general  subject  of  direct  taxation  in  the  state  is  of  much 
interest.  In  the  early  days  the  rate  at  which  property  was  to  be 
assessed  was  specifically  stated  by  law.  A  poll  tax  was  made  a 
definite  amount,  as  was  that  upon  specified  classes  of  live  stock, 
acres  of  land,  etc.  The  basis  for  live  stock  was  the  number  of  win- 
ters an  animal  had  been  kept ;  of  land,  there  were  the  classes  of 
orchard,  arable,  mowing  and  pasture,  and  so  on.  Full  details  of  the 
plan  in  effect  at  the  beginning  of  the  century  can  be  found  in  a 
quotation  from  the  law  of  1798,  printed  as  a  foot  note  to  the  inven- 
tory of  1800,  Avhich  appeaivin  a  ■subsequent  table. 

The  poll  tax,  which  was  $1.34  in  1798,  and  which  had  been  ten 
shillings  previously,  was  made  $1.30  in  1803;  in  1842  it  was  made 
$1.50;  in  1851,  $1.20,  and  in  1872,  as  mentioned  above,  reckoned 
as  of  $100  in  value  in  making  the  invoice. 

The  rate  at  which  subjects  of  taxation,  other  than  polls,  were 
assessed,  was  changed  from  time  to  time.  In  1828  a  law  was 
passed  that  assessments  of  property  should  be  made  at  money  value ; 
previously,  all  individual  property  in  a  certain  class  paid  the  same 
sum  without  regard  to  real  value. 

The  form  of  the  present  appraisal  of  property  is  found  in  the 
statute  revision  of  1842.  It  made  it  the  duty  of  assessors  "to  ap- 
praise all  taxable  property  at  its  full  and  true  value  in  money.  They 
shall  set  down  in  their  invoice,  in  separate  columns,  the  value  of 
improved  and  unimproved  lands ;  of  buildings  not  specially  desig- 
nated ;  mills  and  carding  machines,  factories  and  their  machinery ; 
wharves,  ferries,  toll-bridges,  locks,  and  canals  ;  value  of  stocks  in 


650  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

public  funds ;  of  shares  in  banks  and  other  corporations ;  the  amount 
of  money  on  hand,  at  interest  and  on  deposit ;  stock  in  trade ;  the 
value  of  carriages;  the  number  and  value  of  horses,  asses,  and 
mules ;  of  cows,  oxen,  and  other  neat  stock,  and  of  sheep." 

In  1878  the  item  of  aqueducts  and  also  of  hogs  was  added,  and  in 
1889  fowls  exceeding  $50  in  value. 

It  will  be  noticed  in  the  extract  cited  from  the  law  of  1798  that 
it  was  provided  that  buildings  should  be  rated  in  the  assessment 
"  at  one  half  of  one  per  cent."  When  the  law  was  made  requiring 
all  property  to  be  inventoried  at  its  full  value  in  money,  that  idea  of 
keeping  the  assessment  at  reduced  figures  was  continued.  In  the 
chapter  upon  "assessment,"  revision  of  1842,  an  article  reads :  "All 
taxes  for  the  year  following  shall  be  assessed  upon  the  invoice  made 
as  aforesaid,  estimating  each  poll  at  $1.50,  and  taxable  property  at 
the  rate  of  fifty  cents  on  each  $100  of  its  appraised  value."  The 
figures  relating  to  poll  tax  were  changed  to  $1.20  in  1851.  When 
the  revision  of  1878  was  made  the  $1.20  was  stricken  out  and  "fifty 
cents  "  inserted  to  make  the  reading  of  the  article  consistent  with 
the  amendment  of  1872  that  a  poll  be  reckoned  at  $100. 

This  reading  of  the  law  as  to  assessment  strikes  one,  at  first,  as 
rather  peculiar.  In  the  inventory  books  of  the  town,  for  years,  a 
column  headed  "reduced  valuation"  has  followed  that  headed 
"  total  valuation."  Following  the  plan  of  the  law  as  it  reads,  it  was 
the  practice  to  place  in  the  column  last  mentioned  the  total  valua- 
tion of  a  person's  property,  and  then  insert  the  figures  in  the  other 
column  that  would  result  from  reckoning  "  fifty  cents  on  each  $100  " 
of  it,  the  practical  way  of  doing  which  was  dividing  by  2  and 
pointing  off  two  decimal  places.  One  reason  advanced  for  such  a 
practice  was  that  it  reduced  the  number  of  figures  for  the  subse- 
quent computation  of  determining  a  person's  tax.  For  instance,  if 
the  total  valuation  of  a  taxpayer's  property  were  $3,846  the  re- 
duced valuation  would  be  $19.23.  Assume  further  that  the  rate  on 
$100  of  valuation  was  $1.14.  A  person's  tax  is  found  by  multiply- 
ing the  valuation  of  his  taxable  property  by  the  rate ;  in  the  in- 
stance given  $3,846.00  by  $1.14,  pointing  off  four  places,  since  the 
rate  is  on  each  $100 ;  this  gives  the  tax  $43.84.  If  the  reduced 
valuation  be  taken  as  the  basis,  the  rate  would  need  be  doubled  to 
get  the  same  result,  or  to  continue  the  illustration,  multiply  $19.23 
by  $2.28,  which  equals  $43.84. 

It  should  be  added  that  the  Column  of  "  reduced  valuation "  in 


STATISTICS  OF  TAXATION.  651 

the  invoice  books  of  this  town  has  been  left  blank  for  many  years 
past,  the  direct  and  logical  method  of  making  the  computation 
being  regarded  preferable  to  that  indicated  by  the  law.  And  such 
practice  in  Bedford  has  been  general  throughout  the  state.  The 
method  of  determining  the  rate  is  to  divide  the  total  amount  of 
money  to  be  raised  for  all  purposes  by  the  total  valuation  of  the 
town,  which  latter  is  the  sum  of  the  inventory  of  all  resident  and 
non-resident  property.  To  the  former  sum,  total  tax,  the  law  per- 
mits to  be  added  five  per  cent,  to  cover  abatements  that  may  be 
necessary,  a  permission  frequently  exercised. 

During  the  first  part  of  the  period  covered  by  the  table,  there 
were,  as  a  rule,  five  distinct  assessments  made  for  each  taxpayer : 
state,  county,  town,  school,  and  minister  tax,  each  having  a  special 
rate,  the  sum  of  which  latter  made  the  rate  given  in  the  table.  The 
method  of  raising  the  highway  tax  at  such  time  has  been  already 
explained.  Some  years  there  would  be  no  state  tax,  but  such  was 
the  exception.  Soon  after  the  enactment  of  the  "  Toleration  Act " 
of  1819,  the  assessment  for  the  support  of  the  minister  ceased.  This 
had  been  made  to  meet  the  deficiency  of  full  compensation  to  the 
minister,  which  the  income  from  the  public  lands,  set  apart  for  that 
purpose,  did  not  supply. 

A  few  years  later  a  law  was  passed  doing  away  with  these  dis- 
tinct assessments,  a  great  saving  in  the  labor  of  computation,  but 
for  many  years  after  the  highway  tax  became  regular,  instead  of 
special ;  that  was  kept  separate,  because  of  the  option  of  meeting  it 
with  labor  instead  of  with  money. 


652 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Year. 

Rate. 

Tax. 

Highway 
Tax. 

Town 
Charges. 

School 
Tax. 

Valuation. 

1799 

$0.22 

$411.80 

1  day.* 

$130.00 

$150.00 

1800 

.32 

692.71 

1  day.* 

160.00 

207.55 

$214,260.00 

1801 

.24 

465.86 

1  day.* 

80.00 

208.90 

1802 

.94 

1,199.77 

1  day.* 

90.00 

207.55 

1803 

.24 

529.11 

2  days.* 

100.00 

207.55 

1804 

.40 

826.11 

16  hours.* 

150.00 

211.40 

1805 

.47 

934.36 

2  days.* 

350.00 

272.00 

1806 

.80 

1,617.71 

16  hours.* 

800.00 

272.00 

1807 

.58 

1,237.52 

$1.00* 

600.00 

271.80 

1808 

.69 

1,516.57 

1.00* 

700.00 

427.00 

222,352.00 

1809 

.69 

1,467.50 

1.00* 

700.00 

401.10 

1810 

.61 

1,416.17 

1.00* 

500.00 

421.09 

234,384.00 

1811 

.75 

1.756.53 

2.00* 

750.00 

402.43 

1812 

1.14 

2,581.86 

2.00* 

1,464.77 

391.34 

247,678.00 

1813 

.59 

1,309.57 

2.00* 

350.50 

397.60 

1814 

.78 

1,771.39 

1.00* 

1,000.00 

398.48 

1815 

.88 

2,073.96 

1.00* 

1,000  00 

418.30 

1816 

.88 

1,908.55 

1.00* 

800.00 

418.59 

253.146.00 

1817 

.96 

2.093.63 

1.00* 

1,050.00 

412.19 

1818 

.89 

1,926.44 

1.30* 

1,000.00 

399.65 

• 

1819 

.89 

1,979.44 

1.50* 

1,000.00 

471.80 

1820 

.85 

1,926.87 

1.00' 

750.00 

474.15 

228,406.00 

1821 

1.35 

3,105.40 

1.00* 

800  00 

497.04 

1822 

.94 

2,033.29 

1.50* 

900.00 

504.47 

1823 

1.22 

2,465.18 

1.30* 

900.00 

521.76 

1824 

1.12 

2,039.94 

1.50* 

800.00 

515.60 

1825 

.60 

1,646.75 

1.30* 

800.00 

511.40 

1826 

.81 

1,980.40 

1.30* 

1,100.00 

488.58 

1827 

.71 

1,656.85 

2.00* 

800.00 

415.07 

1828 

1.02 

2,489.14 

1.30* 

1,200.00 

513.62 

1829 

1.12 

2,275.66 

1.30* 

1,800.00 

463.38 

1830 

.57 

1,449.20 

1.30* 

600.00 

486.07 

250,606.00 

1831 

.68 

1,47933 

1.50* 

600.00 

1832 

.81 

1,883  05 

1.50* 

1,000.00 

1833 

.32 

1,356.17 

1,600.00 

800.00 

1834 

.32 

1,433.98 

1,600.00 

600.00 

1835 

.50 

2,417.75 

1,600.00 

1,500.00 

394,765.00 

1836 

.84 

2,668.05 

2,200.00 

1,000.00 

429,303.00 

1837 

.47 

2,672.39 

800.00 

800.00 

1838 

.50 

2,121.53 

1,200.00 

1,000.00 

1839 

.43 

2,650.74 

1,600.00 

1,500.00 

1840 

.45 

2,546.36 

1,600  00 

1,500.00 

400,812.00 

1841 

.75 

4,437.29 

1,600.00 

3,000.00 

1842 

.58 

3,451.78 

1,600.00 

2,000.00 

1843 

.66 

3,647.10 

1,600.00 

2,000.00 

1844 

.41 

2.843.70 

1,200.00 

1,200.00 

1845 

.70 

2,626.79 

1,200.00 

1,000.00 

1846 

.76 

2,939  45 

1,200.00 

1,300  00 

1847 

.61 

3,955.06 

600.00 

1,500.00 

686.75 

1848 

.55 

3,150.82 

700.00 

1,500.00 

1849 

.65 

5,094.59 

900.00 

2,000.00 

923.31 

1850 

.65 

4.997.29 

1,500.00 

1,500.00 

828.38 

766,915.00 

1851 

.74 

4.260.63 

1,500.00 

2,100.00 

185? 

.78 

5,255.94 

1.200.00 

2  500.00 

1853 

.84 

5,081.18 

1,500.00 

2,500.00 

926.25 

1854 

1.16 

5,005  26 

1,000.00 

2,500.00 

950.43 

1855 

.92 

4,752.10 

1,000.00 

2,000.00 

465,857.00 

1856 

1.06 

5,445.91 

1,000.00 

2,500.00 

1857 

1.04 

4,807.92 

1,000.00 

2,000.00 

1858 

.87 

4,134.79 

1,200  00 

1,600.00 

999.29 

1859 

.83 

4.591.83 

1,200.00 

1,500.00 

994.48 

1860 

.83 

4,630.19 

1,000.00 

1,650.00 

1,002.04 

544,832.00 

1861 

.80 

3,492.94 

1,000.00 

1,500.00 

989.64 

1862 

.91 

3,604.54 

1,000  00 

1,500.00 

964.52 

1863 

.98 

4,985.57 

1,000.00 

1,000.00 

973.33 

497,981.00 

1864 

1.51 

6,621.37 

1,400.00 

2,000.00 

1,045.31 

493,868.00 

1865 

2.06 

9,010.61 

1.500.00 

4,000.00 

1,029.11 

1866 

2.00 

9.133.40 

1,500.00 

4,000.00 

1,149.82 

450,162.00 

1867 

1.65 

6.840.27 

1 ,800.00 

2,000.00 

1,041.35 

499,069.00 

1868 

1.88 

9,127.26 

1,000.00 

3,000.00 

1,400.54 

498,945.00 

1869 

2.21 

10,430.40 

1,500.00 

5,000.00 

1,283.60 

1870 

1.89 

9,755.13 

1,500.00 

3,000.00 

1,274.50 

482,320.00 

1871 

2.14 

9,407.49 

1,500.00 

3,000.00 

1,511.76 

*  On  a  poll  and  other  estate  in  proportion. 


STATISTICS   OF   TAXATION. 


653 


Year. 

Rate. 

Tax. 

Highway 
Tax. 

Town 
Charges. 

School 
Tax. 

Valuation. 

1872 

$1.80 

$7,467.99 

$1,500.00 

$3,500.00 

$1,652.50 

$453,382.00 

1873 

1.91 

8.581.02 

1,500.00 

3,500.00 

1.520.92 

1874 

1.49 

5,740.15 

2,000  00 

1,000.00 

1,655.04 

1875 

1.30 

6,678.70 

2,500.00 

1.00 

1,481.21 

495.664.00 

1876 

1.46 

6,326.25 

2.600.00 

1.00 

1,636.28 

527  728  00 

1877 

1.74 

7,730.11 

2,500  00 

1,000.00 

1,556.73 

516,911.00 

1878 

1.08 

4,430  26 

2,000.00 

1.00 

1,701.39 

542,073.00 

1879 

.77 

3,771.61 

1.500.00 

1.00 

1,464.90 

594,232.00 

1880 

1  30 

7,898.44 

2,000.00 

1.00 

1,420.68 

583,282  00 

1881 

1.00 

6,025.65 

1,500  00 

1.00 

1,672  20 

578,665.00 

1882 

1.00 

6,336  36 

1.500  00 

1.00 

1,500.11 

599  943.00 

1883 

.87 

5,696.74 

1,000.00 

1.00 

1,913.52 

602,405.00 

1884 

.88 

5,452.86 

1.000  00 

1.00 

2,058.25 

604,075  00 

1885 

1.00 

6.171.44 

1,500.00 

100 

2,066.39 

577,042.00 

1886 

1.80 

5.057.88* 

1.000.00 

1.00 

2.073.33 

577.211.00 

1887 

.90 

5,526.06 

1,000.00 

1.00 

2.159.68 

599,007.00 

1888 

134 

8,106.27 

1,500.00 

1,000.00 

2,142.74 

594,126.00 

1889 

1.21 

7,155.89 

1,000  00 

500.00 

2,173  34 

579,413.00 

1890 

1.21 

7,244  93 

1,500.00 

100 

2,18713 

586  854.00 

1891 

1.01 

6,420.61 

1.200.00 

100 

2.237.84 

621,744.00 

1892 

.90 

5,813  82 

1,200.00 

1.00 

2  219.01 

633.259.00 

1893 

1.31 

8,093.00 

1,000.00 

100 

2,559.03 

618,3o9.00 

1894 

1  29 

7,859.51 

l.Oi  0.00 

1.00 

2.221  68 

608,340.00 

1895 

1.23 

7.773.34 

500.00 

1.00 

2,427.06 

632,134.00 

1896 

1.28 

8.262.99 

500.00 

500.00 

2,390.09 

646.331.00 

1897 

1.12 

7,291.67 

(mine) 

300.00 

2  375.44 

651,042  00 

1898 

1.32 

8,802.69 

(none) 

800  00 

2,497.43 

666,872.00 

1899 

l.ll 

7,340.67 

(n<>ne) 

1.00 

2,56780 

661,322.00 

1900 

1.52 

9,933  73 

(none) 

500.00 

2,578  29 

653,535.00 

1901 

1.25 

7,837  23 

(none) 

100 

2,579.28 

626,979.00 

1902 

1.61 

10,229.44 

1000.00 

1,000.00 

635,369.00 

654 


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HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


INVOICE  OF  1750. 

A  tax  Laid  on  the  Male  Poles  Estates  and  Income  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of 
Bedford  to  pay  for  Preaching  in  Sd  TOwn  and  to  pay  for  the  Charter  and  to  pay  for 
Settling  the  Line  betwixt  Merrymac  and  Sd  Bedford. 

To  Forgus  Kennedy  Sen'  to  Collect  and  pay  unto  the  Selectmen  at  or  before  the 
tenth  Day  of  March  Next 

Bedford  January  ye  first  1750. 


Head. 


Personal. 


John  Orr 

John  McQuig 

Benjamin  Smith 

William  Moor 

James  McNight 

John  Burns 

Garret  Rowan 

William  Caldwell 

William  Bail , 

Ghain  Riddle 

John  Moor 

John  McLaughlin , 

David  Smith , 

Timothy  Corles  Senr.. 
Timothy  Corles  Junr.., 
John  McLaughlin  Junr 

Richard  m'-alaster 

James  Little . 

Forgus  Kennedy 

William  Kennedy 

Forgus  Kennedy  Junr., 

Robert  Walker , 

Hugh  Riddle , 

John  Riddle 

John  Clark 

Jonathan  Lyon 

Alexander  Walker 

James  Lin 

John  Bell 

Moses  Barron , 

Matthew  Patten , 

James  Walker , 

Samuel  Barnard , 

Samuel  Patten 

Thomas  Chandler 

John  Mo  Dugal 

William  Paterson 

John  Goffe  Esqr 

John  Goffe  Junr 

Matthew   Little 

Daniel  Moor 

Robert  Gilmore 

Samuel  Woods 

James  Mathews 

James  Kennedy 

Ephraim  Bushnal 

Noah  Thayer 

Samuel  Thayer , 

Daniel  Moor 

Thomas  Vickry 

James  Moor 

John  Bell  Junr 

John  Little 

Archibald  moalaster 

John  Paterson 

John  Orr  Jum 


Total,  old  tenor. 


2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

4-10-0 

0-0-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

4-10  0 

2-5-0 

4-10  0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

4-10-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

4-10-0 

4-10-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 


0-16-6 

0-11-3 

0-8-7 

O-ir-7 

0-9-2 

0-13-6 

0-2-8 

0-18-0 

0-0-0 

0-9-2 

0-9-11 

0-5-2 

0-4-6 

0-6-8 

0-0-0 

0-5-3 

0-9-2 

0-9-2 

0-9-2 

0-2-1 

0-1-5 

0-12-0 

0-11-3 

0-7-11 

0  0-0 

0-7-11 

0-9-2 

0-9-2 

0-10-7 

1-5-2 

0-14-0 

0-15  11 

0-0-0 

0-16-8 

1-8-7 

0-12-0 

0-17-4 

3-11-3 

0-3-5 

0-14-8 

0-0  0 

0-10-7 

0-10-7 

0-5-3 

0-0-0 

0-4-6 

0-0-9 

0-0-0 

0-2-0 

0-4-1 

0-2-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 


1-16-0 

1-15-7 

0-16-8 

1-9-3 

1-17-9 

2-4-7 

0-0-0 

0-9-0 

0-0-0 

2-3-8 

1-2-1 

0-9-11 

0-0-0 

2-1-5 

0-0-0 

0-13-6 

0-17-7 

1-8-10 

1-6-7 

1-0-3 

1-13-6 

1-15-7 

2-11-9 

1-9-3 

0-4-6 

1-12-5 

2-0-1 

0-4-6 

1-18-3 

2-19-5 

1-18-3 

2-2-9 

0-0-0 

2-5-11 

2-12-8 

1-2-1 

1-18-3 

1-16-11 

1-4-9 

1-4-9 

0-0-0 

0-18-6 

0-11-3 

1-15-7 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0  0 

0-0-0 


4-17-6 

4-11-10 

3-10-3 

4-4-10 

4-11-11 

7-8-4 

0-2-8 

3-12-0 

2-5-0 

4-17-10 

3-17-0 

5-5-1 

2-9-6 

6-18-1 

2-5-0 

3-3-9 

3-11-9 

4-3-0 

4-0-9 

3-7-4 

2-19-11 

1-12-7 

5-8-0 

4-2-2 

2-9-6 

4-5-4 

4-14-3 

2-18-8 

4-13-10 

6-5-7 

7-2-3 

5-3-8 

2-5-0 

5-7-7 

6-6-3 

6-4-1 

7-5-7 

7-16-2 

3-13-2 

4-4-5 

2-5-0 

3-14-1 

3-fi-lO 

4-5-10 

2-5-0 

2-9-6 

2-5-9 

2-5-0 

0-2-0 

0-4-1 

0-2-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 

2-5-0 


211-11-3 


Selectmen  or  assessors 
for  Bedford 


Errors  excepted 
Samuel  Patten 
Robert  Walker 
Thomas  Chandler  I 
A  true  Record  attest  John  m  Laughlin  Town  Clark 

1  Of  course,  the  denomination  was. pounds,  shillings,  and  pence.  The  list  is  also  of 
interest  since  it  is  undoubtedly  given  in  the  order  of  residence  instead  of  alphabeti- 
cally, the  modern  method  of  arrangement. 


STATISTICS   OF   TAXATION. 


657 


A  tax  Laid  on  the  Male  Poles  Estates  and  Income  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Bedford  to  pay  for  the  Charges  of  Building  the  pound  and  cost  of  the  Town  Book 
and  taking  the  Invoice  in  S*  Bedford 

To  Forgus  Kennedy  Sen»  Constable  to  Colect  and  pay  in  to  the  Selectmen  at  or  be- 
fore the  twenty  Seventh  day  of  march  next 

Bedford  Jan' ye  29  1750 


Head. 


Personal. 


Total. 


John  Orr 

John  m<Quig 

Benjamin  Smith 

William  Moor.   

James  mcNight 

John  Burns  

Garret  Kowan 

Wdliam  Caldwel 

William  Bail 

Ghain  Riddle 

John  Moor 

John  mc  baughlin 

David  Smith 

Timothy  Corles 

Timothy  Corles  Junr 

John  mcLaughlin  Junr.. 

Biachard  mcalester 

archibald  mcalester.   ... 

James  Little 

John  Little 

Forgus  Kennedy 

William   Kennedy 

Forgus  Kennedy  Junr.. 

Robert  Walker 

Hugrh  Riddle 

John  Riddle 

John  Clark 

Jonathan  Lyon 

Alexdr  Walker 

James  Lin 

John  Bell 

Jolin  BellJunr 

Moses  Barron 

Matthew  Patten 

James  Walker 

Samuel  Barnard 

Samuel  Patten 

Thomas  Chandler 

John  mcDugal 

William  Paterson 

John  Paterson 

John  Goffe  Esqr 

John  Goffe  Junr 

Matthew  Little 

Daniel  Man 

Robert  Gilmore 

Samuel  Woods 

James  Mathews 

Capt  Ephraim  Bushnal. 

Noah  thayor 

Samuel  thayor . 

Daniel  Moor 

Thomas  Vickry 

James  Moor 

John  Orr Junr 

Robert  m>keen 

Nathanael   Martin 


Total . 


6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
13-4 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
13-4 
6-8 
13-4 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
13-4 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
13-4 
13-4 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
6-8 
0-0 
0-0 
-6-8 
6-8 
-6-8 


0-2-6 

0-1-8 

0-1-3 

0-1-7 

0-1-4 

0-2-0 

0-1-1 

0-2-0 

0-0-0 

0-1-5 

0-1-6 

0-0-9 

0-0  8 

0-5-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-9 

0-1-4 

0-0-0 

0-1-4 

0-0-0 

0-1-4 

0-0-4 

0-0-2 

0-1-9 

0-1-8 

0-1-2 

0-0-0 

0-1-2 

0-1-4 

0-1-4 

0-1-7 

0-0-0 

0-3-2 

0-2-1 

0-2-4 

0-0-0 

0-2-6 

0-3-11 

0-1-9 

0-2-7 

0-0-0 

0-11-0 

0-0-6 

0-2-2 

0-0-0 

0-1-7 

0-1-7 

0-0-9 

0-0-8 

0-0-1 

0-0-0 

0-0-4 

0-0-7 

0-0-4 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 


0-4-11 

0-5-3 

0-2-6 

0-4-4 

0-5-7 

0-6-7 

0-0-0 

0-1-4 

0-0-0 

0-6-6 

0-3-3 

0-1-6 

0-0-0 

0-6-0 

0-0-0 

0-2-0 

0-2-6 

0-0-0 

0-4-3 

0-0-0 

0-3-11 

0-2-0 

0-2-0 

0-5-3 

0-7-8 

0-4-4 

0-0-8 

0-4-10 

0-5-11 

0-0-8 

0-5-8 

0-0-0 

0-8-10 

0-5-8 

0-6-4 

0-0-0 

0-6-10 

0-7-10 

0-3-3 

0-5-8 

0-0-0 

0-5-6 

0-3-8 

0-3-8 

0-0-0 

0-2-9 

0-5-8 

0-5-8 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-0-0 

0-3-8 

0-0-8 


0-14-1 

0-13-7 

0-10-5 

0-12-7 

0-13-7 

1-1-11 

0-7-9 

0-10-0 

O-fl-8 

0-14-7 

0-11-5 

0-15-7 

0-7-4 

1-0-4 

0-6-8 

0-9-5 

0-10-6 

0-6-8 

0-12-3 

0-6-8 

0-11-11 

0-9-0 

0-8-10 

0-13-8 

0-16-0 

0-12-2 

0-7-4 

0-12-8 

0-13-11 

0-8-8 

0-13-11 

0-6-8 

0-18-8 

1-5-5 

0-15-4 

0-6-8 

0-16-0 

0-18-5 

0-18-4 

1-1-7 

0-6-8 

1-3-2 

0-10-10 

0-12-6 

0-6-8 

0-11-0 

0-9-11 

0-13-1 

0-7-4 

0-6-9 

0-6-8 

0-7-0 

0-0-7 

0-0-4 

0-6-8 

0-10-4 

0-7-4 


32-3-7 


Errors  excepted 

Samuel  Patten         (  Seieptmpn 

Robert  Walker  „  A^ssors 

Thomas  Chandler  '     or  Asessors 
A  true  Record  attest  John  m  Laughlin  Town  Clerk 

4i 


658 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


INVENTORY   OF    1801. 

With  a  view  to  show  who  were  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford  one 
hundred  years  ago,  and  what  was  the  amount  of  their  assessed  prop- 
erty, the  following  copy  of  the  Invoice  for  1801  is  given: 


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1.34 
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1.34 

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1  The  basis  upon  which  these  totals  were  found  is  from  an  act  approved  December 
26,  1798.  from  which  the  following  is  taken: 

"  Each  male  poll,  from  18  to  70  years  of  age  (excepting  those  from  18  to  21  enrolled 
in  the  militia,  ordained  ministers,  students  of  colleges,  paupers  and  idiots),  to  be 
valued  at  $1.34;  stallions  or  stud  horses  that  have  been  wintered  three  winters,  each 
at  $5;  other  horses  and  mares,  that  have  been  wintered  Ave  winters,  each  at  56  cts.; 
other  horses  and  mares  that  have  been  wintered  four  winters  only,  each  at  50  cts.; 
other  horses  and  mares  that  have  been  wintered  three  winters  only,  each  at  34 
cts.;  other  horses  and  mares,  that  have  been  wintered  two  winters  only,  each  at 
16  cts.;  cows  that  have  been  wintered  five  winters  only,  each  at  34  cts.;  all  neat 
stock,  wintered  four  winters  only,  each  at  25  cents;  all  neat  stock  wintered  three 
winters  only,  each  at  16  cts.;  all  other  stock  wintered  two  winters  only,  8  cts., 
reckoning  the  winter  to  begin  the  first  day  of  December,  and  end  the  fir>t  day  of 
March;  orchard  land,  accounting  so  much  for  an  acre,  as  will  one  year  with  another 
make  one  barrel  of  cider  or  perry,  each  acre  at  25  cent-:;  arable  land,  accounting  so 
much  for  an  acre  as  will  produce  25  bushels  of  Indian  corn  or  otherjrrain  equivalent, 
one  year  with  another,  each  acre  at  16  cts.;  mowinir  land,  accounting:  so  much  as 
will  produce  one  ton  of  English  hay  or  other  hay  equivalent  one  year  with  another, 
at  16  cts.  per  each  ac  e;  pasture  land,  so  much  as  will  keep  one  c>w,  four  acres,  each 
acre  at  7  cts  ;  mills,  wharves  or  ferries,  to  be  estimated  at  one-twelfth  p*rt  of  their 
net  yearly  income  after  deducting:  repairs;  all  other  buildincs  and  unimproved 
lands,  whether  owned  by  inhabitants  or  non-residents,  at  half  of  one  per  cent,  of  the 
real  value." 

It  was  also  provided  that  stock  in  trade  of  merchants,  etc.,  and  several  other 
kinds  of  property  enumerated  should  be  rated  at  one  half  of  one  per  cent,  of  their 
real  value. 


STATISTICS   OF  TAXATION. 


659 


INVENTORY  OF  1801.— Continued. 


INVOICE   FOR  1801. 


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Lt.  Jno   Bams 

Thos.  Davidson 

Jno.  Moor,  Jun 

Jas.  Moor,  Jun 

Wm  Miller 

Jno.  Parker,  3d 

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John  Mcintosh 

P.  Aiken 

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Jos.Colley 

Robt  Wallace 

Jno  McAllester 

Jotham  Gillis 

Ezeki  Gardner 

Sherb""  Dearborn... 

Jon*  Pamer 

Jn»  Gardner 

Wm  Campbell 

Alex.  Patten 

Ben.  Barret 

Dam  Abbot 

Ephraim  Abbot 

Capt.  T.  Chandler... 
Zecharh  Chandler.. 

Sam"  Chand ler 

Geo.  Claggett 

Jno.  Boise,  Jun 

Capt.  R.  Dole 

Jas   Darrah 

A.  Tirrel 

Wm  French 

Stephen  French 

Stephn  French  Jn . . . 
Theodore  A.uoffe.. 

Majr  J.  Ooffe 

Josiah  Gordon 

Wd  Gordon 

John  Houston,  Jun.. 
Wm  Hogg 


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Population  of  Bedford. 


Little  can  be  learned  from  the  recent  census  reports  as  to  the  sta- 
tistics of  population  of  individual  towns,  except  the  total  number  of 
residents.  Previous  to  1880,  the  law  and  the  practice  under  it  was 
that  the  several  enumerators  should  make  their  detailed  reports  in 
triplicate  copy ;  one  was  forwarded  to  the  department  at  Washing- 
ton, one  was  deposited  in  the  state  library,  and  the  third  in  the  office 
of  the  county  clerk  of  the  court.  From  such  latter  papers,  the  pop- 
ulation statistics  of  Bedford  for  the  years  1850,  1860,  and  1870  have 
been  obtained.  For  1880  the  report  in  the  state  library  gives  merely 
the  names  and  ages  of  the  residents  found,  ignoring  the  facts  of  oc- 
cupation, number  of  families,  etc.  Since  1880  the  enumerators  have 
made  only  such  report  as  they  forward  to  the  Washington  depart- 
ment, from  which  no  facts  as  to  the  occupation  of  the  people  enu- 
merated could  be  obtained.  This  will  explain  the  following  present- 
ation of  statistics : 


1767 — Unmarried  men  from  16  to  60  years 

.       30 

Married  men  from  16  to  60  years    . 

.       43 

Boys  from  16  and  under 

.       93 

Men,  60  and  above         .... 

13 

Females,  unmarried        .... 

.     117 

Females,  married  ..... 

51 

Slaves  (male,  6,  female,  3)      .         .         . 

9 

Widows 

6 

Total 

.     362 

1773 — Unmarried  men,  16  to  60 

.       54 

Married  men,  16  to  60   . 

.       62 

Boys,  16  and  under 

.     121 

Men,  60  and  upwards 

15 

Females,  unmarried 

.       49 

Females,  married  . 

.       72 

Widows 

7 

Male  slaves 

4 

Female  slaves 

4 

Total 


388 


692  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1775— We  have  the  following  return,  dated  Bedford,  Oct.  27, 1775 

Males,  under  16 109 

Males  from  16  to  50,  not  in  army           ...  93 

Males,  above  50 28 

Persons  gone  to  the  war 14 

Females  in  all 241 

Negroes  and  slaves  for  life 10 


Total 495 

Hillsborough,  ss.     Oct.  27,  1775. 

Then  personally  appeared  John  Bell  and  made  solemn  oath  to  his 
fidelity  and  impartiality  in  numbering  the  souls  in  Bedford,  and 
making  returns  of  the  ages  and  sexes  as  in  the  columns  above 
thereof. 

Sworn  before,  Matt.  Patten,  J.  P. 

There  are  37  guns  lacking  to  equip  the  inhabitants  of  Bedford. 
There  are  11  3-4  lbs.  powder  in  Bedford,  according  to  information, 
and  no  town  stock  of  ammunition. 

John  Bell. 

1783 — Framed  houses,  93  ;  framed  barns  and  other  buildings,  124. 

1786— Census. 

State  of  New  Hampshire. 

Pursuant  to  a  resolve  of  the  General  Court  of  the  State  Passed 
Mar.  3d  1786,  We  the  subscribers,  selectmen  of  Bedford,  have  num- 
bered all  the  inhabitants  of  said  Bedford  as  Required  by  Said  Re- 
solve and  find  the  Number  of  all  the  Free  Inhabitants  of  every  age 
sex  and  condition  to  be  778.     Also,  7  of  the  other  class. 

Josiah  Gillis,    )   a  7    . 

a  t\         r  Selectmen. 

Stephen  Dole,  ) 

Bedford,  June  2nd,  1786. 

1850 — Dwelling  houses,  312  ;  families,  344 ;  farmers,  267 ;  labor- 
ers, 161;  shoemakers,  10;  blacksmiths,  5;  brickmakers,  33 ;  ma- 
chinists, 10 ;  carpenters,  8 ;  physicians,  2 ;  clergyman,  1 ;  lawyer,  1 ; 
teacher,  1 ;  scholars  attending  school  this  year,  589 ;  value  of  real 
estate  owned,  $594,600. — Census  1850. 

1860 — Dwelling  houses,  251 ;  families,  240 ;  farmers,  170 ;  labor- 
ers, 144 ;  brickmakers,  23 ;  teachers,  14 ;  carpenters,  8 ;  blacksmiths, 
5 ;  domestics  79 ;  shoemakers,  4 ;  milkmen,  6 ;  seamstresses,  8 ;  tail- 
oresses,  5 ;  millers,  4 ;  gardeners,  3 ;  masons,  2 ;  nurses,  3 ;  operatives, 
5 ;  stone  masons,  2 ;  physicians,  3 ;  wheelwrights,  2 ;  engravers,  2 ; 
barber,  1 ;  basket  maker,  1 ;  machinist,  1 ;  lawyer,  1 ;  hop  inspector,  1 ; 
sash  and  blind  maker,  1 ;  trader,  1 ;  soapmaker,  1 ;  musician,  1 ;  cler- 
gyman, 1 ;  scholars  at  school,  325 ;  value  of  real  estate,  $386,824 ; 
personal  estate,  $92,878;  true  valuation,  $550,000;  total  tax,  $5,690; 
value  of  church  property,  $6,200. 


POPULATION  OF  BEDFORD.  693 

1870 — Dwelling  houses,  247 ;  families,  263 ;  farmers,  124 ;  labor- 
ers, 149;  domestics,  41 ;  brickmakers,  21 ;  operatives,  11 ;  carpenters, 
5 ;  milkmen,  5  ;  teachers,  4 ;  blacksmiths,  3 ;  lumber  dealers,  3 ; 
clerks,  3 ;  merchants,  2 ;  engravers,  2 ;  shoe  manufacturers,  2 ;  wheel- 
wrights, 2 ;  bar  tender,  stone  cutter,  physician,  hoop  shaver,  spoke- 
maker,  currier,  dressmaker,  painter,  tallow  manufacturer,  furrier, 
minister,  1  each. 


1783, 

population, 

762 

1850, 

population, 

1,913 

1800, 

u 

1,182 

1860, 

a 

1,172 

1810, 

u 

1,296 

1870, 

a 

1,221 

1820, 

u 

1,375 

1880, 

U 

1,204 

1830, 

(1 

1,554 

1890, 

u 

1,102 

1840, 

u 

1,543 

1900, 

M 

1,148 

Vital  Statistics. 


In  preparing  this  chapter  upon  vital  statistics,  the  effort  has  been 
made  to  gather  all  the  items  that  the  records  of  the  town  contain, 
and  to  arrange  them  in  chronological  order.  Of  course,  such  a  plan 
does  not  comprehend  by  any  means  a  complete  list  of  the  births, 
marriages,  and  deaths  for  the  entire  period,  because  for  much  of  the 
time  a  complete  record  was  not  made.  For  some  of  the  years, 
particularly  since  1888,  there  are  few  omissions;  it  is  manifest  from 
the  records  that  for  some  of  the  previous  years  they  were  kept  with 
exactness.  • 

The  record  of  births  is  undoubtedly  the  most  complete  of  the 
three  divisions.  In  the  earlier  years,  it  was  the  practice  to  enter 
upon  the  record  book  of  the  town  clerk  the  record  of  a  family 
which  any  member  might  present.  This  usually  comprised  the  date 
of  birth  and  names  of  the  children,  with  similar  facts  as  to  deaths,  if 
such  had  occurred.  It  is  entirely  probable  that  there  were  many 
families  in  the  town  during  these  years  that  furnished  no  such  rec- 
ord. But  whatever  is  of  record  is  here  presented,  in  the  most  con- 
densed form  that  would  still  keep  the  facts,  so  far  as  they  appear, 
intelligible. 

The  record  of  deaths  is  the  least  complete  of  the  three  items. 
In  the  marriages,  when  the  residence  of  one  of  the  parties  has 
been  elsewhere  than  Bedford  the  place  is  mentioned ;  in  all  other 
instances,  Bedford  is  understood.  The  Rev.  David  McGregore  and 
the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  seem  to  have  been  notably  painstaking  in 
making  a  return  for  record  of  the  marriages  solemnized  by  them. 

"While  such  a  record  as  is  here  presented  is  not  altogether  satis- 
factory, the  fact  is  that  no  complete  record  is  possible. 

BIRTHS. 

1736.  Feb.  14,  Deacon  Benjamin  Smith,  a  son,  John,  born  in  Lon- 
donderry. 

1738.  Jan.  18,  Richard  McAllister,  a  son,  John,  born  in  Chelsea, 
Mass. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  695 

1739.    July  24,  John  Moore,  a  son,  James.1 

1741.  Jan.  14,  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  Silas. 

July  14,  Richard  McAllister,  a  son,  William,  born  in  London- 
derry. 

1742.  March  27,  John  Moore,  a  son,  Daniel. 
Nov.  24,  John  Moore,  a  son,  Samuel. 

Dec.  14,  Deacon  Benjamin  Smith,  a  son,  Robert,    born  in 
Londonderry. 

1743.  June  7,  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  "William. 

Aug.  10,  Richard  McAllister,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Nov.  6,  Robert  Gilmore,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
Nov.  25,  John  Moore,  a  son,  David. 

1744.  Mar.  26,  William  Moore,  a  daughter,  Jeanette. 
April  6,  Deacon  Benjamin  Smith,  a  son,  James. 
April  10,  Benjamin  Smith,  a  darughter,  Elizabeth. 
Nov.  6,  Richard  McAllister,  a  daughter,  Anne. 
Dec.  30,  Robert  Gilmore,  a  daughter,  Martha. 

1745.  May  1,  James  Walker,  a  son,  Silas. 

1746.  Feb.  7,  William  Moore,  a  son,  John. 

1747.  Aug.  20,  Richard  McAllister,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 
Dec.  1,  Samuel  Patten,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1748.  Feb.  4,  John  Moore,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

April  10,  Deacon  Benjamin  Smith,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
April  25,  Robert  Gilmore,  a  son,  James. 
Dec.  9,  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  Eliseus. 

1749.  March  17,  Samuel  Patten,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
July  28,  James  Walker,  a  daughter,  Sally. 
Oct.  20,  Richard  McAllister,  a  son,  Richard. 

1750.  Jan.  1,  John  Burns,  a  son,  Robert. 

Sept.  12,  Dea.  Benjamin  Smith,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Nov.  12,  Samuel  Patten,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

1751.  Feb.  10,  Matthew  Patten,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 
Feb.  29,  Richard  McAllister,  a  son,  James. 
Mar.  27,  Moses  Barron,  a  daughter,  Rachel. 
Oct.  13,  William  Moore,  a  daughter,  Agnes. 
Nov.  14,  Nathaniel  Martin,  a  son,  Timothy. 
Dec.  5,  John  Goffe,  a  son,  Samuel. 

1752.  Feb.  23,  Noah  Thayer,  a  son,  Zachariah  M. 
March  8,  Archibald  Lawson,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
March  12,  John  Burns,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
March  27,  John  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
April  16,  John  Moore,  a  son,  William. 

May  31,  Matthew  Patten,  a  son,  John. 

Aug.  10,  Samuel  Patten,  a  son,  Samuel. 

Sept.  13,  Deacon  Benjamin  Smith,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

Nov.  8,  William  Barnet,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1  Probably  born  in  some  other  town  than   Bedford,  for  the  first  white  male  child 
born  in  this  town  was  Silas  Barron. 


696  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1754.  Jan.  29,  Matthew  Patten,  a  son,  Matthew. 
April  10,  Noah  Thayer,  a  son,  Noah. 
April  27,  James  Walker,  a  daughter,  Esther. 
May  5,  Moses  Barron,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
May  31,  Richard  McAllister,  a  son,  Benjamin. 
July  17,  John  Burns,  a  son,  William. 

Aug.  26,  William  Barnet,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
Oct.  30,  Gawn  Riddle,  a  son,  John. 

1755.  May  7,  John  Goffe,  a  son,  John. 

June  28,  John  Bell,  a  daughter,  Naomi. 
Oct.  16,  Matthew  Patten,  a  son,  James. 

1756.  Aug.  26,  John  Burns,  a  daughter,  Martha. 
Oct.  22,  William  Barnet,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

1757.  Jan.  5,  John  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Anna. 
Feb.  19,  James  Lyon,  a  son,  William. 
Feb.  26,  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  Samuel. 
March  16,  Gawn  Riddel,  a  son,  David. 
April  17,  John  Bell,  a  son,  Joseph. 
Aug.  5,  Samuel  Vose,  a  son,  Thomas. 
Aug.  13,  Matthew  Patten,  a  son,  Robert. 
Oct.  2,  John  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 

1758.  March  13,  Samuel  Patterson,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
July  8,  James  Lyon,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Aug.  3,  Deacon  Benjamin  Smith,  a  son,  Adam. 
Aug.  19,  William  Barnet,  a  son,  Samuel. 
Oct.  6,  James  Walker,  a  son,  James. 
Oct.  8,  John  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1759.  Feb.  19,  John  Burns,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
March  12,  John  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Isabel. 
May  23,  Samuel  Vose,  a  son,  Samuel. 

May  25,  William  Thornton,  a  son,  Hugh. 

May  27,  Matthew  Patten,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

1760.  March  29,  John  Goffe,  a  son,  Stephen. 
Aug.  8,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  James. 
Aug.  17,  William  Barnet,  a  son,  John. 

Sept.  9,  John  Bell,  twin  sons,  John  and  James. 
Sept.  22,  Samuel  Vose,  a  son,  Francis  B. 
Sept.  30,  James  Lyon,  a  son,  Robert. 

Oct.  31, ,  a  daughter,  Ann  McAllester. 

Nov.  5,  James  Walker,  a  daughter,  Jennet. 

1761.  Feb.  18,  Matthew  Patten,  a  son,  David. 
March  5,  Moses  Barron,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
June  13,  John  McLaughlin,  a  son,  James. 
Sept.  20,  John  Burns,  a  son,  John. 

Nov.  13,  John  Moore,  a  son,  William. 

1762.  April  6,  John  Goffe,  a  son,  William. 

May  20,  John  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
May  29,  John   Lincoln,  a   son,  Robert,  born   in  Abington, 
Mass. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  697 

1762.  June  10,  Gawn  Riddle,  a  son,  Isaac. 

June  24,  John  Rand,  twin  sons,  John  and  Jonathan. 

July  10,  William  Barnet,  a  daughter,  Jean. 

Aug.  14,  John  Bell,  a  daughter,  Rachel. 

Sept.  8,  Joseph  Houston,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 

Sept.    29,    Ensign   Chubbuck,   a   daughter,    Sarah,   born   in 

Abington. 
Nov.  3,  Samuel  Vose,  a  son,  Robert. 

1763.  Feb.  8,  Matthew  Patten,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
March  15,  Samuel  Kilpatrick,  a  daughter,  Agnes. 
April  16,  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  Joseph. 

May  27,  James  Lyon,  a  daughter,  Jean. 
June  29,  John  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Martha. 
Sept.  6,  John  Moore, -a  daughter,  Margaret. 
Sept.  27,  John  Lincoln,  a  daughter,  Joanna,  born  in  Abing- 
ton, Mass. 

Oct.  24,  John  Burns,  a  daughter,  Anne. 

Nov.  12,  James  Aiken,  a  daughter. 

1764.  Feb.  5,  John  Rand,  a  daughter,  Mille. 
April  6,  John  Goffe,  a  son,  Griggs. 
May  19,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  John. 

Oct.  10,  Capt.  James  Walker,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Nov.  12,  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Ann. 

Dec.  2,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Elijah,  born  in  Abington, 

Mass. 
Dec.  16,  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  Benjamin. 

1765.  Jan.  5,  Matthew  Patten,  a  son,  Alexander. 
Feb.  23,  Samuel  Vose,  a  daughter,  Phoebe. 

March  8,  John  Lincoln,  a  daughter,  Melea,  in  Abington,  Mass. 

March  26,  Jacob  McQuaid,  a  daughter,  Esther. 

May  5,  William  Barnet,  a  daughter,  Molly. 

June  29,  James  Vose,  a  daughter,  Abigail. 

Sept.  20,  John  Moore,  a  daughter,  Rachel. 

Nov.  19,  Joseph  Houston,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1766.  June  1,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  Thomas. 

June  10,  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Cochran. 

July  10,  Samuel  Vose,  a  son,  John. 

Aug.  6,  John  Goffe,  a  son,  Joseph. 

Aug.  11,  John  Burns,  twin  daughters,  Jean  and  Sarah. 

Aug.  30,  Mijah  Richardson,  a  daughter,  Rebekah. 

Sept.  12,  Robert  Giffen,  a  son,  Robert. 

1767.  Feb.  17,  Ensign   Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Jerusha,  born  in 

Abington,  Mass. 
March  7,  James  Vose,  a  daughter,  Jerusha. 
March  16,  Gawn  Riddle,  a  son,  David. 
April  9,  Capt.  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  Jonathan. 
May  26,  John  Moore,  Jr.,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
July  22,  John  Lincoln,  a  son,  John,  in  Abington,  Mass. 


698  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1767.  Aug.  13,  John  Rand,  a  son,  Robert. 

Aug.  19,  John  McLaughlin,  a  son,  Patrick. 
Sept.  28,  Capt.  James  Aiken,  a  son,  Robert. 
Dec.  19,  Matthew  Patten,  a  daughter,  Jean. 

1768.  March  29,  Joseph  Houston,  a  daughter,  Anne. 

Aug.  28,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Samuel,  born  in  Abing- 

ton,  Mass. 
Sept.  3,  Robert  Giffen,  a  son,  Patrick. 
Dec.  2,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  Josias. 

1769.  Jan.  4,  William  Arrowin,  a  daughter,  Peggy. 

Jan.  21,  John  Lincoln,  a  son,  Obed,  in  Abington,  Mass. 

Feb.  3,  Moses  Barron,  a  son,  Abel. 

Feb.  18,  James  Vose,  a  son,  James. 

March  28,  Capt.  James  Aiken,  a«daughter,  Sarah. 

May  6,  John  Moore,  a  son,  Robert. 

June  20,  James  Walker,  a  daughter,  Charlotte. 

Aug.  30,  Mijah  Richardson,  a  daughter,  Rebekah. 

Oct.  4,  John  Bell,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 

1770.  Jan.  2,  Asa  Barns,  a  son,  Asa. 

Feb.  26,  Samuel  Vose,  a  son,  Roger. 

Sept.  25,  Matthew  Patten,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

Oct.  1,  James  Smith,  a  son,  Benjamin. 

Oct.  2,  Joseph  Wallace,  a  son,  Thomas. 

Oct.  16,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Job,  born   in   Abington, 

Mass. 
Nov.  29,  John  Lincoln,  a  son,  Daniel,  born  in  Abington,  Mass. 
Dec.  14,  James  Vose,  a  son,  Jacob. 
Dec.  26,  Capt.  James  Aiken,  a  son,  Andrew. 
177  ?.     Feb.  3,  Samuel  Fugard,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

1771.  Jan.  5,  Hugh  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Jean. 
Feb.  28,  Joseph  Houston,  a  daughter,  Agness. 
March  8,  Robert  Giffen,  a  daughter,  Martha. 
March  16,  William  Caldwell,  a  son,  Matthew. 
April  12,  Thomas  English,  a  daughter,  Jennie. 
April  19,  John  McLaughlin,  a  son,  John. 
June  13,  John  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Aug.  28,  Whitefield  Gilmore,  a  daughter,  Janet. 
Sept.  27,  John  Moore,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Nov.  10,  William  Arrowin,  a  son,  George. 

1772.  Jan.  16,  James  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Anna. 
Feb.  8,  Asa  Barns,  a  son,  Nathan. 

March  30,  Matthew  McDuffie,  a  daughter,  Susanna. 

April  21,  James  Martain,  a  son,  Jeremiah. 

June  2,  Joseph  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

July  4,  James  Smith,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

July  5,  John  Gilmore,  twin  son  and   daughter,  Robert  and 

Elizabeth. 
Aug.  10,  Zachariah  Chandler,  a  son,  Thomas. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  699 

1772.  Aug.  27,  John  Lincoln,  a  son,  Luther,  born  in  Abington,  Mass. 
Sept.  8,  John  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Sept.  12,  William  Caldwell,  a  daughter,  Lattes. 
Sept.  12,  Capt.  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Ruhama. 
Dec.  1,  John  Orr,  a  son,  Benjamin. 

1773.  Jan.  1,  Whitefield  Gilmore,  a  daughter,  Martha. 
Jan.  25,  Hugh  Campbell,  a  son,  Benjamin  Smith. 
Jan.  27,  John  Mcintosh,  a  son,  John. 

Feb.  19,  Hugh  Orr,  a  son,  Matthew. 
March  3,  Samuel  Tirrell,  a  son,  John. 
March  29,  Thomas  Mann,  a  son,  James. 
April  7,  James  Vose,  a  son,  James. 
July  4,  John  Little,  a  son,  John. 
Aug.  23,  Adam  Dickey,  a  daughter,  Jean. 
Sept.  12,  Samuel  McKillup,  a  son,  David. 
Sept.  16,  Thomas  English,  a  son,  James. 
Nov.  11,  David  Moore,  a  daughter,  Isabel. 
Nov.  22,  William  Caldwell,  a  son,  Thomas. 
Dec.  14,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  Reuben. 

1774.  Jan.  6,  Joseph  Houston,  a  son,  John  Orr. 
Jan.  20,  John  Rand,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Feb.  10,  John  Bell,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Feb.  25,  Amos  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
March  1,  Barnet  McCain,  a  son,  Daniel. 
March  14,  Asa  Barns,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
April  1,  James  Smith,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
April  28,  Stephen  French,  a  son,  Ebenezer. 

May  13,  Ezekiel  Lincoln,  a  son,  Israel,  born  in  Abington, 

Mass. 
May  17,  Joseph  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Mary  Ann. 
May  28,  Zachariah  Chandler,  a  son,  Samuel. 
June  20,  John  Moor,  a  daughter,  Lattice. 
June  22,  John  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
July  9,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Hosea,  born  in  Abington, 

Mass. 
Sept.  1,  John  Oit,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
Sept.  14,  James  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Hetty. 
Oct.  3,  Capt.  James  Aiken,  a  son,  James. 
Nov.  9,  Benjamin  Dow,  a  daughter,  Hannah,  born  in  Goffs- 

town,  N.  H. 
Nov.  17,  Stephen  Dole,  a  son,  Richard. 
Dec.  1,  Samuel  Patten,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1775.  Jan.  15,  Whitefield  Gilmore,  a  son,  James. 

Jan.  20,  John  Lincoln,  a  son,  Whitcome,  born  in  Abington, 

Mass. 
Feb.  6,  Samuel  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Molly. 
Feb.  24,  Nathan  Shedd,  a  daughter,  Polly. 
Feb.  27,  Hugh  On-,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 


700  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

1775.  March  23,  Samuel  Tirrell,  a  son,  Joseph. 
April  9,  Jonas  Cutting,  a  son,  John. 
July  4,  James  Vose,  a  daughter,  Deborah. 
July  19,  John  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Aug.  15,  Robert  Giffin,  a  daughter,  Jane. 
Oct.  29,  Amos  Gardner,  a  son,  Amos  Jones. 
Oct.  31,  William  White,  a  daughter,  Esther. 
Nov.  7,  Stephen  French,  a  son,  Stephen. 
Dec.  7,  James  Cairns,  a  son,  Joseph. 

Dec.  7,  William  Moor,  a  son,  Daniel. 
Dec.  8,  William  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Ann. 
Dec.  23,  David  Moor,  a  son,  John. 

1776.  Jan.  11,  John  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Jan.  23,  Thomas  English,  a  son,  William. 
Feb.  4,  James  Patterson,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
April  20,  Joseph  Wallace,  a  son,  John. 

April  25,  James  Smith,  a  daughter,  Catherine. 

May  12,  John  Orr,  a  son,  James. 

May  22,  John  Rand,  twin  sons,  Nehemiah  and  Thomas. 

May  25,  Jacob  McGaw,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 

June  3,  Capt.  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Peggy. 

June  27,  James  Moore,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

June  28,  John  Riddle,  a  son,  Gawn. 

July  7,  Barnet  McCain,  a  son,  William. 

Aug.  16,  John  Morrison,  a  son,  Daniel  Moore. 

Aug.  25,  John  McKenney,  a  daughter,  Jennet. 

Aug.  25,  Asa  Barns,  a  son,  Thomas. 

Sept.  1,  Joseph  Houston,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 

Oct.  13,  John  Moor,  3d,  a  son,  James. 

Nov.  3,  Samuel  Moor,  a  son,  Joseph. 

Nov.  30,  John  Moor,  a  daughter,  Anna. 

Dec.  21,  George  Orr,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

1777.  Jan.  1,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Hosea. 
Jan.  15,  James  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Feb.  10,  John  McFerson,  a  daughter,  Anne. 

March  15,  Alexander  Weatherspoon,  a  daughter,  Margaret, 

born  in  Chester. 
April  4,  Joseph  Bell,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
April  5,  Nathan  Shed,  a  son,  Calvin  Jonston. 
May  31,  Hugh  Orr,  a  son,  John. 
June  10,  Samuel  Tirrell,  a  daughter,  Martha. 
June  13,  Adam  Dickey,  a  son,  James. 
July  10,  William  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Aug.  10,  James  Vose,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
Aug.  11,  James  Bennett,  a  daughter,  Sally. 
Aug.  15,  Amos  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Molly. 
Oct.  3,  John  Lincoln,  a  son,  Lot,  in  Abington,  Mass. 
Oct.  23,  John  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Peggy  Corbit. 


VITAL  STATISTICS.  701 

1777.  Nov.  1,  Samuel  Goffe,  a  son,  John. 

Dec.  10,  William  White,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1778.  Jan.  14,  John  O'Neil,  a  son,  John. 

March  3,  David  Moor,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
March  27,  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
April  19,  Joseph  Wallace,  a  son,  Joseph. 
April  20,  John  Orr,  a  son,  Adam. 
May  10,  Andrew  Walker,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
May  11,  James  Patterson,  a  daughter,  Esther. 

June  6,  Thomas ,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

June  8,  Barnet  McCain,  a  son,  James. 

June  17,  Nathan  Shed,  a  son,  James. 

June  28,  James  Moor,  a  son,  Daniel. 

Aug.  8,  George  Orr,  a  daughter,  Eleanor. 

Aug.  13,  David  French,  a  son,  David. 

Aug.  26,  Ezekial  Lincoln,  a  daughter,  Phoebe. 

Aug.  27,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Jonathan. 

Sept.  15,  Samuel  Moor,  twin  son  and  daughter,  Samuel  and 

Mary. 
Sept.  19,  John  Moor,  3d,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Sept.  22,  John  McKinney,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Nov.  9,  Stephen  French,  a  daughter,  Dolly. 
Dec.  11,  John  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Dec.  14,  Silas  Dole,  a  daughter,  Judith. 
Dec.  16,  John  McFerson,  a  son,  William  Macdowel. 
Dec.  24,  John  McLaughlin,  a  son,  Daniel. 
Dec.  30,  John  Morrison,  a  daughter,  Susanna. 

1779.  Feb.  23,  Joseph  Bell,  a  son,  John. 

Feb.  26,  Alexander  Weatherspoon,  a  son,  Jonathan. 

March  24,  David  Atwood. 

March  30,  William  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

April  16,  Joseph  Houston,  a  son,  David. 

April  19,  Asa  Barns,  a  son,  Cornelius. 

April  25,  Thomas  Wallace,  a  son,  Thomas. 

May  3,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Susay. 

June  13,  James  Smith,  a  daughter,  Jenny. 

June  22,  Adam  Dickey,  a  son,  William. 

July  4,  James  Patterson,  a  son,  William. 

July  14,  William  Moor,  a  daughter,  Jenney. 

July  25,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  Robert. 

Aug.  23,  Hugh  Orr,  a  daughter,  Marian. 

Sept.  4,  Stephen  Dole,  a  son,  William. 

Oct.  1,  Amos  Gardner,  a  son,  Jacob. 

Oct.  12,  David  Stevens,  a  son,  Greenleaf  Spofford. 

Oct.  17,  John  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Nov.  9,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  son,  Benjamin. 

Nov.  12,  Samuel  Tirrell,  a  son,  Samuel. 

Nov.  17,  Samuel  Goffe,  a  son,  William. 


702  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1779.  Nov.  21,  John  Dunlap,  a  son,  Robert. 
Dec.  8,  Andrew  Walker,  a  son,  John. 

1780.  Jan.  4,  Capt.  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Jane. 
Jan.  9,  James  Bennett,  a  son,  Archelaus  Towne. 
Feb.  13,  David  French,  a  son,  Josiah. 

March  3,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Charles. 

April  2,  Joseph  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Susanna. 

April  5,  James  Gilmore,  a  son,  Robert. 

April  13,  John  Orr,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

May  9,  William  White,  a  daughter,  Jenny. 

June  5,  John  Moore,  a  daughter,  Jenny. 

July  17,  Elisha  Lincoln,  Sr.,  a  son,  David,  Abington,  Mass. 

July  28,  James  Moor,  a  son,  William. 

Aug.  3,  Samuel  Moor,  a  daughter,  Agnis. 

Aug.  10,  Silas  Dole,  a  son,  Moses  Rolfe. 

Aug.  30,  John  Lincoln,  a  daughter,  Abagail. 

Sept.  12,  John  Moore,  3d,  a  son,  Daniel. 

Oct.  13,  John  McKinney,  a  son,  Daniel. 

Oct.  30,  William  Burns,  a  daughter,  Ann. 

Nov.  18,  Alexander  Weatherspoon,  a  daughter,  Jenny. 

1781.  Feb.  20,  James  Smith,  a  daughter,  Martha. 
March  10,  James  Vose,  a  son,  Joshua. 
March  22,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  Samuel. 
March  24,  Stephen  French,  a  son,  William. 
March  26,  Samuel  Fuguarg,  a  son,  Robert. 
March  28,  Barnet  McCain,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
April  5,  John  Morrison,  a  daughter,  Ann. 
April  12,  Joseph  Bell,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
April  21,  Thomas  English,  a  son,  Andrew  Jack. 
April  23,  William  Dunlap,  a  son,  Thomas. 
June  4,  David  Stevens,  a  son,  Moody  Martin. 
June  19,  James  Patterson,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
July  8,  Samuel  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Sally. 

July  13,  Josiah  Walker. 

Sept.  4,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  son,  Joseph. 

Sept.  8,  Asa  Barns,  a  daughter,  Anna. 

Sept.  12,  John  Dunlap,  a  son,  Archibald. 

Sept.  12,  Dr.  Paul  Tenny. 

Sept.  16,  Ensign  Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Molly. 

Sept.  24,  Amos  Gardner,  a  son,  Laban. 

Sept.  28,  Nancy  Tenney,  wife  of  Paul  Tenney. 

Oct.  7,  Samuel  Houston,  a  daughter,  Martha. 

Oct.  22,  Patrick  Larkin,  a  son,  Robert. 

October  26,  Zechariah  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

Nov.  11,  Samuel  Tirrell,  a  daughter,  Agnes. 

Dec.  31,  David  French,  a  son,  John. 

1782.  Jan.  19,  Joseph  Houston,  a  son,  Joseph. 
Jan.  26,  James  Bennett,  a  son,  James. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  703 

1782.  March  27,  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Achsah. 
March  30,  Lieut.  Adam  Smith,  a  daughter,  Agness. 
April  3,  Stephen  Dole,  a  daughter,  Jane  Wilcomb. 
May  7,  John  McFerson,  a  daughter,  Isabel. 

June  12,  Lieut.  James  Moor,  a  son,  John  Carson. 

June  30,  Edward  Lyon,  a  son,  Simon. 

July  1,  Zacbariah  Pike,  a  son,  Jonathan  Lovejoy. 

Aug.  7,  Silas  Dole,  a  daughter,  Susanna. 

Aug.  10,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

Aug.  27,  William  Burns,  a  son,  Matthew. 

Sept.  10,  Samuel  Moor,  a  daughter,  Peggy. 

Sept.  12,  James  Gilmore,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 

Sept.  21,  George  On*,  a  daughter,  Ann. 

Sept.  22,  John  Orr,  a  daughter,  Annis. 

Oct.  10,  Ensign  John  Aiken,  a  son,  Samuel. 

Oct.  16,  John  Moore,  a  son,  John. 

Nov.  21,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  Andy. 

Nov.  30,  Jesse  Worcester,  a  son,  Jesse. 

Dec,  Andrew  Walker,  a  son,  Robert. 

Dec.  15,  John  McKinney,  a  daughter,  Agness. 

1783.  Feb.  7,  James  Smith,  a  son,  James. 
Feb.  20,  John  Moor,  3d,  a  son,  John  W. 
April  4,  Joseph  Bell,  a  son,  Isaac. 
April  9,  William  McAfee,  a  son,  Samuel. 

May  7,  John  Morrison,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Shaw. 
May  8,  David  Stevens,  a  son,  John. 
May  24,  William  Dunlap,  a  son,  William. 
May  31,  Barnet  McCain,  a  son,  John. 
July  15,  Amos  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Betty. 
Sept.  11,  Joseph  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Martha. 
Oct.  21,  William  Parker,  a  daughter,  Sukey. 
Dec.  2,  Samuel  Fuguarg,  a  son,  Samuel. 
Dec.  27,  Patrick  Larkin,  a  son,  John  Adams. 

1784.  Jan.  4,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  daughter,  Rhoda. 
Jan.  14,  Samuel  Houston,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Jan.  28,  Samuel  Tirrell,  a  son,  Hugh. 

March  29,  Nancy,  wife  of  Josiah  Walker,  born  Piatt. 

April  15,  Lieut.  Adam  Smith,  a  son,  Adam. 

May  21,  Asa  Barns,  a  son,  Josiah. 

May  24,  David  French,  a  daughter,  Lydia. 

May  24,  Amos  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Lydia. 

July  28,  James  Darrah,  a  son,  Robert  K. 

July  31,  Ensign  John  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Aug.  24,  Jesse  Worcester,  a -son,  Joseph  Emerson. 

Sept.  6,  John  Lincoln,  a  son,  Isaac  W. 

Sept.  12,  George  Orr,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 

Sept.  28,  John  Orr,  a  son,  Hugh. 

Oct.  1,  John  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Janet. 


704  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

1784.  Oct.  4,  Samuel  Moor,  a  son,  Andrew. 
Oct.  6,  Silas  Dole,  a  son,  Enoch. 

Oct.  9,  Lieut.  James  Moor,  a  daughter,  Anna  S. 
Oct.  20,  William  Burns,  a  son,  William. 

Nov.  16, Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

Nov.  22,  Edward  Lyon,  a  son,  Daniel. 
Dec.  19,  John  McKinney,  a  son,  William. 
Dec.  25,  Thomas  Barr. 

1785.  Jan.  3,  Stephen  Dole,  a  son,  Joseph  Johnson. 
Feb.  10,  Stephen  French,  a  son,  Leonard  Colburn. 
March  16,  James  Bennett,  a  son,  Matthew. 
April  4,  John  McFerson,  a  daughter,  Rosanna. 
April  19,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  son,  John. 

May  19,  John  Morrison,  a  son,  Samuel  McDuffee. 

May  19,  David  Stevens,  a  son,  David. 

June  12,  John  Moor,  3d,  a  daughter,  Ann. 

July  15,  James  Wallace,  a  son,  James. 

July  15,  Amos  Gardner,  a  son,  John. 

July  16,  James  Wallace,  a  son,  John. 

Aug.  19,  Lieut.  Adam  Smith,  a  daughter,  Margaret  McAllister. 

Sept.  10,  Robert  Walker,  a  son,  John. 

Sept.  19,  James  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Olive. 

Sept.  26,  William  McAfee,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

Nov.  3,  William  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

Nov.  9,  Benjamin  Barron,  a  daughter,  Chloe. 

1786.  Jan.  2,  Lieut.  James  Moor,  a  son,  Isaac. 
Jan.  9,  James  Riddle. 

Feb.  28,  David  French,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
March  12,  Jesse  Worcester,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
April  6,  Ensign  John  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Anna  S. 
April  26,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  daughter,  Sally. 
May  26,  Patrick  Larkin,  a  son,  James  Cummings. 
July  15,  James  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Polly. 
Aug.  17,  John  Wallace,  a  son,  Isaac. 
Aug.  21,  John  Orr,  a  son,  John. 
Aug.  21,  Samuel  Moor,  a  son,  John. 
Sept.  20,  William  Parker,  a  son,  Daniel. 
Oct.  8,  Elijah  Buxton,  a  son,  Elijah. 
Oct.  20,  John  Caldwell,  a  daughter,  Rachel. 
Nov.  2,  Silas  Dole,  a  daughter,  Molly. 

1787.  Jan.  2,  James  Moore,  a  son,  Isaac. 

Feb.  18,  James  Bennett,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

March  3,  Robert  Walker,  a  son,  Robert. 

March  15,  William  Burns,  a  son,  John. 

March  21,  Joseph  Bell,  a  son,  Joseph. 

March  28,  John  Morrison,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

April  6,  James  Smith,  a  son,  John. 

April  22,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 


VITAL  STATISTICS.  705 

1787.  May  25,  John  McFerson,  a  son,  John. 
June  12,  Polly  Darrah,  born  Walker. 

July  10,  John  McKinney,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 

July  18,  John  Moor,  3d,  a  son,  Robert. 

Aug.  2,  Benjamin  Barron,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Lynkfield. 

Aug.  13,  Edward  Lyon,  a  son,  William. 

Sept.  2,  John  Burns,  a  daughter,  Esther. 

Sept.  13,  William  McAfee,  a  son,  John. 

Oct.  2,  Barnet  McCain,  a  daughter,  Peggy. 

Dec.  13,  Jonathan  Martin,  a  son,  Eliphalet. 

1788.  Jan.  1,  Stephen  Dole,  a  son,  Enoch. 

Jan.  19,  Lieut.  Adam  Smith,  a  son,  Adam. 

Jan.  30,  David  Stevens,  a.  son,  Solomon. 

March  24,  Robert  Gilchrist,  a  daughter,  Sally. 

April,  David  French,  a  son,  Isaac. 

April  14,  John  Patten,  a  son,  John. 

May  2,  Ensign  John  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 

July  25,  James  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Orr. 

Aug.  16,  James  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Anne. 

Sept.  23,  Silas  Dole,  a  son,  Samuel. 

Nov.  14,  Patrick  Larkin,  a  son,  William  Burns. 

Dec.  1,  Robert  Walker,  a  son,  Nathan. 

1789.  Jan.  24,  William  Moor,  a  son,  James. 
Jan.  30,  John  Burns,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Feb.  22,  Jesse  Worcester,  a  daughter,  Lydia. 
March  15,  Samuel  Moore,  a  daughter,  Sally. 
March  25,  John  Gordon,  a  son,  Daniel. 
April  6,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  William  Pickles. 

April  8, ,  a  son,  James  Harvell. 

April  19,  William  Burns,  a  son,  James  Miller. 
April  20,  Amos  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Phoebe. 
April  28,  William  Parker,  a  son,  William. 
May  6,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  son,  John. 

May  6,  Abigail  Palmer,  wife  of  Thomas  Barr. 

May  13,  Samuel  Fugarg,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Davis. 

May  14,  John  Orr,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

May  26,  Lieut.  James  Moor,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

July  2,  Benjamin  Ban-on,  a  son,  Benjamin. 

Sept.  5,  John  Morrison,  a  son,  John. 

Oct.  15,  John  Moor,  3d,  a  daughter,  Jenny. 

Oct.  16,  Joseph  Bell,  a  son,  David. 

Oct.  20,  John  McKinney,  a  daughter,  Martha. 

Oct.  29,  Robert  Gilchrist,  a  son,  John. 

Nov.  14,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Thomas. 

Dec.  2, ,  a  son,  James  Walker. 

1790.  Jan.  12,  Jonathan  Martin,  a  daughter,  Sally. 
Jan.  25,  John  Patten,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 
March  11,  William  McAfee,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

46 


70G  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1790.  April  14,  Willard  Parker. 

May  4,  Edward  Lyon,  a  daughter,  Polly. 
June  23,  Ensign  John  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Sally. 
Aug.  4,  Silas  Dole,  a  daughter,  Abigail. 
Aug.  13,  Barnet  McCain,  a  daughter,  Isabel. 
Sept.  3,  James  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Anne,  2d. 
Sept.  16,  Phineas  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Nancy  P. 
Sept.  30,  John  Orr,  a  son,  William. 
Oct.  5,  Robert  Walker,  a  son,  Jesse. 
Oct.  8,  David  French,  a  son,  Isaac  Parker. 
Oct.  16,  Stephen  Dole,  a  daughter,  Anna. 
Nov.  23,  David  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Judith. 
Dec.  15,  Jesse  Worcester,  a  daughter,  Nabby. 

1791.  Feb.  16,  James  Bennett,  a  daughter,  Polly. 

Feb.  23,  Benjamin  Barron,  a  daughter,  Anna  Phelps. 

April  11,  Joseph  Patten,  a  son,  William. 

April  26,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  daughter,  Susannah  Connors. 

June  2,  Amos  Martin,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

June  3,  John  Burns,  twin  daughters,  Jane  and  Sarah. 

June  8,  John  McFerson,  a  daughter,  Jenny. 

June  26,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  James. 

July  12,  John  Morrison,  a  son,  William. 

July  12,  Amos  Gardner,  a  daughter,  Hulda. 

Sept.  13,  Elijah  Buxton,  a  daughter,  Ann. 

Sept.  23,  William  Parker,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 

Sept.  25,  Josiah  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Roxanne. 

Oct.  22,  John  McKinney,  a  son,  John. 

Nov.  7,  John  Pratt,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

Nov.  8,  William  Burns,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1792.  Jan.  5,  Patrick  Larkin,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 
Jan.  15,  Joseph  Bell,  a  son,  James. 

March  13,  Nathan  Cutler,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

March  25,  John  Patten,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

April  12,  John  Moore,  3d,  a  son,  Thomas  W. 

May  5,  Jonathan  Martin,  a  son,  Silas  Dole. 

May  29,  Silas  Dole,  a  son,  Stephen. 

June  22,  Jesse  Worcester,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

June  22,  William  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Polly. 

June  26,  John  Orr,  a  son,  Isaac. 

July  16,  James  Moore,  a  son,  Richard  Dole. 

July  19,  Phineas  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Lucy. 

July  23,  William  Moor,  a  son,  Jesse. 

Aug.  19,  Joseph  Patten,  a  daughter,  Deborah. 

Sept.  26,  Robert  Gilchrist,  a  son,  Robert. 

Oct.  29,  Robert  Walker,  a  son,  James. 

1793.  Feb.  12,  Barnet  McCain,  a  son,  David. 

Feb.  23,  Benjamin  Barron,  a  son,  Mather  Odell. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  707 

1798.    March  7,  John  Burns,  a  son,  John. 

March  13,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  son,  Simeon. 
March  16,  James  Campbell,  a  son,  Phineas. 
March  24,  Amos  Martin,  a  daughter,  Rebecca. 
April  25,  Stephen  Dole,  a  son,  Friend. 
May  6,  William  Miller,  a  daughter,  Hannah  15. 
June  15,  Samuel  Moore,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 
June  17,  John  Pratt,  a  son,  John. 
July  25,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  Isaac. 
Sept.  18,  David  McQuesten,  a  son,  David. 
Oct.  15,  Daniel  Gould,  a  son,  Joseph. 
Oct.  19,  David  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Dolly. 
Nov.  5,  Samuel  Cogin,  a  son,  Benjamin. 
Dec.  27,  Roger  Vose,  a  son,  Samuel. 

1794.  Jan.  4,  John  Houston,  Jr.,  a  son,  Jesse  Alexander. 
Feb.  8,  William  Riddle,  a  son,  William. 

Feb.  14,  Joseph  Patten,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

Feb.  19,  Silas  Dole,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 

Feb.  21,  John  Patten,  a  son,  Samuel. 

March  2,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Polly. 

March  3,  Hugh  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Anna. 

March  7,  William  Burns,  a  son,  James  Miller. 

March  11,  Jonathan  Martin,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

March  16,  John  McFerson,  a  son,  Thomas  McDole. 

March  29,  Jesse  Worcester,  a  son,  Leonard. 

April  5,  John  Orr,  Esq.,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

April  25,  Amos  Gardner,  a  son,  Samuel. 

May  4,  John  Morrison,  a  son,  David. 

May  22,  Adams  Merrill,  a  son,  Rufus. 

May  24,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

June  23,  William  Parker,  a  son,  Isaac. 

Sept.  8,  Richard  Gragg,  a  son,  Reuben. 

Sept.  16,  Thomas  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Asenath. 

Sept.  28,  Phineas  Aiken,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 

Oct.  21,  David  Sprake,  a  daughter,  Fanny. 

Oct.  28,  William  Moor,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

Oct.  29,  Robert  Walker,  a  daughter,  Rebecca. 

Dec.  13,  William  Miller,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1795.  Jan.  7,  Ater  Tirrell,  a  daughter,  Harriet. 

Jan.  13,  Benjamin  Barron,  a  daughter,  Nancy  McMulen. 
Jan.  18,  John  Burns,  a  son,  Wyseman  Clagett. 
Jan.  31,  Josiah  Wallace,  a  son,  .Theodore  Goffe. 
Feb.  5,  William  McAfee,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 
March  3,  Anna  Riddle,  wife  of  Willard  Parker. 
April  30,  Joseph  Bell,  a  son,  Jacob. 
May  5,  Amos  Martin,  a  daughter,  Orra. 
June  28,  Daniel  Gould,  a  son,  John  Bell. 
Aug.  28,  John  Pratt,  a  son,  Allen. 


708  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1795.  Aug.  29,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 
Oct.  18,  John  Craig,  a  son,  Whitefield. 

Nov.  28,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  Gilman. 

Dec.  29,  Stephen  Dole,  a  daughter,  Betsey  Johnson. 

Dec.  30,  Nathan  Barns,  a  daughter,  Clarisa. 

1796.  Jan.  3,  Joseph  Patten,  a  daughter,  Acsah. 

Feb.  7,  Samuel  Smith,  a  daughter,  Lydia  Atwood. 

Feb.  12,  David  McQuesten,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Nahor. 

March  3,  Thomas  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Sarai. 

March  8,  James  Campbell,  a  son,  Samuel. 

March  23,  John  Houston,  Jr.,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

April  5,  Richard  Gragg,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Moor. 

April  6,  Robert  Gilchrist,  a  son,  Matthew  Craige. 

April  18,  William  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Martha. 

April  24,  Silas  Dole,  a  son,  Eleazer  Johnson. 

May  7,  Jonathan  Martin,  a  son,  Jonathan. 

May  20,  David  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Polly. 

June  19,  William  Burns,  a  son,  Nathan. 

Aug.  16,  Robert  Walker,  a  daughter,  Sally. 

Oct.  20,  Roger  Vose,  a  son,  John. 

Oct.  26,  David  Spi-ake,  a  daughter,  Sally  Burns. 

Oct.  30,  Benjamin  Barron,  a  son,  Hezekiah  Lovejoy. 

Nov.  22,  John  Burns,  a  son,  Robert  McKain. 

Dec.  25,  Edward  Lyon,  a  son,  Jonathan. 

1797.  Jan.  17,  John  Morrison,  a  daughter,  Jennet. 
Jan.  30,  Phineas  Aiken,  a  son,  John. 

Feb.  8,  Samuel  Cozens,  a  daughter,  Loammi  Thompson. 

March  2,  John  McFerson,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

March  15,  John  Parker,  Jr.,  a  son,  Wiseman  Burns. 

April  8,  Brien  Cavanah,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

April  17,  Sherborn  Dearborn,  a  daughter,  Peggy. 

May  8,  Oliver  Newel,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

May  13,  William  Parker,  a  son,  Robert. 

May  14,  William  Boynton,  Brownfield,  Maine. 

May  16,  Samuel  Smith,  a  son,  Samuel. 

May  17,  Joseph  Patten,  a  daughter,  Irene. 

June  23,  William  Miller,  a  son,  William. 

June  28,  William  Moor,  a  daughter,  Jenny. 

July  12,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  daughter,  Armanda. 

Aug.  6,  Josiah  Wallace,  a  son,  Bartlett. 

Aug  22,  Moses  Gerrish,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

Aug.  28,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  David. 

Sept.  15,  James  Campbell,  a  son,  Abner. 

Dec.  8,  Thomas  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Sophia. 

Dec.  18,  Richard  Gragg,  a  son,  William  English. 

Dec.  23,  John  Orr,  a  son,  Robert. 

Dec.  30,  Thomas  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

1798.  Feb.  4,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  a  son,  Daniel. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  709 

1798.  Feb.  22,  Adam  Smith,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 
March  5,  Stephen  Dole,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
March  13,  William  Riddle,  a  son,  Freeman. 
March  17,  John  Pratt,  a  daughter,  Rhoda. 
April  8,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Olive. 
May  15,  David  Stevens,  a  son,  Jeremiah. 

May  20,  John  Houston,  Jr.,  a  son,  John  Pebles. 
June  8,  Sherborn  Dearborn,  a  daughter,  Polly. 
June  12,  Nathan  Barns,  a  son,  Isaac. 
July  14,  Silas  Dole,  a  son,  William  Maley. 
July  27,  Benjamin  Barron,  a  son,  Moses. 
Sept.  21,  John  Craig,  a  daughter,  Polly. 
Sept.  24,  William  McAfee,  a  son,  David. 
Sept.  28,  Edward  Lyon,  a  son,  John  Gilman. 
Oct.  21,  Robert  Walker,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
Dec.  13,  John  Parker,  a  son,  Franklin  Atwood. 
Dec.  22,  Ebenezer  French,  a  son,  Ebenezer  C. 

1799.  Feb.  2,  Richard  Dole,  a  daughter,  Louisa. 
March  5,  Joseph  Patten,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
May  5,  Theodore  A.  Goffe,  a  son,  John. 

May  5,  John  Houston,  a  daughter,  Lettice. 

May  14,  Phineas  Aiken,  a  son,  Silas. 

May  16,  Samuel  Smith,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

July  12,  Jane  Clendenin,  St.  David's,  X.  B. 

Aug.  9,  Oliver  Newell,  a  son,  John. 

Aug.  13,  David  McQuesten,  a  daughter,  Eliza. 

Sept.  5,  Josiah  Wallace,  a  son,  Samuel  Griggs. 

Sept.  19,  Roger  Vose,  a  daughter,  Phoebe. 

Sept.  21,  John  On*,  a  daughter,  Ann. 

Sept.  22,  William  Miller,  a  son,  Benjamin. 

Sept.  22, ,  a  son,  Nehemiah  Kittredge. 

Oct.  2,  Richard  Gragg,  a  daughter,  Agnes. 

Oct.  7,  John  Burns,  a  daughter,  Annie  McLaughlin. 

Oct.  17,  William  Moor,  a  son,  Adams. 

Oct.  27,  James  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 

Oct.  29,  David  Sprake,  a  daughter,  Martha  Means. 

Nov.  2,  John  Parker,  3d,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Moor. 

Dec.  6,  John  Morrison,  a  daughter,  Eleanor. 

1800.  Jan.  1,  Thomas  Wallace,  a  son,  Cyrus. 
Feb.  4,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  son,  Alden. 
March  9,  Sherborn  Dearborn,  a  daughter,  Sally. 

April  12, ,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Chase. 

June  1,  Daniel  McCain,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 

July  7,  William  Parker,  a  son,  Gilman. 
July  16,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  a  son,  John. 
Aug.  25,  Ebenezer  French,  a  daughter,  Matilda  C. 
Sept.  3,  William  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Jennet. 
Sept.  27,  Simeon  Chubbuck,  a  daughter,  Cynthia. 


710  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1800.  Oct.  30,  John  Houston,  Jr.,  a  son,  Isaac. 
Nov.,  Brien  Cavanah,  a  son,  John  G. 
Dec.  8,  Richard  Dole,  a  son,  Eleazer. 
Dec.  14,  Joseph  Patten,  a  daughter,  Vine. 
Dec.  23,  John  Houston,  Jr.,  a  son,  Robert. 

1801.  Jan.  9.  Nathan  Barns,  a  daughter,  Esther  Richardson. 
Jan.  16,  Robert  Walker,  a  daughter,  Submit. 

Feb.  23,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  son,  Daniel. 

March  17,  Samuel  Smith,  a  daughter,  Submit. 

March  24,  Sherborn  Dearborn,  a  daughter,  Amey. 

April  20,  Stephen  French,  a  daughter,  Hannah  Plummer. 

May  10,  Rufus  Merrill,  a  daughter,  Mary  Smith. 

May  14, ,  a  daughter,  Betsey,  married  Nehe- 

miah  Kittredge. 
May  23,  Roger  Vose,  a  son,  Jesse. 
July  5,  John  Orr,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Smith. 
July  30,  Silas  Dole,  a  daughter,  Annis  Aiken. 
Aug.  7,  David  McQueston,  a  son,  Calvin. 
Aug.  14,  Thomas  Wallace,  a  son,  Wiseman. 
Sept.  3,  Andrew  Peabody,  a  daughter,  Charlotte. 
Sept.  12,  John  Burns,  a  son,  Wyseman  Clagett. 
Dec.  4,  James  Campbell,  a  son,  Henry. 

1802.  Jan.  13,  Samuel  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Mary  Jane. 
Jan.  24,  William  Moor,  a  son,  William. 

Jan.  31,  Josiah  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Alvira. 

Feb.  12,  Richard  Gragg,  a  son,  Andrew  Jack. 

Feb.  25,  Daniel  McCain,  a  son,  John. 

March  2,  Phineas  Aiken,  a  son,  Charles. 

April  6,  William  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Miranda. 

May  2,  David  Sprake,  a  daughter,  Mary  Patterson. 

June  27,  John  Craig,  a  son,  John. 

June  29,  John  Houston,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

July  31,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

Oct.  7,  William  Miller,  a  son,  Matthew. 

Dec.  8,  Sherborn  Dearborn,  a  son,  William. 

Dec.  11,  David  Atwood,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

1803.  Jan.  9,  Roger  Vose,  a  daughter,  Rachel. 

Feb.  4,  Stephen  French,  a  daughter,  Dolly  Colburn. 

Feb.  14,  John  Parker,  a  son,  David. 

Feb.  19,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  daughter,  Nancy  C. 

March  26,  William  Moor,  a  son,  David. 

March  30,  Joseph  Patten,  a  son,  Samuel. 

April  3,  Oliver  Newell,  a  son,  Oliver. 

April  19,  Ebenezer  French,  a  son,  Leonard  C. 

May  7,  William  Parker,  a  son,  John. 

May  8,  Thomas  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

May  17,  Samuel  Smith,  a  daughter,  Eliza. 

June  8,  Robert  Walker,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 


VITAL  STATISTICS.  711 

June  9,  Daniel  Moor,  a  daughter,  Achsah  Weston. 
June  10,  Benjamin  Sprague,  a  son,  Lowell. 
Aug.  2,  John  Burns,  a  son,  William. 
Sept.  8,  Andrew  Peabody,  a  daughter,  Clarisa. 
Oct.  26,  James  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 
Nov.  17,  Nathan  Barns,  a  son,  Enoch. 

1804.  Jan.  4,  Paul  Tenney,  a  daughter,  Mariah. 
Feb.  4,  Robert  Dunlap,  a  son,  John. 
Feb.  13,  David  Atwood,  a  son,  Joseph  B. 
Feb.  28,  David  McQuesten,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
March  7,  Richard  Gragg,  a  son,  Richard. 
March  25,  John  Craig,  a  son,  William. 

May  20,  William  Riddle,  a  son,  Benjamin. 
June  8,  Phineas  Aiken,  a  son,  David. 
Aug.  12,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  a  son,  Rodney. 
Sept.  2,  Sherborn  Dearborn,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 
Sept.  11,  Hugh  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Jane. 
Nov.  16,  William  Moor,  a  son,  Andrew  English. 
Dec.  4,  Stephen  French,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Whiting. 
Dec.  5,  William  Miller,  a  son,  Gilman. 

1805.  March  7,  Roger  Vose,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
March  24,  Richard  Dole,  a  daughter,  Abagail. 
April  7,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  son,  Joseph  C. 
May  28,  Daniel  McCain,  a  son,  William. 
June  19,  Joseph  Patten,  a  son,  Adam  N. 
June  27,  David  Atwood,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
June  28,  John  Houston,  a  son,  Reuben. 

June  29,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Dolly  French. 

Aug.  14,  Robert  Dunlap,  a  son,  Hiram. 

Aug.  19,  Ebenezer  French,  a  son,  Phineas  C. 

Sept.  11,  Samuel  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Caroline. 

Sept.  29,  John  Houston,  a  daughter,  Nancy  Wire. 

Sept.  30,  Samuel  Smith,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 

Oct.  23,  Robert  Walker,  a  daughter,  Olive  Aiken. 

Nov.  14,  David  S.  Gillis,  a  son,  William  Wallace. 

Dec.  31,  Daniel  Moor,  a  daughter,  Fanny  Dole. 

1806.  Feb.  5,  Richard  Gragg,  a  daughter,  Betsey. 
Feb.  12,  James  Campbell,  a  son,  Theron. 
Feb.  23,  William  Barron,  a  son,  John  Wallace. 
March  5,  David  McQuesten,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
March  16,  John  Parker,  a  daughter,  May  Ann. 
May  11,  Nathan  Barns,  a  daughter,  Mary  West. 
May  11,  William  Parker,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

June  22,  William  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Tregallos. 
Aug.  15,  Samuel  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Annis. 
Aug.  26,  Stephen  French,  a  son,  Stephen. 
Oct.  6,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  James. 
Nov.  5,  Paul  Tenny,  a  son,  Franklin. 


712  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1807.  Feb.  8,  David  Atwood,  a  daughter,  Olive. 
Feb.  17,  Robert  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Cynthia. 
March  3,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  Jacob  McGaw. 
March  29,  Daniel  McCain,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
May  1,  Roger  Vose,  a  son,  Otis. 

Aug.  8,  Robert  Walker,  a  son,  Sydney. 
Aug.  15,  Robert  Dunlap,  a  son,  Archibald. 
Sept.  15,  William  Barron,  a  daughter,  Eliza. 
Sept.  27,  Richard  Gragg,  a  daughter,  Abagail. 
Oct.  19,  Richard  Dole,  a  son,  Joseph. 
Oct.  29,  Josiah  Walker,  a  son,  Elbridge  Gerry. 
Dec.  3,  Joseph  Colley,  a  son,  Samuel  Gerish. 
Dec.  29,  Ebenezer  French,  a  son,  William. 

1808.  Feb.  7,  William  Moor,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  McCleary. 
Feb.  12,  James  Campbell,  a  son,  Hiram. 

Feb.  19,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  Stephen  French. 

Feb.  22,  Joshua  Vose,  a  son,  Daniel. 

March  14,  David  S.  Gillis,  a  daughter,  Mary  J. 

April  14,  Jobn  Parker,  a  daughter,  Sukey. 

May  1,  John  Houston,  a  son,  Rufus. 

May  17,  Daniel  Moor,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Annis. 

July  3,  David  Whittemore,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Davis. 

Sept.  23,  Samuel  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Catherine. 

Oct.  11,  Solomon  Gage,  a  daughter,  Harriet  Underwood. 

Oct.  28,  Paul  Tenny,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

Nov.  30,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

Dec.  23,  David  Atwood,  a  son,  John. 

1809.  Jan.  15,  Nathan  Barns,  a  son,  David  Patten. 
Feb.  6,  Robert  Wallace,  a  son,  Franklin. 

Feb.  18,  Josiah  Walker,  a  daughter,  Charlotte  M. 

March  12,  William  Barron,  a  daughter,  Susannah  Lane. 

April  3,  John  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Betsey  Foster. 

April  17,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  daughter,  Margaret  A. 

April  23,  Joseph  Colley,  a  daughter,  Abigail  Dole. 

May  9,  Richard  Dole,  a  son,  Richard. 

May  30,  William  Chandler,  a  son,  Caleb. 

June  16,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  son,  Timothy  Fuller. 

July  7,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Ann. 

July  16,  Daniel  McCain,  a  son,  James. 

July  19,  Bradbury  M.  Rowe,  born  in  Brentwood,  N.  H. 

Sept.  29,  Samuel  Boardman,  a  daughter,  Huldy. 

Nov.  22,  Joshua  Vose,  a  son,  James. 

Dec.  9,  Solomon  Gage,  a  daughter,  Mary  Putnam. 

Dec.  14,  Benjamin  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

1810.  Jan.  12,  Moody  M.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Abigail. 
April  20,  John  Wallace  Moor,  a  son,  James. 

April  25,  David  S.  Gillis,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
May  3,  David  Whittemore,  a  son,  Jacob. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  713 

July  9,  William  Moore,  a  son,  William  English. 

Aug.  17,  James  Griffin,  a  son,  James. 

Aug.  24,  David  Atwood,  a  daughter,  Susannah. 

Sept.  6,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Ann. 

Sept.  12,  Josiah  Walker,  a  son,  Josiah. 

Oct.  6,  Paul  Tenney,  a  son,  Paul. 

Nov.  22,  Roger  Vose,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

Dec.  3,  Daniel  Moore,  a  son,  James. 

Dec.  22,  Robert  K.  Darrah,  a  son,  Abner  C. 

Dec.  29,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

Dec.  29,  Jesse  Parker,  a  daughter,  Keziah. 

1811.  Feb.  25,  Solomon  Gage,  a  daughter,  Dolly. 

April  20,  David  Atwood,  twin  sons,  Alfred  and  Sanford. 

May  23,  Abijah  Hodgman,  a  daughter,  Abigail. 

May  29,  Robert  AVallace,  a  son,  Samuel. 

June  4,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

July  3,  Mary  Jane  Moor,  born  in  Pembroke,  N.  H. 

July  5,  Samuel  Chandler,  a  son,  Samuel. 

Aug.  9,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Rebecca  McGaw. 

Sept.  8,  William  Chandler,  a  son,  William  B. 

Sept.  17,  Daniel  McCain,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 

Sept.  23,  Benjamin  Stevens,  a  son,  David. 

Sept.  25,  Joseph  Colley,  a  daughter,  Ann  Jane. 

'Oct.  23,  Capt.  Nathan  Barns,  a  daughter,  Nancy  Jane. 

Nov.  27,  Ebenezer  French,  a  daughter,  Mereb. 

Dec.  3,  Enoch  Dole,  a  son,  William  P. 

1812.  April  8,  Solomon  Gage,  a  daughter,  Dolly  Chase. 
April  12,  David  Atwood,  a  son,  Daniel  Gordon. 
June  6,  Jesse  Parker,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

June  23,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Nancy  Jane. 
July  1,  James  Griffin,  a  son,  Alphred. 
July  5,  Isaac  Gilmore,  a  son,  Thomas  B. 
July  15,  John  Wallace  Moor,  a  son,  Horace. 
Aug.  10,  Roger  Vose,  a  son,  Alfred. 
Aug.  11,  David  S.  Gillis,  a  daughter,  Asenath  Barnes. 
Nov.  5,  Josiah  AValker,  a  son,  William. 
Nov.  29,  Joshua  Vose,  a  daughter,  Nancy- 
Dec.  17,  Robert  Dunlap,  a  son,  Robert. 
Dec.  24,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  son,  Nathaniel  H. 

1813.  Feb.  9,  David  Whittemore,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

March  18,  Moody  M.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Caroline  Elizabeth. 

Sept.  3,  Solomon  Gage,  a  son,  Frederick. 

Sept.  9,  William  Moore,  a  daughter,  Mary  Jack. 

Sept.  13,  Robert  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Isabella. 

Sept.  14,  Thomas  Barr,  a  son,  Edward. 

Oct.  13,  Thomas  Rundlett,  a  son,  Leonard. 

Dec.  10,  Samuel  Chandler,  a  son,  Zacharias. 

Dec.  23,  Enoch  Dole,  a  son,  Stephen  P. 


714  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1814.  Jan.  21,  Andrew  Moore,  a  son,  Joseph. 

Jan.  23,  William  Chandler,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Feb.  17,  Moody  M.  Stevens,  a  son,  William  Chandler. 
March  8,  Benjamin  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Jane. 
March  29,  James  Griffin,  a  daughter,  Caroline. 
April  3,  Jesse  Parker,  a  son,  Jesse. 

May  5, Dow,  a  son,  Andrew  J. 

May  17,  Richard  Dole,  a  son,  William. 

May  20,  David  Atwood,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

June  29,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  son,  William. 

Aug.  5,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Louisa. 

Nov.  27,  John  Wallace  Moor,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Dec.  28,  Robert  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Rachel. 

1815.  Feb.  17,  Josiah  Walker,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
March  12,  Joshua  Vose,  a  son,  Joshua. 
March  24,  Thomas  Barr,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
April  7,  Robert  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Lydia  R. 
May  20,  Ebenezer  French,  a  son,  Alfred. 
May  20,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  son,  William. 
July  4,  David  Whittemore,  a  daughter,  Sally. 
July  12,  Robert  A.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Jane  W. 
July  20,  Thomas  Rundlett,  a  son,  William  Ayer. 

Sept.  28,  Andrew  Moore,  a  daughter,  Hannah  Burnham. 
Oct.  14,  Daniel  McCain,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
Dec.  15,  David  Atwood,  a  son,  David,  Jr. 

1816.  Jan.  1,  Isaac  Gilmore,  a  son,  Elbridge  G. 
Jan.  1,  Samuel  Chandler,  a  son,  John  O. 
March  22,  Enoch  Dole,  a  son,  Charles  H. 
April  17,  Jesse  Parker,  a  son,  Thomas. 

April  21,  Moody  M.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Dolly  Jane. 

June  15,  Joseph  Colley,  a  son,  Joseph  Bradford. 

June  23,  Benjamin  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Nancy  McDole. 

July  1,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  William. 

July  14,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  17,  Solomon  Gage,  a  son,  Solomon. 

Aug.  24,  Roger  Vose,  a  daughter,  Cynthia. 

Sept.  13,  James  Moor,  a  daughter,  Saphronia. 

Dec.  9,  John  Barr,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

1817.  Feb.  1,  Isaac  P.  French,  a  son,  David. 
Feb.  24,  Ebenezer  French,  a  son,  John. 
April  8,  Robert  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Olive. 
May  7,  Thomas  Barr,  a  son,  Elbridge  Gerry. 

June  24,  Moses  Gage,  a  daughter,  Mary  Ann  Barron. 

Aug.  9,  Thomas  Rundlett,  a  son,  Jesse  Ayer. 

Aug.  15,  William  Wallace,  twin  sons,  William  Parker  and 

George  Burns. 
Aug.  15,  Andrew  Moore,  a  son,  Asa  Burnham. 
Sept.  24,  Robert  K.  Darrah,  a  son,  James  W. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  7L> 

1817.  Oct.  20,  Josiah  Walker,  a  son,  James. 
Nov.  4,  David  Atwood,  a  son,  James. 

Nov.  11,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  son,  Leonard. 
Nov.  26,  Enoch  Dole,  a  daughter,  Harriet  M. 
Dec.  27,  Alfred  Foster,  a  daughter,  Rebecca  McGregore. 

1818.  Jan.  5,  John  Wallace  Moor,  a  son,  Adam. 
Feb.  15,  Ephraim  "Harvell,  a  daughter,  Louisa. 
March  7,  Robert  Wallace,  a  son,  Robert. 

March  22,  Capt.  John  Moor,  a  son,  Robert  Parker. 

April  5,  David  Whittemore,  a  daughter,  Sukey. 

May  5,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  John. 

Sept.  12,  David  Atwood,  twin  sons,  William  and  Hiram. 

1819.  Jan.  22,  Daniel  McCain,  a  son,  David. 
March  1,  Moses  Gage,  a  son,  Moses. 

May  20,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  daughter,  Margaret  M. 

June  28,  Thomas  Barr,  a  daughter,  Caroline. 

July  25,  Isaac  P.  French,  a  son,  George  William. 

Aug.  19,  Josiah  Walker,  a  daughter,  Caroline. 

Aug.  21,  David  Atwood,  a  daughter,  Jane. 

Sept.  8,  Andrew  Moore,  a  son,  George. 

Sept.  22,  John  Barr,  a  son,  John. 

Nov.  14,  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  a  son,  Selwyn  Bapson. 

Dec.  3,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Caroline. 

Dec.  6,  Alfred  Foster,  a  son,  Charles  Adams. 

Dec.  9,  James  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Betsey  D. 

1820.  Feb.  18,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Ann  Elizabeth. 
March  19,  Joseph  Men-ill,  a  daughter,  Lucretia. 
May  6,  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  a  son,  Peter  Trask. 
July  31,  Capt.  John  Moor,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Ann. 
Oct.  8,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  daughter,  Susan  Jane. 

1821.  Feb.  24,  Moses  Gage,  a  son,  Samuel  Barron. 
March  3,  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  a  son,  Lucian  Byron. 
March  20,  James  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Sally  D. 
March  26,  Rufus  Merrill,  a  son,  Rufus  Adams. 

May  17,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Asenath  Riddle. 

July  3,  Willard  Parker,  a  daughter,  Ann  Maria. 

July  4,  Andrew  Moore,  a  son,  Mark  Burnham. 

Sept.  20,  Joseph  Merrill,  a  son,  Joseph  Adams. 

Oct.  16,  John  Barr,  a  son,  Matthew. 

Dec.  20,  Josiah  Walker,  a  daughter,  Susan. 

Dec.  30,  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  a  son,  William  Riddle. 

1822.  Jan.  3,  Whitefield  Craig,  a  son,  Alfred. 

May  21,  Alfred  Foster,  a  daughter,  Hannah  Merrill. 
July  12,  David  Atwood,  a  daughter,  Clorinda. 
Aug.  12,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  Isaac  Newton. 
Nov.  3,  Capt.  John  Moor,  a  son,  Joseph  Warren. 

1823.  Jan.  17,  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  a  daughter,  Frances  Maria. 
March  6,  John  Barr,  a  son,  Samuel. 


71G  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1828.    March  10,  Moses  Gage,  a  son,  Walter  Lafayette. 

March  30,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Almira. 

May  20,  Col.  William  Moor,  a  son,  Robert  C. 

Aug.  16,  Robert  Parker,  a  son,  George  W. 

Sept.  5,  Thomas  Barr,  a  son,  Thomas. 

Nov.  14,  Robert  H.  Darrah,  a  son,  Albert. 

Nov.  18,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  daughter,  Sally  Ferson. 

Dec.  27,  Charles  Rollins,  a  son,  Rodney  M'Laughlin. 

1824.  Feb.  18,  Whitefield  Craig,  a  son,  Charles. 
Feb.  22,  Mace  Moulton,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Jane. 
March  23,  Willard  Parker,  a  son,  John  Orr. 
April  7,  John  Barr,  a  daughter,  Maria. 

April  17,  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  a  daughter,  Susan  Maria. 

April  17,  David  Atwood,  a  son,  Iaaac  B. 

May  2,  Josiah  Walker,  a  son,  Edwin  R. 

June  26,  William  Boynton,  a  daughter,  Charlotte  Ann,  born 

in  Bow,  N.  H. 
Sept.  9,  William  P.  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Aiken. 
Nov.  1,  Alfred  Foster,  a  son,  David  McGregor. 
Dec.  27,  Leonard  Walker,  a  son,  Nathan  Parker. 

1825.  July  6,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Jane  Aiken. 
Aug.  14,  Robert  Parker,  a  daughter,  Charlotte  A. 
Oct.  10,  William  Tolford,  a  daughter,  Eliza. 
Nov.  25,  Moses  Gage,  a  daughter,  Caroline. 
Dec.  16,  Jonas  B.  Bowman,  a  son,  Eustice  Park. 

1826.  Jan.  12,  Daniel  Gordon,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Dole. 
June  6,  John  Barr,  a  daughter,  Julia  Ann. 

Aug.  10,  Abner  C.  Page,  a  daughter,  Letitia  Maria  B. 
Aug.  29,  Charles  Rollins,  a  son,  James  Morrison. 
Sept.  8,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  John  Aiken. 
Oct.  6,  Willard  Parker,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Riddle. 
Nov.  9,  William  P.  Riddle,  a  son,  George  Washington. 

1827.  Jan.  20,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  son,  Frederick  Foster. 
Jan.  23,  Robert  Wallace,  a  son,  James  F. 

Jan.  31,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Almira  Clark. 

Feb.  12,  John  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Martha  Jane. 

March  27,  Eleazer  Dole,  a  son,  Eleazer  Johnson. 

May  23,  Leonard  Walker,  a  son,  James  Phillips. 

July  30,  Alfred  Foster,  a  daiighter,  Elizabeth  Amelia. 

Aug.  6,  Robert  Parker,  a  son,  Robert. 

Nov.  24,  Moses  Gage,  twin  daughters. 

Nov.  29,  Rufus  Merrill,  a  son,  Rufus  Milton. 

Dec.  3,  Daniel  Gordon,  a  daughter,  Mary  Jane. 

1828.  Jan.  26,  Robert  K.  Darrah,  a  son,  Franklin. 
Feb.  7,  James  Walker,  a  son,  James  Parker. 
March  1,  Thomas  Barr,  a  son,  Robert  Palmer. 
June  1,  James  Harvell,  a  daughter,  Climena. 
June  9,  William  P.  Riddle,  a  son,  William  Quincy. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  717 

1828..  June  12,  Abner  C.  Page,  a  son,  William  Alonzo. 
July  11,  Josiah  Walker,  a  daughter,  Harriet  F. 
July  26,  John  Goffe,  a  son,  George  Washington. 
July  27,  Whitefield  Craig,  a  son,  Thomas  S. 
Nov.  14,  Mace  Moulton,  a  son,  Henry  DeWitt. 

1829.  Jan.  3,  Daniel  Moore,  a  son,  William  DeWitt  Clinton. 
March  13,  Rufus  Merrill,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Houston. 
April  1,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  Henry  Clay. 
April  24,  Moses  Gage,  a  daughter,  Louisa  Frances. 
May  9,  William  Tolford,  a  son,  Elbridge  G. 

May  10,  William  Boynton,  a  daughter,  Mary  Jane,  born  in 

Bow,  N.  H. 
Aug.  24,  Lebnard  Walker,  a  son. 
Oct.  4,  Eleazer  Dole,  a  son,  Robert  Riddle. 
Dec.  1,  Daniel  Gordon,  a  daughter,  Louisa. 

1830.  Jan.  19,  James  Harvell,  a  daughter,  Maria  E. 
March  10,  John  Ban*,  a  son,  David. 

March  26,  Willard  Parker,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Patten. 

April  8,  Daniel  Moore,  a  son,  James  Clifton. 

May  4,  Josiah  Walker,  a  son,  Andrew  J. 

May  13,  William  P.  Riddle,  a  son,  Daniel  Welshier. 

July  18,  James  Walker,  a  son,  Charles  Kimball. 

Sept.  29,  John  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

Nov.  28,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Sophia  Barr. 

1831.  April  8,  Whitefield  Craig,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Jane. 
April  16,  Leonard  Walker,  a  son,  Frederick  French. 
April  17,  William  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Laura  Ann. 
May  19,  Abner  C.  Page,  a  daughter,  Mary  Melissa. 
May  22,  Eleazer  Dole,  a  daughter,  Ann  Mariah. 
July  22,  Isaac  Riddle,  a  son,  Silas  Aiken. 

Aug.  4,  Leonard  C.  French,  a  son,  Freeman  Riddle. 
Dec.  12,  Moses  Gage,  a  daughter,  Frances  Jane. 

1832.  Jan.  10,  William  Boynton,  a  daughter,  Margaret  Melisa,  born 

in  Bow,  N.  H. 
April  9,  Daniel  Gordon,  a  son,  John  B. 
May  13,  John  Barr,  a  son,  James. 
May  24,  William  P.  Riddle,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Mariah. 
July  6,  Daniel  Moore,  a  daughter,  Martha  Jane. 
July  26,  Rodney  McLaughlin,  a  son,  Abijah  Hodgman. 
Aug.  21,  Eleazer  Dole,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
Sept.  6,  John  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Ann. 
Oct.  24,  L.  C.  French,  2d,  a  son,  Clinton. 
Oct.  28,  Samuel  G.  Colley,  a  son,  Dexter  Dole. 
Dec.  31,  James  Harvell,  a  son,  James  S. 

1833.  March  4,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  Charles  Carroll. 
March  12,  William  Riddle,  a  son,  James  W. 

March  13,  Nehemiah  Kittredge,  a  daughter,  Sarah  E. 
May  14,  Leonard  Walker,  a  son,  Thomas  Irving. 


718  HISTOllY  OF  BEDFOKD. 

1883.    Oct.  1,  Abner  C.  Page,  a  son,  James  Dustin. 

Dec.  1,  William    Bovnton,   a   son,    Henrv  Putnev,  born    in 
Bow,  N.  H. 

1 834.  March  20,  Willard  Parker,  a  son,  Robert  Riddle. 
June  27,  William  Tolford,  a  son,  DeWitt  Clinton. 
Aug.  12,  James  Harvell,  a  son,  Thomas  F. 

Nov.  2,  Daniel  Gordon,  a  son,  Richard  Dole. 
Nov.  15,  John  Barr,  a  son,  Rufus. 
Nov.  27,  Daniel  Moore,  a  son,  Daniel  Leroy. 
Dec.  14,  William  Craig,  a  son,  Genlee  Almus. 
Dec.  28,  Rufus  Merrill,  a  son,  Charles  Clinton. 

1835.  Jan.  11,  George  Fletcher,  a  son,  Jesse  Coburn. 

Feb.  7,  Daniel  H.  Ferguson,  a  daughter,  Susan  Jane. 

Feb.  7,  John  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 

Feb.  21,  Rodney  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Nancy. 

Feb.  28,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  George  Clinton. 

May  1,  L.  C.  French,  2d,  a  daughter,  Almira. 

May  3,  Nehemiah  Kittredge,  a  son,  John  L. 

Aug.  4,  Willard  Parker,  a  son,  Willard  Clinton. 

Nov.  15,  Whitefield  Craig,  a  son,  John  Franklin. 

1836.  Aug.  30,  Bradbury  M.  Rowe,  a  son,  George  Albeit. 
Dec.  20,  Abner  C.  Page,  a  son,  George  Washington. 

1837.  Feb.  13,  George  Fletcher,  a  son,  Rufus  Merrill. 
Feb.  16,  Nehemiah  Kittredge,  a  daughter,  Augusta. 

Feb.  21,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  daughter,  Abagail  Francis. 

June  1,  Rodney  McLoughlin,  a  daughter,  Sarah  A. 

Dec.  11,  Rufus  Merrill,  a  daughter,  Mary  Ann. 
1888.    March  10,  John  Parker,  a  son,  Charles  I. 

March  19,  Daniel  II.  Ferguson,  a  daughter,  Nancy  C. 

Aug.  26,  Bradbury  M.  Rowe,  a  daughter,  Susan  Elizabeth. 

Oct.  25,  John  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Ann  Eliza. 

Dec.  18,  L.  C.  French,  2d,  a  son,  William  C. 
1880.    Jan.  12,  Andrew  J.  Dow,  a  son,  Solon. 

Jan.  13,  William  Boynton,  a  son,  Andrew  Allen,  born  in  Mer- 
rimack, N.  H. 

Jan.  15,  Nehemiah  Kittredge,  a  daughter,  Nancy  S. 

Jan.  21,  Eleazer  Dole,  a  son,  James  Pitman  Cook. 

April  10,  George  Fletcher,  a  son,  John  Woodward. 

July  9,  Rodney  McLaughlin,  a  son,  Rodney  S. 

Oct.  18,  William  McDole  Ferson,  a  son,  Robert  Bruce. 

1840.  June  6,  James  Harvell,  a  son,  Charles  F. 

Oct.  15,  Bradbury  M.  Rowe,  a  daughter,  Julia  Atkinson. 

1841.  Jan.  30,  Andrew  J.  Dow,  a  son,  Lewis. 
April  5,  John  Barr,  a  son,  Clinton. 

May  24,  John  Parker,  a  daughter,  Frances  E. 

July  14,  William  Boynton,  twin  sons,  William  and  Stephen, 

born  in  Merrimack,  N.  H. 
Aug.  8,  George  Fletcher,  a  daughter,  Mary  Augusta. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.       •  719 

Nov.  20,  William  H.  Davis,  a  son,  William  H. 

Dec.  17,  Rodney  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Clarissa  IT. 

1843.  Jan.  21,  Eleazer  Dole,  a  son,  Stephen. 
June  8,  John  Barr,  a  daughter,  Mary  H. 

1844.  Jan.  31,  George  Fletcher,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 
Feb.  29,  Bradbury  M.  Rovve,  a  son,  John  D. 
April  21,  James  W.  Darrah,  a  son,  Silas  L. 
May  13,  William  II.  Davis,  a  son,  Timothy  C. 

1845.  Jan.  2,  L.  C.  French,  2d,  a  son,  Robert  C. 
July  16,  William  Craig,  a  son,  John  Murray. 
Sept.  20,  William  H.  Davis,  a  daughter,  Emma  F. 

1846.  Feb.  1,  George  Fletcher,  a  daughter,  Susan. 

1847.  May  23,  James  W.  Darrah,  a  son,  James  C. 
Aug.  7,  Moses  Gage,  a  son,  Winfield  S. 
Sept.  1,  Andrew  J.  Dow,  a  son,  Andrew. 

1848.  Oct.  10,  Robert  A.  Martin,  a  daughter,  Harriet  A. 
1S50.    Jan.  24,  James  W.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Jennie  D. 

Oct.  3,  Joseph  Flint,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  25,  James  McDole,  a  son. 

Oct.  26,  William  II.  Hubbard,  a  daughter. 

Nov.  22,  D.  J.  Wright,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  22,  E.  Kendall,  a  son. 

1851.  May  22,  Charles  A.  Damon,  a  son,  Frank  C. 
June  6,  II.  I.  Remix,  a  son. 

Aug.  6,  John  L.  Philbrick,  a  son. 

Aug.  7,  George  Blood,  a  daughter,  Mary  A. 

Aug.  10,  Jonas  Dench,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  25,  Willard  Gardner,  a  son. 

Aug.  25,  Stephen  French,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  10,  Thomas  Kendall,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  13,  Phineas  French,  2d,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  20,  F.  S.  Worthen,  a  son. 

Sept.  30,  Adam  Campbell,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  6,  James  W.  Darrah,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  6,  John  Dickerson,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  24,  Sherborn  Dearborn,  a  son. 

Nov.  2,  Ward  Thompson,  a  son. 

Dec.  10,  Phineas  French,  Jr.,  a  son. 

Dec.  11,  Alfred  McAfee,  a  son. 

Dec.  19,  The  Widow  R.  McLaughlin,  a  son. 

Dec.  30,  William  Adams,  a  son,  Charles  A. 

1852.  Jan.  1,  Frederick  Hodgman,  a  daughter. 
Jan.  19,  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  a  son. 
Feb.  15,  William  Wright,  a  son. 
March  12,  Calvin  Snow,  a  son. 

April  9,  John  Kinson,  a  daughter. 
April  18,  Josiah  Walker,  a  son. 
June  6,  George  W.  Way,  a  son. 


720  .  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

July  6,  William  Cada,  a  daughter. 

July  31,  Joseph  Furber,  a  son. 

Aug.  12,  C.  F.  Shepard,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  17,  T.  J.  Hardy,  a  son. 

Sept.  4,  John  French,  a  son. 

Sept.  10,  J.  T.  Kendall,  a  son. 

Sept.  26,  Jerry  Mahoney,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  6,  James  W.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Sarah  F. 

Oct.  31,  Page  Campbell,  a  son,  Daniel. 

Nov.  7,  J.  Gardner,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  5,  Robert  Barr,  a  son. 

Dec.  5,  I.  P.  Hodgman,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  24, Gault,  a  son. 

1 853.  Feb.  5,  D.  G.  Atwood,  a  son. 
Feb.  19,  F.  Wright,  a  daughter. 
May  3,  J.  N.  Shepard,  a  daughter. 
May  26,  R.  Boynton,  a  daughter. 
July  23,  P.  French,  a  daughter. 
July  26,  Hannah  Adams,  a  son. 
Aug.  13,  J.  Kittredge,  a  son. 
Aug.  13,  R.  Parkhurst,  a  son. 
Aug.  26, 1.  Campbell,  a  son. 

Sept.  4, Corliss,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  5,  T.  Kendall,  a  son. 

Sept.  8,  The  Widow  S.  Parker,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  30,  D.  H.  Marshall,  a  son. 

Oct.  4,  James  Rollins,  a  son. 

Oct.  9,  James  Moore,  a  son. 

Oct.  10,  William  Adams,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  2,  D.  McG.  Moore,  a  son. 

Dec.  3,  E.  C.  Hardy,  a  son. 

1854.  Jan.  10,  R.  Young,  a  daughter. 

Jan.  10,  James  Fullerton,  a  daughter. 

Feb.  5,  G.  W.  Way,  a  son. 

April  10,  D.  Parker,  a  son. 

April  19,  R.  Houston,  a  daughter. 

April  26,  William  Cada,  a  son. 

May  15,  A.  Campbell,  a  daughter. 

July  17, 1.  P.  Hodgman,  a  son. 

July  29,  D.  J.  Witherspoon,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  1,  G.  Mudge,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  5,  E.  Barr,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  6,  Charles  A.  Damon,  a  son,  Edgar  C. 

Aug.  17,  James  King,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  27,  J.  Hood,  a  son. 

Sept.  4,  G.  Goffe,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  8,  E.  Kittredge,  a  son. 

Sept.  15,  H.  Elliott,  a  son. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  721 

1854.  Sept.  20,  William  Avery,  a  son. 

Oct.  1,  Page  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Lydia  Ann. 

Oct.  14,  G.  Bennett,  a  son. 

Oct.  21,  William  Adams,  a  daughter,  Emma  F. 

Oct.  23,  James  W.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Kate  A. 

Nov.  15,  J.  Kinson,  a  son. 

Dec.  20,  S.  Mullett,  a  daughter. 

1855.  Jan.  10,  D.  Stevens,  a  son. 

, Smith,  a  . 

Feb.  2, Corliss,  a  daughter. 

Feb.  7,  J.  Kittredge,  a  daughter. 
Feb.  15,  H.  R.  French,  a  daughter. 
Feb.  25,  J.  Campbell,  a  son. 
March  12,  J.  N.  Shepard,  a  son. 
March  31,  J.  Witherspoon,  a  son. 
April  7,  A.  McAfee,  a  son. 

May  11,  J.  Kittredge,  a  daughter. 

June  4, Arbuckle,  a  son. 

June  23,  G.  D.  Whitford,  a  daughter. 

July  15,  R.  Rollins,  a  daughter. 

July  16,  Ed.  Swett,  a  son. 

July  23,  William  McAllister,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  27,  G.  W.  Way,  a  son. 

Aug.  28,  G.  W.  Gage. 

Sept.  8,  A.  Riddle,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  9, McClary,  a  son. 

Sept.  13,  George  Blood,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Jane. 

Sept.  17,  Phineas  French,  a  son. 

Oct  12,  H.  Bulls,  a  son. 

Nov.  19,  B.  Dutton,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  1,  William  Adams,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  27, Smith,  a  daughter. 

1856.    Jan.  27,  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  a  son. 

Feb.  17,  David  Jackson,  a  daughter. 
May  3,  Adam  Campbell,  2d,  a  son. 
May  3,  George  W.  Goffe,  a  daughter. 
July  5,  Robert  Houston,  a  daughter. 

,  John  Kinson. 

Aug.  6,  Charles  Damon,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  9,  Charles  A.  Damon,  a  daughter,  Nellie  S. 

Aug.  22,  Horace  Campbell,  a  son. 

Oct.  2, Mayhood,  a  son. 

Oct.  20,  Charles  Mears,  a  son. 
Oct  29,  Edward  Ban-,  a  son. 
Nov.  4,  Parker  Hodgman,  a  son. 
Nov.  5,  William  B.  Stevens,  a  daughter. 
Nov.  7,  Page  Campbell,  a  daughter. 
Nov.  17,  Melvin  Jeffers,  a  daughter. 
47 


722  H1ST0KY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1856.  Nov.  19,  Benjamin  Hall,  a  son. 
Nov.  22,  Lorenzo  Lougee,  a  son. 
Dec.  14,  Albert  Corliss,  a  daughter. 
Dec.  22,  Stillman  Shepard,  a  son. 

1857.  Feb.  1,  John  Kinson,  a  daughter. 
Feb.  28,  Jesse  Witherspoon,  a  son. 
March  12,  James  T.  Kendall,  a  son. 
March  26,  Thomas  Adams,  a  son. 
May  13,  David  Stevens,  a  son. 

June  26,  William  McAllister,  a  daughter. 
Aug.  29,  Thomas  Bursiel,  a  son. 
Sept.  7,  Lemuel  B.  Gault,  a  daughter. 
Sept.  17,  Eldridge  Tolford,  a  daughter. 
Sept.  22,  Samuel  C.  Jenkins,  a  daughter. 
Oct.  18,  George  W.  Way,  a  daughter. 
Oct.  27,  George  Blood,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth. 
Dec.  8,  E.  C.  Stevens,  a  son. 

1858.  Jan.  5,  Greenleaf  Walker,  a  son. 
Jan.  15,  James  C.  Moore,  a  son. 

Jan.  17,  Solomon  Manning,  Jr.,  a  son,  Frank  E. 

April  6,  Robert  Houston,  a  son,  John  Orr. 

April  27,  Walter  (Warren)  Gage,  a  daughter,  Esther  S. 

May  4,  William  Adams,  a  son,  Clinton. 

May  12,  Hugh  Mills,  a  daughter,  Eliza  A. 

May  16,  Adam  Campbell,  twin  sons. 

June  24, Stevens,  a  son. 

July  16,  James  Fields,  a  daughter. 

July  18,  J.  Butterfield,  a  son. 

July  22,  J.  Kinson,  a  son. 

Aug.  11,  Charles  K.  Ball,  a  daughter,  Rene  Imogene. 

Sept.  5,  James  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Jessie  Maria. 

Sept.  14,   Irishman,  a  son. 

Sept.  23, Archibald,  a  son. 

Oct.  4,  William  O.  Noyes,  a  son,  Sydnia  M. 
Nov.  4,  J.  T.  Kendall,  a  son,  George  M. 
Nov.  14,  David  Campbell,  a  daughter. 

1859.  Jan.  2,  Thomas  Worthley,  a  son,  Henry. 
Jan.  21,  Phineas  French,  a  daughter. 
Jan.  24,  Thos.  Taffe,  a  son,  Charles. 
Feb.  18,  Daniel  G.  Atwood,  a  child. 

March  18,  George  M.  Wyman,  a  son,  William  Hutchinson. 

April  14,  William  R.  Woodbury,  a  son. 

April  17,  Henry  Plummer,  a  son. 

April  24,  Albert  B.  Corliss,  a  son,  John  Edwin. 

May  16,  Page  Campbell,  a  daughter. 

July  16,  George  Blood,  a  daughter,  Ida  Ella. 

Sept.  14,  David  McG.  Moore,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  4,  David  Stevens,  a  son. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  723 

1859.  Dec.  12,  Samuel  C.  Jenkins,  a  daughter. 
Dec.  16,  Neal  Fullerton,  a  son. 

1860.  Jan.  12,  David  McK.  Phillips,  a  daughter. 
Jan.  25, Christia,  a  son. 

Jan.  26,  James  Fullerton,  a  son. 

Feb.  8,  Thomas  U.  Gage,  a  daughter. 

Feb.  11,  Charles  H.  Moore,  a  son. 

March  2,  Page  Campbell,  a  son,  Franklin. 

March  2,  W.  C.  Parker,  a  son,  Joseph  Clinton. 

April  16,  William  Adams,  a  daughter. 

April  18,  William  A.  Philbrick,  a  daughter,  Nellie  S. 

May  10,  William  Way,  a  son,  Frank  Liston. 

May  20,  Edward  Barr,  a  daughter,  Nettie. 

June  18,  S.  Manning,  Jr.,  a  daughter,  Mary  Ella. 

July  6,  G.  M.  Wvman. 

July  17,  E.  G.  Tolford,  a  son. 

July  21,  Jackson  Butterfield,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  6,  James  W.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Mary  E. 

Aug.  20,  George  W.  Gage,  a  daughter,  Ella  Jane. 

Aug.  28,  Wan-en  Gage,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  3, Plummer,  a  son. 

Sept.  23,  William  McAllister,  twins,  John  and  Jane. 

Oct.  13,  E.  Proctor  Parkhurst,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  28,  James  Fields,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  8,  Robert  Houston,  a  daughter,  Sarah. 

1861.  A.  Q.  Gage,  a  daughter. 
Rufus  Hall,  a  daughter. 
Peter  Kean,  a  son. 

F.  F.  French,  a  son,  Fred  Albert. 
George  Webber,  a  daughter,  Ella  Jane. 

1862.  Jan.  9,  William  R.  French,  a  daughter,  Sophia. 
Feb.  17,  Albert  M.  Jenness,  a  son,  Albert  Willis. 
Feb.  22,  William  Smith,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  S. 
March  2,  Alfred  McAfee,  a  son. 

March  7,  Sanford  Roby,  a  daughter. 

March  26,  George  Blood,  a  son,  Charles. 

April  18,  William  Philbrick,  a  son. 

May,  James  H.  Lord,  a  daughter,  Olive. 

June  11,  Isaac  Campbell,  a  son.  \ 

July  12,  Charles  H.  Moore,  a  daughter,  Mary  A. 

Aug.,  Thomas  E.  Moore,  a  son,  Walter. 

Aug.  17,  James  Holbrook,  a  son,  Arthur  Willie. 

Aug.  26,  John  R.  Young,  a  daughter,  Jessie. 

Aug.  27,  William  Smith,  a  son. 

Sept.  14,  Adam  Campbell,  a  daughtei-,  Ada  E. 

Sept.  22,  Charles  K.  Ball,  a  son. 

Sept.  24,  Thomas  M.  Ferguson,  a  son,  Frank  T. 

Sept.  26,  Horace  Campbell. 


724  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1862.  Sept.  30,  Wiggin  T.  Abbott,  a  son,  Peltiah  E. 
Oct.  2,  Albert  E.  Boyce,  a  daughter,  Hattie  G. 
Oct.  4,  George  R.  Mudge,  a  son,  Charles  Royal. 
Oct.  11,  Neal  Fullerton,  a  son. 

Oct.  28,  Isaac  McAllister,  a  son,  Frank  T. 

Nov.  5,  George  M.  Wyman,  a  son,  George  H. 

Nov.  8,  Peter  Kean,  a  daughter,  Catherine. 

Nov.  24,  Daniel  Parker,  twin  sons,  Peter  and  Perham. 

Nov.  30,  Benjamin  W.  Nichols,  a  son,  William  Tracy. 

1863.  Jan.  6,  Ferdinanda  Reuter,  a  son. 
Jan.  18,  Andrew  Campbell,  a  daughter. 
March  2,  Page  Campbell,  a  son. 

March  21,  George  Vickery,  a  son,  George. 

May  3,  John  N.  Mace,  a  daughter,  Etta  Louisa. 

June  5,  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Ann  M. 

June  12,  Rodney  M.  Rollins,  a  daughter,  Eliza. 

June  14,  John  G.  Vose,  a  son,  Joshua. 

June  16,  George  W.  Goffe,  twins,  John  and  Anna. 

Aug.  17,  James  Holbrook,  a  son. 

Sept  4,  Charles  Lougee,  a  son,  Frederick  J. 

Sept.  12,  Walter  Gage,  a  daughter,  Ida  Angeline. 

Sept.  16,  Jonathan  P.  Haines,  a  daughter,  Emma  May. 

Sept.  20,  James  Fullerton,,  a  son,  John  C. 

Sept.  26,  H.  S.  Campbell,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  12,  Leonard  J.  Brown,  a  daughter,  Abbie  M. 

Nov.  30,  Ephraim  Greenough,  a  son,  Edwin  A. 

Dec.  1,  Daniel  Felch,  a  daughter,  Harriet. 

Dec.  1,  John  D.  Armstrong,  a  son,  Albert. 

Dec.  24,  Edward  P.  French,  a  son,  Frank  R. 

1864.  Jan.  26,  George  M.  Taylor,  a  son,  George  W. 

Jan.  27,  William  H.  H.  Nichols,  a  daughter,  Mary  Jane. 

March  19,  David  Stevens,  a  son,  Freddie. 

March  30,  Elbridge  G.  Tolford,  a  son. 

April  11,  Jacob  M.  Rundlett,  a  daughter. 

July  4,  Isaac  McAllister,  a  daughter,  Grace. 

Sept.  18,  George  Whitford,  a  daughter,  Emma  C. 

Sept.  27,  Joseph  Holbrook,  a  son,  Willie  H. 

Dec.  10,  Peter  Kean,  a  son,  Thomas. 

Dec.  21,  George  G.  McLaughlin,  a  daughter,  Vina  E. 

Dec.  28,  Fred  F.  French,  a  son,  Willie  B. 

1865.  Feb.  17,  John  G.  Vose,  a  daughter,  Mary. 
March  5,  William  M.  Patten,  a  son,  George  W. 
March  13,  Henry  C.  Wiggate,  a  daughter,  Lillian  M. 
March  19,  Charles  Lougee,  a  daughter,  Henrietta  M. 
March  19,  Edward  E.  Schnyder,  a  son,  Walter. 
March  19,  Benjamin  W.  Nichols,  a  daughter. 
March  26,  George  Goffe,  a  daughter. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  725 

1865.    April  18,  Phineas  French,  a  daughter,  Josephine. 

June  6,  Isaac  Hodgman,  a  daughter,  Ella. 

Aug.  10,  Benjamin  Plummer,  a  son,  Sumner  M. 

Aug.  19,  D.  F.  Drew,  a  daughter,  Gertrude. 

Aug.  23,  W.  W.  Wilkins,  a  daughter,  Anna  E. 

Sept.  11,  J.  P.  Haines,  a  son,  Jonathan  S. 

Sept.  30,  John  Regan,  a  daughter,  Mary  Ellen. 

Oct.  13,  Isaac  McAllister,  a  daughter,  Adeline  S. 

Oct.  14,  Edwin  Dunlap,  a  daughter,  Olive. 

Oct.  17,  Fred  Scheer,  a  son,  William. 

Oct.  29,  Walter  T.  Batchelder,  a  daughter. 

Nov.  5,  Lewis  Lawrence,  a  daughter,  Sophia. 

Dec.  18,  E.  W.  Butterfield,  a  daughter,  Etta  Jane. 
I860.    Jan.  10, Young,  a  son,  Robert  B. 

Jan.  17,  George  E.  Gault,  a  son,  Charles  H. 

Feb.  18,  William  Dillon,  a  son. 

Feb.  19,  A.  L.  Boyce,  a  son,  Leroy  C.  E. 

March  14,  William  McDole,  a  son. 

March  29,  Walter  Gage,  a  daughter. 

May  1,  Solomon  Manning,  a  daughter,  Hattie  F. 

May  9,  Charles  H.  Moore,  a  daughter,  Mary  J. 

May  23,  John  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Ella  J. 

June  3,  Adam  Campbell,  a  son,  Arthur. 

June  27,  James  Fullerton,  a  daughter,  Grace  A. 

July  7,  Samuel  Sweet,  a  son,  George. 

July  15, Lord,  a  daughter,  Catherine  E. 

July  17,  J.  H.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Abbie  S. 

July  18,  William  Connor1,  a  son,  Edward  L. 

July  29,  William  O.  Noyes,  a  son,  Fred  L. 

Sept.  14,  Roger  H.  Vose,  a  daughter,  Emma  E. 

Dec.  4,  Putnam  Jenkins,  a  son,  Arthur  P. 

Dec.  11,  E.  P.  French,  a  daughter,  Marv  J. 

Dec.  11. Tarr, 

Dec.  27,  Thomas  W.  Moore,  2d,  a  daughter,  Clara  A. 
1867.    Jan.  10,  Benjamin  H.  Smith,  a  son,  George  W. 

Feb.  28,  Edwin  Whitford,  a  daughter,  Minerva  E. 

March  14, Kane,  a  son,  John. 

April  30,  Simeon  Parker,  a  daughter. 

May  31,  Farnam  Jenkins,  a  daughter,  Nettie  Cordelia. 

June  16,  Charles  Gaffney,  a  son,  Charles  B. 

June  19,  Rev.  Arthur  Little,  a  daughter,  Mary  B. 

June  21,  Lewis  Lawrence,  a  daughter. 

June  26,  William  Martin,  a  daughter. 

June  27,  Edward  Fitts,  a  daughter,  Francena. 

July  4,  Charles  S.  Campbell,  a  daughter. 

July  10,  Albert  Hill,  a  son,  Edward  A. 

July  13,  Albert  B.  Corliss,  a  daughter,  Etta  M. 

July  14, Webber,  a  daughter,  Mary  E. 


726  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1867.  July  17,  Gardner  I.  Towle,  a  son,  Frank  O. 
Oct.  26,  Elizabeth  Bowman,  a  son. 

Nov.  2,  Daniel  O.  Felch,  twins,  Ellen  and  Katie. 

Nov.  7,  Jonathan  P.  Haines,  a  daughter,  Laura  A. 

Nov.  15,  David  J.  Worthley,  a  daughter,  Rebecca. 

Nov.  16,  Horace  Campbell,  a  son. 

Nov.  20,  Henry  Taylor,  a  son,  Charles  H. 

Dec.  15,  Solomon  Manning,  a  son,  William  S. 

1868.  Jan.  4,  Albert  B.  Corliss,  a  son,  Frank  A. 
Jan.  15,  George  Gault,  a  daughter. 

Jan.  24,  George  W.  Goffe,  a  son. 

Feb.  23,  William  Connor,  a  daughter. 

March  5,  Andrew  J.  Butterfield,  a  daughter. 

March  16,  Aaron  Q.  Gage,  a  daughter. 

April  22,  Mary  Ann  Butterfield,  a  daughter. 

May  26,  Ferdinand  Riedel,  a  son. 

June  10,  James  McPherson,  a  daughter. 

June  21,  Stillman  Parkhurst,  a  son,  Frank. 

July  19,  R.  W.  Miller,  a  son,  Arthur  W. 

July  31,  Samuel  Seavey,  a  son,  Wesley. 

Aug.  12,  S.  L.  Parker,  a  son,  Lewis  W. 

Sept.  1,  John  H.  Campbell,  a  son,  Frederick. 

Sept.  13,  William  M.  Patten,  a  daughter,  Carrie  E. 

Oct.  23,  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  a  daughter. 

Nov.  20,  Charles  H.  Farley,  a  son,  John  H. 

Dec.  14,  Horace  Campbell,  a  son. 

Dec.  17,  Joseph  Shirley,  a  daughter. 

1869.  Jan.  20,  Ed.  P.  French,  a  son. 
Feb.  6,  Quincy  Young,  a  son. 

Feb.  15,  Benjamin  H.  Smith,  a  daughter,  Cora  D. 

March  5,  William  McAllister,  a  son,  Oilman. 

March  6,  Roger  Spaulding,  a  son. 

March  31,  Walter  Gage,  a  daughter. 

April  20,  Horace  Holbrook,  twins,  Etta  S.  and  Ella  L. 

April  26,  William  McDole,  a  son,  Willie  G. 

May  7,  Putnam  Jenkins,  a  son,  George  A. 

June  3,  John  P.  Hodgman,  a  son,  George  H. 

June  13,  William  P.  Connor,  a  daughter,  Myra  L. 

July  5,  George  W.  Goffe,  a  daughter,  Annie  E. 

July  27,  Charles  Gaffney,  a  daughter,  Minnie  M. 

July  31,  Edwin  Dunlap,  a  son,  Robert. 

Aug.  13,  Peter  Kean,  a  son,  Charles. 

Aug.  26,  Solomon  Manning,  a  daughter,  Julia  L. 

Aug.  31,  Walter  Q.  Batchelder,  a  daughter,  Nellie  M. 

Sept.  16,  George  M.  French,  a  son,  Irving  Riddle. 

Sept.  26,  Silas  Holbrook,  a  son,  Albert  A. 

Oct.  4,  William  H.  H.  Nichols,  a  daughter,  Eveline  E. 

Oct.  10,  Jesse  Witherspoon,  a  daughter,  Susie  Etta. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  727 

1869.  Oct.  22,  Henry  Taylor,  a  son,  Joseph  A. 
Nov.  4,  Lewis  Lawrence,  a  son,  Philip  N. 
Nov.  13,  George  W.  Campbell,  a  son,  Fred.  ■ 
Dec.  26,  Thomas  Richards,  twins,  Jessie  and  Josie. 
Dec.  29,  Joseph  G.  Holbrook,  a  son,  Frank  D. 

1870.  Jan.  8,  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson,  a  daughter,  Mary  L. 
Jan.  8,  Isaac  McAllister,  a  son,  Arthur  L. 
Jan.  14,  William  F.  Tarr,  a  daughter. 

Jan.  19,  Nathan  Adams,  a  daughter,  Gertrude  B. 
Jan.  28,  B.  II.  Smith,  a  daughter,  Martha  A. 
Jan.  31,  E.  P.  French,  a  daughter. 
March  11,  Clinton  Bixby,  a  daughter. 
March  20,  Ralph  Holbrook,  a  daughter. 
March  25,  W.  W.  Wilkins,  a  son. 
June  13,  C.  J.  Parker,  a  daughter,  Jennie  C. 
June  15,  George  M.  Carrier,  a  son,  Frank  D. 
June  16,  Adam  McAfee,  a  daughter,  Annie  S. 
June  24,  J.  H.  Stevens,  a  son,  John  H. 
July  16,  N.  L.  Rignor,  a  daughter,  Clara  N. 
July  18,  S.  H.  Patten,  a  daughter,  Bessie  B. 
July  28,  A.  Q.  Gage,  a  daughter,  Mary  J. 
Aug.  6,  Daniel  Murphy,  a  daughter,  Hannah. 
Sept.  4,  Samuel  Seavey,  a  son,  Charles  B. 
Sept.  10,  Justin  C.  Rogers,  a  daughter. 
Sept.  25,  G.  M.  French,  a  daughter,  Lizzie  E. 
Oct.  2,  Joseph  Shiney,  a  daughter. 
Oct.  2,  Lewis  Davis,  a  daughter,  Eliza. 
Oct.  2,  E.  M.  Butterfield,  a  son,  Lewis  E. 
Nov.  11,  H.  R.  Fulton,  a  daughter,  Mary  E. 
Nov.  25,  John  M.  Waldron,  a  daughter. 
Dec.  16,  Lewis  Lawrence,  a  daughter,  Calista. 

Dec.  18,  Robador , . 

Dec.  25,  R.  L.  Spaulding,  a  son,  Charles  R. 
Dec.  29,  G.  W.  Webber,  a  daughter. 

1871.  Jan.  13,  John  Regan,  a  daughter,  Mary  H. 
June  25,  Walter  Batchelder,  a  daughter. 
July  12,  Walter  Gage,  a  son,  Frank  W. 
July  27,  John  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Elvinia. 
July  29,  W.  H.  H.  Nichols,  a  daughter. 
Sept.  8,  Michael  Howard,  a  daughter,  Mariah. 
Sept.  14,  Horace ,  a  son. 

Oct.  9,  Daniel  Felch,  a  son,  Robert  P. 

Oct.  12,  Charles  Farley,  a  daughter,  Anna  N. 

Oct.  20,  Jonathan ,  a  son. 

Oct.  21,  Hugh ,  a  son. 

Oct.  30,  Horace  Campbell,  a  daughter. 
Dec.  10,  Roger  Spaulding,  a  daughter. 
Dec.  15,  Elbridge  Tolford,  a  daughter.  . 


728  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1871.  Dec.  21,  Daniel  Murphy,  a  son,  John. 

Dec.  24,  Joseph  Parkhurst,  a  daughter,  B.  E. 

1872.  Feb.  4,  William  Patten,  a  son,  B.  B. 
March  6,  Samuel  Seavey,  a  son,  Byron  C. 
March  16,  Edwin  Kendall,  a  son,  John. 
March  19,  Lewis  Lawrence,  a  daughter,  B.  E. 

March  25,  Joseph ,  a  daughter. 

April  2,  Thomas  Peabody,  a  son,  Warren  E. 
April  4,  Benjamin  Nichols,  a  son,  Benjamin  W. 
April  20,  Clinton  P.  Bixby,  a  son,  James  D. 
May  1,  Leonard  Farley,  a  son,  Frank  M. 

May  8,  Farnam  Jenkins,  a  son,  Ernest  A. 

June  2,  William  F.  Connor,  a  daughter,  Bessy  P. 

June  15,  Samuel  Patten,  a  son,  Lewis  W. 

June  25,  Charles  Kiniston,  a  son,  George  E. 

Oct.  28,  Freeman  French,  a  daughter,  Myra  A. 

Dec.  24,  Solomon  Manning,  a  daughter,  Margie  Ann. 

Wilson  R.  Blood,  a  daughter,  Mary  A. 

1873.  Jan.  4,  Herbert  Fulton,  a  son,  Charles. 

Feb.  15,  Henry  Barnard,  a  son,  Charles  Daniel. 
April  2,   James  E.  Gault,  a  daughter. 

May  16,  Walter  Gage,  a 

June  13,  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  a  son,  Fred  H. 
July  4,  William  H.  Minot,  a  daughter,  Alice  E. 

July  5,  E.  P.  French,  a 

Aug.  8,  George  W.  Flint,  a  daughter,  May  Bell. 
Aug.  18,  William  M.  Patten,  a  daughter,  Annie. 
Nov.  7,  Lyman  H.  Fulton,  a  son,  William  L. 
Nov.  20,  Wilson  R.  Blood,  a  son,  Henry  W. 
Nov.  26,  J.  H.  Regan,  a  son,  John  H. 
Dec.  3,  Benjamin  H.  Smith,  a  daughter,  Laura  E. 
Dec.  5,  Daniel  Murphy,  a  son,  Thomas. 

1874.  Jan.  10,  R.  S.  Spaulding,  a  

Feb.  5,  George  E.  Gault,  a  son,  born  in  Amherst,  N.  H. 

Feb.  5,  Charles  E.  Bursiel, . 

Feb.  7,  Benjamin  W.  Nichols,  a  daughter,  Bessie  Inett. 

March  27,  Nathan  Cutler,  a  son. 

March  31,  Clinton  Bixby,  a  daughter,  Fannie  P. 

April  29,  Wingate  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Jennie  E. 

May  27,  John  A.  Dearborn,  a  son. 

May  30,  Benjamin  Stone,  a  son,  Willie  H. 

June  1,  Oliver  Clark,  a  daughter. 

June  15,  David  A.  Brooks,  a  son. 

June  16,  Ira  C.  Tyson,  a  son,  Charles  Woodbury. 

June  21,  George  F.  Shepard,  a  daughter,  Edith  L. 

June  21,  William  H.  Hubbard,  a  son,  Robert  W. 

June  25,  James  L.  Mitchell,  a  daughter,  Melta  N. 

July  16,  Edward  Patten,  a  daughter,  Laura  A. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  729 

1874.  Aug.  17,  John  M.  Waldron,  a  daughter,  Frances  M. 
Aug.  21,  Edmund  Kendall,  a  daughter,  Flora  L. 
Aug.  28,  Silas  Bullard,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  3,  Clinton  French,  a  daughter,  Ethel  A. 

Sept.  7,  Daniel  Parker,  a  son,  Charles  L. 

Sept.  8,  Samuel  Patten,  a  daughter,  Mabel  E. 

Oct.  13,  Walter  Gage,  a  daughter,  Etta  S. 

Oct.  22,  George  W.  Goffe,  twins,  George  C.  and  Lewis  C. 

Nov.  9,  William  J. ,  a  son,  Charles  S. 

Dec.  13,  Senter  Farley,  a  daughter,  Nora  B. 
Dec.  29,  Alfred  Jones,  a  son,  Herman  E. 

1875.  Feb.  10,  Scott  Gage,  a  son. 

Feb.  25,  Edwin  R.  Walker,  a  daughter,  Rowena  E. 
April  30,  Joseph  S.  Holbrook,  a  son,  Alonzo  H. 
May  4,  Clinton  P.  Hodgman,  a  son,  Albert  C. 
May  14,  James  R.  Leach,  a  son,  Churchill  D. 
July  10,  James  F.  Tinker,  a  son,  Charles  J. 
July  30,  William  U.  Gage,  a  daughter,  Ida  A. 
Aug.  9,  John  Regan,  a  son,  Charles  W. 
Sept.  1,  Quincy  Barnard,  a  son,  Frank  Hardy. 
Sept.  27,  Marcus  Fogg,  a  daughter,  Stella  Frances. 
Oct.  6,  John  G.  Vose,  a  daughter,  Annie  M. 
Nov.  5,  John  Malanson,  a  son,  Jo. 
Nov.  9,  Benjamin  Plummer,  a  daughter. 
Nov.  14,  George  F.  Shepard,  a  daughter,  Hattie  C. 
Nov.  29,  George  W.  Flint,  a  daughter,  Annie  R. 
Dec.  22,  Daniel  Murphy,  a  son,  Daniel. 
Dec.  31,  William  H.  Tarr,  a  son. 

1876.  Jan.  19,  James  E.  Gault,  a  son,  Lewis. 

Feb.  11,  Herbert  R.  Fulton,  a  daughter,  Ruthey. 

Feb.  24,  Henry  T.  Barnard,  a  son,  Fred  C. 

March  25,  Orrin  Fracheur,  a  son. 

April  22,  Charles  E.  Bursiel,  a  daughter,  Alice  F. 

April  30,  Clinton  P.  Hodgman,  a  daughter,  Nellie  A. 

July  1,  George  E.  Gault,  a  son,  William  A. 

July  17,  Daniel  W.  Atwood,  a  son,  George  B. 

July  17,  Nelson  Rignor,  a  son,  Johney  W. 

Sept.  1,  Godfrey  Riedel,  a  daughter,  Caroline. 

Sept.  8,  Samuel  Seavey,  a  son,  Samuel. 

Oct.  15,  Charles  P.  Woodbury,  a  daughter,  Jennie  Howe. 

Nov.  19,  Daniel  Murphy,  a  son,  Timothy. 

Dec.  18,  Elbridge  G.  Tolford,  a  daughter,  Hattie. 

1877.  Jan.  29,  Joseph  Conrey,  a  daughter,  Fannie. 
March  29,  Williams  D.  Mitchell,  a  son. 
April  21,  Thomas  W.  Taffe,  a  son,  Edward  H. 
May  20,  Charles  S.  Chaplin,  a  son,  Herbert  Wilson. 
May  21,  Clinton  French,  a  daughter. 

June  28,  Oliver  R.  Clark,  a  son,  Oliver  C. 


730  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1877.  July  6,  Onslow  McPherson,  a  daughter,  Loretta. 
July  28,  William  H.  Cummings,  a  son,  Charles. 
Aug.  24,*William  H.  Tarr. 

Aug.  25,  Frank  C.  Smith,  a  daughter,  Nellie  A. 
Aug.  27,  George  S.  Campbell,  a  son,  George  S. 
Sept.  12,  Winfield  S.  Gage,  a  son,  Walter  C. 
Sept.  14,  Nathan  H.  Parker,  a  son,  Elmer  Nathan. 
Oct.  20,  Charles  Adams,  a  son,  William  C. 
Oct.  26,  Walter  Gage,  a  daughter,  Mattie  Bell. 
Nov.  6,  Elliott  S.  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Clara  Estella. 
Nov.  18,  Thomas  W.  Richards,  a  daughter,  Eva  Bell. 
Dec.  20,  Clinton  H.  Bixby,  a  son,  Harry  H. 
William  W.  Whittemore,  a  daughter,  Sarah  N. 

1878.  Jan.  6,  Jeremiah  Culley,  a  daughter,  Margaret. 
Jan.  30,  Alfred  P.  Campbell,  a  daughter. 
Feb.  3,  James  L.  Mitchell,  a  son,  Leroy. 

Feb.  24,  George  F.  Shepard,  a  son,  Charles  F. 

March  25,  George  McAllister. 

April  3,  Wingate  M.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Myrtie  May. 

April  5,  William  F.  Connor,  a  daughter,  Susie  E. 

April  17,  Wilson  R.  Blood,  a  son,  Edward  Rufus. 

April  22,  Eddy  W.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Eveline  Agnes. 

May  30,  Patrick  C.  Ahern,  a  son,  Charles  B. 

June  22,  Clinton  P.  Hodgman,  a  son,  Lewis  Edmond. 

June  27,  Daniel  W.  Atwood,  a  son,  Gordon  Proctor. 

July  15,  William  Wallace  Darrah,  a  son,  William  Henry. 

July  15,  Warren  G.  Currier,  a  son,  Allan  F. 

July  24,  Edmund  B.  Hull,  a  son,  Harry  F. 

Sept.  9,  Benj.  Hugh  Smith,  a  daughter,  Alice  Mary. 

Sept.  13,  Charles  E.  Bursiel,  a  son,  Robert. 

Sept.  18,  George  F.  Barnard,  a  son,  Harry  George. 

Oct.  15,  George  M.  French,  a  son. 

Nov.  15,  John  Robinson,  a  daughter,  Cora  Etta. 

Nov,  20,  James  E.  Gault,  a  daughter,  Abbie. 

Louis  Gersbacher,  Jr.,  a  daughter,  Katy. 

1879.  Jan.  16,  Samuel  Seavey,  a  daughter,  Ella  Maud. 
Jan.  20,  Ida  Hall,  a  son. 

May  2,  Oilman  H.  Moore,  a  son,  Hugh  Redenton. 
June  7,  Alfred  B.  Campbell,  a  son. 
June  18,  Clinton  H.  Bixby,  a  son,  Newell  Avery. 
June  30,  Joseph  P.  Gage,  a  son,  Joseph  Eugene. 
July  9,  Clinton  Adams,  a  son. 
Oct.  2,  Senter  Farley,  a  son,  Frank  Senter. 
Dec.  4,  Leonard  Bursiel,  a  son,  Oscar. 
1880.-   April  24,  George  A.  King,  twin  son  and  daughter,  Allen  F. 
and  Ellen. 
June  19,  Wingate  M.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Lydia  M. 
July  8,  James  Boyd,  a  son,  Samuel. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  731 

1880.  July  10,  Sylvanus  C.  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Melissa  M. 
July  25,  Eddy  W.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Minnie  A. 
July  30,  Clark  G.  Mudge,  a  son. 

Aug.  7,  George  F.  Shepard,  a  daughter,  Xellie  Tyson. 

Aug.  27,  Sydney  A.  Farrow,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  9,  Alford  Jones,  a  son,  Clarence  E. 

Oct.  1,  George  S.  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Eva  J. 

Oct.  14,  Edmund  B.  Hull,  a  daughter,  Grace. 

Oct.  31,  Michael  Murphy,  a  son,  Richard. 

Nov.  6,  Solon  C.  Gilmore,  a  daughter,  Leonora  E. 

Dec.  5,  Clinton  French,  a  child. 

1881.  Jan.  8,  Thomas  J.  Robinson,  a  daughter,  Mary  E. 
Feb.  9,  Clinton  H.  Bixby,  a  daughter,  Mabel  G. 
Feb.  18,  Franklin  B.  McAfee,  a  daughter,  Emma  J. 
May  6,  Frank  S.  Dearborn,  a  son. 

Aug.  21,  Etta  Boyce,  a  daughter. 
Winfield  S.  Gage,  a  son,  Charles  Frederick. 

1882.  Feb.  15,  Sylvanus  C.  Campbell,  a  son,  Quincy. 
March  12,  Thomas  Raney,  a  daughter. 
March  13,  Foster  Tinker,  a  daughter. 
March  19,  J.  Albert  Phillips,  a  son. 

March  29,  William  M.  Patten,  a  daughter,  Emma  L. 

April  4,  Conrad  Weishaupt,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  12,  Frank  D.  McAfee,  a  son,  Adam  F. 

Nov.  11,  John  C.  Ferguson,  a  son. 

Nov.  17,  William  F.  Connor,  a  son,  Horace  W. 

Dec.  13,  Henry  C.  Bixby. 

1883.  March  11,  George  Q.  Caldwell,  a  son. 
April  2,  Clark  G.  Mudge,  a  son. 

April  15,  George  F.  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Gracie  E. 

April  27,  Winfield  S.  Gage,  a  son. 

May  14,  Elliott  A.  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Delia  E. 

Sept.  3,  Charles  B.  Beal,  a  daughter,  Jennie  Woodman. 

Oct  7,  George  F.  Barnard,  a  daughter,  Alice  Leone. 

Nov.  28,  William  H.  Tarr,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  27,  Fred  C.  Campbell,  a  daughter. 

1884.  Feb.  1,  Henry  H.  Smith,  a  daughter. 

Feb.  6,  William  Harris  Burns,  a  daughter,  Abby  Jane. 

Feb.  18,  Edmund  Fosher,  a  son. 

Feb.  21,  Frank  H.  Taylor,  a  daughter,  Mattie  Addie. 

March  10,  Charles  Fullerton,  a  child. 

April  13,  Alfred  B.  Campbell,  a  son. 

April  17,  Henry  M.  Carroll,  a  son. 

April  18,  Granville  Haselton,  a  daughter,  Flora  Marcia. 

June  1,  John  Welch,  a  son. 

June  6,  Daniel  Herbert  Colcord,  a  son,  Herbert  T. 

June  21,  Alfred  E.  Reynolds,  a  son,  Edward  F. 

Aug.  1,  Sylvanus  C.  Campbell,  a  son. 


732  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

1884.  Sept.  16,  Fred  M.  Barnard,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  30,  Clinton  French,  a  daughter,  Winnifred  J. 
Nov.  10,  Charles  P.  Woodbury,  a  son. 

1885.  Jan.  28,  Walter  Gage,  a  daughter. 

Feb.  4,  George  Welch,  a  daughter,  Sarah  Jane. 

April  23,  Louis  Montey,  a  daughter. 

May  16,  Charles  E.  Bursiel,  a  son. 

July  24,  Henry  M.  Carroll,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  11,  Hervey  S.  Kenney,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  6,  Newman  J.  Blood,  twin  daughters. 

Sept.  26,  Henry  C.  Bixby,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  7,  Clark  G.  Mudge,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  22,  Reuben  P.  Stevens,  a  son,  Timothy  Boynton. 

Dec.  27,  Daniel  Herbert  Colcord,  a  daughter,  Lucy  Went- 

worth. 
Dec.  28,  Daniel  Murphy,  a  son. 

1886.  Jan.  29,  Clinton  P.  Hodgman,  a  son,  Waldo  M. 
Feb.  23,  Edmund  Fosher,  a  son. 

March  12,  John  Welch,  a  son. 

May  1,  George  E.  Livingstone,  a  daughter. 

May  20,  John  F.  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Anna  Elizabeth. 

July  7,  Charles  H.  Gault,  a  son. 

July  25,  Otis  K.  Quimby,  a  daughter  and  son,  twins. 

Oct.  13,  Henry  L.  Peaslee,  a  son. 

Nov.  1,  Myron  Tenney,  a  son. 

Nov.  20,  William  C.  Adams,  a  son. 

Dec.  8,  Thomas  W.  Taffe,  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Dec.  10,  Elliott  A.  Campbell,  a  son. 

Dec.  21,  Winthrop  Hoyt,  a  son. 

1887.  Feb.  18,  James  Dobbie,  a  son,  James. 

April  4,  Arthur  W.  Holbrook,  a  son,  Chester  Mason. 

April  30,  Alfred  B.  Lampher,  a  son,  Alfred  Glen. 

June  9,  Herman  Englehardt,  a  son,  Charles. 

June  16,  Andrew  C.  Brimner,  a  son,  Robert  C. 

July  7,  Alfred  B.  Campbell,  a  son,  Arthur. 

July  24,  Alva  R.  Mack,  a  son. 

Oct.  16,  Eddy  W.  Stevens,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  21,  Frank  T.  Ferguson,  a  daughter,  Nancy  A. 

Dec.  2,  Benjamin  H.  Smith,  a  son. 

Dec.  6,  Charles  P.  Woodbury,  a  son. 

1888.  Feb.  23,  Charles  E.  Roby,  a  daughter,  Velzora  F. 
Feb.  27,  J.  Fred  Stevens,  a  daughter,  Agnes  Mitchell. 
March  13,  Charles  E.  Bursiel,  a  daughter. 

March  27,  Edward  A.  Porter,  a  son,  Gordon  Alfred. 
May  6,  Fred  Fosher,  a  daughter,  Lucy  Fisher. 
May  13,  Frank  S.  Dearborn,  a  daughter,  Alice  M. 
June  11,  Joseph  Abbott,  a  daughter. 
July  10,  William  Monty,  a  son. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  733 

1888.  July  14,  John  McA.  Blood,  a  son,  George  Stillman. 

July  29,  Walter  W.  Schneider,  a  daughter,  Charlotte  Estelle. 
Nov.  25,  George  L.  Walch,  a  son,  Weyland  Flint. 
Dec.  14,  George  H.  Wiggin,  Jr.,  a  daughter,  Alice  Elizabeth. 
Dec.  14,  Herman  Foster,  a  son,  George  Reginald. 

1889.  March  2,  Harry  A.  Titus,  a  son. 

March  8,  Benjamin  F.  Curtis,  a  son,  Isadore  M. 

March  11,  William  P.  Shepard,  a  daughter,  Florence  M. 

April  4,  Charles  H.  Gage,  a  daughter. 

April  23,  Sylvanus  C.  Campbell,  a  son,  Maurice  Byron. 

April  29,  John  E.  Stowell,  a  son,  Charles  Lewis. 

May  4,  James  E.  French,  a  son,  Harry  Nye. 

May  20,  Lewis  W.  Parker,  a  son,  Lewis  Wilson  Blood. 

June  9,  Elmer  J.  Esterbrooks,  a  son,  Elmer  S. 

Sept.  5,  John  J.  Hayes,  a  son. 

Nov.  24,  J.  Fred  Stevens,  a  son. 

Nov.  25,  John  A.  McAfee  Blood,  a  daughter,  Ethel  Elizabeth. 

Dec.  13,  Albert  D.  Smith,  a  son,  Howard  Taylor. 

1890.  Jan.  15,  Samuel  B.  Mandigo,  a  son,  Jesse  Clarence. 
Jan.  17,  Herbert  Wetherbee,  a  son. 

Feb.  25,  George  N.  Signor,  a  son,  Perley  M. 

March  25,  Emil  Poehlman,  a  daughter,  Eva. 

April  24,  Martin  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Esther  Mary. 

May  14,  Herbert  N.  Fosher,  a  son,  Arthur  P. 

June  16,  Willard  Damon,  a  son,  Willard  B. 

July  17,  George  H.  Wiggin,  Jr.,  a  son,  Ralph  Minot. 

Oct.  11,  John  W.  McDole,  a  daughter. 

Nov.  2,  Frederick  Fosher,  a  son,  Alfred. 

Nov.  11,  Arthur  W.  Holbrook,  a  son,  Harold  Arthur. 

Nov.  16,  Lorenzo  Philbrick,  a  son,  Herman  L. 

Dec.  19,  Paul  Richards,  a  son,  Paul. 

1891.  Jan.  24,  Walter  S.  Fitch,  a  daughter,  Lena  E. 

Feb.  11,  Eugene  F.  Buswell,  a  son,  Frank  Appleton. 

Feb.  26,  Frank  H.  Rowe,  a  son,  George  L. 

March  17,  Grace  M.  Farley,  a  son. 

April  23,  Charles  H.  Gage,  a  daughter. 

May  13,  Ezra  Barnes,  twins,  Ezra  Carruth  and  Sarah  Ella 

Goffe. 
May  31,  Emil  Poehlman,  twins,  Gertrude  and  Augusta. 
July  4,  John  Welch,  a  daughter,  Flossie. 
July  21,  Lewis  W.  Parker,  a  daughter. 
July  28,  Napoleon  Filbert,  a  son. 
Aug.  3,  Martin  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Myrtie  B. 
Aug.  22,  William  Schwartz,  a  daughter. 
Aug.  29,  J.  Fred  Stevens,  a  daughter. 
Sept.  5,  Willie  G.  McDole,  a  son. 
Sept.  25,  Herman  Foster,  a  daughter,  Lucy  S. 
Sept.  29,  Herbert  N.  Fosher,  a  son. 


734  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

1891.  Nov.  8,  Lorin  E.  Charles,  a  daughter,  Lulu  Eldora. 
Nov.  21,  Irving  J.  Fosher,  a  son,  Harry  Nelson. 

1892.  Jan.  6,  Sylvanus  C.  Campbell,  a  son,  Myrton  Lester. 
March  8,  George  H.  Gouch,  a  daughter,  Bernice. 
April  8,  Alvah  R.  Mack,  a  son. 

April  29,  Paul  Richards,  a  daughter,  Clovina. 

May  12,  Frank  A.  Gray,  a  daughter,  Mary  Ellen. 

May  29,  Perham  Parker,  a  daughter. 

June  4,  Fred  Fosher,  a  daughter. 

June  10,  George  M.  Davis,  a  daughter,  Hilda  Lena. 

July  1,  Zoel  Guimond,  a  son,  Henry. 

July  6,  George  Taylor,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  9,  Frank  H.  Taylor,  a  daughter,  Deana.  A. 

Aug.  22,  Fred  A.  French,  a  daughter,  Martha  Jane. 

Sept.  13,  Martin  Campbell,  a  son. 

Sept.  16,  Charles  H.  Wiggin,  a  son,  Harry. 

Oct.  12,  Dennis  Monahan,  a  son. 

Oct.  24,  Nat.  J.  L.  Ryder,  a  son. 

Nov.  29,  George  H.  Wiggin,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  1,  Homer  Peppin,  a  daughter. 

1893.  Feb.  4,  Emil  Poehlman,  a  son,  Albert. 
Feb.  6,  George  F.  Stewart,  a  daughter. 
Feb.  23,  Paul  Richards,  a  son,  Edmund. 

March  13,  Frank  II.  Rowe,  a  daughter,  Olive  Martha. 

March  15,  Fred  Russell,  a  daughter,  Annie  B. 

March  30,  Arthur  E.  Campbell,  a  daughter,  Lucy  A. 

April  2,  Irving  Fosher,  a  son. 

April  4,  Seth  P.  Campbell,  a  son,  Irving  Jackson. 

April  22,  William  B.  French,  a  son,  Frederick  W. 

May  12,  Loren  E.  Charles,  a  daughter,  Flora  Lillian. 

July  29,  Henry  Girard,  a  son. 

Aug.  16,  Edison  Fields,  a  daughter,  Bertha  Estella. 

Sept.  4,  Willie  G.  McDole,  a  son,  Herbert  W. 

Oct.  14,  Charles  H.  Gage,  a  son,  Charles  H. 

Oct.  26,  William  Gowitzke,  a  son. 

Nov.  9,  George  S.  Campbell,  a  son,  Wesley  Herbert. 

Dec.  3,  James  W.  Sargent,  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  May. 

Dec.  7,  Sylvanus  C.  Campbell,  a  son,  Ralph  Ira. 

1894.  Jan.  26,  Charles  H.  Wiggin,  a  daughter,  Ruth  Taylor. 
Feb.  10,  Frank  P.  Slack,  a  son,  Carl  A. 

Feb.  10,  Louis  Philbotte,  a  daughter. 
Feb.  13,  George  A.  Tinker,  a  daughter. 
March  23,  John  Welch,  a  daughter,  Clara  May. 
March  31,  Joseph  E.  Esterbrooks,  a  daughter,  Helen. 
April  3,  Julius  H.  Putman,  a  daughter,  Amy  S. 
May  5,  Joseph  Napoleon  Dubois,  a  son. 
May  7,  Frank  W.  Tolford,  a  daughter,  Doris  May. 
May  15,  Frederick  E.  Poehlman,  a  daughter,  Malinda. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  735 

1894.  May  30,  John  H.  Atwood,  a  son,  Lyman  S. 
July  3,  Edward  A.  Porter,  a  daughter. 
July  15,  Fred  J.  Furbush,  a  son,  Fred  L. 
July  23,  William  Bremner,  a  son. 

Sept.  16,  Fred  F.  Lane,  a  daughter,  Bertha. 

Sept.  21,  Fred  C.  Russell,  a  son. 

Oct.  14,  John  Huskie,  a  son,  John  Webster. 

Oct.  19,  John  H.  Hall,  a  daughter,  Agnes  May. 

Dec.  9,  Alfred  B.  Campbell,  a  son. 

Dec.  10,  James  B.  Turney,  a  daughter,  Ruth. 

Dec.  23,  Lorin  E.  Charles,  a  daughter,  Hazel  Gertrude. 

1895.  Jan.  24,  William  Monte,  a  daughter. 
Jan.  31,  Paul  Richards,  a  son,  Nelson. 

Feb.  11,  Arthur  E.  Campbell,  a  son,  Howard  Alton. 

Feb.  20.  George  N.  Signor,  a  daughter,  Charlotte  A. 

Feb.  25,  Walter  L.  Carswell,  a  daughter. 

Feb.  26,  Eugene  F.  Buswell,  a  son,  Ernest  Langley. 

June  30,  William  H.  Stearns,  a  son,  Sam. 

July  6,  Gordon  Woodbury,  a  daughter,  Martha  Riddle. 

July  23,  John  B.  Lodge,  a  daughter. 

July  26,  George  H.  Wiggin,  a  son,  George  Taylor. 

Aug.  31,  Joseph  N.  Dubois,  a  son. 

Sept.  30,  Charles  F.  Latouche,  a  daughter,  Lizzie  Mabel. 

Oct.  17.  Fred  L.  Furbush,  a  son,  Westley  W. 

Oct.  18,  Frederick  Fosher,  a  daughter,  Aggie  Delia. 

1896.  Jan.  21,  James  W.  Sargent,  a  son,  Edward  Thomas. 
April  24,  John  Welch,  a  daughter,  Lily. 

May  20,  Charles  E.  Foster  a  daughter,  Electa  Little. 

June  7,  George  E.  Livingstone,  a  son. 

June  20,  George  H.  Gooch,  a  son. 

June  25,  William  W.  Darrah,  a  daughter,  Ruth  A. 

July  3,  Jonas  C.  Bowers,  a  son. 

July  7,  Frank  P.  Muzzy,  triplet  sons,  Samuel,  Daniel,  James. 

July  15,  Charles  II.  Gage,  a  son,  Everet  Preston. 

July  22,  William  B.  French,  a  son,  George  Freeman. 

July  28,  George  W.  Boynton,  a  daughter. 

Sept.  6,  Paul  Richards,  a  daughter,  Maria  Stella. 

Sept.  20,  Dennis  M.  Morgan,  a  daughter,  Pearl  Alice. 

Sept.  21,  Charles  L.  Barr,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  14,  William  T.  Brent,  a  son,  George  Herbert. 

1897.  Feb.  4,  Orra  G.  Kilton,  a  son,  Earl  L. 

March  12,  Daniel  Colby,  a  son,  William  Henry. 

April  26,  Fred  F.  Corliss,  a  son,  Ray  Alden. 

May  15,  John  B.  Lodge,  a  son,  Barrington. 

June  5,  John  R.  Rouse,  a  son. 

June  19,  Seth  Page  Campbell,  a  son. 

Aug.  9,  Gordon  Woodbmy,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Gordon. 

Aug.  25,  George  Livingstone,  a  son. 


736  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1897.  Sept.  10,  Katherine  Roskopf,  a  son. 

Sept.  23,  Henry  C.  Wallace,  a  daughter,  Helen  Burns 

Sept.  25,  Frederick  Fosher,  a  son,  John  Lewis. 

Sept.  28,  Edward  A.  Porter,  a  daughter,  Helen. 

Sept.  29,  Edson  C.  Field,  a  daughter,  Bessie. 

Oct.  16,  George  H.  Wiggin,  a  son. 

Oct.  17,  Charles  E.  Foster,  a  son,  Charles  R. 

Oct.  19,  Eddy  Leston  Conner,  a  daughter,  Marion  Estella. 

Oct.  31,  Loren  E.  Charles,  a  son,  Russell  B. 

Nov.  2,  Edward  Garceau,  a  daughter,  Marie  Laura. 

Dec.  25,  Clarence  F.  Dooley,  a  son. 

1898.  Jan.  15,  Oliver  Ceroy,  a  son,  Eli. 

March  4,  J.  B.  Garaache,  a  daughter,  Marie. 

March  10,  James  W.  Sargent,  a  daughter,  Mabel  Ethylin. 

March  13,  Stanislaus  Hebert,  a  son. 

March  28,  Charles  F.  LaTouche,  a  son,  Urbin  Francis. 

May  3,  Edward  W.  Langley,  a  son. 

May  11,  Fred  Brunett,  a  daughter,  Aggie  Frances. 

May  25,  Frederick  E.  Poehlman,  a  son,  Rynhardt  Emanuel. 

May  25,  Dennis  H.  Morgan,  a  daughter. 

June  21,  Albert  Sawyer,  a  son,  Albert  Joseph. 

July  24,  Charles  W.  Emerson,  a  son,  Harold  Ray. 

July  26,  William  C.  Lindsay,  a  daughter,  Julia  Gordon. 

Aug.  12,  John  H.  Atwood,  a  daughter. 

Aug.  17,  John  Welch,  a  daughter,  Flossie  M. 

Aug.  24,  Michael  H.  Shea,  a  son,  Howard  Francis. 

Oct.  8,  William  Monte,  a  son,  Henry  E. 

Oct.  17,  Delbert  R.  Miner,  a  daughter,  Hazel. 

Oct.  24,  Irvin  J.  D.  Matott,  a  son,  Dean  Harold. 

Nov.  5,  Elwin  Schoolcraft,  a  son. 

Nov.  15,  J.  Wilmont  Clapp,  a  daughter. 

1899.  Feb.  12,  Milton  B.  George,  a  son,  Walter  Brigham. 
March  26,  James  W.  Sargent,  a  son,  Walter  James. 
May  2,  William  C.  Adams,  a  daughter,  Ethel  May. 
May  26,  Andie  Russell,  a  son,  James  Samuel. 
July  2,  John  Rover,  a  son. 

July  13,  Samuel  M.  H.  Shea,  a  daughter. 
July  19,  John  Taylor,  a  daughter,  Lizzie. 
Oct.  16,  Edson  C.  Field,  a  son,  George  Plummer. 
Oct.  19,  Irvin  J.  D.  Matott,  a  son. 
Oct.  24,  Gordon  Woodbury,  a  son,  Peter. 
Nov.  19,  Frank  E.  Manning,  a  daughter. 
Nov.  21,  George  H.  Wiggin,  a  daughter,  Ruth. 
Nov.  21,  John  M.  Sargent,  a  son,  Dennis  C. 

1900.  Jan.  20,  Harry  Hilchey,  a  son. 

Jan.  23,  Eugene  F.  Buswell,  a  daughter,  Edith  Nancy. 

Jan.  27,  Fortuna  Trembley,  a  daughter,  Marie  Cecile  Semoni. 

March  6,  Edward  A.  Porter,  a  son. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  737 

1900.  May  14,  Edward  Garceau,  a  son,  Arthur  E. 
July  24,  Samuel  M.  H.  Shea,  a  daughter. 
July  29,  William  H.  Darrah,  a  son. 

Aug.  28,  William  S.  Manning,  a  daughter,  Doris  Way. 

Aug.  31,  William  H.  Roberts,  a  daughter,  Gertrude  Burke. 

Oct.  22,  John  A.  Quaid,  a  daughter,  Olive  Watson. 

Nov.  15,  James  W.  Sargent,  a  daughter. 

Nov.  17,  Arthur  E.  Campbell,  a  son. 

Nov.  30,  Otto  Granz,  a  daughter  Minnie  Clara. 

Dec.  5,  Robert  McGowan  Currie,  a  son,  Robert  McGowan. 

Dec.  11,  Napoleon  Filbert,  a  son. 

Dec.  30,  Henry  Clinton  Wallace,  a  son. 

1901.  Jan.  21,  Harry  Mannering,  a  son,  Guy  Williamson. 
Feb.  4,  Napoleon  Larouche,  a  son,  Joseph  Romeo. 
Feb.  28,  John  M.  Sargent,  a  son,  Arthur  Marshall. 
March  19,  Samuel  F.  Adams,  a  daughter. 

April  22,  Charles  F.  LaTouche,  a  daughter,  Grace  May. 

May  7,  Charles  Longe,  a  daughter. 

June  20,  Walter  M.  Strong,  a  daughter,  Blossom  Maud  Dru- 

cilla. 
July  13,  John  L.  Welch,  a  daughter,  Amy  Ella. 
Aug.  1,  Clarence  N.  Davis,  a  daughter,  Irene  Elizabeth. 
Aug.  23,  George  H.  Wiggin,  a  son,  James  Walker. 
Aug.  25,  William  S.  Manning,  a  daughter,  Marion  Anstress. 
Aug.  26,  Fred  Langevin,  a  daughter. 
Oct.  18,  Charles  C.  Brock,  a  daughter. 
Nov.  5,  Llewellyn  A.  Dwire,  a  son,  Clyde  Merton. 
Nov.  25,  Ervin  R.  French,  a  son,  John  Ervin. 
Dec.  5,  W.  Herbert  Quimby,  a  son,  Ralph  Wilbur. 

1902.  Jan.  1,  John  B.  Lodge,  a  son,  Joseph  Meredith. 
Feb.  11,  Edward  R.  Blood,  a  son,  Edward  McKinley. 
Feb.  22,  Gustav  Person,  a  daughter. 

Feb.  25,  William  C.  Adams,  a  son,  John  Williams. 
March  3,  Fred  Hoffman,  a  daughter. 
March  4,  Edward  Stewart,  a  daughter,  Gladys. 
March  25,  S.  Michael  H.  Shea,  a  daughter,  Marion  Frances. 
March  30,  John  B.  Chartrand,  a  son,  Joseph  Henry. 
April  1,  Joseph  Messier,  a  son,  Frank. 
April  10,  Fred  E.  Parkhurst,  a  son. 
April  22,  Bertie  L.  Peaslee,  a  daughter,  Edith  May. 
May  11,  Arthur  Ceylon  Brown,  a  son. 
May  17,  Julius  H.  Putnam,  a  son. 
May  25,  Edward  Porter,  a  daughter. 
May  28,  Gordon  Woodbury,  a  son,  George. 
June  5,  James  R.  Leach,  a  daughter,  Sylvia  Moore. 
July  8,  Hugh  Cunningham,  a  son. 
July  20,  John  Taylor,  a  son,  George  T. 
July  24,  James  W.  Sargent,  a  son,  George  Wilbur. 
48 


738  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

1902.  Aug.  28,  Lewis  P.  Browman,  a  daughter. 
Sept.  27,  Albert  J.  Smith,  a  son. 

Oct.  15,  Napoleon  Larouche,  a  daughter. 

Oct.  19,  Ora  Edward  Dwyer,  a  son,  John  Edward. 

Oct.  22,  George  Henry  Hardy,  a  daughter,  Alice  May. 

Nov.  4,  Fred  G.  Holbrook,  a  son,  Ray  Nichols. 

Nov.  11,  Carl  Albert  Nordstrom,  a  daughter. 

Dec.  29,  Eddie  D.  Campbell,  a  son,  Everett  H.  J. 

1903.  Jan.  11,  Otto  Granz,  a  son. 

Jan.  21,  Loren  L.  Rouse,  a  daxighter. 

March  8,  William  J.  Britton,  a  son,  Harry  H. 

March  18,  Peter  Villenevue,  a  son,  Joseph. 

March  21,  John  A.  Quaid,  a  son,  Howard  William. 

April  18,  Bert  L.  Peaslee,  a  son,  Fred  William. 

May  10,  Emerson  Ellsworth  Dinsmore,  a  son,  William  Roger. 

May  25,  Frank  Samuel  Adams,  a  daughter. 

June  19,  Joseph  Messier,  a  son,  Homer. 

June  27,  Joseph  Boyd  Bell,  a  daughter,  Daisy  Adeline. 

June  27,  Joseph  Boyd  Bell,  a  daughter,  Dorothy  Alvarena. 

June  29,  George  J.  Lahey,  a  daughter. 

MARRIAGES.1 

1709.    Dec.  26,  Joseph  Wallace  to  Mary  Scobey. 
1771.    Dec.  18,  John  Orr  to  Jane  Smith.1 
1774.    April  12,  Samuel  Goffe  to  Mary  Vickere. 

Dec.  29,  James  Patterson  to  Janey  Laney.9 

1780.  Dec.  12,  Adam  Smith  to  Ann  McMaster. 

1781.  Sept.  18,  John  Hilliry  to  Margaret  Boyce.7 
Nov.  20,  Wm.  McAfee  to  Elizabeth  Boies.7 

1788.  Jan.  15,  Josiah  Chandler  to  Margaret  Aiken.7 
March  25,  Wm.  Moor  to  Elizabeth  McClary.2 
May  20,  John  Orr  to  Sarah  Houston.1 

June  5,  Isaac  Riddle  to  Ann  Aiken. 

July  31,  John  Boice  to  Mary  Parker.7 

Dec.  23,  Joseph  McLaughlin  to  Sally  McAllister." 

1789.  Jan.  15,  Phares  Shirley  to  Olive  Chubbock.9 
Feb.  26,  Joseph  Patten  to  Mary  Dickey.7 

1790.  March  2,  Wm.  Beard,  of  New  Boston,  to  Jean  Burns. 

1791.  Feb.  17,  Wm.  Gibson  to  Mary  Moor.7 

1792.  March  21,  Hugh  Moor  to  Susannah  McAllister. 
March  22,  William  Coaker  to  Mary  Swett. 

lThe  following  are  those  who  officiated  at  the  ceremony,  the  numerals  correspond- 
ing to  the  exponents  in  the  text: 

1,  Rev.  John  Houston;  2,  Rev.  David  McGregore;  3.  Rev.  Thomas  Savage;  4,  Rev. 
Ira  C.  Tyson;  5,  Rev.  Arthur  Little;  6,  Rev.  C.  W.  Wallace;  7,  Rev.  Samuel  Cotton; 
8,  Rev.  I.  M.  Moor;  9,  Rev.  Jacob  Burnap;  10,  Rev.  D.  D.  fratt;  11.  Rev.  B.  Brierly; 
12,  William  Moor;  13,  Joseph  C  >lley;  11,  Rev.  Horace  Eaton;  15,  Frederick  G.  Stark; 
16,  Moses  Gage;  17,  Rev.  J.  B.  Davis;  18.  Rev.  D.  Herbert  Colcord;  19,  Rev.  E.  C. 
Crane;  20.  Rev.  A.  I).  Smith  21.  Rev.  Nathaniel  L.  Colby;  22,  Rev.  Charles  H.  Field; 
28,  Rev.  Albert  P.  Watson;  24,  Rev.  W.  H.  Morrison;  25,  Rev.  F.  A.  Hodsdon. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  739 

1792.  May  3,  Josiah  Gordon  to  Jane  Walker. 

Oct.  25,  James  George,  of  Goffstown,  to  Jane  Fugard.7 
Nov.  29,  John  Miltimore,  of  Antrim,  to  Rebecca  McLaughlin. 

1793.  Feb.  4,  Jonathan  Stark  to  Abagail  Coombs,  of  Dunstable. 
Feb.  14,  Isaac  Emerson  to  Margaret  Dunlap. 

April  4,  Nathan  Barns  to  Anna  Remick.7 

April  4,  John  Tufts  to  Lucy  Parker.7 

April  23,  Hugh  Tolford,  of  Chester,  to  Elizabeth  Patten. 

Nov.  26,  Thomas  Chandler  to  Susannah  McAfee. 
1798.    May  8,  John  McAllister  to  Molly  McKinney.8 
1800.    Nov.  11,  Samuel  Chandler  to  Margaret  Orr.9 

Dec.  30,  John  Dinsmore,  of  Goffstown,  to  Rachel  McClary. 
1802.    Feb.  3,  Isaac  Bell  to  Susannah  Hutchinson. 

Sept.  21,  David  Atwood  to  Mary  Bell.8 

1804.  Feb.  3,  Isaac  Bell  to  Susannah  Hutchinson.2 
Nov.  29,  William  McFerson  to  Sally  French.2 

Nov.  29,  David  Lincoln,  of  Washington,  N.  H.,  to  Mehitable 
French.2 

Dec.  25,  Jonathan  Heselton  to  Nancy  Heselton,  both  of  Der- 
ryfield.2 

1805.  Jan.  27,  James  Stocker,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  to  Sophia  Campbell, 

of  Amherst.2 
June  5,  Philip  Sargent,  of  Dunbarton,  to    Nancy    Flint,  of 

Derryfield.2    • 
Aug.  1,  Robert  Walker  to  Mary  Wallace.2 
Aug.  6,  David  Scobey  Gillis  to  Mary  Boardman.2 
Sept.  5,  Joseph  Sprague  to  Polly  McQuaid.2 
Sept.  18,  Samuel  Stevens,  of  Dorchester,  to  Betsey  Stevens.2 
Oct.  8,  Moses  E.  Merrick  to  Rachel  S.  Gardner. 
Nov.  5,  William  Gammet,  of  Derryfield,  to  Nancy  Smith,  of 

Londonderry.4 
Nov.  28,  Smith  Campbell  to  Elizabeth  Jefts,  of  Billerica.2 
Nov.  28,  John  Walker,  of  Goffstown,  to  Polly  Holbrook.2 
Dec.  26,  William  Parker,  of  Litchfield,  to  Nancy  Shepard.2 
Dec.  31,  David  Gilcreast  to  Hannah  Kennedy.2 

1806.  Feb.  10,  John  Sanders,  of  Province,  Me.,  to  Sally  Griffin,  of 

New  Boston.2 
Feb.  13,  William  Burns  to  Sarah  O.  Wallace.2 
March  6,  Isaac  Riddle  to  Margaret  McGaw. 
April  17,  Samuel  Gordon  to  Isabel  McFerson.2 
April  24,  Moses  Boys,  of  Londonderry,  to  Lydia  Davis,  of 

Derryfield.2 
May  12,  Hugh  Taggart  to  Elizabeth  McDugall,  of  Goffstown.2 
Oct.  29,  David  Wallace,  of  Merrimack,  to  Jennv .* 

1807.  Feb.  9,  William  French  to  Agnes  Riddle. 
Feb.  12,  William  Bursiel  to  Betsey  French.2 

April  8,  Caleb  Richardson,  of  Londonderry,  to  Susannah 
Smith,  of  Topsham.2 


740  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

1807.  April  16,  Joseph  Stevens,  of  Goffstown,  to  Sally  Walker.2 
April  21,  Joseph  Colley  to  Jane  W.  Dole.2 

Sept.  24,  Daniel  Moore  to  Susannah  Riddle.2 

Nov.  17,  James  Aiken,  of  Goffstown,  to  Jane  Aiken.2 

Nov.  19,  Benj.  McAllister  to  Anna  Barr.2 

Dec.  1,  Ephraira  Warren,  of  Goffstown,  to  Mary  Patterson.2 

Dec.  3,  David  Houston  to  Margaret  M.  Smith.2 

Dec.  17,  Asa  Pettingill,  of  Londonderry,  to  Margaret  Moore.2 

Dec.  24,  James  Ray  to  Marian  Blodgett  of  (?)2 

Dec.  29,  Solomon  Gage  to  Dolly  Chace,  of  Litchfield.2 

1808.  Jan.  26,  Leonard  C.  French  to  Nancy  Hutchinson.2 

March  10,  Edward  Claggett  to  Deborah  Moor,  both  of  Litch- 
field.2 
March  24,  Benj.  Stevens  to  Mrs.  Margaret  M.  Ferson.2 
Nov.  8,  William  Reed  to  Mrs.  Milley  Quig  Richards.2 
Nov.  17,  William  Chandler  to  Mrs.  Sophia  Shepard.2 
Nov.  17,  John  G.  Townsend  to  Mrs.  Abigail  Pike.2 
Nov.  21,  Jonathan  Palmer  to  Mrs.  Sukey  Parker.2 
Dec.  1,  Barton  Bullock,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mrs.  Betsey  Harris.2 
Dec.  22,  Robert  Perham  to  Mrs.  Jane  Patten,  of  Derryfield.2 
Dec.  29,  William  Dennis,  of  Madison,  to  Susannah  Harvel,  of 
Amherst.2 

1809.  Jan.  24,  Robert  Kidder  Darrah  to  Polly  Walker.2 
Feb.,  John  Wallace  Moore  to  Sarah  Dunlap.2 

Feb.  21,  Moody  Martin  Stevens  to  Eunice  Chandler.2 
May  11,  Hilton  Kimball,  of  Amherst,  to  Lydia  Swett.2 
Oct.  31,  Jesse  Parker  to  Jane  Moor.2 

Nov.  22,  Jonathan  Aiken,  of  Goffstown,  to  Nancy  Aiken.2 
Nov.  22,  Abel  Beard  to  Huldy  Gardner.2 

1810.  Feb.  6,  John  Crosby,  of  Dracut,  and  Meriba  Rowell,  of  Der- 

ryfield.2 
May  17,  Benj.  S.  Gage  to  Annis  Moor.2 

1811.  Jan.  24,  Adam  Gilmore  to  Mrs.  Polly  McAfee.2 
March  6,  John  Orr  to  Ann  McAfee.2 

March  14,  William  P.  Wyatt,  of  Amherst,  to  Isabella  Mc- 
intosh.2 
March  28,  David  Richards,  of  Goffstown,  to  Betsey  Moor 

Nesmith.2 
May  2,  Robert  Hall  to  Nancy  McGregore,  both  of   Goffs- 
town.2 
Sept.  11,  Dil worth  Shepard,  of  Hopkinton,  to  Harriet  Time.2 
Nov.  21,  Silas  Wells,  of  Goffstown,  to  Jane  O.  McQuaid.2 
Nov.  21,  Stephen  Dumant  to  Sally  Gilchrist.2 
Nov.  28,  David  Townsend,  of  Prospect  District,  Me.,  to  Mary 
Bartlett,  of  Alexandria.2 

1812.  Dec.  2,  Thomas  Barr  to  Abagail  Palmer. 
1815.    Dec.  6,  James  Riddle  to  Ann  Dole.2 

Dec.  7,  Robert  Lincoln,  of  Hillsborough,  to  Betsey  Wallace.2 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  741 

1815.  Dec.  7,  Joseph  Manning  to  Nancy  Cavanagh.2 
Dec.  7,  Adam  Smith,  Jr.,  to  Sarah  Darrah.2 
Dec.  18,  Joseph  Nichols  to  Elsy  Ripley.2 

Dec.  25,  Aaron  Gardner  to  Margaret  Cavanagh.2 

1816.  Jan.  18,  John  Patten  Wallace  to  Jane  Orr.2 

Jan.  18,  William  Cummings,  of  West  Nottingham,  to  Lydia 

Smith.2 
Jan.  29,  Daniel  Barns,  of  Marshfield,  Vt.,  to  Nancy  Martin.2 
Feb.  27,  Ebenezer  Fisher,  of  Londonderry,  to  Jane  Orr.2 
March  26,  Isaac  P.  French  to  Clarissa  Barns.2 
May  2,  Nathaniel  Bruce,  of  Mont  Vernon,  to  Fanny  Tay.2 
May  22,  Samuel  Sawyer,  of  Antrim,  to  Eleanor  Orr.2 
June  19,  James  Hill,  of  Antrim,  to  Anna  Sprague.2 
June  28,  Israel  Brown,  Jr.,  to  Polly  Barrett.2 
Oct.  20,  Christopher  Randerbush,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mrs.  Mary 

Gardner.12 
Nov.  26,  Frederick  A.  Mitchell,  of  Chester,  to  Lucy  Aiken.2 
Dec.  19,  John  Patten  to  Achsah  Patten.2 
Dec.  25,  Ruel  G.  Manning  to  Hannah  Gardner.2 

1817.  Jan.  3,  Christopher  Upton  to  Fanny  Peters  (blacks).12 
Jan.  28,  Samuel  Vose  to  Betsey  Cutter.2 

March  6,  Benjamin  Greer  to  Myra  Tenney,  both  of  Goffs- 

town.2 
April  29,  John  Gage,  of  -Merrimack,  to  Sally  Tinker.2 
Aug.  28,  Alfred  Foster  to  Hannah  G.  Men-ill.2 
Sept.  18,  John  W.  Tennant,  of  Amherst,  to  Lurena  Goidd.2 
Sept.  30,  Phares  Gardner,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mary  G.  Swett.2 
Xov.  13,  John  Davis  to  Nancy  George.2 
Dec.  23,  Peter  Crowell,  of  Londonderry,  to  Orra  Martin.2 
Dec.  23,  Daniel  Page  to  Sarah  Riddle.2 
Dec.  30,  Capt.  John  Moor* to  Lydia  Butterfield,  of  Goffstown.2 

1818.  Jan.  8,  Peter  P.  Woodbury  to  Polly  Riddle.2 

Feb.  10,  Robert  Wilson,  of  Londonderry,  to  Ann  Wallace.2 
March  4,  Robert  Mears  to  Ruth  Clark,  of  Merrimack.2 
March  10,  John  Shirley,  of  Goffstown,  to  Margaret  Houston.2 
Aug.  11,  Alexander  Caldwell,  of  New  Boston,  to  Elizabeth  M. 

Clay.2 
Sept.  30,  Isaac  Riddle,  Jr.,  of  Boston,  to  Betsey  Aiken.2 
Oct.    8,    John    Wellman,     of     Lyndeborough,    to    Betsey 

Moore,  3d.2 
Oct.  22,  Brooks  Worthley  to  Maria  Tufts.2 
Nov.  19,  Capt.  Joseph  Moore,  of  Manchester,  to  Nancy  Pat- 
ten.2 
Dec.  3,  Caswell  Gardner  to  Anna  Bryant.2 
Dec.  8,  Daniel  Bursiel,  of  Goffstown,  to  Elsa  H.  Barrett.2 
Dec.  28,  Daniel  D.  Wardrobe,  of  Hopkinton,  to  Miss  Orpha 

Moor,  of  Litchfield.2 
Dec.  29,  Lieut.  William  Patten  to  Hannah  Patten.2 


742  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1818.  Dec.  29,  John  Brown  to  Rebecca  Brown,  both  of  Manches- 

ter.2 
Dec.  31,  Asa  B.  King  to  Mary  Roaf.2 
Dec.  31,  Jonathan  Dowse  to  Betsey  Crosby.2 
Dec.  31,  Rufus  Merrill  to  Betsey  Smith. 

1819.  Feb.  5,  Jesse  Little  to  Lousea  Reed.2 

March  2,  Nathaniel  D.  Richardson  to  Leefa  Worthley.2 

March  3,  Ebenezer  Holbrook  to  Matilda  French.2 

April  27,  John  Martin  to  Betsey  Moor.2 

May,  Isaac  Riddle  to  Mrs.  Mary  Vinal,  of  Quiney,  Mass. 

May  4,  Gawn  Riddle,  Jr.,  to  Elizabeth  Moor.2 

May  25,  Joseph  Merrill  to  Nomia  Richards.2 

June  3,  Josiah  George  to  Anna  Coggins,  of  Goffstown.2 

June  8,  Rodney  Hadley  to  Lydia  Brown.2 

Aug.  24,  Peter  P.  Woodbury  to  Martha  Riddle.2 

Nov.  16,  John  Bursiel  to  Betsey  George.2 

Dec.  14,  Benjamin  Coggins  to  Phoebe  Vose.2 

Dec.  14,  John  Upton,  of  Mont  Vernon,  to  Betsey  Nichols.2 

1820.  March  9,  William  G.  Campbell  to  Sally  Cutler.2 
March  16,  Willard  Parker  to  Anna  Riddle.2 

March  21,  David  George,  of  Goffstown,  to  Mary  Page.2 
May  17,  William  Boynton  to  Jane  Clendennin,  of  St.  Davids^ 

New  Brunswick.2 
Aug.  22,  David  S.  Gillis  to  Sarah  Bartlett.2 
Oct.  10,  Daniel  L.  French  to  Polly  Riddle.2 
Nov.  20,  Daniel  Mack  to  Sophia  Kendrick.2 

1821.  Feb.  6,  John  Vose  to  Elizabeth  M.  Parker.2 
Feb.  8,  Lemuel  Bartlett  to  Anna  Campbell.2 
March  14,  Daniel  Swett  to  Nancy  Bryant.2 

March  20,  Ephraim  Hutchins,  of  Merrimack,  to  Amy  Dear- 
born.2 
May  17,  Ira  Spaulding,  of  Merrimack,  to  Nancy  Moor.2 
June  6,  Alvah  Wilkins  to  Nancy  Campbell.2 
Sept.  20,  Alpheus  Stevens  to  Hannah  Seavey.2 
Nov.  15,  George  Langdon  to  Mary  McAfee. 
Dec.  25,  Jesse  Annis  to  Milla  Blodgett.2 
Dec.  25,  Ebenezer  C.  French  to  Sarah  Holbrook.2 

1822.  Jan.  21,  Solomon  Woods,  of  Westford,  Mass.,  to  Sarah  Park- 

hurst.2 
Jan.  27,  Daniel  Larabee  to  Lucinda  Buxton.2 
March  11,  Joseph  Mitchell,  of  Goffstown,  to  Eliza  Page. 
March  26,  Robert  Baker  to  Margaret  Patten. 
May  2,  Jonathan  Dickey  to  Sarah  Webster.2 
May  2,  Isaac  Martin  to  Elizabeth  Stevens.2 
July  11,  Capt.  Samuel  Caldwell,  of  New  Boston,  to  Sally  B- 

Sprague.2 
July  24,  Jacob  Brown  to  Hannah  Emerson.2 
July  25,  Richard  Young  to  Sarah  Stevens.2 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  743 

1822.  Sept.  3,  Levi  Lucas,  of  Merrimack,  to  Louisa  R.  McConihe.2 
Nov.  18,  Nathaniel  Manning  to  Maria  Stratton.2 

1823.  Jan.  23,  Robert  Rogers,  Jr.,  to  Percy  Garvin.2 

Jan.  31,  Robert  Boyes,  Jr.,  of  Londonderry,  to  Priscilla  Gar- 

ven  Burns. 
April  22,  Thomas  W.  Moore  to  Nancy  Moore.2 
June  10,  Isaac   H.   Goodrich,   of   Lyndborough,  to  Hannah 

French.2 
July  15,  Chas.  Rollins,  of  Goffstown,  to  Hannah  McLaughlin.2 
Aug.  7,  Job  Bailey,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mary  Parker.2 
Sept.  4,  Peter  Young  to  Lavina  Perry,  both  of  Manchester.2 
Sept.  23,  Daniel  Wilson  Clyde  to  Anna  McQuesten.2 
Oct.  6,  David  P.  Foster  to  Catherine  Smith.2 
Dec.  4,  Samuel  Brown  to  Letty  Moor,  both  of  Manchester.2 
Dec.  9,  Stephen  Sawyer,  of  Amesbury,  Mass.,  to  Sally  B.  Mc- 
Questen.2 
Dec.  18,  Jesse  Walker  to  Mary  Craig.2 
Dec.  18,  William  Tolford,  of  Chester,  to  Sally  Patten.2 
Dec.  23,  Freeman  Buxton,  of   Merrimack,   to   Fanny   Dole 

Moor.2 
Dec.  24,  Isaac  Gage  to  Jane  Patten. 

1824.  Feb.  23,  David  McAfee  to  SaUy  K.  Darrah.2 
April  12,  Jesse  Harnden  to  Mrs.  Sally  Whitman.2 

April  15,  Leonard  Walker  to  Fanny  Parker,  both  of  Merri- 
mack.2 
May  6,  Moody  Carter  to  Submit  Atwood  Smith.2 
May  20,  Horatio  G.  Hutchings  to  Abigail  Barrett,  both  of 

Merrimack.2 
Aug.  4,  William  P.  Riddle  to  Sarah  Ferguson.2 
Aug.  17,  William  Gregg  Campbell  to  Nancy  Riddle.2 
Nov.  11,  Benj.  Nichols,  Jr.,  to  Betsey  J.  Conant.2 
Dec.  14,  Timothy  Davis  Woods  to  Mary  S.  Washer.2 
Dec.  24,  John  G.  Howe  to  Mary  H.  Goodwin,  both  of  Am- 
herst.2 
Dec.  30,  Reuben  White,  of  Londonderry,  to  Rachel  Corning, 
of  Litchfield.2 

1825.  Jan.  18,  Isaac  Atwood,  Jr.,  to  Deborah  Ryder.2 
Jan.  25,  Gardner  Nevins  to  Esther  R.  Barnes.2 

Feb.  3,  Abel  G.  Quigg  to  Lydia  Bixby,  both  of  Litchfield.2 
Feb.  3,  Lieut.  Daniel  Gordon  to  Louisa  Dole.2 
Feb.  10,  Rufus  Merrill  to  Mary  Smith.2 

March  22,  Samuel  Alexander,  of  Bow,  to  Mary  Nutt,  of  Man- 
chester.2 
March  30,  Moore  Roby,  of  Goffstown,  to  Mary  Durant.2 
June  12,  Chase  B.  Pike  to  Lucy  King,  both  of  Merrimack.2 
Sept.  26,  Rev.  Cyrus  Downs,  of  Canajoharie,  N.  Y.,  to  Mary 
•     J.  Chandler.2 
Dec.  1,  Benj.  Gould,  of  New  Boston,  to  Nancy  Grimes.2 


744  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1825.  Dec.  20,  William  Houston  to  Sarah  Kimball,  of  Goffstown.2 
Stephen  Goffe  to  Mary  Cutler.3 

1826.  Jan.  23,  Aaron  Page,  Jr.,  to  Hannah  Gilmore,  of  Goffstown.2 
Jan.  31,  John  Goffe  to  Jane  Riddle.3 

Feb.  21,  Isaac  Farmer  to  Emily  Stevens,  both  of  Manchester.2 
March  2,  Benjamin  Dodge  to  Anna  Goodwin.2 
March  21,  William  Gilmore  to  Matilda  Eaton.2 
April  24,  Moody  Cavender  to  Elizabeth  D.  Whittemore.2 
May  4,  Jacob  Rundlett  to  Hannah  Smith.2 
May  20,  William  Woodbridge,  of  Andover,  to  Mary  Harndon.2 
Oct.  30,  Daniel  Buxton,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  to  Martha  G.  Camp- 
bell.2 
Rufus  Kendrick  to  Hannah  Chandler.8 
Eleazer  Dole  to  Jane  D.  Riddle.8 
Stephen  Kendrick  to  Asenath  Chandler.8 
Joshua  Vose  to  Mary  Houston.3 
John  A.  McGaw  to  Nancy  Goffe.8 
Moses  Childs  to  Rebecca  Childs.8 

1827.  June  5,  Silas  Parkhurst  to  Parmelia  P.  Perry.8 

Sept.  24,  Henry  Wood,  of  Goffstown,  to  Harriet  Frances  Mc- 
Gaw.8 

Oct.  11,  Wm.  Morrison,  of  Dunstable,  to  Martha  M.  Sprague.8 

Nov.  6,  Andrew  Savage  to  Deborah  P.  Smith.3 

James  Walker  to  Betsey  Parker.8 

Nov.  23,  Stephen  Nichols  to  Jane  Ryder.8 

Nov.  29,  Freeman  Nichols  to  Mary  J.  Gillis,  both  of  Merri- 
mack.8 

1828.  George  W.  Webber  to  Huldah  Boardman.8 
John  P.  Houston  to  Eunice  Atwood.8 
Thomas  G.  Holbrook  to  Asenath  Riddle.3 

April  1,  Daniel  Moore  to  Mary  McQuesten,  of  Litchfield.3 
July    8,   Rev.    David  P.  Smith,    of   Sandwich,   to   Mary  J. 

(Chandler)  Downs.8 
Nov.  13,  Carleton  S.  Dodge  to  Delila  Stevens,  of  Manchester.8 
Nov.  23,  John  Parker  to  Relief  Stearns.2 
Dec.  2,  William  Riddle  to  Ann  (Dole)  Riddle.3 

1829.  Jan.  27,  Daniel  Barnard,  of  Weare,  to  Martha  Riddle.8 
Feb.  19,  Samuel  Corning,  of  Litchfield,  to  Clarissa  Darrah.8 
March  25,  George  Hodgeman  to  Mary  Parker,  of  Merrimack.8 
May  7,  Ira  Spaulding,  of  Merrimack,  to  Eliza  J.  Atwood.8 
May  14,  Amanda  Sprague  to  Mary  Gardner.2 

May  27,  John  Swan,  of  Merrimack,  to  Jane  Campbell.8 
June  18,  Elva  E.  Bradley,  of  Hancock,  to  Julia  Ann  Chesman.3 
June  22,  Jeremiah  P.  Davis,  of  Dunstable,  to  Hannah  McCain.2 
June  25,  Matthew  Parker,  of  New  Boston,  to  Ismena  Darrah.8 
July  7,  Henry  McQuesten  to  Elizabeth  W.  Chase,  both  of 

Litchfield.3 
Oct.  22,  Peter  Corinne,  of  Londonderry,  to  Lydia  Bond,  of 

Litchfield.8 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  .  745 

1829.  Nov.  5,  James  McDuffie  to  Mary  Harris.2 
Nov.  24,  Hiram  Dunlap  to  Dolly  F.  Ferson. 

Nov.  26,  Horatio  G.  Shed,  of  Wilmington,  to  Margaret  A. 

Moore.2 
Dec.  1,  William  Noyes,  of  Windham,  to  Lydia  Emerson,  of 

Manchester.8 
Dec.  15,  Caleb  Kendrick,  of  Dunstable,  to  Sally  Chandler.8 
Dec.  22,  Eben  Ayer  WThitten,  of  Londonderry,  to  Emily  Nutt.3 
Dec.  31,  Adam  Chandler  to  Sarah  McAllister.8 

1830.  Jan.  19,  John  Craig  to  Mary  Kittredge.8 

.  Jan.  19,  Josiah  Thissel  to  Abagail  Flint.8 
Feb.  2,  William   Winn,  of  Nottingham  West,  to  Percy  G. 

Moor.3 
March  4,  Elijah  Atwood  to  Submit  Walker.3 
April  6,  Nehemiah  Kittredge  to  Betsey  Tinker.8 
July  1,  Adam  N.  Patten  to  Clarissa  Hodgman.8 
Aug.  12,  Lewis  F.  Harris,  of  Dunbarton,  to  Mary  Parker.3 
Sept.  2,  Franklin  Moore  to  Annis  Chandler.8 
Sept.  3,  David  Quigg,  of  Goffstown,  to  Betsey  McCain.2 
Sept.  23,  Jeremiah  Hood,  Jr.,  of  Milford,  to  Harriet  Elkins,  of 

Merrimack.2 
Oct.  22,  Ephraim  C.  Abbott  to  Isabella  A.  Wallace,  of  Merri- 
mack.8 
Nov.  30,  Benj.  F.  Riddle  to  Abagail  D.  Colley.3 
Dec.  16,  Paul  T.  Campbell  to  Mary  Seavey.8 

1831.  March  28,  Humphrey  Moor,  of  Milford,  to  Mary  J.  French.8 
Benj.  F.  Ellis  to  Jane  Houston.8 

Aug.  19,  Zaccheus  Patten  to  Achsah  McAllister.3 

Sept.  21,  Eben  W.  Goffe,  of  Millbury,  Mass.,  to  Hannah  P. 

French.3 
Sept.  27,  Lancy  Weston,  of  Antrim,  to  Elizabeth  Moor.8 
Oct.  25,  Rodney  McLaughlin  to  Abagail  Hodgman.8 
Nov.  10,  Reuben  Moore  to  Margaret  T.  Riddle.8 
Dec.  7,  Samuel  Melvin,  of  Hooksett,  to  Nancy  Swett.3 

1832.  Jan.  17,  Samuel  Colley  to  Lydia  Atwood.8 

Jan.  31,  Frederick  Wallace  to  Margaret  A.  French.8 
March  27,  Asa  D.  Pollard,  of  Wilton,  to  Hannah  Wallace.8 
April  3,  Josiah  Kittredge,  of  Pembroke,  to  Sarah  W.  French.3 
April  5,  William  Gardner  to  Sophronia  Martin.8 
April  17,  Calvin  Clement,  of  Weare,  to  Mary  Jane  B.  Smith.3 
May  1,  Daniel  Langmaid,  of  Goffstown,  to  Lucy  Tucker.3 
May    10,    Samuel    Campbell,   of   Chester,    Vt.,   to    Rebecca 

Kingsbury.8 
May  17,  Peter  Mitchell,  of  Hooksett,  to  Sally  Page,  by  Rev. 

Ferdinand  Ellis. 
June  12,  Joseph  C.  Moore  to  Martha  McQuesten,  of  Litch- 
field.8 
July  28,  John  H.  McConihe  to  Martha  G.  Muzzey.8 


746  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1832.  Sept.  13,  James  R.  French,  of  Prospect,  Me.,  to  Nancy  French.8 
Sept.  19,  William  Miltimore,  of  Falmouth,  Me.,  to  Mary  Orr.8 
Oct.  30,  John  Stevens,  of  Billerica,  to  Eliza  Barns.8 

,        Nov.  15,  Levi  Starrett,  of  New  Boston,  to  Mehitable  Gage,  of 
Merrimack.8 
Dec.  15,  James  Gardner  to  Nancy  Bursiel.8 
Dec.  24,  Robert  French  to  Harriet  Parker,  of  Merrimack.8 
Dec.  25,  John  Parker  to  Eliza  Goffe.8 

1833.  Jan.  29,  Mr.  Boutwell,  of  Lyndeborough,  to  Nancy  J.  Barns. 
Feb.  14,  John  F.  Shaw,  of  Nashua,  to  Emily  Clogston.3 
April  11,  Nathan  S.  Colby,  of  Warner,  to  Esther  Darrah.25 
April  11,  Edmund  Houghton,  of  Goffstown,  to  Nancy  Bryant.25 
May  9,  Moses  E.  Stevens,  of  New  Boston,  to  Sarah  A.  Parker.8 
May  16,  Isaac  Currier  of  Methuen,  to  Dolly  C.  Gage.8 

May  28,  Daniel  Vose  to  Fanny  Chase.8 

June  5,  Rowell  Seavey  to  Eliza  Butterfield.8 

June  28,  Horace  White,  of   Colebrook,   to   Eliza   McClary 

Moore.8 
July  21,  Luther  Pattee  to  Anna  Farrar,  of  Goffstown.7 
Aug.  13,  Albert  Atwood  to  Ann  J.  D.  Colley.3 

1834.  Feb.  3,  Francis  B.  Merriam,  of  Boston,  to  Mary  W.  Sawyer.8 
Feb.   5,  Jonathan   Ireland,  of   Dunbarton,   to    Hannah   W. 

Thurston.3 
Feb.  13,  Adam  Gilmore  to  Lucinda  Silver.8 
April  1,  Abijah  Hodgman  to  Mary  Barnard.3 
June  3,  William  Manning,  of  Nashua,  to  Mary  A.  Walker.8 
June  19,  James  Parker,  of  Merrimack,  to  Elizabeth  I.  Gage.8 
Sept.  14,  John  Smith,  of  Brentwood,  to  Sophia  P.  Darrah.8 
Sept.  14,  Freeman  Parker  to  Sarah  I.  Butler.18 
Dec.  2,  David  Quimby  to  Lucinda  Hardy.8 
Dec.  31,  Senter  Farley  to  Louisa  Flint.8 
Robert  Boyd  to  Susannah  Riddle.8 
Warren  Fletcher  to  Susanna  Barnes.8 

1835.  May  22,  William  D.  Tuttle  to  Mary  W.  Barns.8 

June  11,  Bradbury  M.  Rowe  to  Mary  Jane  Moor,  of  Lowell.8 
Aug.  26,  James  Varnum,  of  Dracut,  to  Eliza  McQuesten.8 
Sept.  17,  Ephraim  C.  Hardy  to  Mary  F.  Quimby.8 
Nov.  12,  John  Butterfield  to  Betsey  Campbell.3 
Nov.  26,  Albert  Riddle  to  Sarah  Wheeler,  of  Merrimack.8 
Dec.  15,  Thomas  W.  Gillis,  of  Nashua,  to  Betsey  C.  French.8 
Dec.  24,  William  McCain  to  Sarah  V.  Peabody,  of  New  Bos- 
ton.3 
Dec.  24,  Daniel  Roby  to  Achsah  P.  Smith.3 

1836.  Jan.  11,  Henry  Rankin,  of  Brompton,  N.  C,  to  Caroline  C. 

Frye.8 
Feb.  16,  Phineas  French  to  Betsey  Foster.8 
Feb.  23,  William  A.  Hobart  to  Lucinda  Cady.8 
Feb.  23,  William  Cady  to  Hannah  Butler.8 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  747 

1836.  Feb.  25,  John  Boynton,  of  Hollis,  to  Sarah  Wood.8 
April  13,  Benj.  Hall,  of  Lowell,  to  Sarah  M.  Atwood.8 
April  26,  Phineas  Colby,  of  Warner,  to  Xancy  Darrah.8 
June  2,  John  M.  Wallace,  of  Warner,  to  Maria  W.  Darrah.8 
July  19,  William  Moore  to  Mary  A.  Kendall,  of  Merrimack.8 
Sept.  15,  Isaac  C.  Cutler  to  Rebecca  Harvell,  of  Amherst.8 
Dec.  29,  Humphrey  Peabodv,  of  Xashua,  to  Elvira  Atwood.3 

1837.  April  6,  Eleazer  Dole  to  Charlotte  Walker.8 

April  11,  Jonathan  D.  Hutchinson  to  Xancy  J.  McConihe.8 
May  11,  James  Parker,  of  Merrimack,  to  Jane  W.  Darrah.3 
June  4,  Charity  L.  Dunn,  of  Chelmsford,  to  Abagail  Parker.3 
June  4,  Stephen   Prince,  of  Oxford,  Mass.,  to  Rebecca  M. 

Houston.8 
June  6,  William  A.  Burke,  of  Lowell,  to  Catherine  French.8 
June  15,  Andrew  J.  Dow  to  Louisa  Harvell.8 
Xov.  9,  William  S.  Anderson,  of  Londonderry,  to  Harriet 

Atwood.8 
Xov.  22,  Leonard  Kittredge  to  Merriani  Hurd.3 
Dec.  21,  Hiram  Quimby  to  Louisa  Winslow,  of  Goffstown.8 
Dec.  26,  Hiram  Mace,  of  Amherst,  to  Rosanna  B.  Cady.8 

1838.  Jan.   11,  John  Adams,  Jr.,  of  Xewfield,  Me.,  to  Catherine 

Chandler.8 
March  20,  George  Campbell  to  Harriet  Hardy.8 
April   23,  Moses  E.  Emerson,  of  Weare,  to  Margaret  Gil- 
more.8 
June  17,  John  D.  Armstrong  to  Sarah  D.  Atwood.8 
June  21,  Lewis  F.  Ryder  to  Susan  H.  Atwood.8 
Sept.  15,  Isaac  Campbell  to  Mary  Ann  Payne.3 
Xov.  29,  Xathaniel  Flint  to  Sarah  A.  Parkhurst.3 

1839.  Jan.  15,  Edward  Barr  to  Jane  G.  Atwood.3 
Feb.  14,  Thomas  Harris  to  Rhoda  Hams.8 
April  11,  John  McAllister,  Jr.,  to  Merab  French.8 
April  19,  Elijah  P.  Parkhurst  to  Sarah  Jane  Gage.8 
May  1,  Oliver  L.  Kendall  to  Betsey  R.  Gage.3 

May  2,  Thomas  Howe,  of  Hudson,  to  Catherine  Bullock.8 
Aug.  7,  Henry  E.  Boswith,  of  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  to  Lucy  C. 

Barns.8 
Sept.  19,  Frederick  Hodgman  to  Maria  Houston.8 
Oct.  1,  Richard  Hadley,  of  Goffstown,  to  Mary  Giddings.3 

1840.  Jan.  23,  Samuel  X.   Southworth,  of  West  Fairlee,  Vt.,  to 

Mary  Darrah.8 

Jan.  30,  Samuel  Patten  to  Keziah  Parker.3 

April  2,  William  P.  Moore  to  Betsey  J.  Richardson,  of  Litch- 
field.3 

Oct.  13,  Ira  Barr,  of  Goffstown,  to  Xancy  Barr.8 

Xov.  5,  Mark  Glines,  of  Stonington,  Conn.,  to  Harriet  A. 
Wood.3 

Xov.  5,  Timothy  Townsend  to  Xancy  Stevens.3 


748  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1840     Dec.  31,  John  R.  Moore  to  Hannah  Gardner.8 
Samuel  Hathaway  to  Susannah  Gilmore.3 

1841.  Jan.  11,  Thomas  Bursiel  to  Olive  Atwood.8 

Jan.  28,  William  Bursiel,  Jr.,  to  Nancy  Gardner.8 

Feb.  26,  Calvin  Traverse  to  Mary  P.  Gage,  both  of  Boston.8 

April  1,  Daniel  Moore,  Jr.,  to  Sarah  Stevens,  of  New  Boston.3 

June  10,  William  R.  French  to  Sally  D.  Riddle.8 

July  4,  Nathan  B.  Taplin  to  Lydia  L.  Hardy.8 

July  15,  Richard  Dole,  of  Beloit,  Wis.,  to  Sarah  A.  McFer- 

son.3 
Sept.  9,  Mr.  Hendry,  of  Pittsfield,  to  Rachel  Moor.8 
Oct.  21,  Josiah  H.  Folsom,  of  Exeter,  to  Lucy  F.  Darrah.8 
Dec.  9,  Thomas  G.  Worthley  to  Rebecca  Moore.8 

1842.  Nathan  H.  Richardson,  of  Litchfield,  to  Ann  Maria  Parker.3 
July  21,  Adam  Butterheld  to  Hannah  Campbell.3 

Aug.  9,  Thomas  Pierce,  of  Manchester,  to  Asenath  R.  Mc- 

Ferson.8 
Sept.  27,  David  M.  Howe,  of  Gardner,  Mass.,  to  Miss  Sarah 

B.  Stratton.3 
Nov.  9,  Edson  Warriner,  of  Pierpont,   Vt.,  to  Martha  W. 

Darrah.14 
Dec.  20,  David  Clark,  of  Peterborough,  to  Susan  J.  French.8 
Dec.  29,  Ephraim  White  to  Margaret  A.  Moore.8 
Thomas  Hardy  to  Roxanna  P.  Haseltine.3 
Dec.  29,  Abner  C.  Darrah  to  Sally  H.  McAfee.14 

1843.  April   3,    Thomas   J.   Lovett,   of    Lowell,   to    Elizabeth   A. 

Dowse/' 
Dec.  21,  Samuel  S.  S.  Hill  to  Mary  D.  S.  Gilmore.8 

1844.  May  7,  Nathaniel  II.  Martin  to  Frances  J.  Emerson.3 

June  2,  Joseph  Greeley  to  Augusta  Barton  (squired  together). 
June  18,  John  N.  Barr  to  Mary  A.  French.3 
Oct.  17,  Daniel  H.  Marshall,  of  Dunbarton,  to  Maria  Butter- 
field.3 
Dec.  25,  Daniel  W.  Fling  to  Asenath  Patten.3 
Dec.  31,  Stephen  Moore  to  Caroline  Hardy.15 

1845.  Feb.  27,  James  Darrah,  Jr.,  to  Cynthia  Wallace.3 
March  20,  Ira  Mears  to  Hannah  Barns.3 

April  8,  William  Goffe  to  Betsey  D.  Riddle.3 

May  4,  Rufus  Merrill,  of  Medford,  Mass.,  to  Susan  Spofford.3 

June  5,  Levi  Putnam  of  Milford,  to  Harriet  E.  Stevens.3 

June  12,  Thomas  IT.  Gage  to  Dolly  A.  French.3 

June  17,  Capt.  Daniel  George,  of  Goffstown,  to  Margaret  A. 

Gilmore.11 
July  20,  George  Stark  to  Elizabeth  A.  Parker.3 
Aug.  5,  Stephen  Webster,  of  Concord,  to  Mary  Ann  Dar- 
rah.11 
Sept.  2,  John  H.  Lindsey  to  Martha  J.  Gilmore.11 
Oct.  5,  Levi  Dodge,  of  Manchester,  to  Emily  E.  Mullett.3 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  749 

1845.  Nov.  4,  Thomas  G.  Holbrook  to  Submit  Atwood.3 

Nov.  13,  Charles  H.  Goddard,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  to  Eliza- 
beth S.  Shepard.3 

1846.  Jan.  20,  Daniel  K.  Mack  to  Mary  A.  French.3 

Feb.  19,  Robert  Mears,  of  Merrimack,  to  Lucretia  C.  Mitchell.3 
June  2,  Darius  F.  Robinson,  of  Newport,  to  Sarah  A.  Hol- 
brook.3 
Aug.  27,  John  U.  French  to  Sarah  R.  Parker.3 
Nov.  7,  Robert  Sloan,  of  Hooksett,  to  Mary  H.  Page.3 
Nov.  26,  Charles  French  to  Frances  A.  Nichols.3 
Nov.  26,  E.  S.  Goodwin,  of  Boston,  to  Ann  J.  Nevens.3 
Nov.  26,  Jesse  Anderson,  of  Manchester,  to  Mary  J.  San- 
born.3 
Dec.  26,  Isaac  Quint  to  Louisa  P.  Meloon.3 

1847.  June  10,  Rodney  McLaughlin  to  Jerusha  Spofford.3 
Oct.  13,  Rodolphus  D.  Briggs  to  Sarah  C.  Houston.3 

1848.  Feb.  23,  Gilman  Shirley,  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  to  Nancy  Shir- 

ley, of  Goffstown,  by  Humphrey  Moore. 
June  25,  Noble  Prime,  of  Manchester,  to  Sarah  Harvell.3 
Sept.  26,  Calvin  R.  Butterfield  to  Sarah  H.  Legro.3 
Nov.  16,  Jonas  Page,  of  Manchester,  to  Sarah  A.  Adams.3 
Nov.    29,   Alfred   Craig   to    Eliza   R.   Jackman,   by   Adam 

Chandler. 

1849.  Jan.  16,  David  Stevens,  Jr.,  to  Sarah  F.  French.3 

Jan.  17,  William  Clement,  of  Hooksett,  to  Nancy  J.  Swett.3 
Feb.  15,  Willard  Gardner  to  Martha  A.  Cheever.3 
Oct.  25,  Hartwell  Nichols,  of  Reading,  Mass.,  to  Mary  Man- 
ning.3 
Oct.  25,  Joseph  Manning,  of  Reading,  Mass.,  to  Merriam  M. 

Hall.3 
Nov.  8,  William  Reynolds  to  Jane  Sloan.16 
Nov.  20,  Ebenezer  B.  Merrill,  of  Nashua,  to  Letitia  A.  Gage.3 
Dec.  4,  Davis  B.  Lord  to  Eliza  K.  Quimby.15 

1850.  March  26,  John  D.  Armstrong  to  Jane  M.  Wells.3 
April  9,  Elijah  C.  Stevens  to  Julia  A.  Barr.3 
April  23,  John  Adams  to  Lavinia  Patten.3 

April  25,  George  R.  Mudge  to  Sarah  E.  Kittredge.16 

Sept.  10,  William  Boynton  to  Hannah  Gambee  by  W.  Child, 

Lowell,  Mass. 
Nov.  28,  William  Moore,  Jr.,  to  Carolina  A.  Gage.3 
Dec.  26,  Alfred  McAfee  to  Nancy  P.  B.  Shepard.3 

1851.  Jan.  14,  Robert  P.  Barr  to  Margaret  A.  Butterfield.3 

Jan.  14,  Calvin  R.  Butterfield  to  Mary  Bunker,  of  Man- 
chester.3 

Jan.  23,  William  B.  Stevens,  of  Concord,  to  Eliza  A.  Morri- 
son.3 

Feb.  23,  Christopher  C.  Allen  to  Sarah  Cook  Morrill.16 

March  4,  John  Dickerson  to  Sarah  S.  Ayer.3 


750  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1851.  March  6,  George  W.  Sargent,  of  Nashua,  to  Maria  Barr.3 
April  10,  Ziba  A.  Hoit  to  Mary  S.  Moore.3 

May  15,  Lambert  Tuttle,  of  Goffstown,  to  Harriet  Stevens.3 

June  19,  James  T.  Kendall  to  Mary  J.  McAllister.3 

Aug.  23,  Reuben  Barnes,  Jr.,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mrs.  Louisa  I. 

Hale.10 
Aug.    26,   Robert   Young   to   Mary   Jane   Copp,  by   Adam 

Chandler. 
Sept.   16,  Robert   French   to   Frances  A.   Stover,  bv  D.  J. 

Clark,  J.  P. 
Sept.  18,  George  H.  Pierce,  of  Boston,  to  Sophia  J.  Harvell.3 
Oct.  2,  Reuben  Melvin,  of  Merrimack,  to  Hannah  E.  Emery.3 
Oct.  29,  Thomas  M.  Ferguson  to  Marcia  L.  McAllister,  by 

Wm.  H.  Brewster. 
Nov.  27,  William  P.  Kingman,  of  Reading,  Mass.,  to  Lucy  A. 

Manning.3 

1852.  April  22,  William  McAllister  to  Martha  J.  Goffe.3 

April  30,  Reuben  Barnes,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mrs.  Louisa  G. 

Hale.10 
May  4,  James  M.  Rollins,  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  to  Mary  F. 

Goffe.3 
July    8,  Frederick   Plummer   to   Rebecca   J.   Worthley,  of 

Goffstown.10 
Nov.  16,  James  C.  Moore  to  Mary  A.  Hodgman.3 

1853.  Feb.  25,  John  H.  McAfee  to  Sophia  R.  Kittredge,  of  Merri- 

mack.3 

March  6,  Robert  Patten  to  Jane  Adams. 

March  29,  David  H.  Barr  to  Lucy  A.  Whitford.8 

April  6,  Nathaniel  Briggs,  of  Orange,  to  Lydia  Miles,  of 
Sheffield,  Vt.15 

April  27,  Robert  R.  Moore  to  Emeline  Goodwin,  of  Marl- 
borough.15 

Sept.  1,  J.  H.  Cleveland,  of  Louisiana,  to  Lucretia  Savage. 

1854.  Jan.  17,  George  D.  Whitford  to  Eliza  R.  Marshall.9 

Feb.  1,  Dr.  M.  J.  G.  Tewksbury,  of  Manchester,  to  Laura  A. 

Riddle. 
Feb.  28,  Albert  Simpson  to  Rosina  M.  Adams. 
March  7,  John  D.  Riddle  to  Mary  A.  Gilmore. 
March  22,  Stillman  A.  Shepard  to  Betsey  Jane  Nichols. 
March  22,  William  C.  Moore  to  Martha  J.  Moore. 
May  31,  S.  C.  Anderson,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mary  J.  Gage.8 
June   1,  John   D.  Marston,  of   Manchester,  to   Hannah  F. 

Swett. 
Oct.  11,  Eben  Baker,  of  Massachusetts,  to  Ann  C.  Boynton. 
David  Shaw  to  Ellen  Johnson. 

1855.  April  19,  George  B.  Shattuck  to  Margaret  P.  Parker.3 
April    25,  Joseph   Gage,  of   Lyndeborough,  to   Harriet   A. 

Wvman.3 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  751 

1855.  June  13,  Galusha  C.  Duncklee,  of  Hollaston,  Mass.,  to  Nancy 

1.  Johnson,  by  Rev.  S.  C.  Bartlett. 
June  20,  J.  F.  Duncklee  to  Maria  Riddle,  of  Manchester.3 
June  27,  Eugene  Smith,  of  Michigan,  to  Margaret  R.  Goffe.3 
Aug.  12,  John  Moulton,  of  Manchester,  to  Irene  B.  Hackett.3 
Oct.    12,   William   L.   George,  of   Manchester,  to    Emeline 

Sweatt.3 

1856.  Jan.  1,  Greenleaf  Walker  to  Nancy  J.  McLaughlin.3 

Jan.  10,  Alvah  Buckminster,  of  Manchester,  to  Lavinia  Hun- 
toon,  of  Craftsbury,  Vt. 

Nov.  5,  Samuel  J.  Corning,  of  Merrimack,  to  Elizabeth  M. 
Wells.3 

Nov.  6,  Charles  C.  Grant,  of  Andover,  Mass.,  to  Vernelia  J. 
Brown.3 

1857.  Jan.  1,  John  O.  Parker,  of  Manchester,  to  Nancy  A.  Vose.3 
Jan.  21,  William  M.  Titus  of  Reading,  Mass.,  to  Dollie  C. 

French.3 
Feb.  12,  Caleb  LaFleur  to  Julia  F.  Adorr.3 
Feb.  24,  Elbridge  J.  Campbell  to  Susan  S.  Campbell.3 
Feb.  24,  David  Campbell  to  Louisa  Dearborn.3 
April,  Charles  K.  Ball  to  Lizzie  A.  Giles. 
April  9,  Neal  Fullerton  to  Mary  Kerr.3 
June,  F.  F.  French  to  Almira  J.  Riddle. 
July  30,  Isaac  Parker,  of  Amherst,  to  Julia  Hodgman.3 
Sept.  3,  F.  A.  Abbott,  of  Fisherville,  to  Asenath  Dow.3 
Dec,  Freeman  R.  French  to  Augusta  A.  Johnson,  of  Man- 
chester. 
Gilbert  Graham,  of  Manchester,  to  Rachel  O.  Dunlap. 
Lorenzo  R.  Lougee  to  Mary  F.  Hackett. 

1858.  Jan.    9,   Daniel   F.   Gardiner,    of   Manchester,    to   Mary  A. 

Howard.3 
March  11,  John  Colby,  of  Goffstown,  to  Cordelia  Johnson.3 
July  24,  John  Batchelder  to  Amelia  J.  Eastman.3 
Sept.  21,  J.  S.  Baxter,  of  Quincy,  Mass.,  to  Elizabeth  Cutler.3 
Sept.   30,  Nathaniel   H.    Weston   to   Hannah   T.    Hoyt,   of 

Weare.3 

1859.  Feb.  1,  Ephraim  Snow  to  Mariah  McAllister.3 
Feb.  3,  Isaac  McAllister  to  Anna  F.  Tisdale.3 

May  12,  Frederick  Swett  to  Ann  Randall,  of  Lowell.17 
May  24,  H.  L.  Carter,  of  Hanover,  to  P.  F.  Fifield.3 
June  1,  Rev.  William  House,  of  Londonderry,  to  Fanny  Sav- 
age.3 
July  4,  George  Whitford  to  Sarah  A.  McLaughlin.3 
Oct.  13,  Samuel  M.  Swett  to  Emily  S.  Townsend.3 
Nov.  9,  Ephraim  W.  Butterfield  to  Jennie  Keziah  McPherson.3 

1860.  Jan.  10,  William  H.  Rice  to  Olive  J.  Farmer.16 
Jan.  12,  Aaron  Q.  Gage  to  Martha  J.  Moore.3 

Feb.  1,  Seth  Campbell,  2d,  to  Emeline  A.  Dearborn.3 


752  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1860.  Aug.  15,  Henry  S.  Upham  to  Myra  E.  Upton.3 
Sept.  27,  Daniel  Bailey  to  Mary  J.  Patten.3 

1861.  April  18,  Alfred  Quaid  to  Mersilvia  A.  Jenness.3 
June  13,  Albert  Hill  to  Jennie  Stark.3 

June  27,  Luther  Kittredge,  of  Nashua,  to  Maggie  A.  Moore.3 
July  6,  John  F.  Robb  to  Martha  J.  McNeil.3 
Aug.  4,  Abel  F.  Moore  to  Eliza  A.  Simons.3 
Dec.  10,  Charles  S.  Campbell  to  Mary  A.  Seavey.3 

1862.  Jan.  19,  George  Hodgman,  Jr.,  to  Hannah  E.  Mitchell.3 
March  13,  John  N.  Mace  to  Angie  S.  Parkhurst.3 

March  20,  Rufus  Patten  to  Dolly    S.  (Bursiel)  Bryant,  of 

Westford,  Mass.3 
May  7,  Benjamin  Nichols  to  Marion  Carr.3 
Aug.  10,  R.  P.  Ordway  to  Sarah  C.  Marden.3 
Aug.  10,  Harlan  P.  Downes  to  Maria  A.  Stevens.3 
Aug.  18,  Alfred  Harvey  to  Lizzie  F.  George.3 
Aug.  23,  Royal  Cheney,  of  Manchester,  to  Electa  J.  Gardner.3 
Aug.  23,  Edward  B.  Hartshorn  to  Anna  E.  Bagley.3 
Sept.  2,  John  M.  Todd  to  Lizzie  M.  Fletcher.3 
Oct.  21,  J.  B.  Philbrick  to  H.  W.  Porter.3 
Nov.  12,  Joseph  F.  Cady  to  Susan  Gardner,  of  Merrimack.17 
Nov.  27,  George  H.  Fifield  to  Jennie  M.  Dow.3 

1863.  Jan.   1,   Thomas  R.    Cochran,    of   New  Boston,   to   Almira 

French.3 
Jan.  20,  Gilman  E.  Gale  to  Dolly  M.  George.3 
March  19,  Asa  Car  ley  to  Lucinda  Hobart.3 
March  24,  George  G.  McLaughlin  to  Isabella  Harrison.3 
March  26,  Lieut.-Col.  Edward  L.  Bailey,  of  Manchester,  to 

Fannie  E.  Parker.  . 
April  13,  Lucian  Ingalls,  M.  D.,  of  Andover,  Mass.,  to  Han- 
nah S.  W.  Nevins.3 
May  11,  Farnum  Clark  to  Alma  A.  Clark.3 
May  27,  Thomas  B.  Clough  to  Almira  G.  Blake.3 
May  28,  Leavitt  C.  Felch  to  Anna  Welch.3 
June  3,  John  M.  Tuttle  to  Carrie  Starrett.3 
Sept.  27,  Warren  Richardson  to  Martha  J.  Melvin.3 
Oct.  1,  Elvin  Sturtevant  to  Nancy  P.  Quimby.3 
Nov.  26,  William  M.  Patten  to  Ellen  M.  Whitford.3 
Nov.  26,  Jed  F.  Patterson,  of  Merrimack,  to  Mary  J.  Kinson.3 
Dec.  17,  Solomon  Manning  to  Anstriss  P.  Flint.3 

1864.  Jan.  1,  Oliver  B.  Green  to  Helen  M.  Hale,  both  of  Merri- 

mack.3 
Feb.  10,  Asa  McClure  to  Martha  M.  Batchelor.3 
Feb.  25,  Enos  E.  White  to  Marietta  A.  Wright,  both  of  Am- 
herst.3 
March  12,  David  W.  Cady  to  Clara  J.  Gardner.6 
April  25,  Charles  A.  Rowell  to  Susan  F.  Quimby,  both  of 
Manchester. 


VITAL  STATISTICS.  753 

1864.  May  12,  Farnham  Jenkins  to  Mary  L.  Jones.3 

May  14,  James  McPherson  to   Martha  E.  Barron,  of  Man- 
chester.3 
Sept.  1,  Charles  O.  Wilkinson  to  Mary  Rias.3 
Sept.  15,  Levi  A.  Smith  to  Abby  E.  Johnson,  both  of  Unity.3 
Oct.  4,  Putnam  Jenkins  to  Maria  F.  Jenness.3 
Oct.  8,  Joseph  K.  Cogswell,  of  Webster,  to  Mary  F.  Darrah, 

by  Rev.  Edwin  J.  Hunt. 
Oct.  19,  William  Brown  to  Emma  Boynton.3 

1865.  Jan.  21,  Austin  Crook,  of  Piermont,  to  Lucy  Ann  Hobart.6 
March  11,  Walter   D.  Campbell  to  Lorena  Clark,  of  Man- 
chester.3 

March  16,  William  McAfee  to  Orline  M.  Flint.3 
April  4,  Hugh  R.  French  to  Nancy  H.  Young.3 
June  15,  Hazen  K.  Fuller,  of  Manchester,  to  Caroline  At- 

wood.3 
Sept.  12,  William  F.  Conner  to  Abbie  B.  Gardner.3 
Nov.  5,  Henry  H.  Moulton  to  Lois  C.  Richardson.3 
Nov.  16,  J.  P.  Whittemore  to  Sarah  S.  Darrah.3 
John  Plummer,  of  Manchester,  to  Lavina  J.  Patten.3 
Gamaliel  Gleason,  of  Auburn,  to  Margaret . 

1866.  Aug.  19,  Albert  Joseph  Rimbale  to  Aurelia  Schneider.5 
Aug.  24,  John  A.  Boynton  to  Julia  A.  Skinner,  both  of  Am- 
herst.8 

Sept.  13,  William  F.  Parker,  of  Merrimack,  to  Agnes  J.  Cut- 
ler, by  Rev.  Edwin  J.  Hunt. 

Sept.  13,  Nathan  A.  Parker,  of  Merrimack,  to  Hattie  A.  Cut- 
ler.5 

Oct.  20,  Martin  Netersch,  of  Manchester,  to  Harriet  Webber.6 

1867.  Jan.  1,  Charles  A.  Riddle,  of  Amherst,  to  Dolly  B.  Gardner.5 
March  3,  William  H.  Minot,  of  Manchester,  to  Mary  E.  Walker.5 
Aug.  4,  Samuel  A.  Kidder  to  Josephine  V.  Kaskey,  of  Lowell, 

Mass.6 
Oct.   20,  Charles  H.  Wilson  to  Addie  A.  Dunbar,  both  of 

Manchester.6 
Nov.  19,  George  Little  to  Sarah  J.  Gerrish,  both  of  Webster.6 
Nov.  26,  George  H.  Blood  to  Mary  J.  West,  of  Amherst.6 
Dec.  3,  Clinton  H.  Bixby,  of  Manchester,  to  Hattie  McG.  Gard- 
ner, by  Rev.  Edwin  J.  Hunt. 
Dec.  5,  James  C.  Carter,  of  Amherst,  to  Mary  E.  Goodhue,  of 
Andover. 

1868.  March  26,  John  P.  Hodgman  to  Esther  S.  Page.5 
Sept.  7,  Deforest  A.  Hall  to  Marcella  C.  Mclntire.4 
Sept.  12,  William  Cushman  to  Elvira  Hopes.5 

Nov.  12,  Ephraim  A.  Parkhurst  to  Nancy  Ashby,  bv  Rev. 

E.  P.  Noyes. 
Dec.  25,  John  Orr,  of  Clinton,  Mass.,  to  Lydia  A.  Flint,  bv 

Rev.  S.  L.  Gerould. 

49 


754  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

1868.  Dec.  31,  Silas  Holbrook  to  Lucy  S.  Crosby,  of  Boston,  by 

Rev.  W.  H.  Cudworth. 

1869.  June  27,  Clarence  E.  Ware  to  Nellie  Jenkins.4 

Sept.  7,  Ernest  Nettle  to  Katie  Fluskie,  both  of  Manchester.4 
Sept.  7,  George  S.  Colburn  to  Angie  F.  Morrison,  both  of 

Stoneham.4 
Oct.  7,  Samuel  H.  Patten  to  Helen  E.  Waldron.4 
Oct  20,  Herbert  R.  Fulton  to  Eliza  C.  Young.4 
Oct.  20,  Alfred  Robader,  of  Manchester,  to  Sophrona  A.  Camp- 
bell.4 
Nov.  25,  Charles  E.  Bursiel  to  Harriet  A.  French.4 
Dec.  1,  George  F.  Shepard  to  Delphina  J.  Smith.4 

1870.  March   31,  Daniel   McLaughlin  to    Harriet   E.  Johnson,  by 

James  C.  Bennett. 
Oct.  29,  Eri  K.  Woods  to  Sarah  J.  N.  Swett.17 
Dec.  15,  James  Fullerton  to  Harriet  F.  Adams.4 
Dec.  19,  Nelson  Fosher  to  Dolly  J.  Campbell.4 
Dec.  24,  Seth  P.  Campbell,  2d,  to  Emily  J.  Hammond.4 

1871.  Jan.  16,  William  H.  Sears  (?)  to  Susie  L.  Gaffney.7 
March  6,  Winfield  S.  Gage  to  Martha  W.  McAllister.4 
Aug.  8,  James  A.  Parker  to  Eliza  A.  Wood.4 

Aug.  11,  Thomas  G.  Potter  to  Hannah  Young.4 
Dec.  19,  Clark  G.  Mudge  to  Emma  F.  Adams.4 
Albert  L.  Flint  to  Cornelia  B.  Abbott. 

1872.  Feb.  14,  William  IT.  Gage  to  Mary  A.  Moore.4 
March  25,  Theron  Forbes  to  Lavinia  Page.4 
April  16,  James  E.  Gault  to  Abbie  A.  Patten.4 
June  3,  Hugh  R.  French  to  Mrs.  Lizzie  Jane  Smith.4 

June  15,  Willard  P.  Thompson  to  Sarah  E.  Willey,  both  of 
Goffstown.4 

June  26,  Chester  E.  Dimmick,  of  Manchester,  to  Maggie^A. 
Barnard.4 

Oct.  12,  Edwin  H.  Newell  to  Annie  E.  Sawyer,  both  of  Man- 
chester.4 

Nov.  11,  Thomas  Hackett  to  Maria  Martin.4 

Nov.  14,  Quincy  Barnard  to  Nancy  M.  Noyes,  of  Amherst, 
by  Rev.  George  W.  Stacy. 

1873.  Jan.  2,  John  A.  Dearborn,  of  Brighton,  to  Emma  J.  Mudge.4 
June  3,  Nathan  W.  Cutler  to  Lydia  F.  French,  of  Nashua, 

by  Rev.  George  Pierce. 

Aug.  12,  Edward  E.  Priest  to  Charlotte  A.  Moore,  both  of 
Cambridge,  Mass.4 

Oct.  15,  Clinton  French  to  Claribel  H.  French,  of  Manches- 
ter.4 

Oct.  18,  William  L.  Bartow,  of  Appleton,  Wis.,  to  Annis  G. 
Kendall.4 

Nov.  19,  James  R.  Leach,  of  New  Boston,  to  Mary  A. 
Damon.4 


VITAL  STATISTICS.  755 

1874.  Jan.  1,  William  W.  Moore  to  Sophia  H.  Babcock,  of  Groton, 

Mass.,  by  Rev.  J.  M.  L.  Babcock. 
Feb.  4,  George  H.  Witherspoon  to  Mary  A.  Bryant,  Long 

Bay,  N.  Y.,  by  John  Hodgman. 
March  19,  Clinton  1*.  Hodgman  to  Julia  Ann  Flint.4 
March  30,  Newton  I.  Peaslee  to  Mary  L.  Parkhurst.4 
June  15,  Daniel  W.  Atwood  to  Surviah  H.  Parkhurst.4 
Nov.  17,  Seth  P.  Campbell,  2d,  to  Mrs.  Jennie  Young,  of  Lan- 
caster, Mass.4 
Nov.  25,  Charles  P.  Woodbury  to  Laura  R.  Gardner.4 
Dec.  31,  Elliott  S.  Campbell  to  Angie  Campbell.4 

1875.  Dec.  9,  Isaac  A.  Hodgman  to  Lovisia  J.  Gage.4 

1876.  June  7,  George  F.  Gage  to  Mary  J.  Jenness,  by  Rev.  G.  L. 

Demarest. 
Sept.  20,  David  Swett  to  Margaret  A.  Buzzell,  of  Amherst, 

by  Rev.  J.  R.  Bartlett. 
Nov.  9,  Joseph  P.  Gage  to  Emma  J.  Witherspoon.4 
Nov.  28,  William  W.  Darrah  to  Nellie  B.  Chamberlain.4 

1877.  March  14,  Frank  S.  Dearborn  to  Sabra  J.  Mudge.4 
June  2,  Alfred  B.  Campbell  to  Mary  E.  Russell.4 
Oct.  9,  Edmund  B.  Hull  to  Sarah  M.  Foster.4 

Oct.  30,  George  A.  Tinker  to  Mary  E.  Gale,  of  Dan  vers,  by 

Rev.  S.  F.  Lougee. 
Nov.  15,  George  S.  Campbell  to  Carrie  Russell.4 

1878.  Jan.  1,  Willie  B.  Richards  to  Loorsa  Earls,  of  Milford,  by 

Rev.  George  Pierce. 
June  22,  David  P.  Campbell  to  Alice  E.  Watrous,  of  Green 

Springs,  O.4 
July  24,  William  H.  True  to  Lucinda  Dufur.4 
Aug.  6,  George  A.  King  to  Clarissa  R.  French,  by  Rev.  J.  H. 

Nichols. 
Sept.  27,  John  Robinson  to  Ida  E.  Campbell,  by  Rev.  J.  H. 

Lerned. 
Oct.  31,  Rollin   II.  Allen,  of  Andover,  Mass.,  to  Sarah  B. 

Spencer.4 
Nov.  27,  Leonard  Farley  to  Anna  H.  Eastman,  of  Weare,  by 

Rev.  G.  L.  Demarest. 

1879.  Feb.  8,  Harrison  Campbell  to  Carrie  L.  Kimball,  of  Deerfield, 

by  Rev.  J.  H.  Lerned. 
April  8,  Joseph  Hassell  to  Ida  M.  Hall.17 
May  20,  Clark  G.  Mudge  to  Lilla  E.  Goodhue,  of  Ipswich, 

Mass.4 
Oct.  26,  Sylvanus  C.  Campbell  to  Mary  E.  Campbell.6 
Nov.  6,  Wilfred  S.  Chaplin,  of  Georgetown,  Mass.,  to  Helen 

F.  McAllister.4 
Nov.  15,  Samuel  McDole  to  Alnora  E.  Brown,  by  Rev.  D.  B. 

Murray. 
Nov.  27,  Charles  A.  McAfee  to  Susie  Drucker,  of  Amherst.6 


756  HISTOKY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1879.  Dec.  26,  Solon  C.  Gilmore  to  Mary  E.  Wilkinson,  of  Man- 

chester.4 

1880.  Jan.  1,  Franklin  B.  McAfee  to  Maria  L.  Fisher.4 

March   10,  James  C.  F.  Hodgman  to  Katie  L.  Kittredge,  of 

Merrimack,  by  Rev.  K.  F.  Norris. 
Dec.  25,  John  W.  McDole  to  Emma  E.  Parkhurst.4 

1881.  Jan.  12,  Leonard  Bursiel  to  Julia  A.  Atwood.6 

Feb.  9,  Herbert  R.  Fulton  to  Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Wood,  by  Rev. 

L.  Malvern. 
Feb.  19,  William  P.  Mudge  to  Belle  Caruth,  of  Waltham, 

"Mass.,  by  Rev.  J.  F.  Fielding. 
Nov.  24,  Isaac  R.  Chase,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  to   Sarah  J. 

Moor.18 

1882.  June  15,  John  W.  Yeaton,  of  Concord,  to  Robina  J.  Adams.18 
July  10,  Joseph  Hurtibuse  to  Alvina  Lemay.18 

Oct.  17,  J.  Edward  Upton,  of  Amherst,  to  Etta  L.  Mace.18 

Nov.  8,  Hugh  R.  French  to  Mary  J.  Kendall.18 

Nov.  29,  Benj.  J.  Cragie,  of  Manchester,  to  Lucy  Suter.18 

1883.  Feb.  27,  Charles   Fullerton   to   Mary  G.  Scribner,  of  Goffs- 

town.18 
March  11,  Andrew  Kimball,   of  Bradford,  Pa.,  to  Mary  J. 
Stevens.18 

1884.  Feb.  20,  Eugene    F.  Buswell  to   Imogene  M.  Langley,  bv 

Rev.  C.  F.  Trussell. 
Dec.    10,   Elmer   Esterbrook,    of    Goffstown,   to    Hattie   L. 

Stevens.18 
Dec.  17,  George  Welch  to  Lura  Butterfield.18 
Dec.  22,  George  L.  Walch  to  Ella  D.  McAfee.18 
Dec.  24,  William  E.  Roby  to  Annie  B.  Aldrich,  of  Man- 
chester.18 
Dec.  24,  George  E.  Langley  to  Clara  M.  Langley,  of  Wilmot, 
by  Rev.  C.  F.  Trussell. 

1885.  Jan.  10,  Alfred  B.  Lampher  to  Abbie  M.  Stevens.18 

March  28,  Seth  P.  Campbell,  2d,  to  Josie  Webber,  by  Rev. 
J.  N.  Avann. 

May  5,  Arthur  W.  Holbrook  to  Adella  S.  Mason,  of  Cha- 
teaugay,  N.  Y.21 

June  30,  Elmer  E.  Kendall  to  Adella  F.  Parker,  of  Chicago, 
by  Rev.  Edwin  F.  Williams. 

July  7,  William  C.  Adams  to  Mary  F.  Roby.18 

July  16,  Walter  A.  Corliss  to  Almeda  Percy.18 

July  24,  Calvin  F.  Edgerly  to  Lizzie  F.  Richer,  by  Rev. 
W.  W.  Brodbreck. 

Sept.  30,  Joseph  T.  Lummis  to  M.  Gertrude  Moore,  by  Rev. 
Charles  S.  Murkland. 

Oct.  22,  Charles  Adams  to  Mattie  M.  Woods,  of  London- 
derry, by  Rev.  M.  Proctor  Favor. 

Nov.  4,  Myron  A.  Tenney  to  Emma  J.  Allen.21 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  757 

1886.  March  2,  Lyman  M.  Kinson  to  Eunice  Stevens.18 
March  30,  Charles  H.  Gault  to  Minnie  E.  Parker.39 

May  18,  George  H.  Webber  to  Mary  A.  Lavallie,  of  Milford.18 
Aug.  25,  Nat  James  Lord  Ryder  to  Jennie  F.  Bailey.18 
Oct.  12,  Timothy  Townsend  to  Mrs.  Anna  Swett.18 
Oct.  30,  Andrew  C.  Brimmer  to  Mary  R.  Gilighan.18 

1887.  April  30,  George  H.  Wiggin,  Jr.,  to  Mary  F.  Minot,  by  Rev. 

E.  A.  Slack. 
Sept.  13,  Thomas  O.  Barr  to  Sally  U.  Gage.19 
Sept.  13,  Fred  G.  Barr  to  Addie  L.  Gage.19 
Sept.  14,  Martin  Campbell  to  Susie  E.  Witherspoon.19 
Sept.  26,  Neal  E.  Fullerton  to  Etta  M.  Spencer.19 
Nov.  23,  Edward  A.  Porter  to  Eliza  D.  Rollins,  by  Rev.  A. 

T.  Hillman. 
Dec.  13,  Henry  H.  Smith  to  Sarah  D.  McLane,  of  New  Bos- 
ton, by  Rev.  Miles  N.  Reed. 

1888.  Feb.  9,  Herman  Foster  to  Nancy  E.  Barr.19 

June  20,  Charles  H.  Gage  to  Ida  L.  Roby,  of  New  London.21 
July  20,  Arthur  A.  Traver  to  Mabel  A.  Denison.20 
Oct.  17,  John  G.  McAllister  to  Mamie  F.  Vose.20 
Nov.  15,  Albert  D.  Smith  to   Ellen  F.  Taylor,    of   Granby, 
Mass.,  by  Rev.  Fritz  W.  Baldwin. 

1889.  June  18,  Fred  A.  French  to  Jennie  A.  R.  McAllister.20 
June  27,  Benjamin  Hall  to  Louise  J.  Barnes,  of  Merrimack, 

by  Rev.  Elisha  A.  Keep. 

Sept.  11,  Roger  H.  Vose,  of  New  Boston,  to  Martha  E.  Cut- 
ler, by  Rev.  Geo.  N.  Carner. 

Oct.  16,  Herbert  M,  Fosher  to  Mary  E.  Adams.20 

1890.  May  1,  Arthur  E.  Campbell  to  Janet  Foster,  by  Rev.  J.  J. 

Ricard. 
May  15,  Wyman  R.  Southick  to  Nellie  L.  Moores,  by  Rev. 

Thomas  A.  Dorion. 
Nov:  4,  Fred  G.  Fifield  to  Grace  M.  Peaslee,  by  Rev.  C.  B. 

Wathen. 
Dec.  18,  Paul  Richards,  of  Manchester,  to  Amelia  Fosher.20 
Dec.  24,  Willie  G.  McDole  to  Ada  J.  Rogers,  of  Manchester, 

by  Silas  A.  Riddle. 

1891.  Feb.  24,  George  M.  Davis  to  Mabel  L.  Davis,  of   Norwich, 

Vt.,  by  Rev.  William  F.  Stearns. 

March  11,  William  B.  French  to  Jennie  L.  Shepard.20 

Oct.  17,  Wilder  M.  Robinson,  of  Manchester,  to  Myra  Con- 
ner.20 

Oct.  20,  Hugh  R.  Barnard  to  Addie  E.  Hull,  by  Rev.  W.  H. 
Morrison. 

Dec.  7,  Seth  P.  Campbell,  2d,  to  Ada  E.  Butterfield,  of 
Hooksett,  by  Rev.  C.  D.  Hill. 

1892.  April  7,  Charles  H.  Wiggin  to  Annie  N.  Farley,  by  Rev. 

Elisha  A.  Keep. 


758  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

1892.  July  14,  Charles  E.  Bursiel  to  Susie  E.  Haselton,  of  Chester, 

by  Rev.  James  G.  Robertson. 
Aug.  24,  Charles  E.  Foster  to  Bertha  J.  Cheney.21 
Aug.  31,  Charles  P.  Farley  to  Elizabeth  L.  Clapp,  of  Dama- 

riscotta,  by  Rev.  E.  C.  Whittemore. 
Oct.  4,  William  F.  Nay  to  Adeline  I.  Shedd,  of  Nashua,  by 

Rev.  O.  J.  White. 

1893.  Jan.  1,  Thomas  Mullen,  of  St.  Albans,  to  Nellie  Carson,  by 

Rev.  C.  H.  Fields. 
Aug.  30,  Henry  E.  Hutchinson,  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  to  Mer- 

silvia  A.  Jenness,  by  Rev.  David  W.  Downs. 
Oct.  9,  John  A.  McAfee  to  Grace  P.  Parkhurst,  of  Amherst.24 

1894.  Oct.  4,  Charles  L.  Davis  to  Mary  Simonds,  by  Rev.  F.  W. 

Mace. 
Nov.  10,  Frank  E.  Manning  to  Mary  H.  Brown.2"2 
Nov.  14,  Levi  M.  Dolloff,  of  Somerville,  to  Mary  R.  Worth- 
ley,  by  Rev.  W.  C.  McAllister. 

1895.  April  25,  Samuel  Adams  to  Frances  E.  Crockett,  of  Charles- 

town,  Mass.,  by  Rev.  Wm.  E.  Westervelt. 
June  12,  William   S.  Manning   to   Georgiana   F.    Way,   of 

Charlestown,  by  Rev.  Thomas  D.  Howard. 
Nov.  16,  Eddie  L.  Conner  to  Clara  E.  Campbell.22 
Nov.  20,  George  H.  Gault  to  Nellie  J.  Webber.22 
Dec.  12,  George  A.  Jenkins  to  Ellen  F.  Richards,  of  Man- 
chester.22 

1896.  March  18,  Orra  G.  Kilton  to  Grace  M.  Lane.24 
April  23,  Horace  E.  Webber  to  Harriet  C.  Shepard.24 

July  15,  James  R.  Leach  to  Georgie  Kendrick,  of  Cambridge, 

Mass.,  by  Rev.  Horace  F.  Barnes. 
Aug.  12,  John  G.  Sharp  to  Jean  Moore  Currie.21 

1897.  March  9,  George  W.  Smith  to  Sarah  J.  Richardson,  of  Goffs- 

town.24 

April  2,  Ervin  J.  D.  Matott  to  Alice  Skidmore,  by  Rev.  Wm. 
L.  Searle. 

June  30,  George  F.  Shepard  to  Fannie  L.  Perry,  of  Lynn, 
by  Rev.  Chas.  E.  Jefferson. 

Aug.  26,  Harry  A.  Shepard  to  Mina  B.  Snowe,  of  Woburn, 
by  Rev.  Frank  L.  Knapp. 

Sept.  9,  Rodney  F.  Rollins  to  Ella  M.  Worden,  of  New  Bos- 
ton, by  Rev.  John  F.  Wildey. 

Sept.  26,  Edward  R.  Blood  to  Ella  V.  Crusoe,  of  Hollis,  by 
Rev.  Francis  L.  Burke. 

Oct.  12,  Milton  B.  George  to  Emma  L.  Turney.21 

1898.  June  1,  Joseph  Taylor  to  Flora  E.  Rowe,  by  Rev.  Wim  C. 

Lindsay. 
Aug.  21,  John  M.  Sargent  to  Hannah  A.  Chase,  of  Deering, 

by  Rev.  W.  S.  Randall. 
Nov.  9,  Fred  G.  Holbrook  to  Bessie  I.  Nichols.24 


VITAL  STATISTICS. 


759 


1899.  May  12,  John  A.  Quaid  to  Grace  A.  Ward,  by  Rev.  W.  C. 

Lindsay. 
Aug.  14,  McLean  Woodbury  to  Lulu  M.  Kimball,  of  New- 
port, Vt.,  by  Rev.  Edwin  Morrell. 

1900.  April  25,  Samuel  F.  Adams  to  Addie  E.  Fosher.21 

July  18,  Charles  E.  Lewis,  of  Fall  River,  to  Lizzie  S.   Hol- 

brook,  bv  Rev.  J.  Bunyan  Lemon. 
Sept.  13,  M.  V.  B.  Kinne  to  Addie  H.  Colburn.21 
Oct.  5,  Ervin  R.  French  to  Bertha  E.  Parkhurst.21 
Nov.  20,  Henry  Fisher  to  Alice  Etta  Quimby.23 
Dec.  5,  Charles  J.  Tinker  to  Margaret  Currie.23 

1901.  Jan.  1,  Alonzo    H.    Holbrook   to   Anna   L.    Gillingham,   of 

Boston,  by  Rev.  J.  Bunyan  Lemon. 
April  24,  Bertie  L.  Peaslee  to  Mary  L.  Foster,  of  Merrimack.23 
Aug.  4,  Loren  L.  Rouse  to  Annie  Noreen,  of  Manchester,  by 

Rev.  Charles  N.  Tilton. 
Aug.  7,  Alfred  C.  Parker,  of  Boston,  to  Gertrude  E.  Camp- 
bell.23 
Sept.  28,  George  H.  Hardy  to  Lillian  F.  Kingsley.23 
Nov.  4,  Joseph  S.  Parkhurst  to  Annie  Atkinson,  of  Manches- 
ter, by  Rev.  B.  W.  Lockhart. 

1902.  April  2,  Edward  D.  Campbell  to  Nettie  Belle  Rogers.23 
June  25,  Emerson  E.  Densmore  to  Mabel  F.  Vose.23 
Oct.  25,  Allen  F.  Currier  to  Jennie  M.  Riddell.23 

Dec.  17,  Max  Ramig  to  Lizzie  Schwartz.23 

1903.  Feb.  11,  Albert  L.  Flint  to  Sarah  Tinker  Stowell.23 
April  2,  John  F.  Cole  to  Etta  J.  Peabody.23 

May  23,  James  A.  Jenness  to  Nellie  R.  Hardy.23 

June  24,  Frank  Hardy  Barnard  to  Nellie  Tyson  Shepard.23 

DEATHS   IN   BEDFORD. 

1755.    March  20,  Matthew,  son  of  Matthew  Patten. 

1764.    July  28,  Elezias,  son  of  Moses  Barron. 

1768.    Jan.  24,  Margaret  Cochran,  daughter  of  James  Aiken. 

1780.    Sept.  19,  Jane  Wallace,  daughter  of  Joseph  Wallace. 

1783.  June  26,  Martha,  daughter  of  Samuel  Houston. 
Sept.,  Deacon  James  Little. 

Oct.  16,  John,  son  of  John  Bell. 

Dec.  5,  Jenny,  wife  of  James  Patterson. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Tirrell. 

Mary,  daughter  of  John  Bell,  Jr. 

1784.  Aug.  2,  David  Kargil,  son  of  James  Houston. 
Sept.  29,  Jonathan  Chubbock, 

1785.  Dec.  16,  Susanna,  wife  of  Jonathan  Griffin. 

1786.  April  27,  Sarah,  wife  of  John  Bell. 

May  4,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Joseph  Bell. 
May  7,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  McLaughlin. 


760  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1786.    May  12,  Lieut.  Whitefield  Gilmore. 

July  15,  Enoch,  son  of  Silas  Dole  and  Judith. 

Aug.  31,  Nancy,  daughter  of  Lieut.  Adam  Smith. 

Sept.  5,  Jane  Orr,  wife  of  John  Orr,  Esq. 

Sept.  8,  Adam,  son  of  Adam  Smith. 
1791.    March  24,  Samuel  Fugard. 
1793.    April  29,  Deborah  Patten,  4  months. 

1797.  Jan.  8,  Wyseman  Claget  Burns. 

1798.  Feb.  3,  Rev.  John  Houston. 

1799.  Oct.  8,  Oilman  Riddle,  4  years. 

1804.  Jan.  22,  Col.  Stephen  Dole. 
Feb.  11,  Betsey  English. 
Feb.  14,  Mrs.  Daniel  Moor. 
Feb.  25,  John  Atwood. 

Feb.  26,  infant  child  of  John  Houston. 

Feb.  27,  Mrs.  Samuel  Patterson. 

March,  Sally  Moore. 

April  3,  John  Bell. 

April  2,  Mr.  Davidson. 

April  6,  Ann  Riddle,  wife  of  Isaac  Riddle. 

1805.  Sept.  11,  Caroline  Chandler,  1  year. 

1810.  Aug.  24,  Susannah,  infant  daughter  of  David  Atwood. 

1811.  Apr.  1,  Dolly  Gage,  1  month. 

April  20,  Alfred  and  Sanford,  twin  sons  of  David  Atwood. 

1812.  June,  Rebecca  M.  Riddle,  1  year. 

June  3,  Cynthia  Wallace,  daughter  of  Robert  Wallace. 
1814.    June  25,  Sarah  Atwood,  1  month. 

1816.  Sept.  2,  infant  daughter  of  Leonard  C.  French. 
Dec,  Margaret  Riddle. 

1817.  Nov.  14,  James  Atwood,  10  days. 

1818.  Sept.  12,  William  and  Hiram,  twin  sons  of  David  Atwood. 

1819.  May  10,  Polly  Woodbury. 

1822.  March  15,  George  Moor,  son  of  Andrew  Moor,  2  years. 
April  25,  Lucretia  Merrill,  2  years. 

May  4,  Joseph  Adams  Merrill,  7  months. 

1823.  Sept.  9,  Rufus  A.  Merrill,  3  years. 

1824.  April  27,  Betsey  S.  Merrill,  26  years. 
Sept.  18,  Hannah  Merrill  Foster,  2  years. 

1825.  Aug.  12,  Albert  Darrah,  1  year. 

1826.  Feb.  22,  Eliza  Tolford. 

March  24,  Sarah  Dunlap  Moore,  41  years. 
April  24,  John  Wallace  Moor,  42  years. 

1827.  May  10,  Alfred  Foster,  35  years. 

1828.  Charlotte  Riddle,  wife  of  James  Riddle. 

1829.  March  18,  Margaret  Houston  Merrill,  5  days. 
Sept.  16,  infant  son  of  Leonard  Walker. 

1830.  Jan.  26,  Isaac  Riddle. 

Sept.  2,  Abijah  H.  McLaughlin,  1  month. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  761 

1831.  March  4,  Laura  Riddle,  wife  of  James  Riddle. 
Sept.  19,  Nancy  Goffe,  1  year. 

Dec.  23,  Ann  Mariah  Dole,  7  months. 

1832.  March  9,  Nathan  Parker  Walker,  7  years. 
July  23,  David  Riddle  of  Merrimack. 

1833.  March  24,  Jane  Dole  Riddle,  evidently  Jane  (Riddle)  Dole, 

28  years. 

1834.  Feb.  19,  Eliza  Ann  Goffe,  1  year. 

April  23,  Robert  Riddle  Parker,  1  month. 

1836.  Aug.  26,  David  Patten,  75  years. 
Oct.  7,  Elizabeth  Dole,  4  years. 

1837.  May  28,  Isaac  Brooks  Atwood,  13  years. 

1838.  Jan.  22,  Clorinda  Atwood,  15  years. 

1840.  Sept.  21,  Ann  Eliza  Goffe,  1  year. 

1841.  Aug.  11,  Mary  A.  Merrill,  3  years. 
Sept.  14,  Stephen  Boynton. 
Sept.  16,  Robert  Boynton. 

1843.  April   11,  William  Boynton,  known  to  be  William  Jasper 

Boynton. 

1844.  March  25,  Mary  S.  Merrill,  42  years. 
July  16,  Timothy  C.  Davis,  2  months. 

1845.  Dec.  12,  Lewis  Dow,  5  years. 

1846.  June  18,  John  Hardy,  80  years. 

1850.  April  22, Mace,  4  years. 

May  3,  Otis  B.  Hardy,  42  years. 
Nov.  14,  Mrs.  James  McDole. 

1851.  Jan.  5,  George  White,  2  years. 
Jan.  31,  Josiah  Colley,  64  years. 
March  12,  Willard  P".  French,  2  years. 
June  11,  Susan  Elizabeth  Rowe,  12  years. 
Aug.,  infant  daughter  of  I.  Riddle,  4  months. 
Aug.  9,  Mrs.  Stevens,  75  years. 

Aug.  23,  Rodney  McLaughlin. 
Aug.  30,  infant  son  of  Willard  Gardner. 
Oct.  24,  Mrs.  Sherburne  Dearborn,  42  years. 
Nov.,  James  Campbell,  78  years. 

1852.  Feb.  19,  Molly  Riddle,  79  years.  ' 
Sept.  17,  Clifton  Harvill. 

Nov.  25,  Ephraim  Harvill. 
Mrs.  Muzzey. 

1853.  April,  Mrs.  Rhoda  French,  75  years. 
April  13,  Sarah  Manning,  20  years. 
April  25,  Deborah  McLaughlin,  30  years. 
May,  child  of  Mr.  Merrill,  12  years. 
May  1,  Hannah  Adams,  infant. 

May  26,  Caleb  Kendrick,  20  years. 
June,  child  of  Rodney  Rollins,  3  months. 
June  25,  child  of  J.  H.  Shepard,  1  year. 


762  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1853.  July,  child  of  C.  R.  Butterfield. 
July  25,  John  McAllister,  75  years. 
Aug.,  child  of  Moody  Quimby. 
Sept.,  John  Houston. 

Sept.  6,  Lowell  Parker. 
Sept.  6,  Mrs.  Gault,  30  years. 
Sept.  8,  Wiseman  Parker,  45  years. 
Sept.  8,  Mrs.  G.  Whitford,  45  years. 
Oct.,  Moody  Quimby,  50  years. 
Oct.,  child  of  C.  F.  Shepard,  5  years. 
Oct.  15,  Mrs.  S.  Chandler,  73  years. 
Oct.  20,  Widow  Mary  Walker,  75  years. 
Nov.,  Mrs.  Wright,  77  years. 
Nov.  7,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Mack,  32  years. 
Nov.  15,  Charles  Boynton. 
Caleb  Burns,  18  years. 
Jotham  Gillis,  97  years. 

1854.  Jan.  1,  Robert  Campbell,  75  years. 
Jan.  4,  Jane  McAllister,  74  years. 

Jan.  19,  child  of  James  Rollins,  3  months. 
Feb.  27,  Jesse  Richardson,  60  years. 
March  15,  Sally  French,  75  years. 
April  2,  D.  Jane  Stevens,  37  years. 
April  17,  David  Sprague,  78  years. 
April  25,  James  Rollins,  27  years. 
May,  child  of  David  Stevens,  3  months. 
May,  child  of  David  Worthley,  1  year. 
May  4,  Stephen  Damon,  65  years. 
June,  child  of  P.  C.  French,  2d,  2  years. 
June  5,  Ephraim  Parker,  21  years. 
July,  child  of  C.  R.  Butterfield,  1  year. 
July  30,  Susan  Holbrook,  17  years. 
Aug.,  Mrs.  J.  Armstrong. 
Aug.  18,  Mrs.  J.  C.  McLaughlin,  40  years. 
Sept.  15,  Mrs.  D.  McLaughlin,  63  years. 
Sept.  27,  Mrs.  Benjamin  Shepard,  56  years 
Dec.  2,  Eunice  Stevens,  32  years. 
Dec.  22,  Sophronia  Mullett,  28  years. 
Dec.  22,  infant  child  of  Sophronia  Mullett. 
Dec.  26,  Mrs.  S.  Damon,  60  years. 
Mrs.  Olive  Bursiel,  40 -years. 
William  C.  Moore,  28  years. 
Titus  Moore. 

1855.  Jan.,  Eliza  Butler. 

Jan.  12,  Sarah  Dunlap,  79  years. 
Feb.,  infant  child  of  Mr.  Ball. 
March,  Joseph  Tinker. 
March  6,  Adam  Gilmore,  70  years. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  763 

1855.  March  13,  Joseph  I.  Clement,  24  years. 
April  16,  Calvin  Snow,  56  years. 
May, Jacqueth. 

May,  John  E.  Mullett,  67  years. 

May  13,  Fanny  Vose,  18  years. 

June  20,  Joseph  Butterfield,  65  years. 

June  25,  Lucy  Muzzey,  75  years. 

June  26,  James  Clav,  50  years. 

July  29,  Mrs.  B.  Nichols,  90  years. 

Sept.  8,  child  of  G.  D.  Whitford,  3  months. 

Nov., Armstrong 

Nov.  8,  Samuel  McAfee,  72  years. 
Dec,  Margaret  Chandler,  81  years. 
Mrs.  James  Campbell,  78  years. 

1856.  April,  Lucy  French,  41  years. 
May,  Nathan  Jenkins,  57  years. 
June  9,  Orlando  Hall,  18  years. 
Aug.,  infant  child  of  George  Shattuck. 
Aug.,  Calvin  Butterfield,  35  years. 
Aug.,  Brooks  Worthley,  69  years. 
Aug.,  Adam  Gilmore,  50  years. 

Sept.,  infant  child  of  David  Mc.G.  Moore. 

Sept.,  Richard  Gregg. 

Sept.,  Benjamin  Stevens,  79  years. 

Oct.,  David  Cady,  73  years. 

Oct.,  Emma  French,  22  years. 

Oct.,  Simon  B.  Jenness,  18  years. 

Nov.,  Joseph  Roby,  70  years. 

Helen  M.  Nevins. 

Mrs.  M.  A.  Churchill. 

Infant  child  of Campbell. 

1857.  March  5,  Rebecca  A.  Butler,  32  years. 
March  24,  Mrs.  Mary  F.  Rollins,  24  years. 
April  2,  Franklin  Campbell,  6  years. 

May  10,  daughter  of  William  McAllister,  2  years. 

May  13,  Chandler  Spofford,  69  years. 

May  17,  child  of  Frank  Wright,  11  years. 

June  2,  Mary  E.  Campbell,  6  months. 

July  8,  Mrs.  Joshua  Vose,  61  years. 

July  28,  Mrs.  Nancy  Reed,  63  years. 

Aug.  3,  George  Campbell,  48  years. 

Aug.  29,  Lucy  A.  Bursiel,  39  years. 

Aug.  30,  infant  son  of  Thomas  Bursiel. 

Sept.  7,  Lemuel  B.  Gault,  35  years. 

Nov.  6,  William  Bursiel,  77  years. 

Nov.  23,  Mrs.  Thomas  Chandler,  80  years. 

Dec.  18,  Ida  B.  Gault,  3  months. 


764  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1858.  March  3,  Jabez  French,  2  years,  7  months. 
March  16,  Nancy  McLaughlin,  23  years. 
May  13,  Susan  Seavey,  56  years. 

May  16,  Mehitable  Bryant,  72  years. 

June  25,  Samuel  J.  Patten,  22  years,  2  months. 

Sept.  17,  Sarah  A.  King,  3  months. 

Oct.  8,  Emeline  Butler,  38  years. 

Nov.  12,  Dolly  Riddle,  80  years. 

Nov.  22,  Maitland  R.  French,  7  years. 

Dec.  15,  Samuel  Jenkins,  56  years. 

Dec.  23,  William  Fatten,  67  years. 

1859.  Jan.  20,  Josiah  Walker,  77  years. 
Feb.  21,  Abbie  M.  Hodgman. 
Feb.  23,  Thomas  Shepard,  77  years. 
March  15,  Harriet  Manning,  21  years. 
Aug.  7,  Albert  Riddle,  50  years. 
Oct.  9,  Sarah  A.  Hodgman,  16  years. 
Dec.  12,  infant  child  of  James  Fullerton. 

1860.  Jan.  23,  Mrs.  Stevens. 

May  25,  Dea.  John  French,  80  years. 
May  27,  William  R.  Woodbury,  38  years. 
June  4,  Malvina  Stevens,  child. 
June  12,  Almus  McPherson,  24  years. 
Aug.,  William  Hutchinson,  67  years. 
Aug.  3,  Mrs.  Albert  Hill. 
Aug.  25,  Nathan  Kendall. 
Sept.,  William  Way,  22  years. 
Sept.  14,  James  F.  Hodgman. 
Oct.  8,  Mrs.  B.  Nichols,  37  years. 
Oct.  8,  George  W.  Webber,  57  years. 
Oct.  25,  Horace  and  Hannah,  infants. 
Nov.  5,  Theodore  A.  Goffe,  91  years. 
Dec.  1,  Juliette  Adams,  20  years. 
Dec.  5,  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  69  years. 
John  Moulton,  3  years. 

1861.  Jan.  23,  John  P.  Shepard,  16  years. 
Feb.  4,  Lewis  W.  Kendall,  7  years. 
Feb.  14,  Charles  Butterfield. 

Feb.  18,  William  B.  Stevens,  41  years. 
March  16,  Mrs.  Jenkins. 

1862.  Jan.  11,  William  Adams,  35  years. 

Jan.  23,  William  Henry  Hodgman,  18  years. 

March  2,  Irving  Campbell,  1  year. 

March  4,  Jane  Moore,  82  years. 

March  13,  Mary  Louisa  Campbell,  3  years. 

April  6,  Ellen  Adams,  7  years. 

June,  John  F.  Moore,  15  years. 

June,  Calvin  Dodge,  15  years. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  765 


1862.  June  8,  Lorenzo  R.  Lougee,  26  years. 
June  21,  Joshua  Vose,  81  years. 
June  24,  James  E.  Lougee,  24  years. 
Aug.  12,  Thomas  Wells,  4  years. 

Sept.  27,  infant  child  of  Horace  S.  Campbell. 
Oct.  2,  Hannah  M.  Manning,  29  years. 
Nov.  6,  Solomon  Manning,  63  years. 
Nov.  12,  George  Hodgman,  Jr.,  24  years. 
Dec,  Sarah  Hackett,  43  years. 
Dec.  17,  Charles  N.  Parkhurst,  22  years. 
Dec.  28,  Leona  O.  Tolford,  5  years. 

1863.  Jan.  21,  Sally  Page,  1  year. 

Feb.  25,  Mary  Ann  Corliss,  6  years. 
March  3,  Irving  J.  Campbell,  1  year. 
March  13,  Mary  L.  Campbell,  3  years. 
March  18,  Isaac  Onslow  Gilmore,  11  years. 
April  18,  Susan  Witherspoon,  73  years. 
May  21,  Lebia  Y.  Phillips,  3  years. 
May  25,  Julia  Flint,  19  years. 
June  3,  Oliver  Walker,  38  years. 
June  15,  Samuel  Witherspoon,  76  years. 
June  23,  Isabell  D.  Phillips,  5  years. 
Oct.  14,  Joshua  Vose,  4  months. 
Dec.  11,  Elizabeth  Cady,  82  years. 
Dec.  13,  Robert  Patten,  61  years. 

1864.  July  15,  Achsah  Stevens,  32  years. 
July  16,  Anna  Maria  Stevens,  1  year. 
Aug.  16,  Charles  L.  Parker,  3  years. 
Aug.  17,  Mary  Augusta  Moore,  2  years. 
Aug.  21,  John  Goffe,  1  year. 

Aug.  24,  Anna  Goffe,  1  year. 
Aug.  25,  Sapphira  Yoker,  53  years. 
Aug.  30,  Abigail  Needham,  69  years. 
Sept.  5,  John  C.  Fullerton,  10  months. 
Nov.,  Mary  A.  Campbell,  32  years. 
Nov.  16,  Josephine  A.  French,  7  months. 
Dec,  Mary  Eveleth,  90  years. 
Dec,  George  O.  Townsend,  17  years. 

1865.  Jan.  15,  David  Stevens,  53  years. 
Jan.  28,  Allan  Peabody,  83  years. 
Feb.  15,  Thomas  F.  Hodgman,  3  years. 
April  16,  Samuel  B.  Needham,  74  years. 
July  26,  Lucy  Swett,  68  years. 

Aug.  1,  Phineas  French. 

Oct.  1,  Hannah  French. 

Oct.  24,  Achsah  Way,  50  years. 

Nov.  16,  Robert  Dunlap,  86  years. 

Dec.  4,  James  Holbrook,  33  years. 

Greenleaf  Walker. 


766  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

1866.  Jan.  28,  Thomas  Chandler,  93  years. 
Jan.  29,  Clarissa  Patten,  59  years. 
Feb.  17,  Samuel  Adams,  73  years. 
March  12,  Michael  Regan,  22  years. 
March  25,  Ruf  us  Parkhurst,  54  years. 
April  1,  Timothy  O'Connor. 

April  5,  Edward'Barr,  3  years. 
April  13,  Isaac  Gage,  2d,  77  years. 
July  16,  Stephen  French,  60  years. 
April  18,  Emma  May  Haines,  2  years. 
April  30,  John  W.  Fletcher. 
May  8,  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  72  years. 
May  25,  Mary  Jane  R.  Moore,  37  years. 
Nov.  20,  Bernice  Pritchard,  72  years. 
Dec.  1,  James  Morrison,  72  years. 
Dec.  12,  Ralph  Holbrook,  72  years. 

1867.  Jan.  20,  Thomas  U.  Gage,  47  years. 
Jan.  27,  Grace  Annis  Fullerton. 
March  12,  Edward  Dewell,  22  years. 
April  16,  Gideon  F.  Page,  19  years. 
April  19,  Mahala  Cheney,  82  years. 
July  12,  Ella  C.  Darrah,  19  years. 

July  23,  Amanda  M.  Chamberlain,  37  years. 
Sept.  9,  Nancy  C.  Ferguson,  30  years. 
Sept.  9,  John  Adams,  74  years. 
Nov.  13,  Isaac  Darrah,  80  years. 
Dec.  9,  Fanny  Fletcher,  24  years. 

1868.  Jan.  17,  Mary  Fullerton,  41  years. 
Feb.  18,  Catherine  Taffe,  27  years. 
March  1,  Rachel  Darrah,  72  years. 
March  3,  Jane  Moore. 

March  23,  Arthur  P.  Jenkins,  1  year. 
April  28,  Laura  Seavey,  12  years. 
May  18,  Jennie  Witherspoon,  83  years. 
June  2,  Bridget  E.  Taylor,  70  years. 
Aug.  12,  Charles  W.  Butterfield,  7  years. 
Dec.  10,  Mary  Campbell,  59  years. 

1869.  Feb.  4,  infant  son  of  E.  P.  French. 
Feb.  8,  Nancy  E.  Moore,  67  years. 
Feb.  10,  Frederick  Campbell,  5  months. 
March  3,  Alvira  Jenness,  60  years. 
March  9,  James  II.  Moore,  36  years. 
March  10,  Clara  Richards,  26  years. 
April  23,  Jed  Frye  Patterson,  2  years. 
May  5,  Nancy  Houston,  98  years. 
June  10,  Sally  Adams,  69  years. 

June  16,  Lizzie  J.  French,  14  years. 
June  20,  Nancy  J.  Walker,  45  years. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  767 


1869.  July  20,  Arthur  W.  Miller,  1  year. 
July  19,  Bessie  E.  Spaulding,  2  years. 
Aug.  22,  John  Regan,  1  year. 

Sept.  10,  Emma  Ritner,  4  years. 
Sept.  12,  Mary  Way,  6  years. 
Sept.  14,  Frank  Parkhurst,  1  year. 
Sept.  23,  Lucy  C.  Parker,  43  years. 
Oct.  6,  Isaac  Gage,  86  years. 
Oct.  12,  David  Atwood,  90  years. 
Oct.  22,  Sherburn  Dearborn. 
Oct.  25,  Robert  C.  French,  24  years. 
Nov.  14,  Charles  Kean,  3  months. 
Nov.  20,  Edwin  Stark,  30  years. 
Dec.  12,  Robert  Houston,  69  years. 
Dec.  14,  David  Cutler,  20  years. 

1870.  Jan.  1,  Abigail  Hodgman,  90  years. 
Jan.  1,  John  Way,  83  years. 

Jan.  1,  Submit  W.  Darrah,  86  years. 
Jan.  10,  Samuel  Chandler,  95  years. 
Jan.  13,  Alfred  Roby,  48  years. 
Jan.  20,  David  Welch,  57  years. 
Jan.  25,  Etta  L.  Holbrook,  1  year. 
Jan.  26,  Ella  L.  Holbrook,  1  year. 
Jan.  27,  Jesse  Richards,  1  month. 
Jan.  30,  Nancy  F.  French,  82  years. 
Feb.  14,  Jane  Dodge,  78  years. 
Feb.  15,  Leonard  C.  French,  67  years. 
Feb.  19,  Catherine  H.  McAfee,  78  years. 
March  5,  George  W.  Gage,  62  years. 
March  9,  Nellie  M.  Batchelder,  6  months. 
March  18,  Mary  Goffe,  6  years. 
March  19,  Daniel  H.  Ferguson,  74  years. 
March  21,  James  Houston,  77  years. 
March  27,  Mary  J.  Little,  12  years. 
May  10,  George  L.  Kendall,  19  years. 
May  11,  John  Shepard,  86  years. 
May  23,  Harriet  Spaulding,  1  year. 
May  25,  Frances  L.  Barnes,  63  years. 
June  16,  Moody  M.  Stevens,  89  years. 
July  4,  Russell  Moore,  70  years. 
July  17,  Sarah  A.  Shepard,  53  years. 
July  21,  Clarissa  Gilman,  69  years. 
July  22,  George  Way,  55  years. 
July  30,  John  H.  Farley,  1  year. 
Aug.  5,  Louisa  Roby,  27  years. 
Aug.  19,  William  Batchelder,  79  years. 
Aug.  25,  Mary  Way,  80  years. 
Sept.  7,  Sarah  A.  Mace,  26  years. 


768  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1870.  Sept.  15,  John  Young,  39  years. 
Sept.  15,  Nancy  J.  Way,  13  years. 
Sept.  19,  Mary  B.  Atwood,  65  years. 
Sept.  26,  Frank  B.  Currier,  3  months. 
Oct.  25,  Nancy  J.  Moore,  51  years. 
Oct.  28,  Elizabeth  Farley,  61  years. 
Nov.  25,  Mary  Jane  Tolford,  38  years. 
Dec.  10,  Annie  Goffe,  1  year. 

Olive  Dunlap,  84  years. 

John  H.  Harrington,  6  months. 

1871.  April  22,  Sybil  Moore,  84  years. 
May  4,  Alma  McPherson. 

June  21,  Jennie  McDole,  22  years. 
June  22,  Rebecca  Roby,  80  years. 
July  4,  Ira  Campbell,  33  years. 
July  13,  John  A.  McGaw,  70  years. 
July  21,  Calvin  Cass,  51  years. 
Aug.  31,  C.  E.  Hodgman,  14  years. 
Sept.  1,  Bessie  B.  Patten,  13  months. 
Sept.  25,  Avery  Bixby,  24  years. 
Oct.  13,  Emma  Campbell,  23  years. 
Oct.  21,  Nancy  French,  42  years. 
Nov.  1,  George  Campbell,  40  years. 
Roxanna  B.  Mace,  56  years. 
Martha  Barron,  81  years. 
Cyrus  Fosdick,  84  years. 

1872.  Jan.  11,  David  Page,  79  years. 
March,  Daniel  Campbell,  66  years. 
March  4,  David  Cheney,  92  years. 
March  5,  George  Webber,  38  years. 
March  7,  Edward  Schneider,  37  years. 
March  16,  Mrs.  William  Webber,  69  yean 
March  26,  Emma  J.  Farley,  35  years. 
March  28,  Elizabeth  Kinson,  52  years. 
April  1,  Esther  Gage,  14  years. 

April  2,  Ida  Gage,  8  years. 

April  9,  Frank  W.  Gage,  9  months. 

April  25,  Reuben  Bowers,  95  years. 

May  7,  John  Seavey,  75  years. 

May  9,  John  Cutler. 

June  17,  David  J.  Worthley,  43  years. 

June  19,  Lizzie  S.  Woodman,  25  years. 

June  23,  Nathan  Butler,  86  years. 

July  17,  Achsah  Moores,  72  years. 

July  22,  Daniel  Barnard,  68  years- 

Oatley,  4  years. 

Lizzie  Gage,  6  years. 

Infant  of  Samuel  Seavey,  5  months. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  769 


1872.  Frank  M.  Farley,  4  months. 
Helnora  A.  Clark,  7  months. 
Abbie  Crosby,  25  years*. 

1873.  Jan.  2,  Lydia  Head,  87  years. 

Jan.  23,  Albert  A.  Wiggin,  6  months. 
March  10,  Charlotte  H.  Dole,  64  years. 
March  15,  Nancy  Walker,  88  years. 
March  27,  Daniel  Campbell,  21  years. 
April  3,  Maria  Corliss,  68  years. 
April  24,  Joseph  Moores,  81  years. 
April  29,  Willard  Parker,  83  years. 
May  10,  John  Goffe,  74  years. 
June  19,  Frank  B.  Darrah,  12  years. 
July  27,  John  L.  Kittredge,  38  years. 
Sept.  30,  Cynthia  Mitchell,  60  years. 
Nov.  9,  Mary  Augusta  Hersey,  19  years. 
Dec.  5,  Rebecca  M.  Gage,  70  years. 
Dec.  27,  Mary  R.  Dunlap,  54  years. 

1874.  Jan.  27,  Elbridge  G.  Newton,  55  years. 
Feb.  9.  Ephraim  Snow,  81  years. 
March  11,  Mary  Bell  Flint,  7  months. 
March  27,  Lorenzo  D.  Perry,  54  years. 
March  31,  Lucy  B.  Shepard,  83  years. 
May  27,  child  of  John  Dearborn. 
June  2,  child  of  Oliver  L.  Clark. 
June  27,  Samuel  Patten,  71  years. 
Aug.  25,  Hattie  Scobey,  12  years. 
Sept.  30,  John  Barr,  85  years. 

Oct.  2,  William  R.  French,  60  years. 
Dec.  4,  Maria  Worthley,  81  years. 
Dec.  5,  Isaiah  Johnson,  75  years. 
Dec.  20,  Eva  Parker,  22  years. 

1875.  Jan.  1,  Thomas  Bursiel,  65  vears. 
Feb.  10,  Sally  Tolford,  77  years. 
March  5,  Roxanna  Gilmore,  62  years. 
March  11,  Eveline  Durgin,  76  years. 
April  3,  Patrick  Cochran,  72  years. 
April  5,  Julia  A.  Rowe,  34  years. 
April  13,  Pheba  Abbott,  72  years. 
April  17,  Nettie  E.  Beal,  17  years. 
April  24,  Bradbury  M.  Rowe,  66  years. 
April  27,  James  Darrah,  57  years. 
May  16,  Sarah  Young,  59  years. 

July  3,  Margaret  Fullerton,  18  years. 
July  11,  Mary  Jane  Rowe,  64  years. 
July  26,  Hannah  D.  Currier,  93  years. 
Aug.  26,  Thomas  Barr,  90  years. 
Sept.  17,  Churchill  D.  Leach,  4  months. 
50 


770  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1875.  Sept.  20,  Louisa  A.  Shepard,  61  years. 
Oct.  22,  Jane  R.  Goffe,  75  years. 
Oct.  26,  Edward  P.  Coming,  5»years. 
Nov.  15,  Joseph  L.  Parker,  14  years. 
Dec.  10,  Emma  F.  Mudge,  22  years. 
Dec.  11,  Margaret  George,  64  years. 

1876.  Jan.  12,  Daniel  Murphy,  21  days. 
Feb.  3,  Sarah  L.  Mead,  22  years. 
March  17,  Mary  Dowse,  78  years. 
May  4,  Lucy  S.  Holbrook,  38  years. 
May  5,  Sally  Swett,  61  years. 

May  15,  Amelia  C.  Watson,  43  years. 

May  28,  Cyrus  Moore,  75  years. 

May  31,  Alice  Gardner,  76  year?. 

June  18,  Alfred  Jones,  63  years. 

June  18,  Johanna  Regan,  39  years. 

June  26,  Mrs.  McPherson,  78  years. 

July  24,  Charles  H.  Moore,  55  years. 

Aug.  16,  Daniel  Stevens,  53  years. 

Oct.  2,  Daniel  McLaughlin,  78  years. 

Oct.  2,  Ruthie  J.  Fulton,  6  months. 

Oct.  7,  Anna  Parker,  81  years. 

Oct.  17,  Benjamin  Dowse,  99  years,  8  months,  7  days. 

1877.  Jan.  14,  Abbie  C.  Bursiel,  47  years. 
Jan.  19,  Serviah  B.  French,  42  years. 
Jan.  23,  John  S.  McNeal,  56  years. 
Jan.  29,  Eliza  C.  Fulton,  26  years. 
Jan.  29,  Warren  McDole,  4  years. 
Feb.  14,  Hannah  M.  Rollins,  74  years. 
April  2,  Betsey  Bursiel,  87  years. 
May  1,  Alice  Bursiel,  1  year. 

May  11,  Jane  P.  Gage,  83  years. 
May  20,  James  T.  Kendall,  55  years. 
May  24,  child  of  Clinton  French,  3  days. 
June  8,  Seth  P.  Campbell,  71  years. 
July  18,  John  Kinson,  56  years. 
Aug.  10,  daughter  of  Frederick  F.  French. 
Aug.  12,  Deborah  Pritchard,  78  years. 
Oct.  11,  Hannah  P.  Morrison,  81  years. 
Nov.  30,  Martha  E.  McPherson,  48  years. 
Dec.  5,  Moses  Gage,  86  years. 
Dec.  6,  Sarah  Woods,  98  years. 

1878.  Jan.  8,  Lettice  Houston,  78  years. 

Jan.  16,  Herbert  W.  Chaplin,  7  months. 
Feb.  16,  Thomas  W.  Moore,  85  years. 
March  1,  Rufus  Merrill,  85  years. 
March  3,  James  French,  83  years. 
March  12,  Mary  Manning,  77  years. 


VITAL  STATISTICS.  771 

1878.  March  29,  child  of  Alfred  P.  Campbell,  1  day. 
April  4,  Martha  D.  Barnard,  71  years. 

April  5,  Josie  P.  French,  5  years. 

April  7,  Hattie  Bell  French,  7  years. 

April  8,  Mary  J.  French,  11  years. 

April  17,  Abiel  Holbrook,  74  years. 

May  3,  Frank  R.  FreDch,  14  years. 

May  17,  Neddie  S.  Harvell,  2  years. 

May  24,  Charles  R.  Harvell,  5  years. 

May  26,  Louis  Schraber,  69  years. 

May  31,  Mary  A.  Fulton,  64  years. 

June,  child  of  William  W.  Whittemore,  4  months. 

June  17,  Sophia  R.  McAfee,  47  years. 

June  19,  John  H.  McAfee,  57  years. 

July  8,  George  D.  Whitford,  75  years. 

Aug.  6,  Hattie  H.  Perry,  2  years. 

Aug.  7,  Ebenezer  C.  French,  79  years. 

Aug.  9,  Nora  F.  McDole,  20  months. 

Oct.  8,  Sophia  Gage,  75  years. 

Oct.  15,  infant  son  of  George  M.  French. 

Oct.  22,  Henry  Gaines,  17  years. 

Nov.  1,  Sarah  Butler,  88  years. 

Nov.  6,  Emma  Voigt,  4  years. 

Nov.  8,  Lydia  Ann  McDole,  33  years. 

Nov.  15,  George  Byron  Atwood,  2  years. 

Dec.  12,  James  McPherson,  72  years. 

Dec.  22,  Sarah  Whittaker,  87  years. 

Dec.  23,  Benjamin  Nichols,  83*  years. 

1879.  Jan.  29,  Aguste  Schraber,  71  years. 
Feb.  7,  Mertie  Bell  Gage,  1  year. 
Feb.  14,  Nellie  F.  Fallon,  7  months. 
Feb.  21,  Bridget  Cochran,  67  years. 
March  3,  Augusta  A.  Whittemore,  37  years. 
March  28,  Nancy  Ferguson,  91  years. 

May  10,  Mary  A.  Moore,  41  years. 

May  15,  Samuel  Seavey,  Jr.,  3  years. 

June  5,  Benton  Boyce,  13  years. 

June  7,  infant  son  of  Alfred  B.  Campbell,  2  hours. 

June  10,  Louisa  Moore,  75  years. 

July  11,  Hannah  Carr,  86  years. 

July  26,  William  LT.  Gage,  56  years. 

Oct.  21,  Sophia  R.  Moore,  82  years. 

Nov.  1,  Elizabeth  Connor,  43  years. 

Dec.  6,  Susie  E.  Connor,  20  months. 

Dec.  10,  Winnifred  Farrow,  2  years. 

Dec.  25,  Max  Voigt,  23  days. 

Dec.  29,  Hattie  L.  Farrow,  13  years. 

1880.  Jan.  2,  Lucy  B.  Weishaupt,  17  years. 


772  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1880.  April  11,  Ephraim  Kendall,  67  years. 
April  18,  Barbara  Eisenzimmer,  81  years. 
April  24,  Sally  Butterfield,  87  years. 
May  4,  Silas  Holbrook,  40  years. 

May  21,  Thomas  G.  Worthley,  70  years 
June  19,  Nancy  P.  B.  McAfee,  56  years 
June  30,  Elijah  H.  Cotton,  53  years. 
Aug.  14,  Martha  H.  Parker,  71  years. 
Aug.  19,  Alice  King,  3  months. 
Sept.  6,  Burton  L.  Sanborn,  6  months 
Sept.  11,  Mary  Sprague,  73  years. 
Sept.  23,  William  Cady,  67  years. 
Oct.  1,  Mary  A.  Campbell,  54  years. 
Oct.  20,  William  Moore,  65  years. 
Nov.  5,  Lucretia  R.  McNeil,  60  years. 
Dec.  9,  S.  Tarr,  77  years. 
Dec.  22,  Helen  F.  McAfee,  37  years. 
Dec.  23,  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  68  years. 
Dec.  30,  David  B.  Durgin,  81  years. 

1881.  Jan.  3,  Robert  Campbell,  56  years. 
Jan.  7,  Marsha  II.  Haselton,  31  years. 
Jan.  10,  Henry  Tarr,  Jr.,  1  year. 
Jan.  18,  Newell  A.  Bixby,  1  year. 
Jan.  23,  Hamilton  Mellendy,  71  years. 
Jan.  23,  Sarah  F.  Page,  76  years. 
Jan.  26,  John  Parker,  77  years. 

Jan.  27,  Susan  Walker,  66  years. 

Jan.,  Sarah  A.  Tarr,  1  year. 

Feb.  20,  Josephine  B.  Corliss,  27  years. 

March  5,  Charlotte  J.  Door,  39  years. 

March  21,  George  Foster,  59  years. 

March  31,  Susan  A.  Plummer,  51  years. 

April  15,  William  A.  Flint,  68  years. 

May  3,  Nathan  Cutler,  81  years. 

May  17,  Mary  J.  Lee,  79  years. 

July  4,  Nora  Whitten,  22  years. 

July  9,  infant  child  of  George  McAlister. 

Aug.  9,  infant  child  of  William  F.  Conner. 

Aug.  10,  Levi  Francis  Dearborn,  3  months. 

Aug.  27,  Lydia  French,  82  years. 

Sept.  10,  child  of  E.  Boyce,  3  weeks. 

Sept.  21,  Frank  Senter  Farley,  1  year,  11  months. 

Sept.  23,  Adam  McAfee,  62  years. 

Oct.  16,  Henry  T.  Barnard,  42  years. 

Oct.  23,  Henry  A.  Campbell,  49  years. 

Nov.  1,  Blanchard  Nichols,  84  years. 

Nov.  10,  Sarah  F.  Witherspoon,  65  years. 

1882.  Jan.  1,  infant  daughter  of  Solon  C.  Gilmoi'e,  1  month. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  773 


1882.  Jan.  11,  James  McDole,  78  years. 
Feb.  14,  Eliza  J.  Haselton,  40  years. 
Feb.  21,  Jessie  Maria  Darrah,  23  years. 
March  25,  Eunice  Moore,  75  years. 
April  1,  Lizzie  J.  French,  58  years. 
April  4,  James  McDole,  Jr.,  38  years. 
April  11,  Lucinda  Jones,  72  years. 
May  12,  Maria  Snow,  69  years. 

June  15,  Marcia  L.  Ferguson,  55  years. 
June  29,  Coombs  Tarr,  80  years. 
July  10,  John  E.  Corliss,  2l  years. 
July  23,  Lovell  W.  Nichols,  43  years. 
Aug.  13,  George  S.  Foster,  25  years. 
Aug.  20,  William  Moore,  57  years. 
Sept.  1,  James  S.  Lord,  45  years. 
Sept.  19,  Betsey  Kittredge,  80  years. 
Sept.  28,  George  F.  Gage,  38  years. 
Oct.  26,  infant  son  of  Samuel  Adams. 
Nov.  12,  George  H.  Moore,  17  years. 
Nov.  25,  Bridget  Mary  Shea,  29  years. 
Dec.  4,  Sewell  Stratton,  75  years. 
Dec.  5,  Thomas  Hackett,  80  years. 
Dec.  13,  child  of  Henry  C.  Bixby. 

1883.  Jan.  10,  Mary  B.  Cotton,  83  years. 

Jan.  25,  Eliza  Dennis  Mitchell,  79  years. 
Jan.  30,  Paul  T.  Campbell,  71  years. 
Feb.  1,  Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  80  years. 
March  9,  Nettie  Evelyn  Buzzell,  20  years 
March  13,  William  Dolan,  68  years 
April  25,  Sarah  S.  French,  73  years. 
May  1,  Reuben  Bugbee,  73  years. 
May  7,  Paul  T.  Abbott,  83  years. 
May  7,  Mabel  G.  Bixby,  2  years. 
May  8,  Mary  A.  Parker,  33  years. 
May  23,  Michael  Boynton,  77  years. 
May  24,  John  Q.  Ferguson,  30  years. 
June  12,  Willie  J.  Folsom,  19  years. 
June  25,  Mary  Annis  Moore,  65  years. 
July  13,  John  McAllister,  69  years. 
July  18,  Etta  Mabel  Corliss,  16  years. 
July  23,  Carrie  E.  Patten,  14  years. 
July  24,  Tracy  W.  Nichols,  20  years. 
Sept.  14,  Robert  Fosher,  1  year. 
Sept.  16,  Isadore  L.  Stowell,  23  years. 
Sept.  17,  Jonathan  Corliss,  78  years. 
Sept.  22,  Albert  A.  Partridge,  51  years. 
Oct.  28,  Jane  Welch,  57  years.    ' 
Nov.  19,  Gertrude  Adams,  13  years. 


774  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1888.    Dec.  4,  Elbridge  G.  Barr,  66  years. 
Dec.  22,  David  H.  Barr,  53  years. 
Dec.  30,  Samuel  Gardner,  89  years. 
Dec.  31,  Jane  Patten,  73  years. 

1884.  Jan.  20,  Jane  F.  Kendall,  65  years. 
Feb.  7,  Nathaniel  Moore,  70  years. 
March  10,  infant  child  of  Charles  Fullerton. 
March  31,  Solon  C.  Gilmore,  37  years. 
May  25,  Mary  A.  Dunbar,  52  years. 

May  31,  Eliza  J.  Burns,  39  years. 
,    June  15,  Samuel  E.  Morrison,  54  years. 
Oct.  2,  Kadmial  Heselton,  80  years. 
Nov.  14,  Nina  A.  Straw,  22  years. 

1885.  Jan.  3,  Lucy  F.  Barr,  20  years. 

Jan.  9,  Wyseman  C.  Burns,  83  years. 
Jan.  9,  John  C.  G.  Webber,  74  years. 
Jan.  12,  Charles  Fullerton,  47  years. 
Feb.  8,  Dolly  Campbell,  83  years. 
Feb.  13,  Maria  Hodgman,  71  years. 
March  15,  Sally  C.  Wiggin,  79  years. 
April  9,  Joseph  A.  Larrvine,  25  years. 
May  5,  Myrtie  Gage,  4  months. 
May  23,  Joseph  Oliver,  41  years. 
June  8,  Benjamin  W.  Nichols,  60  years. 
June  9,  James  Gardner,  73  years. 
June  12,  Edwin  N.  Stickney,  22  years. 
June  14,  Eliza  B.  G.  Woodbury,  88  years. 
July  7,  Rebecca  Plummer,  86  years. 
July  9,  Lucinda  A.  Clement,  27  years. 
July  13,  Margaret  A.  Townsend,  60  years. 

Sept.  12,  James  Hunter,  75  years. 

Oct.  7,  John  Byron  Hadley,  45  years. 
m  Oct.  14,  Clarissa  E.  Moore,  79  years. 

Nov.  7,  Isaac  N.  Riddle,  .63  years. 

Dec.  13,  Arthur  A.  Shepard,  30  years. 
1886.    Feb.  26,  Mary  Etta  Gage,  11  years. 

Feb.  28,  Henry  Weishaupt,  13  years. 

March  4,  Herbert  Payson  Colcord,  1  year. 

March  13,  Josie  Campbell,  18  years. 

March  29,  Thomas  B.  Jones,  64  years. 

April  4,  Carrie  Bell  Weishaupt,  11  years. 

April  22,  Eliza  Ann  Parker,  60  years. 

May  15,  Emma  E.  McDole,  29  years. 

May  30,  Lucy  W.  Colcord,  5  months. 

June  3,  Clark  G.  Mudge. 

June  26,  Ephraim  Parker,  90  years. 

Aug.  3,  George  M.  French,  40  years. 

Aug.  12,  Josiah  Walker,  75  years. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  775 

1886.  Aug.  14,  Charles  Parker  Smith,  4  years. 
Aug.  24,  -Nancy  Hannaford,  71  years. 
Aug.  28,  Alice  M.  Stevens,  17  years. 
Sept.  21,  Andrew  Kimball,  61  years. 
Oct.  2,  Lettia  H.  Blood,  1  year. 

Oct.  4,  Phoebe  A.  Jenkins,  44  years. 
Oct.  9,  Adam  Campbell,  70  years. 
Oct.  9,  Daniel  Parker,  69  years. 
Oct.  20,  Mary  J.  Warren,  62  years. 
Oct.  25,  Martha  Smith,  79  years. 
Oct.  25,  Catherine  E.  Breed,  25  years. 
Oct.  27,  Katie  Tolman,  15  years. 
Oct.  29,  Sarah  Walker,  90  years. 
Nov.  7,  Lucy  M.  Taylor,  32  years. 
Nov.  20,  Betsey  Stinch field,  87  years. 
Nov.  26,  Judith  Buswell,  75  years. 

1887.  Jan.  5,  Elmira  L.  Johnson,  80  years. 
Jan.  28,  Eliza  Harris  Burns,  83  years. 
Feb.  5,  Annis  C.  French,  84  years. 
Feb.  11,  Lydia  Parkhurst,  81  years. 
March  22,  Annie  H.  Smith,  28  years. 
March  22,  Catherine  C.  Nettle,  41  years. 
March  31,  David  Sprague,  81  years. 
April  15,  Adam  N.  Patten,  81  years. 
May  30,  George  W.  Patten,  22  years.    N 

June  9,  Charles,  infant  son  of  Herman  Englehardt. 
June  17,  Ella  Englehardt,  26  years. 
July  8,  W.  C.  Adams,  7  months. 
July  14,  Eliza  J.  Stevens,  72  years. 
July  23,  Willard  C.  Parker,  51  years. 
Aug.  9,  Elizabeth  A.  Farley,  36  years. 
Aug.  16,  Margaret  A.  Atwood,  72  years. 
Aug.  26,  Elbridge  G.  Gilmore,  71  years. 
Sept.  3,  Nathaniel  Flint,  77  years. 
9      Sept.  25,  Isabella  Harrison,  70  years. 

Oct.  16,  infant  daughter  of  Eddy  W.  Stevens. 
Oct.  20,  Lucinda  Elliot  Clement,  87  years. 
Nov.  9,  Norman  E.  Cobb,  50  years. 
Nov.  13,  Nancy  A.  Ferguson,  23  days. 
Dec.  6,  Mary  B.  Esterbrook,  two  years. 
Dec.  14,  Lucy  S.  Holbrook,  77  years. 
Dec.  30,  Maurice  Woodbury,  24  days. 

1888.  Jan.  2,  Clara  M.  Gault,  14  years. 
Jan.  17,  Mary  Shepard,  69  years. 
Feb.  1,  Alfred  G.  Lampher,  9  months. 

March  13,  infant  daughter  of  Charles  E.  Bursiel. 
April  12,  Ellen  M.  McAllister,  43  years. 
April  17,  William  F.  Gage,  31  years. 


776  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1888.  May  14,  Clarabel  H.  French,  44  years. 
July  4,  Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  87  years. 
Aug.  2,  John  S.  Philbrick,  69  years. 
Aug.  13,  Nancy  McGaw,  83  years. 
Sept.  29,  William  McAllister,  69  years. 
Oct.  14,  Jane  Gordon,  89  years. 

Nov.  8,  Harriet  A.  Bursiel,  39  years. 
Nov.  9,  Louisa  B.  Nye,  75  years. 
Nov.  17,  Annie  R.  Quimby,  9  months. 
Dec.  1,  Marion  Moore,  13  years. 
Dec.  6,  Clinton  P.  Hodgman,  44  years. 
Dec.  7,  Isaac  C.  Cutler,  82  years. 
Dec.  9,  Hugh  R.  French,  67  years. 
Dec.  10,  John  Dunlap,  84  years. 
Dec.  18,  Carl  Denier,  66  years. 

1889.  Jan.  12,  Louis  Edwin  Corliss,  14  years. 
Jan.  28,  Timothy  Fuller  Moore,  79  years. 
Jan.  28,  Emma  L.  Patten,  6  years. 
March  5,  Mary  Dunlap,  63  years. 

April  16,  Mary  H.  Gage,  72  years. 
April  18,  Delphina  J.  Shepard,  43  years. 
April  18,  Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  64  years. 
June  6,  Achsah  P.  Roby,  81  years. 
Aug.  4,  Leona  M.  Brown,  41  years. 
Aug.  14,  Henry  Tobias  Rand,  40  years. 
Sept.  13,  Charlie  H.  Brain,  2  years. 
Oct.  7,  Elizabeth  Denier,  7~8  years. 
Oct.  19,  Sanford  Roby,  68  years. 
Nov.  1,  Submit  W.  Holbrook,  88  years. 
Nov.  8,  Lillian  M.  Ricard,  5  years. 
Nov.  8,  Carl  E.  Holt,  4  years. 

1890.  Jan.  13,  Katie  I.  Wiggin,  24  years. 
Jan.  13,  Eliza  Ann  Stevens,  65  years. 
Jan.  20,  Levi  J.  Woodbury,  61  years 
Jan.  20,  Wilbur  B.  Stevens,  1  month. 
April  8,  Saphronia  Gage,  51  years. 
June  4,  Stillman  A.  Shepard,  70  years. 
June  25,  Elizabeth  W .  Cutler,  82  years. 
June  28,  Annie  M.  Patten,  16  years. 
Sept.  11,  Robert  D.  Currier,  78  years. 
Sept.  27,  Dwelly  W.  Mitchell,  90  years. 
Nov.  12,  Jesse  Clarence  Mandigo,  9  months. 
Nov.  22,  Daniel  G.  Atwood,  78  years. 

Dec.  20,  Paul,  infant  son  of  Paul  Richards. 
Dec.  20,  Martha  M.  Butterfield,  67  years. 

1891.  Jan.  11,  Frederick  W.  Scheer,  91  years. 
Jan.  18,  Simon  Jehness,  79  years. 

Jan.  30,  Lizzie  F.  Felch,  25  years. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  777 

1891.  Feb.  5,  William  Cotter,  61  years. 
Feb.  20,  Alfred  Fosber,  3  months. 

Feb.  26,  George  S.,  infant  son  of  Frank  H.  Rowe. 

April  14,  Almira  Connor,  78  years. 

April  17,  Margaret  A.  Parkburst,  66  years. 

April  26,  Henry  Johnson  Plummer,  90  years. 

April  30,  Lizzie  M.  Uavis,  11  years. 

June  20,  Emeline  C.  Call,  72  years. 

Aug.  3,  Nellie  E.  Stevens,  8  years. 

Aug.  17,  Hannah  At  wood,  88  years. 

Sept.  3,  Myrtie  Belle,  infant  daughter  of  Martin  Campbell. 

Sept.  5,  infant  son  of  Willie  G.  McDole. 

Oct.  19,  Lucy  A.  Barr,  57  years. 

Oct.  26,  George  H.  Wiggin,  62  years. 

Nov.  13,  Lulu  Eldora,  infant  daughter  of  Lorin  E.  Charles. 

Nov.  22,  Alma  Ayer  S  to  well,  63  years. 

Dec.  1,  Sarah  J.  Nichols,  48  years. 

Dec.  13,  Thomas  Taffe. 

Dec.  22,  Clarissa  E.  Barr,  85  years. 

Dec.  24,  Edward  Young. 

Dec.  29,  Patrick  H.  Stark,  73  vears. 

1892.  Jan.  29,  William  M.  Rogers,  78  years. 
Feb.  16,  George  Fosber,  12  years. 
Feb.  25,  Lovisia  M.  Gage,  71  years. 
Feb.  29,  Ellen  E.  White,  54  years. 
March  17,  Eliza  Ferson,  74  years. 

March  28,  Ezra  Carruth  Barnes,  10  months. 
April  5,  George  Harry  Barnard,  13  years. 
April  5,  John  Huskie,  69  years. 
April  16,  Martha  Bun-  Turney,  7  years. 
May  8,  Emma  J.  Dodge,  38  years. 
June  20,  Charles  Gage,  77  years. 
July  1,  Henry,  infant  son  of  Zoel  Guimond. 
July  6,  Frances  B.  Merchant,  23  years. 
Aug.  3,  Joseph  H.  Tinker,  87  years. 
Aug.  7,  Clovina  Richards,  3  months. 
Aug.  12,  infant  child  of  Dennis  Manahan. 
'    Aug.  28,  David  P.  Campbell,  55  years. 
Sept.  16,  Harry  Wiggin. 
Oct.  6,  Wallace  M.  Campbell,  24  days. 
Nov.  26,  David  Campbell,  70  years. 
Nov.  28,  Orra  Smith,  46  years. 
Dec.  4,  John  R.  Young,  Jr.,  50  years. 
Dec.  22,  Abram  Ceror,  99  years,  3  months,  19  days. 
Dec.  25,  Alvira  Walker,  85  years. 

1893.  Jan.  6,  Mary  R.  Flint,  75  years. 

Jan.  17,  William  Arthur  Blackstock,  2  days. 
Jan.  22,  Charles  F.  Shepard,  79  years. 


778 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


1893.  Feb.  6,  Ephraim  W.  Butterfield,  62  years. 
Feb.  24,  Edmund,  infant  son  of  Paul  Richards. 
March  18,  Annie  B.  Russell,  infant. 

March  19,  Betsey  Bean,  84  years. 

March  21,  Abigail  Twombley,  84  years. 

April  2,  infant  of  Irving  Fosher. 

April  3,  Mary  Tinker,  83  years. 

April  22,  Lucy  Salome  Foster,  1  year. 

April  28,  Judson  Ellsworth  Lane,  31  years. 

May  1,  Abner  L.  Hadley,  78  years. 

May  19,  Caroline  Elizabeth  Parker,  80  years. 

May  25,  Mary  Ellen  Drew  Campbell,  46  years. 

June  13,  Theresa  Hoffman,  73  years. 

June  15,  Gottlieb  Hoffman,  85  years. 

Aug.  16,  Irving  Jackson  Campbell,  4  months. 

Aug.  22,  Frederick  Plummer,  66  years. 

Aug.  22,  Elizabeth  M.  Carr,  70  years. 

Sept.  11,  Sarah  E.  Holbrook,  56  years. 

Sept.  12,  Charles  H.  Woodbury,  53  years. 

Sept.  17,  Mary  A.  Walker  Manning,  57  years. 

Sept.  19,  Fannie  Tufts  Worthley,  22  years. 

Nov.  16,  Fanny  D.  Moore,  95  years. 

Nov.  18,  George  W.  Connor,  62  years. 

Nov.  19,  John  Johnson,  31  years. 

Nov.  28,  Sarah  E.  Parker,  54  years. 

1894.  Jan.  25,  Harriet  Wilson,  94  years. 

Feb.  11,  Benjamin  Hutchinson,  81  years. 
Feb.  13,  infant  daughter  of  George  Tinker. 
Feb.  20,  Hiram  S.  Easterbrooks,  73  years. 
March  6,  Elijah  C.  Stevens,  75  years. 
March  8,  Julia  A.  Stevens,  67  years. 
March  13,  Augustus  Dubois,  1  year. 
March  18,  Carl  A.  Slack,  1  month. 
March  24,  Wesley  H.  Campbell,  4  months. 
April  12,  Lovisia  V.  Mace,  53  years. 
June  13,  Mary  T.  Goffe,  89  years. 
July  13,  Anna  McDonald  Cowden,  19  years. 
July  29,  Sarah  Cram  Philbrick,  42  years. 
Aug.  8,  Margaret  Bremner,  25  years. 
Aug.  17,  Joseph  T.  Savage,  70  years. 
Aug.  19,  Melinda  Poehlman,  3  months. 
Aug.  19,  Justin  E.  Yose,  58  years. 
Sept.  3,  Lyman  S.  Atwood,  3  months. 
Sept.  4,  Ernest  Bryant  Campbell,  7  months. 
Sept.  21,  infant  son  of  Fred  C.  Russell. 
Sept.  30,  Daniel  Butterfield,  79  years. 
Nov.  22,  Mary  P.  Jones,  84  years. 
Dec.  8,  Isaac  H.  Cutler,  54  years. 


VITAL   STATISTICS.  779 


1894.  Dec.  22,  William  H.  Minot,  50  years. 

1895.  Feb.  7,  Asenath  Bugbee,  86  years. 
Feb.  22,  Ruth  Taylor  Wiggin,  1  year. 
Feb.  22,  Hannah  R.  Bartlett,  79  years. 
Feb.  22,  George  W.  Wilkins,  69  years. 
Feb.  25,  Jesse  Wetherspoon,  71  years. 
Feb.  28,  Abby  W.  Soper,  69  years. 
March  2,  Emily  Kidder,  82  years. 
March  14,  Sarah  A.  Stevens,  85  years. 
March  31,  Benjamin  H.  Smith,  57  years. 
April  2,  Senter  Farley,  84  years. 

May  4,  Benjamin  Hall,  82  years. 
June  3,  Catherine  C.  Huskie,  71  years. 
June  5,  Mary  J.  Burns,  50  years. 
June  10,  Myra  Colby,  4  months. 
July  23,  infant  child  of  John  B.  Lodge. 
Sept.  30,  Lucinda  A.  Currier,  76  years. 
Oct.  3,  Hazel  G.  Charles,  9  months. 
Oct.  17,  Westley  W.  Furbush,  1  day. 
Oct.  20,  Fred  Dubois,  1  month. 
Oct.  27,  John  P.  Adams,  16  years. 
Oct  31,  Thomas  M.  Ferguson,  78  years. 
Nov.  9,  Laurianna  Thibideau,  5  months. 
Nov.  9,  James  Curtis,  58  years. 
Dec.  5,  Harris  E.  Ryder,  71  years. 
Dec.  25,  Harriet  McAllister,  79  years. 

1896.  Jan.  27,  Clyalvina  Fosher,  19  years. 

Jan  27,  Martha  Riddle  Woodbury,  6  months. 
Feb.  4,  Julie  R.  Pepin,  6  months. 
Feb.  18,  infant  child  of  Samuel  Shea. 
March  2,  Nelson  Richards,  1  year. 
March  3,  Samantha  L.  Abbott,  70  years. 
March  10,  John  Whipple  Brown,  87  years. 
March  20,  Frank  H.  Rowe,  43  years. 
April  9,  Arthur  Thibedeau,  2  months. 
May  16,  Bradford  Beal,  84  years. 
July  16,  Hattie  May  Jones,  19  years. 
July  19,  Mary  S.  Gage,  54  years. 
Aug.  1,  Frederick  F.  French,  69  years. 
Oct.  13,  Florence  M.  Preston,  17  years. 
Oct.  16,  Mary  A.  Calef,  42  years. 
Dec.  11,  Mary  Ann  Campbell,  74  years. 
Dec.  11,  Mary  Ann  Roby,  80  years. 

1897.  Jan.  14,  Grace  N.  Farley,  23  years. 
Jan.  30,  Nathan  Adams,  71  years. 

Feb.  1,  Rebecca  Martha  Cutler,  79  years. 
Feb.  9,  Charles  Townsend,  52  years. 
Feb.  19,  Samuel  Muzzey,  94  years. 


780  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1897.  March  2,  Eliza  E.  Porter,  60  years. 
March  3,  Lucy  W.  Hadley,  81  years. 
March  4,  John  E.  Tilton,  44  years. 
March  5,  Timothy  Townsend,  79  years. 
March  7,  Maria  Stella  Richards,  6  months. 
March  7,  Oscar  Newman  Blood,  18  years. 
March  11,  Mary  Taffe,  82  years. 

April  5,  Betsey  J.  Shepard,  63  years. 
April  28,  Harriet  J.  Walker,  62  years. 
May  24,  Charlotte  W.  Rand,  58  years. 
June  5,  infant  child  of  John  R.  Rouse. 
June  12,  Warren  Livingstone,  1  month. 
June  19,  infant  child  of  Seth  P.  Campbell,  2d. 
June  29,  James  A.  Parker,  69  years. 
July  13,  Lavina  P.  Adams,  96  years. 
July  24,  Lucy  Garceau,  1  month. 
Aug.  13,  Barrington  Lodge,  2  months. 
Aug.  19,  Elmira  Proctor,  63  years. 
Aug.  27,  David  R.  Barnard,  65  years. 
Sept.  8,  John  M.  Blood,  31  years. 
Oct.  7,  Robert  P.  Barr,  69  years. 
Dec.  12,  Salome  F.  Foster,  72  years. 
Dec.  12,  Goldie  M.  Clapp,  19  years. 

1898.  Jan.  10,  Martha  J.  McAllister,  70  years. 
Jan.  20,  Martha  L.  Jenkins,  58  years. 
Jan.  31,  Ann  J.  Kinson,  63  years. 
March  13,  Wilson  R.  Blood,  50  years. 
March  15,  Thomas  F.  Kendall,  81  years. 
March  29,  Philip  C.  Scruton,  49  years. 
April  9,  Linda  Pearl  Campbell,  2  months. 
May  25,  Rhynehardt  Emil  Poehlman,  1  day. 
June  2,  Annie  Katherine  Poehlman,  39  years. 
June  25,  Dennis  Kerwin. 

Aug.  13,  infant  daughter  of  John  H.  Atwood. 

Sept.  8,  Marie  Ester  Helene  Gamache,  10  days. 

Oct.  9,  Marie  Garon,  8  days. 

Oct.  10,  Sarah  J.  Stinchfield,  73  years 

Nov.  29,  Leo  Paul  Richon,  37  years. 

Dec.  2,  Mary  Elizabeth  Brown,  71  years. 

Dec.  2,  Eliza  Goffe  Parker,  91  years. 

1899.  Jan.  5,  Ellen  E.  McDole,  55  years. 
Jan.  14,  Sarah  E.  Butterfield,  72  years. 

Jan.  30,  Dean  Harold,  son  of  Irving  J.  D.  Matott. 
Feb.  13,  Jennie  M.  Tolford,  27  years. 
Feb.  15,  George  W.  Butterfield,  66  years. 
Feb.  17,  Elbridge  G.  Tolford,  69  years. 
Feb.  19,  Barbara  Weishaupt,  57  years. 
Feb.  20,  Charles  Tarbell,  83  years. 


VITAL  STATISTICS.  781 

1899.  March  20,  Joshua  Vose,  84  years. 
April  9,  Orpah  Duncklee,  73  years. 
April  9,  Stanislas  Lavoie,  1  day. 
April  14,  Rodney  M.  Rollins,  75  years. 
July  1,  Anna  Mary  Parkhurst,  49  years. 
July  9,  J.  Henry  Emery,  54  years. 
July  16,  Susan  E.  Moore,  71  years. 
Aug.  22,  Alraira  Leavitt,  82  years. 
Aug.  25,  Edwin  R.  Walker,  75  years. 
Sept.  16,  Emilia  Rochon,  26  years. 
Oct.  5,  James  H.  Henderson,  18  years. 
Oct.  8,  Andrew  J.  Taffe,  48  years. 
Nov.  30,  Oliver  Lund  Kendall,  88  years. 
Dec.  4,  Lura  Morgan,  6  years. 

Dec.  11,  Emily  B.  Kendall,  69  years. 

1900.  Jan.  25,  Eliphalet  Bursiel,  79  years. 
Feb.  2,  Alvah  W.  Mack,  12  years. 
March  17,  Silas  A.  Riddle,  68  years. 

April  4,  Marie  Angeline  Beaudet  Gamache,  41  years. 

April  18,  Vitaline  Marcotte  Sney,  39  years. 

May  28,  Mrs.  S.  J.  Parker,  55  years. 

June  9,  Edwin  Dunlap,  73  years. 

July  7,  Cornelia  B.  Flint,  69  years. 

July  11,  Mary  E.  Minot,  50  years. 

Aug.  3,  David  Gordon  Rouse,  20  years. 

Aug.  24,  Timothy  Stevens,  75  years. 

Aug.  25,  Alice  Ellen  Graves,  30  jears. 

Aug.  31,  Mrs.  Isaac  P.  Hodgman,  81  years. 

Sept.  7,  Stephen  Goft'e,  63  years. 

Sept.  11,  Mrs.  Joseph  S.  Upton,  74  years. 

Oct.  11,  Daniel  Tenney  Smith,  70  years. 

Nov.  8,  Wingate  M.  Darrah,  69  years. 

Dec.  13,  Freeman  R.  French,  69  years. 

1901.  April  2,  Annie  Farley  Wiggin,  29  years. 
April  21,  Edward  Ban-,  87  years. 

May  25,  Leona  Breton,  6  years. 
June  1,  Mertie  Colby  Hoitt,  24  years. 
July  18,  Jerome  B.  Sturtevant,  76  years. 
Sept.  19,  Richard  B.  Woodbury,  16  years. 
Sept.  29,  Cynthia  W.  Darrah,  74  years. 
Sept.  29,  Selma  Daigle,  1  year. 
Oct.  20,  Marie  Jeanne  Paris,  10  years. 
Nov.  15,  Frederick  E.  Scheer,  69  years. 
Nov.  16,  Frederick  Francis  Bo  wen,  9  years. 
Nov.  16,  Clinton  French,  69  years. 
Nov.  19,  David  Swett,  87  years. 
Dec.  31,  Howard  F.  Shea,  3  years. 

1902.  Jan.  16,  Mrs.  Emma  Jane  Atwood,  40  years. 


782  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1902.  Jan.  27,  Granville  Haselton,  58  years. 
Feb.  18,  Caroline  Clearsby,  87  years. 
Feb.  23,  Lizzie  A.  Brickett,  8  years. 
March  4,  Daniel  S.  Campbell,  59  years. 
April  4,  Pamelia  E.  Marshall,  4  months. 
April  8,  Jane  M.  Currie,  47  years. 
April  15,  Chester  A.  Holt,  18  years. 
May  11,  Lillian  Margaret  Shea,  1  month. 
June  6,  William  McAfee,  85  years. 

July  10,  child  of  Hugh  Cunningham,  2  days. 
Sept.  17,  John  H.  Rand,  84  years. 
Oct.  23,  Ella  Jane  Kendall,  51  years. 
Nov.  22,  Edwin  Whitford,  65  years. 

1903.  Jan.  10,  Lydia  Frances  Cutler,  53  years. 
Feb.  1,  Emeline  H.  Esterbrook,  79  years. 
Feb.  20,  Ella  F.  Mack,  46  years. 

Feb.  28,  George  S.  Taylor,  7  months. 
March  10,  Francois  St.  Pierre,  20  years. 
.Tune  13,  Samuel  II.  Shea,  47  years. 
June  16,  Robert  P.  Yuell,  29  years. 
July  8,  Arthur  Hebert,  2  years. 
Aug.  10,  Margaret  Shea,  3  years. 
Sept.  22,  Charles  H.  Smith,  11  months. 
Oct.  15,  Samuel  C.  Adams,  60  years. 
Oct.  29,  Howard  IT.  Quaid,  7  months. 
Nov.  20,  Jean  St.  Louis,  55  years. 
Nov.  24,  Elliot  S.  Campbell,  63  years. 


The  Town  Meeting. 


Statesmen  have  never  failed  to  pay  high  tribute  to  the  worth  of 
the  New  England  town-meeting,  and  its  influence  in  the  training 
for  good  citizenship.  But  the  town-meeting  of  to-day  lacks  many 
of  the  features  of  that  conducted  by  the  last  generation  and  their 
predecessors.  Previous  to  1891,  when  the  secret  ballot  system  went 
into  effect  throughout  the  state,  the  first  business  of  each  town- 
meeting  was  the  election  of  a  moderator  by  ballot.  Before  1878 
state  and  county,  as  well  as  town  officers,  were  voted  for  at  the 
annual  March  meetings.  In  the  early  days  the  full  list  of  minor  offi- 
cers, such  as  hog-reeves,  cullers  of  brick  and  staves,  fence  viewers, 
and  so  forth,  were  elected  in  open  meeting.  Sometimes  such  selec- 
tion was  made  by  ballot,  oftener  by  acclamation,  and  on  several 
occasions  by  "  hand  vote,"  a  motion  to  that  effect  prevailing. 

The  warrant  in  those  earlier  days  was  often  a  formidable  docu- 
ment, the  subjects  covered  taking  a  wide  range,  from  the  laying  out 
and  care  of  certain  highways  to  providing  support  for  the  minister. 
The  warrant  for  March,  1830,  contained  thirty  articles,  and  the  meet- 
ing was  continued  three  days  in  succession,  until  all  business  in  order 
was  transacted.  Other  warrants,  and  the  sessions  thereon,  were 
nearly  as  long.  Very  little  was  then  left  to  the  discretion  of  the 
town  officers,  compared  with  the  practice  of  to-day. 

The  consideration  of  the  subjects  brought  up,  as  a  rule,  included 
parnest  discussion,  often  participated  in  by  several  disputants ;  the 
citizens  felt  that  town  affairs  were  worthy  of  the  most  careful  and 
extended  consideration. 

Enterprising  people  made  the  most  of  the  occasion  by  offering 
their  wares  in  the  way  of  refreshments,  among  which  "  gingerbread  " 
is  perhaps  the  most  famous.  On  some  occasions,  at  least,  adjourn- 
ment was  made  from  the  town  hall  to  "  Ensign  Chubbuck's  tavern  " 
nearby,  where,  after  partaking  of  liquid  refreshment,  undoubtedly, 
the  unfinished  business  was  completed. 


784 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


BOARDS  OF  SELECTMEN 


1750. 

Samuel  Patten, 

1765. 

Matthew  Patten, 

Robert  Walker, 

Moses  Barron, 

Thomas  Chandler. 

James  Patterson. 

1751. 

Samuel  Patten, 

1766. 

Moses  Barron, 

Moses  Barron, 

Matthew  Patten, 

Robert  Walker. 

Daniel  Moore. 

1752. 

Moses  Barron, 

1767. 

Moses  Barron, 

John  McQuig, 

Matthew  Patten, 

Matthew  Little, 

Thomas  Boies. 

1753. 

James  Little, 

1768. 

Moses  Barron, 

Samuel  Patten, 

Matthew  Patten, 

James  Orr. 

James  Vose. 

1754. 

Hugh  Riddle, 

1769. 

Moses  Barron, 

Thomas  Wallace, 

Matthew  Patten, 

James  Walker. 

Samuel  Vose. 

1755. 

John  Moor, 

1770. 

Moses  Barron, 

Hugh  Riddle, 

Matthew  Patten, 

William  Moor. 

, 

Thomas  McLaughlin. 

1756. 

William  Thornton, 

1771. 

Moses  Barron, 

Gawn  Riddle, 

Matthew  Patten, 

Matthew  Little. 

John  Aiken. 

1757. 

Moses  Barron, 

1772. 

Matthew  Pattten, 

William  Thornton, 

Robert  Walker, 

Robert  Walker. 

Hugh  Orr. 

1758. 

James  Little, 

1773. 

John  Bell, 

Daniel  Moor, 

John  Little, 

Robert  Gilmore. 

Adam  Dickey. 

1759. 

Matthew  Patten, 

1774. 

Adam  Dickey, 

William  Holmes, 

John  Little, 

John  McQuig. 

James  Aiken. 

1760. 

Francis  Barnet, 

1775. 

Adam  Dickey, 

John  Bell,  Jr., 

John  Bell, 

Benjamin  Smith. 

Whitefield  Gilmore. 

1761. 

Matthew  Little, 

1776. 

John  Goffe, 

Joseph , 

Daniel  Moor, 

William  Holmes. 

John  Orr. 

1762. 

James  Caldwell, 

1777. 

Hugh  Orr, 

John  Goffe, 

Thomas  McLaughlin, 

James  Lyon. 

John  Goffe. 

1763. 

James  Caldwell, 

1778. 

John  Orr, 

James  Aiken, 

James  Boies, 

John  Bell. 

James  Vose. 

1764. 

Moses  Barron, 

1779. 

Thomas  Boies, 

Matthew  Patten, 

William  White, 

John  Wallace. 

James  Vose. 

THE   TOWN  MEETING. 


785 


1780. 

Thomas  Boies, 

1796. 

David  Patten, 

James  Vose, 

Samuel  Barr, 

William  White. 

David  Riddle. 

1781. 

William  White, 

1797. 

William  McAfee, 

James  Smith, 

Phinehas  Aiken, 

Hugh  Orr. 

John  Burns. 

1782. 

Thomas  McLaughlin, 

1798. 

Phinehas  Aiken, 

Stephen  Dole, 

William  Moor, 

Samuel  Vose. 

William  Riddle. 

1783. 

John  Rand, 

1799. 

William  McAfee, 

John  Wallace, 

William  Riddle, 

John  Dunlap. 

Samuel  Chandler- 

1784. 

Zachariah  Chandler, 

1800. 

William  McAfee, 

James  Vose, 

William  Riddle, 

Adam  Dickey. 

Samuel  Chandler. 

1785. 

Zachariah  Chandler, 

1801. 

Phinehas  Aiken, 

Stephen  Dole, 

William  Riddle, 

Josiah  Gillis. 

John  Craig. 

1786. 

Josiah  Gillis, 

1802. 

Phinehas  Aiken, 

James  Wallace, 

John  Craig, 

Stephen  Dole. 

Josiah  Gordon. 

1787. 

Josiah  Gillis, 

1803. 

Phinehas  Aiken, 

John  Orr, 

Josiah  Wallace, 

Jesse  Worcester. 

Nathan  Barnes. 

1788. 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

1804. 

Phinehas  Aiken, 

Stephen  Dole, 

Nathan  Barnes, 

Jesse  Worcester. 

Samuel  Chandler. 

1789. 

William  Moor, 

1805. 

Samuel  Chandler, 

Adam  Dickey, 

Nathan  Barnes, 

Stephen  Dole. 

David  Stevens. 

1790. 

William  Moor, 

1806. 

Samuel  Chandler, 

Stephen  Dole, 

John  Holbrook, 

Adam  Dickey. 

David  Stevens. 

1791. 

Robert  Gilchrist, 

1807. 

David  Patten, 

David  Riddle, 

David  Stevens, 

Stephen  Dole. 

John  Holbrook. 

1792. 

David  Patten, 

1808. 

David  Patten, 

David  Riddle, 

John  Holbrook, 

Robert  Gilchrist. 

Moody  M.  Stevens. 

1793. 

David  Patten, 

1809. 

David  Patten, 

David  Riddle, 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

Robert  Gilchrist. 

Richard  Dole. 

1794. 

David  Riddle, 

1810. 

David  Patten, 

John  Patten, 

Richard  Dole, 

Samuel  Barr. 

Moody  M.  Stevens. 

1795. 

David  Patten, 

1811. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

David  Riddle, 

Joseph  Colley,  Jr., 

Samuel  Barr. 

James  Darrah. 

51 


786 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


1812. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

1828. 

Samuel  Chandler, 

Joseph  Colley,  Jr., 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

James  Darrah. 

Gawn  Riddle. 

1813. 

David  Patten, 

1829. 

William  Moor, 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

Gardner  Nevins, 

Joseph  Colley,  Jr. 

Leonard  Walker. 

1814. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

1830. 

Leonard  Walker, 

Joseph  Colley,  Jr., 

Gardner  Nevins, 

David  Patten. 

Gawn  Riddle. 

1815. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

1831. 

Leonard  C.  French, 

Samuel  Chandler, 

Samuel  Chandler, 

William  Moor. 

Daniel  Moor. 

1816. 

William  Moor, 

1832. 

Samuel  Chandler, 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

Daniel  Moor,  Jr., 

Josiah  Gordon. 

Daniel  Gordon. 

1817. 

William  Moor, 

1833. 

William  Moor, 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

Mace  Moulton, 

Josiah  Gordon. 

John  Barr. 

1818. 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

1834. 

Mace  Moulton, 

James  Parker, 

John  Barr, 

John  McAllister. 

Leonard  C.  French. 

1819. 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

1835. 

William  Moor,  Jr., 

John  McAllister, 

Isaac  Riddle, 

Joseph  Colley. 

Gardner  Nevins. 

1820. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

1836. 

John  Barr, 

Ebenezer  French, 

Leonard  C.  French,  2d, 

William  Patten. 

Adam  Chandler. 

1821. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

1837. 

Daniel  Moor,  Jr., 

Ebenezer  French, 

Adam  Chandler, 

William  Patten. 

Thomas  G.  Holbrook. 

1822. 

Ebenezer  French, 

1838. 

Daniel  Moor,  Jr., 

Gawn  Riddle, 

William  Patten, 

John  Patten. 

William  McD.  Ferson. 

1823. 

Gawn  Piddle, 

1839. 

Daniel  Moor,  Jr., 

John  Patten, 

William  McD.  Ferson, 

Samuel  Chandler. 

Rodney  McLaughlin. 

1824. 

Gawn  Riddle, 

1840. 

John  Patten, 

Joseph  Colley, 

'  Moody  M.  Stevens, 

Leonard  C.  French. 

Joshua  Vose. 

1825. 

Gawn  Riddle, 

1841. 

Moody  M.  Stevens, 

Joseph  Colley, 

Joshua  Vose, 

Leonard  C.  French. 

Adam  Chandler. 

1826. 

Joseph  Colley, 

1842. 

Adam  Chandler, 

Leonard  C.  French, 

John  Barr, 

Robert  Riddle. 

Rufus  Merrill. 

1827. 

Samuel  Chandler, 

1843. 

Rufus  Merrill, 

Robert  Riddle, 

Gardner  Nevins, 

Gawn  Riddle. 

Rodney  McLaughlin. 

THE   TOWN  MEETING. 


787 


1844.-  Leonard  C.  French,  2d,  1860. 

Adam  Chandler, 
Thomas  W.  Moor. 

1845.  -Leonard  C.  French,  2d,  1861. 
-Moody  M.  Stevens, 

John  D.  Riddle. 

1846.  "Leonard  C.  French,  2d,  1862. 

David  Hamblet, 
"'Solomon  Manning. 
1S47.    John  D.  Riddle,  1863. 

Rodney  McLaughlin, 
/  John  D.  Armstrong. 
1848. "  William  French,    '  1864. 

Rodney  McLaughlin, 

Alfred  McAffee. 
1849.    John  Patten,  1865. 

William  Moor, 

James  Walker. 
1850vAdam  Chandler,  1866. 

William  French, 

Thomas  G.  Holbrook. 

1851.  Adam  Chandler,  1867. 
Joseph  H.  Stevens, 

'  Benjamin  F.  Wallace. 

1852.  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  1868. 
-  Benjamin  F.  Wallace, 

Henry  Hale. 

1853.  'Benjamin  P.  Wallace,  1869. 

Henry  Hale, 
Elijah  C.  Stevens. 

1854.  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  1870. 
Abner  C.  Darrah, 

Charles  H.  Moor. 

1855.  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  1871. 
Abner  C.  Darrah, 

Charles  H.  Moor. 

1856.  Charles  H.  Moor,  1872. 
Samuel  Patten, 

Adam  Chandler. 

1857.  Joseph  H.  Stevens,  1873. 
Daniel  Balch, 

Charles  F.  Shepard. 

1858.  Daniel  Balch,  1874. 
Charles  F.  Shepard, 

John  O.  Parker. 

1859.  Gardner  Kevins,  1875. 
William  R.  French, 

Lucien  B.  Bowman. 


William  R.  French, 
Lucien  B.  Bowman, 
William  McAllister. 
Lucien  B.  Bowman, 
William  McAllister, 
Hugh  R.  French. 
William  McAllister, 
Leonard  C.  French, 
Robert  Fulton. 
Robert  Fulton, 
Daniel  G.  Atwood, 
Stillman  A.  Shepherd. 
Lucien  B.  Bowman, 
Daniel  G.  Atwood, 
Stillman  A.  Shepherd. 
George  W.  Riddle, 
James  T.  Kendall, 
Elbridge  G.  Newton. 
George  W.  Riddle, 
James  T.  Kendall, 
Freeman  R.  French. 
Leonard  C.  French, 
Charles  H.  Moore, 
John  Hodgman. 
William  McAllister, 
Silas  Holbrook, 
Samuel  E.  Morrison. 
Charles  H.  Moore, 
Samuel  E.  Morrison, 
Horace  Holbrook. 
Charles  H.  Moore, 
Horace  Holbrook, 
William  P.  Worthley. 
Horace  Holbrook, 
William  P.  Worthley, 
Joseph  H.  Stevens. 
Joseph  H.  Stevens, 
Daniel  George, 
Solomon  Manning. 
William  McAllister, 
Henry  T.  Barnard, 
John  S.  McNeil. 
Samuel  E.  Morrison, 
John  S.  McNeil, 
Clinton  French. 
Clinton  French, 
Elbridge  G.  Tolford, 
Warren  G.  Currier. 


788 


HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 


1876. 

1877. 
1878. 
1879. 
1880. 
1881. 
1882. 
1883. 
1884. 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
1888. 
1889. 


Elbridge  G.  Tolford,  1890. 

Warren  G.  Currier, 

William  IT.  Gage. 

Samuel  E.  Morrison,  1891. 

Samuel  T.  Soper, 

Ephraim  W.  Butterfield. 

Ephraim  W.  Butterfield,        1892. 

Stephen  Goffe, 

Rodney  M.  Rollins. 

Hugh  R.  Barnard,  1893. 

Rodney  M.  Rollins, 

Milton  W.  Spencer. 

Hugh  R.  Barnard,  1894. 

Milton  W.  Spencer, 

George  M.  French. 

Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  2d,  1895. 

Isaac  N.  Riddle, 

Horace  Townsend, 

Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  2d,  1896. 

Isaac  N.  Riddle, 

Horace  Townsend. 

Freeman  R.  French,  1897. 

John  F.  Gove, 

Charles  E.  Bursiel. 

Freeman  R.  French,  1898. 

John  F.  Gove, 

Charles  E.  Bursiel. 

Charles  E.  Bursiel,  1899. 

John  G.  Vose, 

Henry  L.  Peaslee. 

John  G.  Vose,  1900. 

Henry  L.  Peaslee, 

James  C.  Gilman. 

Henry  L.  Peaslee,  1901. 

James  C.  Gilman, 

George  F.  Barnard. 

George  F.  Barnard,  1902. 

John  F.  Gove, 

James  E.  Gault. 

James  E.  Gault,  1903. 

Henry  H.  Smith, 

Milton  N.  Flint. 


Henry  H.  Smith, 
George  F.  Shepard, 
William  W.  Darrah. 
Charles  B.  Beal, 
Horace  Holbrook, 
Ira  Barr. 

Henry  L.  Peaslee, 
Edmund  B.  Hull, 
George  O.  Spencer. 
Edmund  B.  Hull, 
George  O.  Spencer, 
Herbert  R.  Fulton. 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin, 
Arthur  W.  Holbrook, 
Newton  I.  Peaslee. 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin, 
Arthur  W.  Holbrook, 
Newton  I.  Peaslee. 
Arthur  W.  Holbrook, 
Newton  I.  Peaslee, 
Lyman  M.  Kinson. 
John  F.  Gove, 
Lyman  M.  Kinson, 
George  O.  Spencer. 
Lyman  M.  Kinson, 
George  O.  Spencer, 
Julius  H.  Putnam. 
William  W.  Darrah, 
Ira  Barr, 

Fred  M.  Barnard. 
Edmund  B.  Hull, 
Charles  E.  Bursiel, 
George  L.  Walch. 
Ira  Ban-, 
George  L.  Walch, 
Charles  P.  Farley. 
Ira  Barr, 

George  O.  Spencer, 
Orra  G.  Kilton. 
George  O.  Spencer, 
Newton  I.  Peaslee, 
John  F.  Gove. 


TOWN  TREASURERS. 


Robert  Walker,  1752-'54. 
Moses  Barron,  1755-56. 
Matthew  Patten,  1757-'58, 1784- 
'95. 


Samuel  Patten,  1759. 
William  Holmes,  1760. 
James  Little,  1761-70. 
Matthew  Little,  1771-79. 


THE  TOWN  MEETING. 


789 


James  Aiken,  1780. 
John  Orr,  1781-'83,  1796. 
Isaac  Riddle,  1797-1803. 
William  Riddle,  1804-'15,  1819- 

'20    1822— '31 
Samuel  Chandler,  1816-'18, 1821. 
'Leonard  C.  French,   1832,  1835, 

1840-'41, 1843, 1845-'48, 1851, 

1854. 
Gawn  Riddle,  1833-'34. 
Thomas  Chandler,  1836-'37. 
John  McAllister,  1838-'39. 
•  Peter  P.Woodbury,  1842,  '49-'50. 
John  Barr,  1844. 
Oliver  L.  Kendall,   1852,    1873, 

1875-'76. 


John  Goffe,  1853. 
Samuel  Patten,  1855-56. 
William  B.  Stevens,  1857-'60. 
James  T.  Kendall,  1861-'62. 
Charles  Gage,  1863-'68. 
Daniel  Barnard,  1869-'71. 
William  P.  Worthley,  1872. 
John  Hodgman,  1874,  1877-'85. 
William  M.  Patten,  1886-'87. 
George  W.  Flint,  1888. 
Frank    E.   Manning,    1889-'90, 

1892. 
George  F.  Barnard,  1891. 
James  R.  Leach,  1893-'96. 
Quincy  Barnard,  1897-1900. 
Ervin  R.  French,  1901-'03. 


CONSTABLES. 

A  study  of  the  list  of  constables  who  have  been  chosen  to  serve 
the  town,  herewith  presented,  will  show  a  duplication  of  dates  in 
some  instances.  This  is  due  to  the  fact  that  during  a  few  of  the 
years  more  than  one  was  elected  and  commissioned. 


Fergus  Kennedy,  1750. 
Gawn  Riddle,  1751,  1757. 
Hugh  Riddle,  1752. 
William  Moor,  1753. 
Matthew  Little,  1754. 
Robert  Gilmore,  1755. 
Robert  Walker,  1756. 
Francis  Barnet,  1758. 
Thomas  Wallace,  1759. 
James  Little,  1760. 
Samuel  Patten,  1761. 
William  Holmes,  1762. 
Richard  McAllister,  1763. 
John  Moor,  1764. 
John  McLaughlin,  1765. 
John  Bell,  1766. 
Joseph  Scobey,  1767. 
James  Caldwell,  1768. 
Thomas  Boies,  1769. 
Samuel  Yose,  1770. 
David  McClary,  1771. 
Matthew  McAffee,  1772. 
James  Walker,  1773,  1775. 
John  Wallace,  1774. 


John  McKinney,  1776. 
Thomas  Cairns,  1777. 
John  Goffe,  1778. 
Thomas  McLaughlin,  1779. 
John  Aiken,  1779. 
Adam  Dickey,  1780. 
Joseph  Houston,  1780. 
James  Vose,  1781. 
James  Aiken,  1781. 
James  Martin,  1782. 
James  Smith,  1782. 
Robert  Alexander,  1783. 
Whitefield  Gilmore,  1783. 
John  Moor,  1784. 
John  Orr,  1784. 
John  Gardner,  1785. 
John  Dunlap,  1785. 
James  Moor,  1786. 
Robert  Matthews,  1786. 
Daniel  Moor,  1787. 
Asa  Barron,  1787. 
Stephen  French,  1788. 
George  Orr,  1788. 
John  McAllister,  1789. 


790 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


Adam  Smith,  1789. 
John  Gordon,  1790. 
John  Mcintosh,  1790. 
William  Burns,  1791. 
Benjamin  Barron,  1792-'93. 
John  Patten,  1793. 
Josiah  Gordon,   1794-'95,   1801. 
William  Riddle,  1796-'97,  1802. 
Thomas  Wallace,  1798. 
Nathan  Barnes,  1799. 
John  Riddle,  1800. 
Joseph  Patten,  1803-'16. 
Solomon  Gage,  1817. 
John  Mclntyre,  1818. 
Patrick  McLaughlin,  1819-'27. 
Thomas  Rundlett,  1828. 
John  Patten,  1829, 1838-'39. 
Charles  Aiken,  1829. 
Leonard  C.  French,  1829. 
Willard  Parker,  1829. 
Isaac  Riddle,  1830. 
Rufus  Merrill,  1831-'32. 
Frederick  Wallace,  1833-'34. 
Samuel  Morrison,  1835,  1839. 
Stephen  Goffe,  1836. 
John  Craig,  Jr.,  1837-'38. 
Chandler    Spofford,     1838  -'41, 

1845. 
Joseph  Colley,  1840. 
John  D.  Riddle,  1842-'43. 
Daniel  Barnard,  1844. 
Frederick  G.  Stark,  1845. 
John  Goffe,  1846. 


William  Moor,  1847-'48. 
Reuben  V.  Greeley,  1847. 
George  W.  Riddle,  1849. 
Charles  F.  Shepard,  1850. 
Benjamin  Hali,  1851. 
James  T.  Kendall,  1852. 
George  W.  Goffe,  1853. 
Frederick  F.  French,  1854. 
Cyrus  P.  Bryant,  1855-'56, 1859. 
Leonard  Bursiel,  1857-'58,  1878. 
John  P.  Conner,  1860-'61. 
Thomas  Bursiel,  1862. 
Solon  D.  Pollard,  1863-'64. 
Thomas  M.  Ferguson,  1865-'66. 
Willard  C.  Parker,  1867-'68. 
Albert  L.  Flint,  1869-71. 
Albert  E.  Boyce,  1872. 
Samuel  McDole,  1873-74. 
William  Moore,  1875. 
James  McDole,  1876. 
Charles  A.  Grant,  1878. 
Charles  S.  Campbell,  1877-78. 
George  F.  Shepard,  1879-'81. 
Elliott  S.  Campbell,  1882-'83. 
William  F.  Conner,  1884-'85. 
Lyman  M.  Kinson,  1886-'87. 
Alfred  B.  Lampher,  1888. 
George  L.  Walch,  1889-'90. 
Perham  Parker,  1891-'92. 
George  E.  Gault,  1893-'97. 
George  A.  King,  1898. 
Harrison  Campbell,  1899. 
George  H.  Hardy,  1900. 


Winthrop  Hoyt,  1901-'02. 


JUSTICES  OF  THE  PEACE. 

The  dates  that  appear  with  the  names  that  follow  indicate  the  num 
ber  of  years  that  the  person  served  as  a  commissioned  justice,  if  pre- 
vious to  1850;  the  subsequent  dates,  those  at  which  the  commission 
was  dated.     The  former  are  based  upon  the  information  given  in  the 
History  of  1850. 


David  Patten,  1800,  1817-'30. 
John   Oit,   peace   and    quorum, 

1801,  1817-'23. 
William  Moor,  1805,    1818-'22; 

quorum,  1823-'43. 


Thomas  Chandler,  1808,    1817- 

'19. 
James  Parker,  1812,  1817-'22. 
Isaac  Riddle,  1817-'21. 
William  Wallace,  1820-'25. 


THE  TOWN   MEETING. 


791 


Peter   P.  Woodbury,  1822-'43; 

quorum,  1844-'57. 
James  McK.  Wilkins,   1824-'35; 

quorum,  1836-'40. 
Jonas  B.  Bowman,  1824-50. 
Nathan  Barnes,  1825. 
Joseph  Colley,  1825-'41. 
Samuel  Chandler,  1826-'49. 
William  P.  Riddle,  1827-'51. 
William  Riddle,  1828-'40. 
Gardner  Kevins,  1831-'50. 
Theodore    A.   Goffe,    1831-'33, 

1838-'50. 
Mace  Moulton,  1833-'40. 
John  Holbrook,  quorum,    1834- 

'36. 
Thomas    Rundlett,     1834 -'38; 

quorum,  1839-'50. 
Isaac  Riddle,  1834-'45,  1849. 
John  Parker,  1838-'51. 
John  Barr,  1838-'44,  1848-'50. 
Frederick  G.  Stark,  state,  1839- 

'51. 
John  Porter,  1840. 
Silas  Walker,  1840-'45. 
Adam  Chandler,  1844-48;    quo- 
rum, 1849-'63. 
David  Hamblet,  1841-'44. 
Moses  Gage,  1842-'62. 
Daniel  Gordon,  1843-'46,  1848- 

'49. 
Leonard  C.  French,  2d,  1844-'68. 
Robert  Dunlap,  1845-'50. 
John  D.  Walker,  1845-'50. 
John  D.  Riddle,  1847-'56. 
Chandler     Spofford,     1847-'56; 

quorum,  1856-'60. 
Leonard  French,  1848-'56. 
Reuben  V.  Greeley,  1848-'50. 
Henry  Hale,  1848-'57. 
Andrew  J.  Dow,  1849-'50. 
James  Walker,  1849-'50. 


William  Whittle,  1851. 
Noyes  Poor,  1852. 
Joseph  H.  Stevens,  1854-74. 
Brooks  Shattuck,  1855. 
William  B.  Stevens,  1855-'59. 
Oliver  L.  Kendall,  1858-'68. 
Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  1858. 
Benjamin  Hall,  1861. 
James  T.  Kendall,  1862-72. 
Isaac  N.  Riddle,  quorum,   1862  - 

'82 ;  state,  1883-'85. 
Charles  F.  Shepherd,  1863. 
George  W.  Riddle,  1859-'64. 
Robert  Fulton,  1865. 
John  Hodgman,  1870-'85. 
John  H.  McAfee,  1870-75. 
William  W.  Wilkins,  1870. 
Clinton  French,  1871-1900. 
James  Darrah,  1870. 
George  W.  Goffe,  1871. 
Rodney  M.  Rollins,  1871-'91. 
Silas  A.  Riddle,  1875-'95;  state, 

1895-1900. 
Daniel  G.  At  wood,  1875. 
John  A.  Riddle,  1875-'80 ;  state, 

1880-1900. 
George  Foster,  state,  1876-'81. 
John  Foster,  1876. 
Willis  B.  Kendall,  1879-'89. 
Theodore  A.  Goffe,  state,   1879- 

'84. 
Hugh  R.  Barnard,  1880. 
Frank  H.  Brown,  1880-'90. 
William  W.  Darrah,  1883. 
Charles  E.  Foster,  1883. 
Wallace  B.  Clement,  state,  1887. 
Gordon  Woodbury,  state,  1891- 

1901. 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin,  1895-1900. 
Herman  Foster,  1897. 
Fred*  A.  French,  1900. 
Ervin  R.  French,  1900. 


STATE    OF  NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

Office  of  Secretary  of  State. 

Concord,  December  17,  1903. 
Gordon  Woodbury,  Esq.,  Manchester,  2V.  H.: 

Dear  Mr.  Woodbury:    Prior  to  1775  justices  of  the  peace  were  appointed  by  the 
governor,  and  the  records  are  not  in  the  state  archives. 

In  the  N.  H.  Register  of  1772  I  find  Matthew  Patten  (residence  not  given)  as  a  justice 
of  the  peace. 


792  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

In  Mein  &  Flemmings's  N.  E.  Register  of  1768  and  1769,  New  Hampshire  section,  the 
same  name  is  given.    Back  of  this  date  I  am  unable  to  go. 

From  1775  to  1784  justices  were  elected  by  the  legislature.  In  the  Journals  of  the 
House,  I  find  record  of  the  election  of  Matthew  Patten  as  justice  of  the  peace,  Jan. 
12,  1776,  and  as  judge  of  probate,  Jan.  26,  1776. 

In  State  Papers,  Vol  8,  p.  728,  is  a  return  dated  Bedford,  Oct  7, 1775,  sworn  to  before 
Matthew  Fatten,  justice  of  the  peace. 

On  June  28,  1776,  John  Goffe,  residence  not  given,  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace 
and  quorum. 

Between  1784  and  1791  many  of  the  appointments  made  by  the  President  and  Coun- 
cil, in  the  Council  Records,  do  not  give  residences,  but  on  the  accompanying  sheet 
are  indicated  such  as  are  credited  to  Bedford. 

Between  1794  and  1800,  the  records  of  executive  nominations  give  residences  as  well 
as  names. 

I  regret  that  the  records  are  not  so  complete  that  I  can  assure  you  that  the  names 
sent  are  all  the  justices  of  the  peace  to  which  Bedford  is  entitled,  but  I  can  at  least 
say  that  these  are  all  1  can  find. 

Yours  very  truly, 

Edward  N.  Pearson. 
BEDFORD. 

JUSTICES   OP  THE   PEACE   FOR   HILLSBOROUGH   COUNTY. 

Matthew  Patten— In  office  1768,  1769,  1772,  1775;  appointed  Jan.  26, 1776;  Dec.  21,  1784; 
Dec.  30, 1789;  Dec.  31,  1794. 
John  Orr— Appointed  Feb.  20,  1786;  Oct.  21,  1791;  Nov.  25,  1796. 
Stephen  Dole— Appointed  Jan.  25,  1790;  Jan.  1, 1795;  Dec.  19,  1799. 
David  Patten— Appointed  Dec.  11, 1795. 

CORONER. 

Zacheus  Chandler  appointed  Dec.  14, 1784. 

JUDGE   OP   PROBATE. 

Matthew  Patten— Appointed  Jan.  26, 1776. 

JUSTICE   OF  THE   PEACE   AND   QUORUM. 

John  Goffe  (residence  not  given)— Appointed  June  28, 1776. 

MODERATORS. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  moderators  who  have  served  the 
town  at  the  annual  or  biennial  meetings  since  1750.  The  name  is 
followed  by  the  date  of  the  service,  and  dates  connected  by  the 
hyphen  mean  that  the  person  named  presided  at  the  meeting  of 
those  years  and  all  intervening: 

John  Goffe,  1750.  John    Orr,    1783,    1787,    1795, 
Moses  Barron,   1751-'52,  1755-  1800-'04,  1807-'08,  1810. 

'56,  1764-71.  Stephen  Dole,  1785,  1790-'91, 
Samuel  Patten,  1753-'54,  1776.  1796-'97,  1799. 

William  Thornton,  1757.  William  Moor,  1798,  1805-'06. 

Matthew  Little,  1758-'59.  Nathan  Barnes,  1809. 

John  Bell,  Jr.,  1760,  1789,  1793.  Samuel  Chandler,  1811. 

John  Moor,  1761,  1773.  Richard    Dole,    1812,    1814-'15, 
James  Caldwell,  1762.  1822,  1824-'25. 

John  Shepard,  1763.  William  Riddle,  1813. 

James   Martin,    1772,    1778-'80,  Isaac  Riddle,  1816. 

1782,  1784.  Joseph  Colley,  Jr.,  1817-'18, 
John  Little,  1774-'75.  1820. 

Samuel  Vose,  1777,  1786,  1788,  Joseph  Colley,  1819,  1823,  1826, 

1792,  1794.  1828,  1830-'31,  1834-'37. 

Hugh  Orr,  1781.  John  Holbrook,  1821. 


THE   TOWN   MEETING. 


793 


John  Patten,  1827. 
Moody  M.  Stevens,  1829. 
Jonas     B.    Bowman,    1832-'33, 

1838-'40,  1843-45. 
Frederick  G.  Stark,  1841-'42. 
William  P.  Riddle,  1846-'48. 
Henry  Hale,  1849,  1858-'60. 
Adam  Chandler,  1850. 
Benjamin  F.  Wallace,  1851-'53. 
Gardner  JSevins,  1854. 
Joseph  H.  Stevens,  1855,  1857. 
Benjamin  Hall,  1856. 
George  W.  Riddle,  1861-'65. 
Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  1866-'67. 


John  Hodgman,  1868,  1875, 
1879-'80,  1882-'84,  1884-'85. 

George  W.  Goffe,  1869-'72, 
1876. 

Samuel  T.  Soper,  1873. 

Rodnev  M.  Rollins,  1874. 

John  Foster,  1877-78. 

Isaac  X.  Riddle,  1881. 

Willard  C.  Parker,  1886-'87. 

Charles  B.  Beal,  1888. 

George  H.  Wiggin,  1889-'90. 

Wallace  B.  Clement,  1891. 

William  F.  Conner,  1892-'93. 

William  M.  Patten,  1894-1903. 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


John  Goffe,  1762-74. 

Paul  Dudley  Sargent,  1775-78.    " 

John  Orr,  1779,  1782,  1795-'97, 

1811-'12. 
Samuel  Patten,  1780-'81. 
Matthew  Thornton,  1783. 
James  Martin,  1784-85,  1791. 
Stephen    Dole,    1786,    1788-'90, 

1792-'94. 
Zachariah  Chandler,  1787. 
Isaac  Riddle,  1798-'99,  1813. 
David  Patten,  1800-'02. 
Phinehas  Aiken,  1803-'04,  1814. 
William  Riddle,  1805-'07,  1825- 

'26,  1830-'31. 
Samuel  Chandler,  1808-'10, 1815- 

'18. 
Josiah  Gordon,  1819-'20. 
Thomas  Chandler,  1821. 
Thomas  Aiken,  1822. 
William  Moor,  1823-'24,  1832- 

'33. 
Ebenezer  French,  1827. 
Joseph  Colley,  1828-'29,  1835. 
James     McK.     Wilkins,     1834, 

1836-'37. 


Jonas  B.  Bowman,  1838-'39. 
John  French,  1840. 
Thomas  Chandler,  1841-'42. 
William  Patten,  1843. 
Leonard    C.    French,    1844-'46. 
Gardner  Nevins,  1847-48. 
William  P.  Riddle,  1847-'48. 
•Adam  X.  Patten,  1849. 
Chandler  Spofford,  1849. 
Andrew  J.  Dow,  1850. 
Leonard  C.  French,  2d,  1850. 
Benjamin  F.  Wallace,  1851. 
Moody  M.  Stevens,  1851. 
James  Morrison,  1852. 
Thomas  W.  Moore,  1852. 
Daniel  K.  Mack,  1853. 
James  French,  1854-55. 
Russell  Moor,  1856-57. 
Thomas  G.  Holbrook,  1858-'59. 
Henry  Hale,  1860-'61. 
William  R.  French,  1862-'63. 
George  W.  Riddle,  1864-'65. 
Silas  Holbrook,  1866-'67. 
Samuel  Patten,  1868. 
Charles  H.  Moore,  1869. 
John  Hodgman,  1870. 


1  Amherst  was  classed  with  Bedford  for  the  choice  of  a  representative  to  the 
general  court,  under  the  Provincial  government.  The  first  meeting  for  the  choice 
of  a  representative  from  the  classed  towns  of  which  a  record  has  been  found,  was 
held  at  Bedford  meeting-house  March  4,  1762,  at  which  Col.  John  Goffe  received 
forty-six  votes  and  Capt.  Moses  Barron,  thirteen  votes.  Colonel  Goffe  having  a 
majority  of  the  votes  was  declared  elected,  and  served  as  representative  of  the  dis- 
trict, under  this  and  subsequent  elections,  until  the  abrogation  of  the  Provincial 
government. 


794 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


George  W.  Goffe,  1871,  1876. 
Thomas  G.  Worthley,  1872. 
George  Whitford,  1873. 
No  choice,  1874. 
Paul  T.  Campbell,  1875. 
No  choice,  1877. 
William  McAlister,  1878. 
No  choice  November,  1878. 
Charles  B.  Beal,  1880. 
John  A.  Riddle,  1882. 


Freeman  R.  French,  1884. 
William  M.  Patten,  1886. 
George  F.  Barnard,  1888. 
Gordon  Woodbury,  1890. 
Perham  Parker,  1£92. 
James  E.  Gault,  1894. 
Edmund  B.  Hull,  1896. 
Quincy  Barnard,  1898. 
Solomon  Manning,  1900. 
Ira  Barr,  1902. 


TOWN   CLERKS. 

The  list  of  clerks  of  the  town  follows,  with  the  years  of  service 
presented  after  the  manner  in  which  the  moderators  have  been 
given ;  the  few  cases  of  a  duplication  of  dates  are  occasioned  by  the 
resignation  of  the  person  elected  before  the  term  expired : 


John  McLaughlin,  1750-51. 
Matthew  Patten,  1752-72. 
John  Bell,  1773-76. 
William  White,  1777-'81. 
Thomas  McLaughlin,  1782. 
John  Rand,  1783-'84. 
Josiah  Gillis,  1785-'87. 
William  Moor,  1788-'90,  1816- 

'17. 
William    McAfee,    1791,    1799- 

1800. 
David   Patten,    1792->96,  1807- 

'10. 
Phinehas  Aiken,  1797-'98, 1801- 

'04. 
Samuel  Chandler,  1805-'06, 1827- 

'28. 
Moody  M.  Stevens,  1811-'15. 
Alfred  Foster,  1818-'26. 
Leonard  Walker,  1829-'30, 1833- 

'34. 


Isaac  Riddle,  1831-'32. 
Daniel  Moor,  Jr.,  1835. 
Frederick  Wallace,  1836-'37. 
Daniel  Gordon,  1838-'41,  1843. 
John  Parker,  1842. 
Andrew  J.  Dow,  1844-'47, 1850- 

'51. 
Benjamin  F.  Wallace,  1848-'49. 
Matthew  Barr,  1850. 
Daniel  K.  Mack,  1852-'53. 
Chandler  Spofford,  1853-'57. 
Benjamin  Hall,  1857-'64. 
William  W.  Wilkins,  1865-'68. 
John  Hodgman,  1869-71. 
Theodore  A.  Goffe,  1872. 
George  W.  Flint,  1875. 
Silas  A.  Riddle,  1873-74,  1876- 

1900. 
Fred  A  French,  1900. 


TAX  COLLECTORS.1 


Samuel  Barr,  1799. 
David  Stevens,  1800. 


Nathan  Cutler,  1801. 
David  McQuesten,  1802. 


1  It  would  appear  that  in  the  early  history  of  the  town  an  accepted  duty  of  the  con- 
stable, duly  chosen,  was  the  collection  of  taxes,  as  for  many  years  the  same  man 
performed  the  duties  of  both  positions.  From  1779  to  1799  there  were  two  constables 
formally  chosen  each  year,  and  a  tax  list  was  committed  to  each  of  them,  one  for  the 
"  easterly  "  part  and  one  for  the  "  westerly  "  part.  The  names  of  the  collectors  pre- 
vious to  1799  can  be  found  in  the  list  of  constables  on  another  page,  as  above  ex- 
plained, and  are  omitted  here  for  the  purpose  of  avoiding  unnecessary  repetition. 


THE   TOWN  MEETING. 


795 


Samuel  Moor,  1803. 

William  McAfee,  1804. 

Thomas  Wallace,  1805. 

Robert  Houston,  1806. 

Andrew  Walker,  1807. 

Amos  Martin,  1808. 

Isaac  Atwood,  1809,  1815,  1823, 

1838,  1839. 
Josiah  Walker,  1810. 
William  Moor,  1811,  1827. 
David  McQuesten,  1812-'13. 
James  Darrah,  1814. 
James  Moor,  1816,  1820. 
Joseph  Colley,  1817-'18,  1837. 
James  Riddle,  1819. 
Isaac    Riddle,    1821-'22,    1830, 

1840-'41,  1843. 
John  McAllister,  1824. 
Lowell  Sprague,  1825. 
William  Riddle,  1826. 
Samuel  Moor,  Jr.,  1828. 
Mace  Moulton,  1829. 
John  Craig,  1831-'32. 


Jesse  Walker,  1833-'34. 
Rodney  McLaughlin,  1835. 
Andrew  Moor,  1836. 
Moses  Gage,  1842. 
Daniel  Barnard,  1843-'45. 
Joseph  C.  Moore,  1847. 
Joseph  Walker,  1848. 
Joseph    H.    Stevens,    1849-52, 

1857-'58. 
Elijah  C.  Stevens,  1853-'56. 
George  W.  Goffe,  1859. 
James    T.     Kendall,     1860-'64, 

1868. 
John  Hodgman,  1865-'67,  1869- 

'71,  1874-79. 
Horace  Holbrook,  1872. 
Quincy    Barnard,     1873,    1880, 

1886-'92,  1902. 
Oliver  L.  Kendall,  1881-'82. 
Harris  S.  C.  Ryder,  1883-'85. 
Jasper  P.  George,  1893-'97. 
Newton  I.  Peaslee,  1898-1901. 
Thomas  J.  Wiggin,  1903. 


THE  SCHOOL  BOARDS. 


1886. 

Arthur  W.  Holbrook, 

1893. 

William  F.  Conner,1 

Charles  B.  Beal, 

Edward  P.  French, 

N.  B.  Hull. 

Jasper  P.  George. 

1887. 

Charles  B.  Beal, 

1894. 

Edward  P.  French, 

N.  B.  Hull, 

Jasper  P.  George, 

Frank  H.  Rowe. 

Mary  E.  Manning. 

1888. 

N.  B.  Hull, 

1895. 

Jasper  P.  George, 

Frank  H.  Rowe, 

Marv  E.  Manning, 

Charles  B.  Beal. 

William  W.  Darrah 

1889. 

Frank  H.  Rowe, 

1896. 

Marv  E.  Manning, 

Charles  B.  Beal, 

William  W.  Darrah, 

Edward  P.  French. 

Jasper  P.  George. 

1890. 

Charles  B.  Beal, 

1897. 

William  W.  Darrah, 

Edward  P.  French, 

Jasper  P.  George, 

Frank  H.  Rowe. 

Mary  E.  Manning. 

1891. 

Edward  P.  French, 

1898. 

Jasper  P.  George,2 

Frank  H.  Rowe, 

Mary  E.  Manning, 

William  F.  Conner. 

Thomas  J.  Wiggin. 

1892. 

Frank  H.  Rowe, 

1899. 

Mary  E.  Manning, 

William  F.  Conner, 

Thomas  J.  Wiggin, 

Edward  P.  French. 

William  M.  Patten. 

1  Resigned;  William  S.  Manning  appointed. 
*  Resigned;  William  M.  Patten  appointed. 


796 


HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 


1900. 


1901. 


Thomas  J.  Wiggin, 
William  M.  Patten, 
Mary  E.  Manning. 
William  M.  Patten, 
Mary  E.  Manning, 
Arthur  W.  Holbrook. 


1902.  MaxyJE.  Manniug, 
Arthur^W.  Holbrook. 
William  M.  Patten. 

1903.  Arthur  W.  Holbrook, 
William  M.  Patten, 
Mary  E.  Manning. 


PUBLIC  LIBRARY  TRUSTEES. 

The  public  town  library  was  established  by  action  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  1892,  and  the  following  have  served  as  trustees: 


A.  D.  Smith,  1892. 
George  M.  Davis,  1892-'93. 
John  A.  Riddle,  1892-'93. 
Jasper  P.  George,  1893-'97. 


Eddy  W.  Stevens,  1894-1903. 
George  F.  Barnard,  1894-1902. 
Joseph  S.  Parkhurst,  1898-1903. 
George  H.  Wiggin,  1903. 


DELEGATES  TO  CONSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTIONS. 


1788.  Stephen  Dole. 
1791.  Zachariah  Chandler. 
1850.  John  French. 


1876.  Charles  H.  Kendall. 
1888.  George  H.  Wiggin. 
1902.  Gordon  Woodbury. 


SUPERVISORS  OF  CHECK-LISTS. 


1878.    John  Hodgman,  1892. 

Hugh  R.  French, 

Charles  B.  Beal. 
1880.    Charles  B.  Beal,  1894. 

Warren  G.  Currier, 

William  W.  Darrah. 
1882.   William  M.  Patten,  1896. 

George  F.  Shepard, 

Edmund  Kendall. 
1884.    William  M.  Patten,  1898. 

George  F.  Shepard, 

Edmund  Kendall. 
1886.    Willard  C.  Parker,  1900. 

Rodney  F.  Rollins, 

William  F.  Conner. 
1888.   William  F.  Conner,  1902. 

Thomas  J.  Wiggin, 

Daniel  W.  Atwood. 
1890.    Thomas  J.  Wiggin, 

Daniel  W.  Atwood, 

George  L.  Walch. 


Daniel  W.  Atwood, 
Orra  G.  Kilton, 
George  L.  Walch. 
Orra  G.  Kilton, 
George  L.  Walch, 
William  H.  Ryder. 
James  R.  Leach, 
Harry  A.  Shepard, 
William  H.  Ryder. 
Harry  A.  Shepard, 
James  R.  Leach, 
Fred  F.  Lane. 
James  R.  Leach, 
Fred  F.  Lane, 
Perham  Parker. 
Lyman  M.  Kinson, 
Edward  P.  French, 
AVilliam  S.  Manning. 


THE   TOWN   MEETING. 


797 


VOTE  FOR  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  STATE. 


1784.  Meshech  Weare,  46.  1789. 

1785.  John  Langdon,  23. 

George  Atkinson,  5.  1790. 

1786.  John  Langdon,  47. 

George  Atkinson,  6.       1791. 

1787.  John  Langdon,  107.       1792. 

1788.  John  Langdon,  68. 


John  Pickering,  42. 
Gen.  Bellows,  4. 
John  Pickering,  42. 
Judge  Bartlett,  1. 
Josiah  Bartlett,  47. 
Josiah  Bartlett,  67. 


VOTE  FOR  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  STATE.1 

John  Langdon,  70. 
Levi  Whitman,  1. 
John  Langdon,  57. 
Timothy  Farrar,  5. 
Jeremiah  Smith,  F.,  122. 
John  Langdon,  D.  R.,  72. 
Jeremiah  Smith,  F.,  122. 
John  Langdon,  D.  R.,  77. 
Jeremiah  Smith,  F.,  118. 
John  Langdon,  D.  R.,  86. 
John  T.  Oilman,  F.v  137. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  76. 
John  T.  Gilman,  F.,  155. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  68. 
John  Vose,  1. 
John  T.  Gilman,  F.,  160. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  70. 
John  T.  Gilman,  F.,  165. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  62. 
James  Sheaf e,  F.,  172. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  77. 
James  Sheafe,  F.,  157. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  76. 
Jeremiah  Mason,  F.,  95. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  75. 
William  Hale,  F.,  106. 
Samuel  Bell,  D.  R.,  56. 
William  Plumer,  D.  R.,  8. 
Levi  Woodbury,  1. 
Samuel  Bell,  D.  R.,  51. 
David  L.  Morrill,  42. 

1  In  the  above  tabulation  we  have  indicated  the  political  party  which  the  leading 
candidates  represented,  as  far  as  the  records  show.  It  is  a  striking  fact  that  news- 
paper tiles  have  to  be  depended  upon  almost  entirely  for  this  information,  nothing 
of  the  character  appearing  in  any  official  record  or  statistical  publication.  Of  the 
designations:  F.  means  Federalist  party;  D.  R.,  Democratic  Republican,  which  later 
has  been  shortened  to  Democratic,  and  is  indicated  by  D.;  W.,  Whig;  R.,  Republi- 
can; A.,  Abolitionist;  P.,  Prohibitionist;  S.,  Socialist. 


1793.  Josiah  Bartlett,  79. 

1807. 

John  P.  Gilman,  1. 

Stephen  Dole,  1. 
John  Bell,  1. 

1808. 

1794.  John  T.  Gilman,  72. 

1809. 

Stephen  Dole,  1. 
1795.  John  T.  Gilman,  85. 

1810. 

Stephen  Dole,  1. 
Joseph  Patten,  1. 
1796.  John  T.  Gilman,  56. 

1811. 

Timothy  Walker,  13. 
1797.  John  T.  Gilman,  60. 

1812. 

1798.  John  T.  Gilman,  78. 

1813. 

1799.  John  T.  Gilman,  76. 

1800.  John  T.  Gilman,  85. 

Timothy,  Walker,  2. 
1801.  John  T.  Gilman,  106. 

1814. 

John  Langdon,  3. 
Timothy  Walker,  2. 
1802.  John  T.  Gilman,  108. 

1815. 
1816. 

John  Langdon,  21. 
David  Riddle,  1. 

1817. 

1803.  John  T.  Gilman,  100. 

John  Langdon,  32. 

1818. 

1804.  John  T.  Gilman,  98. 

John  Langdon,  51. 

1819. 

1805.  John  T.  Gilman,  107. 

John  Langdon,  66. 

1806.  John  Langdon,  73. 
Timothy  Farrar,  60. 
Robert  Mann,  1. 

1820. 

798 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


1820  Richard  Dole,  1.  1835. 

William  P.  Riddle,  1. 

1821.  Samuel  Bell,  D.  R.,  75.  1836. 
Levi  Woodbury,  D.  R.,  10. 

David  L.  Morrill,  2. 

1822.  Samuel  Bell,  D.  R.,  81. 
David  L.  Morrill,  F.,  24. 
Jeremiah  Smith,  1.  1837. 
Gilbert  Goffe,  1.  1838. 

1823.  Levi  Woodbury,  D.  R.,  122. 
Samuel  Dinsmore,D.R.,  51.      1839. 

1824.  Levi  Woodbury,  D.  R.,  95. 
David  L.  Morrill,  D.  R.,  19.      1840. 
Judge  Livermore,  2. 

1825.  David  L.  Morrill,  D.  R.,  163.      1841. 
Benjamin  Pierce,  D.  R.,  1. 
Ephraim  Abbott,  Jr.,  1. 

1826.  Benjamin  Pierce,  D.  R.,108.      1842. 
David  L.  Morrill,  D.  R.,  65. 
George  Sullivan,  3. 

Jeremiah  Smith,  1. 

Isaac  Orr,  1.  1843. 

1827.  Benjamin  Pierce,  D.  R.,140. 
David  L.  Morrill,  D.  R.,  21. 
George  Sullivan,  2. 

Isaac  Orr,  2.  1844. 

Jonathan  Harvey,  1. 
Matthew  Harvev,  1. 

1828.  John  Bell,  F.,  176. 

Benjamin  Pierce,  D.  R.,  84.      1845. 

1829.  John  Bell,  F.,  172. 
Benjamin  Pierce,  D.  R.,  99. 

1830.  Timothy  Ilpham,  F.,  158.         1846. 
Matthew  Harvey,  D.R.,102. 

1831.  Ichabod  Bartlett,  F.,  199. 
Samuel  Dinsmore,D. R.,108. 
Franklin  Wallace,  1.  1847. 
Reuben  Moors,  1. 

1832.  Ichabod  Bartlett,  F.,  142. 
Samuel  D  insmore,D  .R.,  121. 

1833.  SamuelDinsmore,D.R.,101. 
William  Goffe,  1.  1848. 
Jonathan  Harvey,  1. 

1834.  William  Badger,  D.  R.,  128. 

Jack  Downing,  17.  1849. 

William  Goffe,  3. 

Samuel  W.  Abbott,  1. 

Isaac  Moore,  1.  1850. 


Joseph  Healey,  F.,  123. 
William  Badger,  D.  R.,  119. 
Isaac  Hill,  D.  R.,  137. 
William  Badger,  D.  R.,  3. 
Sherborn  Dearborn,  Jr.,  3. 
Thomas  Rundlett,  1. 
James  Walker,  1. 
Isaac  Hill,  D.  R.,  85. 
James  Wilson,  Jr.,  F.,  189. 
Isaac  Hill,  D.  R.,  122. 
James  Wilson,  F.,  186. 
John  Page,  D.  R.,  140. 
Enos  Stevens,  F.,  165. 
John  Page,  D.  R.,  139. 
Enos  Stevens,  F.,  162. 
John  Page,  D.  R.,  165. 
Willard  Parker,  1. 
Henry  Hubbard,  D.  R.,  172. 
Enos  Stevens,  F.,  139. 
Daniel  Hoyt,  10. 
John  H.  White,  D.  R.,  8. 
Anthony  Colby,  F.,  162. 
Henry  Hubbard,  D.  R.,  157. 
John  II.  White,  D.  R.,  16. 
Daniel  Hoyt,  14. 
John  H.  Steele,  D.  R.,  170. 
Anthony  Colby,  F.,  159. 
Daniel  Hoyt,  17. 
Franklin  Pierce,  1. 
No  vote  recorded,  and  no 

article    for    one   in    the 

warrant. 
Anthony  Colby,  F.,  160. 
Jared  W.  Williams,  D.  R., 

157. 
Nathaniel  S.  Berry,  18. 
Anthonv  Colby,  F.,  178. 
Jared  W.  Williams,  D.  R., 

163. 
Nathaniel  S.  Berry,  18. 
Dudley  H.  Tufts,  1. 
Nathaniel  S.  Berry,  F.,  202. 
Jared  W.  Williams,  D.  R., 

161. 
Levi  Chamberlain,  F.,  184. 
SamuelDinsmore,D.R.,158. 
Nathaniel  Berry,  1. 
Samuel  Dinsmore,D.R.,150. 


THE   TOWN   MEETING. 


799 


1850.  Levi  Chamberlain,  F.,  150.      1864. 
Nathaniel  S.  Berry,  12. 

1851.  Thomas  E.  Sawyer,  W.,157. 
Samuel  Dinsmore,D.R.,112. 

John  Atwood,  A.,  79.  1865. 

1852.  Thomas  E.  Sawyer,  W.,154. 
Noah  Martin,  D.  R.,  147. 

John  Atwood,  A.,  33.  '  1866. 

1853.  James  BelL  W.,  173. 

Xoah  Martin,  D.  R.,  161.         1867. 
John  H.  White,  A.,  15. 

1854.  James  Bell,  W.,  138.  1868. 
Nathaniel  B.  Baker,  D.  R., 

109.  •     1869. 

Jared  Perkins,  10. 

1855.  Ralph  Metcalf,  W.,  145.  1870. 
Nathaniel  B.  Baker,  D.  R., 

113.  1871. 

James  Bell,  1. 

1856.  Ralph  Metcalf,  W.,  145.  1872. 
John  S.  Wells,  D.  R.,  109. 
Ichabod  Goodwin,  6.  1873. 

1857.  William  Hale,  R.,  161. 
John  S.  Wells,  D.  R.,  94. 

1858.  William  Hale,  R.,  157.  1874. 
Asa  P.  Cate,  D.  R.,  109. 

1859.  Ichabod  Goodwin,  R.,  176. 

Asa  P.  Cate,  D.  R.,  112.  1875. 

1860.  Ichabod  Goodwin,  R.,  168. 
Asa  P.  Cate,  D.  R.,  119. 

1861.  Nathaniel  S.  Berry,  R.,  155.      1876. 
George  Stark,  D.  R.,  105. 

Levi  Bartlett,  2.  1877. 

1862.  Nathaniel  S.  Berry,  R.,  156. 
George  Stark,  D.  R.,  103. 
Paul  J.  Wheeler,  8. 

1863.  Joseph  A.  Gilmore,  R.,  105.      1878. 
Ira  A.  Eastman,  D.  R.,  112. 
Walter  Harriman,  69. 


Joseph     A.    Gilmore,    R., 

195. 
Edward     W.    Harrington, 

D.  R.,  113. 
Frederick  Smith,  R.,  178. 
Edward     W.    Harrington, 

D.  R.,  107. 
Frederick  Smith,  R.,  187. 
John  G.  Sinclair,  D.  R.,  121. 
Walter  Harriman,  R.,  167. 
John  G.  Sinclair,  D.  R.,118. 
Walter  Harriman,  R.,  189. 
John  G.  Sinclair,  D.  R.,  132 
Onslow  Stearns,  R.,  166. 
John  Bedell,  D.  R.,  139. 
Onslow  Stearns,  R.,  168. 
John  Bedell,  D.  R.,  138. 
James  Pike,  R.,  160. 
James  A.  Weston,  D.,  152. 
Ezekiel  A.  Straw,  R.,  162. 
James  A.  Weston,  D.,  160. 
Ezekiel  A.  Straw,  R.,  177. 
James  A.  Weston,  D.,  144. 
John  Blackmer,  2. 
Luther  McCutchins,  R.,168. 
James  A.  Weston,  D.,  134. 
John  Blackmer,  6. 
Person  C.  Cheney,  R.,  163. 
Hiram  B.  Roberts,  D.,  158. 
Nathaniel  White,  3. 
Person  C.  Cheney,  R.,  161. 
Daniel  Marcy,  D.,  164. 
Benjamin  F.  Prescott,  R., 

159. 
Daniel  Marcy,  D.,  138. 
Scattering,  1. 
Benjamin  F.  Prescott,  R., 

170. 
Frank  A.  McKean,  D.,  136. 


Biennial  Elections. 


1878.  Natt  Head,  R.,  169. 

Frank  A.  McKean,  D.,  110. 

Warren  G.  Brown,  49. 

Asa  S.  Kendall,  1. 
1880.  Charles  H.  Bell,  R.,  184. 

Frank  Jones,  D.,  156. 


1882.  Samuel  W.  Hale,  R.,  173. 

Martin  V.  B.  Edgerly,  D., 
143. 
1884.  Moody  Currier,  R.,  157. 

John  M.  Hill,  D.,  148. 

Larkin  D.  Mason,  P.,  10. 


800 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


1886.  Charles  H.  Sawyer,  R.,  140. 

John  M.  Hill,  D.,  130. 

Joseph  Wentworth,  P.,  10. 
1888.  David  H.  Goodell,  R.,  163. 

Charles  H.  Amsden,  D.,150. 

Edgar  L.  Carr,  P.,  6. 
1890.  Hiram  A.  Tuttle,  R.,  164. 

Charles  H.  Amsden,  D.,139. 

Josiah  M.  Fletcher,  P.,  3. 
1892.  John  B.  Smith,  R.,  166. 

Luther   F.  McKinney,  D., 
140. 

William  O.  Noyes,  1. 

Edgar  L.  Carr,  P.,  1. 
1894.  Charles  A.  Busiel,  R.,  167. 

Henry  O.  Kent,  D.,  98. 

Daniel  C.  Knowles,  P.,  4. 

George  D.  Epps,  1. 

Harry  H.  Acton,  S.,  3. 
1896.  George    A.   Ramsdell,   R., 
157. 


1896.  Henry  O.  Kent,  D.,  79. 

George  W.  Barnard,  5. 

John  C.  Berry,  P.,  3. 
1898.  Charles  F.  Stone,  D.,  162. 

Frank  W.  Rollins,  R.,  115. 

Augustus  D.  Stevens,  2. 

Gardner  J.  Greenleaf,  1. 
-  Benjamin  T.   Whitehouse, 
S.,  1. 

Franklin  Worcester,  R.,  1. 
1900.  Chester  B.  Jordan,  R.,  159. 

Frederick  E.  Potter,  D.,  81. 

Josiah  M.  Fletcher,  P.,  4. 

Sumner  F.  Claflin,  S.,  2. 

Franklin  Worcester,  R.,  1. 
1902.  Henry  F.  Hollis,  D.,  134. 

Nahum   J.   Bachelder,  R.,. 
131. 

Alonzo  Elliott,  R.,  7. 

John  C.  Berry,  P.,  5. 

Michael  H.  O'Neil,  S.,  4. 


One   Hundred    and    Fiftieth    Anniversary 
Celebration. 


Preparations  for  celebration  of  the  150th  anniversary  of  the  in- 
corporation of  the  town  were  as  earnestly  entered  upon  and  as  pop- 
ularly supported  as  had  been  those  for  the  centennial  celebration. 
At  the  annual  town-meeting,  March,  1900,  there  was  an  unanimous 
vote  "To  raise  and  appropriate  $500  for  the  150th  anniversary,  and 
that  the  anniversary  committee  make  all  the  arrangements."  It  was 
at  once  seen  that  such  action  was  not  legal,  the  object  being  a 
special  one  not  covered  by  the  statutes.  Nothing  daunted,  citizens 
set  at  work  to  raise  the  funds  necessary  to  execute  the  plans,  and  it 
was  readily  done  by  the  passing  of  subscription  papers.  The  total 
was  ample  to  meet  every  demand  from  the  committee. 

The  celebration  was  held  Wednesday,  May  23,  1900.  The  fol- 
lowing detailed  story  of  the  event  was  taken  from  the  Manchester 
Daily  Union  of  the  following  morning : 

The  staid  and  quiet  old  town  of  Bedford  had  an  "  Old  Home  " 
day  on  Wednesday,  which  will  long  be  remembered  by  her  people 
and  which  gathered  again  within  her  borders  such  a  number  of  her 
sons  and  daughters  as  is  not  often  seen  in  a  place  of  this  size.  The 
day  marked  nothing  less  than  the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  the  incorporation  of  the  town  and  the  event  was  celebrated 
in  a  manner  which  did  credit  to  Bedford  and  her  citizens,  and  which 
was  eminently  in  keeping  with  the  nature  of  the  day. 

For  a  long  time  the  people  of  the  good  old  town  had  been  prepar- 
ing for  the  celebration  and  the  success  which  attended  their  efforts 
was  due  to  the  careful  and  conscientious  work  done  by  all  con- 
cerned. There  was  a  wise  division  of  labor  and  no  one  shirked  the 
part  assigned. 

A  thousand  invitations  were  sent  out  for  the  occasion  and  fully 
half  of  them  were  accepted.  There  were  present  the  old  Bedford 
boys  and  girls  and  their  sons  and  daughters  and  grandchildren  in 
large  numbers.  Family  reunions  and  the  meetings  of  old  friends 
were  the  order  of  the  day,  and  it  was  a  time  of  joy  and  good  will  on 
all  sides. 

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802  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

There  were  exercises  both  morning  and  afternoon,  a  dinner  in  the 
town  house,  band  concerts,  and  other  features.  The  day  was  one 
enjoyed  by  all  who  participated  in  its  observance. 

Many  of  those  from  other  places,  a  large  number  of  whom  came 
from  a  great  distance,  arrived  at  the  old  home  a  day  or  two  in  ad- 
vance and  were  on  hand  to  share  in  all  the  features  of  the  celebra- 
tion. 

The  day's  observance  was  begun  with  the  ringing  of  the  bell  of 
the  old  church  whose  history  is  largely  that  of  the  town  itself.  At 
sunrise  its  voice  went  out  announcing  in  unmistakable  tones  that  the 
day  for  which  all  had  been  preparing  and  waiting  expectantly  had 
come  at  last,  and  that  there  was  nothing  left  to  do  but  participate  in 
all  its  features  and  enjoy  them  to  their  utmost.  It  needed  no 
second  invitation  to  arouse  most  of  the  people,  and  the  remainder  of 
the  day  was  filled  with  bustle  and  activity. 

From  9:15  to  9:45  there  was  in  front  of  the  church  a  thoroughly 
enjoyable  band  concert  by  the  First  Regiment  band,  W.  S.  H. 
Jones,  leader.  During  this  time  the  people  were  gathering  within 
the  church  for  the  exercises  which  followed  shortly  after  the  con- 
cert. An  efficient  corps  of  ushers  attended  to  the  seating  of  the 
people,  and  there  was  no  delay  in  starting  the  exercises  when  the 
time  came  for  the  beginning  of  the  programme. 

When  10  o'clock  came,  and  the  exercises  began,  every  seat  in  the 
church  was  filled,  while  it  was  necessary  to  place  in  the  aisles  as 
many  chairs  as  could  conveniently  be  placed  there. 

After  an  organ  voluntary— Guilmant's  "Grand  Chorus,"  played 
by  Miss  Mary  Spofford  in  her  customarily  admirable  style,  Gordon 
Woodbury,  president  of  the  day,  called  the  gathering  to  order  and 
called  upon  the  Rev.  Albert  Newton  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  to  invoke 
the  Divine  blessing. 

The  clergyman  returned  thanks  for  the  honorable  history  of  the 
town,  the  heritage  of  her  sons  and  daughters,  and  asked  a  continu- 
ance of  the  Divine  guidance  for  the  place  and  its  people,  that  the 
days  to  come  might  be  as  bright  and  still  brighter  than  the  days  in 
the  past.  The  prayer  was  closed  by  the  recital  of  the  Lord's  Prayer 
by  all  the  people. 

The  president  of  the  day  then  stepped  forward  to  deliver  his  ad- 
dress of  welcome. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  Distinguished  Guests  and  Visitors,  Friends 

and  Fellow-citizens  of  Bedford: 

The  committee  who  have  been  charged  with  the  duty  of  arranging 
the  celebration  of  this  important  occasion,  have  invited  me  to  act  as 
chairman  of  the  day.  And  so  it  becomes  my  privilege  to  welcome 
you  here  and  to  ask  you  to  rejoice  together  and  with  us  all  over  the 
completion  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  full  years  of  the  incorporated 
existence  of  this  miniature  republic. 

It  is  a  privilege  indeed,  but  it  is  also  a  task,  and  it  is  as  well  a 
pleasure  and  a  duty.     It  is  a  task  for  it  is  ours  to-day  to  recall  as  far 


ANNIVERSARY  CELEBRATION.  803 

as  may  be  the  memory  of  the  characteristics  and  the  deeds  of  the 
good  men  and  women  now  long  gone  to  their  reward,  who  were 
your  ancestors  and  mine,  and  who  with  stout  hearts  and  sturdy 
hands,  with  a  clear  and  honest  purpose  to  learn  the  right  and  to  do 
it  (no  matter  what  the  cost),  first  tamed  this  savage  wilderness,  and 
made  it  into  the  abundant  farms  and  thrifty  homes  which  we  enjoy 
to-day.    . 

To  deal  fully  and  justly  with  their  achievements  you  will  agree 
with  me  is  not  only  a  task  but  it  is  a  heavy  task  as  well.  But  it  is 
a  pleasure  also  to  attempt  it,  for  if  you  will  pardon  a  word  of  per- 
sonal reference,  when  fifty  years  ago  you  marked  the  hundredth  an- 
niversary of  the  town,  it  was  my  grandfather  whom  you  selected  to 
act  as  chairman  of  the  day.  But  if  there  is  truth  in  the  maxim  that 
to  be  as  good  as  our  fathers  we  must  be  better,  I  know  that  your 
present  choice  has  not  been  as  wise  as  your  former,  and  I  shall  have 
to  take  refuge  in  the  fact  that  there  are  too  few  now  present  who 
were  present  then  to  admit  of  a  very  extended  comparison.  And  it 
is  a  duty  also  which  we  are  discharging  to-day.  A  duty  which  we 
owe  not  to  our  ancestors  only,  but  to  ourselves.  We  should  assemble 
as  we  have  done,  we  should  call  to  mind  as  nearly  as  we  can  the 
times  in  which  our  fathers  lived  who  laid  the  foundations  of  the 
political  structure  in  which  we  live  to-day  so  that  by  present  com- 
parison we  can  learn  whether  we  are  rightly  using  the  fabric  which 
they  reared  for  us  and  which  it  is  ours  to  transmit  uninjured  to  the 
coming  generation.  We  should  not  be  content  with  idle  and  amus- 
ing contrast  between  the  comforts  and  luxuries  which  characterize 
our  homes  to-day  and  the  bleak  and  rigorous  conditions  under 
which  our  great  grandfathers  and  grandmothers  lived. 

We  should  continually  remind  ourselves  that  we  are  to-day, 
whether  consciously  or  unconsciously,  voluntarily  or  involuntarily, 
reaping  the  rewards  of  their  toil  and  self-sacrifice. 

That  others  beside  them,  if  not  we, 
The  pleasures  of  their  toil  shall  see. 
******* 
While  we,  their  children,  gather  as  our  own 
The  harvest  that  the  dead  have  sown. 

AVe  are  celebrating  the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of 
the  incorporation  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  which  took  place  May  19, 
1750.  But  we  must  go  back  in  our  history  beyond  that  date.  We 
must  picture  to  ourselves  what  was  the  situation  when  the  first 
white  man  set  foot  on  soil  now  a  part  of  our  town.  A  company  of 
Scotch  people  who  had  been  induced  to  leave  Scotland  and  settle  in 
Ireland  as  colonists,  had  become  dissatisfied  with  their  surroundings 
there.  The  causes  of  their  dissatisfaction,  and  then-  personal  and 
social  characteristics,  and  the  incidents  of  their  journey  from  Ireland, 
may  be  elaborated  more  fully  in  the  stated  address  of  the  occasion. 
But  it  is  enough  now  to  say  that  these  Scotch  emigrants,  sailing 
from  the  north  of  Ireland,  found  themselves  at  last  settled  at  what 
they  called  Londonderry,  from  the  name  of  their  former  home.   The 


804  HISTORY, OF  BEDFORD. 

name  Londonderry  was  adopted  because  the  settlement  in  Ireland 
was  made  under  the  auspices  of  the  London  company.  As  their 
families  increased,  and  following  the  natural  law  of  growth  and 
change  which  has  seemed  to  characterize  them  and  their  descendants 
ever  since,  some  of  them  came  across  the  Merrimack  in  canoe  or  dug- 
out, hewed  a  clearing  in  the  forest  that  then  stretched  west  in  an 
unbroken  and  unexplored  wilderness  from  where  we  now  stand 
right  across  New  Hampshire  to  the  Connecticut  river,  and  thence 
across  Vermont  to  Lake  George,  where  at  Fort  Edward  a  tiny  blaze 
of  scarlet  marked  the  utmost  limit  of  the  military  power  of  his 
sacred  majesty,  King  George  of  England.  North  of  them  this  wil- 
derness stretched  grim  and  silent  and  full  of  deadly  peril,  past  the 
lake  of  the  great  spirit  and  the  frozen  depths  of  the  White  moun- 
tains, clear  to  the  St.  Lawrence  and  the  domain  of  his  Catholic 
Majesty  Louis,  the  well  beloved  fifteenth  of  the  name,  and  king  of 
France  and  Navarre,  and  to  his  settlement  in  the  Canadas.  Here 
these  settlers,  or  as  we  should  now  describe  them,  squatters,  felled 
the  primeval  giants  that  then  formed  our  forests,  built  their  log 
cabins,  and  by  hunting  and  fishing  and  such  scanty  attempts  at  farm- 
ing as  would  be  possible  under  such  conditions,  made  their  homes. 
But  they  had  no  legal  title  to  the  land  they  lived  upon,  and  which 
they  were  improving,  and  they  could  obtain  none. 

The  settlement  of  Londonderry  was  made  up  of  Scotch  Presby- 
terians, who  were  regarded  by  their  English  neighbors  of  Massachu- 
setts (with  true  racial  instinct)  as  no  better  than  Papists  or  Quakers 
or  Anabaptists.  So  strong  was  this  feeling  of  dislike  that  the  set- 
tlers at  Londonderry  could  obtain  no  title  from  the  Massachusetts 
colonial  governor  even  to  the  wild  land  which  they  proposed  to  re- 
claim from  the  savage  and  the  catamount.  They  were  forced  to 
purchase  an  Indian  title  from  one  John  Wheelwright,  and  that  was- 
little  better  than  purchasing  a  lawsuit.  The  squatters  in  Bedford 
were  of  this  hated  Scotch  Presbyterian  stock,  and  the  land  they 
lived  upon  was  not  included  in  that  purchased  by  the  Londonderry 
men  from  John  Wheelwright.  It  belonged  plainly  among  the  un- 
appropriated lands  of  the  province  of  Massachusetts.  In  1674  the 
province  of  Massachusetts,  desiring  to  enlist  men  for  the  wax  of  ex- 
termination which  had  become  necessary  against  the  Narragansett 
Indians  under  King  Philip,  and  which  is  therefore  known  as  King 
Philip's  war,  offered  to  add  to  the  pay  of  the  enlisted  men  a  bounty 
or  land  from  among  the  then  unappropriated  wild  lands  of  the 
province.  But  as  might  have  been  expected  when  the  expedition 
against  the  Narragansett  Indians  had  been  successfully  ended,  and 
King  Philip  had  been  killed,  the  legislature  of  the  province  persist- 
ently neglected  to  pass  the  grant  of  land  which  was  to  form  the 
soldiers'  bounty.  This  continued  from  1675  until  1782,  when,  moved 
perhaps  by  the  question  as  to  where  the  dividing  line  ran  between 
Massachusetts  and  the  newly  erected  province  of  New  Hampshire, 
the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  signalized  its  claim  to  title  in  certain 


ANNIVERSARY  CELEBRATION.  805 

lands  contained  within  the  disputed  territory  by  a  grant  of  what 
were  called  the  Xarragansett  townships.  These  were  seven  in  num- 
ber, and  they  were  granted  to  be  divided  among  the  840  men  and 
descendants  of  men  who  had  been  enlisted  in  King  Philip's  war. 
By  this  arrangement  each  township  was  granted  to  120  persons,  and 
the  840,  dividing  themselves  into  seven  companies,  each  of  the  num- 
ber of  120,  met  on  Boston  common  and  drew  lots  each  company  for 
a  township.  No.  5  was  drawn  to  the  granters  or  their  claimants  then 
(1733)  residing  in  the  several  towns  of  Boston,  Roxbury,  Dorches- 
ter, Milton,  etc.  Title  to  the  land  thus  granted  passed  from  the 
province  of  Massachusetts  to  the  120  grantees  of  township  Xo.  5. 
But  of  that  company  but  two  ever  settled  on  their  land,  John  Barnes 
and  Zachariah  Chandler.  The  other  grantees  for  the  most  part  sold 
their  title  to  the  settlers  or  squatters  whom  they  found  there  and 
who  were  anxious  to  make  homes  there.  In  1748  it  appears  that 
Governor  Wentworth  was  informed  of  the  wishes  of  the  inhabitants 
of  this  Xarragansett  township  Xo.  5  that  they  should  be  incorpor- 
ated and  have  all  the  privileges  of  a  town.  And  we  find  in  the  his- 
tory of  Bedford  the  record  of  the  action  of  the  governor  and  council. 
*  #  #  #  #  *  * 

Thus  we  learn  how  this  town  came  to  be  incorporated  and  thus 
we  learn  to  mark  the  event.  In  1750  things  were  different  than 
they  are  now.  It  is  almost  impossible  for  us  at  this  day  to  bring  be- 
fore our  minds  the  conditions  of  life  then.  In  all  the  various 
branches  of  human  activity  and  thought  the  change  has  been  revolu- 
tionary ;  at  no  other  period  of  human  history  has  it  been  as  great. 
In  law,  in  medicine  and  surgery,  in  mechanics  and  engineering,  in 
commerce  and  agriculture,  the  deepest  learning  and  the  highest 
skill  of  those  times  is  now  discarded  as  worthless.  In  matters  of 
law  our  ancestors  believed  and  all  the  world  believed  that  the  indi- 
vidual who  occupied  the  throne  was  his  dread  sovereign,  the  foun- 
tain of  justice,  of  law  and  of  honor ;  that  in  his  person  was  embodied 
the  essence  of  all  human  authority,  and  that  his  person  was  sacred, 
and  that  he  could  do  no  wrong.  How*-  absurd  the  idea  seems  to-day. 
Then  the  list  of  offences  for  which  the  death  penalty  was  inflicted 
numbered  one  hundred  and  fifty,  now  it  numbers  one,  and  many  of 
us  now  think  that  it  should  never  be  inflicted  at  all.  Imprisonment 
for  debts  is  now  unknown,  then  it  was  universal.  In  medicine  the 
change  has  been  equally  marked.  The  smallpox  one  hundred  and 
fifty  years  ago  was  a  constant  menace  to  the  lives  of  entire  commu- 
nities. Its  ravages  to-day  have  been  practically  ended  through  the 
almost  universal  practice  of  inoculation. 

This  change  alone  would  amount  to  a  revolution,  but  there  are 
many  others  which  occur  to  you  all.  Cupping  and  letting  blood  for 
almost  every  disorder  was  good  practice  then,  now  it  is  almost  never 
used.  The  treatment  of  fevers  then,  the  care  of  the  insane  and  the 
helpless,  all  the  methods  of  dressing  wounds  or  setting  broken  bones 
have  been  completely  revolutionized.     In  mechanics  and  engineer- 


806  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ing  the  change  has  been  even  greater.  Not  only  has  the  life  of  man 
been  rendered  more  secure  from  the  ravages  of  disease,  more  free 
from  the  arbitrary  restraints  of  the  law  but  his  productive  capacity 
has  been  multiplied  to  an  almost  unlimited  extent.  The  application 
of  steam  to  machinery,  to  say  nothing  of  the  discovery  of  the  uses 
of  electricity,  the  power  loom,  the  spinning  jenny,  the  railroad,  the 
telegraph,  the  telephone  and  the  phonograph,  even  a  common  luci- 
fer  match  are  all  appliances  of  which  our  ancestors  were  entirely 
ignorant,  and  which  no  one  of  us  could  possibly  have  made  clear  to 
the  understanding  of  any  one  of  them.  In  commerce  the  change 
has  been  even  more  extraordinary.  There  was  then  no  system  of 
cheap  postage  for  the  transmission  of  orders,  letters  were  written  out 
fully  by  hand  with  a  quill  pen  and  blotted  with  sand,  since  blotting 
paper  was  unknown ;  no  such  thing  as  a  telegraph  message  or  com- 
munication by  telephone ;  no  typewriter  to  save  the  time  and  energy 
of  the  directing  brain ;  no  steam  engine  to  carry  the  letter  or  the 
goods  which  it  refers  to,  to  the  distant  port,  but  only  a  slow  sailing 
ship  which  consumes  three  months  in  the  voyage  from  New  Amster- 
dam and  Boston  to  Liverpool,  where  now  it  is  made  in  five  days. 
And  more  than  all  the  existence  of  that  creature  of  the  law,  the 
commercial  corporation  or  its  swollen  and  distorted  progeny,  the 
incorporated  trust  or  combination  of  corporations,  was  unknown. 

Nowadays  the  wealth  of  the  country  is  largely  represented  by 
what  is  called  personal  property  as  distinguished  from  real  property, 
shares  in  joint  stock  companies,  such  as  banks,  railroads,  fire  insur- 
ance companies,  to  say  nothing  of  shares  in  the  industrial  enter- 
prises or  the  mines  and  mills  of  the  country.  But  in  1750  it  would 
not  be  too  much  to  say  that  personal  property  as  we  now  understand 
the  term  was  unknown.  There  were  cattle  and  animals  and  there 
were  gold  and  silver  and  there  were  slaves,  but  personal  property 
was  substantially  confined  to  these  items.  From  all  this  one  can 
measure  the  growth  and  the  change  that  has  taken  place  for  the 
process  of  growth  has  gone  on  in  a  direction  which  seems  to  indicate 
that  men  are  being  drawn  into  closer  and  closer  relations  and  into 
nearer  and  more  intimate  communication.  The  philosopher  might  draw 
endless  and  most  instructive  inferences  from  all  this  but  we  can 
hardly  stop  for  that  now.  Five  years  after  the  town  was  incorpor- 
ated came  the  great  French  war.  The  causes  that  led  to  it  were 
numerous  and  world-wide,  but  they  affected  us  here  in  Bedford — 
for  how  can  we  help  speaking  of  our  ancestors  as  "  us  " — deeply.  The 
men  from  Bedford  were  in  the  provincial  militia,  William  McDougal, 
George  Orr,  Robert  Holmes,  Thomas  McLaughlin,  Samuel  Patter- 
son, James  Patterson,  Nathaniel  Patterson,  John  Orr,  John  Moor, 
and  Col.  John  Goffe. 

The  history  and  outcome  of  the  struggle  is  too  well  known  to  us 
all  to  need  repetition  or  elaboration  here  and  now.  From  its  close 
we  may  properly  say  dated  the  struggle  for  independence.  The 
provincial  militia  had  learned  to  despise  the  regulars  of  the  British 


ANNIVERSARY  CELEBRATION.  807 

army  and  had  come  to  feel  that  under  the  conditions  of  battle  which 
obtained  in  the  wilderness  they  were  their  superiors.  The  efforts 
the  colonists  had  put  out  in  taxing  themselves  to  raise  the  money 
necessary  to  equip  and  set  in  the  field  their  quota  of  the  troops  had 
also  given  them  to  feel  that  the  successful  outcome  of  the  event  had 
been  due  to  an  appreciable  extent  to  those  efforts  and  that  the 
mother  country  owed  to  them  full  recognition  of  their  work.  When 
it  became  clear  to  their  minds  that  this  was  not  to  be  expected  but 
that  rather  the  mother  country  proposed  to  tax  them  at  its  discretion 
in  order  to  recoup  itself  for  the  expenses  it  had  been  at  in  defending 
its  colonies  our  fathers  flamed  into  revolt.  At  that  time  the  town 
had  grown  measureably,  contributing  ninety-nine  men  in  all  to  the 
Continental  army,  including  eighteen  who  went  with  Stark  to  Ben- 
nington. 

With  independence  and  peace  the  history  of  our  town  is  substan- 
tially the  same  as  that  of  our  neighboring  towns.  The  prominent 
feature  of  the  fife  of  our  grandfathers  was  their  church.  In  this 
town,  different  from  most  of  the  towns  of  New  Hampshire  or  indeed 
of  New  England  the  church  was  and  still  is  the  Presbyterian 
church. 

The  original  settlers  were  Scotch  and  so  of  course  were  Presbyte- 
rians. Their  descendants,  full  of  wholesome  respect  for  the  wishes 
of  their  elders,  have  kept  the  faith  as  it  was  delivered  to  them  by 
the  fathers.  And  as  marking  the  difference  between  modern  and 
ancient  ways  of  regarding  the  minister  and  his  sermon,  I  must  ask 
you  to  listen  to  the  complaint  or  remonstrance  directed  to  the  Rev. 
David  McGregor,  who  was  ordained  to  the  pastoral  charge  of  this 
church  and  congregation  September  5,  1804,  and  who  so  continued 
until  1826,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage. 

This  document,  a  quaint  arraignment  for  various  shortcomings, 
real  or  fancied,  was  read  by  the  speaker. 

The  paper  was,  in  part,  as  follows : 

"Rev.  and  Dear  Sir — The  object  of  the  recent  town  meeting 
lately  holden  is  undoubtedly  known  to  you.  Certain  individuals 
are  to  be  found  among  us  who  would  willingly  sever  the  relation 
that  subsists  between  you  and  this  people,  and  thereby,  we  fear,  de- 
prive the  town  of  the  blessings  of  the  Gospel.  To  every  effort  of 
this  nature,  we  have  thought  our  duty  to  give  our  united  dissent. 
Desirous  that  a  preached  Gospel  may  be  continued  among  us,  and 
that  every  obstacle  that  impedes  your  usefulness  may  be  removed, 
we  have  thought  it  a  duty  affectionately  to  remind  you  of  several 
things  which,  in  our  opinion,  tend  to  diminish  your  usefulness  among 
the  people  of  your  charge.  We  shall  not  state  them  as  articles  of 
charge  against  you,  but  only  mention  them,  hoping  and  believing 
you  will  cheerfully  do  everything  in  your  power  speedily  to  remove 
them  out  of  the  way." 

Then  follows  at  length  a  set  of  specifications  of  the  real  or  fancied 
wrongs.     Among  other  things  charged  is  that  the  parson  paid  "  too 


808  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

much  attention  to  worldly  things,"  and  that  in  his  daily  life  he  at- 
tended too  strictly  to  "  farming,  building  and  manufacture."  In  his 
pastoral  visitations,  too,  the  dominie  is  accused  of  talking  "  more 
about  temporal  than  their  spiritual  concerns." 

Another  charge  is  "  too  frequent  delivery  of  old  "discourses,"  the 
greater  part  of  the  parson's  sermons  being,  according  to  the  charges, 
so  frequently  delivered  as  to  have  "become  proverbial."  Another 
complaint  in  this  same  connection  is  "too  great  a  sameness  in  ar- 
ranging and  closing  "  the  sermons,  while  to  cap  the  climax,  the  poor 
minister  was  accused  of  "  the  use  of  too  many  words  in  the  commu- 
nication of  your  ideas."  The  length  of  the  prayers  offered,  especially 
at  funerals,  is  also  noted,  while  the  document  ends  with  this  state- 
ment: 

"Perhaps,  Rev.  Sir,  these  things  we  have  stated  have  escaped 
your  observation,  but  they  have  for  a  long  time  lain  with  weight 
upon  our  minds,  and  we  have  felt  that  we  could  not  discharge  our 
duty  without  plainly  stating  them  to  you.  This  we  have  endeavored 
to  do  in  the  spirit  of  brotherly  love  and  respect.  We  hope,  Sir,  you 
will  seriously  ponder  upon  these  things  and  unite  your  supplica- 
tions with  ours  at  the  throne  of  grace  that  you  and  we  may  be 
guided  into  all  truth  and  walk  in  the  faith  and  order  of  the  Gospel." 

From  this  we  can  readily  see  that  theological  doctrine  and  dogma 
had  a  real  meaning  for  our  fathers,  while  to  us  they  represent  large- 
ly amusing  antiquities  of  thought. 

The  original  boundaries  of  the  town  were  much  more  extensive 
than  they  now  are.  Indeed,  Bedford  seems  to  have  been  thought 
such  desirable  country  by  its  neighbors  that  those  who  could  not 
move  into  it  bodily  have  shorn  away  portions  of  its  original  domain 
both  to  the  north  and  the  south  of  us.  At  first  the  southern  line 
ran  east  and  west  from  Merrimack  river  on  a  line  through  the  Sou- 
hegan  river  at  John  Chamberlain's  house,  but  on  June  5,  1750,  the 
governor  and  council  set  off  from  the  southerly  part  of  the  town  a 
strip  three  miles  wide  and  four  miles  and  a  half  long  and  added  the 
territory  to  Merrimack.  The  original  north  line  of  the  town  ran 
approximately  where  Douglas  street  in  the  city  of  Manchester  now 
runs,  and  so  westerly  to  the  Goffstown  line.  But  in  1854  a  strip 
extending  southerly  from  Douglas  street  to  an  east  and  west  line 
near  to  where  John  McQuesten's  house  now  stands,  and  bounded 
east  and  west  by  the  Merrimack  river,  and  the  Goffstown  line  was 
set  off  from  Bedford  and  made  a  part  of  Manchester.  This  strip  is 
now  roughly  Ward  Eight  in  the  city  of  Manchester,  and  forms  a 
creditable  addition  to  that  busy  place. 

With  the  outbreak  of  the  Rebellion,  in  1861,  we  come  to  a  period 
in  the  history  of  the  town  which  can  be  more  ably  and  fully  dis- 
cussed by  the  distinguished  representatives  of  the  navy  and  the 
army  whom  we  are  so  fortunate  as  to  have  here  to-day.  To  them  I 
resign  the  subject.  To  you  whose  knowledge  of  the  past  history  of 
our  town  comes  through  long  experience  and  from  the  oral  tradi- 


ANNIVERSARY  CELEBRATION.  809 

tions  you  have  received  from  some  of  those  who  lived  before  this 
century  began,  we  can  say  that  you  have  lived  and  done  your  work 
in  no  mean  country.  This  town  has  contributed  a  long  list  of  names 
famous  the  country  over,  and  which  form  a  large  part  of  the  reasons 
for  just  pride  in  her  sons  and  daughters  to  which  New  Hampshire  is 
entitled.  Horace  Greeley,  Zachariah  Chandler,  Joseph  E.  Worcester 
were  all  men  who  played  their  part  in  life  before  the  attention  of  all 
their  countrymen  and  in  their  day  and  generation  commanded  the 
respect  of  all.  They  were  all  sons  of  Bedford  save  Greeley,  who 
moved  across  the  line  as  soon  after  he  was  born  as  possible. 

To  those  of  us  whose  lot  in  life  it  is  to  live  here  now,  we  can  truly 
say  that  for  a  naturally  beautiful,  thrifty,  prosperous  community,  for 
a  typical  New  Hampshire  country  town,  Bedford  has  no  superior. 
Her  past  is  an  honorable  one,  her  present  is  secure,  and  her  future  is 
in  the  hands  of  worthy  descendants.  To  those  who  are  to  come 
into  our  place — tomorrow — we  can  say  and  we  do  say,  bear  always 
in  mind  the  history  of  your  home  town,  remember  always  what  trials 
and  sorrows  were  borne  by  the  faithful  and  good  men  and  women 
who  toiled  here  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  and  built  the  fabric 
of  liberty  under  the  law  which  is  yours  by  their  gift.  Cherish  the 
pure  and  high  principles  which  animated  them  always  and  so  you 
shall  be  as  they  are,  the  objects  of  fond  recollection  and  pride.  So 
shall  you  say  as  we  say — 

O  Thou  Holy  One  and  just 

Thou  who  wast  the  Pilgrims'  trust, 

Thou  who  watchest  o'er  their  dust 

By  the  sounding  sea, 

By  their  conflicts,  toils,  and  cares, 

By  their  perils  and  their  prayers, 

From  their  ashes  raise  up  heirs, 

True  to  them  and  Thee. 


Following  the  address  of  welcome  Rear  Admiral  Belknap,  United 
States  navy,  retired,  was  introduced  as  the  next  speaker. 

The  Admiral  comes  of  Bedford  stock.  Admiral  Belknap  spoke 
informally  and  but  briefly  and  began  with  a  little  story  which  placed 
his  hearers  in  a  very  good  humor. 

I  am  glad  to  be  here  to-day.  I  feel  that  I  am  at  the  home  of  my 
ancestry  on  the  maternal  side,  and  I  bow  in  reverence  to  the  soil, 
the  scene  and  surroundings  in  which  those  dear,  industrious,  and 
intrepid  forbears  toiled  and  spun  and  wrought,  and  by  their  grand 
and  soulful  work  helped  to  build  up  and  maintain  town  and  state 
and  nation  whose  be nef actions  you  now  enjoy. 

From  my  earliest  childhood  I  heard  the  talk  of  the  Aikens  and 
McAllisters,  the  Riddles  and  Chandlers,  the  Gilmores  and  McAfees, 
and  other  families  of  Bedford,  and  I  learned  to  think  of  them  as 
men  and  women  of  worth  and  distinctive  place  in  the  annals  of  this 
good  old  town,  who  helped  by  their  industrious  habits  and  dogged 


810  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

pluck  to  turn  the  wilderness  into  smiliug  farmsteads,  and  make  of 
Bedford  an  ideal  community,  self-respecting  and  tolerant,  and 
illumined  with  a  Christian  faith  they  had  sought  when  they  came 
from  beyond  the  seas  to  exemplify  and  enjoy.  Among  such  was 
my  ancestor,  James  Aiken,  of  whom  the  historian  tells  us  he  came 
from  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  about  1760.  His  parents,  of  Scotch 
descent,  had  come  from  Ireland  and  settled  in  Londonderry.  He 
died  at  the  early  age  of  42,  leaving  three  sons  and  nine  daughters 
for  his  widow  to  care  for  and  rear.  With  what  pluck  and  energy 
she  met  such  responsibilities  need  not  be  dealt  upon  in  this  com- 
munity, for  her  work  has  shown  for  itself. 

From  the  fifth  child  and  second  son,  Andrew,  I  am  descended. 
He  was  born  here  December  26,  1770,  and  at  the  age  of  27  or  28 
years  married  Martha  McAllister.  We  know  that  the  Aikens  and 
McAllisters  intermarried  with  the  Riddles,  the  Chandlers,  the  Gil- 
mores,  the  McAfees,  the  Gilchnsts,  the  Parkers,  and  other  families 
in  this  town  and  region,  so  that  the  kin  are  very  numerous  here, 
or  were  in  the  days  gone  by. 

Perhaps  it  does  not  become  me  to  say  that  the  Aikens  and 
McAllisters  were  a  comely  race,  but  according  to  tradition  they 
were.  At  all  events,  my  grandmother  used  to  say  that  "  she  married 
the  handsomest  young  man  in  Bedford ; "  and  a  good  many  years 
ago  when  my  grandfather  was  asked  how  it  was  that  he  had  so 
many  handsome  daughters,  his  answer  was,  "  Can't  a  black  sheep 
have  white  lambs?" 

As  a  child  I  was  told  that  when  my  grandfather  married,  he  was 
one  of  the  most  substantial  young  farmers  of  the  town,  and  com- 
manded the  town  troop  of  horse  which  he  was  wont  to  entertain  in 
a  most  generous  manner  every  year. 

Most  of  his  children,  including  my  mother,  were  born  in  Bedford, 
but  about  1813  he  suffered  financial  reverses  which  compelled  him 
to  part  with  his  holdings  here,  and  he  left  town  with  his  family  to 
mend  his  broken  fortunes  elsewhere. 

He  first  took  a  farm  for  a  year  in  Croydon,  Sullivan  county.  He 
then  removed  to  Newport,  the  shire  town,  and  settled  on  the  pro- 
ductive farm,  known  as  the  Priest  Wines  place,  overlooking  the 
inviting  village  and  the  beautiful  meadows  through  which  runs  in 
winding,  brawling  course  the  Sugar  river,  a  tributary  stream  of  the 
Connecticut. 

The  fine  old  house  which  went  by  the  name  of  the  "  Old  Man- 
sion," had  been  built  by  Priest  Wines,  the  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  in  1798,  and  was  of  course  the  parsonage  so  long  as 
Priest  Wines  occupied  it. 

Most  of  grandfather's  children  were  married  in  the  big  square 
parlor  of  the  house  and  himself  and  grandmother  lived  in  it  until 
they  died  in  1850  and  1858,  respectively.  The  farm  was  bounded 
on  the  east  by  the  Sugar  river. 

The  farm  continued  in  the  family,  and  is  now  owned  and  occu- 


ANNIVERSARY   CELEBRATION.  811 

pied  by  the  grandson,  Frederick  W.  Aiken,  who  is  in  this  current 
year  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  selectmen  of  the  town. 

In  the  earlier  years  of  their  settlement  in  Xewport,  grandfather 
and  grandmother  exchanged  frequent  visits  with  the  kin  of  Bedford, 
and  in  winter  grandfather  used  to  take  his  pung  sleigh  and  span  of 
horses  and  go  to  Boston  with  the  products  of  the  farm  to  sell  in  the 
Boston  markets,  often  stopping  bere  on  the  way. 

In  those  days  the  spirit  of  hospitality  and  kinship  was  cheery  and 
heartsome,  and  the  roaring  wood  fires  in  the  big  fireplaces,  and  the 
feast  of  apples  and  butternuts  and  ample  flow  of  cider,  the  quilting 
and  husking  parties,  the  sugar-making  and  sleighriding,  made  the 
long  winters  a  glory  of  pleasure  and  jollity,  while  the  coasting,  the 
boating,  the  fishing,  and  the  picnics  in  summer  were  no  less  delight- 
ful and  exhilarating.  Farming  was  then  the  leading  occupation  of 
the  people,  and  the  conditions  of  life  were  more  simple  and  equable 
than  now ;  every  Sunday  saw  the  churches  well  filled,  the  schools 
were  crowded  to  overflowing,  and  all  signs  of  idleness  were  frowned 
upon. 

Although  from  early  childhood  I  longed  to  visit  Bedford  and 
look  upon  the  homes  of  my  ancestors,  I  did  not  have  the  opportunity 
until  1880.  But  in  the  summer  of  that  year  my  kinsmen,  John  A. 
Riddle,  and  his  brother,  asked  me  to  make  them  a  visit  and  1  spent 
two  days  with  them,  going  about  and  looking  upon  the  old  home- 
steads and  their  surroundings. 

I  delight  to  think  that  some  of  my  forbears  worshiped  within  the 
walls  of  this  old  church  and  that  some  of  them  sat  in  the  choir.  Of 
Scotch-Irish  descent,  their  Calvinistic  creed  was  unbending,  unyield- 
ing. 

Of  the  term  Scotch-Irish — a  society  has  been  organized  recently 
called  the  Irish- American  Historical  society,  which  maintains  and. 
asserts  that  the  designation  of  Scotch-Irish  is  a  misnomer — that  no 
such  people  existed — but  that  they  were  Irish  pure  and  simple. 

But  Mr.  Barnes,  in  his  address  here  fifty  years  ago,  said  they  were 
no  more  Irishmen  than  is  a  Connaughton  or  Munster  man  who 
works  upon  our  railways,  a  Yankee,  and  I  quite  agree  with  him. 

The  term  Irish- American,  which  we  often  hear,  would  seem  to 
indicate  an  unwillingness  to  be  called  mere  Americans  and  a  desire 
to  attach  the  Irish  to  everything. 

The  admiral  concluded  with  brief  mention  of  some  of  the  Bedford 
men  who  have  served  in  the  navy. 

A  little  break  in  the  course  of  the  speeches  came  here,  Robert 
Fullerton,  the  well-known  Manchester  tenor  and  a  son  of  Bedford,, 
singing  Dvorak's  "Songs  My  Mother  Taught  Me."  He  was  in 
excellent  voice  and  sang  with  his  customary  excellence  of  expres- 
sion. He  responded  to  an  encore  with  "  Loch  Lomond,"  from  the 
old  Scotch,  which  was  sung  in  equally  admirable  style. 

It  had  been  expected  to  have  several  more  numbers  on  the  morn- 
ing programme,  but  the  exercises  were  here  stopped  in  order  that 


812  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

there  might  be  no  delay  in  the  dinner  arrangements.  The  remaining 
portion  of  the  morning  programme  was  deferred  until  afternoon. 

During  the  excellent  dinner  which  followed,  prepared  by  the 
women  of  Bedford,  the  band  played  on  the  green  in  front  of  the 
hall. 

Although  there  was  a  very  large  number  of  people  to  be  fed,  the 
dinner  hour  was  not  exceeded  in  administering  to  the  inner  wants 
of  the  people.  It  was  not  yet  2  o'clock,  the  time  set  for  the  opening 
of  the  afternoon  session,  when  the  procession  from  the  town  house, 
led  by  the  band  and  the  committee  of  arrangements  and  guests, 
reached  the  church.  Already  there  was  quite  a  crowd  on  hand,  and 
it  took  but  a  very  few  minutes  to  fill  the  church  again. 

Over  seven  hundred  people  sat  down  at  the  first  service  of  dinner 
in  the  town  house,  and  it  was  estimated  that  at  least  fifteen  hundred 
were  in  attendance  at  the  celebration. 

The  exercises  opened  with  an  organ  solo  by  Miss  Spofford,  who 
played  Lachner's  "  March  Celebre  "  in  a  very  pleasing  manner. 

The  first  speaker  introduced  was  the  Rev.  C.  A.  Bidwell,  who 
was  presented  as  the  pastor  of  the  church  which  stands  on  land  in 
West  Manchester  which  was  once  a  part  of  Bedford.  The  church 
of  which  he  is  the  minister  was  an  offshoot  of  the  Bedford  church. 

Mr.  Bidwell  said  that  as  he  rode  his  horse  to  the  scene  of  the 
exercises  he  had  a  vision  of  a  young  man  making  the  same  trip  on 
his  way  to  Londonderry  in  the  early  days  of  the  settlement  of  this 
section,  and  of  a  little  incident  on  such  a  ride  in  which  James 
Walker,  the  young  man  in  question,  first  met  the  little  daughter  of 
Col.  John  Goffe,  who  afterwards  became  his  wife.  In  his  parish, 
to-day,  he  said,  there  is  a  descendant  of  James  Walker  and  Esther 
Goffe,  so  that  he  felt  himself  to  be  in  a  sense  a  descendant  of  the 
same  stock  and  so  of  kin  to  the  Bedford  church,  and  that  for  it  he 
had  much  of  the  loyalty  and  devotion  and  interest  which  a  true  son 
has  for  the  home  of  his  childhood  and  youth. 

"We  should  all,"  said  the  speaker,  continuing,  "remember  the 
past  with  all  its  wealth  of  memories  and  examples,  for  it  is  out  of 
the  past  and  its  influences  that  all  of  the  influences  and  charac- 
teristics which  make  later  life  spring.  I  feel  stirring  in  my  heart 
to-day  all  the  emotion  which  must  stir  in  the  heart  of  every  son  and 
daughter  of  this  town  to-day. 

"  You  may  well  be  proud  of  the  heritage  which  is  yours,  you  sons 
and  daughters  of  this  ancient  and  honorable  town.  You  may  be 
proud  of  that  patriotism  and  independence  which  characterized 
those  who  laid  the  foundation  of  this  town  and  of  this  church  in 
which  we  stand.  The  whole  country  owes  as  much  to  your  fathers 
as  to  those  who  came  over  in  the  Mayflower.  You  may  count  it 
a  high  distinction  to  have  in  you  the  blood  of  the  men  and  women 
who  had  in  them  the  characteristics  which  made  possible  their 
loyalty  to  William  of  Orange  in  Ireland  and  such  reverence  and 
regard  for  sacred  things." 


ANNIVERSARY   CELEBRATION.  813 

The  speaker  referred  to  the  petition  to  be  set  aside  as  a  parish 
and  for  permission  to  worship  God  after  their  own  manner  as  one  of 
the  first  acts  of  the  people  who  settled  in  Bedford,  while  he  added 
that  "  the  spirit  that  burned  in  the  heart  of  John  Knox,  of  loyalty  to 
God,  beat  also  in  their  hearts.  The  first  impulse  of  their  hearts  in 
this  new  land?  was  to  pay  homage  to  Him  who  was  their  true 
Sovereign  and  Lord." 

"  Others,"  said  Mr.  Bid  well,  "  have  spoken  of  men  and  of  secular 
events ;  may  we  bow  now  in  thanks  and  reverence  to  God  that  He 
raised  up  here  men  and  women  with  characteristics  which  made 
theh  time  blessed.  Whatever  we  have  to-day  that  is  good  comes 
from  them — loyalty  to  country  and  to  God  as  King  of  Kings  and 
Lord  of  Lords." 

In  conclusion,  the  speaker  presented  the  warm  and  cordial  greet- 
ings of  the  people  of  his  parish  to  those  of  their  mother  parish  and 
their  "  prayers  that  God's  continuous  blessing  may  crown  us  all  and 
this  dear  old  town." 

Mr.  Bid  well's  remarks  were  eloquent  and  moving,  and  he  was 
heartily  applauded  as  he  finished  speaking. 

N.  J.  Bachelder,  the  master  of  the  State  Grange,  Patrons  of 
Husbandry,  was  the  next  speaker  called  upon.  He  thanked  the 
people  of  Bedford  for  the  recognition  given  that  organization,  and 
expressed  his  personal  appreciation  for  the  honor  accorded  him. 

Mr.  Bachelder  said  that  he  was  at  first  at  something  of  a  loss  to 
account  for  the  invitation  to  speak,  since  it  could  not  be  because  of 
the  great  age  of  the  grange,  nor  because  he  had  any  Bedford  ances- 
tors. He  had  finally  come  to  the  conclusion,  he  said,  that  it  was 
the  interest  of  the  chairman  of  the  day  in  farming  and  dairying 
which  had  caused  him  to  be  invited  to  take  part  in  the  proceedings, 
and  in  this  connection  he  made  a  neat  recognition  of  the  fact  that 
for  two  years  past  the  butter  of  the  chairman's  dairy  had  won  the 
first  premium  at  the  state  exhibition  of  the  grange. 

The  speaker  said :  "  The  form  of  government  under  which  this 
town  was  organized,  and  under  which  it  continued  for  a  century 
after,  was  to  my  mind  an  ideal  form.  The  little  republics  of  that 
sort  represent  to  my  mind  the  ideal  government  of  the  people,  by 
the  people,  and  for  the  people.  And  as  the  time  allotted  me  will 
not  permit  the  discussion  of  more  than  a  single  idea,  I  shall  devote 
what  time  I  have  to  a  consideration  of  the  passage  of  the  old  town- 
meeting  government  and  of  interest  in  town  affairs." 

"  When  Bedford  was  first  incorporated,"  continued  Mr.  Bachelder, 
"  everybody  was  interested  in  town  affairs,  and  whatever  their  other 
occupations  were,  all  were  farmers.  All  took  a  vital  interest  in  the 
town's  business,  while  to-day  there  has  taken  place  a  great  change. 
This  is  a  day  of  specialists.  We  delegate  to  others  all  functions, 
except  our  own  specialties.  We  authorize  specialists  to  manage 
town  affairs.  Even  politics  has  developed  its  own  species  of 
specialists.     And,  indeed,  an  honest  politician,  interested  in  promot- 


814  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

ing  policies  which  are  for  the  interest  of  the  state  and  nation  is 
entitled  to  just  as  much  respect  as  you  or  I. 

"  What  are  we  to  do  ?  I  believe  that  we  should  turn  back  the 
pendulum  a  little.  I  do  not  mean  to  go  back  to  the  old  days  with 
no  specialists,  but  to  have  all  of  the  people  take  more  interest  in 
public  affairs.  I  would  have  the  people  take  more  interest  in  what 
the  politicians  do.  In  this  state  we  have  one  senator  and  one 
congressman  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  million  people,  and  while  in 
theory  these  men  are  supposed  to  legislate  for  all  of  the  people, 
I  say  it  is  our  duty  to  call  their  attention  to  what  we  want.  I  dare 
say  that  if  a  show  of  hands  were  called  for  here  to-day  from  those 
who,  during  the  past  twelve  years,  have  written  to  a  senator  or 
congressman  on  any  public  matter,  there  would  be  few  hands  in 
sight.  I  would  have  the  people  take  as  much  interest  in  public 
affairs  as  they  did  a  century  and  a  half  ago. 

"A  word  as  to  the  grange.  It  is  too  well  known  to  need  a  defense. 
It  stands  for  the  true  development  of  the  state  and  for  true  man- 
hood and  womanhood.  We  recognize  the  fact  that  the  successes  of 
the  past  have  come  from  the  influence  of  country  boys  and  girls 
who  have  gone  to  the  cities,  and  if  prosperity  is  to  be  continued, 
the  grange  believes  that  it  will  largely  come  from  the  same  sources. 
I  think  that  in  New  England  cities  and  towns  we  have  lost  a  little 
in  state  and  town  pride.  We  have  heard  too  much  of  successes  in 
the  West,  and  we  are  prone  to  think  we  are  not  located  in  quite  the 
right  place.  In  these  'old  home'  days,  we,  as  members  of  the 
grange,  should  rededicate  ourselves  to  the  interests  that  will  make 
the  towns  better  and  more  prosperous.  Then  we  can  say  that  the 
town  where  we  live  is  the  best  place  in  the  United  States." 

Mr.  Bachelder's  remarks  struck  a  responsive  chord  in  the  minds 
of  his  hearers  and  they  vigorously  applauded  him. 

Maj.  D.  E.  Proctor  of  Wilton,  department  commander  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  was  next  introduced,  the  chairman 
paying  a  tribute  to  what  Bedford  had  done  in  the  defense  of  the 
country  and  the  following  of  its  flag,  and  presenting  Major  Proctor 
as  the  civil  commander  of  all  the  soldiers  whom  New  Hampshire 
sent  out  during  the  stormy  days  of  the  Civil  war.     He  said,  in  part : 

"  It  gives  me  pleasure  to  respond  to  the  invitation  to  be  present 
at  your  sesqui- centennial.  It  came  as  a  surprise.  I  began  to  look 
around  for  the  reason,  and  I  found  that  you  are  a  military  town — 
a  pension  town,  having  been  granted  to  those  who  served  in  the 
Narragansett  war,  and  that  you  were  christened  with  two  names — 
Narragansett  No.  5,  or  Souhegan  East. 

"  Your  history  is  undoubtedly  very  much  like  your  sister  towns. 
You  gave  your  quota  in  all  the  wars.  You  were  loyal  in  them  all, 
even  going  so  far,  at  one  time,  as  to  compel  your  pastor  to  resign 
because  he  preferred  the  English  Jack  to  our  Stars  and  Stripes. 
The  fathers  did  just  right. 

"  Your  loyalty  to  the  old  soldiers  being  thus  established,  you  will 


ANNIVERSARY  CELEBRATION.  815 

excuse  me  if  I  take  for  my  subject  the  military  order  of  which  I  am 
the  representative  here  to-day." 

The  speaker  then  briefly  outlined  the  history  and  aims  of  this 
organization  of  those  who  fought  to  preserve  the  Union,  and  what 
it  stands  for.  Continuing,  he  said  :  "  Under  these  circumstances,  do 
you  wonder  that  we  are  loyal  to  our  order?  Your  greatest  wonder 
must  be,  why  we  are  not  more  loyal.  Many  of  our  old  comrades 
are  poor.  The  old  Granite  State,  and  we  are  proud  of  it,  has  dealt 
kindly  with  its  old  soldiers.  It  has  built  a  beautiful  home  near  the 
lakes,  and  it  is  liberally  supported  and  well  cared  for.  It  exempts 
him  from  paying  a  poll  tax  if  he  requests  it.  It  has  voted  that  no 
old  soldier  shall  be  sent  to  the  poor  house ;  that  when  he  dies,  he 
shall  have  a  Christian  burial ;  that  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
shall  have  the  control  of  the  Memorial  day  appropriations,  in  towns 
where  a  post  is  located,  and  that  the  flags  we  carried  away  in  their 
beauty  and  freshness,  and  brought  back  tattered  and  torn,  but  in 
honor,  should  have  the  best  care  the  old  state  can  give.  And  in 
addition  to  these,  the  government  gives  him  a  pension  if  he  is  dis- 
abled so  as  to  require  it.  It  helps  him,  it  does  him  lots  of  good. 
Our  government  is  generous;  but  often  times  the  help  does  not 
come  until  the  poor  old  soldier  is  beyond  its  need." 

Major  Proctor  spoke  eloquently,  and  compared  the  war  of  1861 
with  the  others  the  country  has  seen  and  with  more  modern  events 
of  a  like  nature.  He  painted  a  bright  picture  of  this  country's 
future,  and  his  remarks  were  frequently  interrupted  with  applause. 

An  original  poem,  written  for  the  occasion  by  Moses  Gage 
Shirley,  was  next  read  by  Allen  King,  a  young  man,  who  performed 
his  part  very  acceptably.     The  verses  were  as  follows : 

ANNIVERSARY  POEM. 

A  hundred  years,  yea,  fifty  more, 

Since  this  historic  town, 
Amid  the  fragrant  bloom  of  May, 

Put  on  her  bridal  gown. 

A  golden  circle  and  a  half 

Of  fruitful  growing  years, 
Freighted  with  argosies  of  hope, 

With  sunshine  and  with  tears. 

To-day  we  look  their  record  o'er, 

And  full  of  pride  we  turn 
Back  to  the  sturdy  pioneers 

Whose  beacon  fires  still  burn. 

To  Colonel  Goffe,  who  drew  his  sword 

For  liberty  and  right, 
No  prouder  name  on  history's  page 

Can  seer  or  poet  write. 

Or  Parson  Houston's,  who  in  word 

And  deed  the  Gospel  taught; 
True  men  were  they  who  came  of  old 

And  in  the  township  wrought. 


816  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

And  there  are  other  names  as  bright, 

O'er  which  we  love  to  dwell, 
But  abler  pens  and  lips  than  ours 

To  you  their  fame  will  tell. 

Enough  to  know  that  here  they  lived, 

That  Bedford  was  their  home. 
To  Bedford  still  they  turned  their  eyes 

Where'er  they  chanced  to  roam. 

Peace  to  our  heroes,  where  they  lie, 

In  their  untroubled  sleep, 
The  blue  of  heaven  above  them  bends, 

The  light  winds  o'er  them  sweep. 

Ah!  If  each  wanderer  could  return, 

How  every  heart  would  thrill, 
Whether  they  came  from  Joppa's  plain 

Or  down  from  Holbrook  hill. 

'T  is  well  for  us  who  meet  to-day 

And  friendly  ties  renew, 
To  backward  look  and  fondly  link 

The  old  times  with  the  new. 

'T  is  well  for  us  who  meet  and  part, 

Amid  the  springtime  flowers, 
To  know  the  God  our  fathers  loved 

And  worshiped  still  is  ours. 

Hail  and  farewell!  May  coming  years 

Their  blossoms  scatter  down, 
And  wreathe  a  garland  yet  more  fair 

For  this  beloved  town. 

Mrs.  Zilla  McQuesten  Waters,  a  daughter  of  old  Bedford,  was 
next  introduced.  She  sang  very  acceptably  Adams'  "  Holy  City," 
and  that  she  did  not  respond  to  an  encore  was  not  the  fault  of  her 
hearers,  who  gave  her  most  generous  applause. 

The  entire  assembled  company  then  rose,  and  under  the  leader- 
ship of  Mrs.  Waters  sang  "America,"  and  a  volume  of  melodious 
sound  went  up  from  the  assemblage  such  as  the  old  church  has 
seldom  heard. 

The  concluding  address  of  the  fixed  programme  was  by  George 
Byron  Chandler  of  Manchester,  himself  a  Bedford  boy,  who  was 
introduced  as  the  descendant  of  Zachariah  Chandler,  one  of  the  two 
original  proprietors  of  the  town  site  grant  who  settled  upon  the  land. 
It  was  from  this  family  that  Zachariah  Chandler,  who  was  senator 
from  Michigan  and  a  member  of  Grant's  cabinet,  sprang,  also. 

Mr.  Chandler  began  by  saying  that  it  gave  him  great  pleasure  to 
stand  upon  the  platform  with  the  knowledge  that  he  could  claim 
descent  from  the  original  settlers  of  Bedford,  and  added  the  state- 
ment that  he  had  lately  been  impressed  as  never  before  that  the 
descendants  of  such  people,  to-day,  are  quite  prone  not  to  appreciate 
their  heritage — what  was  done  for  them  by  those  who  preceded 
them  and  placed  them  in  the  old  home.  He  dwelt  upon  the  hard- 
ships and  the  privations  which  the  early  settlers  so  stoutly  endured 
in  order  that  they  might  have  self-government  and  the  exercise  of 


ANNIVERSARY   CELEBRATION.  817 

self-conscience.  They,  he  said,  sought  merely  to  found  homes,  and 
had  no  idea  that  the  land  in  which  they  had  settled  would  grow  up 
to  be  what  it  is  to-day. 

The  work  done  by  these  early  settlers  in  taming  the  wilderness, 
the  speaker  declared,  was  slow,  and  it  was  a  century  after  the  first 
landing  in  Xew  Hampshire  before  Bedford  was  settled,  and  the  Pat- 
tens and  Goffes  and  Orrs  and  Aikens  and  Riddles  and  McAllisters 
began  their  life  of  hardship  and  toil  with  their  belief  that  religion 
was  essential  to  life.  He  questioned  what  their  descendants  of  to- 
day would  say  if  called  upon  to  endure  what  they  did,  and  compared 
the  differences  of  ordinary  life  then  and  now. 

Continuing,  Mr.  Chandler  asked  what  was  the  highest  evidence  of 
civilization,  and  answered  it  by  saying  that  it  is  "  Where  one  can 
find  laws  made  in  justice  and  executed  impartially." 

"  Having  these  safeguards,"  he  said,  "  the  people  are  responsible  if 
they  are  not  fully  protected." 

Love  of  home,  for  which  these  people  always  fought,  the  speaker 
declared  to  be  a  thing  little  appreciated  to-day,  just  as  in  many  cases 
is  the  love  once  found  in  the  old  families.  The  ideal  home,  he  de- 
clared, which  many  in  Bedford  possessed,  he  thought,  was  a  country 
home.  Even  the  dwellers  in  cities  who  are  most  wedded  to  city  life 
love  to  get  into  the  country.  They  cannot  wean  themselves  entirely 
from  the  old  life.  It  is  as  a  place  of  summer  homes  that  New  Hamp- 
shire has  much  to  look  forward  to,  Mr.  Chandler  thought. 

To  have  contentment,  happiness,  and  helpfulness  in  their  homes, 
the  speaker  considered  the  truest  and  best  aim.  The  greatest  need, 
and  the  one  most  to  be  sought,  he  thought,  was  helpfulness.  Agri- 
culture is  an  honorable  calling,  he  declared,  and  those  who  follow  it 
are  more  envied  than  they  know.  Made  into  a  community  of  help- 
ful common  life,  Bedford  would  be  most  to  be  envied. 

Incidentally,  the  speaker  dropped  a  few  hints  which  he  thought, 
if  followed,  would  tend  to  make  Bedford  more  happy  and  prosperous. 
Improved  roads,  more  care  for  wood  land,  a  larger  town  library 
housed  in  a  good  building,  were  among  the  things  suggested.  In- 
creased knowledge  brings  increased  happiness,  Mr.  Chandler  said, 
and  noble  minds  are  always  looking  for  chances  for  improvement  of 
all  sorts. 

In  conclusion,  the  speaker  declared  a  warm  attachment  for  the 
home  of  his  boyhood  and  a  desire  to  see  the  town  all  that  it  might 
be  and  more  even  than  it  is  to-day.  His  concluding  words  were, 
"  God  bless  the  home." 

A  few  brief  numbers  brought  the  programme  to  a  close.  Park 
Stevens,  whose  grandfather  used  to  play  the  bass  viol  in  the  village 
choir,  rendered  a  violin  solo  in  a  pleasing  manner,  and  then  the  Rev. 
Mr.  French,  of  Londonderry,  formerly  of  Bedford,  was  called  upon 
to  speak.  He  said  a  few  feeling  words  of  greeting  and  good  wishes, 
expressing  his  attachment  for  his  old  home  and  hope  that  its  future 
might  prove  even  better  than  its  past. 
53 


818  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Jacob  Manning,  who  had  been  away  from  Bedford  for  fifty-four 
years,  spoke  briefly  in  a  reminiscent  strain.  He  urged  more  care  for 
the  forests,  declaring  that  hundreds  of  acres  of  good  land  was  lying 
waste  which  could  easily  be  turned  into  fine  timber  land. 

Deacon  George  Holbrook,  of  Manchester,  spoke  of  his  early  days 
in  Bedford.  He  had  some  happy  reminiscences  of  Dr.  Woodbury, 
who  for  many  years  was  the  village  doctor,  of  Deacon  Mack,  the 
sturdy  blacksmith,  whom  he  declared  to  be  a  man  among  men,  and 
in  conclusion  paid  a  tribute  to  the  many  fine  qualities  and  the  Chris- 
tian character  of  Dr.  Savage,  who  for  so  many  years  was  the  teacher 
and  preacher  to  the  people  of  the  parish. 

George  H.  Mitchell  was  the  last  speaker.  The  exercises  were 
brought  to  a  close  with  the  singing  of  "  Auld  Lang  Syne "  by  all 
present. 

Then  there  was  nothing  left  save  visits  among  old  friends  and  to 
old  familiar  spots.  Good-bys  were  at  once  in  order  for  many  who 
had  to  catch  the  early  trains  for  home,  and  the  church  steps  and  the 
space  in  front  of  the  building  was  the  scene  of  a  continuous  recep- 
tion for  an  hour  or  two  after  the  exercises. 

Registers  were  provided  for  those  present  to  leave  their  names  in, 
and  these  will  be  placed  in  the  town  library.  One  was  for  all 
present,  and  another  for  those  who  were  present  at  the  centennial 
exercises  a  half  century  ago.  Over  100  names  were  recorded  in  the 
latter  book,  many  of  those  who  registered  coming  from  a  considera- 
ble distance  to  visit  once  more  the  scenes  of  their  early  life. 

The  exercises  of  the  day  all  passed  off  very  smoothly,  and  the 
people  of  the  town  and  those  who  came  from  a  distance  were  all 
justly  proud  when  the  day  was  over  of  the  manner  in  which  old 
Bedford  had  commemorated  her  150th. 

The  following  committees  had  the  details  of  the  celebration  in 
charge : 

Committee  of  arrangements — John  A.  Kiddle,  chairman,  Quincy 
Barnard,  Gordon  Woodbury,  William  M.  Patten,  and  Arthur  W. 
Holbrook. 

President  of  the  day — Gordon  Woodbury. 

Vice-presidents — Edward  Barr,  Charles  H.  Kendall,  William 
McAfee,  Isaac  P.  Hodgman,  Stillman  Parkhurst,  Samuel  P.  Dunck- 
lee,  Leonard  Bursiel,  and  David  Swett. 

Reception  committee — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Solomon  Manning,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Freeman  R.  French,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  French,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  E.  Barr. 


Addenda. 


History  of  1851. — From  some  papers  of  Dr.  P.  P.  Woodbury, 
examined  since  the  page  of  this  history  relating  to  the  book  of  1851 
was  printed,  some  interesting  facts  are  learned.  Eight  hundred 
copies  of  the  book  of  1851  were  printed.  The  work  was  done  by 
Alfred  Mudge  in  Boston.  The  cost  of  composition  at  $1.25  per 
page  was  $455 ;  of  engraving  and  printing  the  map,  $91 ;  of  bind- 
ing, at  20  cents  a  copy,  $160 ;  extra  work  making  alterations,  $37, — 
a  total  of  $743.  In  settlement  the  $43  was  discounted.  The  cost 
of  engraving  and  printing  a  map  of  Piscataquog  village  was  $42, 
from  which  $12  was  discounted  in  settlement.  The  engraving  of 
Dr.  Woodbury's  residence  cost  $12.50.  Receipts  from  Mudge  for 
$742.50,  in  full  settlement  for  the  work,  exist.  There  were  inci- 
dental expenses  for  postage  on  proofs  of  $4.12.  The  freight  bill  of 
the  Concord  railroad  corporation  for  bringing  the  books  from  Bos- 
ton to  Goffe's  Falls,  1,380  pounds,  was  $1.65,  and  was  receipted  by 
C.  H.  Wheeler. 

•  The  estimated  number  of  books  lost  by  fire,  alluded  to  elsewhere, 
was  125.  In  addition  to  the  $232  "advanced"  by  the  town,  more 
money  was  needed  to  pay  Mudge  as  the  work  of  printing  pro- 
gressed, and  William  Patten  borrowed  $130  from  the  Amoskeag 
bank  on  his  personal  note  for  the  purpose. 

Ixdiax  Rock. — It  is  a  detached  portion  of  the  ledge  of  Pulpit 
brook, — an  inverted  pot-hole,  lying  on  a  decomposing  ledge  and  sets 
on  an  unstable  foundation. 

Daniel  Moor's  Mills. — You  want  to  know  where  Daniel  Moor's 
mills  were,  and  if  I  know  anything  about  them.  Well,  I  know  con- 
siderable about  them,  but  my  sister,  Mrs.  Thompson,  knew  a  good 
deal  about  them.  I  took  your  letter  to  her  and  she  told  me  all 
about  them.  My  sister,  Mrs.  Thompson,  has  about  a  dozen  old 
deeds  for  large  lots  of  land  down  about  where  we  lived.  I  will  try 
and  let  you  know  all  about  Mr.  Daniel  Moor  and  where  his  sawmill 
was. 

In  1760,  on  June  8,  John  McConihe  came  over  from  Londonderry 
and  bought  52  acres  of  land  of  Mr.  Gould  and  Fletcher  of  Chelms- 
ford, Mass.,  and  paid  50  Spanish  milled  dollars  for  it ;  then  on  Octo- 


820  ADDENDA. 

ber  12,  1760,  Mr.  John  McConihe,  my  great-grandfather,  bought  of 
Daniel  Moor  50  more  acres  and  paid  52  Spanish  milled  dollars  for 
it.  Mr.  Daniel  Moor  built  the  first  house  on  the  place  opposite 
the  old  McConihe  farm  where  Colley  afterwards  lived,  and  Mr.  Beals 
lived  when  I  was  at  your  house  in  1891,  and  we  went  there,  you 
remember. 

When  my  grandfather  bought  his  land  of  Gould  and  Fletcher  and 
Daniel  Moor,  in  1760,  he  wanted  to  know  if  it  was  well  over  in  Bed- 
ford. He  was  afraid  he  might  get  into  Merrimack,  and  my  sister 
said  he  wanted  to  be  in  Bedford  so  he  could  go  to  the  Bedford 
Presbyterian  church  and  be  buried  if  he  should  die  in  Bedford,  and 
he  died  there  and  he  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery,  called  Goffe 
cemetery,  near  where  you  live. 

About  1775  or  1780,  Mr.  Daniel  Moor  sold  his  place  to  Colley, 
but  he  built  the  sawmill  on  the  place  where  Thomas  Atwood  built 
his  grist-mill  and  sawmill.  Mr.  Daniel  Moor  came  down  and  built 
a  house  where  afterwards  Robert  Moor  lived,  but  his  sawmill  was 
pulled  down  in  1815,  for  Thomas  Atwood  did  not  build  his  mills, 
my  sister  says,  until  about  1830  or  1832. 

Now,  my  great-grandfather  moved  a  little  farther  south  on  his 
land.  He  was  near  the  little  brook  and  meadow.  He  still  thought 
he  was  in  Bedford,  but  he  was  not,  and  it  worried  him  terribly.  He 
did  not  like  the  church  in  Merrimack  and  the  people  there,  but  he 
was  in  Merrimack  just  the  same.  For  a  good  many  years  there  was 
a  dispute  about  the  town  line  between  Bedford  and  Merrimack,  and 
it  was  not  settled  until  1840.  Now,  my  great-grandfather  moved 
from  his  little  hill  home  to  one  farther  south.  When  he  found  he 
was  in  Merrimack,  he  moved  again  to  a  hill,  where  I  was  born  in 
1827.  There  are  cellar  holes  where  the  two  old  houses  stood  on 
the  old  farm  where  I  was  born.  In  about  1808  or  1810,  Moody 
Stevens,  my  father,  John  McConihe,  and  John  McConihe,  2d,  cousin 
of  my  father,  built  a  sawmill  in  Bedford  on  the  same  stream  as 
Daniel  Moor  had  his  sawmill,  on  the  road  as  near  as  you  go  to 
Moody  Stevens'  house,  just  below  where  the  cross-road  now  runs. 
It  was  carried  away  by  a  freshet  in  1825,  I  believe.  It  was  in  Bed- 
ford, about  forty  rods  from  the  Merrimack  line.  And  now,  my  dear 
friend,  I  hope  you  will  understand  what  I  have  written  you  about 
the  two  sawmills.  If  I  was  there  I  could  take  you  to  the  spot 
where  those  mills  stood.  .  .  .  — Letter  of  J.  M.  McConihe  of 
Princeton,  III.,  written  September  21,  1903. 


Genealogies. 


In  arranging  these  genealogies,  abbreviations  have  been  used  as 
follows :  b.  for  born  ;  m.,  married ;  d.,  died  ;  res.,  resides  or  resided ; 
rem.,  removed ;  ch.,  children.  Members  of  the  same  generation  are 
numbered  alike  with  numerals,  and  names  in  italics  indicate  their 
reappearance  preceded  by  the  same  number  in  Roman  characters. 
In  locating  towns,  Xew  Hampshire  is  understood  unless  otherwise 
indicated  by  the  connection.  As  all  the  families  are  arranged  alpha- 
betically, an  index  is  deemed  unnecessary. 

We  wish  to  acknowledge  valuable  information  secured  from  the 
histories  of  Amherst,  Francestown,  and  Willey's  Book  of  Xutfield  ; 
also  assistance  rendered  by  many  individuals  out  of  town,  one  of 
whom — William  Wilson  Moor,  of  Concord — not  only  furnished  the 
genealogies  of  the  six  distinct  Moor  families  of  the  town,  but  gave 
important  information  relating  to  several  other  families  also. 

An  effort  has  been  made  to  secure  the  record  of  every  family  in 
town,  though  not  all  have  responded.  The  record  of  157  families, 
however,  has  been  obtained.  People  born  in  town,  but  residing 
elsewhere,  have  their  descendants  carried  to  the  second  generation, 
when  known.  Some  branches  of  the  older  families  are  incomplete 
because  of  inability  to  trace  their  descendants.  Effort  has  been 
made  to  arrange  the  information  secured  with  as  few  errors  as  pos- 
sible, though  this  information  has  been  conflicting  at  times,  and 
much  personal  investigation  has  been  found  necessary. 

ABBOTT. 

I.  George  Abbott,  ancestor  of  a  numerous  progeny,  emigrated,  as 
tradition  says,  from  Yorkshire,  England,  about  1640,  and  was 
among  the  first  settlers  in  Andover,  Mass.,  1643,  and  a  proprietor. 
In  1647  he  m.  Hannah  Chandler,  dau.  of  William  and  Annis 
Chandler,  by  whom  be  had  eleven  children. 
II.  John,  son  of  George1,  m.  Sarah  Barker,  by  whom  he  had  nine  chil- 
dren. 

III.  Ephraim,  son  of  John2,  m.  Sarah  Hunt,  and  had  eleven  children. 

IV.  Ephraim,  son  of  Ephraim3,  Amherst,  N.  H.,  m.  Mary  Abbott,  and 

2d,  Hannah  Kneeland.  Had  seven  children. 
V.  Dea.  Ephraim,  son  of  Ephraim4,  b.  at  Andover,  Mass.,  1752;  m. 
Dorothy  Stiles.  After  residing  in  Deering,  Greenfield,  and  Mt. 
Vernon,  he  removed  to  Bedford  about  1799.  He  d.  in  1828,  aged 
86.  Ch.:  Dorothy6,  b.  1772,  m.  David  Abbott,  of  Windham,  N.  H.; 
she  d.  1822;  Samuel6,  b.  1777;  Ephraim6,  b.  1780;  Sarah6,  b.  1787, 
m.  Dea.  Jonathan  Rand.     (See  Rand.) 


822  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VI.  Rev.  Samuel,  son  of  Dea.  Ephraim,  b.  1777;  settled  in  Middlebor- 
ough,  Mass.,  1803,  afterwards  in  Chester,  and  removed  to  Bedford, 
1827.     In  1850  he  was  residing  in  Antrim,  having  been  in  the  min- 
istry fifty  years.     He  m.  Sarah,  b.  1774,  Jan.  20,  dan.  of  Rev.  John 
Rand;  she  was  living  in  1850,  aged  76.     They  had  nine  ch.:  Sam- 
uel7, b.  1799,  d.  1800;  Ephraim7,  b.  1801;  Sally  G.7,  b.  1804;  Mille 
R.7,  b   1807,  d.  1848;  Hepzibah  N.7,  b.  1809,  d.  1841;  Samuel  W.7, 
b.  1812;  Dorothy  S.7,  b.  1813;  John  R.7,  b.  1817;  S.  Gano7,  b.  1819, 
was  settled  in  the  ministry. 
[Note. — All  the  children,  and  nearly  all  the  grandchildren,  of  Rev. 
John  Rand,  and  also  those  of  Dea.  Ephraim  Abbott,  have  become  hope- 
fully pious.  ] 

ADAMS. 

I.  Rev.  John  Adams  was  a  minister  in  Durham,  N.  H.,  and  also  prac- 
tised medicine.  Graduated  at  Harvard  college,  1745.  He  was  at 
one  time  instrumental  in  saving  the  life  of  James  Sullivan,  after- 
wards governor  of  Massachusetts,  at  Saco,  when  attacked  with 
bilious  colic.  He  moved  to  Washington  Plantation,  Newfield, 
Me.,  about  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  practised 
medicine  and  preached.  He  d.  1792,  June  4,  aged  66.  His  wife, 
Hannah  Chesley,  survived  him  until  March,  1814,  when  she  d., 
aged  75.  They  had  one  son,  John2,b.  in  Durham,  1765,  April  20. 
II.  John,  son  of  John1,  b.  1765,  April  20,  had  a  son,  John3,  b.  in  New- 
field,  Me.,  1792,  Nov.  11. 
III.  John,  son  of  John2,  b.  1792,  Nov.  11;  m.  1821,  June  6,  Mary,  dau.  of 
Joshua  Small,  Esq.,  of  Limington,  Me.  She  d.  of  spotted  fever, 
1821,  Oct.  19.  He  m.,  2d,  1822,  Sept.  26,  Sarah  Dutch,  who  d. 
1830,  March  12,  aged  32,  leaving  two  ch.:  Margaret  Isley4,  b.  1825, 
Nov.  25,  and  Sarah  Dutch4,  b.  1829,  Nov.  11.  Hem,  3d,  1838, 
Jan.  11,  Catherine,  dau.  of  Samuel  Chandler,  Esq.,  of  Bedford. 
They  moved  to  Bedford,  1841,  Feb.  9.  His  wife,  Catherine,  d. 
1849,  Feb.  21,  aged  40,  leaving  one  son,  Samuel  Chandler4,  b.  1840, 
June  16.  He  m.,  4th,  1850,  April  23,  Lavina,  b.  1800,  Dec.  14,  dau. 
of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Dickey)  Patten.  John  Adams  d.  1867,  Sept. 
10;  Lavina,  his  wife,  d.  1897,  July  13.    (See  Patten.) 

ADAMS. 

I.  Robert  Adams,  b.  in  Derry,  N.  H.,  came  to  this  town  and  m.  Jane, 
dau.  of  James2  and  Dolly  (Butterfield)  Campbell.  Their  ch.  were: 
William,2  Thomas,2  b.  1822,  served  in  Civil  war,  m.  Melissa  Seavey, 
d.  1903,  Sept.;  Hannah2,  b.  1836,  m.  Horace  Campbell  (see  Camp- 
bell) ;  Reuben2,  b.  1830;  George2,  b.  1831,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
war,  d.  about  1864;  Samuel2,  b.  1844. 
II.  William,  son  of  Robert1,  served  in  the  Union  army  during  the  Civil 
war,  and  d.  in  hospital,  1864.  He  m.  Harriet  W,  b.  1834,  Jan.  8, 
dau.  of  Robert2  and  Dolly  (Seavy)  Campbell.  She  d.  1901,  Oct.  16. 
Their  ch.  were:  diaries3,  Emma  F.s,  b.  1853,  Oct.  10;  Clinton3,  Ad- 
die3,  d.  unm. 

III.  Charles,  son  of  William2;  m.  Catherine  (Bresnahan)  White,  of  Man 
Chester.  They  settled  in  Bedford,  but  now  res.  in  Manchester. 
Ch.:  Mary  E.4  m.  Herbert  Fosher  (see  Fosher);  Emma4,  William 
C.4,  b.  1877;  John  P.4,  b.  1879,  May  13,  accidentally  shot  himself, 
1895,  Oct.  27;  Etta4,  Nettie4,  Charles4,  Alice4. 

III.  Emma  F.,  dau.  of  William2,  b.  1853,  Oct.  10;  m.  Clark  G.  Mudge, 
b.  Bedford,  1850,  July  21,  drowned  in  Baboosic  lake,  1886,  June  3. 
She  d.  1875,  Dec.  10.     Had  one  dau.,  Gertrude. 

III.  Clinton,  son  of  William2;  m.  Martha  Shedd  of  Merrimack,  and  res. 
in  Bedford,  but  now  res.  in  Amherst-.  Ch.:  Harry4,  Tracy4, 
Annie4,  m.  William  Robinson,  res.  in  Amherst;  Fred4,  Wallace4, 
infant  daughter4. 


GENEALOGIES. — ADAMS — AIKEN.  823 

II.  Samuel,  son  of  Robert1,  b.  1844;  m.  Lucy  Phinney  of  Maine;  m.,  2d, 

1895,  April  25,  Frances  E.  Crockett,  b.  1848,  Cape  Elizabeth,  Me. 

Ch.:  William  Cheever3,  Samuel  Frank3. 
III.  William  Cheever,  son  of  Samuel2,  m.  Mary  F.,  dau.  of  Sandford  and 

Mary  A.  (Townsend)  Roby.  Their  ch.  were:  W.  E.4,  b.  1886,  Dec, 

d.  1887,  July  18;  Etta4;  Lucy4. 
III.  Samuel  Frank,  son  of  Samuel2,  b.  1878;  m.  1900,  April  25,  Addie  E., 

b.  1883,  dau.  of  Fred  and  Sarah  (Lamonety)  Fosher.     They  have 

one  dau.,  Maud,  b.  1901,  March  19. 

ADAMS. 

I.  Samuel  Adams  came  from  Hollis,  N.  H.,  and  settled  in  Bedford 
about  1825,  farmer.  He  was  b.  Hollis,  1795,  Jan.  5;  m.  1825,  Dec. 
29,  Sally  Worthley.  Ch.:  Sarah  A:2,  b.  1827,  Jan.  18;  Lydia  Jane2, 
b.  1829,  May  10,  d.  1833,  Sept.  27;  Lucinda  Maria2,  b.  1831,  Sept. 
19,  d.  1831,  Dec.  29;  Rosina  Maria2,  b.  1833,  Feb.  25,  m.  1854,  Feb. 
25,  Albert  Simpson,  2d,  Rufus  Calif,  3d,  John  Fullerton;  Har- 
riet Frances2,  b.  1837,  May  20,  m.  James  Fullerton  (see  Fullerton) ; 
Juliett,  b.  1840,  Sept,  10,  d.  1860,  Dec.  2. 
II.  Sarah  A.,  dau.  of  Samuel1,  b.  1827,  Jan.  18;  m.  1848,  Nov.  16,  Jonas 

Paige;  res.  in  Manchester.    Ch.:  Samuel  A.3,  Paige3,  d.;  Ettaz. 
III.  Etta,  dau.  of  Sarah  A.  (Paige);  m.  Willis  Patten.     Has  three  ch.: 
Rath,4  Dora,4  and  Gordon.4 

AIKEN.    No.  1. 

Compiled  by  John  A.  Riddle.  Generations  are  marked  by  Roman  characters 
and  separated  by  double  dash.  Individuals  are  numbered  (prefixed)  in  genera- 
tions. Parent's  number  (previous  reneration)  is  affixed  to  name  of  child.  Chil- 
dren's numbers  (succeeding  generation)  are  affixed  after  death  date  of  parent.  Fam- 
ilies (brothers  and  sisters)  occupy  space  between  short  dash. 

I,  Edward  Aiken,  b.  1660;  m.  Barbara  Edwards  about  1719.  He  emi- 
grated from  Ulster,  north  of  Ireland,  his  ancestry  being  previously 
from  Scotland,  to  Londonderry,  N.  H.     1-3. 


II.  1.  Nathaniel  Aiken1,  b.  May  14,  1696;  m.  Dec.  1,  1726,  Margaret 
Cochran,  and  lived  with  his  father  at  Aiken's  Range,  London- 
derry, N.  H.     1-12. 

2.  James  Aiken1,  m.  Jean  Cochran.     13-18. 

3.  William  Aiken1,  m.  1725,  Janet  Wilson.     19-24. 


III.  1.  Edward1,  b.  Sept.  2,  1727;  2.  John1*  b.  Nov.  18,  1728;  3.  Helen,1 
b.  Nov.  1,  1730;  4.  Nathaniel1,  b.  May  3,  1732;  5.  Christen1,  b. 
May  10,  1734;  6.  Jane,1  b.  June  16,  1736;  7.  James1,  b.  Oct.  4, 
1738;  8.  Nenian1,  b.  March  3,  1741;  9.  William1,  b.  Feb.  20,  1743; 
10.  Susannah1,  b.  Feb.  23,  1745;  11.  Thomas1,  b.  Feb.  27,  1747;  12. 
Margaret1,  b.  Sept,  3,  1750. 


13.  Elizabeth2;  14.  Edward2,  b.  1727;  settled  in  Windham,  Vt.; 
15.  James2,  settled  in  Antrim,  N.  H.;  16.  Jane2;  17.  Agnes2;  18. 
John2. 

19.  Edward3;  20.  Jonathan3;  21.  William3,  settled  in  Truro, 
Nova  Scotia;  22.  Agnes3;  23.  Mary3;  24.  Martha3. 

2.  *John  Aiken1,  b.  Nov.  18,  1728,  Londonderry,  N.  H.;  d.  April  7, 
1793,  Bedford,  N.  H.;  in.,  1758,  Annis,  b.  March  28,  1734,  d.  Sept., 
1813,  eldest  dau.  of  John  and  Margaret,  and  sister  of  Dea.  John 
Orr,  Bedford.  He  settled  in  Bedford  (No.  366)  about  1768;  was 
one  of  a  committee  on  ministry  and  an  elder  in  the  church.     1-8. 


824  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

IV.  1.  John  Aiken2,  b.  Feb.  15,  1759,  Londonderry;  d.  Feb.  11,  1811,  Mer- 
rimack, N.  H.;  m.  Dec.  25,  1781,  Mary,  b.  May  16, 1763;  d.  April  12, 
1828,  dau.  of  Matthew  (McDuffee)  McAffee  of  Bedford.  He  came 
with  his  parents  to  Bedford  about  1768;  was  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier at  Bennington;  about  1790  he  removed  from  No.  366  to  a  point 
just  beyond  the  southwest  corner  of  Bedford,  in  Merrimack,  where 
he  carried  on  a  farm  and  a  mill,  known  as  Aiken's  mill.     1-12. 

2.  Phineas  Aiken2,  b.  Dec.  16,  1761,  Londonderry;  d.  April  18,  1836, 
Bedford;  m.  Dec.  8,  1789,  Elizabeth  Patterson,  dau.  of  Lieut. 
John  Patterson,  Amherst.  She  was  a  woman  of  calm,  even  tem- 
perament; a  continual  sunbeam  in  his  home;  a  member  of  the 
church,  a  great  student  of  the  Bible;  in  her  last  days  she  had 
marked  and  committed  to  memory  more  than  one  thousand  verses 
thereof.  He  was  an  elder  in  the  church,  held  offices  of  trust  in 
the  town,  and  represented  it  at  the  general  court;  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolution,  and  resided  at  No.  365.     13-20. 

3.  Margaret  Aiken2,  b.  May  29, 1764;  d.  April  17, 1840;  m.  Jan.  15,  1787, 
Josiah  Chandler  of  Goffstown,  N.  H.,  and  Pomfret,  Vt.     21-27. 

4.  Susanna  Aiken2,  b.  Feb.  2,  1766;  m.  1790,  Jonathan  Barron  of  Mer- 
rimack, N.  H. ;  Rockingham,  Vt.,  and  Nunda,  N.  Y.     28-35. 

5.  Annis  Aiken2,  b.  March  20,  1769,  Bedford;  d.  June,  1839;  m.  1813, 
Abner  Campbell  of  Londonderry,  N.  H. 

6.  Sarah  Aiken2,  b.  April  28,  1771,  Bedford;  d.  Nov.  2,  1851;  m.  1791, 
Samuel  Gilchrist,  and  settled  on  "  Holbrook  Hill,"  No.  339.  About 
1801  they  removed  to  Goffstown,  N.  H.  36-44.  She  m.,  2d,  April 
22,  1822,  John  Smith,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 

7.  Mary  Aiken2,  b.  June  16,  1773,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  26,  1829;  m.  April 
28,  1814,  William  Reed,  Litchfield,  N.  H.    45. 

8.  Jane  Aiken2,  b.  Feb.  12,  1776,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  16,  1866;  biiried  at 
Piscataquog;  m.  Nov.  17,  1807,  James  Aiken,  d.  1809,  Goffstown; 
m.,  2d,  Rev.  Walter  Harris,  D.  D.,  Dunbarton,  N.  H. 


V.  1.  Samuel  Aiken1,  b.  Oct.  10,  1782,  Bedford;  d.  July  9,  1861,  Fisher- 
ville,  N.  H.;  m.  Dec.  4,  1806,  Nancy  Clapp,  b.  Sutton,  Mass.,  Aug. 

22,  1786,  d.  June  28,  1883.     1-10. 

2.  Mary  Aiken1,  b.  July  31,  1784,  Bedford;  d.  July  22,  1822;  m.  Oct. 
16,  1809,  Joseph  Hall  Underwood,  Esq.,  of  Revolutionary  ancestry, 
Fayette,  Me.     11-16. 

3.  Annis  Aiken1,  b.  April  4,  1786,  Bedford;  d.  May  9,  1865;  m.  Dec. 
1,  1808,  Francis  Nourse,  d.  May  10,  1838,  Lowell,  Mass.     17-23. 

4.  Susan  Aiken1,  b.  May  2,  1788,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  29,  1810;  m.  Oct. 
30,  1809,  Daniel  Brooks,  Peacham,  Vt.    24. 

5.  Sarah  Aiken,1  b.  June  23,  1790,  Bedford;  d.  Dec.  9,  1817;  m.  June 

23,  1813,  Benjamin  Nourse,  Orrington,  Me.     25-26. 

6.  Jesse  Aiken1,  b.  Aug.  1,  1792;  d.  Nov.  2,  1864,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.;  m. 
Sept.  18,  1823,  Mary  Ann  Fuller,  Readville,  Me.     27-29. 

7.  John  Aiken1,  b.  Oct.  7,  1794;  d.  April  19,  1828;  m.  Feb.  23,  1819, 
Temperance  Joy  of  Lyme,  N.  H.     30-33. 

8.  Phineas  Aiken1,  b.  Oct.  21,  1796;  d.  Feb.  23,  1827;  m.  Nov.  4,  1823, 
Rebecca  Carter  of  Boston.    34. 

9.  Jane  Aiken1,  b.  July  14,  1798;  d.  Nov.  28,  1884;  m.  Dec.  25,  1822, 
Joseph  Hall  Underwood,  Fayette,  Me.     35-40. 

10.  Lucinda  Aiken1,  b.  Nov.  30,  1800;  d.  1876,  Allenstown,  N.  H.;  m. 
Nov.  21,  1820,  William  Parker  of  Merrimack  and  Allenstown, 
N.  H.     41-46. 

11.  Benjamin  Franklin  Aiken1,  b.  Feb.  15,  1804;  d.  June  9,  1849, 
Lowell,  Mass.;  m.  Aug.  9,  1831,  Elizabeth  Holmes,  Amherst, 
N.H.     47-53. 

12.  Eliza  Fuller  Aiken1,  b.  July  31,  1806;  d.  May  23,  1852;  m.  June  1, 
1830,  Howard  Benson  Lovejoy,  Fayette,  Me.     54-58. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  825 

V.  13.  Nancy  Patterson  Aiken2,  b.  Sept.  16,  1790,  Bedford;  d.  Feb.  3, 
1880;  buried  at  Derry,  N.  H.;  m.  Nov.  22,  1809,  Jonathan  Aiken,  a 
lawyer  and  manufacturer  at  Goffstown,  N.  H. ;  d.  Aug.  28,  1839, 
at  Peoria,  111.    59-70. 

14.  Lucy  Aiken2,  b.  July  15,  1792,  Bedford;  d.  Nov.  23,  1831,  Bedford; 
m.  Nov.  16,  1816,  Frederick  A.  Mitchell,  M.  D.;  d.  July  28,  1869, 
Manchester,  N.  H.     71-77. 

15.  Betsey  Aiken2,  b.  Sept.  28,  1794,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  21,  1843,  Bed- 
ford; m.  Sept.  30.  1818,  Isaac  Riddle,  Jr.     (See  Riddle.) 

16.  John  Aiken2,  b.  Jan.  30,  1797,  Bedford;  d.  Feb.  10,  1867,  Andover, 
Mass.;  m.  Nov.  14,  1826,  Harriet  Russell  Adams,  dau.  of  Prof. 
Ebenezer  Adams  of  Dartmouth;  d.  July  30,  1830.  78-80.  He  m., 
2d,  May  28,  1832,  Mary  Means  Appleton,  dau.  President  Jesse 
Appleton,  Bowdoin  college.     81-85.     (See  Lawyers.) 

17.  Silas  Aiken2,  b.  May  14,  1799,  Bedford;  d.  April  7,  1869,  Rutland, 
Vt.;  m.  March  24,  1829,  Mary,  dau.  of  Dr.  Joseph  Osgood,  Salem, 
Mass.  86-88.  He  m.,  2d,  May  24,  1837,  Sophia  W.,  dau.  Rev. 
David  Parsons,  Amherst,  Mass.  89-90.  He  fitted  for  college  at 
Phillips  Andover  academy;  grad.  Dartmouth,  1825;  tutor,  Dart- 

•  mouth;  studied  theology  under  President  Tyler;  pastor,  Amherst, 
N.  H.,  1829-'37;  Park  Street  church,  Boston,  1837-'48;  Rutland, 
Vt.,  1848-'69;  trustee,  Dartmouth;  one  of  the  board  of  commis- 
sioners for  foreign  missions. 

18.  Charles  Aiken2,  b.  March  2,  1802,  Bedford;  d.  May  5,  1894,  Santa 
Cruz,  Cal.;  m.  May  2,  1839,  Adeline,  b.  1811,  d.  July  30,  1896,  Cali- 
fornia, dau.  Darius  Willev,  Campton,  N.  H.  (See  Lawyers.)   91-99. 

19.  David  Aiken2,  b.  June  7,  1804,  Bedford;  d.  April  13,  1895, 
Greenfield,  Mass.  Grad.  Dartmouth,  1830;  admitted  to  bar,  Mass., 
1833;  practised  law  at  Greenfield,  Mass. ;  judge  of  the  court  of  com- 
mon pleas,  and  in  1882  was  a  member  of  Massachusetts  senate;  m. 
Oct.  24,  1844,  Lydia  A.  Root,  who  d.  Nov.  13,  1846;  m.  2d,  Mary 
E.  Adams,  dau.  John  S.  Adams,  Amherst,  Mass.     100-104. 

20.  Sarah  Annis  Aiken2,  b.  Dec.  31,  1806,  Bedford;  d.  July  27,  1889; 
m.  Oct.  20,  1829,  William  P.  Black,  bank  cashier,  Manchester, 
Vt.     105-110.  

21.  Mary  Ballard  Chandler3,  b.  Nov.  19,  1788,  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  d. 
April  10,  1861;  m.  March  12,  1819,  Calvin  Bugbee,  Hyde  Park,  Vt. 
111-112. 

22.  John  Aiken  Chandler3,  b.  March  20,  1793;  d.  Sept.,  1846. 

23.  Annis  Chandler3,  b.  Feb.  3,  1795;  d.  Sept.,  1865;  m.  Nov.  25,  1836, 
Laban  Chamberlin,  Pomfret,  Vt. 

24.  David  Chandler3,  b.  Sept.  28,  1798;  d.  May  27,  1869.;  m.  Nov.  25, 
1830,  Mary  Ann  Bowman,  Barnard,  Vt.     113-119. 

25.  Lucinda  Chandler3,  b.  Dec.  25,  1800;  d.  Sept.  10,1853;  m.  March 
11,  1834,  Seth  Conant,  Pomfret,  Vt.     120. 

26.  Josiah  Chandler3,  b.  Jan.  7,  1806;  d.  1855,  Petaluma,  Cal.;  grad. 
Union  college,  1821;  m.  Julia  Adams,  East  Boston;  d.  1853,  Cal.; 
practised  law  at  Woodstock,  Vt.,  Lowell,  Boston;  removed  to 
California,  1848.     121. 

27.  Calvin  Chandler3,  b.  Aug.  31,  1807;  d.  Feb.,  1808. 


28.  Polly  Aiken  Barron4,  b.  July  29,  1791. 

29.  Annis  Barron4,  b.  May  15,  1793;  m.  Dec,  1813,  Dr.  Barnabas 
Wright,  Rockingham,  Vt.     122-124. 

30.  Moses  Barron4,  b.  Sept.  26,  1795;  d.  June  5,  1862,  Nunda,  N.  Y.; 
educator  and  fine  stock  breeder;  m.  Feb.  22,  1837,  Mary  Barrett. 
125-130. 

31.  Harriet  Barron4,  b.  June  3,  1798;  m.  June,  1826,  Ebenezer  Wright, 
Bradford,  Vt.     131-137. 


826  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

V.  32.  Abel  Barron4,  b.  Nov.  6,  1801;  d.  Dec.  13,  1878;  m.  March,  1833, 
Margaret  Rockafellow,  Nunda,  N.  Y.,  d.  Jan.  22,  1836;  m.  2d, 
Jan.,  1841,  Margaret  Norton,  Mt.  Morris,  N.  Y.     138-141. 

33.  Sally  Barron4,  b.  March  30,  1804;  m.  Jan.,  1827,  Henry  H.  Messen- 
ger, d.  Oct.  27,  1827,  Nunda,  N.  Y.  142.  She  m.  2d,  Ethan  H. 
Gilbert,  Nunda,  N.  Y. 

34.  Lucius  H.  Barron4,  b.  Feb.  10,  1808;  d.  April,  1813. 

35.  Quartus  Barron4,  b.  May  26,  1810;  m.  Sept.,  1835,  Silvia  Ashley, 
Nunda,  N.  Y.     Removed  to  Fox  Lake,  Wis. 


36.  John  Gilchrist6,  b.  Feb.  5,  1792,  Bedford;  d.  Sept.  15,  1859,  Port 
Hope,  Ont. ;  m.  Lucretia,  dau.  Dr.  Jona.  Gove,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 
Grad.  Yale  medical  school.  Practised  at  Port  Hope,  Ont.  Also 
was  engaged  in  flour  and  lumber  mills.  Was  a  member  of  Cana- 
dian parliament,  Peterboro  Riding.      143-147. 

37.  Fanny  Gilchrist6,  b.  Aug.  18,  1794,  Bedford;  d.  April  15,  1795. 

38.  Alexander  Gilchrist6,  b.  March  14,  1796,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.,  1821. 

39.  Samuel  Gilchrist6,  b.  May  4,  1798,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  20,  1849, 
Port  Hope,  Ont.     Grad.  Dartmouth;  physician;  m.     148-150. 

40.  Sophronia  Gilchrist6,  b.  Oct.  23,  1801,  Bedford;  d.  Nov.  27,  1883, 
Port  Hope,  Ont.;  m.  Mark  Burnham,  Dunbarton,  N.  H.,  grandson 
of  Lieut.  Nathan  Burnham,  killed  at  Ticonderoga.     151-155. 

41.  Jason  Gilchrist6,  b.  Nov.  16,  1803;  d.  Jan.  2,  1840;  m.  Miss  Ash. 
Merchant,  Keene,  Ont. 

42.  Margaret  Aiken  Gilchrist6,  b.  April  11,  1807;  d.  Jan.  30,  1874;  m. 
Nov.  26,  1827,  Dr.  Daniel  Little,  Goff  stown,  N.  H.     156-157. 

43.  James  Aiken  Gilchrist6,  b.  May  21,  1809;  d.  April  3,  1871;  m. 
Nancy  McCarty.     Was  a  physician,  Coburg,  Ont. 

44.  Hiram  Gilchrist6,  b.  July  23,  1811;  d.  April  24,  1852.  Physician, 
Port  Hope,  Ont. 


45.  Phineas  Aiken  Reed7,  b.  May  1,  1816;  d.  April  7,  1897,  Litchfield, 
N.  H.;  m.  June  8,  1837,  Selina  D.  Burnham.     158-164. 


VI.  1.  George  Clapp  Aiken1,  b.  May  26,  1807;  d.  Feb.  9,  1895,  Norwich, 
Vt.;  m.  Oct.  11,  1832,  Eliza  W.  Baker,  b.  June  20,  1805,  Pem- 
broke, N.  H.     1-2. 

2.  Charles  Franklin  Aiken1,  b.  Aug.  20,  1809;  d.  Aug.  8,  1895,  Goffs- 
town,  N.  H.;  m.  Nov.  28,  1838,  Mima  Ann  Brooks,  b.  April  12, 
1817,  Deering,  N.  H.     3-13. 

3.  John  Aiken1,  b.  March  12,  1812;  d.  Worcester,  Mass.;  m.  Emily 
Sawyer.     14-15. 

4.  Mary  Jane  Aiken1,  b.  July  6,  1814;  d.  Nov.  29,  1893;  m.  Benjamin 
F.  Harriman,  Warner,  N.  H.     16-19. 

5.  Samuel  Aiken1,  b.  Sept.  27,  1816;  d.  Dec.  18,  1890,  Lowell,  Mass.; 
m.  Maria  Barrett. 

6.  Benjamin  F.  Aiken1,  b.  March  1,  1819;  d.  Feb.  27,  1886,  Millbury, 
Mass.;  m.  Sarah  Leach.     21-22. 

7.  Ann  Eliza  Aiken1,  b.  June  26,  1821;   d.   June   17,   1893,    Sterling, 

8.  Henrv  Augustus  Aiken1,  b.  July  21,  1824;  d.  April  19,  1898,  Mill- 
bury,"  Mass.;  m.  Nov.  16,  1848,  Harriet  Webber,  b.  Oct  21,  1828; 
Mason,  N.  H.     Served  as  a  private  in  War  of  the  Rebellion.   23. 

9.  Susan  Aiken1,  b.  Dec.  8,  1826;  d.  Sept.  7,  1853,  Wisconsin;  m. 
Alfred  Hill. 

10.  Nancy  French  Aiken1,  b.  July  6,  1830;  m.  Benchley.  Res.  Spring- 
field, Mass. 


11.  Joseph  Hall  Underwood2,  b.  Sept.  2,  1810;  d.  May  3,  1814. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  827 

VI.  12.  Mary  Underwood2,  b.  July  31,  1812;   m.  Feb.  26,    1851,   Marshall 
Lane.     27-29. 

13.  Eliza  Hall  Underwood2,  b.  Nov.  9,  1815,  Fayette,  Me.;  d.  July  31, 
1896,  Hammonton,  N.  J.;  m.  April  6,  1840,  Joseph  H.  North, 
M.  D.,  of  patriotic  Revolutionary  ancestry.  Grad.  Bowdoiu.  30-36. 

14.  Joseph  Hall  Underwood2,  b.  July  81,  1816;  d.  Feb.  12,  1843. 

15.  Thomas  Parker  Underwood2,  b.  June  8,  1818;  d.  Jan.  27,  1852. 

16.  Sarah  Annis  Underwood2,  b.  July  17,  1822;  d.  May  9,  1891;  m. 
Sept.  24,  1844,  James  Fuller.     37-44. 


17.  Benjamin  Franklin  Nourse3,  b.  Oct.  5,  1810;  d.  Nov.  17,  1814. 

18.  John  Aiken  Nourse3,  b.  June  10,  1812;  d.  April  25, 1879,  Holliston, 
Mass.;  m.  Jan.  1, 1835,  Temperance  A.  Edgerly,  Lowell,  Mass.  45-47. 

19.  Benjamin  Tarbell  Nourse3,  b.  Nov.  9,  1814;  d.  Oct.  22,  1834. 

20.  Francis  Nourse3,  b.  April  17,  1817;  d.  Feb.  7,  1898,   Chicago,   111.; 
m.  May  10,  1844,  Sarah  E.  Conant,  Cambridge,  Mass.     48-53. 

21.  Phineas  Aiken  Nourse3,  b.  April  20,  1820;  d.  Oct.  22,  1844,  Lowell, 
Mass.;  m.  April  28,  1844,  Elizabeth  D.  Eaton,  Hopkinton,  N.  H.  54. 

22.  Mary  Underwood  Nourse3,  b.  April  27,  1822;    d.   March  17,   1879; 
m.  Dec.  5,  1855,  Isaac  F.  Caldwell,  Amherst,  N.  H.     55-57. 

23.  James  Parker  Nourse3,  b.  Nov.  9,  1824;  d.  July  17,  1895;    m.  Nov. 
24,  1849,  Charlotte  J.  M.  Beard,  Lowell,  Mass. 


24.  Susan  Aiken  Brooks4,  b.  Aug.  29,  1810,  Peacham,  Vt.;   d.  at  Cin- 
cinnati, O. 


25.  Sarah  Jane  Nourse5,  b. ;  m.  John  Ladd,  Saco,  Me.    58-59. 

26.  Benjamin  Franklin  Nourse5,  b.  Aug.  16,  1816;  d.  Feb.  10,  1876, 
Boston,  Mass.;  m.  Laura  E.  Little,  Bangor,  Me.  He  was  a  mer- 
chant, a  vestryman  of  Trinity  church,  and  president  of  the  board 
of  trade,  Boston.     60-62. 


27.  Eliza  Jane  Aiken6,  b.  June  15,  1826;  m.  June  21,  1850,  Joseph  E. 
Masters,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.     63-66. 

28.  Edward  Fuller  Aiken6,  b.  Aug.  21,  1827;  d.  March  10,  1890;  m. 
Mary  W.  Leigh,  Sacramento,  Cal.  A  California  pioneer  and  early 
fruit  grower.     67-73. 

29.  Augusta  Perley  Aiken6,  b.  Oct.  21,  1830;  m.  Nov.  17,  1857,  Will- 
iam J.  Kilbourn,  d.  Nov.  23,  1901.  Merchant  and  banker,  Au- 
gusta, Me.,  Keene,  N.  H.,  New  Bedford,  Mass.     74-77. 


30.  John  M.  Aiken7,  b.  Nov.  30,  1819;  d.  1876,  California. 

31.  Mary  Aiken7,  b.  Oct.  16,  1821;  d.  Dec.  26,  1902;  m.  Amos  Bailey, 
Lyme,  N.  H.     78-85. 

32.  Benjamin  F.  Aiken7,  b.  Feb.  5,  1824;  d.  1900,  Iowa. 

33.  George  Hill  M.  Aiken7,  b.  May  27, 1826.  Res.  Waterville,  Mass. 


34.  George  Washington  Aiken8,  d.  Dec,  1872,  Boston.     He  changed 
his  name  to  "  Certus  James  "  Aiken;  committed  suicide. 


35.  Jane  Aiken  Underwood9,  b.  Sept.  29,  1823;    d.   Dec.  28,  1884;  m. 
Feb.  22,  1859,  Alonzo  A.  Wing,  Jefferson,  Wis.     86-87. 

36.  Albert  Gallatin  Underwood9,   b.  Sept.  16,  1831;  m.  Nov.  6,  1856, 
Eliza  A.  Tuck.     Res.  Fayette,  Me.    88-91. 

37.  Henry  Clay  Underwood9,  b.  April  29,  1833;  d.  Dec.  2,  1853,  Sacra- 
mento, Cal. 


828  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VI.  38.  George  Underwood9,  b.  Sept.  20,  1834;  m.  Nov.  25,  1875,  Carrie  F. 
Nash. 

39.  Gilbert  Underwood9,  b.  Dec.  11,  1835;  m.  Sept.  8,  1867,  Annie  E. 
Holmes.     92-94. 

40.  Helen  Underwood9,  b.  June  20,  1841;  m.  Sept.  7,  1867,  William  F. 
Goodwin. 


41.  John  F.  Parker10,  b.  Nov.  6, 1821;  d.  Feb.  13,  1901,  Chicago,  111.; 
m.  Ann  M.  Dudley.     95. 

42.  Mary  Jane  Parker10,  b.  Sept.  2,  1823;  d.  June  2,  1854;  m.  John 
Weston,  Manchester,  N.  H.  96.  She  m.  2d,  Rev.  E.  G.  Little, 
Merrimack,  N.  H.     97. 

43.  William  Parker10,  b.  Oct.  6,  1825;  retired  merchant,  Manchester, 
N.  H.;  m.  Sarah  H.  Dudley,  Pembroke,  N.  H.     98-99. 

44.  Alpha  Orlando  Parker10,  b.  Sept.  29,  1827;  d.  Jan.  20,  1879;  mer- 
chant, Manchester,  N.  H.;  m.  Harriet  Ann  Gilbert.     100-103. 

45.  Edward  W.  C.  Parker10,  b.  April  18,  1834;  d.  June  15,  1835. 

46.  Sarah  E.  Parker10,  b.  May  18,  1837,  res.  Allenstown,  N.  H. 


47.  Charles  Frank  Aiken11,  b.  Dec.  16,  1833;  d.  1861. 
48,  49.  Twin  sons  of  Benjamin  F.  Aiken11,  b.  and  d.  March  6,  1836. 

50.  Annis  Elizabeth  Aiken11,  b.  1837;  d.  1840. 

51.  Albert  Locke  Aiken11,  b.  1840;  d.  1844. 

52.  Mary  McAfee  Aiken11,  b.  1845;  d.  1861. 

53.  Elizabeth  Holmes  Aiken11,  b.  June  9,   1847;    d.   March  31,    1883, 
Weymouth,  Mass.;  m.  1873,  Fred  W.  Harris.     104-105. 


54.  Eliza  Howard  Lovejoy12,  b.  June  18,  1831;    d.   1862;    m.   Aug.   27, 
1855,  Charles  S.  Sanderson,  New  Sharon,  Me.     106-107. 

55.  Mary  Adaline  Lovejoy12,  b.  Aug.  7,  1837;  m.  Nov.  29,   1865,   Abel 
C.  T.  Wheeler,  Providence,  R.  I.     108-111. 

56.  Annis  Benson  Lovejoy12,  b.  April  25,  1839,  Boston,  Mass. 

57.  Jane  Underwood  Lovejoy12,  b.  Sept.  22,  1840;  d.  1844. 

58.  Frederick  Aiken  Lovejoy12,  b.  March  3,  1845,  Boston,  Mass. 


59.  James  Aiken13,  b.  Nov.  14,  1810;  d.  Feb.  1,  1885,  Haverhill,  N.  H.; 
buried  at  Brattleboro,  Vt.;  m.  March  12,  1844,  Caroline  G.  Clarke, 
Brattleboro,  Vt.  Grad.  Dartmouth,  1839;  Union  Theo.  seminary, 
1842;  pastor  at  Hollis,  N.  H.,  Gloucester,  Mass.,  Putney,  Vt.,  and 
Hanover,  Mass. 

60.  David  Aiken13,  b.  April  10,  1812;  d.  Sept.  11,  1818. 

61.  Elizabeth  Aiken13,  b.  March  12,  1814;  d.  March  23,  1879,  Derry, 
N.  H.;  m.  March  13,  1839,  David  H.  Pinkerton.     112-117. 

62.  John  Calvin  Aiken13,  b.  March  12,  1816;  d.  Aug.  10,  1867.  Den- 
tist, Lawrence,  Mass.;  m.  Nov.,  1845,  Sarah  A.  King.     118. 

63.  Charles  Aiken13,  b.  March  13,  1818;  d.  Oct,  4,  1882.  Prof,  of 
music,  Cincinnati,  O.;  m.  Aug.  20,  1840,  Cordelia  B.  Hyde;  d. 
July  11,  1849.  119-123.  He  m.,  2d,  Jan.  31,  1850,  Theren  P.  Hyde; 
d.  July  8,  1853.  He  m.,  3d,  Nov.  22,  1855,  Martha  S.  Merrill;  d. 
April  23,  1895.  124-131.  Grad.  Dartmouth,  1838;  Lane  seminary, 
after  which  he  engaged  in  teaching  music  and  classics.  In  1867 
he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  music  in  the  public  schools  of 
Cincinnati,  which  position  he  retained  until  his  decease.  He  was 
author  and  composer  of  several  musical  books.  At  his  decease  a 
marble  tablet  was  placed  in  the  walls  of  the  Woodward  high 
school  building,  and  a  portrait  bust,  slightly  larger  than  life  size, 
of  pure  white  marble,  by  Powers,  sculptor,  Florence,  Italy,  sur- 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  829 

mounting  a  lyre-shaped  pedestal,  upon  a  base,  the  whole  rising  to 
a  height  of  eight  feet,  stands  in  the  vestibule  of  Music  hall,  Cin- 
cinnati, O.,  to  commemorate  his  distinguished  services. 
VI.  64.  Jonathan  Aiken13,  b.  Oct.  12,  1819;  d.  July  20,  1867,  New  York 
city;  m.  Jan.  1,  1845,  Harriet  E.  Merrill,  b.  Jan.  30,  1829;  d.  May 
31,  1901.     132-135. 

65.  Nancy  Aiken13,  b.  Sept.  14,  1821;  d.  Sept.  29, 1901,Roxbury,  Mass.; 
m.  Aug.  6,  1844,  Isaac  Newton  Metcalf,  Lowell,  Mass.     136-142. 

66.  Henry  Martyn  Aiken13,  b.  Sept.  10,  1823;  d.  Nov.  4,  1901,  Worces- 
ter, Mass.;  m.  June  15,  1864,  Mary  Louisa  Crossman.  143.  He 
m.,  2d,  Sept.  4,  1872,  Mrs.  Amelia  Elmer  Hunt,  New  York.  144- 
145.  He  was  distinguished  in  oratorio  singing,  having  sung  with 
John  Braham  and  Sontag,  and  for  fourteen  years  took  solo  parts 
with  the  Handel  and  Hayden  society,  and  lead  in  solo  basso  at 
Trinity  church,  Boston,  from  1844  till  1892,  when  he  was  retired 
with  a  pension  for  life. 

67.  Jane  Aiken13,  b.  April  12,  1826;  d.  Sept,  11,  1897,  Concord,  N.  H.; 
m.  Nov.  15,  1845,  John  P.  Tenney;  d.  Jan.  21,  1889.     146-150. 

68.  Silas  Aiken13,  b.  June  12,  1830;  died  (of  cholera)  July  29,  1849, 
Sandusky,  O. 

69.  Walter  Harris  Aiken13,  b.  Sept.  28,  1831;  d.  Sept.  30,  1840. 

70.  George  Edward  Aiken13,  b.  July  1,  1834;  m.  June  8,  1871,  Emma 
R.  Barnes,  Boston;  resides  New  York  city;  grad.  Amherst,  1857. 


71.  Phineas  Aiken  Mitchell1*,  b.  April  7,  1817;  d.  April,  1826. 

72.  Charles  Frederick  Mitchell",  b.  Nov.  16,  1818;  d.  Jan.  8,  1851;  m. 
Jan.  13,  1848,  Lucy  A.  Swan,  b.  Aug.  9,  1823;  d.  June  7,  1858.  151. 

73.  Elizabeth  Aiken  Mitchell14,  b.  July  29,  1821;  d.  Dec.  27,  1896, 
Portland,  Oregon;  buried  at  Manchester,  N.  H.  152-153.  She 
m.,  1856,  Capt.  Joseph  M.  Batchelder,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  who 
was  engaged  in  extensive  shipping  business  which  took  him  and 
his  family  to  China  and  Japan,  his  wife  being  back  part  of  the 
time  educating  their  children,  at  Newton,  Mass.  Capt.  Batchel- 
der successfully  raised  some  sunken  war  vessels  for  the  emperor 
of  Japan,  and  was  deemed  "  a  great  man  "  in  the  Orient.  When 
the  first  Japan  port  was  declared  open  to  the  outside  world  he  took 
his  family  there,  and  his  wife  was  the  first  white  woman  to  enter 
Japan,  where  she  resided  twelve  years. 

74.  John  Orr  Mitchell14,  b.  Dec.  6,  1824,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  15,  1863; 
buried  at  Manchester,  N.  H. ;  m.  Margaret  McDougall,  Glasgow, 
Scotland.  154-156.  He  was  a  seafaring  man,  and  died  from  the 
effects  of  the  fall  of  a  heavy  weight  upon  his  head  while  engaged 
in  carrying  supplies  to  the  Union  army  in  the  South. 

75.  Martha  Steele  Mitchell14,  b.  Oct.  16,  1826,  Bedford;  m.  Jan.  23, 
1857,  George  Griffin;  d.  Jan.  25,  1890,  Manchester,  N.  H.     157. 

76.  George  Hamilton  Mitchell14,  b.  May  8,  1828,  Bedford;  merchant 
Laconia,  N.  H.;  m.,  1852,  Julia  Ann  Chase.     158. 

77.  Henry  Augustus  Mitchell14,  b.  Oct.  8,  1830,  Bedford;  m.  Nellie 
Hankerson;  res.  "Rocka way  House,"  York  Beach,  and  Portland. 


78.  Charles  Augustus  Aiken16,  b.  Oct.  30,  1827,  Manchester,  Vt.;  d. 
Jan.  14,  1892,  Princeton,  N.  J.;  m.  Oct.  17,  1854,  Sarah  Elizabeth 
Noyes,  Andover,  Mass. ;  Grad.  Lawrence  academy,  Groton,  Mass. ; 
Phillips  (Andover) ;  Dartmouth,  1846;  Andover  Theo.  seminary, 
1853;  ordained  pastor  at  Yarmouth,  Me.,  1854;  prof.  Latin  and 
Literature  at  Dartmouth  l859-'66;  College  of  N.  Jersey  1866-'69; 
president  Union  college,  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  1869,  1871;  prof. 
Christian  Ethics  and  Apologetics;  also  Stuart  prof,  of  the  Rela- 
tion of  Philosophy  and  Science  to  the  Christian  Religion,  and 


830  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Oriental  and  Old  Testament  Literature;  librarian  of  the  seminary; 
associate  editor  Princeton  Review  and  Presbyterian  Review;  edi- 
tor and  translator  of  Lange's  Commentary  on  Proverbs;  member 
of  the  American  committee  on  the  Revision  of  the  Old  Testament. 
In  1888  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  World's  Conference  of  Protestant 
Missions  at  London,  etc. 
VI.  79.  Harriet  Adams  Aiken16,  b.  Feb.  25,  1829;  d.  June  7,  1886;  m.  June 
1,  1848,  Rev.  William  D.  Lord,  D.  D.;  grad.  Dartmouth;  d.  March, 
1877;  thirty  years  pastor,  Montpelier,  Vt.     159-164. 

80.  John  Aiken,  Jr.16,  b.  April  28,  1830;  d.  July  18,  1831. 

81.  William  Appletoii  Aiken,16,  b.  April  18,  1833;  m.  Aug.  28,  1861, 
Eliza  Cort  Buckingham,  only  dau.  of  Gov.  William  Buckingham, 
Norwich,  Conn.  Entered  U.  S.  N.  Sept.,  1861,  as  asst.  paymaster; 
was  signal  officer  of  his  ship  during  the  first  great  naval  battle  at 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  under  Rear  Admiral  Dupont,  and  was  later  in 
service  on  the  coast  in  search  of  confederate  cruisers.  He  re- 
signed in  1862,  became  quartermaster-general  of  the  state  of  Con- 
necticut for  the  rest  of  the  war.  His  duties  called  him  to  visit  fre- 
quently his  state  regiments  in  the  field,  also  to  call  upon  President 
Lincoln  and  other  high  officials.  He  is  president  of  the  Norwich 
Nickel  and  Brass  Co.,  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Otis 
public  library,  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Broadway  Con- 
gregational church,  commander  of  Sedgwick  post,  No.  1,  G.  A.  R. 
165-171. 

82.  John  Francis  Aiken16,  b.  Oct.  31,  1835;  d.  Aug.  13,  1880;  m.  Jan., 
1870,  Henrietta  Wheeler,  Worcester,  Mass.  172-174.  He  m.,  2d, 
May  16,  1878,  Emily  Adeline  Andros,  Pawlet,  Vt.  175.  Grad. 
Dartmouth,  1858;  teacher  at  Phillips  (Andover)  academy;  counselor- 
at-law  New  York  city;  studied  for  the  ministry  at  Andover  Theo. 
seminary;  ordained  pastor   1873,  Pawlet,  Vt.,  afterwards  at  Chi- 

83.  Mary  Elizabeth  Aiken16,  b.  Feb.  5,  1838;  m.  Dec.  17,  1857,  George 
Ripley,  banker,  Boston;  res.  Andover,  Mass.     176-182. 

84.  Alfred  Lawrence  Aiken,  b.  May  13,  1840;  d.  Aug.  12,  1854. 

85.  Jane  Appletoii  Aiken16,  b.  Jan.  5,  1845;  m.  July  8,  1868,  Francis 
Huntington  Snow,  chancellor  state  university,  Lawrence,  Kan. 
183-188.  _ 

86.  Edward  Aiken",  b.  April  10,  1830;  d.  Aug.   14,   1890,   Amherst, 

N.  H.;  m.  Sept.  5,  1855,  Susan  Dougherty  Cole,  Albany,  N.  Y.;  d. 
Syria,  June  20,  1856;  granddaughter  Stephen  Hopkins,  signer  of 
Declaration  of  Independence;  m.,  2d,  July  22,  1857,  in  Syria,  Sarah 
Cheney,  Phillipstown,  Mass.  Grad.  Dartmouth,  A.  B.  1851,  A.  M. 
1854;  teacher;  grad.  Andover  Theo.  seminary,  1855;  missionary 
to  Syria,  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.,  till  1859;  grad.  Yale  Med  Col.  1861;  phy- 
sician Fitzwilliam  and  Amherst,  1861-'85;  prof.  N.  E.  Female  Col., 
1864-'72;  N.  H.  State  Library,  1883-'90.     189-193. 

87.  Mary  Elizabeth  Aiken17,  b.  July  9,  1832,  Amherst,  N.  H.;  d.  1901, 
Waldo,  Fla.;  m.  Marshall  P.  Blakeley;  d.  Nov.  25,  1891.    194. 

88.  Susan  Endicott  Aiken17,  b.  June  19,  1835,  Amherst,  N.  H.;  d. 
March  11,  1900,  Rutland,  Vt. 

89.  Henry  Homer  Aiken17,  b.  Jan.  26,  1843,  Boston;  d.  Sept.  1,  1846. 

90.  Harriet  Sophia  Aiken17,  b.  Jan.  12,  1848,  Boston;  res.  Rutland,  Vt. 


91.  Charles  Edward  Aiken18,  b.  July  10,  1840;  d.  Dec.  25,  1897,  Los  An- 
geles, Cal.;  m.  July  1,  1873,  Belle  S.  Jenkins,  Menominee,  Mich. 
195-197. 

92.  Adaline  Elzabeth  Aiken18,  b.  May  7,  1842;  grai.  Lawrence  uni- 
versity, Wis.,  1863;  teacher,  Santa  Cruz,  Cal. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  831 

VI.  93.  William  Henry  Aiken*",  b.  Oct.  23,  1843;  m.  Elmira  W.  Baldwin, 
b.  New  York;  grad.  Lawrence  university,  Wis.,  1863;  private 
Fortieth  and  Forty -fourth  Wis.  Vols.,  War  of  the  Rebellion.  Ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  1867;  practised  law  in  that 
city  for  twenty  years;  retired  to  care  of  orchard  and  vineyard, 
Santa  Cruz,  Cal. 

94,  95.  Twins18;  d.  at  birth. 

96.  George  Franklin  Aiken18,  b.  April  5,  1848;  d.  April  25,  1852. 

97.  Mary  Emma  Aiken18,  b.  Jan.  14,  1850;  d.  March  23,  1850. 

98.  John  Phineas  Aiken18,  b.  April  30, 1851;  horticulturist,  Santa  Clara 
county,  Cal.;  m.  Sept.  19,  1880,  Martha  A.  Scheltheis.     198-200. 

99.  Samuel  Willey  Aiken18,  b.  July  8,  1854;  d.  Sept.  14,  1855. 


100.  John  Adams  Aiken19,  b.  Sept.  16,  1850;  m.  March  29,  1895,  Maria 
Willard  Dickinson,  Baltimore,  Md.;  grad.  Dartmouth,  1874,  high 
standing  in  scholarship,  writer,  and  orator;  lawyer  with  his  father 
at  Greenfield,  Mass.;  elected  district  attorney  Franklin  and 
Hampshire  counties,  1890;  appointed  judge  superior  court  Mass. 
by  Gov.  Wolcott,  1898. 

101.  Elizabeth  Patterson  Aiken19,  b.  Oct.  31,  1852;  grad.  Abbott  acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.;  m.  Sept.  8, 1883,  Albert  M.  Gleason,  banker, 
Taunton,  Mass. 

102.  Harriet  Lydia  Aiken19,  b.  Sept.  20,  1855;  grad.  Abbott  academy; 
tgs  .  GrrGGiifiold  IM^rss  . 

103.  William  Francis  Aiken19,  b.  April  15,  1858;  m.  March,  1891,  Tilly 
Frances  Cook,  Silver  City,  N.  M.;  civil  and  mining  engineer;  in- 
surance agent,  Troy,  N.  Y.     201-202. 

104.  Edward  Everett  Aiken19,  b.  Oct.  2,  1859;  d.  1887  (drowned),  Mex- 
ico; journalist,  editor,  and  miner,  City  of  Mexico. 


105.  Harriet  Aiken  Black20,  b.  Feb.  15,  1831;  d.  April,  1837. 

106.  James  P.  Black20,  b.  Aug.  26,  1833;  d.  July  8,  1901;  cashier  bank, 
Manchester,  Vt.;  m.  Jan.,  1864,  Abbie  C.  Millette;  d.  Dec.  8,  1868. 

107.  Sarah  E.  Black20,  b.  Feb.  19,  1837;  m.  Oct.  24,  1860,  N.  B.  Judson, 
a  teacher;  d.  Feb.  9,  1862;  m.,  2d,  June  11,  1863,  Henry  Morton 
Cushman,  merchant,  New  York  city.     203-205. 

108.  Charles  Edward  Black20,  b.  Feb.  13,  1840;  d.  Feb.  16,  1901,  N.  Y. 

109.  William  A.  Black20,  b.  Dec.  30,  1842;  m.  July  30,  1879,  Lizzie 
Chadwick,  Manchester,  Vt.     206-209. 

110.  Helen  M.  Black20,  b.  Nov.  6,  1848;  res.  Manchester,  Vt. 


111.  Mary  Annis  Bugbee21,  b.  Oct.  28,  1819;  d.  May  31,  1874;  m.  Feb. 
1,  1855,  Jonas  D.  Gilbert,  Morrisville,  Vt. 

112.  John  Chandler  Bugbee21,  b.  March  20,  1821;  d.  April  28,  1887, 
Hyde  Park,  Vt.;  m.  March  22,  1855,  Ann  Record  Fitch,  d.  March 
30,  1876.     210-216. 


113.  Alexander  Bowman  Chandler24,  b.  July  13,  1831,  Pomfret,  Vt.; 
d.  May  21,  1870,  Boston,  Mass.;  m.  July  11,  1866,  Ellen  Matilda, 
dau.  Hon.  Crosby  Miller,  Pomfret,  Vt.  Was  a  seafaring  man. 
He  enlisted  in  Co.  E,  1st  Vt.  cavalry,  Sept.  19,  1861,  private. 
Mustered  out  with  his  regiment,  June  21,  1865,  captain.  He  was 
engaged  in  nearly  every  battle  of  the  regiment,  had  several  horses 
shot  under  him,  escaped  without  a  wound;  was  with  Wilson  on 
his  raid  on  the  Weldon  railroad;  was  taken  prisoner,  escaped  by 
turning  his  jacket.     217-218. 

114.  Sarah  Frances  Chandler24,  b.  March  7,  1834,  Pomfret,  Vt.;  d.  June 
25,  1859,  Royalton,  Vt.,  while  at  school. 


832  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VI.  115.  Edward  Aiken  Chandler24,  b.  Sept.  16,  1836;  d.  April,  1886;  m. 
Joan  S.  Wilson,  Santa  Clara,  Cal.  219-220.  He  was  at  Norwich, 
Vt.,  military  university  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war;  enlisted 
at  once,  2d  Lieut  Co.  F,  3d  Vt.  Inf. ;  after  serving  in  recruiting 
service  at  Hartford  and  Brattleboro,  he  joined  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac;  was  wounded  in  hand  and  thigh  in  battle  of  Lee's  Mills; 
being  disabled  for  active  service,  was  ordered  on  court  martials  and 
recruiting  service;  promoted  to  1st  Lieut,  and  to  Lieut.  Col;  was  as- 
signed to  freedman's  bureau;  resigned  in  1868  and  engaged  in 
business  at  Redwood  Falls,  Minn. 

116.  Ellen  Stearns  Chandler24,  b.  Feb.  26,  1839;  m.  Aug.  26,  1866, 
Joseph  Dennison  Hewitt,  Pomfret,  Vt.,  grandson  of  Capt.  Stephen 
Hewitt,  one  of  the  first  settlers.  Res.  on  the  old  homestead.  221- 
224. 

117.  Marv  Elizabeth  Chandler24,  b.  July  4,  1841;  d.  Sept.  8,  1885. 

118.  John  Herbert  Chandler24,  b.  Nov.  23,  1844;  d.  Jan.  9,  1880;  m. 
Feb.  28,  1875,  Clara  Hart  of  Eminence.  225-226.  He  enlisted  in 
1862  and  served  till  the  close  of  the  war;  went  to  Wisconsin  and 
Kansas.     His  family  res.  at  Ridge,  Kan. 

119.  Harriet  Lucretia  Chandler24,  b.  May  21,  1849.  Proofreader,  Bos- 
ton, Mass. 


120.  Abram  Conant25,  b.  Dec.  14,  1838;  d.  Aug.,  1850. 


122.  Martha  Jane  Wright29,  b.  Sept.  8,  1814;  m.  Dr.  C.  W.  Chipman. 
227-228. 

123.  Barnabas  Wright,  Jr.29,  b.  Jan.  5,  1817;  m.  Harriet  Atwood,  Nunda, 
N.  Y. 

124.  Frederick  B.  Wright29,  b.  Feb:  29,  1824;  d.  Aug.  26,  1824. 


125.  Mary  Narcissa  Barron30,  b.  Dec.  5,  1837;  educated  at  Collegiate 
institute,  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  m.  Dec.  28,  1865,  Capt.  John  W. 
Hand,  136th  Regt.,  N.  Y.  Vols.,  Civil  War,  Nunda,  N.  Y. 

126.  Susanna  Aiken  Barron30,  b.  April  15,  1841;  d.  July  20,  1851. 

127.  Lucius  Hubbard  Barron30,  b.  Dec.  28,  1843;  d.  May  16,  1890, 
Tacoma,  Wash.;  was  a  volunteer  in  Civil  War;  m.  1869,  Harriet 
A.  Yeomans. 

128.  Alida  Jane  Barron30,  b.  July  5,  1845.  Grad.  Elmira  Female  col- 
lege, 1867;  principal  of  public  school,  Denver,  Col. 

129.  Milton  Moses  Barron30,  b.  Nov.  1,  1852;  CorneU,  1872;  m.  1876, 
Alida  Hall.     229-231. 

130.  Camilla  Barron30,  b.  Aug.  31,  1854;  d.  Feb.  7,  1857. 


131.  Mary  Susanna  Wright31,  b.  April  22,  1827;  m.    1848,  William  D. 
Clarke. 

132.  Harriet  Barron  Wright31,  b.  July  8,    1829;    m.    1849,   Samuel  F. 

GrOSS. 

133.  Mesale  Annis  Wright31,  b.  Sept.  20,  1831;  d.  June  6,  1844. 

134.  Ebenezer  Wright31,  b.  June  3,  1834. 

135.  Sarah  Jane  Wright31,  b.  July  8,  1837. 

136.  Moses  Franklin  Wright31,  b.  Sept.  10,  1840. 

137.  George  Wright31,  b.  March  22,  1845. 


138.  Harriet  Louisa  Barron32,  b.  May  23,  1843;  m.  Sept.  8,  1870,  Michael 
Dowling,  contractor  and  farmer.     232-234. 

139.  Abel  Clifton  Barron32,  b.  June  17,  1847;  contractor  and  farmer; 
educated  Cornell  university;  m.  Nov.  11,  1886,  Harriet  J.  Row- 
land, Southport,  Conn. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  833 

VI.  140.  Thornton  McGaw  Barron32,  b.  Sept.  23,  1849;  farmer;  m.  Sept.  23, 
1874,  Emma  R.  Sherman.     235-240. 
141.  Catharine  Ann  Barron32,  b.  Dec.  10,  1850;  m.  Feb.  24,  1878,  John 
E.  Morse,  Caynga,  N.  Y.    241. 


142.  Sarah  Jane  Messenger33,  b.  Feb.  29,  1828. 


143.  John  Gilchrist36;  144.  Jonathan  Gove  Gilchrist36. 

145.  Sarah  Jane  Gilchrist36;  m.  Dnncan  McLeod,  Port  Hope,  Ont. 

146.  Margaret  Gilchrist36;  m.  Charles  Perry,  Peterboro,  Ont. 

147.  Annie  Gilchrist36,  b.  Peterboro,  Ont. 

148.  Frederick  Gilchrist36,  b.  Keene,  Ont. 


149.  Charles  Gilchrist39,  b.  Port  Hope,  Ont.;  m.;  3  sons. 

150.  James  Gilchrist39,  m.  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

151.  Jnlia  Gilchrist39,  m.  Frank  Green,  barrister,  Port  Hope,  Ont. 


152.  Peregrine  Maitland  Bnrnham40,  b.  Oct.  23, 1822,  Goffstown,  N.  H.; 
d.  1865,  Washington,  D.  C. 

153.  Horatio  Nelson  Burnham40,  b.  Oct.  25,  1825,  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  d. 
Sept.  5,  1828. 

154.  Sophronia  Burnham40,  b.  Oct.  25,  1825,  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  d.  May 
2,  1830. 

155.  Robert  Wilkins  Burnham40,  b.  June  22,   1834;    d.   Feb.  21,    1880, 
Detroit,  Mich;  was  a  physician.     242. 

156.  Henry  Hamilton  Burnham40,  b.  Nov.  3,  1842;    m.  1877,  Agnes  J. 
Amery,  Port  Hope,  Ont.     243-249. 


157.  John  Smith  Little42,  b.  Sept.  26,  1828;  physician;  grad.  Dart- 
mouth Med.  School;  d.  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  m.  Sarah  Jane,  dau. 
John  Gilchrist,  Goffstown,  N.  H.    250-251. 

158.  Sophronia  Marietta  Little42,  b.  Oct.  28,  1830;  m.  Feb.  5,  1857,  Dr. 
Edward  Augustus  Perkins,  Boston,  Mass. 


159.  Mary  J.  Reed45,  b.  Dec.  27,  1837,  Litchfield,  N.   H.;    m.   Sept.  4, 
1873,  Rodney  N.  Whittemore,  Manchester,  N.  H. 

160.  William  T.  Reed45,  b.  Feb.  9,  1840. 

161.  Walter  Harris  Reed45,  b.  May  29,  1842;  d.  Jan.  5,  1892;  m.  May  6, 
1869,  Philie  S.  Young,  d.  Jan.  5,  1892,  Londonderry,  N.  H. 

162.  George  M.  Reed45,  b.  Aug.  5,  1844. 

163.  Rachel  B.  Reed45,  b.  Sept.  2,  1847. 

164.  Nilla  M.  Reed45,  b.  March  2,  1850. 

165.  Phineas  Aiken  Reed,  Jr.45,  b.  Aug.  8,  1853;  m.  Jan.  4,  1886,  Addie 
Chase,  Londonderry,  N.  H.     252-256. 


VII.  1.  Georgianna  E.  Aiken1,  b.  Feb.  19,  1834,  Andover,  Mass.;  d.  Aug. 
11,  1849. 
2.  Elizabeth  Ann  Jones   Aiken1,   b.   July  28,   1836,   Newburyport, 
Mass. ;  m.  Nov.  19,  1863,  James  W.  Lawrence,  Bangor,  N.  Y.   1-4. 


3.  Charles  Madison  Aiken2,  b.  Oct.  6,  1839,   Hollis,   N.  H.;  enlisted 
Sept,  16,  1862,  Co.  H,  10th  N.  H.  Vols.;  killed  July  25,  1863. 

4.  Edward  Franklin  Aiken2,  b.  Aug.  28,  1841,  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.; 
d.  July  11,  1870. 

54 


834  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VII.  5.  John  Olapp  Aiken2,  b.  June  6,  1843,  Kindge,  N.  H.;  d.  March  19, 
1882,  Dunbarton,  N.  H.;  enlisted  Sept.  17,  1862,  private,  Co.  H, 
10th  N.  H.  Vols.;  promoted  corporal  and  sergeant. 

6.  George  Henry  Aiken2,  b.  Jan.  6,  1845,  New  Ipswich,  N.  H. ;  en- 
listed Sept.  4,  1862,  private  Co.  H,  10th  N.  H.  Vols.,  promoted 
nurse  and  hospital  steward;  m.  July  22,  1879,  Ida  M.  Martin, 
Jacksonville,  Oregon;  studied  medicine  and  practising,  Fresno,  Cal. 

7.  Benjamin  Gove  Aiken2,  b.  Jan.  1,  1847;  d.  March  4,  1847. 

8.  Elizabeth  Ann  Aiken2,  b.  Sept.  3,  1848,  Milford,  N.  H.;   m.  April 

17,  1878,  Henry  C.  Jones,  Dunbarton,  N.  H.;  m.  2d,  Aug.  23,  1887, 
Eugene  H.  Way,  Manchester,  N.  H. 

9.  Mary  Gove  Aiken2,  b.  March  27,  1850,  Milford,   N.  H.;    m.   Sept. 

18,  1878,  Walter  S.  Goodhue,  Alstead,  N.  H.    5. 

10.  Charlotte  Brooks  Aiken2,  b.  Oct.  31,  1852,  Milford,  N.  H.;  m. 
Aug.  16,  1876,  Moody  B.  Jones,  Goffstown,  N.  H.,  d.  Dec.  29, 1898. 
6-7.     She  m.  2d,  Dec.  25,  1901,  James  B.  Day,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 

11.  Square  Stanford  Aiken2,  b.  Jan.  1,  1855,  Milford,  N.  H.;  m.  Aug. 
2,  1880,  Ida  May  Follansbee,  E.  Weare,  N.  H. 

12.  William  Samuel  Aiken2,  b.  Feb.  23,  1857;  had  his  name  changed 
to  Fred  Stanford  Aiken  after  the  decease  of  his  brother  Fred. 

13.  Fred  Aiken2,  b.  Feb.  21,  1860;  d.  Jan.  31,  1862. 


14.  John  Aiken3;  d.  without  issue. 

15.  Laura  Aiken3,  m.  William  W.  Scott,  Worcester,  Mass.    8. 


16.  Augusta  J.  Harriman4,  b.  March  14,  1839;  d.  April  14,  1839. 

17.  Sylvanus  Harriman4,  b.   Sept.  13,    1844;    m.    Aug.'  4,   1870.     Res. 
Warner,  N.  H.     9. 

18.  Augusta  A.  Harriman4,  b.  July  7,  1846;  d.  Feb.  7,   1895,   Concord, 
N.  H. 

19.  Henrietta  J.  Harriman4,  b.  Aug.  27,  1849;  m.  June  21,  1871,  L.  C. 
Flanders,  Concord,  N.  H.     10-14. 


21.  Sarah  Aiken6,  m.  James  Clark.     15-18. 

22.  Benjamin  F.  Aiken,  Jr.6,  m.  Maria  Ferguson.     19-20. 


23.  Henry  W.  Aiken8,  b.  Jan.  15,  1857,  Millbury,  Mass.  Grad.Williston 
seminary,  1876,  Yale,  1880,  Yale  law  school,  1883.  Practising 
law,  clerk  of  courts,  Worcester,  Mass. 


27.  Mary  Underwood  Lane12,  b.  Feb.  25,  1852. 

28.  Thomas  Marshall  Lane1'2,  b.  April  15,  1853. 

29.  Frank  Abbott  Lane12,  b.  Feb.  1,  1855. 

30.  Edward  North13,  b.  July  29,  1841,  W.  Waterville,  Me.;  d.  Feb.  14, 
1899,  Hammonton,  N.  J.;  m.  Sept.  13,  1863,  Emma  P.  Paul,  d. 
June  5,  1896.  21-24.  He  m.  2d,  1897,  Evaline  C.  Gravatte.  A 
member  of  Med.  Hos.  staff,  Washington,  D.  C,  during  the  War 
of  Rebellion.     Grad.  Jefferson  Med.  college,  1868. 

31.  Joseph  Henry  North,  Jr.13,  b.  Oct.  9,  1843,  W.  Waterville,  Me.; 
m.  Aug.  25,  1875,  Ina  N.  Ross,  Pleasantville,  N.  J.  25-31.  Grad. 
Jefferson  Med.  college,  Philadelphia,  1869;  served  in  Co.  M,  1st 
N.  J.  Cav.,  during  the  war. 

32.  Mary  Jane  North13,  b.  Nov.  17,  1845;  teacher;  m.  Sept.  11,  1865, 
Silas  R.  Morse,  member  of  N.  J.  state  board  of  education  and 
curator  of  state  museum,  Atlantic  City.     32. 

33.  Hannah  Flagg  North13,  b.  July  17,  1848;  teacher;  m.  Sept.  15, 
1880,  Cyrus  F.  Osgood,  manufacturer,  Hammonton,  N.  J.   33-34. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  835 

VII.  34.  Eliza  Underwood  North13,  b.  June  6,  1850;  teacher;  m.  June  24, 
1880,  John  F.  Hall,  grad.  Bowdoin,  editor  Daily  Union,  Atlantic 
City,  N.  J.,  and  author. 

35.  James  North*3,  b.  Sept.  2,  1855;  grad.  Jefferson  Med.  college,  1880, 
and  Phil.  Den.  college,  1883;  dentist,  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.;  as  poet 
and  author  his  works  have  been  favorably  received;  m.  Sept.  1, 
1883,  Cora  Ella  Fawner,  Oxford,  Me.    35-36. 

36.  William  McKecknic  North13,  b.  Feb.  18,  1858.  Grad.  Jefferson 
Med.  college,  Phil.,  1885;  res.  Hammonton,  N.  J. 


37.  Elizabeth  Ann  Fuller™,  b.  Dec.  25,  1845;  d.  Oct.  20,  1850. 

38.  Joseph  H.  Underwood  Fuller™,  b.  Sept.  15,  1847;  d.  Nov.  17,  1865. 

39.  James  Lancy  Fuller16,  b.  May  20,  1851;  d.  July  19,  1887. 

40.  Sarah  Jane  Fuller16,  b.  Sept.  15,  1852. 

41.  Henry  C.  Fuller16,  b.  Feb.  12,  1854;  m.  Mary  Linn. 

42.  Arthur  W.  Fuller16,  b.  May  20,  1856;  d.  Aug.  10,  1857. 

43.  Charles  L.  Fuller16,  b.  May  14,  1859;  d.  July  5,  1872. 

44.  Harriet  M.  Fuller16,  b.  July  18,  1861. 


45.  Emeline  Aiken;    46.  Jane;     47.  John;     children  of  John  Aiken 
Nourse18. 


54.  Phineas  Aiken  Nourse21,  Fitchburg,  Mass. 


55.  James  Herbert  Caldwell-2,  b.  July  11,  1857;  d.  Nov.  26,  1859. 

56.  Anna   Elizabeth   Caldwell22,   b.  Oct.  30,  1860;  m.  Dec.  31,  1885, 
George  B.  Shattuck,  Nashua,  N.  H. 

57.  Mary  Estelle  Caldwell22,  b.  May  5,  1864;  m.  Dec.  25,  1883,  Will- 
iam W.  Sloan,  Amherst,  N.  H. 


58.  Frank  Ladd25,  b.  and  d.  San  Francisco. 

59.  Edward  Ladd25. 


60.  Sarah  W.  Nourse26;  m.  Henry  W.  Jackson,  Brookline,  Mass. 

61.  Bessie  Nourse26;  m.  C.  F.  Wilson,  Boston,  Mass. 

62.  Frank  Nourse26,  Saco,  Me. 


63.  Eleanor  Augusta  Masters27,  b.  June  21,  1851;  m.  Oct.  22,  1879, 
William  F.  Reed.    37-39. 

64.  Edward  Aiken  Masters27,  b.  Aug.  17,  1853;  d.  Feb.  27,  1875. 

65.  Charles  Gray  Masters27,  b.  July  4, 1857. 

66.  Frank  Howard  Masters27,  b.  Feb.  10,  1864;  d.  Mar.  30,  1869. 


67.  Edward  Leigh  Aiken28;  ni.  Jan.  1,  1879,  Kate  M.  Shannon.     40. 

68.  James  Hope  Aiken28;  m.  Jan.  7,  1881,  Lestlie  Dickey. 

69.  Jesse  Aiken28,  b.  Sept.,  1862. 

70.  Mary  Eliza  Aiken28,  b.  1865;  m.  Feb.  27,  1884,  Frank  S.  Holden, 
Sacramento,  Cal. 

71.  Lizzie  Brown  Aiken28. 

72.  Martha  Leigh  Aiken28. 

73.  Katie  Williams  Aiken28. 


74.  Arthur  Aiken  Kilburn29,  b.  Aug.  21,  1862;  m.  Nov.  5,  1899,  Fanita 
Miller  Beaudis,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  res.  N.  Bedford,  Maes. 

75.  Mary  Everett  Kilburn29,  b.  May  23,  1864;  m.  Oct.  21,  1885,  John 
A.  Lighthall,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.    41-45. 


836  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

VII.  76.  Herbert  Lander  Kilburn29,  b.  June  3,  1866;  d.  May  8,  1880. 

77.  Katherine  Hoffman  Kilburn29,  b.  Sept.  18,  1869;  in.  Dec.  25,  1900, 
William  A.  McCord,  Quebec,  P.  Q. 


78.  Mary  M.  Bailey3*,  b.  Aug.  30,  1841;  d.  Aug.,  1875;  m.  Mar.  12, 
1863,  David  B.  Pelton,  New  York  city. 

79.  Ellen  J.  Bailey31,  b.  April  9,  1843;  res.  Ida  Grove,  Iowa. 

80.  Hattie  N.  Bailey31,  b.  April  20,  1845;  d.  June,  1888;  m.  Charles  P. 
Bailey,  Claremont,  N.  H. 

81.  Henry  A.  Bailey31,  b.  Sept.  12,  1848,  Lyme,  N.  H.;  m.  Dec.  12, 
1868,  Augusta  B.  Howard. 

82.  Frank  B.  Bailey31,  b.  May  24,  1850;  d.  Nov.,  1865. 

83.  Jennie  A.  Bailey31,  b.  April  26,  1852;  m.  Oct.  12,  1874,  Erastus  C. 
Bailey. 

84.  Ida  A.  Bailey31,  b.  July  28,  1856;  d.  Feb.,  1900;    m.  Dec,  1888, 
Charles  D.  Pike.  | 

85.  Edward   A.   Bailey31,   b.   Jan.   24,   1862;  res.  Iowa;  m.  Nov.  27, 
1890,  Jennie  Krouse. 


86.  Lucy  Ellen  Wing35,  b.  May,  1860;  d.  Sept.,  1860. 

87.  Howard  Alonzo  Wing35,  b.  July  9,  1861;  d.  Oct.  24,  1880. 


88.  William  Parker  Underwood36,  b.  Aug.  9,  1857;  d.  July  2,  1899; 
machinist  and  engineer,  Lewiston,  Me. 

89.  Albert  Walter  Underwood36,  b.  Sept.  8,  1860. 

90.  Clara  Alberta  Underwood36,  b.  Jan.  31,  1863. 

91.  Jane  Aiken  Underwood36,  b.  Dec.  22,  1864. 


92.  Joseph  Holmes  Underwood39,  b.  Nov.  26,  1868. 

93.  Emma  Jane  Underwood39,  b.  Jan.  9,  1870. 

94.  Mary  Ellen  Underwood39,  b.  April  23,  1880. 


95.  William  C.  Parker*1;  Chicago,  111. 


96.  Sarah  Jane  Weston42,  b.  Oct.  29,  1845;  d.  Sept.  13,  1866. 

97.  Willie  Little*'2;  d.  young. 


98.  Ann  Aiken  Parker*3;  Manchester,  N.  H. 

99.  Emma  T.  Parker43;  Manchester,  N.  H. 


100.  Clara  A.  Parker**;  m.  Horace  Gordon,  472  Maple  St.,  Manchester 

101.  Lizzie  J.  Parker44;  361  Hanover  St. 

102.  F.  Ella  Parker**;  361  Hanover  St. 

103.  Hattie  May  Parker**;  361  Hanover  St. 


104.  Mabel  Waite  Harris53,  b.  Nov.,  1875. 

105.  Annie  Elizabeth  Harris53,  b.  March,  1877,  Weymouth,  Mass. 


106.  Edward   Percy  Sanderson5*,  b.  July  9,   1858;  m.  July  27,  1881 
Estella  Ballard;  grad.  at  State  Normal  School,  Farmington,  Me. 
June,    1879.     Entered  ministry  M.    E.  church,  West   Wisconsin 
conference,  1891,  stationed  at  Arcadia,  Wis.    46-49. 


107.  Annie  Estelle  Sanderson5*,  b  June  8,  1861;  m.  Oct.  13,  1883,  Fred 
L.  Redman,  M.  D.,  Aroostook,  Me.     50-56. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  837 

VII.  108.  Howard  Lovejoy  Wheeler55,  b.  Aug.  28,  1867;  m.  Jan.  16,  1901, 
Grace  Allen,  Providence,  R.  I.    57. 

109.  Mabel  Ruth  Wheeler55,  b.  July  6,  1869. 

110.  Harry  Osgood  Wheeler55,  b.  Aug.  19,  1872. 

111.  Adelaide  Aiken  Wheeler55,  b.  Aug.  5,  1877. 


112.  Francis  Rebecca  Pinkerton61,  b.  Aug.  11,  1840;  m.  June  2,  1874, 
James  E.  Learned;  d.  June  15,  1902,  New  York  city. 

113.  Charles  H.  Pinkertonei,  b.  Sept.  1,  1843;  d.  Nov.,  1848. 

114.  William  Wallace  Pinkerton61,  b.  Aug.  19,  1846;  d.  Oct.,  1883. 

115.  John  Pinkerton61,  b.  Sept.  25,  1848;  d.  March  7,  1871. 

116.  Caroline  Aiken  Pinkerton61,  b.  Oct.   1,  1850;   m.  July  7,   1875, 
George  L.  Clark,  Worcester,  Mass. 

117.  Elizabeth  H.  Pinkerton61,  b.  Feb.  7,  1856;  d.  May  14,  1856. 


118.  Belle  Pinkerton  Aiken*2,  b.  March  26,  1849;  d.  1881;  m.  1872,  Syl- 
vester Hough,  Saybrook,  O. 


119.  William  Henry  Aiken63,  b.  Aug.  23,  1841;  d.  Nov.  24,  1885. 

120.  Charles  Augustus  Aiken63,  b.  Cincinnati,  April  9,  1843;  m.  Sept. 
15,  1870,  Fannie  Ambrose,  dau.  of  Dr.  Ambrose. 

121.  Mary  Theren  Aiken63,  b.  Feb.  16,  1845;  d.  Sept.  21,  1850. 

122.  Frances  Elizabeth  Aiken63,  b.  April  19,  1847;  m.  May  24,  1871, 
Rev.  William  A.  Bosworth,  pastor,  Guthrie,  Okla.     58-63. 

123.  Frank  Ellsworth  Aiken63,  b.  July  4,  1849;  d.  Aug.  22,  1849. 

124.  Walter  Harris  Aiken63,  b.  Sept.  27,  1856;  m.  Aug.  1,  1888,  Lucy 
B.  Avery,  dau.  Dr.  C.  L.  Avery,  Cincinnati,  O.;  succeeded  his 
father  as  superintendent  of  music  in  the  public  schools  of  Cincin- 
nati, O.    64-66. 

125.  Jane  Stanley  Aiken63,  b.  Sept.  5,  1858;  d.  June  10,  1863. 

126.  Louis  Elsworth  Aiken63,  b.  June  7,  1861;  assistant  music  teacher, 
Cincinnati,  O.;  m.  Dec.  31,  1891,  Kate  Boswell  Dobbins,  dau. 
John  K.  Dobbins,  Cleveland,  O.;  d.  Oct.  12,  1895;  m.  2d,  Nancy 
Irwin,  Pittsburg,  Pa.    67-68. 

127.  Alice  Cordelia  Aiken63,  b.  March  8,  1863;  m.  June  26,  1890,  C. 
Hammond  Averv.     69-70. 

128.  Carrie  Dewing  Aiken63,  b.  Sept.  17,  1864;  m.  Sept.  23,  1887,  T.  K. 
Bagley.    71-72. 

129.  Susan  Merrill  Aiken63,  b.  June  12,  1867;  m.  June  12,  1888,  Henry 
G.  Pounsford.     73-75. 

130.  Mary  Aiken63,  b.  Feb.  18,  1869;  d.  Mar.  7,  1874. 

131.  Herbert  Pinkerton  Aiken63,  b.  July  10,  1871. 


132.  Henry  Merrill  Aiken64,  b.  Nov.  22,  1851;  m.  Sept.  2,  1869,  Marie 
Louise  Cowtan.     76-77. 

133.  Lizzie  Barney  Aiken64. 

134.  Charles  Edward  Aiken64,  b.  Dec.  13,  1857;  m.  June  3,  1896,  Char- 
lotte H.  Owens;  address,  7  Maiden  Lane,  N.  Y. 

135.  Frank  Albert  Aiken64,  b.  Dec.  21,  1859;  m.  Sept.  29,  1898,  Kitty 
Minor,  Cleveland,  O.;  address,  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y. 


136.  Henry  Aiken  Metcalf65,  b.  March  7,  1845;  grad.  Trinity  college, 
1866,  Berkeley  Divinity  school,  1869;  m.  Oct.  29,  1874,  Mary  Bull 
Slocum,  Newport,  R.  I.     78-81. 

137.  Frank  Pinkerton  Metcalf65,  b.  Jan.  13,  1848;  d.  Sept.  1,  1851. 

138.  Arthur  Tenney  Metcalf65,  b.  Sept.  24,  1850. 

139.  Elizabeth  Buffum  Metcalf65,  b.  May  6,  1852;  d.  Nov.  13,  1854. 

140.  James  Aiken  Metcalf65,  b.  May  6,  1852. 


838  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VII.  141.  Charles  Hunt  Metcalf65,  b.  Feb.  4,  1858. 

142.  Paul  Huntington  Metcalf65,  b.  Feb.  19,  1863;  d.  Dec,  1867. 


143.  Mary  Danforth  Aiken66,  b.  June  5,  1866;  d.  infancy. 

144.  Marguerite  Elmer  Aiken66,  b.  March  21,  1874;  d.  Sept.  14,  1879. 

145.  Marietta  Aiken66,  b.  Jan.  22,  1882. 


146.  Mary  Harris  Tenney67,  b.  Nov.  2,  1846;  d.  Jan.  12,  1902;  m.  Sept. 
18,  1889,  C.  H.  Davis,  Concord,  N.  H. 

147.  Henry  Aiken  Tenney67,  b.  June  29,  1848;  m.  Feb.  11,  1879,  Ella 
Lawrence,  res.  Janesville,  Wis.    82. 

148.  Caroline  Clark  Tenney67,  b.  Sept.  28,  1849;  m.  May  1,  1873, 
Fred  W.  Maechler;  delegate  to  World's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  Europe,  1903;  res.  Campbell,  Minn.     83-86. 

149.  Frank  Pinkerton  Tenney67,  b.  Aug.  17,  1851;  m.  Nov.  1,  1882, 
Laura  Kennedy,  Boston;  res.  114  W.  85th  St.,  New  York.     87-89. 

150.  Fisher  Harris  Tenney67,  b.  Dec.  12,  1863;  res.  St.  Paul,  Minn.  m. 
March  1,  1894,  Nellie  Burgess,  Sioux  City,  Iowa.     90. 


151.  George  Mitchell72;  d.  1876,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


152.  Joseph  Frederick  Batchelder73;  b.  Oct.  9,  1858,  Lakeport,  N.  H; 
m.  1890,  Laura  Strayer,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  engaged  in  electrics, 
Portland,  Ore.     91-92. 

153.  George  Aiken  Batchelder73,  b.  1862;  banker,  San  Francisco,  Cal.; 
m.  March,  1885,  Mary  Kittredge.     93-95. 


154.  Margaret;  155.  Frederick;  156.  Mary  Mitchell74,  Glasgow,  Scotland. 


157.  Charles  H.  Griffin75,  b.  Nov.  9,  1858;  d.  July  27,  1863,  Manchester. 


158.  John  Augustus  Mitchell76,  b.  Jan.  12,  1853;  m.  May  26,  1875,  Ella 
Forsaith,  Nashua;  merchant,  Laconia.     96. 


159.  William  A.  Lord79,  b.  Aug.  28,  1849;  m.  Mrs.  Lucy  Young;  m.,  2d, 
Mabel  Newcomb;  grad.  Dartmouth,  1869;  attorney  at  law  Mont- 
pelier,  Vt. 

160.  Harriet  Lord79,  b.  Nov.  26,  1850;  d.  June  30,  1852. 

161.  Mary  E.  Lord79,  b.  May  25,  1852;  d.  Jan.  20,  1887;  m.  June  20, 
1878,  William  R.  Burleigh,  Great  Falls,  N.  H.     97-98. 

162.  Sarah  Appleton  Lord79,  b.  July  15,  1854;  m.  Oct.  26,  1875,  Rev. 
Martin  D.  Kneeland,  29  Wyoming  St.,  Roxbury,  Mass.     99-103. 

163.  Jane  Aiken  Lord79,  b.  Mar.  26,  1856;  m.  July  5,  1877,  Dr.  George 
W.  Sargent,  Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y.     104-106. 

164.  Charles  H.  Lord79,  b.  Sept.  1,  1866. 

Bessie  K.  Lord79,  b.  May  22,  1870;  killed  by  carriage  accident, 
July  22,  1875. 


165.  Eliza  B.  Aiken81,  b.  May  21,  1862;  m.  May  27,  1884,  Rev.  Benj.  W. 
Bacon,  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Leonard  Woolsey  Bacon,  New  Haven, 
Conn.     107,  108. 

166.  William  Buckingham  Aiken81,  b.  Jan.  24,  1864;  d.  Feb.  21,  1903; 
grad.  of  Amherst;  lawyer,  Norwich,  Conn.  A  corporator  of 
Norwich  Free  academy — very  active  in  the  promotion  of  the 
higher  grades  of  social  activity  and  culture  in  his  native  city. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  839 

VII.  167.  Mary  Appleton  Aiken81,  b.  April  5,  1866. 

168.  Jane  McGregor  Aiken81,  b.  Aug.  4,  1867. 

169.  Alfred  Lawrence  Aiken81,  b.  July  6,  1870;  m.  Nov.  25,  1896, 
Elizabeth  Peck  Hopkins,  dau.  Wm.  S.  B.  Hopkins,  Worcester, 
Mass;  banker,  Boston;  , 

170.  John  Aiken81,  b.  Nov.  23,  1871;  d.  Feb.  19,  1893,  Norwich,  Conn. 
Grad.    Norwich    Free    academy    and  Mass.     Inst.    Technology; 

171.  Edith  Watson  Aiken81,  b.  April  5,  1873;  d.  May  8,  1898;  m. 
June  24,  1897,  Charles  Harvey  Palmer,  Milwaukee,  Wis.     109. 


172.  Fannie  A.  Aiken82,  b.  Aug.,  1871;  d.  June  19,  1883. 

173.  Charles  Avery  Aiken82,  b.  Sept.  29,  1872. 

174.  Mary  Thaxter  Aiken82,  b.  July  2,  1874. 

175.  John  Benjamin  Aiken82,  b.  Aug.  9,  1879,  Pawlet,  Vt. 


176.  Alfred  L.  Ripley83,  b.  Nov.  6,  1858;  grad.  Yale,  1878;  tutor  and 
asst.  prof,  at  Yale,  1880-'88;  banker,  Boston. 

177.  Sarah  F.  Ripley83,  b.  July  20,  1861;  m.  Dec.  9,  1886,  Rev.  Charles 
H.  Cutler,  First  Congregational  church,  Bangor,  Me.     110-112. 

178.  George  B.  Ripley83,  b.  July  30,  1863. 

179.  John  Aiken  Ripley83,  b.  May  9,  1865;  d.  Jan.  6,  1869. 

180.  Mary  Appleton    Ripley83,  b.  Dec.  24,   1867;    m.   June   15,   1899, 
Frank  R.  Shipman,  pastor  South  church,  Andover,  Mass.     113. 

181.  Alice  L.  Ripley83,  b.  Jan.  15,  1869;  d.  Dec.  29,  1869. 

182.  Phelps  F.  Ripley83,  b.  Jan.  19,  1876. 


183.  William  Appleton  Snow85,  b.  June  21,  1869;  d.  Oct.  10,  1899, 
San  Francisco,  Cal.;  grad.  University  of  Kansas;  entered  jour- 
nalism; was  lost  overboard  from  his  launch  while  seeking  news 
from  General  Funston  at  the  entrance  to  the  Golden  Gate. 

184.  Martha  Boutelle  Snow85,  b.  Sept.  10,  1870;  grad.  University  of 
Kansas;  m.  July  16,  1898,  William  Harvey  Brown  (author  of 
"  On  the  South  African  ^Frontier, "  Scribner's  Sons,  1890),  Salis- 
bury, Rhodesia,  South  Africa.     114. 

185.  Mary  Margaret  Snow85,  b.  Aug.  10,  1872;  m.  June  23,  1898, 
Ernenie  Cowles  Case,  Milwaukee,  Wis.     115-116. 

186.  Edith  Huntington  Snow85,  b.  Sept.  12,  1875. 

187.  Francis  Lawrence  Snow86,  b.  Dec.  18,  1882. 

188.  Harold  Horton  Snow85,  b.  Sept.  17,  1888;  d.  June  9,  1889. 


189.  Edward  Cheney  Aiken86,  b.  Oct.  1,  1858,  Boston;  machinist, 
Manchester,  N.  H.;  m.  April  30,  1888,  Annie  L.  Currier,  Ray- 
mond, N.  H.     117-118. 

190.  Susan  Cole  Aiken86,  b.  May  3,  1861;  teacher;  res.  Amherst. 

191.  Sarah   Elizabeth   Aiken86,  b.   Jan.   16,   1863;    d.   Mar.   10,   1879. 

192.  Henry  Osgood  Aiken86,  b.  Aug.  16,  1864;  d.  Jan.  2,  1897,  Hanover; 
grad.  Dartmouth,  1891;  m.  June  29,  1895,  Grace  E.  Ladd. 

193.  Alfred  LeForest  Aiken86,  b.  April  15,  1866;  d.  May  22,  1866. 


194.  Silas  Aiken  Blakely87,  b.  Aug.  11,  1871,  Rutland,  Vt.;  m.  Oct.  20, 
1896,  Gertrude  Susan  Potter,  Rutland,  Vt.;  res.  Waldo,  Fla.    119. 


195.  Pearl  Adaline  Aiken91,  b.  April  9,  1874;  d.  March,  1878. 

196.  Jennie  Stephenson  Aiken91,  b.  Dec.  30,  1875;  d.  March,  1878. 

197.  Belle  Adaline  Aiken91,  b.  March  11,  1878,  Wrights,  Cal. 


840  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

VII.  198.  John  Martin  Aiken9**,  b.  Oct.  16,  1881. 

199.  Gertrude  Beatrice  Aiken98,  b.  April  23,  1883. 

200.  Rnth  Aiken98,  b.  June  23,  1885,  Santa  Clara  Co.,  Cal. 


201.  Teila  Elizabeth  Aiken™  b.  Jan.  19,  1892,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

202.  Harriet  Tillian  Aiken103,  b.  Sept.  22,  1898. 


203.  Ellen  Theresa  Cushman107,  b.  March  15,  1864;    d.  Feb.  7,  1877. 

204.  Abbie   Ellen  Cushman107,  b.   Sept.   29,   1868;   m.  Oct.    17,   1890, 
Henry  T.  Frick,  author,  New  York. 

205.  Elizabeth  Aiken  Cushman107,  b.  Oct.  3,  1871;  m.  March  81,  1896, 
Carl  A.  Hansmann,  lawyer,  New  York. 


206.  Willie  Black109,  b.  1880;  d.  1881,  Manchester,  Vt. 

207.  Carrie  Black109,  b.  June,  1883;  d.  April,  1885. 

208.  Helen  Sarah  Black109,  b.  Sept.  22,  1886. 

209.  Abbie  Elizabeth  Black109,  b.  Sept.  16,  1901. 


210.  Mary  Addia  Bugbee112,  b.  Feb.  20,  1856;  d.  March  4,  1862. 

211.  Carrie  Elizabeth  Bugbee112,  b.  Sept.  17,  1857;  d.  April  6,  1862. 

212.  Florence  Isabel  Bugbee112,  b.  May  17,  1859;  d.  March  24,  1862. 

213.  Almond  Cordelia  Bugbee112,  b.  May  14,  1861;  d.  May  30,  1893. 

214.  Alma  Marilla  Bugbee112,  b.  May  14,  1861,  Morrisville,  Vt. 

215.  Cora  Eleanor  Bugbee112,  b.  April  14,  1865,  Morrisville,  Vt. 

216.  Alice  Julia  Bugbee112,  b.  April  9,  1868,  Morrisville,  Vt. 

217.  Isabella  Miller  Chandler113,  b.  June  6,  1867;  grad.  W.  V.  M.,  1890; 
m.  Oct.  8,  1891,  Walter  B.  Gates,  Burlington,  Vt.     118-121. 

218.  Emma  Mary  Chandler113,  b.  Sept.  23,  1868,  Pomfret,  Vt.;  grad. 
W.  V.  M.,  1890;  m.  Nov.  15,  1892,  Luther  C.  White,  Jr.,  Wind- 
sor, Vt. ;  res.  Npw  York  city. 


219.  Robert  Bowman  Chandler115,  b.  July  5,  1881;  res.  Los  Gatos,  Cal. 

220.  John  Wilson  Chandler115,  b.  July,  1884;  res.  Los  Gatos,  Cal. 


221.  Martha  Ellen  Hewitt116,  b.  June  25,  1867. 

222.  Mary  Hattie  Hewitt116,  b.  Sept.  29,  1872. 

223.  Alice  Rockwell  Hewitt116,  b.  Aug.   13,   1881;    m.   Sept.  2,   1903, 
Albert  Edmund  Sherburne,  N.  Pomfret,  Vt. 

224.  Joseph  Dennison  Hewitt116,  Jr.,  b.  Nov.  29,  1882. 


225.  Edward  John  Chandler118,  b.  March  15,  1876. 

226.  George  Bowman  Chandler118,  b.  Aug.  1,  1878. 


227  ) 

228  \  Wright122;  twins,  one  of  whom  d.  young. 


229.  John  Hall  Barron129,  b.  June  28,  1883. 

230.  Arthur  Isaac  Barron129,  b.  Aug.  2,  1885. 

231.  Onolee  V.  Barron129,  b.  July  21,  1890. 


232.  Mabel  Harriet  Dowling138,  b.  March  12,  1875;  grad.  Binghamton 
high  school. 

233.  Cora  Inis  Dowling138,  b.  Aug.  2,  1878;  grad.  Smith  college,  1900. 

234.  Florence  Lomac  Dowling138,  b.  Dec.  3,  1880;  grad.  Smith  college. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  841 

VII.  235.  Abel  Barron"0,  b.  June  22,  1875;  d.  July  16,  1878. 

236.  Jay  M.  Barron"0,  b.  June  10,  1878. 

237.  Maud  Barron141,  b.  Jan.  26,  1882. 

238.  Clifton  Barron1*0,  b.  June  17,  1884. 

239.  Chesley  Barron140,  b.  July  11,  1888. 

240.  Henry  Barron140,  b.  April  6,  1897. 


241.  John  Barron  Morse141,  b.  Nov.  2,  1879. 


242.  Ruby  Burnham154,  b.  1879,  Detroit,  Mich. 


243.  James  Aiken;  244.  Sophronia;  245.  Maude;  246.  Agnes;  247.  Adele; 
248.  Grace;  249.  Hazel  Burnham.156. 


250.  Arthur  S.  Little157,  b.  April  24,  1861;  d.  Nov.  12,  1869. 

251.  Bertha  M.  Little157,  b.  Nov.  25,  1867;  res.  Goffstown. 


252.  Pearl  A.  Reed184,  b.  July  20,  1887. 

253.  Marcia  Reed164,  b.  July  28,  1890;  d.  Sept.  28,  1890. 

254.  Herold  M.  Reed164,  b.  Oct.  1,  1891;  d.  Jan.  1,  1892. 

255.  Walter  Phineas  Reed164,  1891-'93. 

256.  Lillian  May  Reed164,  b.  Sept.  17,  1901. 


VIII.  1.  Charles  J.  Lawrence2,  b.  Sept,  1,  1864;  m.  Feb.  20, 1883,  Sylvia  M. 
Moody,  W.  Bangor,  N.  Y.     1-2. 

2.  Fred  G.  Lawrence2,  b.  May  10,  1856;  m.  Feb.  19,  1890,  Mary  Whit- 
man, W.  Bangor,  N.  Y.     3-5. 

3.  Sidney  D.  Lawrence2,  b.  April  15,  1868;  m.  Dec.  10,  1890,  Irene  E. 
Whitman2,  W.  Bangor,  N.  Y.     6-8. 

4.  Albert  Aiken  Lawrence2,  b.  April  5,  1873. 


5.  Beulah  M.  Goodhue9,  b.  Aug.  23,  1886,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 


6.  Phenie  L.  Jones10,  b.  Oct.  20,  1878;  m.  Aug.  7,  1901,  Edward  D. 
Jameson,  Amoskeag,  N.  H.     9. 

7.  Bertha  E.  Jones10,  b.  Jan.  17,  1885. 


8.  Florence  E.  Scott15,  res.  Worcester,  Mass. 


9.  Sarah  G.  Harriman17,  b.  Oct.  26,  1875;  m.  Nov.  20,  1901,  H.  E. 
Bunnell,  Warner,  N.  H. 


10.  Lilla  D.  Flanders19,  b.  May  5,  1873;  d.  Dec.  2,  1894;  m.  May  14, 
1890,  C.  E.  Danforth,  Warner,  N.  H. 

11.  Florice  E.  Flanders19,  b.  June  17,  1876;  d.  July  17,  1876. 

12.  Perley  H.  Flanders19,  b.  April  17,  1879. 

13.  Harold  S.  Flanders19,  b.  Dec.  19,  1884. 

14.  Bernice  C.  Flanders19,  b.  Sept.,  1890. 


15.  EUa  Clark21,  m.  Adolf  D.  Martin. 

16.  Annis  Clark21,  m. Volters. 

17.  Louisa  Clark21.    18.  Lizzie  Clark21. 


19.  James  F.  Aiken22.     20.  Charlotte  M.  Aiken22. 


842  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VIII.  21.  Harry  W.  North**;  d.  young. 

22.  Grace  Underwood  North8",  b.  Nov.  29,  1869;   m.  July  20,  1892, 
Oliver  J.  Hammill.     10-11. 

23.  Fannie  Gertrude    North*,  b.   Feb.   5,   1878;    m.   June    5,    1898, 
B.  Filer.     24.  Edna  V.  North30,  b.  Dec.  12, 


25.  Joseph  Henry  North,  Jr.,31  b.  July  10,  1876;  d.  Jan.  5,  1877. 

26.  Harry  Ross  North31,  b.  1878. 

27.  James  Howard  North31,  b.  Dec.  12,  1882. 

28.  Ralph  Underwood  North31,  b.  Feb.  16,  1884;  d.  Sept.  12,  1884. 

29.  Mary  Virginia  North31,  b.  Feb.  16,  1884. 

30.  Marjorie  E.  North31,  b.  Aug.  4,  1887. 

31.  Stanley  Underwood  North31,  b.  Feb.  10,  1892. 


32.  Herbert  North  Morse32,  b.  June  16,  1872;  m.  Aug.  16,  1899,  Ger- 
trude Crossland. 


33.  Ina  May  Osgood33,  b.  Sept.  16,  1887;  d.  March  7,  1889. 

34.  Mary  Eliza  Osgood33,  b.  Oct.  19,  189-. 


35.  Mary  Eliza  North35,  b.  April  12,  1896. 

36.  Cora  Marguerite  North35,  b.  June  12,  1890. 


37.  Warren  Kempton  Read63,  b.  Aug.  18,  1883. 

38.  Joseph  Masters  Read63,  b.  June  6,  1885. 

39.  Everett  Preston  Read63,  b.  April  25,  1887. 


40.  Garfield  Arthur  Dwinelle  Aiken67,  b.  Jan.  19,  1892. 

41.  Philip  Kilburn  Lighthall75,  b.  Dec.  24,  1887. 

42.  Margaret  Thoms  Lighthall75,  b.  Nov.  20,  1889. 

43.  Zaidee  Augusta  Lighthall75,  b.  March  31,  1892. 

44.  Katharine  Kilburn  Lighthall75,  b.  Jan.  7,  1896. 

45.  Richard  John  Lighthall75,  b.  June  9,  1898. 


46.  Carroll  Stone  Sanderson166,  b.  Nov.  7,  1882. 

47.  Violette  Etta  Sanderson106,  b.  May  19,  1886. 

48.  Ethel  Sanderson106,  b.  March  1,  1888. 

49.  Chester  Ballard  Sanderson106,  b.  June  7,  1898. 


50.  Ralph  W.  Redman107,  b.  June  5,  1885. 

51.  Grace  E.  Redman107,  b.  Sept.  9,  1886. 

52.  Charles  N.  Redman107,  b.  Jan.  4,  1889. 

53.  Edward  S.  Redman107,  June  9,  1891. 

54.  Fannie  C.  Redman107,  b.  Sept.  29,  1893. 

55.  Elvira  L.  Redman107,  b.  Nov.  3,  1895. 

56.  Crosby  E.  Redman107,  b.  March  31,  1898. 


57.  Bertha  Adelaide  Lovejoy108,  b.  Oct.  23,  1902. 


58.  Charles  Marcus  Bosworth122,  b.  Feb.,  1872. 

59.  Arthur  Hyde  Bosworth122,  b.  April  7,  1885. 

60.  Albert  Reed  Bosworth122,  b.  April  7,  1875;  d.  Aug.  1,  1875. 

61.  Francis  Theodore  Bosworth122,  b.  June  22,  1883. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  843 

VIII.  62.  William  Raymond  Bosworth122,  b.  April  29,  1885;  d.  Feb.  10,  1886. 
63.  Ernest  Henderson  Bosworth122,  b.  Jan.  3,  1887. 


64.  Grolendolen  Batewell  Aiken124,  b.  July  18,  1889. 

65.  Walter  Avery  Aiken124,  b.  Aug.  18,  1891. 

66.  Victor  Audobon  Aiken124,  b.  July  6,  1897. 


67.  Dorothy  Aiken126,  b.  Feb.  18,  1893;  d.  Jan.  4,  1894. 

68.  Amy  Aiken126,  b.  July  17,  1894. 


69.  Olivia  Avery127,  b.  Aug.  31,  1894. 

70.  Charles  Hammond  Avery127,  b.  Dec.  27,  1896. 


71.  Ruth  Bagley128,  b.  Jan.  11, 1890.  72.  Helen  Bagley128,  b.  Feb.  27,1892. 


73.  Arthur  Graham  Poundsford129,  b.  Dec.  15,  1891. 

74.  Stanley  Merrill  Poundsford129,  b.  June  30,  1896. 

75.  Mary  Aiken  Poundsford129,  b.  June  16,  1900. 


76.  Frank  Edward  Aiken132,  b.  Nov.  29,  1871. 

77.  Arthur  Merrill  Aiken132,  b.  Dec.  18,  1874. 


78.  Maud  Metcalf136,  b.  Nov.  23,  1875. 

79.  Ruth  Metcalf136,  b.  Nov.  17,  1877. 

80.  Mary  Aiken  Metcalf136,  b.  Jan.  11,  1881. 

81.  Dorothy  Metcalf136,  b.  June  30,  1887. 


82.  Frank  L.  Tenney147,  Janesville,  Wis. 


83.  Dora  Elizabeth  Maechler148,  b.  Oct.  22,  1874;  m.  June  12,  1901, 
Joseph' Stearns,  Wells,  Minn. 

84.  Gertrude  Alice  Maechler148,  b.  Nov.  22,  1876. 

85.  Edgar  Maechler148,  b.  March  13,  1884;  d.  Aug.  25,  1884. 

86.  Margaret  B.  Maechler148,  b.  June  25,  1888;  d.  Oct.  10,  1888. 


87.  Nannie  Clay  Tenney149,  b.  Aug.  13,  1883. 

88.  Dudley  Lee  Tenney149,  b.  Feb.  29,  1888. 

89.  Groladys  Patricia  Tenney149,  b.  March  17,  1891. 


90.  Elanagine  Tenney150,  b.  Dec.  24,  1894. 


91.  Charles  Fred  Batchelder152,  b.  March  14,  1892. 

92.  George  A.  Batchelder152,  b.  Aug.  14,  1895. 


93.  Doris  Batchelder153,  b.  1886.   94.  Richard  N.  Batchelder153,  b.  1889. 
95.  Kittredge  Batchelder153,  b.  1897. 


5.  George  F.  Mitchell158,  b.  Jan.  13,  1878;  journalist,  Pittsfleld,  N.  H 


97.  Harriet  L.  Burleigh161,  b.  Jan.  20,  1879;  d.  1884. 

98.  Elinor  Burleigh161,  b.  March  31,  1886. 


844 


HISTOKY   OF   BEDFORD. 


VIII.  99.  Elizabeth  Lord  Kneeland162,  b.  April  8,  1877. 

100.  Frank  Jonathan  Kneeland162,  b.  May  30,  1879;  d.  Nov.,  1903;  won 
several  prizes  for  speaking  and  the  "Franklin  Medal,"  Boston 
Latin  School,  from  which  he  graduated;  entered  Dartmouth,  re- 
tired on  account  of  his  health. 

101.  William  Aiken  Kneeland162,  b.  Aug.  9,  1884;  grad.  Boston  Latin 
School  with  "  Franklin  Medal  ";  received  the  alumni's  gift  of  one 
hundred  dollars  for  highest  rank;  was  awarded  the  prize  for 
highest  rank  in  scholarship  in  his  class  Dartmouth,  1901;  received 
the  Pacific  coast  alumni's  Dartmouth  prize  for   English  essay. 

102.  Paul  Dwelle  Kneeland162,  b.  March  2,  18f " 

103.  Ruth  Stella  Kneeland162,  b.  Nov.  7,  1889. 


104.  Mary  Burnham  Sargent163,  b.  Julv  8,  1879. 

105.  Henry  Didance  Sargent163,  b.  July  6,  1881. 

106.  Ruth  Maria  Sargent163,  b.  May  13,  1895. 

107.  Dorothy  Buckingham  Bacon165,  b.  Nov.  13,  1885. 

108.  Benjamin  Selden  Bacon165,  b.  April  6,  1888. 

109.  Gertrude  Buckingham  Palmer171,  b.  April,  1898. 

110.  Francis  W.  Cutler1",  b.  Oct.  29,  1887,  Andover,  Mass. 

111.  Elizabeth  Cutler177,  b.  Aug.  27,  1889. 

112.  George  Ripley  Cutler177,  b.  March  25,  1895. 


113.  Mary  L.  Shipman180,  b.  Sept.  9,  1902,  Andover,  Mass. 


114.  Francis  Huntington  Brown184,  b.  June  22,  1900,  Salisbury,  South 
Africa. 

115.  Francis  Huntington  Case185,  b.  April  4,  1899,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

116.  Theodore  Johnson  Case185,  b.  March  15,  1900. 


117.  Sarah  Currier  Aiken189,  b.  Jan.  5,  1890,  Manchester,  N.  H. 

118.  Beulah  M.  Aiken189,  b.  Aug.  7,  1891. 


119.  Fred  Marshall  Aiken194,  b.  Oct.  12,  1900,  Waldo,  Fla. 


120.  Dorothy  Gates217,  b.  July  23,  1892,  Burlington,  Vt. 

121.  Stephen  Chandler  Gates217,  b.  Feb.  6,  1894. 


IX.  1.  Mary  L.  Lawrence1,  b.  Dec.  14,  1883,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 
2.  Pearl  C.  Lawrence1,  b.  Sept.  23,  1893,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 


3.  Clifford  D.  Lawrence2,  b.  Sept.  13,  1894,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 

4.  Ruby  M.  Lawrence2,  b.  March  26,  1897,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 

5.  Lula  A.  Lawrence2,  b.  Jan.  23,  1899,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 


6.  Ward  S.  Lawrence3,  b.  Sept.  28,  1891,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 

7.  Hazel  Lawrence3,  b.  Sept.  7,  1896,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 

8.  Etta  Lawrence3,  b.  Dec.  18,  1898,  West  Bangor,  N.  Y. 


9.  Doris  Irene  Jameson6,  b.  May  15,  1902,  Amoskeag,  N.  H. 


10.  Edward  North  Hammill22.      11.  Helen  Hammill22. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  845 


AIKEN.     No.  2. 

No.  2  is  probably  connected  with  No.  1,  as  they  both  were  identified  with  London- 
derry, and  James  of  No.  2  named  his  second  child  "  Margaret  Cochran,''  the  name  of 
the  wife  of  '•  Nathaniel,"  of  No.  1;   and  also  the  family  name  of  James'  wife,  of  No.  1. 

I.  James  Aiken,  b.  (supposed)  1732,  Londonderry,  N.  H.;  d.  May 
13,  1787,  Bedford,  N.  H.;  m.  Nov.  17,  1763,  Margaret  Waugh, 
b.  Sept.  23,  1741;  d.  Sept.  1,  1838,  Bedford,  N.  H.;  dau.  of  Robert 
Waugh,  who  sailed  from  Port  Rush,  Ireland,  July  22,  1737,  and 
landed  at  Boston,  Nov.  1,  1737. 

James  and  his  brother  John,  who  d.  1756,  Bedford,  came  from 
Londonderry  with  Hugh  Riddell,  who  had  m.  his  mother,  Ann 
Aiken,  Concord,  Mass.,  and  settled  at  No.  293,  which  was  deed- 
ed to  Aiken  by  Hugh  Riddell,  in  1756,  in  which  deed  he  was  de- 
scribed as  ''James  Aiken,  Tanner,  Watertown,  Mass.  Bay."  He 
carried  on  his  trade  and  farm,  filled  many  important  town  offices, 
and  was  captain  in  the  Revolution.     1-12. 


II.  1.  Ann  Aiken,1  b.  1764,  Bedford;  d.  April  6,  1804,  by  fall  from  her 
horse;  m.  June  5,  1788,  Isaac  Riddle.     See  Riddle. 

2.  Margaret  Cochran  Aiken1,  b.  1766;  d.  1768. 

3.  Robert  Aiken1,  b.  1767;  d.  1786. 

4.  Sarah  Aiken1,  b.  March  28,  1769,  Bedford;  d.  Feb.  19,  1837;  m. 
Aug.  24,  1790,  John  Gilchrist,  Goffstown,  N.  H.     1-11. 

5.  Andrew  Aiken1,  b.  Dec.  26,  1770,  Bedford;  d.  July  28,  1856,  New- 
port, N.  H.;  m.  Dec.  29,  1797,  Martha,  dan.  William  McAllister 
(see  McAllister).  He  was  one  of  a  committee  on  ministry;  in 
1813  he  removed  to  Newport,  N.  H.,  where  he  secured  a  fine  "old 
mansion  "  with  two  hundred  acres  of  land  overlooking  the  village; 
still  in  the  family  name.     12-20. 

6.  Ruhamah  Aiken1,  b.  1772,  Bedford;  d.  1778,  Bedford. 

7.  James  Aiken1,  b.  Oct.  3,  1774,  Bedford;  d.  (was  drowned  in  Mer- 
rimack river)  June  12,  1823;  m.  Dec.  8,  1802,  Mary  Kennedy, 
Goffstown.     21-23. 

8.  Margaret  Aiken1,  b.  June  3,  1776,  Bedford;  d.  1825,  Candia,  N.  H.; 
m.  Sept.  10,  1795,  Thomas  Parker,  Bedford.     24-26. 

9.  Hannah  Aiken1,  b.  March  27,  1778,  Bedford;  d.  Sept.  30,  1818;  m. 
Dec.  17,  1800,  William  Parker,  Goffstown.     27-30. 

10.  Jane  Aiken1,  b.  Jan.  4,  1780,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  3,  1854;  m.  March 
13,  1800,  John  McAllister.     (See  McAllister.) 

11.  Achsah  Aiken1,  b.  1782;  d.  1806.  12.  Olive  Aiken1,  b.  1785;  d.  1806. 


III.  1.  Mary  Gilchrist4,  b.  Aug.  26,  1790;  d.  Feb.  9,  1825;  m.  Sept.  27, 
1817,  Calvin  Benton,  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  where  she  was  teaching  a 
young  ladies'  school.     1-2. 

2.  Jane  Gilchrist*,  b.  Feb.  17,  1792;  d.  Aug.  15,  1824. 

3.  James  Gilchrist*,  b.  Jan.  4,  1794;  d.  July  15, 1877,  Bombay,  N.  Y.; 
m.  April  11,  1822,  Frances  Stark,  b.  Oct.  25,  1796,  Goffstown;  d. 
Nov.  2,  1886,  Bombay,  N.  Y.     3-5. 

4.  Martha  Gilchrist*,  b.  March  24,  1796;  m.  Oct.  15,  1821,  Thomas 
Jameson  (merchant),  Irasburg,  Vt.     6-11. 

5.  John  Gilchrist*,  b.  Feb.  22,  1798;  d.  June  21,  1873,  Goffstown, 
N.  H.;  m.  Dec.  24,  1834,  Sarah  J.  Bun  ton.     12-18. 

6.  Ann  Riddle   Gilchrist*,  b.    1801;   d.    1852;  m.   Walter  Emerson. 

7.  Frederick  Gilchrist*,  b.  July  4,  1803;  d.  April  15,  1874,  Hancock, 
N.  H.;  m.  May  29,  1832,  Lvdia  Morrison,  Henniker,  N.  H.,  b. 
Oct.  9,  1806;  d.  Aug.  20,  1833;  m.,  2d,  May  4,  1837,  Clara  Morri- 
son (her  sister),  b.  Aug.  20,  1802;  d.  June  26,  1882,  Franklin, 
N.  H.     19-22. 


846  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

III.  8.  David  Gilchrist*,  b.  July  18,  1805;  d.  Nov.  10,  1840. 

9.  Alexander  Gilchrist4,  b.  Julv  6,  1808;  d.  Nov.  22,  1875,  Candia, 
N.  H.;  m.  Sept.  23,  1834,  Mary  Ann  Emerson,  b.  May  11,  1812, 
Weare,  N.  H.  23-26.  He  m. ,  2d,  May,  1858,  Diana  J.  Nesmith, 
Nashua,  N.  H. 

10.  Alfred  Gilchrist4,  b.  May  11,  1811;  d.  May  14,  1837. 

11.  Emily  Gilchrist*,  b.  May  11,  1811;  d.  Oct.,  1841;  m.   John  Tag- 
gart,  Goffstown,  N.  H.     27-28. 


12.  Frederick  Aiken5,  b.  Dec.  28,  1798,  Bedford;  d.  Dec.  1,  1875,  New- 
port, N.  H.;  m.  Jan.  31,  1856,  Elmira  Carr.     29-30. 

13.  William  McAllister  Aiken5,  b.  Dec.  10,  1800,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  19, 
1866;  m.,  1826,  Elizabeth  Locke;  m.,  2d,  Margaret  Nichols.     31. 

14.  Sarah  Aiken5,  b.  June  24,  1803,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  15,  1842;  m. 
Aug.  21,  1827,  Jeremiah  Newell;  d.  Feb.  15,  1838,  Newport.   32-34. 

15.  Ann  Riddle  Aiken5,  b.  Sept.  5,  1805,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  21,  1871;  m. 
Nov.  3,  1824,  Naylor  Starbird,  Newport,  N.  H. 

16.  Martha  Mary  Aiken5,  b.  Nov.  29,  1807,  Bedford;  d.  Jan:  6,  1866, 
Washington,  D.  C. ;  m.  July  19,  1831,  Sawyer  Belknap;  d.  March 
22,  1882,  Newport,  N.  H.     35-40. 

17.  David  Aiken5,  b.  Dec.  12,  1810,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  3,  1820,  Newport. 

18.  Margaret  Ann  Aiken5,  b.  Sept.  20,  1813,  Newport,  N.  H.;  d.  Jan. 
25, 1893,  Nashua,  N.  H.;  m.  May  22,  1838,  Jonathan  W.  Clement, 
Newport,  N.  H.  41.  She  m.,  2d,  Oct.  7,  1851,  Leonard  M.  Kim- 
ball, Hillsborough.  42.  She  m.,  3d,  Feb.  19,  1865,  Frederick  N. 
Bissell,  New  Orleans. 

19.  Caroline  Aiken5,  b.  Jan.    13,   1816;  d.   Sept.    24,    1816,  Newport. 

20.  James  Breck  Aiken5,  b.  June  23,  1819,  Newport,  N.  H.;  d.  May  6, 
1879,  Boston;  m.  Nov.  27,  1845,  Mary  Jane  Perkins. 


21.  Benjamin  F.  Aiken7,  b.  March  22,  1804,  Bedford;  d.  (burned  in 
his  home)  April  11,  1881,  Goffstown;  m.  Feb.  9,  1832,  Hannah  K. 
Buswell,  Goffstown.     43-52. 

22.  Robert  Aiken7.      23.  Matthew  Aiken7. 


24.  Freeman  Parker8,  b.  Sept.  13,  1797,  Bedford;  d.  1883,  Candia, 
N.  H.;  m.,  1837,  Susan  Eaton,  Candia;  m.,  2d,  Nancy  Robie,  Can- 
dia. He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church;  engaged 
in  wool  carding,  cloth  dressing,  leather  rolling,  and  farming. 

25.  Frederick  Parker8,  b.  Oct.  3,  1799,  Bedford;  d.  May  19,  1834,  Ban- 
gor, Me.     Grad.  Dartmouth  1828,  and  was  a  lawyer. 

26.  Eliza  Alden  Parker8,  b.  1802,  Bedford ;d.  Jan.,  1860,  Candia,  N.  H.; 
m.  Henry  M.  Eaton,  Candia,  N.  H.     53. 


27.  Rodney  Parker9,  b.  Nov.  21,  1801;  d.  June  2,  1872,  Goffstown;  m. 
Elizabeth  Palmer;  d.  Nov.  16,  1881. 

28.  George  W.  Parker9,  b.  Feb.  5,  1804;  d.  May  18,  1874,  Goffstown; 
m.  Dec.  30,  1834,  Sarah  Raymond;  d.  Feb.  20,  1895.     54-56. 

29.  Caroline  Parker9,  b.  March  5,  1808;  d.  April  5,  1846;  m.  Feb.  20, 
1834,  Leonard  Kimball,  d.  Nov.,  1868,  Lowell,  Mass.     57-59 

30.  Margaret  Ann  Parker9,  b.  July  27,  1813;  d.  1846;  m.  Joseph  Moore, 
Goffe's  Falls,  N.  H.  60.  She  m.,  2d,  1839,  Bartholomew  Smith, 
Bradford,  N.  H.     61-63. 


IV.  1.  James  Gilchrist  Benton1,  b.  Sept.  15,  1823,  Lebanon,  N.  H.;  d. 
Aug.  23,  1881;  m.  Aug.  11,  1859,  Catharine  Louisa,  dau.  of  Gen. 
James  Watson  Webb,  New  York.     1-2. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  847 

James  Gilchrist  Benton  was  graduated  from  West  Point  in  1842  and  appointed 
additional  second  lieutenant  of  ordnance.  He  was  stationed  at  Watervliet  arsenal, 
West  Troy,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  on  temporary  duty  at  several  other  arsenals. 
In  1857  he  was  ordered  to  West  Point,  as  instructor  of  ordnance  and  gunnery,  and 
wi.ile  there  wrote  "  Ordnance  and  Gunnery,  a  Course  of  Instruction  for  the  Cadets 
of  the  Military  Academy,"  which  was  used  as  a  text-book  until  some  time  after  his 
death,  when  the  changes  in  modern  science  made  a  new  course  necessary.  When 
the  war  broke  out,  in  1861,  he  was  ordered  to  Washington  as  principal  assistant  to 
the  chief  of  ordnance,  Gen.  James  W.  Ripley.  In  Septem  >er,  1863,  he  was  ordered 
to  the  command  of  Washington  arsenal,  and  in  1866  to  the  command  of  the  national 
armory,  Springfield,  Mass.  He  was  promoted  major,  lieutenant-colonel,  and,  in  1865, 
colonel,  for  faithful  and  meritorious  services. 

IV.  2.  Elbridge  Gerry  Benton1,  b.  Lebanon,  N.  H.;  d.  La  Messila,  New 
Mexico,  leaving  five  sons  and  a  daughter;  four  of  the  sons  were 
engaged  in  railroad  work  in  Texas.     No  further  particulars. 


3.  Calvin  Benton  Gilchrist3,  b.  Feb.  8,  1823;  d.  April  23,    1888,  Bom- 
bay, N.  Y.;  m.  Jan.  1,  1852,  Emily  H.  Jackson.     3-6. 

4.  Charles  Gilchrist3,  b.  Sept.  5,  1824;  d.  June  28,  1853;    m.   Feb.  2, 
1852,  Elvira  E.  Merrick.     Merchant,  Detroit,  Mich. 

5.  Edwin  Gilchrist3,  b.  Nov.  15,  1826;   m.   Jan.   6,   1859,    Hellen  M. 
Slivens.     Two  sons;  no  particulars. 


6.  Martha  Ann  Jameson4,  b.  Sept.  16,  1822,  Goshen,  N.  H. ;  m.  Oct. 
30,  1842,  John  Haines  Kellam.     10-15. 

7.  John  Alexander  Jameson4,  b.  Jan.  25,  1824;  d.  June  16,  1890;  m. 
Oct.  11,  1855,  Eliza,  dau.  of  Dr.  Jos.  A.  Dennison,  Royalton,  Vt.; 
grad.  Burlington,  Vt.,  college;  lawyer;  judge  superior  court,  111.; 
author  "Constitutional  Conventions,"  Hyde  Park,  111.     16-20. 

8.  Sarah  Jane  Jameson4,  b.  May  6,  1826;  m.  Nov.  12,  1845,  John 
Stuart  MacFarland.     21-23. 

9.  Leonard  Benton  Jameson4,  b.  Oct.  18,  1827;  d.  Feb.  17,  1888; 
printer,  Chicago;  m.  Sept.  8,  1857,  Sarah  Green  Allen,  d.  May  14, 
1863;  m.  2d,  Sept.  26,  1867,  Mrs.  Emma  Walker  Adams,  d.  March 
27,  1893. 

10.  Thomas  Jameson,  Jr.4,  b.  Oct.  18,  1829;  d.  July  18,  1864,  Burling- 
ton, la.;  m.  Aug.  25,  1856,  Sarah  J.  Stevens,  Lebanon.     24-28. 

11.  Emily  Enos  Jameson4,  b.  May  31,  1831;  res.  Chicago;  m.  Dec.  27, 
1860,  Dr.  Cephas  Rodney  Taylor,  Irasburg,  Vt.    29. 


12.  George  A,  Gilchrist5,  b.  Oct.  23,  1835;    d.  Sept.  21,  1863,  U.  S.  A. 

13.  Sarah  J.  Gilchrist5,  b.  Mav  20,  1838;  m.  Dec.  29,  1859,  Dr.  John 
Smith  Little.    30-31.     See  No.  157.  VI.  Aiken.    No.  1. 

14.  William  H.  Gilchrist5;  d.  young.     15.  Emily  Gilchrist5;  d.  young. 

16.  Emma  Gilchrist5,  b.  July  28,  1844,  res.  Goffstown,  N.  H. 

17.  Sylvanus  B.  Gilchrist5,  b.  Nov.  24,  1846;  farmer,  Goffstown,  N.H. 

18.  John  J.  Gilchrist5,  b.  Feb.  4,  1850;  m.  1878,   Lizzie  F.   Whitney, 
Henniker,  N.  H.    32-34. 


19.  David  Stowell  Gilchrist7,  b.  Jan.  5,  1833,  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  res. 
Franklin,  N.  H.;  m.  June  20,  1861,  Emily  J.  Chtney,  b.  Oct.  23, 
1833,  Derry,  N.  H.     35-36. 

20.  William  Frederick  Gilchrist7,  b.  May  27,  1838;  d.  Feb.  17,  1841. 

21.  Mary  Frances  Gilchrist7,  b.  Jan.  13,  1842,  Hillsborough  Bridge, 
N.  H.;  d.  Jan.  8,  1903,  Franklin,  N.  H.  She  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Congregational  church  and  in  benevolent  organizations; 
member  of  D.  A.  R.,  etc.  (both  paternal  and  maternal  ancestry, 
Alexander  Gilchrist  and  James  Aiken,  of  Bedford,  served  in  the 
Revolution) .  She  carried  on  for  many  years,  a  part  of  the  time 
with  her  sister,  Jennie  L.,  an  extensive  millinery  store  at  Frank- 
lin Falls,  N.  H. 


848  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

IV.  22.  Jennie  L.  Gilchrist7,  b.  June  12,  1844,  Hillsborough  Bridge,  N.H.: 
d.  June  28,  1891,  Franklin,  N.  H. 


23.  Catharine  Morse  Gilchrist9,  b.  Dec.  18,  1839;  m.  J.  Meader  Young, 
Deerfield,  N.  H. ;  res.  Candia,  N.  H. 

24.  Charles  Alfred  Gilchrist9,  b.  1844;  d.  1845. 

25.  Martha  Jane  Gilchrist9,  b.  March  31,  1846,  Candia,  N.  H. 

26.  John  Gilchrist9,  b.  June  17,  1848;  res.  Boston,  Mass. 


27.  Alfred  Taggart11.     28.  Charles  Taggart11. 

29.  Addie  Jane  Aiken12,  b.  Nov.  15,  1857;  d.  Nov.  30,  1875. 

30.  Frederick  W.  Aiken"  b.  Feb.  17,  1862;  m.  Feb.  24,  1891,  Katie  E. 
Herrick;  res.  Newport,  N.  H.     37-38. 


31.  Hannah  Elizabeth  Aiken13,  b.  1827,  Boston;  d.  March  2,  1854;  m. 
June  8,  1848,  Parker  N.  Bodfish,  d.  March  12, 1898,  Taunton,  Mass. 

32.  Martha  Ann  Newell",  b.  April  14,  1833,  Newport,  N.  H.;  d.  1846. 

33.  Sarah  Newell14,  b.  April  12,  1835,  Newport,  N.  H;  d.  1856. 

34.  Josephine  F.  Newell14,  b.  April  4,  1838,  Newport,  N.  H.;   d.   Nov. 
26,  1894;  m.  Sept.  27,  1861,  Levi  Walbridge,  Boston,  Mass.    39-40. 


35.  George  Eugene  Belknap16,  b.  Jan.  22,  1832,  Newport,  N.  H.;  d. 
April  7,  1903,  Key  West,  Fla.;  m.  Dec.  23,  1861,  Deborah  Reed, 
Newport,  N.  H. ;  m.  2d,  Dec.  8,  1866,  Frances  Georgianna  Pres- 
cott,  Calcutta,  India.    41-44. 

George  Eugene  Belknap  was  born  in  Newport,  N.  H.,  Jan.  22,  1832;  appointed 
midshipmin  from  same  state,  Ojt.  7,  1847.  After  a  few  weeks'  instruction  at  the 
naval  academ.\  he  was  ordered.  Dec,  1847,  to  the  brig  Porpoise,  on  cruise  to  the  west 
coast  of  Africa;  arrived  back  at  Norfolk,  April,  1850;  frigate  Haritan,  flftv  guns, 
Pacific  sqiadron,  1850-53;  was  with  the  force  landed  from  this  ship  at  Valparaiso, 
Chili.  1851,  for  protection  of  American  citizens  during  a  revolution  there;  naval 
academy,  1853-'54;  was  graduated  as  passed  midshipman,  June,  1854,  and  ordered  to 
the  U.  S.  Coast  Purvey  steamer  Corwin;  acting  master  sloop  Falmouth,  1854-'55; 
sloop  Saratoga,  1855.  He  was  promoted  to  master,  Sept.  15,  1855;  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant, Sept.  16,  1855,  and  ordered  to  receiving  ship  Ohio,  Boston;  sloop  Pmtsmouth, 
Asiatic  Station,  185K-'58;  on  patrol  duty  several  weeks  at  Canton,  guarding  Ameri- 
can consulate  and  hongs  from  threatened  attack  of  Chinese,  Oct.  and  Nov.,  1856. 
The  four  forts  amounted  in  the  aggregate  to  176  guns.  O  e  gun  was  a  brass  piece  of 
eight-inch  calibre  and  23  feet  in  length.  There  were  three  men  killed  and  eight 
wounded  of  his  party  during  these  operations.  He  visited  Japan,  Sept.,  1857,  the 
Portsmouth  being  the  second  ship  to  call  at  Japanese  ports  after  Ferry's  treaty. 
The  Portsmouth  carried  to  Minister  Townsend  Harris  the  first  mail  he  had  received 
in  fourteen  months.  Mr.  Belknap  was  on  the  Ohio,  1858;  St.  Louis,  Home  squadron, 
1859-'H1;  commanded  St.  Louis  boats  at  both  reinforcements  of  Fort  Pickens,  April, 
1861;  piloted  Gen.  Harvey  Brown  and  Capt.  M.  C.  Meigs,  U.  S.  engineers,  into  the 
fort;  executive  officer  gunboat  Huron,  S.  A.  B.  squadron,  1861-'«2;  expedition 
against  Fernandina.  St  John's,  St.  Mary's,  St.  Augustine,  etc  ,  March,  1862;  captured 
English  ste;tm  r  dumb  ia,  loaded  with  arms,  clothing,  and  medicines,  off  Charles- 
ton. May,  1862.  The  captain  said  when  boarded.  "  This  is  a  bonus  of  $2,000  out  of  my 
pocket."  He  took  the  prize  to  Ph  ladelphia  for  adjudication;  was  commissioned 
lieutenant  commander,  July  16.  1862;  executive  officer  ironclad  frigate  New  Iron- 
sides, eighteen  >?uns;  fourteen  ll-inch  Uahlgren.  and  two  Parrott  200-pounders  on 
gun  deck;  two  5( -pounders  Dahlsren  rifles  on  spar  deck.  The  guns  of  main  bat- 
tery had  crews  of  thirty-five  men,  ten  of  them  for  the  handling  of  the  heavv  port 
shutters.  The  sh  itters  were  seldom  closed  after  the  enemy  had  been  quieted  by 
two  or  three  broadsides.  Mr.  Belknap  was  on  >pecial  duty  at  Newport  News 
Nov.  and  Dec.  1862;  then  proceeded  to  Port  Royal;  at  that  port  stripped  the 
ship  of  masts  and  yards,  and  then  took  station  off  Charleston;  was  in  many 
engagements  with  defenses  of  that  city,  comprising  the  attack  of  the  7th  of  April, 
1863,  and  subsequent  bombardments  of  Forts  Wagner,  Sumter,  and  Moultrie,  and 
batteries  Bee,  Beauregard,  and  Johnston.  The  total  number  of  shells  fired  from 
broadside  of  eight  guns  during  siege  was  4,439,  with  aggregate  weight  of  288V2  tons. 
The  most  rapid  fire  in  action  was  at  the  rate  of  1.74  minutes  per  shot  On  one  occa- 
sion 490  shells  were  delivered  in  continuous  round,  at  the  rate  of  2.86  minutes  per 
fire.    At  the  short  six  hours'  bombardment  of  Fort  Wagner  and  Battery  Gregg,  on 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  849 

the  afternoon  of  July  18, 1863,  805  shells  were  thrown  at  them,  although  the  Are  of  the 
ship  was  often  slackened  owing  to  the  silencing  of  the  enemy's  guns.  Smoke  often 
ret  irded  the  pointing  and  firing  At  the  fight  of  April  7th,  the  spar  deck  was  cov- 
ered with  bags  of  sand,  overlaid  with  rawhides,  and  the  S'oping  sides  of  the  four- 
inch  armor  were  plastered  with  grease  an  inch  thick  for  better  resistance  of  the 
enemy's  shot.  After  that  day  the  sand  bags  alone  were  retained  for  protection 
against  plunging  fire.  The  value  of  such  protection  was  fully  demonstrated.  The 
ten-inch  solid  shot  from  forts  would  scoop  off  the  bags  struck,  but  leave  the  deck 
plank  practically  uninjured.  The  one-inch  iron  plate  underneath,  however,  would 
be  invariably  shattered  A  rebel  torpedo  boat  of  David  pattern  succeeded  in  explod- 
ing a  heavy  torpedo  under  starboard  bilge  amidships  on  evening  of  Oct.  5, 
1863.  Happily  the  ship  received  no  serious  damage,  but  Acting  Master  Howard  was 
mortally  shot  as  he  stood  in  the  gangway  hailing  the  David.  For  service  in  Iron- 
sides Mr.  Belknap  received  commendation  from  her  respective  commanders,  Commo- 
dores Turner  and  Rowan,  and  from  Admiral  DuPont.  He  was  ordered  to  command, 
gunboat  Seneca,  Sept.,  1864;  transferred  to  command  of  monitor  Canonicus,  off  City 
Point,  James  river,  Nov.,  1864;  engaged  Howlet's  House  Battery,  Dec.  5  and  6,  1864; 
subseque  >tly  proceeded  to  Beaufort,  N.  C,  as  one  of  Porter's  fleet.  In  both  fights 
at  Fort  Fisher,  Dec,  1864,  and  Jan.,  1865,  he  engaged  the  enemy  at  closest  quarters; 
ship  aground  at  times;  received  many  hits;  men  knocked  down  inside  of  turret  by 
impact  of  shot;  one  officer  wounded  by  grape  shot  from  fort  during  assault;  flag 
shot  away  three  times;  boats  and  smokestack  riddled;  guys  and  davits  shot  away, 
and  much  other  damage  received;  directed  movements  and  fire  of  the  vessel  from 
outside  pilot  house  and  turret;  commended  by  Commodore  Radford  and  Admiral 
Porter. 

After  the  capture  of  Fort  Fisher,  he  was  ordered  to  proceed  with  Canonicus  to 
Charleston;  was  on  advanced  picket  duty  the  night  the  enemy  evacuated  the  city 
and  fired  the  last  shot  at  its  defenses;  also  received  the  last  shot  from  the  enemy 
directed  to  the  fleet,  an  eight-inch  rifle  shell  from  Moultrie,  Feb.  4,  1863;  accompa- 
nied Admiral  Dahlgren  to  the  city  on  the  afternoon  after  the  evacuation.  That 
evening,  by  a  ruse,  in  concert  with  the  late  Commodore  Barrett,  assisted  in  the  cap- 
ture of  the  English  steamer  Deer,  attempting  to  enter  the  port;  commanded  the  Ca- 
nonicus in  Admiral  Qodon's  special  squadron  to  Havana  in  quest  of  the  rebel  iron- 
clad Stonewall;  found  her  surrendered  to  the  Spanish  authorities;  put  Canonicus 
out  of  commission  at  Philadelphia,  lune,  1865;  ordered  to  Naval  academy,  July.  1865; 
detached  at  own  request,  Aug1.,  1865.  He  was  executive  officer  of  the  Shenandoah, 
sailing  for  Asiatic  Station  via  Cape  of  Good  Hope  and  Indian  ports,  Dec,  1865; 
was  promoted  to  commander  for  war  service  on  the  way  out,  and  assigned  to  com- 
mand of  flagship  Hartford,  on  arrival  at  Hong  Kong,  Feb.,  1867;  commanded 
squadron  expedition  against  the  Indians,  southern  coast  of  Formosa,  June,  1867, 
where  many  were  stricken  with  sunstroke;  lost  one  officer,  shot  by  enemy;  partici- 
pated in  ceremonies  incident  to  the  opening  of  the  ports  of  Osaka  and  Kobe,  inland 
sea  of  Japan,  Jan.,  1868;  put  Hartford  out  of  commission  at  New  York,  Aug., 
1868;  ordered  to  Naval  academy,  Sept,  1868;  detached  at  own  request,  Oct., 
1868;  rendezvous  duty.  New  York,  winter  of  1868-'69;  navigation  officer,  navy  yard, 
Boston.  lS69-'7i;  ordered  to  command  the  Tuscarora,  May,  1872;  sailed  for  the  Pa- 
cific via  Straits  of  Magellan,  the  following  month;  ordered.  Jan.  1,1873,  to  take  Com- 
mander Selfridge  on  board  at  Panama  and  c«<5perate  in  the  survey  for  an  inter- 
oceanic  canal  across  the  Isthmus  of  Darien;  landed  seamen  and  marinesat  Panama, 
April,  1873,  to  protect  the  transit  across  the  isthmus  during  a  revolution  there;  was 
assigned.  May,  1873,  to  special  duty  in  the  Tuscarora,  having  been  selected  by  the 
department  to  make  deep-sea  soundings  between  the  western  coasts  of  the  United 
States  and  the  shores  of  Japan,  to  determine  the  practicability  of  laying  a  subma- 
rine cable  on  the  bed  of  the  North  Pacific;  fitted  the  ship  for  the  work  at  Mare  Island 
and  began  operations  off  San  Francisco  the  following  September.  He  was  supplied 
with  apparatus  for  sounding  with  both  rope  and  wire,  but  so«>n  discarded  the  use  of 
the  former  altogether,  and  used  the  Sir  William  Thomson  machine  for  sounding  with 
pianoforte  wire,  of  gauge  No.  22.  The  machine  was  new  and  comparatively  untried; 
he  improved  upon  the  details  of  its  construction,  and  prosecuted  the  work  with 
great  success,  working  an  entire  revolution  in  the  methods  of  deep-sea  sounding, 
getting  more  accurate  results  than  had  hitherto  been  obtained  with  a  corresponding 
economy  of  time  and  labor.  The  Challenger  had  been  supplied  with  the  Thomson 
machine,  but  would  not  attempt  its  use.  The  superintendent  of  the  coast  survey 
also  discouraged  its  adoption,  but  Admiral  Ammen,  then  chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
Navigation.  Navy  department,  determined  it  should  be  tried  on  board  the  Tuscarora, 
and  the  result  amply  sustained  his  prescient  decision.  Mr.  Belknap  ascertained  the 
true  continental  outline  from  Cape  Flattery  to  San  Diego;  ran  lines  of  soundings 
from  San  Diego  to  Yokohama  via  the  Hawaiian  and  Bouin  Islands;  returning, 
sounded  from  Cape  Flattery  via  the  Kurile  Islands  and  the  Aleutian  group;  found  off 
the  east  coast  of  japan  one  of  the  deepest  and  most  extended  troughs  yet  discovered 
in  the  bed  of  the  great  oceans,  the  deepest  cast  beiner  in  4,65^  fa  horns',  or  more  than 
five  and  a  quarter  statute  miles;  invented  three  different  cvlinders,  or  cups,  for 
bringing  un  specimens  of  the  bottom,  which  are  now  in  use  in  the  navy.  The  cup, 
No.  2,  slightly  altered,  has  been  adopted  by  the  coast  survey,  under  the  "name  of  the 
"  Sigsbee  Cup."  The  progress  and  results  of  the  Tuxcarom's  snrvev  excited  great 
interest  both  in  this  country  and  in  Europe.  In  an  address  before  the  Mathemat- 
ical and  Physical  Section  of  the  British  Association  at  Glasgow.  Sept.,  1876,  Sir 
William  Thomson  spoke  of  the  work  in  terms  of  high  compliment.  Sir  William 
Thomson,  of  the  Challenger  expedition,  also  commended  the  methods  and  achieve- 

55 


850  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ments  of  the  Tuscarora's  survey  in  his  address  before  the  Asiatic  Society  of  Japan, 
at  Yokohama,  in  Feb..  1875,  acknowledging  the  great  advance  that  had  been  made 
in  deep-sea  work  by  the  use  of  the  Sir  William  Thomson  machine. 

Mr.  Belknap  was  senior  officer  present  at  Honolulu  when  riot  occurred  on  the 
election  of  David  Kalalaua,  as  king  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  Feb.  12,  1874;  landed 
companies  of  blue  jackets  and  marines  from  Tuscarora  and  Portsmouth;  restored 
order  and  occupied  the  town  six  days  at  the  request  of  the  king,  when  the  new 
government,  being  firmly  established,  withdrew  the  force  to  the  ships;  received 
therefor  the  thanks  of  the  king,  the  legislative  assembly,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  the  consular  corps;  detached  from  Tuscarora,  Oct.,  1874;  ordered  as  hydro- 
graphic  inspector,  U.  S  Coast  Survey,  Dec,  1874;  asked  for  other  orders,  and 
received  orders  to  command  the  receiving  ship  Ohio,  Boston,  Jan.,  1875;  commis- 
sioned captain,  Jan.  25,  1875;  obliged  to  go  south  two  months  later  on  account  of  ill 
health,  due  to  exposure  while  doing  deep-sea  work;  went  to  Pensacola  station  as 
captain  of  the  yard;  board  of  visitors,  Naval  academy,  June,  1875;  board  of  exam- 
iners at  same  place,  Oct.,  1875;  detached  from  Pensacola  Yard,  May,  1876,  and  put  on 
special  duty  with  reference  to  deep-sea  sounding;  Dec.  1,  1876,  ordered  back  to 
Pensacola  yard,  as  commandant;  remained  in  command  there  until  Jan.  15,  1881; 
March  11,  1881.  assumed  command  of  the  Alaska  at  Panama;  senior  officer  present 
for  the  greater  part  of  the  time  on  Pacific  coast  of  Peru  and  Chili;  made  a  number 
of  deep  soundings  off  the  coast  of  Peru,  the  deepest  in  3,367  fathoms,  100  miles  west 
of  Callao  Bay;  special  duty  at  Honolulu  with  Alaska  from  August  to  latter  part  of 
Nov.,  1882.  Nov.  21  of  that  year  he  received  from  King  Kalakaua  a  commission  and 
decoration  as  Kuight  Commander  of  the  Royal  Order  of  Kamehameha,  which  are 
now  in  the  custody  of  the  Department  of  State  at  Washington  He  put^linsfca  out 
of  commission  at  Mare  Island  navy  yard.  Feb.,  1883;  ordered  to  Norfolk  yard  as 
captain  of  the  yard,  June,  1883;  president  naval  torpedo  board,  1883-'84;  senior  mem- 
ber Dolphin  examining  board,  1885;  commissioned  as  commodore  June  2, 1885,  and 
ordered  to  Washington  as  superintendent  of  the  naval  observatory;  detached  from 
observatory  a  year  later  and  ordered  June  15, 1886,  to  assume  command  of  the  navy 
yard  at  Mare  island,  Cal.  He  was  commissioned  as  rear  admiral  Feb.  12,  1889,  and 
March  9  detached  from  command  of  yard  and  ordered  to  proceed  to  Yokohama, 
Japan,  and  assume  command  of  the  naval  force  of  the  Asiatic  station;  assumed 
such  command  April  4.  1889,  and  retained  it  until  Feb.  20,  1892,  when  he  was  detached 
and  ordered  home;  was  ordered  as  president  of  board  of  inspection  and  survey, 
April  17,  1892;  was  ordered  to  Chicago,  Oct.,  1892,  to  represent  the  naval  service  at 
the  dedicatory  ceremonies  of  the  grounds  and  buildings  of  the  Exposition.  April, 
1893,  he  was  ordered,  in  conjunction  with  Major-General  Schofield,  U.  S.  A.,  as 
special  escort  to  Vice-Admiral,  the  Duke  of  Veragua,  at  the  Naval  Review,  New 
York  harbor;  supervised  the  speed  trials  of  the  new  cruisers,  the  Detroit,  Machias, 
New  York,  Columbia,  and  Marblehead;  also  the  final  examination  and  the  trial  of 
the  Detroit  and  New  York;  retired  from  active  service  under  the  age  limit  prescribed 
by  statutes,  Jan.  22, 1894.  Total  sea  service,  twenty-fo  ir  years,  four  months;  shore 
servic3,  eighteen  years,  seven  months;  unemployed,  three  years,  nine  months. 

Admiral  Belknao  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  board  of  commissioners  of  the 
Massachusetts  Nautical  Training  school  by  the  governor  of  the  commonwealth, 
Nov.,  1894.  and  elected  chairman  of  the  board  the  following  year;  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  from  Dartmouth  college,  June,  1895;  was  ordered 
to  duty  during  war  of  1898  as  president  of  the  naval  coal  board;  served  as  chairman 
of  one  of  the  juries  of  award  at  the  Atlanta  Exposition  in  1895,  and  at  the  Pan- 
American  Exposition  at  Buffalo,  1901.  At  the  date  of  his  death  he  was  on  duty  as 
superintendent  of  the  hydrographic  work  in  the  harbor  of  Key  West.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American  Historical  society;  of  New  England  Historic-Genealogical 
society;  of  the  Military-Historical  Society  of  Massachusetts  and  of  the  Bunker  Hill 
Monument  association;  companion  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States;  of  the  Naval  Order  of  the  United  States;  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic;  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution;  of  the  Order  of  Foreign  Wars  of 
the  United  States,  and  a  trustee  of  the  National  Sailors'  Home,  Quincy,  Mass. 

IV.  36.  William  Hedden  Belknap16,  b.  May  22,  1834,  Newport,  N.  H. 

37.  Henry  Sawyer  Belknap16,  b.  April  30,  1836,  Newport,  N.  H. 

38.  Edmund  Burke  Belknap16,  b.  Nov.  1,  1839,  Newport,  N.  H.;  m. 
Jan.  1,  1860,  Ellen  E.  Hawks,  Bradford,  N.  H.,  d.  Dec.  19,  1885; 
m.,  2d,  Feb.  7,  1887,  Jessie  Whyte  Brown,  Lawrence,  Mass.  45-47. 

39.  Charles  James  Belknap16,  b.  May  10,  1842,  Newport,  N.  H.;  m. 
Oct.  24,  1866,  Carrie  Frances  Martin,  Boston,  Mass.     48-50. 

40.  Hamlet  Webster  Belknap16,  b.  June  15,  1845;  m.  Nov.  23,  1870, 
Mary  Adell  Bartlett,  Newport,  N.  H.    51. 

41  Jay  William  Clement18,  b.  Feb.  3,  1839;  d.  Feb.  22,  1865,  Newport. 

42.  James  F.  B.  Kimball18,  b.  April  2,  1854;  d.  July  6,  1898,  Nashua, 
N.  H.;  m.  Sept.  6,  1883,  Addie  Maria  Stanley.     52-54. 

43.  Alvin  R.  AiVm21,  b.  Julv  16,  1832,  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  d.  July  23, 
1896;  m.  March  29,  1860,  Clara  Heath,  Bow,  N.  H.     56-58. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  851 

IV.  44.  Enoch  B.  Aiken21,  b.  Jan.  14,  1834,  Bow,  N.  H.;  d.  April  10,  1896, 
'  Manchester;  m.  Jan.  17,  1871,  Julia  A.  Plumer,  Goffstown.     59. 

45.  Mary  J.  Aiken21,  b.  March  1,  1836,  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  d.   Jan.  24, 
1865;  in.  May  20,  1858,  George  B.  Spaulding,  Sherburne,  Vt.  60-62. 

46.  Robert  Willshire  Aiken*    b.  Feb.  2,  1838;  d.  Jan.,  1864,  Danville 
prison,  Va. ;  enlisted  Co.  B,  9th  N.  H.  Vols. 

47.  Sarah  B.  Aiken*,  b.  Jan.  30,  1840;    m.   Oct.   6,   1864,   Joseph  K. 
Spaulding,  West  Bridgewater,  Vt.     62-69. 

48.  Andrew  J.  Aiken*,  b.  Jan.  6,  1842;  d.  Sept.  16,  1880;  enlisted  Co. 
H,  10th  N.  H.  Vols. 

49.  John  D.  Aiken21,  b.  Dec.  31,  1843;  m.  May  17,  1873,  Lucy  J.  Emery; 
res.  E.  Andover,  N.  H. 

50.  Samuel  Orr  Aiken21,  b.  Sept.  23,  1846,  Goffstown,  N.  H.;  m.  May 
15,  1883,  Mary  A.  Houston,  Bedford.     70. 

51.  Eliza  P.  Aiken21,  b.  March  7,  1849;  m.  Nov.  26,  1872,  George  Emer- 
son, Manchester,  N.  H.     71. 

52.  Hattie  N.  Aiken21,  b.  Oct.  1,  1855,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 


53.  Ellen  S.  Eaton26,  b.  Nov.,  1844,  Candia,  N.  H.;  grad.  Abbott 
(Andover)  academy;  member  of  the  Congregational  church,  and 
served  many  years  as  organist. 


54  Susan  Adams  Parker28,  b.  Oct.  11,  1835;  d.  Sept.  3,  1838. 

55.  Sarah  Frances  Parker28,  b.  Feb.  12,  1838,   Goffstown,   N.   H.;    m. 
Sept.  27,  1859,  Alonzo  F.  Carr,  M.  D.,  d.  Dec.  16,  1887.     73-75. 

56.  George  William  Parker28,  b.  March  28,  1845;  d.  1866,  Chicago,  111. 


57.  Caroline  Aiken  Kimball29,  b.  Aug.  5,  1836;  m.  Jan.  15,  1857,   Rev. 
William  Leonard  Gage,  d.  May  31,  1889,  Hartford,  Conn.     76. 

58.  William  Parker  Kimball29,  b.  May  3,  1840;  m.  Oct.  5,  1869,  Helen 
E.  Haven,  San  Francisco,  Cal.     77-80. 

59.  Leonard  Saltmarsh  Kimball29,  b.  March  7,  1843;  d.  1861. 


60.  George  Byron  Moore30,  b.  April  6,  1837;  d.  April,  1872;   m.  Susan 
C.  Stinson,  Dunbarton,  N.  H.     (Four  children,  all  d.  young.) 

61.  Albert  Gallatin  Smith30,  b.  and  d.  1840. 

62.  Caroline  Louise  Smith30,  b.  1843,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 

63.  Mary  Frances  Smith80,  b.  1844;  m.  1868,  George  Choate  Appleton, 
Boston,  Mass. 

\  1.  Mary  Louise  Benton1,  b.  June  4,  1860;  m.  Sept.  4,  1890,  Dr.  Will- 
iam Norward  Suter,  U.  S.  A.;  resigned;  occulist,  Springfield, 
Mass.  1-2. 
2.  James  Watson  Benton1,  b.  Jan.  24,  1864;  d.  Sept.  2,  1896;  m.  Oct. 
2,  1890,  Saidee,  dau.  Gen.  Guy  W.  Henry,  U.  S.  A.;  grad.  West 
Point,  1885;  appointed  2d  Lieut.  9th  Regt.,  U.  S.  cavalry;  served 
through  two  Indian  campaigns;  was  promoted  1st  Lieut,  and  was 
regimental  and  post  quartermaster  at  date  of  death.     3. 


3.  Jane  M.  Gilchrist3,  b.  Nov.  15,  1852,  Bombay,  N.  Y.;  m.  William 
G.  Webb.    4. 

4.  Charles  E.  Gilchrist3,  b.  May  9,  1855,  Bombay,  N.  Y.;  m.  Jan.    1, 
1879,  Libbie  C.  Sears.    5-8. 

5.  Zaida  M.  Gilchrist3,  b.  May  9,  1855,  Bombay,  N.  Y. ;  m.  Nov.   22, 
1876,  Calvin  O.  Harvey.     9-12. 

6.  Cynthia  C.  Gilchrist3,  b.  Aug.  6,  1867,  Bombay,  N.  Y.;  m.  Oct.  29, 
1890,  John  W.  Blanchard. 


852  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

V.  10.  Clara  Cornelia  Kellam6,  b.  Aug.  21,  1843;  d.  May  26,  1894;  in.  Dec. 
20,  1866,  Charles  Parkhurst,  M.  D.,  Irasburg,  Vt.,  Colorado 
Springs,  Col.     13-14. 

11.  Henry  Augustus  Kellam6,  b.  Ausr.  11,  1845;  optician,  Atlanta,  Ga.; 
m.  Aug.  11,  1867,  Martha  Jane  Woodward,  Topeka,  Kan.     15. 

12.  Emma  Jane  Kellam6,  b.  Jan.  4,  1848;  m.  Aug.  24,  1874,  Nicholas 
Arthur  Coble,  merchant,  Chicago,  111.     16-18. 

13.  Leonard  John  Kellam6,  b.  Oct.  3,  1850;  d.  March  20,  1866. 

14.  Thomas  Jameson  Kellam6,  b.  June  15,  1852;  d.  Feb.  4,  1896;  mer- 
chant, and  vice-president  Merchants  National  bank,  Topeka,  Kan.; 
m.  Nov.  22,  1877,  Lillian  Holliday.     19-21. 

15.  Mary  Kellam6,  b.  Sept.  9,  1858;  d.  April  17,  1861. 


16.  Mary  Jameson7,  b.  Dec.  20,  1857. 

17.  Eleanor  Jameson7,  b.  1864;  d.  1865. 

18.  Eliza  Jameson7,  b.  1865;  d.  1881. 

19.  John  Alexander  Jameson,  Jr7,  b.  Sept.  12,  1868;  grad.  Ann  Arbor 
college;  lawyer,  Chicago. 

20.  Rebecca  Jameson7,  b.  May  9,  1870;  m.  Jan.  28,  1902,  Arthur  Hugh 
Jameson,  Providence,  R.  I. 


21.  Martha  Jane  McFarland8,  b.  Sept.  21,  1846;  m.  Nov.  25,  1869, 
Melville  Elijah  Stone,  Pres.  Globe  Nat.  bank,  Chicago,  111. ;  Man. 
Associated  Press,  Glencoe,  111.     22-24. 

22.  Edwin  Thomas  Jameson8,  b.  Sept.  3,  1847,  Irasburg,  Vt.;  m. 
Sept.  3,  1873,  Anna  Eliza  Rockwell,  Chicago,  111.     25. 

23.  Mary  Erne  Jameson8,  b.  Sept.  30,  1857,  Concord,  N.  H.;  m.  Dec. 
30,  1890,  George  Wilson  Stanford,  lawyer,  Chicago,  111.     26-27. 

24.  Mary  Josephine  Jameson10,  b.  June  12,  1857,  Burlington,  la.;  m. 
June  28, 1881,  John  Hudson  Winslow,  salesman,  Glencoe,Ill.  28-30. 

25.  Helen  Jameson10,  b.  1861;  d.  1881. 

26.  Percy  Allen  Jameson10,  b.  March  2,  1863. 

27.  George  Gilchrist  Jameson10,  b.  March  2,  1863. 

28.  Alice  Warner  Jameson10,  b.  March  29,  1864. 


29.  Charles  Wallace  Taylor11,  b.  Sept.  8,  1862;  d.  March  13,  1864. 


30.  Arthur  S.  Little18,  b.  April  24,  1861;  d.  Nov.  12,  1869. 

31.  Bertha  M.  Little13,  b.  Nov.  25,  1867,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 


32.  Arthur  S.  Gilchrist18,  b.  Feb.  15,  1879. 

33.  Ralph  H.  Gilchrist18,  b.  April  25,  1881. 

34.  Alice  L.  Gilchrist18,  b.  Nov.  17,  1884. 


35.  Frederick  Arthur  Gilchrist16,  b.  Oct.  7,  1862;  d.  Oct.  18,  1863. 

36.  Harry  Wilbur  Gilchrist19,  b.  May  13,  1868,  Franklin,  N.  H.;  m. 
July  2,  1890,  Mattie  Estella  Bean,  Manchester,  N.  H.,  b.  April  4, 
1865.     31-34. 


37.  Charles  Francis  Aiken30,  b.  Feb.  13,  1892,  Newport,  N.  H. 

38.  William  Frederick  Aiken30,  b.  Aug.  22,  1893,  Newport,  N.  H. 

39.  Josie  F.  Walbridge34,  b.  Nov.  14,  1863,  Boston,  Mass.;  m.   July  6, 
1892,  Charles  D.  Baker,  Randolph,  Mass.     35-37. 

40.  Edmund  Burke  Walbridge34,  b.  Oct.    27,  1868;    m.   Dec.  4,    1901, 
Mary  E.  Mealey. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN.  853 

Y.  41.  Alice  Maud  Belknap35,  b.  April  29,  1863,  Newport,  N.  H.;  d.  Oct. 
27,  1899,  Asheville,  N.  C;  m.  Oct.  28,  1880,  Dr.  Sam.  Westray 
Battle,  U.  S.  N. 

42.  Prescott  Hartford  Belknap36,  b.  March  16,  1869,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

43.  Reginald  Rowan  Belknap35,  b.  June  26,  1871,  Maiden,  Mass.; 
Lieut.  U.  S.  N.;  m.  March  31,  1900,  Julia  Byington  Averill,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

44.  Grafton  McAllister  Belknap35,  b.  July  14,  1875;  d.  June  4,  1895. 


45.  Frank  Belknap38,  b.  1861;  d.  1865. 

46.  Lawrence  Belknap38,  b.  Nov.  18,  1875,  Bradford,  N.  H. 

47.  Virginia  Winthrop  Belknap38,  b.  June  9,  1888,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


48.  Charles  Francis  Belknap39,  b.  Oct.  14,  1868,  Boston,  Mass. 

49.  George  Henry  Belknap39,  b.  April  28,  1871,  Boston,  Mass. 

50.  Grace  Julia  Belknap39,  b.  July  4,  1882,  Boston,  Nass. 


51.  Blanche  Belknap40,  b.  Aug.  10,  1878. 


52.  Frederick  Jay  Kimball42,  b.  Jan.  9,  1885. 

53.  Eva  May  Kimball42,  b.  Aug.  14,  1886. 

54.  Robert  Samuel  Kimball42,  b.  June  27,  1888. 


55.  Sylvester  E.  Aiken43,  b.  July  11,  1861,  Goffstown,  N.  H;  m.  April 
30,  1892,  Nellie  E.  J.  Peaslee,  N.  Weare,  N.  H.    38-40. 

56.  Edward  Aiken43,  b.  Feb.  25,  1863;    d.   Feb.   28,    1897,   Goffstown. 

57.  Willshire  R.  Aiken43,  b.  June  1,  1866;  m.  Nov.   27,   1892,   Bertha 
Ring,  Concord,  N.  H.     41-42. 

58.  Clarence  Aiken43,  b.  Aug.  20,  1874,  Concord,  N.  H. 


59.  Minnie  E.  Aiken44,  b.  March  25,  1874;  res.  Manchester. 


60.  Fred  G.  Spaulding45,  b.  Feb.  16,  1859,   Sherburne,   Yt.,    m.   May 
30,  1882.  Ida  M.  Spaulding,  Sherburne,  Vt. 

61.  Frank  W.  Spaulding45,  b.  Nov.  22,  1860;  m.  Sept.  12, 1882,  Minnie 
L.  Spaulding,  Sherburne,  Yt.     43. 

62.  Sarah  J.  Spaulding45,  b.  Nov.  30,  1862;  d.  Nov.  1, 1863,  Sherburne. 


63.  Carrie  A.  Spaulding47,  b.  March  4,  1865;  m.  Jan.  5,  1884,  Herbert 
E.  Johnson,  Sherburne,  Yt.  44-45.  She  m.  2d,  April  3,  1901, 
Orris  A.  Lewis,  Sherburne,  Vt. 

64.  Charles  W.  Spaulding47,  b.  Aug.  24,  1866;  d.  Feb.  24,  1902;  m. 
June  3,  1891,  Nora  I.  Bridge,  W.  Bridgewater,  Vt.    46. 

65.  Elton  H.  Spaulding47,  b.  Jan.  1,  1868;  d.  June  9,  1872. 

66.  Hattie  E.  Spaulding47,  b.  March  23,  1871;  m.  Dec.  9,  1892,  Clar- 
ence L.  Coates,  Bristol,  Vt. 

67.  Carlos  Orr  Spaulding47,  b.  March  23,  1871;  m.  Sept.  11,  1895,  Bea- 
trice K.  Pierce,  N.  Shrewsbury,  Vt.    47. 

68.  Grace  M.  Spaulding47,  b.  June  25,  1876;  m.  Jan.  30,  1900,  Albert 
C.  Hill,  Sherburne,  Vt.     48. 

69.  Gertrude  A.  Spaulding47,  b.  Nov.  16,  1877;  m.  May  10, 1899,  Edwin 
W.  Pierce,  N.  Shrewsbury,  Vt.    49. 

70.  Robert  Clyde  Spaulding47,  b.  Sept.  8,  1881;  m.  Sept.  8,  1901,  Jen- 
.  nie  Martin,  Poultney,  Vt.    50. 


71.  Frank  A.  Aiken50,  b.  March  19,  1890,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 


854  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Y.  72.  Mertie  Alice  Emerson51,  grad.  Wellesley,  1898;  society  editor  Man- 
chester Mirror;  m.  Sept.  30,   1903,  Leonard  Smith  Doten,   Boston. 


73.  Edward  Parker  Carr55.     74.  Charles  Bradford  Carr55. 
75.  Helen  Boyd  Carr55,  Goffstown,  N.  H. 


76.  Helen  Gage57,  b.  May  12,  1858;  m.  Oct.  29,   1879,   Rev.   Frank  S. 
Hatch,  Boston,  Mass.    51-52. 


77.  William  Haven  Kimball58,  b.  March  1,  1871,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

78.  Alice  Kimball58,  b.  Dec.  1,  1874. 

79.  Florence  Mabel  Kimball58,  b.  June  24,  1878. 

80.  Herbert  Leonard  Kimball58,  b.  Feb.  2,  1880. 


81.  Harry  Gardiner  Appleton63,  Boston,  Mass. 


VI.  1.  Louis  Benton  Suter1,  b.  Aug.  13,  1891. 
2.  Helen  Lispenard  Suter1,  b.  June  1,  1894. 


3.  James  Webb  Benton2,  b.  July  9,  1892. 


4.  Blanche  G.  Webb3,  b.  May  17,  1886. 


5.  Warren  B.  Gilchrist4,  b.  Feb.  29,  1880. 

6.  Mary  E.  Gilchrist*,  b.  Nov.  17,  1884. 

7.  Cynthia  A.  Gilchrist4,  b.  April  4,  1886. 

8.  Lloyd  S.  Gilchrist4,  b.  May  13,  1893. 


9.  Carroll  Harvey5,  b.  Jan.  4,  1878. 

10.  Roland  G.  Harvey5,  b.  Feb.  8,  1880. 

11.  Arthur  C.  Harvey5,  b.  Sept.  30,  1882. 

12.  Dale  D.  Harvey5,  b.  Oct.  30,  1890. 


13.  John  Byron  Parkhurst10,  b.  Aug.  12,  1868. 

14.  Charles  Percy  Parkhurst10,  b.  April  10,  1871.     Grad.  Williams, 
1897. 


15.  Claramond  Kellam11,  b.  Aug.  16,  1870;  m.  May  22,  1895,  Barton 
Stone  McCosh,  Atlanta,  Ga. 


16.  Robert  Kellam  Coble12,  b.  May  6,  1876;  m.  June  16,  1897,  Mabel 
Spencer  Ferry,  Evanston,  111. 

17.  Edith  May  Coble12,  b.  May  4,  1878;  d.  Feb.  24,  1885. 

18.  Reginald  Heber  Coble12,  b.  July  4,  1882. 


19.  Kurtz  Holliday  Kellam14,  b.  Dec.  11,  1878. 

20.  Mary  Louise  Kellam14,  b,  Feb.  22,  1883. 

21.  Katharine  Jameson  Kellam14,  b.  Jan.  29,  1888. 


22.  Herbert  Stuart  Stone21,  b.  May  28,   1871;   grad.  Harvard;   pub- 
lisher, Chicago. 


GENEALOGIES. — AIKEN. — ATWOOD.  855 

VI.  23.  Melville  Edwin  Stone21,  b.  Nov.  3,  1874;  grad.  Harvard;  publisher, 
Chicago. 
24.  Bessie  Creighton  Stone21,  b.  Feb.  23,  1881. 


25.  Sarah  Ethelwyn  McFarland22,  b.  Oct.  26,  1875,  Chicago. 


26.  Pauline  Stanford23,  b.  Oct.  31,  1892; 

27.  Marion  Stanford23,  b.  Dec.  8,  1894,  Ravenswood,  111. 


28.  Majorie  Winslow24,  b.  Feb.  13,  1884;  d.  May  20,  1885. 

29.  Mildred  Winslow24,  b.  July  25,  1886,  Chicago. 

30.  Helen  Jameson  Winslow24,  b.  Oct.  3,  1889,  Colorado  Springs. 


81.  Donald  Bean  Gilchrist36,  b.  June  11,  1892,  Franklin,  N.  H. 

32.  Maurice  Frederick  Gilchrist36,  b.  June  16,  1895. 

33.  Kenneth  David  Gilchrist36,  b.  Sept,  5,  1897. 

34.  Margaret  Kendall  Gilchrist36,  b.  May  24,  1900. 


35.  Marguerita  Walbridge  Baker39,  b.  Mar.  26,  1893. 

36.  George  Daland  Baker39,  b.  Oct.  3,  1895. 

37.  Castleton  Newell  Baker39,  b.  Oct.  23,  1898. 


38.  Maud  J.  Aiken55,  b.  June  15,  1893. 

39.  Verner  B.  Aiken55,  b.  Oct,  11,  1896. 

40.  Clara  S.  Aiken55,  b.  Sept.  16,  1899. 


41.  Clayton  B.  Aiken",  b.  Dec.  17,  1892. 

42.  Harold  M.  Aiken57,  b.  Dec.  8,  1900. 


43.  Mabel  L.  Spaulding61,  b.  May  8,  1889. 


44.  Hazel  L.  Johnson63,  b.  July  31,  1892,  Randolph,  Yt. 
*  45.  Herbert  I.  Johnson63,  b.  July  13,  1896. 


46.  Ralph  C.  Spaulding64,  b.  Nov.  5,  1892,  West  Woodstock,  Vt. 

47.  Kenneth  E.  Spaulding67,  b.  Aug.  11,  1897,  Pittsfield,  Vt. 

48.  Olive  B.  HilF*,  b.  June  25,  1901. 


49.  Marion  G.  Pierce69,  b.  Sept.  9,  1901. 


50.  Gale  W.  Spaulding70,  b.  July  5,  1902. 


51.  Carolyn  W.  Hatch76,  b.  Oct.  23,  1880. 

52.  Leonard  Hatch76,  b.  Oct.  1,  1882. 

ATWOOD. 

I.  John  Wood,  the  first  ancestor  in  America  of  the  Bedford  Atwoods, 
came  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1643.    His  wife  was  Sarah  Master- 
son,  dau.  of  Richard  Masterson. 
II.  Nathaniel  Wood,  son  of  John1,  was  b.  in  1652. 

III.  John  Wood,  son  of  Nathaniel2,  was  b.  in  1684  and  took  the  name  of 
Atwood.     He  m.  1709,  Sarah  Leavitt,  and  they  had  a  son,  Isaac4. 


856  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

IV.  Isaac  Atwood,  son  of  John3  (Wood),  b.  in  1719;  m.  1740,  Aug.  7, 
Lydia  Wait.  They  had  five  children:  Zaccheus5,  Wait5,  Isaac5, 
Hannah5,  Lydia5. 
V.  Isaac,  son  of  Isaac4,  was  b.  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  1747,  July  17;  he  m. 
(1)  1770,  April  21,  Hannah  Chubbuck,  and  came  to  Bedford  in 
1777,  where  his  wife  d.  1798  (?),  Aug.  10.  He  m.  (2)  in  1800, 
Lydia  Whitmarsh  of  Abington,  Mass.,  who  d.  1841,  Oct.  3.  He  d. 
1836,  March  15.  They  had  nine  children:  Isaac6,  b.  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  1772,  June  11;  Hannah6,  b.  Plymouth,  1774,  Nov.  11,  m. 
1793,  Sept.  15,  Samuel  Smith  (see  Smith);  Lydia6,  b.  Plymouth, 
1776,  Nov.  12,  m.  Alexander  Patten  (see  Patten);  David6,  b.  Bed- 
ford, 1779,  March  24;  John6,  b.  Bedford,  1781,  July,  d.  1804,  Feb. 
27;  Submit  W.6,  b.  1783,  July  5,  m.  1802,  Sept.  16,  James  Darrah 
(see  Darrah);  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1785,  July  22,  d.  1865;  Stephen6, 
b.  Bedford,  1790,  May  19;  Zacheus6,  b.  1792,  Aug.  31,  d.  1848, 
Dec.  14. 
VI.  Isaac,  son  of  Isaac5,  b.  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  1772,  June  11;  m.  1799. 
Dec.  27,  Betsey  Chandler,  dau.  of  Elijah  and  Eunice  (Washburn) 
Chandler.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1848,  Dec.  14.  Had  nine  children: 
Elijah7,  Hannah",  Eliza  Jane7,  Eunice7,  Lydia7,  George  Orr7, 
Sarah7,  m.  Benj.  Hall  (see  Hall);  Harriet7,  Philomela7. 
VI.  David,  son  of  Isaac5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1779,  March  24;  m.  1802,  Sept.  21, 
Mary  Bell,  b.  Bedford,  1781,  April  12,  and  d.  1857,  Oct.  12.  He  d. 
1869,  Oct.  12.  They  had  eleven  children,  b.  here,  viz.:  Hannah7, 
b.  1802,  Dec.  11,  d.  1891,  Aug.  17;  Joseph  BelV ,  b.  1804,  Feb.  13; 
Mary  Bell7,  b.  1805,  June  27,  d.  1870,  Sept.  18;  Olive7,  b.  1807, 
Feb.  8,  m.  1841,  Jan.  14,  Thomas  Bursiel  (see  Bursiel);  John1,  b. 
1808,  Dec.  23;  Daniel  Gordon*,  b.  1812,  April  12;  Sarah7,  b.  1814, 
May  20,  d.  1814,  June  25;  DavidJ,  b.  1815,  Dec.  15;  Jane  Gordon7, 
b.  i819,  Aug.  21,  m.  Edward  Barr  (see  Barr);  Clarinda7,  b.  1822, 
July  12,  d.  1838,  Jan.  22;  Isaac  Brooks7,  b.  1824,  April  19,  d.  1837, 
May  28. 
VII.  Joseph  Bell,  son  of  David6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1804,  Feb.  13;  m.  1834, 
Feb.  11,  Esther  M.  Weston.  They  moved  to  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  in 
1841,  and  Hamilton,  111.,  1854,  where  he  d.  1868,  Aug.  17.  They 
had  three  children:  Joseph  Bruce*;  Marion  Clarinda8,  b.  1840, 
Nov.  8,  m.  1860,  Oct.  5,  Dr.  Charles  Po  Arnold;  Harriet  Josephine*. 

VIII.  Joseph  Bruce,  son  of  Joseph  Bell7,  b.  1835,  March  25;  m.  1863, 
Nov.  12,  Cecelia  Wiggington,  and  d.  at  Hamilton,  111.,  1898, 
Oct.  26.     They  had  one  son,  Bruce  Weston9,  b.  1867,  Aug.  13. 

VIII.  Harriet  Josephine,  dau.  of  Joseph  Bell7,  b.  1843,  July  10;  m.  1862, 
May  26,  William  W.  Arnold,  and  d.  at  White  Hall,  111.,  1888, 
Sept.  21,  leaving  one  child,  Fannie  Esther9,  b.  1870,  July  28. 
VII.  John,  son  of  David6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1808,  Dec.  23;  went  to  Hamil- 
ton, N.  Y.,  in  1830.  He  m.  1832,  Sept.  4,  Clarissa  Treadway,  and 
d.  at  Cambridge,  N.  Y. ,  1881,  March'  25.  Had  six  children: 
Sarah  Howe8,  b.  1833,  May  18,  d.  1896,  Dec.  29;  John  Marshall8, 
b.  1835,  March  4,  d.  1844,  May  21;  Mary  Elizabeth*;  William*; 
Helen8,  b.  1843,  Sept.,  d.  1844,  Aug.  12;  Henry.  Clay*. 

VIII.  Mary  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John7,  b.  1837,  Jan.  5;  m.  1860,  Dec.  8, 
Dr.  Oscar  H.  Young.  Have  three  children:  Grace  Elizabeth9, 
b.  1864,  June  11;  Oscar  Henry9,  b.  1868,  April  2;  Clarence 
Atwood9,  b.  1872,  Oct.  29. 

VIII.  William,  son  of  John7,  b.  1839,  May  27;  m.  1863,  May  9,  Mary  A. 
McCarthy,  and  d.  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  1900,  Oct.  20,  leaving  two 
children:  John  Robert9,  b.  1865,  Aug.  31;  Mary  Clarissa9,  b.  1867, 
Nov.  30. 

VIII.  Henry  Clay,  son  of  John7,  b.  1845,  April  8;  m.  1874,  April  8,  Carrie 
Colburne.     They  have  Laura  Colburne9,  t>.  1877,  Aug.  2. 


GENEALOGIES. — ATWOOD.  857 

VII.  Daniel  Gordon,  son  of  David6,  b.  Bedford,  1812,  April  12;  m.  1837, 
May  2,  Margaret  Ann  Barr,  b.  1815,  March  24,  dau.  of  Thomas 
and  Abigail  (Palmer)  Barr.  He  d.  1890,  Nov.  22,  and  his  wife  d. 
1887,  Aug.  16.  They  had  six  children:  Eliza  Morrison8,  b.  1838, 
Dec.  9,  m.  1886,  Aug.  11,  Noah  Smith  Clark  of  Manchester;  Caro- 
line8; Julia  Ann8,  b.  1844,  Jan.  10,  m.  Leonard  Bursiel  (see  Bursiel); 
Daniel  Webster*;  Clara8,  b.  1850,  Sept,  6,  m.  1878,  April  16,  Bushrod 
W.  Mann  and  res.  at  Nashua;  Thomas  Byron8,  b.  1853,  Feb.  5. 

VIII.  Caroline,  dau.  of  Daniel  Gordon7,  b.  Bedford,  1841,  Feb.  1;  m.  1865, 
June  15,  Hazen  K.  Fuller,  and  moved  to  Florida,  1878,  Nov. 
Have  four  children:  Cora  BelP;  Edna  Atwood9;  Arthur  Byron9, 
b.  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  1876,  Julv  3;  Maud  Eliza9,  b.  at  Apopka, 
Fla.,  1880,  March  9,  m.  1900,  Jan.*28,  Carl  Henry  White. 
IX.  Cora  Bell  (Fuller),  dau.  of  Caroline8,  b.  at  Manchester,  1869, 
June  14;  m.  1888,  Sept.  17,  Irving  B.  Lamson  of  Lowell,  Mass. 
They  have  Hazen  Francis10,  b.  at  Lowell,  1893,  July  15. 
IX.  Edna  Atwood  (Fuller),  dau.  of  Caroline8,  b.  at  Manchester,  1871, 
July  18;  m.  1890,  Nov.  12,  Warren  Wallace  Doe.  Have  two 
children:  Persis  Lovina10,  b.  at  Apopka,  Fla.,  1891,  Sept.  8; 
Caroline  Mary10,  b.  at  Apopka,  1898,  Sept.  30. 

VIII.  Daniel  Webster,  son  of  Daniel  Gordon7,  b.  Bedford,  1846,  June  25; 
m.  1874,  June  15,  Surviah  Parkhurst,  b.  1847,  April  1,  dau.  of 
Proctor  and  Sally  Jane  (Gage)  Parkhurst  of  Merrimack.  Had  two 
children:  George  Byron9,  b.  1876,  July  17,  d.  1878,  Nov.  15; 
Gordon  Proctor9,  b.  1878,  June  27. 
VII.  Gen.  David,  son  of  David6,  b.  Bedford,  1815,  Dec.  15;  moved  to 
Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  in  1831,  and  Madison,  Wis.,  1848.  He  m.  1849, 
Aug.  23,  Mary  Ann  Sweeney,  and  d.  1889,  Dec  11  (see  biography). 
Had  four  children:  Charles  David8;  Harrie  Farwell8,  b.  1852, 
Sept.  6;  Mary  Louise8,  b.  1855,  Jan.  25;  Elizabeth  Gordon8. 

VIII.  Charles  David,  son  of  David7,  b.  1850,  June  4;  m.  1874,  Sept.  8, 
Elizabeth  Ward.  He  d.  1878,  Feb.  6,  leaving  a  son,  David 
Atwood9,  b.  1875,  Aug.  30. 

VIII.  Elizabeth    Gordon,    dau.  of  David7,  b.   1857,   Nov.    22;    m.    1877, 
Oct.  12,  Edward  P.  Vilas.     They  have  one  son,  Charles  Atwood, 
b.  1878,  Sept.  21. 
VI.  Thomas,  son  of  Isaac5,  b.  Bedford,  1786,  July  22;  m.  1808,  Susan- 
nah Holmes,  b.  Londonderry,  1790,  March  11,  dau.  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Moor)  Holmes.     Res.  for  a  time  in  Worcester,  Mass., 
but  returned  to  Bedford,  1819,  and  bought  the  mill  (since  owned 
by  Henry  Hale),  where  he  manufactured  household  furniture.     In 
1840  rem.  to  Nunda,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1860  to  Canaseraga,  N.  Y., 
where  he  d.  1865,  Jan.  19.     She  d.  at  Hornellsville,  N.  Y.,  1866, 
April  25.     Children:  Albert1,  Alvira1,  Susan  H.1,  Harriet1,  Sarah  D1, 
Martha  J.  M.1,   Thomas1,  Catherine  McAfee1,  Charles  G.1,  Ann  Eliza- 
beth1, Hannah  Frances1. 
VII.  Albert,    son   of    Thomas6,    b.    Worcester,   Mass.,    1810,   June    23; 
m.  1833,  Aug.,  Ann  J.  D.  Colley  of  Bedford.    He  d.  1835,  Aug.  31. 
Had  children:  a  dau.8,  b.  Bedford,  1833,  d.  1841;  a  son8,  b.  Bed- 
ford, 1835,  d.  1838. 
VII.  Alvira,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  in  Worcester,  1812,  May  22;  m.  1836, 
Humphrey  Peabody,  and  d.  at  Canaseraga,  N.  Y.     Had  children: 
Charles  A.8;  Harriet8,  d.  1866,  Aug.;  Atwood.8 
VII.  Susan    H.,    dau.    of    Thomas6,  b.    in  Worcester,    1815,    Aug.   18; 
m.  1838,  June  21,  Lewis  F.  Rider,  who  d.  1885,  Dec.  1.     She  d.  at 
Hornellsville,  N.  Y.,  1899,  Aug.  21.    Their  children  were  Mary  L.8 
John  A.8,  Frances  A.8 
VII.  Harriet,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  in  Worcester,  1817,  Aug.  22;  m.  (1) 
1840,  Aug.  10,  Dr.  Barnabas  Wright,  who  d.  at  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
1861,  May  10.     She  m.  (2)  1866,  Feb.  13,  Augustus  Comstock,  who 
d.  1886.    Had  one  child  by  first  marriage,  Everett  Wright8. 


858  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VII.  Sarah  D.,  dan.  of  Thomas6,  b.   1820,  June  14;    m.  1838,  John  D. 

Armstrong  and  res.  here.     She  d.  1849,  Aug.     Had  two  children: 

William  H.%,  John  A*    John  D.  Armstrong  m.  (2)  Jane  Wells. 

They  had  George  D.,  Edward  F.,  Sarah  J.,  Clara  A.,  and  Elmer  E. 

They  rem.  to  Amherst,  where  he  d.,  1868,  Nov.  14,  aged  54. 
VIII.  William  H.   (Armstrong),  son  of  Sarah  D.7,  b.   1840,  Nov.  29;  m. 

Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Samuel  Armstrong  of  Windham,  N.  H.,  where 

he  also  res.   Children  b.  in  Windham:  Urvin  S.9,  b.  1862,  March  24; 

Eugene  W.9,  b.  1865,  Dec.  23;    Edward  M.9,  b.    1872,    Aug.   30; 

Almy  A.9,  b.  1876,  April  19. 
VIII.  John  A.   (Armstrong),  son  of  Sarah  D.7,  b.  1842,  Oct.  28;  enlisted 

1861,  Aug.  23,  in  Co.  K,  3d  Reg.,  N.  H.  Vols.;  re-enlisted  1864, 

Feb.;  was  wounded  1864,  May  13,  at  the  Battle  of  Drury's  Bluff, 

and  d.  1864,  May  16. 
VII.  Martha  J.  M.,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1822,  July  7;   m.  at 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Charles  Baker.     She  d.  there  1862,  Dec.  18. 

He  d.  1881,  Feb.  7.     Had  children,  b.  Nunda,  N.  Y.:  Susan  J.s, 

VIII.  Susan  J.  (Baker),  dau.  of  Martha  J.  M.7,  b.  Nunda,  N.  Y.,  1849, 
July  21;  m.  1868,  Nov.  19,  Henry  C.  Green,  a  farmer,  and  res.  in 
Wakawsa,  Shawnee  Co.,  Kan.  Children:  Edward  O.9,  Fannie  L.9, 
Florence  L.9,  Grace  B.9,  Ina.9 

VIII.  Laura  E.  (Baker),  dau.  of  Martha  J.  M.7,  b.  Nunda,  1853,  May  6; 
m.  1878,  Feb.  28,  Charles  H.  Sandford,  and  res.  in  Dansville,  N.  Y. 
Children:  Ray  B.9,  Katie  M.9,  Archie  B.9 

VIII.  Charles  A.  (Baker),  son  of  Martha  J.  M.7,  b.  Nunda,  1854,  May  22; 
m.  1881,  Nov.  22,  Marietta  Percival  of  Topeka,  Kan.,  b.  1861, 
Jan.  9.  He  is  a  carpenter  and  builder  and  res.  in  Arkansas  City, 
Kan.  Children:  Zella9,  Zona9,  Newell9. 
VII.  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1824,  Nov.  25;  m.  1846, 
Oct.  14,  Clarissa  M.  Clough,  b.  in  Nunda,  1827,  Jan.  1.  While 
erecting  some  shafting  in  a  factory  at  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  he  lost  his 
balance  on  the  scaffolding  and  fell.  A  piece  of  the  shafting 
struck  him  on  the  temple,  killing  him  instantly,  1886,  June  9. 
Had  three  children:  De  Lisle*,  Fred  M.»,  Ovaries  T* 

VIII.  De  Lisle,  son  of  Thomas7,  b.  Nashua,  N.  H.,  1848,  Sept.  5;  m.  1883, 
Sept.  26,  Mary  A.  McCord,  b.  Big  Flats,  N.  Y.,  1861,  March  27. 
Res.  in  Avoca,  N.  Y.  Children  b.  there:  Albert  L.9,  Carrie  May9, 
Minnie  Maud.9 

VIII.  Fred  M.,  son  of  Thomas7,  b.  in  Nunda,  N.  Y.,  1852,  May  26;  m. 
1870,  March  13,  Frances  Taft,  Addison,  N.  Y.,  b.  1854,  July  18. 
Res.  in  Avoca,  N.  Y.     Children:  Fred  A.,  Edward  T. 

VIII.  Charles  T.,  son  of  Thomas7,  b.  Pike,  N.  Y.,  1861,  Nov.  9;  m.  1890, 
Sept.  24,  Leda  E.  Shults,  b.  Wheeler,  N.  Y.,  1867,  Dec.  21.  Res. 
in  Avoca,  N.  Y. 
VII.  Catherine  McAfee,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1827,  Feb.  2;  went 
with  her  parents  to  Nunda,  N.  Y.,  in  1840.  She  m.  (1)  1850, 
Sept.  7,  Jacob  Smith,  who  d.  at  Galesburg,  111.,  1863,  Oct.  15. 
She  m.  (2)  1865,  Dec.  13,  Seymour  M.  Arnold,  and  res.  in  Gales- 
burg, 111.  Had  one  child,  June  B8.,  b.  1870,  July  20. 
VII.  Charles  G.,  son  of  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1829,  April  7;  m.  Marcelia 
E.  Bradley.  He  learned  the  printer's  trade  at  Amherst,  N.  H.; 
went  to  Boston,  Mass.,  1848,  where  he  was  engaged  on  Boston 
Daily  Bee  one  year,  then  joined  his  parents  in  Nunda,  N.  Y., 
where  he  was  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Nunda  Telegraph  for  two 
years;  later  was  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  in  charge  of  the  Daily  Star. 
In  1853  went  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  employed  on  different  papers  till 
1855,  when  he  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  and  1856  to  Mount  Morris, 
111.,  where  he  started  the  Northwestern  Republican,  which  he  sold 
after  the  defeat  of  General  Fremont  for  the  presidency.     He  then 


GENEALOGIES. — ATWOOD.  859 

went  to  Galesburg,  111.,  aud  run  a  newspaper,  also  engaged  in  the 
grocery  and  coal  business,  employing  150  men,  then  for  a  year 
bought  and  shipped  horses  to  the  principal  cities  of  the  country. 
Later  went  to  Quincy,  111.,  built  a  horse  railroad  and  managed  it 
for  a  year,  then  sold  out  and  went  to  Red  Oak,  la.,  in  1875,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming  until  1890.  He  then  sold  his  property  and 
purchased  an  extensive  orange  plantation  in  Riverside,  Cal., 
where  he  says  "  he  expects  to  end  his  davs." 
VII.  Ann  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1831,  July  7; 
m.  William  Wirt,  and  res.  at  Hornellsville,  N.  Y.  She  d.  1884, 
Sept.  6,  and  he  d.  1886,  April  14.     Had  children  b.  at  Canaseraga, 

N.  Y.,  viz.:    Katie9,  Charles8,  b.   1861,  Sept.  26,   m.  ,   res. 

Hornellsville,  N.  Y.;  Susan8,  b.  1864,  Sept.  2,  m.  1887,  April  28, 
Fred  H.  Cowen,  res.  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  Anna  Belle8,  b.  1870, 
April  15,  d.  1885,  June  24. 

Till.  Katie  (Wirt),  dau.  of  Ann  Elizabeth7,  b.  at  Canasaraga,  1859, 
Oct.  20;  m.  1889,  April  27,  Charles  W.  Richardson,  and  res.  at 
Danville,  N.  Y. 
VII.  Hannah  Frances,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1833,  Aug.  24; 
m.  1859,  May  7,  A.  H.  Lemon,  who  d.  1898.  They  res.  in  Dan- 
ville, N.  Y.  Children:  William  H.8,  b.  1860,  Sept.  8;  Minnie 
Allison8;  Charles  T.8,  b.  1868,  Jan.  29. 

VIII.  Minnie  Allison  (Lemon),  dau.  of  Hannah  Frances7,  b.  Danville, 
1864,  July  26;  m.  1886,  Dec.  1,  Miller  M.  Fowler;  res.  in  Danville. 
They  have  Harold  G.9 
VI.  Stephen,  son  of  Isaac5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1790,  May  19;  m.  Amity  S. 
Lamb  of  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  and  d.  at  Nashua,  1876,  May  25. 
They  had  six  children:  Francis7,  Stephen7,  Caroline7,  Hannah 
Jane",  Lydia  Ann7,  George7. 

GENERAL  DAVID   ATWOOD. 

The  name  of  Atwood  appears  in  the  records  of  Plymouth  colony  as  early 
as  1643,  and  David  Atwood  is  of  the  seventh  generation  in  America  of  the 
name. 

In  1778  his  grandfather,  Isaac  Atwood,  removed  to  Bedford,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death  in  1836.  David  Atwood,  son  of  Isaac,  born  in 
1779,  was  married  in  1801  to  Mary  Bell,  whose  grandfather,  John  Bell, 
came  from  Coleraine,  Ireland,  to  Bedford  in  1732.  They  at  once  settled 
on  the  farm  on  the  old  Bedford  road,  which  has  always  been  the  family 
home.  Mrs.  Atwood  died  in  1857;  her  husband  lived  until  1869,  having 
attained  the  venerable  age  of  ninety  years.  Eight  children  lived  to  ma- 
turity, and  David,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  seventh  child  and 
fourth  son.  Joseph,  the  eldest  son,  removed  to  Illinois;  John,  the  next 
son,  lived  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  Albany,  N.  Y;  Daniel  Gordon  re- 
mained on  the  homestead  during  his  life,  and  there  his  son,  Daniel  Web- 
ster Atwood,  now  resides.  Of  the  daughters,  two  never  married,  one  was 
the  wife  of  the  late  Thomas  Bursiel,  of  Bedford,  and  the  youngest  and 
last  surviving  of  the  family  is  the  widow  of  Edward  Barr. 

David  Atwood  was  born  1815,  Dec.  15,  and  in  his  early  youth  enjoyed 
such  privileges  of  education  as  were  provided  during  a  short  winter  term 
by  the  common  school  of  his  native  town.  Graduating  from  this  when 
sixteen,  he  entered  the  printing-office  of  a  brother  at  Hamilton,  N.  Y. 
He  always  delighted  to  tell  that  when  he  reached  Albany  on  this  momen- 
tous journey  he  for  the  first  time  saw  a  locomotive  and  a  train  of  cars, 
but  so  primitive  was  this  mode  of  travel  that  it  could  not  accomplish  the 
distance  to  Utica  in  so  few  hours  as  did  the  more  rapid  and  popular  stage- 
coach. 

For  twelve  years  Mr.  Atwood  remained  at  Hamilton,  occupying  every 
position  in  the  printing-office  from  apprentice  to  editor  and  owner  of  the 


860  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

paper.  In  1844,  broken  in  health,  he  removed  to  a  large  farm  near  Free- 
port,  111.,  where  he  worked  industriously  for  two  years.  With  returning 
good  health  came  the  desire  tore-enter  his  chosen  profession,  and  he  went 
to  Madison,  the  capital  of  the  then  territory  of  Wisconsin.  He  purchased 
the  leading  Whig  paper  of  the  town,  a  weekly,  and  a  few  years  later 
started  the  daily  State  Journal,  remaining  in  active  control  of  it  until  the 
day  of  his  death.  General  Atwood  had  a  ready  pen,  a  retentive  memory, 
great  accuracy,  an  analytical  mind,  intellectual  strength,  and  great  cul- 
ture, valuable  gifts  for  a  journalistic  profession.  His  paper  became  the 
leading  Republican  newspaper  in  the  state,  and  under  his  vigorous  policy 
exerted  a  powerful  influence  throughout  the  entire  Northwest. 

Either  by  election  or  appointment,  General  Atwood  held  many  posi- 
tions of  trust, — justice  of  the  peace,  village  trustee,  member  of  the  assem- 
bly, U.  S.  assessor  of  internal  revenue,  representative  in  congress,  U.  S. 
commissioner  of  the  Centennial  exposition,  director  in  various  banks, 
railway,  and  insurance  companies,  and  many  others. 

The  late  Rev.  C.  W.  Wallace  of  Manchester,  a  friend  from  earliest 
childhood  of  Mr.  Atwood,  said  of  him: 

"  In  all  respects  he  is  a  self-made  man,  possessed  of  superior  natural 
abilities.  What  he  did  was  always  done  to  the  best  of  his  ability.  He 
was  never  found  waiting  for  something  to  turn  up,  but  was  ever  in  ear- 
nest, bending  circumstances  to  his  control.  I  think  the  life  and  character 
of  my  friend  well  worthy  of  the  thoughtful  consideration  of  every  young 
man  whose  only  inheritance  is  a  pair  of  naked  hands  and  whose  royal 
birthright  is  a  virtuous  ancestry." 

On  August  23,  1849,  Mr.  Atwood  was  married  to  Mary  Sweeney  of 
Potosi,  Wis.  Of  their  four  children,  Charles  David,  the  oldest,  died  in 
1878;  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of  Edward  P.  Vilas,  a  prominent  lawyer  of 
Milwaukee,  Wis.;  Harrie  F.  and  Mary  Louise  reside  in  Madison.  Gen- 
eral Atwood  died  Dec.  11,  1889,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  Mrs. 
Atwood  is  still  living. 

BARNARD. 

I.  Thomas  Barnard  of  Salisbury,  now  Amesbury,  Mass.,  b.  in  1612; 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Amesbury,  also  one  of  the  ten  pro- 
prietors of  Nantucket  Island,  in  1659;  m.  Helen  Hoyt.  They  had 
nine  ch.:  Thomas2,  Nathaniel2,  Martha2,  Mary2,  Sarah2,  Hannah2, 
Ruth2,  John2,  and  Abigail2.  He  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  1678. 
II.  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas1,  of  Amesbury,  b.  in  1641.  "Received 
Children's  Land  "  in  1659;  was  in  King  Philip's  war,  under  Capt. 
Turner,  and  received  rank  of  corporal;  m.  Sarah  Peasley.  They 
had  seven  ch:  Sarah8,  Joseph3,  Thomas3,  Hannah3,  Samuel3,  Na- 
thaniel3, and  Tristram?. 

III.  Tristram,  son  of  Thomas2;  m.  Ruth  Martin.  They  had  eight  ch.: 

Judith4,   Rachel4,  Diana4,  Rachel4  (2),  Dorothy4,   Tristram*,  and 
Ruth4. 

IV.  Tristram,  son  of  Tristram3,  b.  1721,  May  30,  d.  in  1807;  m.  Doro- 

thy Currier.  They  had  seven  ch.  Moved  to  Weare,  N..H.,  from 
Amesbury,  Mass.,  with  three  sons,  David5,  Edmund5,  and  Tris- 
tram5. 
V.  Tristram,  son  of  Tristram4,  m.  Lucy  Burnham;  settled  in  Weare, 
N.  H.  They  had  nine  ch.:  Jonathan6,  John6,  Oliver6,  Timothy6, 
Tristram6,  Daniel6,  Sarah6,  Nancy6,  and  Polly6. 
VI.  Daniel,  son  of  Tristram5,  b.  1805,  Dec.  5;  d.  1872,  July  22;  m. 
Martha  Dunlap  Riddle,  of  Bedford,  1829,  Jan.  27.  Went  to 
Weare,  N.  H.,  where  they  lived  two  years.  They  moved  to 
Bedford  in  1831,  where  they  lived  on  the  Gawn  Riddle  place, 
later  moving  to  the  Noyes  place,  about  one  half  mile  south  of  the 
Center.    In  1844  they  bought  the  Rufus  Merrill  place,  located 


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near  the  "Old  Meee ting-house,"  now  the  site"  of  the  present 
town  house.  The  said  Merrill  place  remained  the  homestead, 
where  they  both  died.  Martha  Dunlap,  his  wife,  was  a  daughter 
of  David  and  Molly  Dunlap  Riddle,  see  "Riddle  Genealogy." 
They  had  ten  ch.:  Mary  Jane1,  infant7,  David  R.7,  Hugh  R.7, 
Henry  T.7,  Martha  D.7,  Quincy7,  Margaret  A.7,  Eliza7,  and  George  F.7 

VII.  Mary  jane,  b.  1830,  Feb.  27,  in  Weare,  N.  H.;  d.  1866,  May  23,  in 
Bedford;  m.  Charles  H.  Moore,  of  Bedford,  in  1859.  He  d.  1876, 
July  24,  see  "Moore  Genealogy."  They  had  three  ch.:  Clarence 
C,  who  d.  April  28,  1861,  aged  1  year,  2  months,  and  17  days; 
Mary  A.,  who  d.  Aug.  11,  1864,  aged  2  years,  1  mo.;  Mary  J.,  who 
res.  in  IManchester. 

VII.  David  R.,  b.  1832,  June  3;  d.  1897,  Aug.  27,  in  Bedford. 

VII.  Henry  T.,  b.  1837,  Dec.  16;  d.  1881,  Oct.  16.  He  m.  H.  Louisa  Hun- 
ter, of  Nashua,  N.  H.,  1871,  Oct.  25;  she  d.  1899,  May  31,  at 
Reeds  Ferry,  N.  H.  They  had  two  ch.:  Charles  D.,  b.  1873,  Feb. 
15,  res.  in  Manchester,  N.  H;  Fred  C,  b.  1876,  Feb.  27,  d.  1882, 
March  15,  in  Manchester. 

VII.  Quincy,  b.  1842,  Nov.  23;  m.  1872,  Nov.  14,  Nancy  M.  Noyes,  dau. 

of  Ammial  and  Mary  (Shepard)  Noyes  of  Amherst.     To  them  one 

ch., Frank  H.8,  was  b.  1875,  Sept.  1.     All  res.  in  Bedford. 

VIII.  Frank  H.,  son  of  Quincy7,  b.  1875,  Sept.  1;  m.  1903,  June  24,  Nellie 

Tyson  Shepard,  dau.  of  George  F.  and  Delphina  (Smith)  Sheperd. 

VII.  Margaret  A.,  b.  1844,  April  28;  m.  Chester  E.  Dimick,  of  Lyme, 
N.  H,  1872,  June  26,  and  res.  in  Manchester,  N.  H.  They  had 
two  ch.:  Martha  B.,  b.  1875,  Oct.  28,  d.  1879,  April  2;  Chester 
Edward,  b.  1880,  Nov.  6,  a  graduate  of  the  Manchester  high  school, 
class  of  1896,  and  Harvard  college,  class  of  1900,  is  now  professor 
of  mathematics  in  Louisville,  Ky. 

VII.  George  F.,  b.  1848,  Sept.  8;  m.  Sarah  E.  Moore,  of  Merrimack, 
N.  H.,  1873,  Dec.  24.  They  now  live  on  the  Barnard  homestead. 
They  had  two  ch.:  Harry  G.,  b.  1878,  Sept.  18,  d.  1892,  April  5; 
Alice  L.,  b.  1883,  Oct.  7,  lives  in  Bedford. 

VII.  Hugh  R.,  Martha  D.,  and  Eliza,  res.  in  Manchester. 

BARNES. 

I.  Thomas  Barnes,  son  of    Rowland,  came  from  Hingham,  Norfolk 

county,  Eng.,  to  Hingham,  Mass.,  in  1637. 
II.  His  son  m.  Anne  Canterbury. 

III.  John,  their  son,  m.  Elizabeth  Vinton.     From  them  sprung  nearly 

all  of  the  name  in  New  England. 

IV.  Thomas,  son  of  John3,  came  to  New  Hampshire  and  commenced  a 

farm  in  what  is  now  Merrimack.  He  m.  Rachel  Barrett  for  his 
first  wife,  and  Susannah  Cummings  for  the  second.  His  children 
were  Asab  Thomas5,  Sarah5,  Lydia5,  Hannah5,  Betsey5,  John5,  and 
Cornelius5,  all  by  his  first  wife. 
V.  Asa,  son  of  Thomas4,  m.  Esther  Richardson,  and  settled  in  this 
town,  on  the  land  granted  to  John  Barnes,  one  of  the  original 
grantees  of  the  town.  This  farm  was  occupied  by  Gardner  Nevins 
(1850)  and  by  Thomas  Sargent  and  his  son  John  at  the  present 
time.  Children:  Asa6,  b.  1770;  Nathan*,  b.  1772;  Polly6  (Mary), 
b.  1774;  Thomas6,  b.  1776;  Cornelius6,  b.  1779;  Anna6,  b.  1781; 
Josiah6,  b.  1784. 
VI.  Capt.  Nathan,  son  of  Asa5,  m.  Anna  Remick  of  Newbury  port, 
Mass.,  and  by  her  had  eight  children:  Clarissa7,  b.  1795,  m.  1815, 
Mar.  26,  Isaac  Parker  French,  and  res.  in  Danvers,  Mass. ;  Isaac  O7. , 
b.  1798,  June  12;  Esther  R7.,  b.  1801,  m.  Gardner  Nevins,  Esq.  (see 
Nevins);   Enoch7,  b.  1803,  m.  Susan  Rebecca  Ayer  and  res.  in 


862  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Mississippi;  Mary  West7,  m.  Win.  Bradford  Tuttle,  res.  in  Balti- 
more Co.  until  her  death,  1843;  David  Patten7,  m.  Sarah  Weston 
and  res.  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Nancy  Jane1;  Henry  Winslow7,  m. 
Sarah  Lamb  and  res.  in  Wis.  Nathan  Barnes  d.  1825,  July  9; 
Anna,  his  wife,  d.  1848,  Nov.  30. 

VII.  Hon.  Isaac  O.,  son  of  Capt.  Nathan6,  b.  1798,  June  12;  m.  Hannah 
Trask  Woodbury  and  res.  in  Boston,  Mass.  He  was  for  some 
time  naval  officer  of  the  customs  for  the  district  of  Boston  and 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  afterwards,  for  several  years,  U.  S.  mar- 
shal for  Mass.  He  delivered  the  historical  address  when  our 
town  celebrated  her  one  hundreth  anniversary. 

VII.  Nancy  Jane,  dau.  of  Capt.  Nathan6,  m.  1833,  Jan.  29,  Rodney  G. 
Boutwell  of  Lyndeborough.  Had  children:  Henry  W.  Boutwell, 
M.  D.,  of  Manchester,  is  one  of  her  sons. 

A  member  of  this  family,  while  making  a  rapid  excursion  in  England  in 
the  summer  of  1850,  had  the  pleasure  of  visiting  Hingham,  Norfolk 
county,  for  .a  day  or  two,  where  he  gathered  what  was  to  be  learned  of  the 
early  history  of  his  ancestors  in  the  old  country.  Upon  leaving  Hingham 
he  was  kindly  presented  with  the  following  certificate,  which  is  published 
verbatim,  as  prepared  by  the  very  venerable  and  excellent  magistrate 
whose  signature  it  bears: 

"  Extracts  from  apparently  the  oldest  Register  Book,  of  the  Parish  of 
"  Hingham,  in  the  County  of  Norfolk,  England,  commencing  in  the  year 
"1600." 

"Marriages  Anno  do:  1610. 

"  Rowland  Barnes  and  Alice  Coop  wer  married  ye  21st  day  of  October. 

"  Baptiseings  Anno  do:  1612. 
"  Ellen  daughter  of  Rowland  Barnes  was  bapt.  the  14th.  of  Februarye. 

"  Burials  Anno  do.  1615. 
"  Alice  the  wife  of  Rowland  Barnes  was  buried  the  sixt.  of  Julye. 

"  Baptiseings  Anno  Do:  1617. 

"  Thomas  the  son  of  Rowland  Barnes  was  baptized  the  second  of  Novem- 
ber. 

"  Baptiseings  Anno  Do:  1622. 

"  Grace  the  daugter  of  Peter  Barnes,  was  baptized  the  28th  day  of  April. 

"  Baptiseings  Anno  Do:  1634. 
"  None. 

"  Burials  in  the  same  year. 

"  Rowland  Barnes  was  buried  the  eleventh  day  of  Julye. 

"  I  attest  that  the  above  are  true  extracts  and  true  copies. 

"Ph:  Jas:  Case,  Notary  Public, 
"  82d  year  of  his  age." 
"Hingham,  25th  August,  1850." 

There  is  no  person  of  the  name  of  Barnes  now  (1850)  living  in  Hing- 
ham, although  the  name  is  a  very  common  one  in  London  and  other  parts 
of  England.  After  the  most  minute  and  faithful  examination  of  the 
church  records,  made  by  the  above  aged  magistrate,  assisted  by  his 
accomplished  daughter-in-law,  Mrs.  Gilman,  no  other  notice  or  memo- 
randa could  be  found  which  seemed  to  refer  to  this  family.  It  is,  how- 
ever, exceedingly  gratifying  to  recover  even  this  account,  meagre  as  it  is, 


GENEALOGIES. — BARNES. — BARR.  863 

from  authentic  records,  so  very  ancient  and  so  liable  to  have  been  des- 
troyed. 

The  writer  of  this  brief  family  sketch  attended  divine  service  in  the  old 
village  church  standing  in  the  midst  of  the  burying-gronnd  in  Hingham. 
It  is  very  ancient,  evidently  the  work  of  the  middle  ages,  built  of  stone, 
and  so  large,  that,  with  its  extensive  nave  and  choir,  it  seems  almost 
worthy  the  name  of  a  cathedral.  It  has  resisted  the  storms  and  tempests 
of  centuries,  and  is  now,  in  its  exterior,  in  a  perfect  state  of  preservation. 
Some  very  fine  pieces  of  statuary  in  the  inside  were  marred  and  broken 
by  the  army  of  Cromwell,  during  the  Civil  war  and  Revolution,  in  which 
he  was  the  successful  leader.  Indeed,  this  beautiful  church  was  converted 
into  a  stable  for  horses,  by  the  protector,  as  was  the  Old  South  in  Boston, 
by  the  army  of  George  III,  during  our  Revolution. 

Thousands  of  our  New  England  people  trace  their  origin  to  this  same  Hing- 
ham in  Norfolk.  Among  the  families  well  known  with  us  the  Lincolns, 
the  Cushings,  the  Spragues.  and  the  Gilmans  are  from  this  place.  Our 
governor,  John  Taylor  Gilman,  was  of  the  Hingham  stock.  He  has  two 
near  relatives,  who  still  reside  (1851)  near  the  old  church, — Samuel  H.  L. 
N.  Gilman,  Esq.,  and  his  brother  Col.  Gilman  of  the  British  army.  Both 
of  them  bear  a  strong  family  resemblance  to  our  late  governor,  and  both 
are  highly  educated  and  true  English  gentlemen,  of  whose  relationship 
the  governor  might  well  have  been  proud  in  his  best  days.  (History  of 
Bedford,  pub.  1851.) 

BARR. 

John  Barr,  with  two  brothers,  Samuel  and  Gabriel,  came  to  this  coun- 
try with  a  nephew,  James  Barr,  from  Ballimony,  county  of  Antrim,  Ire- 
land, about  1720,  and  settled  at  Londonderry,  N.  H.  The  inscription  on 
the  stone  in  the  Londonderry  cemetery,  placed  to  the  memory  of  the  wife 
of  John  Barr,  very  nearly  fixes  the  date  of  emigration  of  the  Barr  family. 
It  reads,  "  Here  lies  the  body  of  Jean  Barr,  who  died  Nov  11,  1737,  in  the 
66  year  of  her  age  who  lived  17  years  in  this  land."  We  also  find  where 
John  Barr  had  eighty  acres  of  land  laid  out  in  Londonderry,  1722,  March, 
and  recorded  1723,  Jan.  28. 

The  Barr  homestead  in  Londonderry  had  origin  in  a  grant  of  land  to 
John  Barr  and  sons.  They  early  kept  an  inn,  as  appears  from  the  records 
of  the  committee  appointed  in  1726,  by  the  general  court  of  Massachusetts 
Bay,  to  lay  out  the  town  of  Concord,  N.  H.  In  the  history  of  Rockingham 
county  we  find  the  following:  "  Before  May  12,  1726,  John  Barr  who  lived 
on  the  Taylor  place  in  the  East  Parish,  kept  a  tavern  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  man  and  beast."  This  is  made  certain  by  the  following  extract 
from  the  journal  of  John  Wainwright,  clerk  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
committee  sent  to  lay  out  Penacook,  now  Concord:  "  In  going  from  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  to  Penacook,  about  11  or  12  o'clock  we  arrived  at  Nutfield,  alias 
Londonderry,  and  refreshed  ourselves  and  horses  at  the  house  of  one  John 
Barr,  an  Irish  tavern  keeper,  but  we  had  nothing  of  him  but  small  beer." 

Potter's  history  of  Manchester  speaks  of  John  Barr  being  in  the  cele- 
brated siege  of  Londonderry,  Ire.,  1688-'89.  A  soldier  under  King  William, 
he  endured  all  the  suffering  and  distress  of  that  memorable  time  and  for 
services  there  rendered,  in  common  with  the  other  defenders  of  that  city, 
was  exempt  from  taxation  by  act  of  parliament  throughout  the  British 
dominions.  In  consequence  of  this  honorable  tribute  to  his  courage,  John 
Barr's  lands  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  were  exempt  from  taxation  until  the 
subversion  of  British  power  in  this  province  by  the  Revolution. 

There  were  several  other  men  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  who  were  in  the 
siege  of  Londonderry,  Ire.,  and  entitled  to  like  exemption  from  taxation. 
Of  these  were  Rev.  Matthew  Clark,  William  Caldwell,  and  Abraham  Blair. 
The  farms  owned  by  these  soldiers  and  their  descendants  were  known  as 
the  exempt  farms. 

An  heirloom  is  now  in  possession  of  the  Barr  family  obtained  in  the  fol- 


864  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

lowing  manner:  After  the  siege  of  Londonderry,  Ire.,  many  of  the  soldiers 
were  marched  out  of  the  city  by  orders  of  General  Kirk,  under  the  pretence 
that  a  certain  amount  of  money  was  to  be  distributed  among  them,  but 
they  were  disbanded  without  pay  or  provision  and  had  to  get  home  the  best 
way  they  could.  John  Barr  was  among  them  and  started  for  Ballimony, 
weak  from  the  effects  of  a  long  siege  and  faint  for  the  want  of  food. 

In  the  evening  he  came  to  a  house  and  requested  to  stay  all  night.  The 
woman  of  the  house  said  she  could  not  entertain  him.  "  But,"  says  he, 
"I  have  got  in  and  unless  you  are  stronger  than  I,  I  shall  stay."  He 
noticed  two  fowls  roasting  by  the  fire.  The  woman  became  very  pleasant 
and  full  of  conversation.  She  said  she  wanted  to  make  a  rope  and  asked 
him  if  he  could  assist.  He  said  he  could.  She  got  her  flax  and  crank  and 
they  went  to  work.  He  twisted  and  stepped  back  toward  the  door;  she 
held  the  flax  and  rope.  When  he  reached  the  door  he  asked  if  the  rope  was 
long  enough.  "  No,"  she  said,  and  he  stepped  outside.  The  rope  followed 
him  instantly,  the  door  was  shut  and  fastened,  and  his  gun  and  pack  were 
thrown  out  of  the  window. 

"Well,"  thought  he,  "I  am  outwitted;"  but  he  traveled  on,  and  seeing  an 
old  deserted  mill  thought  he  would  turn  in  for  the  night,  and  concluded  the 
safest  place  would  be  in  the  hopper.  He  had  not  been  there  long  before 
he  saw  a  light  approaching  the  mill,  and  soon  there  entered  a  man  and  a 
woman  with  two  cooked  fowls  and  a  silver  tankard  of  beer.  They  being 
very  familiar,  the  soldier  thought  he  would  like  to  see  what  was  going  on, 
and  raising  his  head  for  this  purpose,  the  hopper  fell  and  came  down  with 
a  crash.  The  two  persons  fled,  leaving  the  fowls  and  tankard  of  beer. 
Our  hero  got  up,  made  a  good  supper  of  the  fowls,  put  the  remainder  in 
his  pouch,  and  with  the  morning  departed  on  his  journey.  The  tankard 
he  brought  to  Londonderry,  N.  H. 

Col.  Samuel  Barr,  brother  of  John,  lived  at  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  and 
had  a  daughter,  Jean  Barr,  born  1744,  Jan.  4,  who  married  Daniel  Hall  of 
Chester,  N.  H.,  born  1744,  July  28.  Their  offspring  comprises  most  of  the 
people  by  the  name  of  Hall  in  Chester. 

Col.  Samuel  Barr  was  a  man  of  ability,  and  soon  became  of  much  influ- 
ence in  the  town.  He  was  frequently  moderator  and  selectman,  and 
in  1741-'42  represented  the  town  at  the  Provincial  Assembly,  and  was 
again  elected  to  the  office  in  1761  and  the  six  years  next  following.  As  a 
military  man  he  was  well  known  in  his  day.  He  had  command  of  the 
regiment  in  section,  when  such  command  was  an  honor  and  conferred 
alone  for  merit  as  a  man  and  a  soldier. 

In  Willey's  Book  of  Nutfield  we  find  the  following  on  page  259  : 

"The  longest  courtship  on  the  records  of  Nutfield  is  that  of  Gabriel  Barr, 
brother  of  John,  and  Rachel  Wilson,  who  kept  company  forty  years  and 
finally  died  unmarried.  Love  laughs  at  locksmiths  but  not  at  religious  dif- 
ferences. Gabriel  belonged  to  Rev.  William  Davidson's  parish  and  his 
sweetheart  to  Rev.  Mr.  McGregor's,  and  they  could  not  agree  which  of  the 
two  good  Presbyterian  churches  they  should  attend,  the  feud  between  the 
two  parishes  being  extremely  bitter.  The  Scotch  blood  that  run  in  the 
vtdns  of  the  lovers  made  it  impossible  for  either  to  yield,  and  hence  the 
long  courtship  ended  only  by  death." 

James  Barr1,  with  three  uncles,  John,  Samuel,  and  Gabriel,  came  to 
America  and  settled  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  about  1720,  but  soon 
removed  to  Goffstown.  He  was  b.  1705,  in  Ballimony,  county  of 
Antrim,  Ire.,  and  d.  1788,  May  1.  Ann  McPherson,  his  wife,  was 
b.  1708,  in  the  same  town  and  d.  1798,  Feb.  26.  Their  ch.  were: 
John'2,  Sarah2  James2,  Samuel2,  Molly2. 
II.  James,  son  of  James1;  m.  Margaret  McKenny,  b.  1745,  and  d.  1829, 
Feb.  9.  He  d.  at  Goffstown,  1824,  Nov.  3.  They  had  five  ch.: 
Samuel3,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1778;  John3,  moved  to  Maine;  David3,  b. 
in  Goffstown,  1783;  Molly3,  m.  a  Houston;  Daniel3,  m.  a  Miss 
Kimball. 


GENEALOGIES. — BARR.  865 

III.  Samuel,  son  of  James2,  b.  1778;  m.  1806,  Dec.  25,  Anna  Frye,  at 

Dracut,  Mass.  She  was  b.  1779,  and  d.  1830,  July  13.  Their 
ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford,  were:  Timothy  Frye4,  b.  1807,  Oct.  25, 
d.  1864,  Julv  6,  at  Beetown,  Wis.,  where  he  was  buried;  Charlotte*, 
b.  1810,  Jan.  8;  James*,  b.  1814,  d.  1817,  Feb.  14;  Frank4,  b.  1817, 
Nov.  26,  d.  1893,  May  3,  at  Hudson,  Mich.,  where  he  was  buried; 
Cyrus4,  b.  1820,  d.  1854,  Oct.  31,  at  Beetown,  Wis.,  buried  in  Bed- 
ford; Hannah4,  b.  1822,  d.  1825,  Sept.  6. 

IV.  Charlotte,  dau.  of  Samuel,  b.  1810,  Jan.  8;  m.,  1842,  Nov.  20,  Josiah 

Stovpll;  she  d.  at  Hudson,  Mich.,  1889,  Feb.  25,  leaving  a  son, 
Charles  Barr5,  b.  1843,  Aug.  25. 

III.  David,  son  of  James2,  b.  1783;  m.  Polly  Dnnlap,  who  was  b.   1782. 

Their  children  were  b.  in  Goffstown:  Nancy4,  b.  1813,  Dec.  13, 
m.,  1844,  Jan.  1,  James  Moore  of  Concord,  she  d.  1888,  April  25; 
Ini*,  b.  1815,  Nov.  27;  James4,  b.  1818,  April  3,  m.,  1848,  Nov.  28, 
Mary  Whiffle,  he  d.  1894,  Dec.  6;  Thomas  D.4,  b.  1822,  April  7,  m. 

1852,  Jan.  1,  Harriet  Potter,  d.  1856,  Nov.  13. 

IV.  Ira,  son  of  David',  b.  1815,  Nov.  27;  m.  1840,  Oct.  13,  Nancy,  b.  1816, 

Dec.  9,  dau._of  John  and  Nancy  (Dunlap)  Barr;  he  d.  in  Manches- 
ter, 1888,  May  29;  his  wife  d.  1897,  Aug.  13.  No  children. 
II.  Lieut.  Samuel,  son  of  James1,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1754;  was  a  man  of 
ability,  and  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution  from  this  town;  he  m. 
Margaret,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Boies  of  Bedford,  and  settled 
in  Henniker,  whence  he  removed  to  Bedford,  where  he  d.,  1842, 
Sept.  25.  His  wifeb.  1759  (?),  d.  1845,  April  6.  Their  ch.  were: 
James3,  d.  young;  Thomas3,  b.  in  Henniker,  1784,  Dec.  25;  Ann3, 
m.  a  McAllister;  John3,  b.  in  Henniker,  1789,  Feb.  8;  Samuel3,  m. 
Miss  McMullen  of  New  Boston;  William3,  b.  1797,  d.  1814,  March 
25;  Robert3,  m.  and  lived  at  Munsville,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d. 

III.  John,  son  of  Lieut,  Samuel2,  b.  1789,  Feb.  8;  m.,  1st,  1814,  Dec, 

Nancy  Dunlap  of  Goffstown,  who  d.  1816,  Dec.  19.    He  m.,  2d, 

1818,  Sept.,  Sophia  Richardson  of  Goffstown,  who  d.  1828,  May 
8.  He  m.,  3d,  1828,  Oct.,  Clarissa  Eaton  of  Goffstown,  who  d. 
1891,  Dec.  22,  aged  85.  John  d.  1874,  Sept.  30,  aged  86.  There 
were  eleven  ch.  by  these  marriages:  1st  mar.,  Nancy4,  b.  in  Bed- 
ford, 1816,  Dec.  9,  m.  Ira  Barr  (see  Barr);  2d  mar.,  John  N.*,  b. 

1819,  Sept.  22;  Matthew4,  b.  1821,  Oct.  16;  Samuel4,  b.  1823,  March 
6,  d.  1864,  Aug.  22;  Maria*,  b.  1824,  April  7;  Julia  Ann*,  b.  1826, 
June  6,  m.  Elijah  C.  Stevens  (see  Stevens);  3d  mar.,  David  H*,  b. 
1830,  March  10;  James  E.4,  b.  1832,  May  13,  d.  1857,  Nov.  11; 
Rufus  C.4,  b,  1834,  Nov.  15,  d.  1857,  Sept.  3;  Clinton*,  b.  1841, 
April  5;  Mary  H.\  b.  1843,  June  8. 

IV.  John  N,  son  of  John3,  b.  1819,  Sept.  22;   m.,  1st,  1844,  June  18, 

Mary  Annis  French,  b.  1824,  Oct.  4,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah 
(Holbrook)  French.  She  d.  1883,  June  5.  They  had  four  ch.  b. 
in  Nashua:  Henrietta5,  b.  1847,  Feb.  11,  d.  1848,  July  30;  John 
Henri5,  b.  1848,  Aug.  10;  Frank5,  b.  1851,  Dec.  2;  Merab  Etta3,  b. 

1853,  July  19,  m.  1879,  Nov.  19,  Edwin  F.  Knight  of  Norway,  Me. 
No  ch.  John  N.  m.,  2d,  1885,  April  22,  Sarah  E.  Dodge  of 
Groton,  Mass.,  and  d.  1897,  Oct.  10. 

V.  John  Henri,  son  of  John  N.4,  b.  1848,  Aug.  10;  m.,  1st,.  1872,  Sept. 
26,  Jennie  Frazier  of  Weare.  She  d.  1875,  March  28,  without 
ch.  He  m.,  2d,  1879,  Oct.  15,  Abby  Isabel  Batchelder  of  Milford. 
They  have  two  ch.  b.  in  Nashua:  Helen6,  b.  1886,  May  16;  Kath- 
erine6,  b.  1889,  March  10. 

V.  Frank,  son  of  John  N.4,  b.  1851,  Dec.  2;  is  assistant  general  mana- 
ger of  B.  &  M.  R.  R.     He  m.  1875,  Nov.  11,  Alice  J.  Cooper  of 
Nashua,  and  res.  in  Winchester,  Mass.     They  had  three  ch.  b 
in  Nashua:  Frank  Henri6,  b.  1877,  Sept.  18,  d.  1884,  Dec.  9;  Mar. 
guerite6,  b.  1883,  Aug.  13;  Robert  Cooper6,  b.  1889,  Feb.  3. 
56 


866  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

IV.  Matthew,  son  of  John*,  b.  1821,  Oct.  16;  m.  1748,  June  23,  Esther 
A.  Clapp  of  Marlborough,  N.  H.  He  d.  1882,  July  17.  They  had 
two  ch.  b.  in  Nashua:  Eva  L.5,  b.  1851,  Dec.  10;  Carrie  E.5,  b. 
1853,  Aug.  24,  m.  1877,  Nov.  20,  John  F.  Stark  of  Nashua. 
V.  Eva  L.,  dau.  of  Matthew4,  b.  1851,  Dec.  10;  m.  1873,  Nov.  6,  John 
F.  Stark  of  Nashua;  she  d.  1875,  July  9.  They  had  two  ch.: 
Helen6,  b.  1874,  Aug.  14,  d.  1874,  Dec.  24;  George  F.6,  b.  1875, 
July  2,  m.  1899,  Oct.  7,  Mrs.  Alice  Daniels. 

IV.  Maria,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1824,  April  7;  m.  1851,  March  6,  George  W. 
Sargent  of  Wallingford,  Vt.  He  d.  1853,  June;  she  d.  1867,  Aug. 
15.  They  had  one  ch.,  George  IF.5,  b.  in  Wallingford,  1853,  Mar.  18. 
V.  George  W.  (Sargent),  son  of  Maria4;  b.  1853,  March  18;  m.  1877, 
July  5,  Jennie  Lord  of  Montpelier,  Vt.  They  have  ch.:  Mary 
Burnham6,  b.  in  Skaneateles,  N.  Y.,  1879,  July  8;  Henry  Dida- 
ma6,  b.  in  Skaneateles,  1881,  July  6;  Ruth  Maria6,  b.  in  Seneca 
Castle,  N.  Y,  1895,  May  13. 

IV.  David  H.,  son  of  John3,  b.  1830,  March  10;  m.  1853,  March  29,  Lucy 
Ann,  b.  Billerica,  Mass.,  1833,  Dec.  31,  dau.  of  George  D.  and 
Sylvia  (Stearns)  Whitford.  He  d.  1884,  Dec.  22;  she  d.  1891,  Oct. 
19.  They  had  five  ch. :  Charles  Edwin5,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1854, 
Jan.  27;  Mary  Ellen5,  b.  1856,  Feb.  6;  Ira5,  b.  1858,  Oct.  13; 
Nancy  Emma5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1861,  Dec.  22,  m.  Herman  Foster 
(see  Foster);  Lucy  Fisk5,  b.  1864,  Dec.  29,  d.  1885,  Jan.  3. 

IV.  Clinton,  son  of  John3,  b.  1841,  April  5;  m.  1862,  July  5,  Matilda 
Palmer  of  Manchester.     He  d.  1864,  Aug.  24;  she  d.  1888,  Dec.  17. 

IV.  Mary  H.,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1843,  June  8;  m.  1872,  Nov.  6,  Clarence 
H.  Swallow  of  Nashua,  who  d.  1879,  Oct.  26.  They  had  four  ch. 
b.  in  Nashua:  James  C.5,  b.  1874,  March  8,  m.  1902,  Jan.  20, 
Martha  L.  Barry  of  Littleton;  William  E.5,  b.  1876,  July  7,  d. 
1878,  Nov.  1;  George  W.5,  b.  1878,  March  27;  William  C.5,  b.  1880, 
June  21. 
V.  William  C.  (Swallow),  son  of  Mary  H.,  b.  1880,  June  21:  m.  1899, 
Dec.  18,  Harriet  L.  Hutchinson  of  Manchester.  They  have  one 
ch.,  Richard  Barr6,  b.  in  Manchester,  1900,  July  14. 

III.  Thomas,  son  of  Lieut.  Samuel2,  b.  1784,  Dec.  25;  m.  1812,  Dec.  2, 

Abigail  Palmer,  b.  1789,  May  25,  and  d.  in  Bedford,  1868,  May  25. 
He  d.  in  Bedford,  1875,  Aug.  26.  Thomas  moved  to  the  house 
built  by  bis  father,  Lieut.  Samuel  Barr,  a  few  rods  across  the 
road,  opposite  the  old  home,  in  1815,  his  brother,  John,  occupying 
one  half  the  house.  His  grandson,  Thomas  Edward  Barr,  now 
lives  there.  There  were  six  ch.  b.  Bedford:  Edward*,  b.  1813, 
Sept.  14;  Margaret  Ann4,  b.  1815,  March  24,  m.  Daniel  Gordon 
Atwood  (see  Atwood);  Elbridge  Gerry1.,  b.  1817,  May  7;  Caroline4, 
b.  1819,  June  28,  m.  Leonard  Rundlett  (see  Rundlett);  Robert 
Palmer*,  b.  1828,  March  1. 

IV.  Edward,  son  of  Thomas3,  b.  1813,  Sept.  14;  m.  1839,  Jan.  15,  Jane 

Gordon,  b.  1819,  Aug.  21,  dau.  of  David  and  Mary  (Bell)  Atwood. 
They  lived  to  celebrate  their  sixty-second  wedding  anniversary, 
many  friends  calling  to  congratulate  the  happy  couple  on  the 
sixty- two  prosperous  years  of  wedded  life.  He  d.  1901,  April  21. 
They  had  eight  ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford:  Em.eline  Listou5,  b.  1840, 
Dec.  1;  Olive  Jane5,  b.  1843,  Nov.  4;  Harriet  Griffin5,  b.  1845,  Oct. 
6,  d.  1857,  Oct.  7;  Lewis  Cass5,  b.  1848,  July  31;  Marv  Abbie5,  b.  1850, 
Oct.  1;  Hannah  E.5,  b.  1854,  Aug.  6;  Thomas  Edward5,  b.  1856, 
Oct.  28,  m.  1886,  Oct.  20,  Lucy  Maria  Gamsby,  and  res.  on  the 
Barr  homestead;  Nettie5,  b.  I860,  May  20. 
V.  Emeline  Liston,  dau.  of  Edward4,  b.  1840,  Dec.  1;  m.  1864,  Dec.  17, 
William  McPherson  of  Manchester.  Had  ch.,  b.  in  Manchester: 
Walter  Edward6,  b.  1867,  Sept.  6;  Arthur  John6,  b.  1871,  Feb.  12; 
George  William6,  b.  1873,  Oct.  17,  m.  1900,  Nov.  7,  Helen  Maud 
Dearborn;  Lovie  Jane6,  b.  1874,  d.  young. 


GENEALOGIES. — BARR. — BARRON.  867 

VI.  Arthur  John  (McPhersou),  son  of  Emeline  Liston,  b.  1871,  Feb.  12; 
m.  1896,  June  4,  Florence  Arline  Sleeper  of  Claremont,  where 
their  two  ch.  were  b.:  Von  Jay7,  b.  1898,  Feb.  4;  Harold  Arthur7,  b. 
1901,  March  28. 

V.  Olive  Jane,  dau.  of  Edward4,  b.  1843,  Nov.  4;  m.  1862,  Feb  18,  John 
Harrington.  She  d.  1863,  July  31,  leaving  a  son,  Eddie  Barr6,  who 
was  b.  1863,  May  17,  and  d.  1867,  Oct.  7. 

V.  Lewis  Oass,  son  of  Edward*,  b.  1848,  July  31;  m.  1892,  Feb.  10,  Vien- 
na A.  Batchelder.     They  have  Ralph  James6,  b.  1892,  Nov.  16. 

V.  Hannah  E.,  dau.  of  Edward4,  b.  1854,  Aug.  6;  m.  1880,  Nov.  3, 
Edward  Pay  son  Merrill  of  Manchester,  where  their  three  ch.  were 
b.:  Alice  Bertha6,  b.  1883,  July  19;  Etta  Elizabeth6,  b.  1885,  Jan. 
27;  Arthur  Pavson6,  b.  1888,  Oct.  10. 

V.  Nettie,  dau.  of  Edward4,  b.  1860,  May  20;  m.  1885,  Sept.  30,  Win- 
throp  Hoyt.     Their  son,  Malcohn  Eugene6,  was  b.  1886,  Dec.  21. 

IV.  Elbridge  Gerry,  son  of  Thomas3,  b.  1817,  May  7;  m.  Rhoda  French, 
b.  1822,  Sept.  24,  dau.  of  Ebenez?r  and  Rhoda  (Coburn)  French; 
He  d.  in  Bedford  1883,  Dec.  4.  They  had  five  ch. :  Addie  Lizzie5, 
b.  Bedford,  1849,  Oct.  5,  m.  Foster  Joseph  Tinker  (see  Tinker) ; 
Lucien5,  b.  1854,  Oct.  7,  d.  at  New  Boston,  1896,  Dec.  7;  Thomas 
Oscar5,  b.  Cambridge,  Mass.,  1857,  April  15,  m.  1898,  April  14, 
Alice  Mary  Wilson;  Charles  Libbey5,  b.  in  Cambridge,  1859,  Jan. 
15,  m.  1895,  Nov.  13,  Lucy  Ellen  Chaplin;  Fred  Gerryb,  b.  Man- 
chester, 1861,  Jan.  7. 

V.  Fred  Gerry,  son  of  Elbridge  G.,  b.  1861,  Jan.  7;  m.  1895,  Aug.  24, 
Carrie  Davis  Goodwin.  Thev  have  one  ch.,  Dorothy  Goodwin6, 
b.  1900,  June  13. 

IV.  Robert  Palmer,  son  of  Thomas8,  b.  1828,  March  1;  m.,  1st,  1848, 
Margaret  Ann  Butterfield,  who  d.  1852,  Dec.  6.  Robert  went  to 
California  with  his  brother,  Elbridge,  in  1852;  returned  1859,  May 
27,  and  m.,  2d,  1861,  Elniira  Hurlburt,  who  d.  in  Manchester, 
1866,  March  28.     He  d.  at  Bedford,  1897,  Oct.  7. 

BARRON.     No.  1. 

I.  Moses  Barron  rem.  from  Chelmsford  to  Bedford  about  1740.  By 
reference  to  the  early  records  of  the  town  we  find  he  occupied  a 
prominent  place  in  society.  He  was  a  large  landowner,  possess- 
ing about  3,000  acres  in  Bedford,  Merrimack,  and  Amherst.  He 
d.  in  1770,  his  estate  being  the  first  settled  by  the  probate  court. 
He  had  two  wives  by  whom  he  had  sixteen  ch.,  whose  descend- 
ants are  scattered  through  different  states  of  the  Union.  Among 
them  might  be  mentioned  the  Barrons,  famous  for  their  connec- 
tion with  the  White  Mountain  hotels. 
II.  Silas  Barron,  third  ch.  of  Moses1  by  his  first  wife,  was  the  first 
white  male  ch.  b.  in  town.  He  rem.  to  the  then  province  of 
Maine,  his  occupation  being  that  of  surveyor  of  land.  He  never 
m.,  and  d.  about  1816,  aged  76. 

The  town  records  have  the  following: 

Capt.  Moses  Barron  and  Sarah  his  wife  had  ch.:  Abel,  b.  17 — ,  Feb. 
3;  Jonathan,  b.  1767,  April  9. 

Benjamin  Barron  and  Chloe  his  wife  had  ch.:  Chloe,  b.  in  Am- 
herst, 1785,  Nov.  9;  Sarah  Lynkfield,  b.  in  Amherst,  1789,  July  2; 
Hannah  Phelps,  b.  1791,  Feb.  23;  Martha  OdeU,  b.  1793,  Feb.  23; 
Nancy  McMullen,  b.  1795,  Jan.  13;  Hezekiah  Lovejoy,  b.  1796, 
Oct.  30. 


868  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

BARRON.    No.  2. 

I.  Samuel  Barron,  b.  in  Merrimack;  m.,  1st,  about  1813,  Ann  Moor,  b. 
in  Bedford,  1785,  June  12,  dau.  of  John  and  Annis  (Wallace) 
Moor.  He  was  a  farmer  and  earned  a  competence.  His  wife  d. 
1841,  Dec.  18,  and  he  m.,  2d,  Rebecca  Ayers,  who  d.  1863,  Jan.  18. 
He  d.  1865,  April  6,  aged  80-7-6.  Oh.,  1st  mar.,  b.  Merrimack: 
Albert2,  b.  1814,  April  21;  Samuel,  Jr.2,  b.  1816,  April  3,  d.  1819, 
April  19;  William  Moor2,  b.  1818,  June  5;  James2,  b.  1820,  May  27, 
d.  1847,  Oct.  16,  unm;  Charlotte  A.2,  b.  1822,  June  20;  Benjamin2, 
b.  1824,  Dec.  8,  d.  young;  Lucy  J.2,  b.  1826,  May  26,  d.  1855,  May 
13,  unm. 

II.  Albert,  son  of  Samuel,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1814,  April  21;  m.  1834, 
Oct.  19,  Mary  M.  Heath  of  Merrimack.  He  d.  in  Colorado,  1886, 
July  21.  Oh.:  Samuel3,  William3,  Mary  F.3,  George  W.3,  Milo 
Whitnev3,  Charlotte  A3. 

II.  William  Moor,  son  of  Samuel1,  b.  Merrimack,  1818,  June  5;  m.,  1st, 
1855,  April  10,  Sarah  Reed,  b.  Woburn,  Mass.,  1825,  Nov.  25,  and 
d.  1856,  July  26.  He  m.,  2d,  1868,  April  2,  Mary  J.  Burton  of 
Thibadeaux,  La.  He  d.  at  Bryan,  Texas,  1868,  Oct.  9.  Ch.,  1st 
mar.,  Sarah  E.3;  by  2d  mar.,  Wm.  Wallace.3 

II.  Charlotte  A.,  dau.  of  Samuel1,  b.  Merrimack,  1822,  June  20;  m.  1860, 
Aug.  26,  Ephraim  Colburn,  res.  Woburn,  Mass.  One  ch.,  Sarah 
J3. 
It  is  quite  probable  that  Samuel1  Barron  was  a  descendant  of  Moses1 
Barron,  the  ancestor  referred  to  in  the  preceding  family  though 
we  cannot  trace  the  connection. 

BARTLETT. 

I.  William  T.1,  was  b.  in  Wilcot,  Wiltshire  county,  Eng.,  1808,  June 
20,  being  one  of  13  ch.  His  wife,  Ann  Goddard,  was  b.  in  Wootan, 
Wiltshire  county,  Eng,  1810,  April  9,  being  one  of  11  ch.  They 
emigrated  to  Canada  in  1840;  their  ch.,  Harriett  Elizabeth2,  Mary 
Ann2,  Patience2,  and  Stephen2,  accompanying  them.  To  these 
were  added  Joseph  Jesse2,  John  Henry2,  William  Charles2,  Jan- 
nette2,  and  Sarah  Jane2.  William  T.  d.  1893,  in  Campton,  N.  H. 
His  wife,  Ann,  d.  1871,  Jan.  17,  in  Northfield,  N.  H. 
II.  John  Henry,  son  of  William  T.,  was  b.  in  Brome,  Province  Quebec, 
1844,  Sept.  9.  He  settled  in  U.  S.  in  1860,  at  Derby  Vt.  Later 
moved  to  Barnstead,  N.  H.;  came  to  Manchester,  1897,  and  rem. 
to  Bedford,  1898.  He  was  a  veteran  of  the  Rebellion,  joining  the 
army  when  quite  young  as  a  member  of  Company  B,  Eighth  Vt. 
regiment,  with  which  he  was  connected  nearly  three  years.  Has 
preached  twenty- five  years  as  a  member  of  the  Christian  Advent 
denomination.  He  m.,  1st,  1865,  Hattie  E.  Griffin,  b.  1848,  Aug. 
9,  at  Newport,  Vt.  She  d.  1870,  Nov.  12.  He  m.,  2d,  1873,  June 
30,  Mary  H.  Foss,  b.  1856,  Jan.  31,  Barnstead.  Ch.:  Infant  son3, 
b.  Derby,  Vt.,  1868,  Nov.  12,  d.  young;  Gyrta3,  b.  Barnstead,  1875, 
Dec.  20;  Hattie  M.,  b.  1877,  Oct.  25,  d.  1879,  Dec.  28;  Beulah  M., 
b.  1884,  Dec.  9. 

BEAL. 

I.  Bradford  Beal  was  b.  in  Milton,  Mass.,  1812,  May  2,  having  ten 
brothers  and  two  sisters.  As  a  young  man  he  learned  the  shoe- 
maker's trade,  as  did  also  several  of  his  brothers.  It  is  stated  that 
people  us?d  to  stop  and  look  in  at  their  shop  window  when  they  were 
at  work,  for  even  in  those  days  it  was  a  rare  occurrence  to  see  a 


GENEALOGIES. — BEAL. — BELL.  869 

father  and  eight  sous  working  together  at  the  shoemaker's  trade. 
He  was  a  resident  of  Manchester  in  its  early  days,  and  built  the 
first  Island  Poud  house  at  Massabesic  lake.  In  1849  he  went  to 
California,  where  he  remained  eight  years,  then  settled  in  North 
Haverhill,  N.  H.  Mr.  Beal,  with  his  wife,  Rhoda  Demerritt,  came 
to  Bedford  in  1866;  they  were  accompanied  by  their  son,  Charles 
Bradford,  and  engaged  in  farming  in  the  south  part  of  the  town. 
While  in  the  hayfield  in  1894,  July,  one  of  his  feet  was  nearly  sev- 
ered from  the  ankle  by  a  mowing  machine,  rendering  amputation 
necessary.  Though  obliged  to  get  about  with  a  wooden  foot  after 
this,  if  asked  how  he  was,  he  invariably  replied,  "  Pretty  and  well. " 
He  dropped  dead  1896,  May  16,  aged  84  years.  On  July  15,  of  the 
same  year,  their  buildings  were  struck  by  lightning  and  burned 
to  the" ground.  The  family  then  rem.  to  Manchester,  where  they 
now  res.  Rhoda  D.,  wife  of  Bradford,  d.  in  Manchester,  1901, 
September  2,  aged  83  years,  and  is  buried  in  the  family  lot  in  Bed- 
ford. They  had  two  ch.,  Charles  Bradford2  and  Ella  Nettie'2,  who 
d.  1875,  a  member  of  the  senior  class  in  the  Manchester  high 
school. 
II.  Charles  Bradford,  son  of  Bradford1;  farmer,  now  retired;  his  boy- 
hood was  largely  spent  at  Newton,  Mass.;  graduated  from  Bryant 
&  Stratton's  commercial  college,  Boston,  1867,  fitted  for  a  book- 
keeper but  ill  health  compelled  a  return  to  the  farm.  While  a 
resident  of  Bedford,  was  prominent  in  town  affairs,  serving  as 
first  selectman,  superintendent  of  schools,  and  representative.  He 
m.  1870,  June  7,  Anna  Elizabeth,  b.  Norwich,  Vt.,  dau.  of  Sher- 
man and  Elizabeth  (Fletcher)  Ruggles.  Have  two  ch.:  Bertha 
Fletcher3,  b.  1876,  Oct.  14;  Jennie  Woodman3,  b.  1883,  Sept.  3,  now 
a  member  of  the  Sophomore  class  of  Boston  university. 
III.  Bertha  F.,  dau.  of  Charles  B.2,  b.  1876,  Oct.  14;  m.  1896,  Jan.  1, 
Carroll  L.  McQuesten,  and  res.  in  Bedford.  Their  buildings  were 
totally  destroyed  by  fire  1903,  Sept.  They  have  one  son,  Charles 
Bradford.4 

BELL. 

I.  John  Bell,  b.  in  Ireland,  1696,  came  to  Bedford  about  1736.  He  was 
followed  in  1739  by  his  wife,  Katherine,  who  was  b.  1697,  and  d. 
1746,  Jan.  4.  She  was  accompanied  by  their  four  ch.:  Mary2, 
John2,  Joseph2,  and  Susanna2.  They  lived  for  some  time  in  a  log 
house,  in  what  is  now  called  the  "  Old  Orchard,"  and  then  moved 
to  the  "thirds,"  so  called,  near  where  Rodney  McLaughlin  lived. 
He  d.  1763,  Feb.  28,  and  his  gravestone  is  still  to  be  seen  in  the 
old  yard. 
II.  Mary,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  in  Ireland,  1721;  m.  Gawn  Riddle  and  d. 

1813,  Jan.  7.  (See  Riddle.) 
II.  John,  son  of  John1,  b.  in  Ireland,  1732,  came  to  Bedford  with  his 
mother,  when  he  was  seven  years  of  age.  He  m.,  1st,  Jane  Carr, 
who  soon  d.  without  children.  He  m.,  2d,  Sarah  Bell  of  London- 
derry. John  Bell  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution  and  served 
under  Gen.  John  Stark  at  the  battle  of  Bennington.  (See  page 
501.)  They  had  eleven  ch.:  Joseph*,  John*,  Rachel3,  Susanna3, 
Maru3,  the  rest  dying  in  infancy. 
III.  Joseph,  son  of  John2,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  .1757,  April  17;  he  m.  1776, 
June  4,  Mary  Houston,  b.  in  Bedford,  1759,  March  7.  He  d.  in 
Amherst,  1828,  May  18,  and  his  wife  d.  in  Amherst,  1830,  Dec.  17. 
Both  were  buried  in  Bedford.  They  had  nine  ch. :  Sarah4,  John*, 
Mary4,  Isaac4,  Susanna4,  b.  1785,  Sept.  25,  d.  in  infancy;  Joseph4, 
David4,  James4,  Jacob4. 


870  HISTOEY   OF   BEDFOBD. 

IV.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Joseph3,  b.  1777,  April  4;  m.,  1st,  1787,  May  11, 
Daniel  Platts.  They  had  three  ch.:  Susanna5,  Joseph5,  and 
Daniel5.  She  m.,  2d,  1815,  Dec.  26,  Oliver  Townsend,  by  whom 
she  had  one  son,  Timothy.     (See  Townsend.) 

IV.  John,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1779,  Feb.  23;  went  to  Antrim 
in  1799.  He  m.,  1801,  Peggy  Brown,  b.  1773,  d.  1860,  Feb.  14. 
He  was  forty  years  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  d.  at 
Antrim,  1864,  Oct.  5. 

IV.  Mary,  dau.  of  Joseph3,  b.  Bedford,  1781,  April  12;  m.  1802,  Sept.  21, 
David  At  wood.     (See  At  wood.) 

IV.  Isaac,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1783,  April  9;  m.  1804,  Feb.  3, 
Susanna  Hutchinson  of  Merrimack.  After  living  in  this  town  a 
few  years  they  moved  to  Fishersfield,  now  Newbury,  N.  H., 
where  he  d.  in  1829. 

IV.  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  Bedford,  1787,  March  21;  graduated  from 
Dartmouth  college  in  1807,  studied  law,  and  settled  at  Haverhill, 
N.  H.,  about  1821.  He  was  an  eminent  lawyer,  and  at  one  time 
president  of  the  Massachusetts  senate.  He  m.  Catherine,  dau.  of 
Hon.  Mills  Olcott  of  Hanover.  In  1840  he  rem.  to  Boston,  and  d. 
at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  1851,  July  25. 

IV.  David,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  Bedford,  1789,  Oct.  16;  m.  1808,  Dec, 
Polly  Houston,  and  settled  at  Hillsborough.  He  d.  at  Bedford, 
1832,  Nov.  27. 

IV.  James,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  Bedford,  1792,  Jan.  15;  m.,  1st,  1813, 
Sept.  2,  Mary  Barnett  of  Amherst,  who  d.  1825,  Nov.  11.  He  m., 
2d,  1826,  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  Weston  of  Amherst,  where 
he  lived  until  1831,  when  he  moved  to  Haverhill.  Here  he 
engaged  in  mercantile  business  with  his  brother  Jacob.  He 
moved  to  Bolton,  Mass.,  about  1840,  where  he  d.  in  1864. 

IV.  Jacob,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  Bedford,  1795,  April  30;  m.  Laura,  dau. 
of  Dr.  Ezra  Bartlett  of  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  where  he  took  up  his 
residence. 

III.  John,  son  of  John2,  b.  Bedford,  1760,  Sept.  9;  m.  Mary  Logan,  who 
was  b.  1762.  He  d.  1783,  Oct.  16,  and  his  wife  d.  1787,  Sept.  3. 
They  had  one  ch.,  which  was  drowned. 

III.  Rachel  and  Susanna,  daughters  of  John2,  d.  young,  unm. 

III.  Mary,  dau.  of  John2,  m.  Daniel  Gould,  and  had  three  ch.:  John  B.4, 

Lavinia4,  and  Daniel  G.4 
II.  Joseph,  son  of  John1,  was  b.  in  Ireland,  and  came  to  Bedford  in 

1739.     He  left  town  and  settled  at  Halifax,  Mass. 
II.  Susanna,  dau.  of  John1,  was  b.  in  Ireland,  but  came  to  Bedford  in 
1739.     She  was  lame,  and  d.  unm. 

BIXBY. 

The  first  to  bring  the  name  to  this  country,  early  in  its  colonization, 
was  Thomas  Bixby  of  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1636.  We  find  the  name  on  record 
also  in  Boxford,  Andover,  and  Chelmsford,  Mass.  (See  History  of 
Francestown.) 

I.  Dean  Bixby,  a  descendant  of  the  above,  and  son  of  Asa  Bixby  and 
Elizabeth,  his  wife,  was  b.  in  Francestown,  1804,  July  16.  He 
moved  from  Francestown  to  Piscataquog  village,  then  a  part  of 
Bedford,  in  1846,  and  was  occupied  as  a  carpenter  and  contractor. 
He  m.,  1st,  1835,  April  29,  Lucy,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Lucy 
(Andrews)  Manning  of  Francestown.  They  had  three  ch.  Hem., 
2d,  1841,  Nov.  25,  Sara  E.  Whiting  of  Francestown,  who  had 
four  ch.  He  d.  1871,  May  15.  Ch.:  Lucy  Jane2,  b.  1836,  Sept,  3; 
Fannie  Augusta2,  b.  1838,  Sept.  17,  d.  1859,  Aug.  6,  unm.; 
Sarah  Elizabeth2,  b.  1841,  March  19;   Newell  fi.9,  b.  1843,  June  14; 


GENEALOGIES. — BELL. — BLOOD.  871 

Darnel  Avery2,  b.  1845,  March  13;  Mary  E.2,  b.  Francestown,  1847, 
d.  Manchester,  1848;  Clhiton  II.2,  b.  Bedford,  1848,  Dec.  3. 

II.  Lucy  Jane,  dau.  of  Dean1,  b.  1836,  Sept.  3;  m.  Benj.  N.  Hubbard 
and  res.  in  Manchester.  She  d.  1871,  Dec.  14.  Had  four  ch.: 
Caroline  Louise3,  Sarah  Augusta3,  Charles  Avery3,  Gertrude  Jane3. 

II.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Dean1,  b.  1841,  March  19;  m.,  1st,  Osborne 
I.  Poor  of  Raymond,  who  d.  1871,  Sept.  1.  Had  a  dau.,  Fanny3. 
Sarah  E.  m.,  2d,  John  Lane  of  Raymond,  where  she  d.  1887, 
April  22. 

II.  Newell  R.,  son  of  Dean1,  b.  1843,  June  14;  m.  Lucina  T.  Holt  of 
Hooksett;  was  a  carpenter;  d.  at  Manchester,  1890,  Jan.  18,  where 
he  res.  and  had  served  in  the  common  council.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Seventh  N.  H.  during  the  late  war. 

II.  Daniel  Avery,  son  of  Dean1,  b.  1845,  March  13;  m.  Sarah  A.  Per- 
kins of  Brookfield.  He  served  as  drum  major  in  the  Seventh 
N.  H.  regiment,  and  d.  in  Bedford,  1871,  Sept.  25.  Had  two  ch.,3 
both  of  which  are  dead. 

II.  Clinton  Henry,  son  of  Dean1,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1848;  he  m.,  1867, 
Dec.  3,  Harriet  McGaw,  b.  1848,  Oct.  19,  dau.  of  James  and  Nancy 
(Bursiel)  Gardner.  He  came  to  res.  in  Bedford  in  1869,  and 
remained  sixteen  years,  working  at  his  trade  as  carpenter  and 
builder,  building  and  remodeling  a  number  of  houses  throughout 
the  town.  In  1888  he  rem.  to  Manchester,  where  he  continued  as 
contractor  and  builder,  and  where  he  now  res.  His  wife  d.  in 
Manchester,  1899,  May  19.  Had  eleven  ch.,  all  b.  Bedford  but 
three,  viz.:  Linaie  Eaton3,  b.  1870,  March  11;  James  Dean3,  b.  1872, 
April  20,  m.  1896,  Jan.  15,  Susie  F.  Hoyt  of  Manchester,  where 
they  res.;  Fannie  Poor*,  b.  1874,  March  31;  Ora  Belle3,  b.  1876,  Jan. 
10,  m.  Daniel  Cummings,  res.  Manchester;  Harry  Clinton,  b. 
1877,  Dec.  20,  d.  Manchester,  1896,  May  31;  Newell  Avery3,  b. 
1879,  June  18,  d.  Bedford,  1881,  Jan.  18;  Mabel  Gardner3,  b.  1881, 
Feb.  9,  d.  Bedford,  1883,  May  9;  Elsie3,  b.  1885,  Sept.  26,  res.  in 
Manchester;  Nancy  Gardner3,  b.  in  Manchester,  1888,  May  14, 
res.  there;  Stanly  Whiting3,  b.  Manchester,  1890,  Oct.  14,  d. 
Manchester,  1893,  June  25;  Earl  Wilson3,  b.  in  Manchester,  1893, 
March  27,  res.  there. 
III.  Linnie  Eaton,  dau.  of  Clinton  Henry2,  b.  Bedford,  1870,  March  11; 
m.  Addison  W.  Merrill  of  Sutton,  and  res.  in  Concord.  Have 
one  ch.4 
III.  Fannie  Poor,  dau.  of  Clinton  Henry2,  b.  Bedford,  1874,  March  31; 
m.  1895,  Feb.  6,  Edwin  L.  Towle  of  Manchester,  where  they  res. 
Have  one  ch.4 

BLOOD. 

I.  Rufus  Blood,  farmer,  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Robert  Wilson  of  New  Bos- 
ton. They  res.  in  Merrimack,  where  he  d.  1882,  May  24.  She  d. 
1887,  Aug.  31.  They  had  four  ch.,  all  of  whom  m.  and  have  res.  in 
Bedford,  viz.:  Wilson  Robert2,  Newman  Jones2,  Rebecca  Mary2,  m. 
John  E.  Stowell  (see  Stowell),  John  McAfee2. 
II.  Wilson  Robert,  son  of  Rufus1,  was  b.  1847,  May  16;  m.  1871,  Nov., 
Rosella,  dau.  of  Hiram  and  Roseana  (Cady)  Mace  of  Bedford. 
He  d.  1898,  March  13.  Had  ch.:  Mary  Ann3,  b.  1872,  July  10,  m. 
Lewis  W.  Parker  (see  Parker);     Henry  W.3  and  Edward  R3 

III.  Henry  W.,  son  of  Wilson  Robert2,  was  b.  1873,  Nov.  He  m.  1897, 
Dec.  25,  Sarah  Pries.     Ch.:  Montrose,  b.  ;  Balcom,  b.  1903. 

III.  Edward  R.,  son  of  Wilson  Robert,  was  b.  1878,  April;  m.  1897, 
Sept.  26,  Ella  V.  Crusoe.   Have  Edward  McKinley,  b.  1902,  Feb.  11. 


872  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

II.  Newman  Jones,  son  of  Rufus1,  was  b.  1850,  Jnne  22;  farmer.  He 
m.  1874,  Sept.  9,  Cynthia  Ann,  b.  1855,  May  17,  dau.  of  John  and. 
Martha  (Stowell)  French  of  Merrimack.  Had  ch.,  b.  Merrimack: 
Oscar  Newman8,  b.  1878,  May  25,  graduated  from  McGaw  Normal 
institute,  June,  1896,  d.  Bedford,  1897,  March  7;  Ralph  Theodore, 
b.  1879,  Dec.  6,  d.  Merrimack,  1880,  Feb.  11;  ch.  b.  Bedford  are: 
Caddie  May3,  b.  1885,  Sept.  6;  Lettia  Katherine,  b.  1885,  Sept.  6, 
d.  1886,  Oct.  2. 

II.  John  McAfee,  son  of  Rufus1,  was  b.  1865,  Nov.  14;  farmer.  He  m. 
1887,  Aug.,  Cora,  b.  1869,  dau.  of  Frank  White  of  Maine.  Had 
ch.:  George  Stillman,  b.  1888,  July  14;  Florence,  b.  1889,  Nov. 

THE  BOIES  FAMILY. 

John2  Boies,  the  son  of  John1  and  Mehitable  ( Sheaf e — Broaders)  Boies 
[see  manuscript  records  of  Charlotte  (Calder)  Read],  was  b.  in  Boston,  Mass., 
Sept.  27, 1760,  and  d.  in  Madison,  Me.,  1833,  March  17.  He  went  to  the  state 
of  New  Hampshire  with  his  father's  family,  prior  to  the  Revolution.  He 
was  the  only  son;  his  sisters  were  Margaret,  who  m.  Francis  Hillery  of 
Bedford,  2d,  James  Flint  of  Williamstown,  Vt.;  Agnes,  who  m.  James 
Calder  of  Milton,  Mass. ;  and  Mehitable,  who  m.  Robert  Vose  of  Bedford. 

1788,  July  31,  Mr.  Boies  m.  in  Bedford,  Mary,  dau.  of  John  and  Lydia  ( ) 

Parker;  she  was  b.  in  Litchfield,  N.  H.,  1769,  March  10,  and  d.  in  Skowhe- 
gan,  Me.,  1856,  Nov.  4.  Mary  Parker's  paternal  grandparents  were  Rev. 
Thomas  and  Lydia  (Richardson)  Parker  of  Dracut,  Mass.;  great-grand- 
parents were  Capt.  Josiah  and  Elizabeth  (Saxton)  Parker  of  Groton  and 
Cambridge,  Mass.:  great-great-grandparents,  Capt.  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Long)  Parker  of  Woburn  and  Groton,  Mass. 

In  boyhood  John  Boies  attended  the  Boston  schools  up  to  a  short  time 
previous  to  the  outbreak  of  war.  The  family  had  removed  to  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  in  April,  1776,  he  signed  the  "Association  Test"  in  Bedford. 
In  the  month  of  March,  1777,  in  his  17th  year,  he  enlisted  as  a  soldier  from 
Bedford,  and  was  mustered  into  the  Continental  service  by  William  White, 
muster  master,  and  in  April  was  assigned  to  Capt.  Daniel  Livermore's  com- 
pany, Col.  Alexander  Scammel's  Third  N.  H.  Regt.,  which  soon  marched 
for  Ticonderoga.  This  regiment  was  a  part  of  Poor's  brigade,  and  was 
engaged  in  many  battles.  John  Boies  participated  in  the  battles  of  Hub- 
bardton,  July,  1777;  first  and  second  battles  of  Stillwater  (sometimes 
called  Freeman's  Farm  and  Bemis  Heights),  Sept.  19,  and  Oct.  7,  1777; 
was  wounded  in  the  arm  at  second  battle;  suffered  with  Washington's 
army  at  "Valley  Forge,"  winter  of  1777-'78,  and  fought  at  Monmouth, 
1778,  June  28;  marched  with  Gen.  John  Sullivan's  army  of  5,000  men,  700 
miles  through  the  wilderness  of  New  York  and  Pennsylvania,  to  stop  the 
depredations  of  the  hostile  Iroquois  and  tories,  under  Brant  and  Sir  Jonn 
Johnson;  was  taken  prisoner  in  1780,  and  carried  first  to  Limerick,  Ire- 
land, thence  to  Mill  prison,  Plymouth,  England;  escaped  and  was  recapt- 
ured, compelled  to  wear  sixty  pounds  of  iron  sixty  days  in  punishment; 
suffered  much  at  this  prison  on  account  of  poor  food,  close  confinement, 
and  unsanitary  conditions.  While  imprisoned  he  compiled  a  book  of 
sums,  which  in  after  years  was  highly  prized  as  a  memento  of  prison  life. 
After  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis,  in  Oct.,  1781,  Mr.  Boies  was  exchanged 
and  returned  to  New  Hampshire,  and  after  his  marriage  settled  in  Bed- 
ford, where  seven  of  their  ten  children  were  born. 

At  some  part  of  the  year  1805,  Mr.  John2  Boies  and  family  removed  to 
the  state  of  Maine,  where  he  purchased  land  in  Madison,  Somerset  county, 
became  a  farmer  and  trader,  and  there  continued  to  live  until  his  de- 
cease. His  grave  is  in  the  Old  North  buryiiig-grouiid  on  Dyer  hill, 
Skowhegan,  Me. 

In  the  year  1896  some  of  his  descendants  placed  a  memorial  tablet  in  the 
Skowhegan,  Me.,  public  library  in  commemoration  of  his  service  in  the 


GENEALOGIES. — BOIES.  873 

cause  of  American  independence.     The  ch.  of  John  *  and  Mary  (Parker) 

Boies  were: 

I.  Thomas3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1789,  Sept.  27,  d.  in  Boiestown,  province 
New  Brunswick,  Canada,  1861,  Aug.  7.  He  was  a  trader  and 
lumberman;  was  the  founder  of  Boiestown,  donating  lands  and 
buildings  for  church  and  school  purposes.  He  m.  Susan  Martin, 
2d,  Mary  A.  McBean.  Eleven  ch.  were  born  of  these  marriages. 
II.  James3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1791,  Oct.,d.  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1868,  Feb.  19; 
a  soldier  of  the  War  of  1812:  in  1820  he  m.  Mary  Ann  Pineo,  a 
descendant  of  James  Pineo,  a  French  Protestant,  who  left  France 
after  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  in  1685,  and  landed  at 
Bristol,  R.  1. 1  in  the  year  1700.  James  Boies  was  a  first  settler, 
and  lived  for  many  years  in  the  town  of  Calais,  Me. ;  was  high 
sheriff  of  the  county  six  years,  state  representative  two  terms,  and 
collector  of  the  port  of  Calais  four  years.  Eight  ch.  were  born  of 
this  marriage. 

III.  Mary3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1793,  March  13,  d.  in  Solon,  Me.,  1862,  March 

24;  m.  in  Nov.,  1817,  Asa  Vilkere  of  Norridgewock,  Me.;  Mr.  Vil- 
kere  was  a  carpenter  and  builder;  they  res.  at  Solon,  Me.  Six 
ch.  were  born  of  this  marriage. 

IV.  Bartholomew  Broaders3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1797,  April  4,  d.  in  Skowhe- 

gan,  Me.,  in  May,  1873;  m.  Lucy,  dau.  of  John  and  Lucy  (Parker) 
Tufts,  b.  in  Bedford,  1798,  Feb.  2;  Mr.  Boies  was  a  farmer,  trader, 
and  hotel  proprietor;  he  built  the  first  bridge  across  the  Kennebec 
river  at  the  forks  of  the  Kennebec  and  Dead,  rivers,  in  the  state  of 
Maine;  he  was  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  1812.  They  lived  at  Solon 
and  Parlin  Pond,  Me.,  and  were  residents  of  Skowhegan,  Me., 
many  years.  Seven  ch.  were  born  of  this  marriage. 
V.  Frederick  Nelson3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1800,  Feb.  4,  d.  in  Peninsula,  Ohio, 
1882,  Feb.  8;  m.  in  Portland,  Conn.,  by  Rev.  H.  Talcott,  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  William  Lewis,  a  prominent  shipbuilder  of  Portland,  Conn.; 
Mr.  Boies  was  a  lumberman  in  early  life;  he  settled  in  the  state  of 
Ohio,  where  he  purchased  land  and  was  a  farmer  for  a  number  of 
years;  he  went  to  California  with  the  early  pioneers,  but  soon 
returned  to  Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boies  res.  at  Peninsula,  Ohio. 
Six  ch.  were  born  of  this  marriage. 
VI.  Nancy3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1802,  April  18,  d.  in  Wilton,  Me.,  1876,  Nov. 
7.;  m.  in  Solon,  Me.,  in  March,  1826,  David  Stevens,  b.  in  Enib- 
den,  Me.,  1798,  Oct.  11,  and  d.  1874,  April  23.  Mr.  Stevens  was  a 
farmer,  and  lived  in  Embden,  just  across  the  Kennebec  river  oppo- 
site Solon  village.  Nine  ch.  were  born  of  this  marriage. 
VII.'.Mehitable3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1804,  Feb.  4,  d.  in  Boston,  Mass.,  1877, 
April  5;  m.,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Fargo,  Elisha  Coolidge  of  Solon,  Me., 
1825,  Jan.  2.;  Mr.  Coolidge  was  a  merchant  in  Solon,  Me.,  many 
years;  he  was  b.  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  1784,  May  30,  and  d.  in 
Solon,  Me.,  1862,  Nov.  8;  he  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  John  Cool- 
idge, the  settler  of  Watertown;  they  res.  in  Solon,  Me.  Ten  ch. 
were  born  of  this  marriage. 
VEIL  Eliza3  Parker,  b.  in  Madison,  Me.,  1806,  June  3,  d.  in  Skowhegan, 
Me.,  1872,  July  8;  m.,  in  1835,  Herbert  A.  Moore,  b.  in  Canaan, 
Me.,  1809,  Nov.  23,  d.  in  Greenville,  Me.,  1862,  Dec.  26.  Mr.  Moore 
was  a  merchant  and  trader;  he  was  deputy  sheriff  and  coroner  of 
Somerset  county,  Me.,  in  1838 ;  he  was  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Maj.  Samuel1  Moore,  an  early  settler  of  Litchfield  and  Hudson, 
N.  H.,  and  who  was  actively  engaged  in  the  Indian  wars  of  the 
Colonial  period;  and  fourth  in  descent  from  Maj.  John2  Moor,  a 
captain  with  Stark  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  promoted  to  major,  1775, 
June  18;  they  res.  in  Canaan,  Skowhegan,  Fairfield,  and  Green- 
ville, Me.     Five  ch.  were  born  of  this  marriage.    (See  Moor.) 


874  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

IX.  John  Parker3,  b.  in  Madison,  Me.,  1808,  July  3,  d.  in  Skowhegan,  Me., 
1884,  May  18;  Mr.  Boies  m.,  1st,  1832,  Jan.  17,  Helen  Dicey  Currier, 
b.  1812,  July  30,  and  d.  1865,  Sept.  15;  he  m.,  2d,  Mrs.  Mary 
Holway  of  Madison,  Me.,  b.  in  1821,  and  d.  1878,  April  2;  after  his 
father's  decease  Mr.  Boies  had  charge  of  the  homestead  farm,  but 
in  later  years  engaged  in  the  hotel  business  in  Parlin  Pond  plan- 
tation, and  was  a  trader  there  and  in  Solon,  Me.;  he  returned  and 
settled  at  Skowhegan,  Me.,  where  be  opened  a  retail  clothing 
store,  and  continued  in  this  business  nearly  up  to  the  time  of  his 
decease.  Four  ch.  were  born  to  him,  all  by  first  marriage. 
X.  Frances  Neal3,  b.  in  Madison,  Me.,  1811,  June  3,  d.  in  Skowhegan, 
Me.,  1884,  Aug.  26;  m.,  by  Rev.  Josiah  Tucker,  in  the  church  at 
Blackwell's  Hill,  Madison,  Me.,  1832,  Jan.  17,  to  Randall  Fuller 
Eddy,  son  of  Eleaz?r  and  Deborah  (Moor)  Eddy,  b.  in  Norridge- 
wock,  Me.,  1808,  June  16,  and  d.  in  Skowhegan,  Me.,  1884,  Nov. 
22.  Mr.  Eddy  was  a  farmer,  and  by  trade  a  mason  and  bricklayer; 
he  was  eighth  in  descent  from  Rev.  William  Eddye,  vicar  of  St. 
Dunstan's  church,  Cranbrook,  Kent  county,  England,  and  seventh 
in  descent  from  the  pilgrim,  Samuel  Eddy,  who  came  to  New 
England  in  the  ship  Handmaid,  John  Grant,  master,  which  left 
London,  1630,  Aug.  10,  and  arrived  at  Plymouth,  N.  E.,  1630,  Oct. 
29.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eddy  observed  their  golden  wedding,  1882,  Jan. 
17,  and  received  from  loving  friends  many  kind  remembrances  of 
the  day.  Mrs.  Eddy  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church 
fifty  years;  they  res.  in  Skowhegan,  Me.     Their  ch.  were: 

1.  Amanda  Mahala  Eddy,  b.  in  Skowhegan,  Me.,  1832,  Oct.  30;  d.  in 
Skowhegan,  Me.,  1848,  April  26. 

2.  Helen   Moor  Eddy,  b.  in   Skowhegan,  Me.,  1844,  Dec.  11;   d.   in 
Skowhegan,  Me.,  1848,  March  6. 

3.  Frank  Lewis  Eddy,  b.  in  Skowhegan,  Me.,  1851,  Jan.  8;  compiler 
of  Boies  family  records;  res.  Boston,  Mass. 

BOYNTON. 

I.  William  Boynton  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Buxton,  Me.,  by 
trade  a  blacksmith.  There  is  now"  (1850)  in  the  possession  of  his 
great-grandson,  William4,  in  Bedford,  a  steel  trap  made  by  him, 
very  ancient,  with  his  mark,  W.  B.,  on  the  jaws,  which  has  been 
handed  down  through  former  generations. 
II.  William,  son  of  William1,  lived  in  Buxton. 

III.  William,  son  of  William2,  was  b.  in  Buxton;  m.  Betsey  Whitney  of 

Standish,  Me.,  and  moved  to  Bromfield,  of  that  state. 

IV.  William,  son  of  William3,  was  b.  in  Buxton,  1797,  May  14;  m.,  1st, 

1820,  May  17,  Jane,  dau.  of  Capt.  Andrew  Glendinin  of  St.  David's, 
New  Brunswick;  her  father  was  b.  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.;  Jane, 
his  wife,  d.  1849,  Oct.  23,  aged  50.  They  had  eight  ch.  He  m.,  2d, 
1850,  Sept.  10,  Hannah,  widow  of  Thomas  Gamble  of  Manches- 
ter, N.  H.,  and  dau.  of  Enoch  Goodwin.  She  was  b.  in  London- 
derry, 1810,  Nov.  19;  they  res.  in  Bedford.  Ch.  (by  1st  mar.):  Will- 
iam J.5,  b.  at  St.  David's,  N.  B.,  1821,  March  8,  d.  1843,  April  11; 
Charlotte  A.5,  b.  at  Bow,  N.  H.,  1824,  June  24;  Mary  J.5,  b.  at 
Bow,  1829,  May  10;  Melissa  M.5,  b.  at  Bow,  1832,  Jan.  10;  Henry 
P.5,  b.  at  Bow,  1833,  Dec.  1;  Andrew  A.,  b.  at  Merrimack,  1839, 
Jan.  13;  Robert  and  Stephen  (twins),  b.  Merrimack,  1841,  July  14. 
The  twins  d.  1841,  Sept.  16. 


GENEALOGIES. — BRICKETT. — BROWN. — BURNS.  875 


BRICKETT. 

I.  Charles  Brickett  was  b.  in  Hampstead,  1824,  Feb.;  he  m.  1846,  Sept., 
Emily  Spiimey  of  Manchester,  who  was  b.,  1819,  May  29;  he  d.  in 
Londonderry,  1855,  Nov.  They  had  three  ch.:  Cfuirles  Henry2,  b. 
in  Londonderry,  1847,  Dec.;  George  Spinney2,  b.  1849;  Frank  Her- 
bert'2, b.  1851,  Feb.  18. 

II.  Charles  H.,  son  of  Charles1,  b.  1847,  Dec;  m.  Maggie ,  and  res. 

in  California.     They  had  five  ch.:  Emily3,  d.  1897,  leaving  a  hus- 
band and  one  ch.,  Augustus4;  Lottie3,  Nettie3,  Birdie3,  Charlie3. 

II.  Frank  H.,  son  of  Charles1,  b.  1851,  Feb.  18;  m.  1872,  Sept,  8,  Mary 
A.,  b.  in  Sandown,  1856,  Jan.  27,  dau.  of  Hazen  and  Harriet  (Bur- 
rows) Pervere;  farmer;  has  res.  in  Sandown,  Barrington,  Man- 
chester, and  Bedford.  Ch.:  Mabel  Hattie3,  b.  in  Sandown,  1875, 
March  21;  Adeline  Estelle3,  b.  Barrington,  1882,  April  13;  Emma 
Ethel3,  b.  Manchester,  1889,  March  6;  Lizzie  Ann3,  b.  Bedfwd, 
1893,  April  30,  d.  here  1902,  Feb.  23;  Florence  May3,  b.  1895,  Aug. 
16. 
III.  Mabel  H.,  dau.  of  Frank  H.2,  b.  1875,  March  21;  m.  1895,  Sept.  12, 
Herbert  Alva  Mack,  b.  Bedford,  1876,  Nov.  They  have  Pearl  E.4, 
b.  Bedford,  1897,  Aug.  12,  also  had  three  girls  (triplets),  b.  in 
Manchester,  1902,  Aug.  29,  who  lived  but  a  few  days. 

BROWN. 

Samuel1,  emigrated  from  England  to  America  when  14  years  of  age. 
He  fought  with  the  Americans  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  served 
throughout  the  war.  He  m.  and  settled  in  Oxford,  Me.  Had  ch.: 
Samuel2,  Henry2,  John2,  Cyrus2,  and  two  daughters. 
II.  Henry,  son  of  Samuel1,  was  b.  1800;  m.  Bathsheba  Dennen  and  set- 
tled in  Poland,  Me.  Their  ch.  were:  Hannah3,  Abbie3,  Caroline3, 
Almeda3,  Paschal3,  Jacob  T.3,  enlisted  in  the  Civil  War,  when 
failing  health  compelled  his  discharge;  he  sent  a  substitute,  but 
upon  regaining  his  health  again  enlisted,  and  was  shot  during 
Sheridan's  campaign  through  the  Shenandoah  valley;  Wentworth 
M.3,  also  served  in  the  Civil  War;  Frank  H.s,  Ellen3. 
III.  Frank  H.,  son  of  Henry2,  was  b.  1831,  Aug.  3;  machinist  and  farmer; 
during  Rebellion  worked  on  15-inch  guns  for  the  government; 
some  of  these  weighed  25  tons,  and  were  made  for  the  Monitor, 
famous  for  her  destruction  of  Southern  battleships.  He  mM  1st, 
Anna  E.  Allen  of  Manchester,  who  d.  1856,  March;  m.,  2d,  1857, 
Nov.  30,  Hannah  P.,  b.  1835,  Aug.  7,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Betsey 
(Welch)  Stinchfield  of  Poland,  Me.,  and  settled  in  Bedford,  1885. 
Ch.:  Anna  M.4,  b.  Manchester,  1855,  Nov.  7,  m.,  1st,  1877,  Aug., 
Charles  S.  Campbell  of  Nashua,  2d,  1887,  May,  Will  R.  Spangler 
of  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  L.  Etta4,  b.  Manchester,  1859,  Aug.  8;  Mary 
H.4,  b.  Nashua,  1866,  Jan.  3,  m.  Frank  E.  Manning  (see  Mann- 
ing); Frank  E.4,  b.  Nashua,  1871,  Jan.  21,  m.,  1897,  May  29,  Mari- 
etta Burnharn  and  res.  in  Spokane,  Washington. 

BURNS. 

I.  John  Burns  came  to  America  from  Londonderry,  Ireland,  in  1740. 
He  landed  first  in  Boston,  where  he  resided  a  few  years  and  mar- 
ried. Immediately  after  his  marriage  he  moved  to  Bedford,  and 
settled  on  the  farm  formerly  owned  by  George  W.  Way,  but  now 
forming  a  part  of  the  farm  owned  by  Eddy  W.  Stevens.  Here  he 
d.,  1788,  March  26,  aged  77.  His  wife  d.  soon  after  their  removal 
to  Bedford,  1745,  July  9,  aged  21,  leaving  no  children.     He  m., 


876  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

2d,  Anna  McQueston  of  Litchfield,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons 
and  five  daughters.  She  d.  a  short  time  after  her  husband,  and 
no  inscription  records  her  birth,  age,  or  death.  Burns  was  the  in- 
dividual who  accompanied  James  McQuaid  to  Concord  (Suncook) 
after  corn,  at  the  first  settlement  of  the  town,  when  McQuaid  was 
killed  by  the  Indians.  (See  page  579.)  Burns  was  not  wounded, 
but  his  shirt  with  seven  bullet  holes  testified  to  his  danger.  Ch.: 
Robert2,  m.  Molly  Smith  and  settled  in  Merrimack;  Margaret2, 
m.  John  McGilvray  of  Merrimack,  lived  and  d.  there;  William'2; 
Ann2,  in.  Elijah  Buxton  of  Merrimack;  Jane2  and  Sarah2  (twins), 
Jane  m.  Wm.  Beard  of  New  Boston,  Sarah  m.  James  Campbell  of 
Windham;  Elizabeth2,  m.  James  Campbell  of  Bedford;  and  John2. 
II.  William,  son  of  John1,  m.  Molly  (Mary)  Miller,  and  lived  in  Bed- 
ford a  few  years  on  the  Gregg  place,  then  moved  to  Pomfret,  Vt. 
The  town  records  give  children  of  William  Burns  and  Mary  his 
wife  (supposed  to  be  the  persons  named  above)  as  follows:  Ann3, 
b.  1780,  Oct.  30;  Matthew3,  b.  1782,  Aug.  27;  William3,  b.  1784, 
Oct.  20;  John3,  b.  1787,  March  15;  James  Miller3,  b.  1789,  April 
19;  Mary3,  b.  1791,  Nov.  8;  James  Miller3,  b.  1795,  March  7; 
Nathan3,  b.  1796,  June  19. 
II.  Lieut.  John,  son  of  John1,  b.  1759,  Sept.  20;  m.  Elizabeth  Moore  and 
lived  in  Bedford,  where  he  d.,  1846,  Nov.  30.  Had  twelve  chil- 
dren, six  sons  and  six  daughters.  John  could  say  what  few  can: 
"I  had  a  twin  brother  and  twin  sisters,  twin  children,  twin 
grandchildren  and  twin  great-grandchildren,  twin  nieces  and  twin 
grand-nieces,  twin  grand-nephews,  a  twin  brother-in-law,  a  twin 
son-in-law,  and  am  a  twin  myself."  Ch.:  Esther3,  m.  Benj.  Dar- 
ling of  Shelby,  N.  Y.;  Mary3,  m.  Henry  Hale  of  Merrimack; 
Martha3,  m.  John  Kenny  of  New  Boston;  Lucy  M.3,  m.  Robert  F. 
Chase  and  res.  in  Derrv;  David3,  d.  young;  Jane3  and  Sarah3 
(twins)  b.  1791,  June  3;  John3,  b.  1793,  March  7;  Wiseman  Clag- 
gett3,  b.  1795,  Jan.  18,  d.  young;  Robert  McCain3,  b.  1796,  Nov. 
22,  m.  Margaret  McClary,  Windham;  Ann  McQueston3,  b.  1799, 
Oct.  7,  m.,  1823,  Sept.  23,  Daniel  Wilson  Clyde  of  Windham; 
Wiseman  Claggett3,  b.  1801,  Sept.  12;  William3,  b.  1803,  Aug.  2,  d. 
young. 
III.  Jane  and  Sarah  (twins),  daughters  of  Lieut.  John2,  Jane  m.  Elijah 
Coan  of  Shelby,  N.  Y.;  Sarah  m.  Benj.  Darling  of  Shelby,  N.  Y., 
as  his  second  wife  after  the  death  of  her  sister  Esther. 

III.  Capt.  Wiseman  Claggett,  son  of  Lieut.  John2,  b.  in  Bedford,    1801, 

Sept.  12;  m.  in  Hudson,  1833,  April  9,  Eliza  Harris,  b.  Boston, 
Mass.,  1803,  Sept.  21,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Martha  (Dennis)  Har- 
ris of  Hudson.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1885,  Jan.  9;  she  d.  in  Bedford, 
1887,  Jan.  28.  Wiseman  C,  in  his  younger  years,  served  as  Lieut, 
and  Capt.  in  the  4th  Co.  of  infantry,  5th  N.  H.  Regt.  of  militia. 
He  was  an  obliging  neighbor,  a  kind  father,  and  an  industrious, 
honest,  and  upright  man.  Ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford  but  one:  Mary 
Elizabeth4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1834,  Aug.  8,  d.  in  Bedford,  1842,  June 
16;  Caleb  Pearson4,  b.  Merrimack,  1836,  Dec.  19,  d.  in  Bedford, 
1853,  Nov.  17;  Abby  Jane*,  b.  1839,  Jan.  11;  Thomas  Savage*,  b. 
1842,  April  19;  William  Harris*,  b.  1844,  June  11;  Lucy  Ann*,  b.  1847, 
Dec.  8. 

IV.  Thomas  Savage,  son  of  Capt.  Wiseman  C,  b.    1842,    April   19;    m., 

1867,  Feb.  14,  Mary  Jane  Fowle,  b.  in  Amherst,  1844,  June  14, 
dau.  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  J.  (Hale)  Fowle.  She  d.  in  Bedford, 
1895,  June  5.  (See  biographical  notice  of  Thomas  Savage.) 
IV.  William  Harris,  son  of  Capt.  Wiseman  C,  b.  1844,  June  11;  m.,  1864, 
Nov.  6,  Eliza  Jane  Senter,  and  res.  in  Bedford.  Their  children 
are:  Lucretia  Lillian5,  b.  in  Manchester,  1865,  Nov.  14,  m.,  1892, 
June,  Oscar  Godbout;  Charles  Sumner5,  b.  in  Bedford,  18 — ,  Oct. 
19;  Abby  Jane5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1884,  Feb.  6. 


GENEALOGIES. — BURNS.  877 

IV.  Lucy  Ann,  dau.  of  Capt.  Wiseman  C,  b.  1847,  Dec.  8;  m.  Horace  T. 
Harvell  of  Amherst.     Their  children  were:     Luly  Jane5,   b.   in 
Nashua,  1873,  April  20,  d.  1873,   June  2;    Frank  Horace5,   b.   in 
Nashua,  1874,  June  2,  d.  1893,  Feb.  3;   Thomas  Wiseman5,  b.  in 
Nashua,  1876,  Feb.  14. 
Since  the  first  settlement  in  town  by  John  Burns,  Sr.,  four  generations 
of  this  family  have  been  born  and  lived  in  the  same  school  district.     The 
only  exception  to  this  being  four  years  during  the  Civil  war,  when  Wise- 
man Claggett  res.  in  Merrimack  one  year  and  in  Manchester  three  years 
while  his  son,  Thomas  Savage,  was  serving  his  country  for  three  years  at 
the  front. 

THOMAS  SAVAGE  BURNS. 

Thomas  Savage  Burns  was  born  in  the  south  part  of  Bedforel,  April  19, 
1842,  son  of  Wiseman  C.  and  Eliza  H.  Burns,  and  has  lived  in  town  nearly 
all  his  life.  At  the  age  of  19  he  enlisted  in  the  Civil  war  and  served  four 
years,  enlisting  Aug.  26,  1861,  in  Co.  E,  4th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vols.,  and  was 
mustered  into  the  U.  S.  service  Sept.  18,  1861,  at  Manchester,  N.  H.  He 
went  with  his  company  anel  regiment  to  the  front  Sept.  27, 1861,  and  never 
was  absent  from  duty  during  the  four  years  excepting  when  stricken  with 
intermittent  fever  at  Folly  Island,  S.  C.  He  re-enlisted  in  same  company 
at  Beaufort,  S.  C,  Feb.  19,  1864,  and  was  mustered  in  Feb.  28  for  three 
years  more.  He  was  soon  after  promoted  to  corporal  and  sergeant,  and 
was  with  his  commanel  through  all  the  hard  campaign  of  1864-'65,  always 
at  the  front  in  every  engagement  and  skirmish,  and  although  escaping  se- 
vere injury,  had  several  narrow  escapes.  * 

Sergeant  Burns  was  of  a  modest,  retiring  disposition,  but  in  many  in- 
stances was  conspicuous  for  his  coolness  and  bravery.  Wherever  duty 
called  he  always  responded,  and  made  a  record  which  is  a  credit  to  him- 
self and  the  town  he  represented.  At  the  battle  of  Pocotaligo,  S.  C,  he 
saved  the  life  of  a  rebel  prisoner  who  lay  on  the  ground  wounded  and  beg- 
ging for  mercy;  a  comrade  by  his  side  was  about  to  thrust  a  bayonet  into 
his  prostrate  form,  when  comrade  Burns  came  to  his  rescue  and  prevented 
the  cowardly  act.  At  Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  Aug.  16,  1864,  the  company  was 
so  reduced  in  numbers  that  but  eighteen  responded  to  engage  in  that  ter- 
rible battle,  and  eight  of  these  were  wounded  or  captured.  The  regiment 
was  obliged  to  retire,  and  became  much  scattered;  when  reformed  to  re- 
turn to  the  front  that  night  comrade  Burns  was  the  only  member  of  his 
company  who  reported  for  duty. 

In  front  of  Petersburg  he  was  struck  by  a  bullet  in  the  shoulder,  but  was 
onlv  temporarily  disabled.  During  the  long  and  severe  campaign  in  front 
of  Petersburg  and  Richmond,  in  1864,  comrade  Burns  was  never  absent  a 
day  from  his  company,  being  on  duty  at  the  front  elnring  the  entire  siege 
of  Petersburg,  including  the  battle  of  the  mine,  July  30,  Deep  Bottom, 
Aug.  16,  Cbapin's  Farm,  Sept.  29,  and  finished  up  with  the  charge  and 
capture  of  Fort  Fisher,  Jan.  15-16,  1865.  At  this  time  a  rifle  bullet  was 
shot  through  his  hat,  and  a  soldier  was  killed  at  his  side  by  a  solid  shot. 
On  the  morning  of  the  16th  the  magazine  of  the  fort  exploded.  Many 
were  buried  alive,  and  others  killed  or  wounded  by  flying  timbers,  and 
Sergeant  Burns,  although  exposed  to  all  this  danger,  escaped  without  in- 
jury. 

After  the  last  battle  and  capture  of  Fort  Fisher,  furloughs  were  granted 
for  good  conduct  in  the  field,  and  Sergeant  Burns  was  granted  a  thirty 
days'  furlough,  and  visited  his  home  in  Bedford;  on  returning,  he  sailed 
from  Boston  to  rejoin  his  regiment  at  Raleigh,  N.  C.  During  a  thick  fog, 
on  the  8th  of  June,  1865,  when  off  the  coast  of  Delaware,  a  vessel  ran  into 
the  steamer,  Admiral  Dupont,  upon  which  Mr.  Burns  was  a  passenger,  and 
did  so  much  damage  that  it  sank  very  soon.  Several  persons  were 
drowned,  although  the  vessel  that  did  the  damage  came  alongside  and  did 
everything  possible  to  rescue  the  men.     Sergeant  Burns  jumped,  caught 


878  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  anchor  chain,  and  hung  there  until  discovered;  a  rope  was  thrown  to 
him  and  he  was  drawn  on  deck.  The  vessel  then  proceeded  to  Boston,  but 
off  the  coast  of  Nantucket  ran  aground,  and  the  men  had  to  wade  ashore. 
After  much  delay  he  reached  his  company,  and  served  till  final  muster  out 
at  Concord,  N.  H.,  Sept,  2,  1865. 

Mr.  Burns  has  resided  for  over  thirty  years  in  the  last  house  in  town 
on  the  road  leading  from  Bedford  Center  to  Nashua,  The  house  is  one  of 
the  oldest  now  standing  in  town,  being  considerably  over  one  hundred 
years;  it  was  formerly  used  for  a  tavern  stand  in  the  old  days  before 
railroads. 

Mr.  Burns  owns  and  carries  on  a  large  farm,  which  he  has  acquired  by 
years  of  hard  work.  He  is  one  of  a  very  few  soldiers  who  do  not  receive  a 
pension,  although  the  government  is  dispensing  pensions  to  nearly  a  mil- 
lion at  the  present  time.  But  he  has  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  he 
performed  well  his  part  in  that  great  struggle  which  saved  the  country 
and  gave  the  black  man  his  freedom. 

This  record  is  written  by  a  comrade  of  Mr.  Burns,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  same  company  with  him  during  all  the  service,  and  well  knew  his 
honorable  record. 

BURSIEL. 

This  name  appears  under  at  least  eleven  different  forms,  among  which 
are  Bursiel,  Bus  well,  Buzzell,  Busiel,  etc. 

I.  Isaac  Buswell  was  b.  in  England,  1606  or  1608;  came  to  America 
feom  Kent  Co.,  England,  in  April,  1638,  on  the  ship  Confidence. 
He  received  land  in  the  first  division  and  settled  in  Salisbury, 

Mass.     He  m.,  1st,  Margaret  ;  2d,  Susanna ;  and  d.  in 

Salisbury,  1683,  July  8.  Their  ch.  were:  William2,  m.  Sarah  — -; 
Phebe2,  m.  John  Gill;  SamueP,  b.  about  1628;  Mary2,  b.  1645, 
Aug.  29,  m.  Philip  Brown;  Isaac2,  b.  1650,  July  29,  m.,  1st,  Mary 
Esto,  2d,  Susanna  Perkins. 
II.  Samuel,  son  of  Isaac1,  b.  about  1628;  was  a  planter  or  husbandman 
in  Salisbury  and  Bradford;  m.  1856,  July  16,  Sarah  Keyes. 
Records  prove  his  residence  in  Salisbury  1662,  Andover  1696,  and 
Bradford  at  the  time  of  his  death,  1704,  July  7.  Had  ch.:  Isaac3, 
b.  Salisbury,  Mass.,  1657,  Aug.  6,  m.  about  1690,  Anna  Ordway; 
John3,  b.  Salisbury,  1659,  Oct.  7;  Samuel3,  b.  Salisbury,  1662, 
May  25;  William3,  b.  in  Salisbury,  1664,  Aug.  5;  Robert3,  b.  Salis- 
bury, 1666  or  1667,  Feb.  8,  m.  1697,  Dec.  9,  Hannah  Tyler;  James3, 
b.  1668  or  1669,  March  20;  Mary3,  b.  1704  (only  daughter,  probably 
unm.);  Joseph*,  b.  Boxford,  Mass.,  1674,  Aug.  20. 
III.  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel2,  b.  1662,  May  25,  was  the  ancestor  of  ex.- 
Gov.  C.  A.  Busiel  of  N.  H.,  whose  ancestry  follows:  Isaac1,  Sam- 
uel2, Samuel3,  William*,  William6,  William6,  Moses  F.7,  John8, 
Charles  A.9,  ex-governor  N.  H. 

III.  Joseph,  son  of  Samuel'-,  b.  1674,  Aug.  20,  was  a  snowshoe  manu- 

facturer; m.  1707,  May  15,  Mary,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Rowell)  Harvey  of  Amesbury,  Mass.  Their  ch.  were  all  b.  in 
Amesbury:  Elias4,  b.  1707  or  1708,  Feb.  3;  Lydia4,  b.  1709,  May  1; 
Joseph4,  b.  1710,  Dec.  31;  Thomas4,  b.  1712,  July  29;  a  dau.4  (no 
date);   William*,  b.  1718,  May  14. 

IV.  William,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.   1718,  May  14;    m.  Mary  ;    d.  in 

Amesbury,  1781.  Ch.,  b.  in  Amesbury:  Thomas5,  b.  1743,  Nov. 
15;  Mary5,  b.  1745,  June  24;  Ebenezer5,  b.  1747,  April  14;  Martha5, 
b.  1749,  Sept.  27;  Miriam5,  b.  1751,  Dec.  7;  Abelb,  b.  1756,  June  24; 
Miriam5,  b.  1758,  Sept.  20;  Sarah5,  b.  1760,  May  15. 
V.  Abel,  son  of  William4,  b.  1756,  June  24;  was  a  private  in  Capt. 
Matthias  Hoyt's  company  of  minute-men,  which  marched  on  the 
alarm  of  1775,  April  19;  was  in  the  service  nine  day;;.  He  m. 
Mary  Nichols.     Their  children  were:  Thomas6,  b.  1778,  July  30; 


GENEALOGIES. — BUKSIEL.  879 

William6,  b.  1780,  June  12;  Molly6,  b.  1781,  Dec.  18;  Abigail6,  m. 
Eliphalet  Cram;  Sarah6,  in.  Isaiah  South  wick;  Moses6;  Abel6; 
Humphrey6,  b.  1798,  d.  1846. 

VI.  Williain,  son  of  Abel5,  b.  1780,  June  12;  m.  in  Bedford,  1807,  Feb.  12, 

Betsey,  b.  1789,  April  28,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Dolly  (Coburn) 
French;  res.  in  Bedford,  where  he  d.  1857,  Nov.  6.  Their  ch. 
were:  Mary  Nichols7,  b.  1808,  Feb.  13,  m.  Charles  Cheney;  she  d. 
1874,  Jan.  24;  Thomas1,  b.  1809,  Oct.  18;  Dolly  French'',  b.  1812, 
Jan.  7;  Nancy7,  b.  1814,  Sept.  13,  m.  James  Gardner  (see  Gard- 
ner); William7,  b.  1816,  Feb.  22;  Leonard1,  b.  1818,  May  14; 
Eliphalet7,  b.  1820,  July  28,  m.  1846,  Dec.  25,  Mehitabel  Merrill  of 
Sutton;  he  d.  1900,  Jan.  25;  James1,  b.  1822,  Aug.  13;  Eliza  Jane1, 
b.  1824,  Nov.  15. 
VII.  Thomas,  son  of  William6,  b.  1809,  Oct.  18;  m.,  1st,  1841,  Jan.  14, 
Olive,  b.  1807,  Feb.  8,  dau.  of  David  and  Mary  Bell  Atwood;  she 
d.  1854,  Feb.  28.  He  m.,  2d,  Lucy  A.  Perry  of  Manchester, 
who  d.  He  m_,  3d,  1858,  Feb.,  Mary  A.  Ripley,  and  d.  1875, 
Jan.  1.  Ch.,  all  by  first  marriage:  Charles  Edward?,  b.  Bedford, 
1843,  Nov.  27;  David  Brooks8,  b.  Bedford,  1845,  March  13,  d.  1847, 
Oct.  10. 

VIII.  Charles  Edward,  son  of  Thomas7,  b.  1843,  Nov.  27;  farmer  and  milk 
dealer;  m.,  1st,  1869,  Nov.  25,  Harriet  A.,  b.  1849,  April  19,  dau. 
of  Stephen  and  Sally  (Foster)  French;  she  d.  1888,  Nov.  8.  He 
m.,  2d,  1892,  July  14,  Susie  E.,  b.  Chester,  1864,  May  17,  dau.  of 
Edwin  and  Susan  (Elkins)  Hazelton.  Ch.  of  first  marriage  were: 
Arthur  Edward9,  b.  1874,  Feb.  5,  m.,  1898,  June  30,  Mary  Olive 
Smith  of  Bradford,  Mass.;  Alice  Foster9,  b.  1876,  April  22,  d. 
1877,  May  1;  Robert  Foster9,  b.  1878,  Sept.  13;  Olive  Atwood9,  b. 
1881,  Feb.  21;  Charles  Oliver9,  b.  1885,  May  16. 
VII.  Dolly  French,  dau.  of  William6,  b.  1812,  Jan.  7;  m.,  1st,  1840, 
Oct.  22,  Rev.  James  C.  Bryant,  who  was  pastor  for  five  years  in 
Littleton,  Mass.  She  then  accompanied  him  to  South  Africa, 
where  he  went  as  a  missionary  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.,  and  where 
he  d.  After  his  death  she  returned  to  this  country,  and  m.,  2d, 
Rufus  Patten  of  Westford,  Mass.  She  is  now  residing  with  his 
youngest  daughter  at  Littleton,  Mass.,  aged  91. 
VII.  Leonard,  son  of  William",  b.  1818,  May  14;  m.  1867,  Dec.  5,  Julia, 
b.  1844,  Jan.  10,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Margaret  (Barr)  Atwood, 
who  d.  1867,  Dec.  10.  He  d.  1901,  Sept.  15.  They  had  a  son, 
Oscar8,  b.  Bedford,  1879,  Dec.  4. 
VII.  James,  son  of  William6,  b.  1822,  Aug.  13;  m.  1845,  July,  Laura  J. 
Nason,  b.  in  Minot,  Me.,  1825,  June  24,  and  d.  1899,  Dec.  22.  He 
d.  1895,  Feb.  25.  They  had  ch.:  Clara  E.8,  b.  Bedford,  1849,  March 
8;  Willis  IT.8,  b.  Manchester,  1851,  July  24;  Walter  V.8,  b.  Manches- 
ter, 1859,  Jan.  11;  Frances  C.8,  b.  Manchester,  1866,  June  13. 

VIII.  Willis  H.,  son  of  James7,  b.  1851,  July  24;  m.  in  Lewiston,  Me., 
Mary  E.  Robinson.  Had  ch.:  Daisy  E.9,  b.  Lewiston,  Me.,  1880, 
March,  d.  1888,  July;  Ernest  C.9,  b.  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1882;  Laura9, 
b.  1884,  d.  1888;  Fanny  M.9,  b.  Charlestown,  Mass.,  1886,  March; 
Walter  N.9,  b.  Roxbury,  Mass.,  1891;  Willis9,  b.  Roxbury,  1896. 

VIII.  Walter  N.,  son  of  James7,  b.  1859,  Jan.  11;  m.  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1883, 
Mettie  E.  Peables;  res.  in  Boston.  Have  ch.:  Mildred9,  b.  Ft. 
Payne,  Ala.,  1890,  Aug.  18;  Walter  N.9,  b.  Norristown,  Pa.,  1898, 
March,  d.  1898,  May;  Doris  V.9,  b.  New  York  city,  1902,  Oct, 

VII.  Eliza  Jane,  dau.  of  William6,  b.   1824,  Nov.  15;  m.  Charles  Fisher 

and  res.  in  Manchester,  where  she  d.  1863,  March  12.  Had  ch.: 
Augustus  C.8,  b.  1849,  Jan.  11;  Emma  Jane8,  b.  1851,  March  12, 
d.  1868,  June  19;  Georgie  E.8,  b.  1853,  June  11,  m.  E.  J.  Powers, 
res.  in  Manchester,  has  one  son;  Charles  G.8,  b.  1855,  June  21, 
d.  1863,  Oct,  19;  Josephine,8  b.  1858,  Jan.  5,  d.  1863,  Oct.  31. 


880  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 


BUSWELL. 

Jacob  Pearley  was  b.  1838,  Aug.  7,  son  of  Dea.  Jacob  and  Mary 
(Sargent)  Buswell  of  Candia,  N.  H.  When  he  was  eight  years  of 
age  his  parents  moved  to  Auburn,  where  he  m.  1861,  June  25, 
Mary  Lucia,  b.  Lowell,  Mass.,  1836,  April  18,  dau.  of  Benjamin 
and  Mary  L.  (Simonds)  Hutchinson.  In  Aug.,  1862,  enlisted  in 
Company  A  of  the  Tenth  N.  H.  regiment,  and  served  until  April, 
1864,  when  he  returned  to  Auburn;  served  as  town  treasurer  and 
selectman.  In  1875  moved  to  Manchester  (expressman),  thence 
to  Bedford  in  1886;  farmer.  Has  been  elder  of  Presbyterian 
church  here  for  several  years.  A  dau.,  Nellie  Augusta,  was  b. 
1867,  Oct.  30,  in  Auburn.  She  d.  Manchester,  1880,  Jan.  25. 
An  adopted  dau.,  Minda  Aldrich,  was  b.  Candia,  1881,  Aug.  31. 

BUSWELL. 

This  family  is  not  related  to  the  above. 

Eugene  F.,  farmer,  was  b.  Wilmot,  1855,  March  28,  son  of 
Nathaniel,  Jr.,  and  Judith  (Scribner)  Buswell.  He  m.  1884, 
Feb.  20,  M.  Imogene,  b.  Springfield,  1863,  Oct.  18,  dau.  of 
Jonathan  L.  and  Nancy  A.  (Potter)  Langley  of  Wilmot.  Their 
ch.,  all  b.  in  town,  are:  Frank  Appleton,  b.  1891,  Feb.  11;  Ernest 
Langley,  b.  1895,  Feb.  26;  Edith  Nancy,  b.  1900,  Jan.  23. 

CAMPBELL. 

Two  brothers,  John1  and  David1  Campbell,  came  early  to  Bedford  from 
Salem,  N.  H.,  where  they  had  lived  near  the  shore  of  Canobie  lake. 

I.  John,  m. .     His  ch.  were  Thomas2;  Robert?;  Jane2,  who  m.  1829, 

May  27,  John  Swan  of  Merrimack,  no  ch.;  Patty2. 
II.  Thomas,  son  of  John1,  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  David1  Campbell,  settled  in 
Bedford  and  had  ch.:  Daniel3;  Mary3,  m.  Osgood  Hill  of  Hudson; 

Thomas3,  m.  and  settled  in  California;  Henry3,  m. Farwell, 

settled  in  Franklin;  Jane3,  a  mute,  was  educated  in  the  Asylum 

for  Deaf  Mutes,  Hartford,  Conn.,  m. Smith,  also  a  mute,  and 

has  been  an  assistant  at  the  Hartford  asylum  for  nearly  forty 
years;  Phineas3,  killed  by  a  falling  tree;  Sophia3,  deaf  mute; 
Adam*,  b.  1816. 

III.  Adam,  son  of  Thomas2,  b.   1816;  m.  Lucy  Tompkins,  b.  Newport, 

1827,  Jan.  11;  had  ch.:  Clifton*;  Arthur  Evgent*,  b.  1867;  Calista4, 
m.  Osgood  Hill  of  Hudson;  Ida4,  b.  1851,  Sept.  29,  m.  Alfred 
Jones  (see  Jones);  Mary4,  b.  1862,  Sept.  14  (see  Sylvanus  C. 
Campbell).     Adam,  the  father,  d.  1886,  July  5. 

IV.  Clifton,  son  of  Adam3,  m.  Maggie  White;  ch. :  Dora5,  m.  Laplant, 

has  one  dau. ;  Fred5. 

IV.  Arthur   Eugene,    son  of  Adam3,  b.    1867;    m.   Jeanette    (Sawyer) 

Foster,  b.   Rouse's  Point,  N.  Y.,   1864;    ch.:   Lucy  A.5,  b.   1893, 

March  30;  Howard  A.5,  b.  1895,  Feb.  11;  Albert5,  b.  1900,  Nov.  17. 

'  Mrs.  Foster  also  had  two  daughters,  Achsah  and  Susie,  by  first 

marriage. 

II.  Robert,  son  of  John1,  b.   1788,  Sept.  17;  m.,  1st,  Naomi,  dau.   of 

David1  Campbell;  2d,  Dolly,  b.  1802,  dau.  of  Samuel  Seavey.     She 

d.  1885,  Feb.  8.     Ch.,  1st  marriage,  were:  Betsey,3  b. ;  Abner3, 

b.  1817,  Jan.  24;  Nancy3,  b.  1818,  July  26,  d.  1886,  April  5;  Seth3, 
b.  1820,  June  16,  a  deaf  mute,  d.  1867,  Nov.  8;  David3,  b.  1822, 
July  16;  Robert3,  b.  1824,  Jan.  20;  Jane3,  b.  1826,  Sept.  16  (see 
Welch).    Ch.,  2d  marriage:  Harriett  West3,  b.  1834,  Jan.  8  (see 


GENEALOGIES. — BUKSIEL.  881 

Adams);  Silas*,  b.  1835,  Oct.  27;  Emerson  Preston3,  b.  1837, 
Jan.  11,  drowned  when  11  years  old;  Susan  S.3,  b.  1838,  Nov.  17, 
m.  Elbridge  Campbell  (see  Campbell);  John  Haney3,  b.  1840,  Aug. 
3;  Walter  D.s,  b.  1842,  March  3. 

III.  Betsey,  dau.  of  Robert2,  m.  1835,  Nov.  12,  John  Butterfield;  settled 
in  Litchfield  and  had  3  ch.:  Rufus4,  Mary4,  Melissa4,  d. 

III.  Abner,  son  of  Robert2,  m.  Mary  Jane  Butterfield.  He  d.  in  Cal- 
ifornia.   Their  ch.  were:  Bradford4;  John4,  d.;  Albert4,  d. 

III.  David,   son  of  Robert2,  b.   1822,  July  16;  m.  Mary  Ann  Sawyer 

George,  dau.  of  Samuel  George,  Woodstock,  N.  H.  He  d.  1892, 
Nov.  26.  She  d.  1880.  Ch.:  Emma  Jane*,  b.  in  Bedford,  1850, 
Feb.  22;  Adelaide  Svphroma*,  b.  1851,  Oct.  1;  Angeline,  b.  in 
Chester,  1853,  Julv  14,  m.  Elliot  S.  Campbell  (see  Campbell);  Har- 
riet Ann4,  b.  1854,  d.  1854;  Harvey  Phitbrick*,  b.  1857,  Oct.  16. 

IV.  Emma  Jane,  dau.  of  David3,  b.   i850,  Feb.  22;    m.  1889,  Oct.  17, 

Charles  E.  Morse,  h.  1846,  Nov.  9,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Dear- 
born Morse  of  Chester,  N.  H.,  where  they  settled.  Ch.:  Alice 
Maud5,  b.  1871,  July  31,  m.  Guy  Chadwiek;  Arthur  Charles5,  b. 
1874,  April  22,  d.  1899,  Nov.  9,  at  Thornton,  New  Mexico;  Eugene 
Albert5,  b.  1876,  Nov.  10;  Ethel  Emma5,  b.  1879,  Feb.  27,  m.  Amos 
Bolanouce  of  Nashua;  Estella  Emma5,  b.  1879,  Feb.  27  (twin  to 
Ethel),  m.  John  Stone  of  Lynn,  Mass.     All  res.  in  West  Derry. 

IV.  Adelaide  Sophronia,  dau.  of  David3,  b.  1851,  Oct.  1;  m.  1872,  Oct.  19, 
Alfred  J.  Robador,  son  of  Lewis  and  Rcsalie  (Hamel)  Robador, 
Windsor,  Quebec;  settled  in  Epping,  manufacturer  of  brick;  d. 
1902,  March  9,  Mont  Vernon,  N.  H.  Ch.:  Claribel  Lydia5,  b. 
Bedford,  1873,  July  17,  d.  Epping,  1875,  Dec.  26;  Herbert  Camp- 
bell5, b.  Epping,  1875,  July  10,  d.  1875,  Aug.  11;  Frederick  George5, 
b.  1876,  Sept.  11,  d.  1876,  Sept.  15;  Eugene  Maurice5,  b.  1877, 
May  5,  d.  1898,  Jan.  10,  at  Exeter,  entered  Phillips  Exeter  acad- 
emy 1894,  Harvard  university  1896;  Addie  Belle5,  b.  1878,  Dec.  5, 
d.  Exeter,  1898,  Jan.  23,  graduate  of  Robinson  Female  seminary, 
Exeter. 

IV.  Harvey  Philbrick,  son  of  David3,  b.  1857,  Oct.  16;  m.  Jennie  E. 
Palimer  of  Whitefield,  N.  H.;  res.  in  Manchester;  rem.  to 
Ballard,  Wash.,  1897;  went  to  Alaska  during  the  first  excitement 
following  the  discovery  of  gold  there.  Ch. :  Walter  Washington5, 
b.  North  Weare,  188fi,  Feb.  22;  Rosy  Palimer5,  b.  Goffstown. 
1887,  March  29. 

III.  Silas,  son  of  Robert2,  b.  1835,  Oct.  27;  m.  Rebecca  Marsh.  They 
had  two  ch.:  Willie4,  killed  by  the  cars  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  had 
nine  ch.;  Abbie  Jane4,  m.,  1st,  William  McFarland,  2d,  Herbert 
Stevens.  A  son,  William  McFarland5,  is  attending  a  military 
school,  Deland,  Fla. 

III.  John  Haney,  son  of  Robert2,  b.  1840,  Aug.  3;  m.  Josephine,  dau.  of 
George  and  Harriet  (Hardy)  Campbell;  settled  in  Maine;  had  six 
ch.,  of  which  but  two  are  living. 

III.  Walter  D.,  son  of  Robert2,  m.  Lorana  Clark;  settled  in  Maine;  three 
ch.:  Ai4,  m.  Addie  Berry,  no  ch.;  Oscar4,  d.;  Ada4,  d. 
I.  David,  who  came  with  his  brother  John  from  Salem,  served  in  the 

Revolutionary  war.    He  m.  Smith  of  Londonderry.    Had 

ch.:  James2;  William2;  Samuel  Smith2;  Mary2,  m.  Thos.1  Camp- 
bell; Naomi2,  m.  Robert2  Campbell;  a  dau.,  m.,  1st,  Seth  Page, had 
no  ch.,  but  adopted  two  nephews,  David  Page   and  Seth  Page 

Campbell;  she  m.  2d, McKean. 

II.  James,  son  of  David1,  came  on  foot  from  Salem,  N.  H.,  when  four 
years  old;  was  laborer  on  Middlesex  canal,  which  was  considered 
a  great  undertaking  at  that  time.  He  m.  Dolly  Butterfield,  and 
res.  here.  Ch.:  Seth  Page*,  b.  1805  (Windham);  Paul  Tenmf,  b. 
1812,  Jan.  22;  Isaac*;  Jane3  (see  Adams);  Hannah*. 

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882  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

III.  Hanuali3,  dau.  of  James;  m.  1842,  July  21,  Adam  Bntterfield  of  Mer- 
rimack.  Three  ch.,  Sarah  Ann*,  William4,  Dolly  Jane4. 

III.  Seth  Page  C,  son  of  James2,  b.  1805;  m.  Mary  McClinch,  b.  in  Merri- 

mack, 1800,  d.  Bedford.  He  d.  1877.  Ch.:  Page*,  b.  1827,  March; 
George4,  d.;  soldier  in  the  Civil  war;  Horace  »S.4,  b.  1834,  March; 
Ira*;  David4,  b.  1837,  m.  Louisa,  dau.  of  Sherburn  Dearborn,  d. 
by  suicide,  1892,  Aug.  28,  ch.,  Francis4;  Seth4,  m.  Augusta,  dau. 
of  Sherburn  Dearborn;  Mary  Jane4,  m.  Rufus  Bntterfield  of 
Litchfield,  rem.  to  Nashua,  four  ch.,  Frank4,  Louisa1,  Mary4, . 

IV.  Page,  son  of  Seth  Page  C3.,  b.  1827,  March;  m.  Marilla  Bntterfield  of 

Merrimack.  Served  in  Civil  war,  and  d.  from  wounds  received 
in  battle  near  St.  Petersburg,  Va.  Ch.,  b.  in  Bedford,  were: 
Henry5,  d.;  Lydia5,  d.;  Daniel5,  d.;  Frank5. 

IV.  Horace  S.,  son  of  Seth  Page  C.3,  b.  1834,  March;  m.  1855,  Hannah 
Adams,  b.  1836,  dau.  of  Robert  and  Jane  (Campbell)  Adams. 
Ch.:  Alfred  B.*>,  b.  1856,  Aug.;  Edward  D.5,  b.  1868,  Dec,  m.  1902, 
Nettie  B.,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Ada  J.  (Carey)  Rogers,  a  son, 
Everett  H.  J.,  b.  1902,  Dec.  29;  Ai5,  b.  1871,  Oct.  Two  girls  and 
one  boy  died  in  infancy. 
V.  Alfred,  son  of  Horace  S.4,  b.  1856,  Aug.;  m.  1877,  June  2,  Emeline 
M.  Russel,  dau.  of  George  B.  and  Nancy  (Tinker)  Russel.  Ch.: 
Nellie6,  b.  1881,  Jan.,  m.  1901,  Carson  Smith,  res.  in  Derry;  Fred6, 
b.  1883,  April;  Arthur6,  b.  1887,  July  7;  Harold6,  b.  1895,  Dec; 
infant,  d.  1879,  June  8. 

IV.  Ira,  son  of  Seth  Page  C.3,  m.  Melissa,  dau.  of  John  and  Susan  (Hill) 
Seavy.  One  son,  Sylvanus  Cobb5,  b.  1857,  March. 
V.  Sylvanus  C,  son  of  Ira4,  b.  1857,  March;  m.  1878,  Oct.  26,  Mary  E., 
b.  1862,  Sept.  14,  dau.  of  Adam3  and  Lucy  (Tompkins)  Campbell. 
Ch. :  Mabel  M*,  b.  1880,  July  10;  Quincy  P.6,  b.  1882,  Feb. ;  Sylva- 
nus Cleveland6,  b.  1884,  Aug.  1;  Maurice  B.6,  b.  1889,  April  23; 
Merton  L.6,  b.  1893,  Jan.  6;  Ralph6,  b.  1894,  Dec.  7. 

IV.  Mabel  M.,  dau.  of  Sylvanus  C.5;  m.  1898,  April  20,  Leander  T.  Decor- 
mier,  res.  Manchester.    One  ch.,  Nedd  Arnold5,  was  b.  1901,  Nov.  5. 

III.  Paul  Tenny,  son  of  James2,  b.  1812,  Jan.  22;  m.,  1st,  1830,  Dec  16, 

Mary  Seavy,  b.  1809,  Nov.  13,  Chester,  d.  1868,  Dec.  10.  He  m., 
2d,  Mrs.  Fifield  of  Nashua.  He  d.  1883,  Jan.  30.  Ch.,  all  by  first 
marriage:  Elbridge  Jones*,  b.  1831,  Nov.  5;  Mary  Ann  Paine4,  b. 
1833,  March  11,  m.  Jackson  Bntterfield,  res.  in  Hooksett,  d.  Bed- 
ford, 1864,  Nov.  16.  Had  five  ch.,  Martha,5  d.,  George5,  Amy5,  m. 
John  Welch  (see  Welch),  Charles5  d.,  Andrew  J.5;  Charles  Shep- 
ard4,  b.  1835,  May  5,  d.  1837,  March  14;  Lucretia4,  b.  1836,  Oct. 
27,  d.  1836,  Nov.  13;  Andrew  Seavy4,  b.  1837,  Dec.  1;  Elliot  Seavy*, 
b.  1840,  March  7;  Daniel  Seavy4,  b.  1842,  April  16,  m.  Nellie 
Drew  of  Manchester;  he  d.  1902,  March  4;  Joel  Gay4,  b.  1845,  Feb. 
14,  d.  1866,  Dec.  26;  Amy4,  b.  1848,  July  19,  d.  1849,  June  22; 
John  Harvill4,  b.  1850,  Sept,  11,  m. ,  no  ch. 

IV.  Elbridge  Jones,  son  of  Paul  Tenny3,  b.  1831,  Nov.  5;  m.  1857,  Feb. 

24,  Susan  S.,  dau.  of  Robert2  and  Dolly  Seavy  Campbell.  Ch.: 
Ellery  D.5,  b.  1858,  m.  Almy  Huntress;  Elliot  A.5,  b.  1860,  Jan.  22, 
m.  Rosa  Grendall,  ch.,  Delia  A.6,  Clarence  E.6 

IV.  Elliot  Seavy,  son  of  Paul  Tenny3,  b.  1840,  March  7;  m.  1874,  Dec  31, 
Augeline  Campbell,  b.  1853,  July  14,  dau.  of  David3  and  Mary 
A.  S.  G.  Campbell.  One  ch.:  Clara  Estella4,  b.  1877,  Nov.  6,  m. 
Eddie  L.  Conner  (see  Conner). 

III.  Isaac,  son  of  James2,  m.  1838,  Sept.  15,  Mary  Ann  Paine,  b.  Candia, 
1822,  Aug.,  and  res.  here.  She  d.  1896,  Dec.  11.  Ch.:  Charles  S.*, 
b  1838,  March  10;  Andrew  Jackson4,  d.;  Seth  P.4,  2d,  b.  1848, 
Aug.  2;  Emerson  P.4,  b.  1850,  Dec.  22;  Dolly  Jane4,  b.  1851, 
Feb.  18,  m.  Nelson  Fosher  (see  Fosher);  George  S*,  b.  1852,  Aug. 
24;  Martin  J.4,  b.1854,  Feb.  23;  Harrison*. 


GEN  EALOGIES. — BUliSlEL. — CHANDLER.  883 

IV.  Harrison4,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1856,  June  6;  m.  1879,  Feb.  8,  Carrie  Kim- 
ball; adopted  Hazel,  dau.  of  Nelson  and  Frances  B.  (Weishaupt) 
Marchant. 

IV.  Charles  S.,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1838,  March  10;  m.  1861,  Dec.  10,  Mary, 
dau.  of  John  and  Susan  (Hill)  Seavy.  Two  ch.:  Ida5,  m.  John 
Robinson,  had  ch.,Cora5,  Mary5,  Charles5,  res.  Manchester;  Ellen5, 
m.,  res.  Vt.,  one  ch. 

IV.  Seth  P.,  2d,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1848,  Aug.  2;  m.,  1st,  1870,  Dec.  24, 
Emily  Hammond;  2d,  1885,  March  28,  Josie  "Webber;  3d,  Jane 
Hardy;  4th,  1891,  Dec.  7,  Ada  Butterfield.  They  had  Irving  J., 
b.  1893,  April  4,  d.  1893,  Aug.  16. 

IV.  George  S.,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1852,  Aug.  24;  m.  1877,  Nov.  15,  Carrie 
M.  (Keniston)  Russel.  Ch.:  George5,  b.  1878,  Aug.  27;  Eva5,  b. 
1880,  Oct.  1;  Grace5,  b.  1883,  April  15;  Alma5,  b.  1887,  Feb.  22; 
Alice5,  b.  1890,  Jan.  27. 

IV.  Martin  J.,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1854,  Feb.  23;  m.  1887,  Sept.  16,  Susan  E. 
b.  1870,  Oct.  10,  dau.  of  Jesse  and  Ann  D.  (Trumbull)  Wither- 
spoon.  She  d.  1898,  Feb.  17.  Ch.:  Esther  M.5,  b.  1890,  April  24; 
Myrtie  B.5,  b.  1891,  Aug.  3,  d.  1891,  Sept.  3;  Wallace  M.5,  b.  1892, 
Sept.,  d.  1892,  Oct.  6;  Linda  Pearl5,  b.  1898,  Feb.  5,  d.  1898, 
April  9. 

II.  William,  son  of  David1,  m.  .     His  ch.  were  George3;  William3, 

nnm. ;  and  Jonathan3. 

III.  George,  son  of  William2,  m.  1838,  March  20,  Harriet  Hardy.     Had 

two  ch.:  Washington4;  Josephine4  (see  John  H.3  Campbell). 

IV.  Washington,  son  of  George3,  m.  Belle  Twilight;  settled  in  Man- 

chester, and  was  killed  on  the  railroad.  Had  two  ch.:  Edward5; 
Fred5. 

CHANDLER. 

William  Chandler1  came  to  this  country  from  England  about  1637, 
and  settled  in  Roxbury.  He  brought  with  him  four  small  ch.: 
Thomas2,  Hannah2,  John2,  and  William2;  Sarah2  was  b.  after  they 
came  here;  he  d.  of  consumption  1641,  Jan.  19.  This  is  supposed 
to  be  the  origin  of  the  name  in  this  country. 

III.  Zachariah,  one  of  the  grantees  of  Bedford,  then  Narragansett,  No. 

5,  is  supposed  to  be  a  descendant  of  Thomas2.  He  signs  his  name 
on  the  record  in  the  right  of  his  wife's  father,  Thomas  Bishop. 

IV.  Thomas,  son  of  Zachariah3,  was  among  the  first  settlers  of  the  town, 

and  m.  Hannah,  dau.  of  Col.  John  Goffe,  by  whom  he  had  four 
ch.:  Peggy5,  Hamuih5,  Sally5,  and  Zachariah5.  He  then  d.  His 
widow  afterwards  m.  Capt.  John  Bradford,  as  his  second  wife, 
and  settled  in  Amherst,  now  Milford.  Capt.  Bradford  was  grand- 
father to  the  Rev.  Ephraim  P.  Bradford  of  New  Boston;  Hannah, 
his  wife,  lived  to  be  93  or  94  years  of  age,  and  had  four  or  five  ch. 
by  her  second  husband.  ["  Thomas  Chandler  and  Hannah  Goffe 
were  the  first  couple  m.  in  Bedford.  At  her  death  she  had  8  chil- 
dren, 63  grandchildren,  113  great-grandchildren,  and  one  of  the 
fifth  generation;  total,  185."  Amherst  History.]  The  three  daugh- 
ters of  Thomas4  m.  and  settled  in  Amherst,  now  Mont  Vernon. 

V.  Peggy,  dan.  of  Thomas4,  m.  Dea.  Richard  Ward  and  reared  a  large 
family.  They  rem.  about  1793  to  Andover,  Vt.,  and  -  scattered 
over  the  country,  some  to  Maine. 

V.  Hannah,  dau.  of  Thomas4,  m.  Col.  Stephen  Peabody;  two  of  their 
sons,  Thomas  and  John,  were  doctors;  a  dau.,  Rebecca,  was  a  sur- 
geon doctress,  m.  Gen.  Perley  Davis,  and  settled  in  Montpelier,  Vt. 
Some  of  the  family  settled  in  Cambridge,  on  the  river  Lamoille. 

V.  Sally,  dau.  of  Thomas4,  m.  Enos  Bradford;  had  two  daughters  and 
one  son,  all  of  whom  were  dead  and  family  extinct  in  1850. 


884  HISTOliY   OF   BEDFORD. 

V.  Zachariah,  sou  of  Thomas4,  was  b.  1751,  May  28.  Daring  most  of 
his  minority  he  resided  with  his  relatives  in  Roxbury.  At  a  suita- 
ble age  he  came  to  reside  on,  and  take  the  care  of,  his  patrimonial 
estate  in  Bedford,  and  before  he  was  21  m.  Sarah,  b.  1749,  March 
17,  dau.  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Mary  (Bell)  Patten,  by  whom  he 
had  two  sons  and  one  dau.:  Thomas6,  b.  1772,  Aug.  10;  Samuel6,  b. 
1774,  May  28;  Sarah6,  b.  1781,  Oct,  26.  Zachariah  d.  1830,  April 
20,  aged  almost  79;  Sarah,  his  wife,  d.  suddenly  in  the  full  enjoy- 
ment of  her  mental  faculties,  1842,  Nov.  30,  aged  93. 
VI.  Thomas,  son  of  Zachariah5,  b.  1 772,  Aug.  10;  m.  1793,  Nov.  26, 
Susannah,  b.  1772,  March  30,  dau.  of  Matthew  McAfee  of  Bedford; 
they  settled  in  town  and  had  four  ch.  He  d.  1866,  Jan.  28,  and 
his  wife  d.  1857,  Nov.  23.  Oh.:  Asenath17,  b.  1794,  Sept.  16;  SamF 
(Sally),  b.  1796  March  3;  Hannah'' ,  b.  1797,  Dec.  30;  Adam''. 

VII.  Asenath,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  1794,  Sept.  16;  m.  Stephen  Kendrick 
of  Nashville,  and  has  had  four  ch.:  Franklin8,  who  went  to  Cali- 
fornia in  March,  1849;  Susan8,  Asenath8,  and  Sarah8. 

VII.  Sarai  (Sally),  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  1796,  March  3;  m.  Caleb  Kendrick; 
both  were  dead  in  1850.  At  that  time  they  had  a  son,  Caleb 
Chandler  Kendrick8,  in  the  sophomore  class  at  Dartmouth  college. 

VII.  Hannah,  dau.  of  Thomas6,  b.  1797,  Dec.  30;  m.  Rufus  Kendrick, 
merchant,  of  Boston,  and  had  four  ch.:  Thomas8;  Byron8;  Frances8, 
m.  a  Mr.  Freeman,  merchant,  of  Boston;  and  Mary  Augusta8. 
Hannah,  the  mother,  d.  1850. 

VII.  Adam,  only  son  of  Thomas6,  b.  1805,  June  7;  in.  1829,  Dec.  31,  Sally 
McAllister,  b.  1804,  March  1,  dau.  of  John  and  Jane  (Aiken)  Mc- 
Allister; she  d.  1870,  Nov.  7;  he  d.  1887,  Sept.  6.  They  had  four 
ch.:  Henry8,  George  Byron8,  John  M.%,  and  Sally8,  who  d.  1842,  Feb., 
aged  2  years,  8  mos. 
VIII.  Henry,  son  of  Adam7,  was  b.  1830,  Oct.  30,  and  in  1860  m.  Abbie  J. 
Bond,  dau.  of  Thomas  Bond  of  Bow.  They  had  four  ch.:  Sally  M.H. 
who  m.  James  W.  Hill  of  Manchester;  Annie  B.9,  now  living  upon 
the  family  homestead;  Alice  M.9,  who  in.  Joseph  Ben  Hart  of 
Manchester  in  1889,  they  have  a  dau.,  Virginia  V.,  b.  1902;  George 
Henry9. 

IX.  George  Henry,  son  of  Henry8,  is  at  present  assistant  treasurer  of  the 
Amoskeag  Savings  bank;  he  m.  in  1895  Mary  I.  Gould  of  Hills- 
borough Bridge.  They  have  one  dau.,  Marigold,  b.  1896. 
VIII.  George  Byron,  son  of  Adam7,  was  b.  1832,  Nov.  18.  He  lived  upon 
the  homestead  until  he  was  21  years  of  age,  when  he  went  to  Man- 
chester, and  in  1855  entered  the  Amoskeag  bank.  He  is  at  pres- 
ent president  of  the  Amoskeag  National  bank,  treasurer  of  the 
Amoskeag  Savings  bank,  treasurer  of  the  N.  H.  Fire  Insurance 
Co.,  and  treasurer  of  the  People's  Savings  bank.  In  May,  1862,  he 
m.  Flora  A.  Daniels  of  Manchester,  who  d.  in  1868.  In  Oct.,  1870, 
he  m.  Fannie  R.  Martin  of  Manchester.  They  have  had  three 
sons:  Benjamin  Martin9,  b.  1872,  who  m.  Eloise  Carpenter  of 
Eloise,  Iowa,  by  whom  he  had  a  dau.,  Catherine,  b.  in  1898,  they 
live  in  England;  Byron9,  b.  in  1879,  and  Alexander  Rice9,  b.  in 
1876,  d.  in  1878. 
VIII.  John  M.,  son  of.  Adam7,  was  b.  1834,  Nov.  3.  He  lived  upon  the 
homestead  until  about  1859,  when  he  removed  to  Manchester,  and 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  for  about  20  years.  In  1870  he 
entered  the  Amoskeag  bank,  and  soon  after  became  its  cashier, 
which  office  he  continued  to  hold  until  his  death,  1901,  Dec.  5.  He 
m.  1st,  Lavinia  Pease  Foss,  in  1860,  by  whom  he  had  one  dau., 
Mary9,  she  m.  Frank  Burpee,  and  they  now  res.  in  Philadelphia, 
Penn.,  they  have  one  son,  Chandler10.  He  m.  2d,  Lucy  Ruggles  of 
New  Bedford  by  whom  he  had  one  dau.,  Eloise9.  Both  survive 
him. 


GENEALOGIES. — CHANDLEK.  885 

VI.  Samuel,  sou  of  Zachariah5,  was  b.  1774,  May  28;  ui.  1800,  Nov.  11, 
Margaret,  b.  1774,  Sept.  1,  oldest  dau.  of  Hou.  John  Orr.  He 
always  lived  on  the  homestead,  part  of  the  original  grant  of  Bed- 
ford. Had  seven  ch.,  of  whom  three  sons  and  three  daughters 
lived  to  mature  age:  Mary  Jane1,  b.  1802,  Jan.  13;  Caroline7,  b. 
1804,  March  7,  d.  1805,  Sept.  11;  Annis7,  b.  1806,  Aug.  15,  m. 
Franklin  Moore  (see  Moore),  settled  in  Detroit;  Catherine7,  b. 
1808,  Sept.  23,  m.  John  Adams  of  Newfield,  Me.  (see  Adams) ; 
Samuel,  Jr.1,  b.  1811,  July  5;  Zachariah1,  b.  1813,  Dec.  10;  John  Orr', 
b.  1816,  Jan.  1. 

VII.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  Samuel6,  b.  1802,  Jan.  13;  m.  1st,  1825,  Sept.  20, 
Rev.  Cyras  Downs,  and  settled  in  Canajoharie,  N.  Y.  He  d.  1827, 
Feb.  She  then  m.  2d,  1828,  July,  Rev.  David  P.  Smith,  who  was 
settled  in  Greenfield,  N.  H.,  and  d.  1850,  Oct.  1.  She  m.  3d, 
Samuel  Lee,  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  about  1858.  Shed.  1881,  May  17. 

VII.  Samuel,  Jr.,  son  of  Samuel6,  b.  1811,  July  5;  entered  Dartmouth 
college,  Sept.,  1830.  In  1833  he  took  up  his  connection,  and  went 
to  Union  college,  Schenectady;  his  appointment  for  commence- 
ment in  1834  was  an  English  oration,  which  he  was  unable  to  per- 
form by  reason  of  sickness.  He  was  taken  with  lung  fever  in 
May,  1834,  and  came  home  the  first  of  June.  In  Sept.  he  went 
with  his  brother  and  sister  to  Detroit,  in  the  hope  of  a  better  cli- 
mate, which  was  delusive.  He  gradually  declined  until  1835, 
March  21,  when  he  died  at  Detroit,  where  his  remains  now  are. 

VII.  Zachariah,  son  of  Samuel6,  b.  1813,  Dec.  10;  moved  to  Detroit,  Mich., 
in  Sept.,  1833;  he  m.  1843,  Dec.  10,  Letitia  Grace,  dau.  of  George 
Douglass,  Esq,,  of  New  York  city;  served  three  terms  (18  years) 
as  U.S.  senator  from  Mich.;  was  also  secretary  of  the  interior 
under  Pres.  Grant  (see  biographical  sketch).  He  d.  at  Chicago, 
111.,  1879,  March  1;  his  wife,  Letitia  Grace,  d.  in  Detroit,  1899, 
Feb.  19.  Their  dau.,  Mary  Douglas^,  was  b.  in  Detroit. 
VIII.  Mary  Douglass,  dau.  of  Zachariah7,  m.  in  Washington,  D.  C,  1871, 
Dec.  20,  Eugene  Hale,  U.  S.  senator  from  Maine.  Mr.  Hale  was  b. 
in  Turner,  Me.,  the  son  of  James  Sullivan  and  Betsey  (Staples) 
Hale;  now  res.  in  Ellsworth,  Me.  Their  ch.  are:  Chandler9,  b. 
Washington,  D.  C,  1873,  March  2;  Frederick9,  b.  Detroit,  Mich.. 
1874,  Oct.  7;  Eugene9,  b.  Washington,  D.  C,  1876,  March  1. 
IX.  Chandler  (Hale),  son  of  Mary  Douglass,  b.  1873,  March  2;  m.  1897, 
Sept.  28,  Rachel  Burnside  Cameron,  and  res.  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  They  have  two  ch.:  Chandler,  b.  in  Ellsworth,  Me.,  1898, 
July  17;  Donald  Cameron,  b.  in  Vienna,  Austria,  1902,  Jan.  2. 

VII.  John  Orr,  son  of  Samuel6,  b.  1816,  Jan.  1;  entered  Dartmouth  col- 
lege in  Sept.,  1832;  graduated  1836,  and  entered  Andover  Theo- 
logical seminary  at  the  fall  term  of  the  same  year.  He  returned 
home  in  the  spring  of  1837,  out  of  health,  with  weakness  of  the 
lungs,  and  in  Sept.  went  to  Detroit.  Still  declining  he  left  in 
Nov.  for  Cuba,  by  way  of  the  Mississippi  river  and  New  Orleans. 
He  stopped  a  short  time  at  Havana,  thence  went  to  Matanzas,  and 
later  to  Limonare,  about  twelve  miles  from  the  city,  where  for  a 
short  time  he  seemed  to  revive,  but  his  disorder  was  too  firmly 
seated  to  be  removed,  and  he  d.  in  Jan.,  1839.  Dying  in  a  Catho- 
lic country,  he  was  denied  Christian  burial,  and  his  remains  were 
buried  on  the  plantation.  They  were  disinterred  and  removed  to 
Bedford  in  the  winter  of  1842,  and  kindly  offered  a  resting-place 
in  the  tomb  of  Dr.  Woodbury,  where  they  still  remain  (1850). 
VI.  Sarah,  only  dau.  of  Zachariah5,  b.  1781,  Oct.  26,  became  the  owner 
of  the  house  and  garden  of  her  father,  and  occupied  them  until 
her  death  in  Bedford,  1853,  Octv  15. 
The  following  document  is  annexed  as  illustrative  of  the  history  of  the 
times: 


886  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

"  Boston,  Nov.  11,  1740. 
"Received  of  Mr.  Zachariah  Chandler,  one  hundred  and  ten  pounds,  in 
full,  for  a  Negro- Boy,  sold  and  delivered  him,  for  my  master,  John  Jones. 
"  £110.  Win.  Merchant,  Jun'r." 

ZACHARIAH  CHANDLER. 

The  name  of  Zachariah  Chandler  is  inseparably  connected  with  that  of 
Bedford.  One  of  his  ancestors  was  a  founder  of  the  town,  and  here  he 
was  born  in  1813,  and  grew  to  manhood.  Of  the  place  he  ever  retained  a 
fondness,  and  during  his  public  career  it  was  his  practice  to  make  an 
annual  visit  to  the  home  of  his  youth.  His  was  a  stalwart  figure,  strongly 
marked,  a  resolute  face,  and  a  masterful  manner,  tempered  with  whole- 
souled,  democratic  nature. 

Mr.  Chandler  was  reared  under  circumstances  and  conditions  which 
contributed  to  shape  his  life  in  after  years.  His  boyhood  was  the  same 
which  fell  to  the  lot  of  the  average  New  England  country  lad  of  his  time. 
He  had  to  work,  and  he  learned  how  to  work  hard  with  both  his  hands 
and  his  head.  He  was  a  fair  scholar  at  the  district  school,  and  he  was 
also  schoolmaster  for  a  short  time.  He  made  a  good  farmer,  and  he 
learned  how  to  respect  the  dignity  of  manual  labor.  He  was  early  taught 
that  character  is  the  true  test  of  man,  and  he  was  a  natural  democrat.  He 
had  an  overflowing  exuberant  nature,  and  was  a  leader  among  his  mates 
in  their  sports  and.  frolics.  He  was  once  the  champion  wrestler  of  this 
town,  and  there  are  plenty  of  legends  of  boyish  larks  in  which  he  figured. 

The  sturdy  stuff  in  young  Chandler  was  evinced  when  it  came  time  for 
him  to  face  his  future.  He  had  his  choice  of  $1,000  or  a  college  education. 
He  promptly  took  the  former  and  started  for  the  West,  deciding  to  settle 
in  Detroit,  where  two  of  his  friends  had  previously  gone.  He  opened  a 
small  store,  conducting  it  without  assistance,  sleeping  on  the  counter. 
He  sagaciously  expanded  his  business,  until  in  twenty  years  he  had  be- 
come the  leading  merchant  of  Detroit,  which  meantime  had  grown  to  be 
a  very  large  city. 

He  has  been  characterized  as  a  born  politician,  and  his  interest  in  pub- 
lic affairs  was  ever  active.  He  was  elected  mayor  of  the  city  when  he 
was  thrty-eight  years  of  age;  as  the  minority  party  (Whig)  candidate  for 
governor  the  next  year,  he  was  defeated.  He  was  most  actively  inter- 
ested in  the  question  of  the  extension  of  slavery.  When  it  was  attempted 
to  enforce  the  Fugitive  Slave  law,  he  helped  fugitive  slaves  to  escape,  and 
openly  gloried  in  it.  He  contributed  $10,000  to  help  settle  free  soilers  in 
Kansas.  He  was  most  active  in  the  anti-slavery  campaigns  in  his  state, 
and  because  of  his  aggressive  outspokenness  and  his  natural  ability  as  a 
leader  of  men,  he  was  chosen  to  the  United  States  senate  in  1857,  although 
he  had  had  no  parliamentary  experience  and  little  training  in  public  life. 
He  was  not  a  finished  orator,  but  was  an  impressive  speaker,  because  of  his 
frank  and  matter  of  fact  way  of  expressing  himself.  In  those  stirring  times 
which  made  that  a  striking  historical  period,  his  earnestness  and  courage 
brought  him  to  the  forefront  as  a  leader,  a  distinction  that  was  never 
diminished.  As  illustrative  of  his  boldness,  he  attacked  the  Dred  Scott 
decision  and  declared  that  he  "would  support  the  constitution  as  its 
fathers  had  made  it,  not  as  the  supreme  court  had  altered  it."  At  the 
beginning  of  Lincoln's  administration  and  in  the  early  days  of  the  war, 
he  stood  prominently  among  the  radicals,  ever  urging  more  aggressive 
action  than  the  president  was  willing  to  take.  When  he  could  spare  tho 
time  from  his  duties  in  the  senate,  he  was  very  active  in  the  work  of 
organizing  troops  in  Michigan.  He  was  a  leading  member  of  the  senate 
committee  on  the  conduct  of  the  war. 

He  was  no  less  radical  in  the  reconstruction  period,  although  he  insisted 
that  mere  justice  and  not  vengeance  was  what  was  needed.  He  early 
broke  with  President  Johnson,  and  voted  for  his  removal  from  office. 


GENEALOGIES. — CHANDLEK.  887 

During  his  third  term  as  senator,  to  which  he  was  chosen  in  1869,  the 
great  financial  and  commercial  problems  faced  the  government.  He  took 
as  pronounced  a  stand  upon  these  as  upon  those  which  had  been  up  for 
solution  previously.  He  favored  the  resumption  of  specie  payments,  the 
establishment  of  the  national  banking  system,  and  the  protective  tariff. 
He  served  fourteen  years  as  chairman  of  the  committee  of  commerce,  one 
of  the  most  important  committees,  and  never  more  so  than  at  that  period. 
His  influence  in  legislation  was  exercised  more  largely  in  shaping  than 
in  originating. 

When  his  third  term  expired,  a  deadlock  in  the  legislature  prevented 
his  reelection.  But  President  Grant  called  him  to  his  cabinet,  giving  him 
the  position  of  secretary  of  the  interior.  The  department  was  then  under 
a  cloud  of  mismanagement  and  grave  scandals,  and  a  thorough  reform 
was  made  by  Mr.  Chandler. 

He  managed  the  presidential  campaign  of  1876  for  the  Republican 
party,  and  was  most  conspicuous  in  the  contest  which  followed.  He  was 
again  elected  to  the  senate,  but  died  November  1,  1879,  before  his  term 
had  been  completed. 

A  few  years  since  an  acquaintance  paid  him  the  following  tribute  of 
appreciation: 

"  In  private  life  Mr.  Chandler  was  a  most  companionable  friend  and 
host.  He  was  a  capital  story  teller,  an  enthusiastic  sportsman,  and  one 
of  the  best  farmers  in  his  state.  While  he  was  not  known  as  a  student  of 
.books,  he  was  nevertheless  a  faithful  reader,  and  would  surprise  even  his 
friends  with  the  range  and  depth  of  his  knowledge  of  subjects  outside 
of  his  busy  life.  While  he  never  displayed  his  religious  belief,  he  was 
a  sincere  believer.  He  could  lead  a  worthy  cause  with  a  hearty  good 
will,  and  he  could  say  '  no  '  in  a  tone  that  left  no  doubt  as  to  the  mean- 
ing; but  no  one  knew  how  many  were  the  benefactions  he  quietly  and 
thoughtfully  bestowed.  A  many-sided  man,  Zachariah  Chandler  might 
have  attained  distinction  in  other  paths  of  life,  but  fortunate  it  was  that 
he  prefered  to  serve  the  people,  and  asked  no  other  reward  but  a  place  in 
the  service  of  the  nation.  They  recognized  in  him  the  true  public  ser- 
vant, the  upright  senator,  rugged  patriot,  brave  leader,  and  noble  man." 

CHANDLER. 

I.  Dea.  Elijah  Chandler,  b.  in  Duxbury,  Mass.;  m.  Eunice  Washburn 
of  Kingston,  and  rem.,  in  1785,  to  Plymouth.  In  1793  he  came  to 
Londonderry,  and  in  1802  to  Bedford,  where  he  settled  on  the 
farm  which  he  occupied  until  his  death.  Dea.  Chandler  d.  1831, 
aged  85,  and  his  wife  a  short  time  after,  aged  86.  They  had  ch. : 
Abigail2;  Deborah2;  Elijah2;  Betsey2,  m.  Isaac  Atwood  (see  At- 
wood); William2;  Eunice2,  b.  1785,  April  23,  m. -Moody  M.  Stevens 
(see  Stevens);  Sally2,  m.  James  Moore  (see  Moore). 

II.  Deborah,  dan.  of  Elijah1,  m.  George  Rider,  who  is  supposed  to  have 
been  lost  at  sea.  They  had  a  large  family.  She  was  again  m.  to 
Isaac  Atwood. 

II.  Wilham,  son  of  Elijah1,  was  b.  in  Kingston,  Mass.,  1783,  April  1; 
res.  in  Bedford  35  years.  He  m.,  1st,  1808,  Nov.  27,  Sophia,  b. 
1786,  June  14,  dau.  of  George  and  Eunice  (Makepeace)  Shepard. 
She  d.  1816,  Aug.  16.  Had  four  ch.:  Caleb3,  b.  1809;  William  B.3, 
b.  1811;  Sarah3,  b.  1814;  Sophia3,  b.  1816.  He  m.,  2d,  Rebecca 
Cobb,  by  whom  he  had  ten  ch.  In  1839  he  moved  to  Nashua  with 
his  wife  and  family,  which  then  consisted  of  eleven  ch.  He  d.  in 
Nashua,  1874,  Sept.  26,  aged  91.  Ch.  by  2d  mar.  were:  George 
S.3;  Bradford  C.3;  William3  and  Rebecca?  (twins);  Clarissa3;  Elijah3; 
John  Duncan3;  Mary  Elizabeth3;  Sophia3;  Sophronia3,  b.  1837,  d. 
Nashua,  1840,  Aug.  10,  all  b.  in  Bedford. 


888  HISTORY    OF    BEDFORD. 

III.  Sarah,  dau.  of  William2,  b.  1814;  m.  in  1844,  Rev.  Horace  Eaton  of 
Goffstown.  She  d.  in  New  Boston,  1861,  March  9.  Their  ch. 
were:  William  C.4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1845,  now  res.  in  Auburn,  R.  I.; 
Clara4,  m.  Bradley,  d.  in  Bridgeport,  Conn;  Mary  B.4,  d.  in 
infancy. 

III.  George  S.,  son  of  William,2  b.  1818,  May  19;  m.  1841,  Elizabeth 
Thurston.  He  d.  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1891.  Had  ch.:  Charles 
B.4,  b.  in  Nashua,  1842,  now  res.  in  New  York  city,  has  a  son 
Charles5;  Luther  G.4,  b.  in  Nashua,  1844,  is  a  physician,  res.  in 
Townsend,  Mass.,  has  two  sons,  Clarence  L.5  and  Albert  B.5; 
George  F.4,  b.  in  Dorchester,  Mass,  1851,  res.  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
has  a  son,  Frank5;  Lillian4,  b.  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  1859,  d.  1897. 

III.  Bradford  C,  son  of  William2,  b.  1821;  lost  his  life  instantaneously  by 
a  heavy  weight  falling  from  an  upper  loft  directly  upon  his  head, 
1839,  Aug.  1. 

III.  William,  son  of  William2,  b.  1823,  Aug.  11;  m.  Sarah  Kimball.  He 
d.  in  Boston,  1890.  They  had  three  ch. :  Eliza4,  William4,  and 
Sarah4.     The  entire  family  have  now  d. 

III.  Rebecca  A.,  dau.  of  William2,  b.  1823,  Aug.  11;  m.  1852,  Feb.  11, 

Daniel  M.  Smith  of  Nashua.  She  d.  1897,  Sept.  4.  Their  ch. 
were:  Charles  M.4,  b.  in  Nashua,  1858,  March  2,  d.  1859,  Aug. 
30;  AlbinM* 

IV.  Albin  M.  (Smith),  son  of  Rebecca  A.3,  b.  in  Nashua,  1861,  Aug. 

25;  m.  1889,  May  23,  Erne  Deagnes  Elkins:  they  have  Ruth  Smith, 
b.  in  Nashua,  1891,  Nov.  17. 

III.  Clarissa,  dau.  of  William2,  b.   1825,  Sept,  25;   m.   1851,   June   11, 

Henry  N.  Huntoon  of  Claremont,  where  she  still  res.  Have 
four  ch.,  b.  Claremont:  Franklin  Nathan*,  b.  1852,  July  2;  Clara 
Louisa4,  b.  1854,  Jan.  26;  William  Henry4,  b.  1859,  Jan.  9,  m. 
1882,  May  11,  Anna  Maria  Lane  of  Charlestown,  N.  H.,  now  res. 
in  Lowell,  Mass.,  have  a  son,  Paul  Eugene5,  b.  1900,  May  10; 
Wdlard  Crosby*,  b.  1859,  Jan.  9. 

IV.  Frauklin  Nathan,  son  of  Clarissa,  b.  1852,  July  2;  m.  1892,  Feb.  3, 

Ella  May  Betts  of  Columbus,  Ind.  They  settled  in  Greencastle, 
Ind.,  where  he  d.  1898,  April  24.  Had  two  ch.:  Anna5,  b.  1893, 
Dec.  25,  and  Frances  Eugenie5,  b.  1895,  Dec.  26. 

IV.  Willard  Crosby,  son  of  Clarissa,  b.  1859,  Jan.  9;  m.  1887,  May  11, 
Sina  Taylor  of  Boonville,  Ind.,  where  they  have  since  res.  Have 
three  ch.:  Ida  Louise5,  b.  1888,  Nov.  26;  Robert  Burns5,  b.  1892, 
Aug.  25;  Edwin  Chandler5,  b.  1897,  Feb.  20. 

III.  Elijah,  son  of  William2,  b.  1827,  Aug.  27;  m.  Sarah  A.  Short;  set- 
tied  in  Manchester  in  1849,  where  he  d.  1897,  Feb.  1.  Had  ch.: 
Willis  B.4,  of  Fitchburg,  Mass.;  Clara  C.4  Tattle  of  Beverly, 
Mass. ;  Fred4,  d.  in  infancy. 

III.  John  Duncan,  son  of  William2,  b.  1831,  May  20;  m.  1853,  Dec.  27, 
Eliza  H.  Frary  in  Haverhill,  N.  H.  He  d.  1898,  June  3.  Their 
ch.  b.  in  Nashua  were:  Lillie  S.4,  b.  1856,  Dec.  7,  d.  1859,  April  1; 
Edson  F.*,  b.  1861,  March  18,  m.  1882,  Nov.  9,  Emma  Hopkins, 
they  had  Aretus  B.5,  b.  in  Nashua,  1894,  May  8;  Carroll  A.4,  b. 
1863,  Sept.  20,  m.  1896,  Sept.  8,  Marie  Jones  in  Chelsea,  Mass.; 
May  H.4,  b.  1870,  June  20,  m.  1898,  Oct.  12,  Samuel  S.  Dearborn 
of  Nashua. 

III.  Mary  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William2,  b.  1833,  April  27;  m.  1856,  Nov. 
27,  Moses  D.  Taylor  of  Nashua,  where  she  still  res.  They  had  ch. : 
Charles  Hiram4,  b.  1864,  April  13,  m.  1888,  Oct,  18,  Mary  I.  Sheri- 
dan, res.  in  West  Somerville,  Mass.,  they  have  Ralph  S.5,  b.  1895, 
April  11;  Dorothy5,  b.  1897,  Feb.  18;  Lizzie  M.4,  b.  1868,  Nov.  24, 
d.  1874,  Jan.  6. 


GENEALOGIES. — CHANDLER. — CONNER. — CURR1E.         889 

III.  Sophia,  dau.  of  William2,  b.  1835;  m.  1858,  Albiu  Yean,  of  North 

Scituate,  R.  I.  He  d.  iu  1889.  Their  three  ch.  were  b.  in  Law- 
rence, Mass.,  where  his  widow  now  res.  Ch.:  Everett4;  Mary 
Vinal*;  Percy  Albin4,  b.  1870,  res.  in  New  York  citv,  unm. 

IV.  Everett  Yeau,  son  of  Sophia3,  b.  1860;  in.  1888,  Lncy  Russell  Shat- 

tnck  of  Lawrence;  res.  in  South  Orange,  N.  J.;  have  four  ch., 
Marion  Chandler5,  Helen  Shattnck5,  Everett5,  Albin6. 
IV.  Mary  Vinal  Yeau,  dau.  of  Sophia2,  b.  1862;  m.  1888,  Frank  Joshua 
Bradley  of  Methuen,  Mass.,  now  res.  in  Haverhill,  Mass.;  have 
two  ch.,  Everett5  and  Marjorie  Elizabeth'. 

CONNER. 

I.  John  P.  Conner  was  b.  in  Sanbornton,  N.  H.,  1814,  March  29.  When 
18  years  of  age  went  to  Lowell,  Mass. ,  where  he  learned  the  shoe- 
maker's trade,  a  business  iu  which  he  continued  all  his  life.  He 
m.,  1837,  May  9,  Almira  Marshall  of  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  where 
they  lived  about  a  year,  then  moved  to  Lowell;  thence  to  Bedford 
in  1845,  and  again  to  Manchester  in  1868,  where  he  d.  1881,  Oct.  1. 
Mrs.  Conner  then  returned  to  Bedford  and  res.  with  her  son,  Wm. 
F.  Conner,  until  her  death  1891,  April  14.  Both  are  buried  in  Bed- 
ford. Their  ch.  were:  Alfred  P.'2,  b.  in  Lyndeborough  1838,  Feb. 
16,  d.  1838,  Aug.  24;  Charles  W.2,  b.  in  Lowell,  1839,  May  3,  d. 
1841,  Dec.  15;  William  F.8b.  in  Lowell,  1841,  Oct.  21;  Almira  F.2, 
b.  in  Lowell.  1844,  May  26;  Abbie  B.2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1846,  Julv 
15,  d.  1847,  Mav  19;  Brooks  &*,  b.  in  Bedford  1847,  May  15. 

II.  William  F.,  son  of  John  P.1,  b.  1841,  Oct.  21;  went  from  home  at 
the  age  of  12,  and  worked  on  farms  in  Bedford  and  adjoining 
towns  until  his  20th  year,  when  he  enlisted  1862,  Aug.  8,  in  Co. 
A,  Tenth  N.  H.  Vols.,  for  three  years.  He  was  mustered  into  the 
U.  S.  service  1862,  Sept.  20,  and  discharged  at  Concord,  1865,  June 
29.  Was  slightly  wounded  at  Drury's  Bluff,  and  severely  wounded 
1864,  Sept.  29,  at  the  battle  of  Fort  Harrison.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  settled  in  Bedford,  where  he  m.,  1865,  Sept.  2,  Abbie  B.,  b. 
1845,  April  7,  dau.  of  James  and  Nancy  (Bursiel)  Gardner.  In 
1893  moved  to  Manchester,  where  they  now  res.  They  had  seven 
ch.  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.:  Eddie  Leston,sb.  1866,  July  18;  Edith  M*, 
b.  1868,  Feb.  23;  Myra  L.3,  b.  1869,  June  13,  m.  1891,  Oct.  17,  Wil- 
der M.  Robinson,  d.  in  Manchester,  1894,  March  24;  Bessie  P.3,  b. 
1872,  June  2;  Frank  J.3,  b.  1874,  May  12;  Susie3,  b.  1878,  April  5,  d. 
1880,  Dec.  8;  Horace  W.3,  b.  1882,  Nov.  17. 
III.  Eddie  L.,  son  of  Wm.  F.2,  b.  1866,  July  18;  m.  1895,  Nov.  16,  Clara 
Estella,  b.  1877.  Nov.  6,  dau.  of  Elliot  S.  and  Angeline  Campbell. 
They  have  Marion  Estella*,  b.  1897,  Nov.  19. 
III.  Edith  M.,  dau.  of  Wm.  F.,  b.  1868,  Feb.  23;  m.  1896,  Aug.  5,  John 
Carleton,  and  res.  in  Manchester.  They  have  Annie  May4,  b.  in 
Manchester,  1898,  Nov.  19. 

II.  Brooks  S.,  son  of  John1,  b.  in  Bedford  1847,  May  15;  enlisted  in  the 
regular  army  in  1874.  He  was  killed  by  the  Indians  1876,  June  17, 
while  under  the  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Cook,  who  was  going  to 
the  relief  of  Gen.  Custer. 

CURRIE. 

Robert  McGown  Cvirrie,  a  warehouseman,  was  b.  1846,  Dec.  11,  the 
son  of  William  and  Mary  A.  (McGown)  Currie  of  Glasgow,  Scot- 
land. He  m.  1872,  Aug.  30,  Jane  Moor,  b.  1854,  May  28,  dau.  of 
Archibald  and  Jane  (Moor)  McFarlan,  of  Patrick,  Scotland.  She 
d.  here  1902,  April  8.    Ch.  b.  in  Scotland  were  Jane  Moor,  b.  1875, 


890  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

June  29,  m.  1896,  Aug.  12,  John  G.  Sharp,  son  of  John  G.  and 
Melsssa  J.  (Holden)  Cowie  of  Warden,  P.  Q.;  Margaret,  b.  1877. 
May  16,  m.  Charles  J.  Tinker;  Mary  Shaw,  b.  1879,  Mav  27;  Eliz- 
abeth McFarlan,  b.  1885,  Feb.  11,  d.  1885,  Mar.  9;  William,  b. 
1888,  June  13;  George  McF.,  b.  1890,  Aug.  7;  Robert  Archibald 
McGown,  b.  Bedford  1900,  Dec.  25. 

CUTLER. 

I.  Dr.  Nathan  Cutler  came  to  Bedford  from  Dunstable,  Mass.,  in  1777. 
and  removed  to  Nashua,  N.  H.,  about  1782,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death  in  1831,  aged  96  years.  He  m.,  1st,  a  Miss  Hardy  of 
Tewksbury,  Mass.,  who  d.  in  1806;  he  m.,  2d,  a  Mrs.  Hamblett  of 
Nottingham,  who  d.  in  1849.  Had  five  ch.  by  first  mar.,  viz.: 
Polly2,  Solly2,  Nathan2,  Isaac2,  and  Benjamin2.  Isaac2  d.  young. 
Polly2,  Sally2,  and  Benjamin2  married  and  had  children,  some  of 
whose  descendants  are  still  living. 
II.  Nathan,  M.  D.,  son  of  Dr.  Nathan1,  was  b.  in  1765  and  came  to  Bed- 
ford 1789.  [See  physicians.]  He  m.  about  1790,  Elizabeth,  b. 
1772,  dau.  of  the  late  Moses  Swett  of  Bedford.  He  d.  1809,  May 
81.  She  d.  1836,  April.  They  had  eight  ch.:  Hannah3,  b.  1792, 
March  31,  m.  Phineas  C.  French  (see  French);  Betsey3,  b.  1794, 
June  19;  Sally3,  b.  1797,  May  11,  m.  1820,  William  G.  Campbell; 
she  d.  Sept.,  1820;  Natfian3,  b.  1799,  Nov.  15;  Sophronia3,  b.  1802, 
Feb.  24,  m.  1843,  Sept.,  Shepard  Basset,  Esq.,  of  Spencer,  N.  Y.; 
both  have  been  dead  several  years;  Mary  T.3,  b.  1804,  July  26,  m. 
Stephen  Goffe  (see  Goffe);  Isaac  C.3,  b.  1806,  Nov.  10;  David  Mc- 
Gregor3, b.  1809,  March  26. 
III.  Betsey,  dau.  of  Nathan2,  b.  1794,  June  19;  m.  1817,  Jan.,  Dea.  Sam- 
uel "Vose,  b.  1793,  Dec.  27;  they  moved  to  Spencer,  N.  Y.,  where 
they  had  seven  ch.,  some  of  whose  descendants  are  still  living  in 
the  West. 

III.  Nathan,  son  of  Nathan2,  b.  1799,  Nov.  15;  m.,  1st,  1834,  June  12,  Sa- 

rah Ann,  b.  1810,  Nov.  27,  dau.  of  the  late  William  French,  of 
Prospect,  Me.;  she  d.  1839,  March  28,  and  he  m.,  2d,  1842,  Jan.  20, 
Elizabeth,  b.  1807,  July  30,  dau.  of  David  Woolson  of  Milford;  she 
d.  1890,  June  25;  he  d.  1881,  May  3.  The  ch.  of  the  first  mar. 
were:  Elizabeth  Ann*,  b.  1836,  June  20;  Mary  French4,  b.  1839. 
March  12,  for  many  years  a  teacher  in  Bedford,  Manchester,  and 
Massachusetts.  She  now  resides  with  her  sister  in  Quincy,  Mass. 
The  ch.  of  2d  mar.  were:  Sarah  Jave*,  b.  1843,  Jan.  19;  Nathan 
Warren*,  b.  1847,  Sept.  18;  David  Woolson4,  b.  1849,  Mar.  26,  d. 
18G9,  Dec.  14. 

IV.  Elizabeth  Ann,  dau.  of  Nathan3,  b.  1836,  June  20;  m.  1858,  Sept.  21, 

James  Shepley  Baxter  of  Quincv,  Mass.,  b.  1831,  April  19.  They 
had  four  ch.:  Nathan  Cutler5,  b."  1859,  Aug.  16,  d.  1861,  Nov.  14; 
Maria  Shepley5,  b.  1862,  Oct.  11,  d.  1867,  Oct.  13;  Mabel  Stowers5, 
b.  1868,  April  7;  Alfred  Russ5,  b.  1870,  Jan.  6.  He  m.  1893,  Aug. 
15,  Hattie  Edwards  Mackey  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  b.  1872,  Oct. 
They  have  Arthur  Norton  Hubbard6,  b.  1894,  Aug.  18. 

IV.  Sarah  Jane,  dau.  of  Nathan3,  b.  1843,  Jan.  19;  m.,  1st,  Charles  H. 
Moore  (see  Moore);  she  m.,  2d,  1881,  Nov.  24,  Isaac  R.  Chase  of 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  b.  1829,  Feb.  15.  They  res.  in  Quincy,  Mass.. 
where  he  d.  1903. 

IV.  Nathan  Warren,  son  of  Nathan3,  b.  1847,  Sept.  18,  farmer;  m.,  1873, 
June  3,  Lydia  Frances,  b.  1849,  Nov.  17,  dau.  of  Dea.  Phineas 
French  of  this  town.  She  d.  1903,  Jan.  10.  They  have  one  son, 
Warren  Nathan5,  b.  1874,  March  27,  he  being  the  fifth  generation 
of  Cutlers  to  live  on  the  Dr.  Cutler  farm. 


GENEALOGIES. — CUTLER. — DAMON. — DAHRAH.  891 

III.  Isaac  C.,  son  of  Nathan2,  M.  D.,  b.  1806,  Nov.  10,  farmer;  rn.  1836, 

Sept.  15,  Rebecca  M.,  b.  in  Amherst,  1817,  April  6,  dan.  of  Dea. 
Joseph  Harville.  Shed.  1897,  Feb.  1;  he  d.  1888,  Dec.  7.  They 
had  six  ch.:  Harriett  Ann*;  Isaac  Harville4,  b.  1840,  April  11,  d. 
1895,  Dec.  8;  Caroline  F.4,  b.  1842,  April  10,  d.  1849,  July  30;  Agnes 
J.*;  Laura  E.4,  b.  1850,  Sept.  29;  Martha  E.4,  b.  1855,  June  17,  m. 
Roger  H.  Vose  (see  Vose). 

IV.  Harriet  Ann4,  dau.  of  Isaac  C.8,  b.  1837,  Sept.  4;   m.  1866,  Sept.  13, 

Nathan  A.  Parker  (see  Stevens).    They  have  Fred  S.5,  Harry  G.5, 

Elmer  N.5,  and  res.  in  Nottingham. 
IV.  Agnes  J.,  dau.  of  Isaac  C.3,  b.  1846,  March  8;  m.   1866,  Sept.   13, 

William  F.  Parker  (see  Stevens).      She  d.  1874,  March  30;  had 

two  ch.,  Caroline  E.6,  and  Albert  C.5 
III.  David  McGregor,  son  of  Nathan2,  b.  1809,  March  26;  m.  Sarah  Bou- 

telle,  b.  1808,  Feb.  27,  Amherst,  N.  H.     She  d.  1892,  May  18;  he  d. 

1864.  They  res.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  are  survived  by  two  grand- 
daughters. 

DAMON. 

Two  brothers,  Charles  A.1  and  Stephen  C.1  Damon,  located  in  Bedford 
1849,  and  engaged  in  the  lumbering  business.  They  purchased  a  sawmill 
located  on  Riddle  brook,  also  another  mill  near  by,  which  they  converted 
into  a  wheelwright  and  turning  shop,  thus  laying  the  foundation  of  what 
afterward  became  a  prosperous  business.  (See  article  on  mills.)  Stephen, 
their  father,  who  res.  in  Amherst,  soon  followed  them,  and  settled  near  by. 
He  was  the  son  of  Dea.  Benjamin  Damon  of  Amherst,  who  served  seven 
years  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Stephen  came  to  a  tragic  death,  1854, 
May  3  (see  Casualties) . 

I.  Charles  A.,  son  of  Stephen  and  Nancy  (Fisk)  Damon  of  Amherst; 
enlisted  in  the  Union  army,  1861,  Oct.  19,  and  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg,  1863,  July  3. 
I.  Stephen  C,  son  of  Stephen,  was  b.  Amherst,  1826,  March  31.  He 
m.  1854,  Jan.  30,  Mrs.  Mary  I.  McClellan,  dau.  of  Richard  Elliott 
of  Bow,  taking  a  father's  place  for  her  two  daughters,  Gertrude 
and  Augusta.  He  has  been  elder  of  Presbyterian  church  here 
many  years.     His  wife  d.  1903,  May  7,  aged  76. 

DARRAH. 

About  1719  many  Scotch- Irish,  or  Ulster  Presbyterians,  began  to  come 
to  America;  "  the  beginning  of  the  largest  exodus  from  Europe  to  America 
that  ever  took  place  before  the  nineteenth  century,"  says  John  Fisk,  the 
famous  historian.  More  than  half  of  the  Presbyterian  population  of  Ulster 
came  to  this  country,  where  it  formed  more  than  one  sixth  of  our  entire 
population  at  the  time  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

Along  with  this  tide  of  immigration,  which  in  part  came  to  London- 
derry, N.  H.,  was  the  Darrah  family.  The  name  of  Charles  Darrah,  1st 
and  2d,  appears  first  in  the  early  records  of  that  town.  Arthur  Darrah, 
1st,  2d,  and  3d  were  also  property  owners  at  the  same  period.  From  there, 
the  family  removed  to  Litchfield,  where  they  "  sustained  important  offices  " 
from  an  early  date. 

During  this  period  the  Revolutionary  war  began.  Immediately  upon 
hearing  of  the  battles  of  Lexington  and  Concord,  Robert,  William,  and 
Arthur  enlisted,  joining  the  Londonderry  militia,  and  hurried  to  Boston, 
where  they  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and  the  siege  of  Boston, 
which  followed. 

William  remained  in  the  service  during  numerous  campaigns,  going  to 
Quebec  under  Gen.  Montgomery,  and  afterwards  is  recorded  in  Revolu- 
tionary rolls  as  promoted  in  Col.  Nichol's  regiment  of  militia,  and  finally, 


892  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ill  1777,  in  Gen.  Washington's  life  guard.     Lieut.  James  Darrak,  1st,  was 
also  enlisted,  subject  to  general  orders,  in  colonel's  place,  in  1780. 

I.  Robert  Darrah  settled  in  Litclifielrl,  where  he  m.  Miss  J.  McKean, 
and  had  ch.:  Elizabeth2,  Robert2,  John2,  James*,  Polly2,  Peggy2, 
Jane2,  and  Naomi'2;  his  wife  d.,  and  he  m.  2d,  Miss  Blood;  they 
had  ch.:  David2  and  Samuel2. 
II.  Lieutenant  James,  son  of  Robert1,  was  b.  in  Litchfield  1754,  and 
settled  in  Bedford  1790;  he  m.  Miss  S.  Kidder  and  had  ch.:  Sarah3, 
Jane3,  James3,  John8,  Robert  A".3,  Jsaac3,  Polly3,  and  Thomas  M.3 

III.  James,  son  of  Lieut.  James2;  m.  Submit  Walker,  dau.  of  Isaac  At- 

wood  (see  "Old  Plymouth  Records  "  and  "Founders  of  Mass.," 
16  6.  John  Atwood).  They  had  ch.:  Sarah  K.4,  Clarissa4,  Sophia4, 
Esther4,  Ismena4,  Nancy4,  Mary4,  James*,  Lucinda  F.4,  John*,  Ada- 
line4,  and  Ella  P.4,  all  of  whom  m.  and  had  ch. 

IV.  James,  son  of  James3,  was  b.  1818,  March  15;  m.  1st,  Frances  Blood. 

and  had  one  dau.,  Mar;/  Frances5.  He  m.  2d,  Cynthia  N.,  b.  1827, 
May,  dau.  of  George  O.  and  Olive  (Wilkins)  Wallace,  of  Bedford. 

She  d.   1901,  Sept.  29;  he  d. .     They  had  ch.:  Charles  James5, 

Ella  C.5,  William  W.5,  Fannie  A.5,  and  Jessie  M.5 

V.  Mary  Frances,  dau.  of  James4;  m.  Rev.  Joseph  Coggswell  of  Web- 
ster, N.  H.,  and  d.,  leaving  one  dau. 

V.  Charles  James,  son  of  James4;  m.  Caroline  A.  Cook  of  Manchester, 
where  they  res.    They  have  two  ch.:  James  Henry6  and  Mabel.6 

V.  William  W.,  son  of  James4;  m.  Nellie  B.  Chamberlain  of  Bedford, 
and  had  ch.:   William  Ilennj6,  Ella  Cynthia6,  Frank  Judson6,  John 
Arthur6,  and  Ruth  Augusta6. 
VI.  William  Henry,  son  of  William  W..5;  m.  Frances  Travers  of  Brook- 
line,  Mass.,  and  has  one  son,  William  Arthur7. 
IV.  John,  son  of  James3;  m.  and  had  ch.:   Frederick5  and  Josephine5, 

both  of  whom  are  m.  and  live  in  the  West. 
III.  John,  son  of  Lieut.  James2,  lived  in  Hollis.     He  m.  Miss  E.  Lane, 
and  had  ch. :  James4,  Sarah4,  William4,  John4,  Eliza4,  Joseph  G.4, 
and  Daniel.4    John,  the  father,  was  drowned  in  the  Saco  river. 

III.  Robert  K.,  son  of  Lieut.  James2;  m.  Polly,  dau.  of  James  Walker3, 

(see  Walker),  and  had  ch.:  Aimer  C.4,  b.  1810;  Jane  W.4,  b.  1815; 
James  W.4,  b.  1817;  Albert4,  b.  1823,  d.  1825,  and  Benjamin  Francis*, 
b.  1828. 

IV.  Abner  C,  son  of  Robert  K.3;  m.  Sarah  Darrah  McAfee,  and  had  ch.: 

George  W.5  and  Albert  J.5,  both  of  whom  are  m. 
IV.  Benjamin  Francis,  son  of  Robert  K.3;  m.  and  lived  in  Denver,  Colo. 
He  had  a  son  and  dau. 

III.  Isaac,  son  of  Lieut.  James2;  m.  Rachel  Watts  of  Londonderry,  and 

had  ch.:  Isaac  W.4,  Martha  W.4,Mary  Ann4,  Sarah  S.4,  Rufus  T.4, 
Wingate  M.*,  Calista  J.4,  and  Juliet.4 

IV.  Wingate  M.,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1831,  May;  d.  1900,  Nov.  8;  m.  Sarah 

Bachelder,  and  had  ch.:  Edward5,  Frank5,  Walter  M.5,  Fred  C.5, 
George  W.5,  Minnie5,  Jennie5,  Myrtelle  M.5,  and  Sarah  M.5 

DUNCKLEE. 

"Dea."  Samuel  P.  came  from  Francestown  when  a  young  man,  and 
has  long  been  a  much  esteemed  citizen  of  the  town.  He  has  served  as 
elder  of  the  Presbyterian  church  here  many  years,  and  his  regular  attend- 
ance upon  church  services,  genuine  honesty,  liberality,  and  kindness  df 
heart,  have  been  marked  characteristics.  He  was  b.  about  1822,  the  son  of 
Leonard  and  Eunice  (Jacobs)  Duncklee  of  Danvers,  Mass.  He  m.  about 
1850,  Orpah  Gage  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  b.  in  Mississippi,  1825,  Oct., 
and  d.  here  1899,  April  9. 


GENEALOGIES. — DUNTON. — DOLE   OK    McDOLE.  893 


DUNTON. 

George  Stephen  was  b.  West  Georgia,  Vt.,  1852,  Feb.  12,  sou  of 
James  B.  and  Calista  (Sanderson)  Dun  ton;  carpenter  and  farmer. 
He  m.  1880,  May  19,  Ella  Maria,  b.  Georgia,  Vt.,  1855,  Feb.  20, 
dau.  of  Cornelius  H.  and  Susan  S.  (Frisbie)  French.  Have  res. 
Georgia,  Vt.,  Bedford,  and  Londonderry.  Ch.,  b.  Georgia,  Vt.: 
Harvey  Haynes,  b.  1881,  May  23;  Bertha  Belle,  b.  1883,  July  7; 

Welcome  Almeron,  brother  of  George  S.,  was  b.  West  Georgia,  Vt., 
1849,  June  11;  farmer;  res  here. 

DOLE   OR  McDOLE. 

I.  Stephen  Dole,  b.  as  supposed  in  Scotland,  came  to  this  country  at 

an  early  period. 
II.  Richard,   son    of  Stephen1,   was  b.   in  Newbury  or  Rowley;    m. 
Susannah  Noyes,  by  whom  he  had  five  ch.:  Elizabeth3,  Stephen*. 
Jane3,  Silas3,  and  Enoch8. 

III.  Col.  Stephen,  son  of  Richard2,  m.  in  1773,  Abigail  Illsley;  he  was  a 

ship  carpenter.  In  1777  he  moved  from  Newbury  to  London- 
derry, and  after  living  there  two  years  removed  to  Bedford. 
He  d.  1804,  Jan.  22.  Had  nine  ch.:  Richard*,  b.  in  Newburv, 
1774,  Nov.  17;  William*,  b.  1778  or  9,  Sept.  4;  Jane  Wilcomb4,  b. 
Bedford,  1782,  April  3,  m.  Joseph  Colley,  Esq.;  Joseph  Johnson4, 
b.  1785,  Jan  3;  Enoch*,  b.  1788,  Jan.  1;  Anna*,  b.  1790,  Oct.  19, 
m.,  1st,  1815,  Dec.  6,  James  Riddle,  and  m.,  2d,  William  Riddle: 
Friend*,  b.  1793,  April  25;  Betsey  Johnson4,  b.  1795,  Dec.  29,  m. 
Mr.  Chamberlain  of  Merrimack;  Sarah4,  b.  1798,  March  5,  m. 
Matthew  Riddle. 

IV.  Capt.  Richard,  son  of  Col.  Stephen,  b.    1774,   Nov.  17;   m.  1798, 

Betsey  Johnson;  was  a  deacon.  For  a  number  of  years  he  carried 
on  the  wool-carding  and  cloth-dressing  business  near  his  residence 
on  the  river-road,  but  the  multiplication  of  cotton  and  woolen 
mills  had  for  some  time  superseded  the  necessity  of  these  minor 
operations.  Consequently  the  whole  family  rem.  to  Beloit,  on 
the  Rock  road,  Wis.,  previous  to  1850.  They  had  ch.:  Louisa5, 
b.  1793,  Feb.  2,  m.  Lieut.  Daniel  Gordon  (see  Gordon);  Eleazer5, 
b.  1800,  Dec.  8;  Abigail5;  Joseph5;  Richard5;  William5,  b.  1814, 
May  17. 
V.  Eleazer,  son  of  Capt.  Richard,  b.  1800,  Dec.  8;  m.,  1st,  1825  or  (5, 
April  10,  Jane  Dole  Riddle,  b.  1804,  Sept.  11,  dau.  of  Hugh  and 
Ann  Maria  (Houston)  Riddle,  and  granddaughter  of  Rev.  John 
Houston.  Jane,  his  wife,  d.  1833,  March  24,  of  consumption. 
He  m.,  2d,  1837,  April  6,  Charlotte  M.  Walker,  b.  1809,  Feb.  18, 
dau.  of  Josiahand  Nancv  (Plat)  Walker.  Ch.  by  first  marriage: 
Eleazer  Johnson6,  b.  1827,  March  27;  Robert  Riddle6,  b.  1829, 
Oct.  4;  Ann  Maria6,  b.  1831,  May  22,  d.  1831,  Dec.  23;  Elizabeth6, 
b.  1832,  Aug.  21,  d.  1836,  Oct.  7.  Ch.,  second  marriage:  James 
Pitman  Cook6,  b.  1839,  Feb.  21;  Stephen6,  b.  1843,  Jan.  21. 
V.  Richard,  son  of  Capt.  Richard4,  m.  1841,  July  15,  Sarah  Ann,  b. 
1810,  Sept.  6,  dau.  of  Wm.  and  Sarah  (French)  McPherson;  settled 
in  Beloit,  Wis. 
IV.  William,  Enoch,  and  Friend,  sons  of  Col.  Stephen,  rem.  to  the  West 
previous  to  1850. 

The  town  records  refer  to  a  William  Dole,  and  Judith,  his  wife,  who  had 
a  son,  Enoch,  b.  1786,  July  15.  The  records  also  refer  to  Enoch  Dole  and 
his  wife,  Harriet,  who  had  ch.:  Wm.  P.,  b.  1811,  Dec.  3;  Stephen  P.,  b. 
1813,  Dec.  23;  Charles  H,  b.  1816,  March  23;  Harriet  M.,  b.  1817,  Nov.  26. 


894  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

III.  Silas,  son  of  Richard2,  and  brother  of  Col.  Stephen;  m.  Jndith . 

After  some  twenty  years  residence  here,  he  moved,  in  1804,  to 
Danville,  Vt.,  with  bis  family,  descendants  of  whom  were  resid- 
ing there  in  1850.  Ch.,  b.  in  Bedford:  Judith4,  b.  1778,  Dec.  14; 
Moses  R.4,  b.  1780,  Aug.  10;  Susan4,  b.  1782,  Aug.  7;  Enoch4,  b. 
1784,  Oct.  6;  Molly4,  b.  1786,  Nov.  2;  Samuel4,  b.  1788,  Sept.  23; 
Abigail4,  b.  1790,  Aug.  4;  Stephen4,  b.  1792,  May  29;  Betsey4,  b. 
1794,  Feb.  19;  Eleazer  Johnson4,  b.  1796,  April  24;  William 
Maley4,  b.  1798,  July  14;  Annis  Aikin4,  b.  1801,  July  30. 

EMERY. 

Joseph  Putnum,  son  of  Hubbard  O.  H.  and  Mary  (Nicholson)  Emery, 
was  b.  in  Bartlett,  1847,  March  28;  farmer;  has  res.  in  Conway,  but  rem. 
to  this  town.  He  m.  1870,  March  27,  Mary  Cerena,  b.  in  Eaton,  1850, 
Aug.  23,  dau.  of  Sylvester  M.  and  Lucinda  F.  (Howard)  Mason.  They 
had  two  ch.,  b.  in  Conway:  Gertrude  Lucinda,  b.  1871,  March  13,  and 
George  Melcher,  b.  1873,  Aug.  25.  The  latter  m.  1895,  May  8,  Daisy 
Batten,  and  res.  in  Manchester. 

EMERY. 

This  family  is  thought  to  be  no  connection  of  the  preceding. 

I.  John  Henry,  son  of  John  and  Mercy  L.  (Roberts)  Emery,  was  b. 
Boston,  Mass.,  1845,  June  23;  machinist;  res.  in  Chelsea  for  a 
time  and  came  to  Bedford,  1889.  He  m.  1871,  Nov.  30,  Martha 
Jane,  b.  Auburn,  1845,  May  26,  dau.  of  Richard  and  Hannah  J. 
(Perham)  Hall.  [Richard  Hall  was  the  son  of  Moses  and  Mary 
(Orr)  Hall,  dau.  of  Capt.  James  Orr,  son  of  John  Orr,  who  came 
from  Ireland  about  1732,  and  settled  in  Chester  now  Auburn. 
It  is  uncertain  whether  this  John  Orr  was  related  to  the  John 
Orr  who  came  from  Ireland,  1726,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  our 
Bedford  Orrs.]  John  Henry  d.  in  Bedford,  1899,  July  9.  Had 
ch.  b.  in  Chelsea,  Mass. :  Walter  Henrv2,  b.  1872,  Oct.  16,  poultry- 
man;  Charles  Asa2,  b.  1873,  Oct.  17;  Mattie  Jane2,  b.  1878,  Oct.  18, 
d.  1878,  Oct.  27;  Roscoe  Melvin2,  b.  1882,  June  22,  d.  1886,  July  3. 
II.  Charles  Asa,  son  of  John  Henry1,  b.  1873,  Oct.  17;  m.  1895,  Sept.  10, 
Emma  Elizabeth  Morrill;  res.  in  Manchester.  Have  a  dau., 
Marion  Evelyn. 

ENGLISH. 

I.  Thomas  English  was  a  fifer  in  the  Revolutionary  war  from  this 
town.  He  m.  1770,  Nancy  Moor,  b.  in  Bedford  about  1840.  In 
1777  they  rem.  to  Hancock,  and  thence  to  Antrim  in  1779,  where 
he  served  as  tax  collector.  He  later  rem.  to  Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y., 
and  nothing  more  is  known  of  him  or  his  descendants  except  as 
here  recorded.  Their  children:  Jenny2;  James2,  b.  in  Bedford, 
1773,  Sept.  16,  m.  and  lived  in  or  near  Claremont,  N.  H.;  William2; 
Elizabeth2,  b.  in  Hancock,  1778,  June  6;  Sarah2,  b.  in  Antrim, 
1781,  d.  Montpelier,  Vt.;  Andrew  Jack2,  b.  in  Antrim,  1783, 
April  21,  d.  of  consumption  at  his  uncle's,  Dea.  William  Moor's. 

II.  Jenny,  dau.  of  Thomas1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1771,  April  12;  m.  Richard 
Gregg  of  Bedford,  and  lived  near  the  schoolhouse  in  District 
No.  2.  He  d.  about  1849.  Their  children  were:  Reuben3,  Will- 
iam3, Andrew3,  Sally3,  Lucy3,  Nancy3,  Elizabeth3,  Abigail3, 
Rebecca3,  Isabel3,  and  Richard,  Jr.3 

II.  William,  son  of  Thomas1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1776,  Jan.  29;  was  sent  to 
England  to  buy  goods  for  a  company  in  Boston.  The  company 
failed,  and  he  being  held  as  hostage  for  the  payment  of  the  goods 
died  in  an  English  prison. 


GENEALOGIES. — ESTERBROOK. — FARLEY.  895 

ESTERBROOK. 

I.  Joseph  Elmer  Esterbrook  was  b.  in  Hill,  N.  H.,  1863.  He  in.  1884. 
Dec.  10,  Hattie  Lovinia,  b.  in  Hill,  1864,  Sept.  8,  dan.  of  Timothy 
and  Eliza  (Page)  Stevens  of  Bedford.  They  res.  for  a  time  in 
Goffstown,  bnt  settled  in  Bedford  abont  1888.  Their  ch.  were: 
Mary  Belle2,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1886,  Sept.  1,  d.  young;  Elmer  S.2, 
b.  Bedford,  1889,  June  9;  Minnie2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1891,  March  25; 
Helen2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1894,  March  31. 

PARLEY  (PARLEIGH). 

The  original  spelling  of  this  name  was  Ffar-lea,  signifying  a  people 
living  far  inland;  far  from  the  sea;  far  to  the  lea,  and  having  since  been 
spelled  in  ten  different  ways.  It  is  one  of  the  oldest  names  in  England, 
having  been  traced  to  the  home  of  William  the  Conqueror,  Castle  Falaise. 
in  Normandy,  A.  D.  1000.  Bristol,  England,  was  the  early  home  of  one 
Fabyan  Farley;  he  m.  Jane  Hungerford,  of  Farleigh  Castle,  in  Somerset- 
shire, England,  who  was  a  descendant  of  Williamus  De  Falaise,  a  nephew 
of  William  the  Conqueror.  Three  of  their  sons,  Thomas,  George,  and 
Michael,  came  to  this  country. 

Thomas,  with  his  wife  Jane,  came  over  in  the  ship  Ann,  the  third  ship 
after  the  Mayflower,  in  1624,  Feb.  4.  They  landed  near  Jamestown,  Va., 
where  he  had  been  granted  nine  square  miles  of  land  for  services  ren- 
dered his  king,  James  I.  They  had  a  child,  Ann,  named  for  the  ship  that 
brought  them  over;  she  was  the  first  Farley  b.  in  America. 

I.  George,  b.  in  Bristol,  England,  1615,  emigrated  to  America  because 
of  religious  persecution  in  1640.  He  came  in  the  ship  Lion,  and 
landed  at  Ckarlestown,  Mass.  Soon  after  his  arrival  he  moved 
to  Woburn,  and  m.  Christian  Births,  a  Swede,  who  came  over  in 
the  same  ship;  she  was  an  orphan,  her  father  having  d.  at  sea  on 
the  passage  over.  They  moved  to  Billerica  in  1853,  being  among 
the  first  settlers  of  that  ancient  town.  Among  their  descend- 
ants are  the  Far  leys  of  this  town.  He,  with  his  brother,  Michael, 
were  prominent  in  Colonial  affairs,  the  latter  having  come  to  this 
country  in  1675,  and  with  his  two  sons  started  the  first  woolen 
mill  in  America.  George  d.  1695,  Dec.  27.  Christian,  his  wife, 
d.  1702,  March  27. 
II.  Caleb,  son  of  George1,  b.  1645;  m.,  1st,  Rebecca  Hill;  m.,  2d,  Lydia 
More. 
Ill  Caleb,  son  of  Caleb2,  b.  1667;  m.   1st,  Sarah  Godfrey;  m.,  2d,  Lydia 

Haws. 
IV.  James,  son  of  Caleb3,  b.  1697;  m.  Sarah  Durrent. 
V.  Caleb,  son  of  James4,  b.  1730;  m.  Elizabeth  Farley.    He  d.  at  Hollis, 
aged  102. 
VI.  Joseph,  son  of  Caleb5,  b.  Hollis,  1757;  m.  1777,  Bridget  Powers7,  and 

had  a  son,  Joseph. 
VII.  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph6,  b.  1780,  Feb.  7;  m.  Susan  Eastman,  and  res. 
in  Londonderrv.  Had  ch.:  Leonard8,  b.  1804,  Feb.  14;  Susan8,  b. 
1805,  Nov.  8;  Gilman8,  b.  1807,  Nov.  14;  Senter*,  b.  1810,  June  25; 
Mary8,  b.  1813,  May  18,  m.  William  Allen  Flint  (see  Flint); 
Martha8,  b.  1815,  Jan.  20;  Martha  Ann8,  b.  1818,  Sept.  4;  Parker8, 
b.  1820,  Aug.  15;  George  W.8,  b.  1823,  March  11. 
VIII.  Senter,  son  of  Joseph7,  b.  Londonderry,  1810,  June  25;  was  a  wheel- 
wright; he  m.,  1st,  1834,  Olive  Louise,  b.  1817,  Oct.  6,  dau.  of 
Nathaniel  and  Abigail  (Allen)  Flint;  she  d.  1848.  He  m.,  2d, 
about  1849,  Elizabeth  Cross,  who  d.  1870.  He  m.,  3d,  1871,  Oct. 
31,  Sophia,  b.  Bedford,  1829,  Nov.  22,  dan.  of  Samuel  and  Susan 
(Tinker)  Witherspoon.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1895,.  April  2.  Ch.  by 
1st  mar.:  Adeline  C.9,  b.  1835;  Leonard9,  b.  1837;  Sarah9,  b.  1839; 


896  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

Eldridge9,  b.  1841,  d.  young;  Frances9,  b.  1843;  Charles  P.9,  b.  1845; 
Sophronia9,  b.  1847.  All  m.  and  settled  out  of  town  except  El- 
dridge and  the  last  two  ch.  Ch.  by  2d  mar.:  Nora  B.9,  b.  1874. 
Dec.  13;  Frank9,  b.  1879,  Oct.  2,  d.  1881,  Sept.  21. 
IX.  Charles  P.,  son  of  Senter8,  b.  Bedford,  1845;  wheelwright;  in.,  1st. 
1868,  Jan.  30,  Elizabeth  A.,  b.  1851,  May  5,  dau.  of  John  H.  and 
Sarah  (Pierson)  Shepard.  She  d.  1887,  Aug.  9.  He  m.,  2d,  1892, 
Aug.  31,  Elizabeth  Clapp,  b.  Damariscotta,  Me.,  1855,  dau.  of 
Charles  S.  and  Mary  (Woodbridge)  Clapp.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  J(  hn 
H.10,  b.  1868,  Nov.,  d.  1870,  July  30;  Anna  M.n,  b.  1872,  Oct.  12, 
m.  Charles  H.  Wiggin  (see  Wiggin);  Grace  Notelle10,  b.  1*73. 
April  30,  d.  1897,  Jan.  14;  Frank  S.,  b.  1891,  March  17. 

FERGUSON. 

I.  John  emigrated  from  Scotland  to  this  country  in  1725,  and  settled 
in  Pelham,  N.  H.  He  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  the  town, 
by  occupation  a  farmer,  and  a  large  landholder.  Had  three  sons: 
William'2,  David2,  and  John'2.  The  first  two  sons  settled  in  New 
York. 
II.  John,  son  of  John1,  settled  in  Pelham  on  the  estate  of  his  father; 
m.  Jane  Moore  of  Londonderry,  and  had  seven  ch.,  one  of  whom 
was  John3. 

III.  Capt.  John3,  son  of  John'2,  b.  1757;  m.  Ann  Gage  of  Pelham;  settled 

on  the  homestead;  had  ten  ch:  Jane4,  John*,  Nancy1,  Nathaniel4, 
Jonathan4,  Sarah*,  Daniel4,  George4,  Franklin4,  and  James4.  He 
entered  the  Revolutionary  army,  1775,  April;  was  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill,  though  not  eighteen  years  old;  also  at  the  battle  of 
Bennington,  and  was  subsequently  stationed  at  Peekskill  and 
Fishkill  on  the  Hudson.  He  continued  to  reside  at  Pelham,  where 
he  was  a  prominent  and  enterprising  citizen,  and  commanded  a 
troop  of  cavalry.  He  lived  a  short  time  at  Dunbarton,  and  in 
1830  moved  to  Bedford,  where  he  res.  until  his  death  in  1846. 
aged  88. 

IV.  John,  son  of  Capt.  John3;  m.  Peggy  Mills  of  Dunbarton,  and  mov. 

to  Bedford,  1828,  where  he  res.  until  his  death,  leaving  one  sun. 

Thomas  Mills5. 
V.  Thomas  Mills,  son  of  John4,  was  b.  in  Dunbarton,  1817,  Oct.  10;  m. 

1851,  Oct.  29,  Marcia  L.  McAllister,  b.  Norwich,  Vt.,  1827,  June 

11,  and  settled  in  town,  where  she  d.  1882,  June  15.     He  d.  here 

1895,  Oct.  31.     They  had  ch.:  John  Q,6,  b.  in  Bedford  1852,  Aug. 

11,  d.  1883,  May  24;    Lilla  M.6,  b.   1857,  May  17,  m.  Granville 

Heselton  (see  Heselton) ;  Hattie  L.6,  b.  1860,  Aug.  29,  still  res.  in 

town  on  the  old  homestead;  Frank  T.6,  b.  1862,  Sept.  24. 
VI.  Frank  T.,  son  of  Thomas  M.5,  b.  1862,  Sept.  24;  m.  Carrie  A.  Cran- 

shaw  of  Manchester,  where  he  d.  1890,  Dec.  30.     They  had  two 

ch.:  Bertha  E.7,  b.   1886,  April  20;  Nancy7,  b.  1887,  Oct.  21.  A. 

1887,  Nov.  13. 
IV.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Capt.  John3,  m.  William  P.  Riddle  (see  Riddle) . 
IV.  Daniel,  son  of  Capt.  John3,  b.  1797;  m.  Susan  Morse  of  Bolton. 

Mass.;  moved  to  Bedford,  1830.     Had  four  ch.:   Susan  Jane,5  b. 

1835,  Feb.  7,  d.  1857,  Aug.  19;  Nancy  Chase5,  b.  1836,  March  19. 

d.   1867,  Sept.  9;  Mary  A.5,b.  1843,  Feb.  24;  John  Chase5,  b.  1846. 

Nov.  28. 
V.  Mary  A.,  dau.  of  Daniel4,  b.  1843,  Feb.  24;  m.,  1st,  John  Young  of 

Manchester.     Had  two  sons:  Ben  R.,  b.  1866,  July  10;  John  F.. 

b.  1868,  July  20.     She  m.,  2d,  James  L.  Mitchell  (see  Mitchell). 
V.  John  Chase,  son  of  Daniel4,  b.  1846,  Nov.  28;  m.  1881,  Nov.  21, 

Idella  J.  Baker  of  Manchester,  where  they  res.     Have  two  ch.: 

Carroll  Daniel,  b.  1882,  Nov.  11;  George  Glenn,  b.  1884,  July  29. 


GENEALOGIES. — FLETCHER. — FLINT.  89T 

FLETCHER. 

I.  George,  son  of  Jonas  and  Polly  (Woodward)  Fletcher,  was  b.  in 

Boxford,  Mass.,  1802,  Nov.  17.  He  m.  1830,  March,  MaryCarkin, 
of  Dracut,  Mass.,  and  came  to  this  town  about  1835.  He  d.  1877, 
Aug.  25.  Had  seven  ch.,  six  of  whom  were  b.  in  Bedford. 
George  Parker2,  b.  in  Tyngsboro',  Mass.,  1882,  March  31,  was  m., 
d.  Black  Wolf,  Wis.;  Jesse  C.2,  b.  1835,  Jan.  11,  m.  and  had  sev- 
eral ch.;  Rufus  Merrill2,  b.  1837,  Feb.  13;  John  Woodward2,  b. 
1839,  April  10;  Mary  Augusta2,  b.  1841,  Aug.  8;  Sarah2,  b.  1844,  Jan. 
31,  d.  1862,  unm.;  Susan2,  b.  Bedford,  1846,  Feb.  1. 

II.  Rufus  Merrill,  son  of  George1,  b.  1837,  Feb.  13;  was  a  miller  by 
trade.  He  m.  Mary  Rogers.  Served  three  years  in  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion;  enlisted  in  Co.  I,  Thirteenth  Reg.,  N.  H.  Vols.,  and  was 
engaged  in  many  battles.     No  ch. 

II.  John  Woodward,  son  of  George1,  b.  1839,  April  10;  is  a  machinist  in 
Somerville,  Mass.  Was  in  War  of  the  Rebellion,  serving  in  Co.  F, 
First  N.  H.  heavy  artillery.  He  m.  in  Nashua,  N.  H,  1864,  Sept. 
1,  M.  Addie  Taylor.  Thev  had  one  son,  Irving  Merrill3,  b.  St. 
Albans,  Vt.,  1868,  Sept.  1,  d.  1890,  Dec.  13. 

II.  Mary  Augusta,  dau.  of  George1,  b.  1841,  Aug.  8;m.  William  Jenkins 
of  Hudson,  N.  H,  and  res.  in  Nashua.  Had  two  ch.,  Edward  H.8 
and  Adelbert  R.3 

II.  Susan,  dau.  of  George1,  b.  1846,  Feb.  1;  m.  Geo.  W.  Colburn  and 
res.  in  Nashua.  Had  four  ch:  Forest3,  Estella3,  Richard3,  and 
Florence.3 

FLINT. 

I.  Thomas  Flint,  the  emigrant  ancestor,  came  to  America,  as  tradition 
reports,  from  Wales,  in  Great  Britain.  The  first  mention  made 
of  him,  in  the  town  records  of  Salem,  Mass.,  is  in  1650,  but  there 
is  reason  to  believe  that  he  came  to  this  country  much  earlier,  and 
also  some  evidence  that  his  mother  was  here  in  1642.  He  was 
among  the  first  settlers  of  Salem  village,  since  called  South  Dan- 
vers,  now  Peabody.  The  spot  in  the  wilderness  which  he  selected 
for  his  home  is  situated  on  the  Salem  and  North  Reading  road, 
about  six  miles  from  the  present  court  house  in  Salem,  and  five 
miles  from  the  town  of  North  Reading,  near  Phelps'  mill  and 
brook.  He  purchased  land  1662,  Jan.  1,  of  Robert  Goodall,  for 
which  he  paid  £20.  It  is  described  as  situated  in  Salem  and  being 
near  upon  a  square,  bounded  southerly  by  land  of  Henry  Phelps, 
westerly  by  Phelps  brook,  and  northerly  and  easterly  by  land  of 
said  Goodall.  The  deed  was  witnessed  by  Giles  Corey,  whose 
house  stood  upon  land  which  after  his  death  became  a  part  of  the 
Flint  homestead.  When  80  years  of  age  Corey  met  his  death  on 
account  of  the  witchcraft  delusion.  This  farm  of  the  old  patri- 
arch has  always  remained  in  the  possession  of  his  descendants.  It 
is  now  occupied  by  the  heirs  of  Elijah  Flint,  and  may  truly  be 
called  the  old  homestead,  having  been  in  the  family  more  than 
200  years. 

Thomas1  m.  Ann ;  he  d.   1663,  April  15.     They  had  six  ch.: 

Thomas2,  Elizabeth2,  George2,  John2,  Anna2,  Joseph2. 

II.  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas1,  was  a  farmer  and  carpenter;  res.  on  the 

homestead  and  seems  to  have  been  much  respected  by  his  neigh- 
bors. He  was  identified  with  the  military  organizations  of  his 
town,  took  part  in  King  Philip's  war,  and  in  the  expedition 
against  the  Narragansetts  in  1675,  commanded  by  Capt.  Gardner, 
was  wounded  in  the  attack  at  the  swamp;  these  wounds  were 
probably  not  serious,  as  he  afterwards  held  several  commissions 
in  the  village  company.  He  was  prominent  in  the  endeavor  to 
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898  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

establish  a  church  in  the  village,  and  seems  to  have  possessed  con- 
siderable mechanical  skill,  as  he  was  chosen  by  the  inhabitants  of 
Salem  village  to  build  the  first  meeting-house  in  that  place.  He 
owned  more  than  nine  hundred  acres  of  land,  and  from  this  gave 
farms  to  each  of  his  three  sons.  He  m.,  1st,  1666,  May  22, 
Hannah  Moulton,  who  d.  1672,  leaving  two  ch.  He  m.,  2d, 
1674,  Sept.  22,  Mary  Dounton,  who  had  six  ch.  Ch.:  Abigail3,  b. 
1668,  June  27;  George3,  b.  1672,  April;  Thomas3,  b.  1678,  Aug.  20; 
Mary3,  b.  1680,  Nov.  11;  Ebenezer",  b.  1683,  April  6;  William3,  b. 
1*85,  July  17;  Elizabeth3,  b.  1687,  Aug.  30;  Jonathan3,  b.  1689, 
Nov.  8. 

III.  Ebenezer,  son  of  Thomas'2,  b.  1683,  April  6;  m.  Gertrude  Pope,  b. 

1685,  Aug.  27;  he  d.  1767.  He  was  a  farmer  and  res.  in  North 
Reading  on  land  given  him  by  deed  of  gift  from  his  father,  bear- 
ing date  of  1718,  Jan.  28.  This  farm  long  since  passed  out  of  the 
family,  as  his  sons  left  the  state  many  years  ago.  He  had  six  ch.: 
Nathaniel,*,  b.  1708,  Nov.  9;  Ebenezer4,  b.  1711,  Sept.  4;  Lois4,  b. 
1714,  April  10;  Amos4,  b.  1716,  May  8;  Nathan4,  b.  1718,  April  17; 
Eunice4,  b.  . 

IV.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Ebenezer3,  b.  1708,  Nov.  9;  m.  1749,  Aug.  24,  Hep- 

zibah  Woodward,  who  d.  in  1756.  He  also  d.  1756.  They  had 
three  ch. :  Nathaniel?,  b.  1750,  Mav  29;  Zibah5,  b.  1752,  April  10:  Lois5, 
b.  1755,  d.  1774. 
V.  Capt.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Nathaniel4,  b.  1750,  May  29;  m.  1805,  Jan.  5, 
Abigail  Allen  of  Wenham,  Mass.,  who  was  b.  1776,  Oct.  20,  and  d. 
1865,  Jan.  26.  They  res.  for  a  time  in  Manchester,  Mass.,  but  re- 
moved to  New'  Boston  when  the  ch.  were  young.  He  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Revolutionary  war.  A  granddaughter  remembers 
hearing  her  grandmother  relate  this  incident  of  his  soldier  life. 
During  an  engagement  with  the  British  he  was  wounded  and 
taken  prisoner  to  Halifax,  N.  S.  After  various  experiences  he 
found  himself  in  a  dungeon-like  apartment  with  five  other  prison- 
ers, one  of  whom  had  also  been  wounded.  Their  apartment  was 
next  the  outer  wall  of  the  prison,  and  soon  after  entering  it  the 
men  hung  up  their  coats  upon  this  wall.  A  little  later  they  dis- 
covered an  old  bayonet  on  the  floor,  with  which  they  b?gan  at 
once  to  remove  the  stones  in  the  wall.  They  worked  night  and 
day,  each  taking  his  turn  at  the  ta«k,  while  another  watched  for 
the  approach  of  the  turnkey.  No  suspicion  was  aroused  in  the 
minds  of  their  keepers,  as  their  coats  still  hung  where  thev  had 
first  placed  them,  though  they  conveniently  concealed  the  slowly 
increasing  opening  in  the  wall.  Finally,  the  last  stone  of  the  thick 
wall  was  reached,  and  with  suppressed  excitement  they  waited  for 
a  stormy  night  in  which  to  make  their  escape.  Each  man  armed 
himself  with  a  stone  and  cautiously  crept  through  the  wall.  The 
sentinel  hearing  a  slight  noise  started  toward  them,  when  throw- 
ing their  stones  at  him  he  fell  to  the  ground.  They  pressed  for- 
ward, but  the  two  wounded  men,  unable  to  travel  far,  concealed 
themselves  in  a  swamp  about  a  mile  from  the  prison.  Here  they 
remained  until  the  following  night,  when  they  slowly  proceeded 
on  their  way.  Though  often  nearly  exhausted  with  hunger  and 
weakness,  they  finally  reached  their  own  country,  where  friends 
and  home  awaited  them.  To  the  hardship  suffered  during  his  sol- 
dier life  was  thought  to  be  due  the  rheumatism  from  which  he 
later  became  nearly  helpless.  He  d.  in  New  Boston  1828,  Sept. 
8.  Had  seven  ch.:  Hepzibah6,  b.  1806,  June  1,  m.  Lowell  Sprague 
(see  Sprague);  Abigail6,  b.  1808,  June  5;  Nathaniel6,  b.  1810,  March 
12;  William  Allen6,  b.  1812,  July  15;  Lydia  Ann6,  b.  1815,  Feb.  28, 
d.  unm.;  Olive  Louise6,  b.  1817,  Oct.  6,  m.  1834,  Senter  Farley  of 
Bedford  (see  Farley) ;  Joseph  Hooper6,  b.  1820,  Oct.  19. 


GENEALOGIES. — FLINT.  899 

VI.  Abigail,  dau.  of  Nathaniel8,  b.  in  Bedford,  1808,  June  5;  m.  1830, 
Jan.  19,  Josiah  Thissell  of  Weare;  they  res.  on  and  near  the  Horace 
Greeley  place  in  Amherst  for  a  time,  then  rem.  to  Lempster,  and 
later  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  d.  1886,  March  29,  and  shed. 
1887,  Feb.  24.  Their  ch.  were:  Woodbury7,  b.  1831,  d.  of  fever,  aged 
about  22,  while  crossing  the  isthmus  on  his  way  to  Cal.  during 
the  gold  excitement;  Allen7,  b.  Arcadia,  N.  Y.,  1833,  m.  Jane 
Lamoreaux  of  Arcadia,  N.  Y.,  res.  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  no  ch.; 
Sarali  A.7,  b.  Arcadia,  1835;  Mary  L.7.  b.  1837,  d.  in  Minneapr lis, 
1896,  April  12;  Nancy  Ann1,  b.  1840;  Eliza  J.1,  b.  in  Amherst,  1842; 

Eldredge  F.7,  b.  in  Amherst  1844,  m.,  1st,  ;  m.,  2d,  Mary 

C ,  of  Wis.,  res.  in  Manhattan,  Kan.,  no  ch.;  Lowell  T.7,  b  in 

Amherst  1848,  d.  spring  of  1862;  Sophronia7,  b.  in  Lempster  1850, 
d.  in  Lempster  in  the  fall  of  1862. 

VII.  Sarah  A.  (Thissell),  dau.  of  Abigail6,  b.  1835;  m.  Hiram  Abbott  of 
Goffstown,  and  d.  in  Minneapolis,  1866;  had  four  ch.:  Hattie8, 
George8,  Stella8,  and  Frank8,  the  latter  m.  sisters,  1st,  Alice  Han- 
na,  who  d.,  and  2d,  Emily  Hanna,  who  d.  leaving  a  dau.,  Ada9. 

VII.  Nancy  Ann  (Thissell),  dau.  of  Abigail6,  b.  1840;  m.  Joseph  E.  Way 
of  Lempster;  they  res.  in  Charlestown,  N.  H.,  where  she  d.  1864, 
March;  ch.:  Charles8,  Idella8,  Frank8,  Anna8,  d.  young. 

VII.  Eliza  J.  (Thissell),  dau.  of  Abigail6,  b.  1842;  m.  1865,  Dec.  28,  Har- 
lan P.  Marshall  of  Lempster,  who  d.  1868,  July  15;  she  now  res. 
in  Minneapolis.  Their  dau.,  Ada8,  b.  1867,  Jan.  18,  m.  1891,  Nov., 
William  O.  Frost  of  Springfield,  Mass.;  they  res.  in  Minneapolis, 
and  have  three  ch. 
VI.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Nathaniel5,  b.  1810,  March  12;  m.,  1st,  1838,  Nov. 
29.  Sarah  A.,  b.  1816,  May  11,  dau.  of  Ephrahn  and  Sarah  (Proc- 
tor) Parkhurst;  she  d.  1849,  April  28;  he  m.,  2d,  1849,  Oct.  3,  Mary 
R.  Woods  of  Bedford,  b.  1822,  Dec.  12,  and  d.  1893,  Jan.  6.  He 
was  a  farmer,  who  purchased  while  a  young  man  the  farm  in  W. 
Bedford  which  has  now  (1903)  been  in  the  family  nearly  70  years. 
He  d.  1887,  Sept.  3.  Ch.  b.  in  Bedford:  Anstress  Plummer7,  b. 
1840,  Dec.  15,  m.  Salomon  Manning  (see  Manning);  Albert  Law- 
rence,"1, b.  1842,  Dec.  7;  Julia  Ann7,  b.  1845,  April  19,  m.  Clinton 
P.  Hodgman  (see  Hodgman);  Milton  Newell",  b.  1847,  April  7, 
unm.,  res.  on  the  homestead.  His  sister,  Mrs.  Julia  Hodgman 
and  familv,  have  res.  with  him  since  the  death  of  her  husband  in 
1888;  Sarah  A.  P.7,  b.  1849,  April  2,  d.  1849,  Aug.  31. 

VII.  Albert  Lawrence,  son  of  Nathaniel6,  b.  1842,  Dec.  9;  m.,  1st,  Corne- 
lia B.,  b.  in  Cornish,  1830,  Dec.  20,  dau.  of  Ezekiel  and  Phoebe 
(Morse)  Abbott  of  Bedford.  She  d.  1900,  July  7.  He  m.,  2d,  1903, 
Feb.  11,  Mrs.  Sarah  (Tinker)  Stowell,  b.  in  Bedford  1844,  Sept. 
22,  dau.  of  Joseph  H.  and  Mary  (Anderson)  Tinker.  They  live  on 
a  farm  in  southern  part  of  Bedford.  No  ch. 
VI.  William  Allen,  son  of  Nathaniel5,  was  b.  1812,  July  15,  in  Manches- 
ter, Mass.,  where  the  house  in  which  he  was  b.  is  still  standing. 
He  accompanied  his  parents  to  New  Boston  when  quite  young, 
and  there  his  boyhood  was  spent.  He  m.,  1st,  1835,  Dec.  30,  Mary 
Farley  of  Londonderry,  and  settled  in  Bedford,  where  the  remain- 
der of  his  life  was  spent.  He  was  a  farmer  and  brickniaker. 
Mary  Farley  d.  1848,  April  1.  Hem.,  2d,  Hannah  Lee  Otis  of 
New  Boston,  who  was  b.  1817,  March  6,  and  d.  1901,  Feb.  21. 
William  A.  d.  1881,  April  15.  Had  ch.  by  1st  mar.,  viz.:  Orline 
Mary7,  b.  1836,  Oct.  10,  m.  William  McAfee  (see  McAfee) ;  Lydia 
Ann1,  b.  1839,  Oct.  22;  Francis  Fitch'1,  b.  1843,  May  23;  George 
Washington1,  b.  1845,  Feb.  5;  Charles  Allen1,  1847,  May  1. 

VII.  Lydia  Ann,  dau.  of  William  Allen6,  b.  1839,  Oct.  22;  m.  1868,  Dec. 
25,  John  Orr  of  Clinton,  Mass.  Lived  in  Clinton,  and  was  later, 
with  her  husband,  a  teacher  in  Talledega  college,  Ala.,  where  she 
was  killed  by  being  thrown  from  a  carriage  1888,  July  15.    No  ch. 


900  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

VII.  Francis  Fitch,  son  of  William  Allen6,  b.  1843,  May  23;  m.,  1867, 
April  28,  Martha  E.  Merrill.  He  was  a  private  in  Co.  A,  Tenth 
N.  H.  Reg.,  and  served  three  years  in  the  Civil  war.  He  d.  1885, 
Nov.  16.  One  dau.,  Lizzie  Maria8,  was  b.  1873,  Oct.  29.  She  m., 
1898,  Jan.  5,  Carroll  S.  White  of  Manchester,  and  has  two  ch.: 
Orline  E.8,  b.  1900,  Feb.  25,  and  Helen  Francis8,  b.  1902,  Oct.  26. 

VII.  George  W.,  son  of  William  Allen6,  b.  1845,  Feb.  5;  m.  Francis  M. 
Smith  of  Manchester;  settled  in  Bedford  and  had  three  ch. :  May 
Belle8,  b.  1873,  Aug.  8,  d.  1874,  March  11;  Annie  Riddle8,  b.  1875, 
Nov.  29,  m.  1900,  Dec.  25,  William  J.  Kennedy  of  Manchester, 
who  d.  1902,  Feb.;  Maybelle  Florence8,  b.  1881,  May  15.  The 
family  now  res.  in  West  Manchester. 

VII.  Charles  Allen,  son  of  William  Allen6,  b.  1847,  May  1;  m.  Margaret 
H.,  dau.  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  Bell  Austin  of  Goffstown.  They 
res.  in  Goffstown  and  later  in  Manchester,  where  their  son,  Austin 
Waldo,  was  b. 
VIII.  Austin  Waldo,  son  of  Charles  A.7,  was  b.  1874,  Nov.  27.  He  m., 
1897,  Oct.  14,  Minnie  Hutchinson  of  Manchester.  They  have  two 
ch.:  Harold  Hutchinson9,  b.  in  Manchester  1899,  Feb.  5;  Mildred 
Irene9,  b.  in  Manchester  1901,  June  19. 
VI.  Capt.  Joseph  Hooper,  son  of  Nathaniel5,  was  b.  in  New  Boston,  1820, 
Oct.  19;  m.  1845,  Nov.  20,  Nancy  C,  b.  Bedford,  1818,  May  5,  dau. 
of  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Proctor)  Parkhurst,  who  d.  1902,  Aug.  20. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  res.  in  Bedford  and  Merrimack.  Was  cap- 
tain of  militia  company  in  Bedford  (see  Military  Records).  He  d. 
1857,  Oct.  27.  Had  twoch.:  Sarah  Ann  Proctor7,  b.  Bedford  1848, 
Nov.  15,  m.  1868,  Sept.  26,  Charles  W.  Seaver  of  Manchester, 
where  they  now  res. ;  Nancy  Parkhurst7,  b.  Bedford  1850,  Oct.  3, 
m.  1883,  Dec.  25,  Myron  L.  Stickney  of  Manchester,  where  they 
now  res.  Had  ch:  Olive  Flint8,  b.  1890,  May  30,  d.  1895,  March  1: 
Raymond  Parkhurst8  and  Roland  Lucius8  (twins),  b.  1892,  Dec.  30 

FOSHER. 

I.  About  1837  Sylvanus  Fosher  with  Frances,  his  wife,  emigrated  from 
Canada  to  the  United  States  and  settled  in  Coopersville,  N.  Y. 
Here  they  res.  till  about  1872,  when  they  came  to  Bedford  to  res. 
with  their  son,  Nelson,  who  had  settled  here  two  or  three  years 
previous.  They  returned  to  Coopersville  about  1896.  Their  ch. 
nearly  all  res.  here,  viz.:  Nelson"2;  Edmund'2;  Fred2;  Nancy2,  m. 
Joseph  Breette  about  1872,  and  has  a  son  Irving3;  Ephraim2,  m. 
about  1872  Artmissa  Bombard,  and  res.  here  till  1898,  when  they 
rem.  to  Coopersville,  N.  Y.,  had  two  sons,  Ephraim  and  Leon. 
The  other  ch.  of  Sylvanus  and  Frances  were:  Peter2,  who  served 
in  the  Union  army,  res.  Pawtucket,  R.  I.;  Mary2,  res.  in  Coopers- 
ville, N.  Y.;  Abram2,  d.;  two  infants,  d.;  Joseph2,  res.  Michigan: 
Robert2,  d.  about  1890. 
II.  Nelson1,  son  of  Sylvanus1,  b.  Coopersville,  N.  Y.,  1850,  Aug.  24;  m. 
1870,  Dolly  J.,  b.  1851,  Feb.  18,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Mary  A.  (Paine) 
Campbell.  Ch.:  Irving  J.3,  b.  1871,  July  12;  Herbert  N.z,  b.  1874. 
Jan.  24. 

III.  Irving  J.,  son  of  Nelson2,  b.  1871,  July  12;  m.  1891,  July  1,  Eva  E.. 
b.  1873,  dau.  of  George  and  Ellen  McAllaster.  Have  one  son. 
Harry  N.4,  b.  1891,  Oct.  21. 

III.  Herbert  N.,  son  of  Nelson2,  b.  1874,  Jan.  24;  m.  1889,  Oct.  16,  Mary 
E.,  b.  1875,  dau.  of  Chas.  and  Kate  (White)  Adams.     Ch.:  Arthur 
P.4,  b.  1890,  May  14;  Clarence4,  b.  1891,  Sept.  29. 
II.  Edmund,  son  of  Sylvanus1,  served  in  the  Union  army;  m.  Margaret 

Ceroy.      Ch.:  Edmund3,  m.  Richards;  Amelia3;  Clavina3,  b. 

1876,   Nov.   3.  d.   1896,   Jan.   27;   Nelson3;   Napoleon3;   Rodney3: 
Nellie3. 


GENEALOGIES. — FOSHER. — FOSTER.  901 

III.  Amelia,  dau.  of  Edmund2,  b.  1873,  April;  m.  1890,  Dec.  18,  Paul 
Richards,  b.  1861,  Feb.;  d.  1898,  Nov.  29.  She  d.  1899,  Sept.  16. 
Ch.:  Paul4,  b.  1890,  Dec.  19,  d.  1890,  Dec.  20;  Clavina4,  b.  1892, 
May,  d.  1892,  Aug.;  Edmund4,  b.  1893,  Feb.  23;  Nelson4,  b.  1895, 
Feb.  1,  d.  1896,  March  2;  Maria  Stella,  b.  1896,  Sept.,  d.  1897, 
March. 
II.  Fred,  son  of  Sylvanus1,  b.  1854;  m.  Sarah  Lamonety,  b.  1858, 
Ohamplain,  N.  Y.  Ch.:  George3,  b.  1879,  April,  d.  1892,  Feb.  16; 
Mary  Jane3,  b.  1882;  m.  Wm.  C.  Adams  (see  Adams);  Addie  E.3, 
b.  1883;  m.  S.  Frank  Adams  (see  Adams);  Lucy3,  b.  1888,  May  6; 
Alfred3,  b.  1890,  Nov.  2,  d.  1891,  Feb.  20;  Aggie  D.3,  b.  1895,  Oct. 
18;  John3  Lewis,  b.  1897,  Sept.  25. 


THE  FOSTER  FAMILY. 

By  John  Foster. 

The  first  that  is  known  of  the  name  of  Foster  was  about  the  year  1065 
A.  D.,  when  Sir  Richard  Forrester  went  from  Normandy  over  to  England, 
accompanied  by  his  brother-in-law,  William  the  Conqueror,  and  partici- 
pated in  the  victorious  battle  of  Hastings. 

The  name  was  first  Forrester,  then  Forester,  then  Foster.  It  signified 
one  who  had  care  of  wild  lands;  one  who  loved  the  forest,  a  characteristic 
trait  which  has  marked  the  bearers  of  the  name  through  all  the  centuries 
that  have  followed.  The  Fosters  seem  to  have  located  in  the  northern 
counties  of  England,  and  in  the  early  centuries  of  English  history  partici- 
pated in  many  a  sturdy  encounter  with  their  Scottish  foes. 

The  name  is  mentioned  in  "  Marmion  "  and  the  "  Lay  of  the  Last  Min- 
strel." From  one  of  these  families  in  the  seventeenth  century  appears  the 
name  of  Reginald  Foster.  Tiring  of  the  tyrannic  rule  of  Charles  I,  he 
came  to  America  and  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  about  the  year  1638. 
He  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  early  days,  as  the  colonial  records  show. 

From  Reginald  Foster  came  a  son,  "William,  2d,  and  he  had  a  son,  Will- 
iam, 3d,  and  this  latter  William  had  a  son,  John,  4th,  and  to  John  in  due 
time  came  a  son,  Obadiah,  5th,  and  to  him  was  born  a  son  named  for  his 
grandfather,  John,  6th.  The  last  named  was  born  in  Andover,  Mass.,  in 
1770  and  died  in  Warner,  N.  H.,  in  1846.  It  is  written  of  him:  "  He  pos- 
sessed a  quick  and  sound  judgment,  great  energy  of  character,  and  rare 
virtues;  he  was  mild,  frank,  and  determined  in  action,  his  influence  was 
widely  felt  in  every  community  in  which  he  lived." 

George  Foster,  7th,  was  his  son.  (See  biographical  sketch.)  It  seems 
appropriate  that  she,  who  for  many  years  was  so  well  known  and  beloved 
by  all,  should  receive  more  than  tabular  notice  in  the  town's  history.  Sa- 
lome F.  Little,  the  wife  of  George  Foster,  was  born  in  Boscawen,  1825, 
Aug.  9,  and  died  in  Bedford,  1897,  Dec.  12;  her  father  was  Eliphalet  Little, 
an  old-time  farmer  and  shoemaker;  her  mother  was  Meele,  daughter  of 
Moses  Fellows  of  Salisbury,  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  Revolution.  Her 
loving  and  generous  heart  and  her  cheerful  disposition,  added  to  mental 
endowments  of  a  high  order,  made  her  in  every  sense  a  fitting  companion 
for  her  worthy  husband. 

The  children  of  George  and  Salome  F.  Foster  were:  Lucy  A.  Foster,  born 
1848,  Feb.  6,  died  1855,  May  30;  Sarah  M.,  wife  of  Edmund  B.  Hull,  born 
1850,  April  25,  now  living  on  River  road.  During  her  residence  in  the 
town  of  Bedford  she  has  been  a  central  figure  in  all  its  social  and  literary 
affairs;  for  a  long  time  she  was  a  teacher  in  the  schools  of  the  town,  retir- 
ing from  her  vocation  after  her  marriage,  but  she  has  ever  since  taken  a 
lively  interest  in  its  educational  affairs. 

The  next  child  was  John  Foster,  born  1852,  March  5;  graduated  from 
Dartmouth  college  in  1876;  represented  Bedford  in  the  legislature  of  1879, 


902  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

and  is  now  a  lawyer  in  Manchester,  N.  H,  He  married  Mary  Lizzie  Mc- 
Crillis,  an  artist  of  high  repute. 

Their  next  child  was  George  S.  Foster,  born  1857,  July  8;  died  1883, 
Aug.  15.  He  was  a  sturdy  young  man  of  great  promise;  he  married  Etta 
F.  Moulton. 

Charles  E.  Foster  was  born  1860,  June  12;  he  married  Bertha  Cheney, 
granddaughter  of  James  Gardner,  who  lived  all  his  life  in  the  town. 
They  now  reside  in  Manchester. 

Herman  Foster  was  born  1863,  Aug.  3;  married  first,  Nancy  E.  Barr, 
daughter  of  David  Barr  of  Bedford;  second,  Mary  A.  Woolsey  of  Livings- 
ton Manor,  N.  Y. ;  they  now  reside  in  Boston.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Emerson  School  of  Oratory,  in  the  class  of  1896,  and  is  now  engaged  in  the 
real  estate  business. 

Lucy  Mary,  the  last  child,  married  Burton  Stewart,  and  they  now  live 
in  Brockton,  Mass. 

The  children  of  Sarah  M.  Hull  are:  Harry  F.  Hull,  born  1878,  July  24; 
and  Grace  E.  Hull,  born  1880,  Oct.  14. 

John  Foster  has  no  children. 

The  children  of  George  S.  Foster  are:  Ethel  D.,  wife  of  Leslie  Ellis, 
born  1881,  Feb.  10;  and  George  S.  Foster,  born  1882,  April  20. 

The  children  of  Charles  E.  Foster  were:  Electa  Little,  born  1896,  May 
20,  died  1901,  Jan.  19:  Charles  R.,  born  1897,  Oct.  17;  Jennie  Salome,  born 

1899,  June  28,  died  1901,  Jan.  29;  Burton  S.,  born  1901,  Jan.  12. 

The  children  of  Herman  Foster  were:  George  Reginald,  born  1888,  Dec. 
14;  and  Lucy  Salome,  born  1891,  Sept.  25,  died  1893,  April  26;  and  by  sec- 
ond wife:  Robert  W.,  born  1899,  Aug.  7,  died  same  day;  Dwight  W,  born 

1900,  June  22,  died  1901,  Dec.  16;  Amy  W.,  born  1902,  Jan.  21. 
Lucy  M.  Stewart  has  no  children. 

Ethel  D.  Ellis  has  two  children:  Lottie  Foster  Ellis,  born  1900,  June  19; 
and  Leslie  A.  Ellis,  born  1901,  August  16,  who  are  the  tenth  and  last  gen- 
eration from  Reginald  Foster. 

During  its  existence  the  Foster  family  has  been  a  hardy,  persevering, 
and  progressive  race,  almost  universally  endowed  with  an  intense  nervous 
energy;  there  have  been  many  instances  of  high  attainments;  a  bearer  of 
the  name  has  been,  ex  officio,  vice-president  of  the  Republic  (Hon.  Lafay- 
ette G.  Foster,  president,  pro  tern.,  of  the  senate  during  Andrew  Johnson's 
administration) ;  another,  Hon.  John  W.  Foster  of  Indiana,  was  premier 
of  President  Harrison's  cabinet;  another,  Hon.  Charles  Foster  of  Ohio, 
was  his  secretary  of  the  treasury.  Many  have  attained  high  positions  in 
financial  life,  and  many  more  have  gained  prominence  in  military  affairs. 

The  record  of  Maj.-Gen.  John  G.  Foster  through  the  Mexican  war  and 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  stamped  him  as  a  soldier  without  fear  and  with- 
out reproach. 

Professor  Bell  is  the  reputed  and  accredited  inventor  of  the  telephone, 
but  before  that  distinguished  man  had  ever  conceived  the  plan  of  electric 
transmission  of  the  human  voice,  Joseph  Foster  of  Keene,  N.  H.,  a  me- 
chanical genius,  had  constructed  and  put  into  actual  use  a  telephone 
embodying  practically  the  same  working  plan  as  the  Bell  machine.* 

Query:  Could  it  be  possible  that  Joseph  Foster's  telephone  afforded  the 
suggestion  to  Professor  Bell  ? 

The  Foster  family  has  an  authentic  record  covering  a  period  of  nearly 
one  thousand  years.  It  has  furnished  to  the  world  its  share  of  the  fruits 
of  toil;  it  has  contributed  its  share  to  enterprise  and  progress.  Wherever 
it  appears  in  the  affairs  of  men  it  bears  its  crest:  the  iron  arm  holding  the 
golden  javelin  poised  towards  the  future. 

*"  Foster  Genealogy,"  by  Frederick  C.  Pierce,  page  796. 


GENEALOGIES. — FOSTER. — FRENCH.  903 

HON.  GEORGE  FOSTER. 

By  John  Foster. 

Hon.  George  Foster  was  born  in  Hudson,  N.  H,  Sept.  23,  1821.  He  was 
the  son  of  John  Foster  and  Lucy  Hastings  Foster.  In  1830  John  Foster 
removed  with  his  family  to  Warner,  N.  H,  and  it  was  here  that  the  sub- 
ject of  our  sketch  passed  his  youth  and  early  manhood.  With  such  edu- 
cation as  a  bright  boy  could  acquire  from  the  district  school  of  sixty-five 
years  ago,  he  started  out  on  the  journey  of  life.  Gifted  by  nature  with 
dauntless  courage,  ambition,  and  intelligence  of  a  high  order,  the  young 
man  soon  made  himself  known  and  felt  among  his  fellow-men.  Beginning 
in  business  life,  first,  as  a  peddler,  and  then  as  a  keeper  of  an  all-round 
country  store  at  Davisville,  he  gradually  worked  into  the  fines  of  trade 
toward  which  his  tastes  inclined,  those  of  farming,  dealing  in  wood  and 
buying,  manufacturing,  and  selling  all  kinds  of  lumber. 

At  the  age  of  thirty-eight  he  moved  to  Weare,  N.  H,  living  there  until 
1868,  when  he  came  to  Bedford,  having  purchased  the  homestead  farm  of 
Adam  Chandler,  Esq.;  here  he  resided  until  his  death,  March  21,  1881. 

In  Bedford  were  passed  the  brightest  and  happiest  days  of  his  life. 
Engaged  in  a  lucrative  business,  happy  in  his  family  circle,  happy  in  the 
cultivation,  development,  and  improvement  of  the  broad  acres  of  his  grand 
estate;  possessed  of  a  host  of  devoted  friends,  he  was  justly  proud  of  the 
success  which  had  brought  all  these  blessings  around  him.  Genial,  hos- 
pitable, and  generous  to  a  fault,  George  Foster  never  lost  a  friend  and 
seldom  made  an  enemy.  His  character  was  cast  in  the  puritanic  mold  of 
his  forefathers,  pure  and  simple  in  his  habits,  gentle  and  sympathetic  in 
his  manners,  he  was  a  man  whom  to  know  was  to  love.  His  busiDess, 
social,  and  political  conclusions  were  formed  quickly,  but  accurately,  and 
once  found  were  as  fixed  as  the  eternal  hills.  He  was  strong  in  his  likes 
and  dislikes,  he  loved  his  family  and  his  friends,  he  loved  truth  and  justice 
and  humanity,  and  he  hated  sham  and  hypocrisy,  and  denounced  them  in 
all  their  forms  in  unmistakable  language.  As  there  still  linger  among 
those  who  were  his  associates  many  memories  of  kind  words  and  generous 
deeds,  there  also  remain  recollections  of  his  apt  and  cutting  repartee  and 
scathing  criticism.  As  a  fitting  tribute  to  his  ability  and  sterling  integ- 
ritv  he  was  twice  elected  to  the  state  senate  of  New  Hampshire,  first  in 
1872  and  again  in  1873. 

Mr.  Foster  married  in  1847,  Salome  F.  Little  of  Salisbury,  N.  H,  who 
was  the  mother  of  six  children  who  survived  him:  Sarah  M.,  now  Mrs. 
Edmund  B.  Hull;  John;  George  S.,  who  died  in  1882;  Charles  E.;  Her- 
man; Lucy  M.,  now  Mrs.  Burton  Stewart. 

Mr.  Foster  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine  years,  and  the  epitaph  carved  on 
the  stone  above  the  remains  of  himself  and  his  beloved  wife  seems  a  fitting 
and  comprehensive  tribute  to  the  character  and  worth  of  both: 

"They  made  the  world  better  by  living  in  it." 

FRENCH. 

Three  brothers  of  this  name  came  to  this  country  from  England;  one 
joined  a  southern  colony,  but  becoming  homesick  returned  home;  another 
drifted  to  Maine,  where  he  settled;  little  is  known  of  his  family,  but 
a  descendant,  who  had  been  living  as  a  hermit,  visited  this  town  about 
60  years  ago. 

I.  William  French,  a  brother  of  the  above,  was  b.  in  Halstead,  Eng., 
1603,  March  15.  He  came  over  in  the  Defence  in  1635  and  settled 
in  Cambridge,  Mass.;  was  freeman  1636;  moved  to  Billerica  with 
the  first  settlers  of  that  town  1653,  and  became  a  leading  citizen; 


i*04  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

was  appointed  to  solemnize  marriage;  was  their  first  representa- 
tive to  the  general  court  in  1660,  again  in  1663,  and  a  lieutenant. 
His  wife  Elizabeth  was  b.  1605  and  d.  1668,  March  81.  He  m.,  2d, 
1669,  May  6,  Mrs.  Mary  (Lathrop)  Stearns  (widow).  Lieutenant 
French  d.  at  Billerica,  1681,  Nov.  26.  They  had  thirteen  ch.,  and 
their  descendants  are  scattered  throughout  New  England  and  the 

West.    Ch.:    Elizabeth2,  b.   1631,  m.  Ellis;  Mary2,  b.  about 

1633;  John2,  b.  about  1635,  lived  in  Billerica,  a  soldier,  wounded 
by  Indians,  m.  four  times,  9  ch.;  Sarah2,  b.  1638;  Jacob2,*  b.  1639- 
'40;  Hannah2,  b.  1641-'42;  Hannah2,  2d,  born  about  1643,  m.  John 
Brackatt;    Samuel2,  b.  1645,  d.    1646;    Samuel2,  2d,  a  pioneer  in 

Dunstable;   Mary2,  b.  1670,  m.,   1st,  Sharp,  2d,   Nathaniel 

Dunklee;  Sarah2,  b.  1671,  m.  Jos.  Crosby;  Abigail2,  b.  1673,  d. 
1674;  Hannah2,  b.  1676,  m.  John  Child. 

*Jacob,  son  of  William1,  b.  1639- '40,  res.  in  Billerica,  d.  1713,  May  20. 
He  m.,  1st,  Mary,  dau.  of  Elder  Richard  Champney;  she  d.  1681, 
and  he  m.,  2d,  Mary  Converse.  Ch.:  Jacob3,  b.  1666-'67,  d.  about 
1700;  William3,  b.  1668,  July  18,  a  deacon  in  Billerica,  m.  Sarah, 
dau.  of  Capt.  Jona.  Danforth,  the  noted  land  surveyor,  possibly 
the  father  of  Gen.  William  French  who  came  to  Bedford,  d.  1723, 
Sept.  30;  Mary3,  b.  1669;  John3,  b.  and  d.  1670;  Joseph3,  b.  1673, 
d.  1676;  Jabez3,  b.  and  d.  1674;  Mary3,  b.  1676-'77,  m.  Jona,  Bald- 
win; Hannah3,  b.  and  d.  1677;  Elizabeth3,  m.  Win.  Manning; 
Sarah3,  b.  1681-'82,  m.  Thos.  Baldwin;  Abigail3,  b.  1686,  d.  1687. 
IV.  Gen.  William  French,  Jr.,  a  descendant  of  William1,  was  adminis- 
trator for  his  father  in  1745;  sold  the  farm  1766,  Oct.  8;  moved 
from  Billerica  to  Hollis,  N.  H.,  about  the  time  of  the  Revolution- 
ary war  and  afterwards  to  Bedford,  where  he  d.  about  1793, 
aged  80.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  "  a  numerous  family,  spreading 
themselves  all  over  the  town.  For  many  years  there  were  seven 
large  farms,  most  of  them  contiguous,  owned  by  different  heads 
of  the  French  family;  not  office-seekers,  but  standing  for 
righteousness  and  all  the  old-fashioned  virtues.  The  church 
records  show  more  of  this  name  than  any  other.  Not  a  few 
became  prominent  in  missionary  and  philanthropic  work;  some 
were  elders  and  some  were  ministers."  Ch.:  Jonathan5,  b.  1737, 
Oct.  10,  settled  and  d.  in  Billerica;  William5,  b.  1738,  Feb.  16, 
m.  Lucy  Remick,  rem.  from  Hollis  to  Bedford,  where  he  d.; 
Joseph5,  b.  1740,  Dec.  10,  settled  and  d.  in  Hollis;  Tabitha5,  b. 
1742,  Dec.  31,  m.  a  Mr.  Carleton  of  Billerica  and  d.  there;  Benja- 
min5, b.  1744,  Feb.  18,  a  tanner,  settled  in  Dracut,  Mass.,  rem.  to 
Milford,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.;  Nehemiah5,  b.  1746,  March  29, 
settled  in  Hollis,  rem.  to  Lyndeborough,  thence  to  Vermont 
where  he  d.;  Stephen5,  b.  1748;  Mehitabel5,  b.  1749,  Feb.  5; 
Ephraim5,  b.  1751,  Nov.  10,  m.  Hannah  Melendy;  settled  and  d. 
in  Amherst;  David5,  b.  1754,  Sept.  15;  Mehitabel5,  2d,  b.  1756, 
Aug.  18,  m.  Job  Bailey  of  Wilton,  and  there  d.;  Betsey5,  m. 
Daniel  Bailey  of  Hollis  and  d.  there. 
V.  Stephen,  son  of  Gen.  William4,  b.  1748;  was  a  tanner  by  trade;  he 
m.  Dolly  Coburn  of  Dracut,  Mass.,  b.  1752.  They  moved  to  Bed- 
ford about  1773,  where  he  d.  1832,  Nov.  16,  and  his  wife  d.  1835, 
Oct.  13.  They  had  eight  sons  and  six  daughters:  Ebenezer6,  b. 
1774,  April  28;  Stephen*,  b.  1775,  Nov.  7;  Dolly6,  b.  1778,  Nov.  9, 
m.  Gawn  Riddle  (see  Riddle);  William6,  b.  1781,  March  24; 
Sarah  W.6,  b.  1782,  April  10,  m.  Wm.  McD.  McPherson  (see 
McPherson);  Leonard  C.G,  b.  1785,  Feb.  10;  Betsey6,  b.  1789, 
April  28,  m.  Wm.  Bursiel  (see  Bursiel);  Phineas  C.6,  b.  1791, 
Dec.  14;  James,6  b.  1794,  Nov.  22,  tanner;  Daniel6,  b.  1796,  Jan.  28; 
Robert  W.6,  b.  1801,  Oct.  31.     (Record  of  others  not  given.) 


GENEALOGIES. — FKENCH.  905 

VI.  Ebenezer,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  1774,  April  28;  selectman  and  repre- 
sentative; m.  Rhoda  Cobnrn  of  Dracut,  b.  1780,  April  16.  Mr. 
French  was  a  farmer  and  settled  in  the  west  part  of  Bedford. 
He  d.  1846,  Nov.  20.  They  had  ch.:  Ebenezer  C.7,  b.  1798, 
Dec.  22;  Matilda  C.7,  b.  1800,  Aug.  25,  m.  Ebenezer  Holbrook 
(see  Holbrook);  Leonard  C.\  2d,  b.  1803,  April  19;  Phineas  C.7,  2d, 
b.  1805,  Aug.  19;  William?,  b.  1807,  Dae.  29;  Merab7,  b.  1811,  Sept. 
27,  m.  John  McAllister,  Jr.  (see  McAllister);  Alfred7,  b.  1815,  May 
20;  John  U.\  b.  1817,  Feb.  24;  Mary  A.7,  b.  1824,  Oct.  4,  m.  John  N. 
Barr  (see  Barr) ;  Rhoda7,  b.  1822,  Sept.  24,  m.  Elbridge  G.  Barr 
(see  Barr) ;  Adaline7,  b.  1826,  Feb.  2,  m.  Thomas  U.  Gage  (see  Gage.) 
VII.  Ebenezer  C,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1798,  Dec.  22;  settled  on  part  of 
the  old  homestead  in  the  west  part  of  Bedford;  m.,  1st,  1821, 
Dec.  25,  Sarah,  b.  1798,  Dec.  1,  dau.  of  Dea.  John  Holbrook. 
She  d.  1834,  Sept.,  and  he  m.,  2d,  Lydia  Eaton  of  Goffstown, 
b.  1799,  July  5.  Ch.,  1st  mar.:  Alfred8,  b.  1823,  Jan.  16; 
Sarah  E8,  b.  1826,  Feb.  11;  2d  mar.:  Abigail  E.8,  b.  1838, 
June  30,  m.  1868,  Jan.  14,  George  A.  Shepard,  res.  in  Chicago, 
111.,  28  years,  returned  to  Bedford,  1896,  where  thev  now  res.; 
Clara  E.8,  b.  1839,  Sept.  29,  m.  George  A.  King  (see  King) ;  Lydia 
Maria8,  b.  1842,  Oct.  14,  res.  in  W.  Bedford,  unm. 

VIII.  Alfred  (M.  D.),  son  of  Ebenezer  C.7,  b.  1823,  Jan.  16.  (See  Physi- 
cians; also  see  sketch.)  He  m.  1852,  Nov.  11,  Sarah  A.  Hardy  of 
Westminster,  Vt.;  res.  for  a  time  in  Manchester,  then  in  Methuen 
seven  years,  whence  they  rem.  to  Lawrence,  Mass.  He  d.  1902, 
Dec.  1,  in  Lawrence,  where  his  widow  still  res.  They  had  one 
dau.,  Lizzie.9 

VIII.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  C.7,  b.  1826,  Feb.  11;  m.  1848, 
Jan.  10,  Stephen  Gains  Allen,  b.  in  Mansfield,  Mass.,  1816, 
March  28.  He  was  a  merchant  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  d.  in 
Andover,  Mass.,  1878,  Oct.  5.  His  widow  d.  in  Boston,  1889, 
March  25.  Had  ch.:  Stephen  G.9,  b.  1849,  March  20,  d.  1854, 
Jan.  19;  Rollin  H.9,  b.  1853,  Feb.  26,  m.  Sarah  B.  Spencer,  have 
two  ch.,  Herbert  and  Ruth  (see  Spencer);  Stephen  Gano9,  b.  in 
Boston,  1857,  April  3,  m.  1897,  Sept.  21,  Beatrice  Russell  Doe, 
res.  in  Boston;  Henry  F.9,  b.  1859,  Nov.  7. 
VII.  Leonard  C,  2d,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1803,  April  19;  farmer,  select- 
man, representative,  and  justice  of  the  peace;  m.  1831,  June  1, 
Annis  C.  Campbell  of  New  Boston,  b.  1809,  July  9,  lived  and  d.  in 
Bedford.  They  had  ch.:  Clinton*,  b.  1832,  Oct.  24;  Almiia  F8,  b.  1835, 
May  1;  William  C.8,  b.  1838,  Dec.  18;  Robert  C.8,  b.  1845,  Jan.  2,  m. 
1868,  Nov.  12,  Claribel  H.  Page  of  Canaan,  d.  1869,  Oct.  25. 

VIII.  Clinton,  son  of  Leonard  C.7,  2d,  b.  1832,  Oct.  24;  m.  1873,  Oct.  15, 
Claribel  H.  (Page)  French  of  Manchester  (widow  of  Robert  C); 
she  d.  1888,  May  14,  and  he  d.  1902,  Nov.  16.  Ch.:  Ethel  A.9, 
b.  1874,  Sept.  3;  Winifred  J.9,  b.  1884,  Sept.  30. 

VIII.'Almira  F.,  dau.  of  Leonard  C.7,  2d,  b.  1835,  May  1;  m.  1863,  Jan.  1, 
Thomas  R.  Cochrane  of  New  Boston.  They  have  Thomas  E.9, 
b.  1864,  June  30. 

VIII.  William  C,  son  of  Leonard  C.7,  2d,  b.  1838,  Dec.  18;  in.,  1st,  1864, 
April  19,  Abbie  Louisa  Chandler  of  Boston,  who  d.  1878,  Jan.  8. 
He  in.,  2d,  Sevilla  Smith  of  Wakefield,  Mass.;  d.  1888,  March  16. 
Ch.,  1st  marriage:  Mabel  L.9,  b.  1875,  Oct.  29;  2d  marriage, 
Leonard  C.9,  b.  1885. 
VII.  Phineas  C,  2d,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1805,  Aug.  19;  farmer;  m. 
Sophronia  Roby  of  Goffstown,  b.  1809,  June  17;  settled  in  Bed- 
ford but  rem.  to  Oshkosh,  Wis.,  1856,  Dec,  where  he  d.  1870. 
His  wife  d.  at  Beaver  Dam,  Wis.,  1884.  Ch.:  Achsah  W.*,  b. 
1836,  July  29;  Martin*,  b.  1841,  Feb.  7;  Misty  E8,  b.  1844,  March  15; 
Lovim  J.8,  b.  1847,  March  29:  Sarah  E8,  b.  1849.  Mav  12. 


906  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

VIII.  Achsah  W.,  dau.  of  Phineas  C.7,  2d,  b.  1836,  July  29;  in.,  1st,  J.  S. 
Styles,  adjutant  of  Thirty-second  Wis.  Vol.  infantry,  b.  1862, 
d.  1882.     She  m.,  2d,  1884,  J.  R.  Mars;  res.  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 

VIII.  Martin,  son  of  Phineas  C.7,  2d,  b.  1841,  Feb.  7;  m.  1869,  Oct.  28. 
Mary  Frances  Emeney  of  New  York  city;  settled  in  Oshkosh. 
Wis.,  but  now  res.  in  Colton,  Cal.  Have  ch.:  Clara  Belle9, 
b.  1871,  May  22;  Harvey  Grey9,  b.  1874,  April  30;  Roby  Emery9, 
b.  1879,  Oct.  28. 

VIII.  Mary  E.,  dau.  of  Phineas  C.7,  2d,  b.  1844,  March  15;  m.  1868,  E.  F. 
Storke,  M.  D.,  and  res.  in  Oak  Park,  111.  Have  one  son,  Albert 
French9,  b.  1869. 
IX.  Albert  French  Storke,  son  of  Mary  E.8,  b.  1869;  is  a  physician; 
a  graduate  from  both  alleopathic  and  homeopathic  schools. 
Began  to  practice  medicine,  1892,  in  Colorado,  but  later  rem.  to 
Oak  Park,  111.     Is  m.  and  has  two  ch. 

VIII.  Lovisa  J.,  dau.  of  Phineas  C.7,  2d,  b.  1847,  March  29;  m.  1878,  U.  O. 
Shipman;  res.  in  Beaver  Dam,  Wis.  Have  one  son,  Albert  U.9, 
b.  1884,  graduated  from  college  1902. 

VIII.  Sarah  E.  (M.  D.),  dau.  of  Phineas  C.7,  2d,  b.  1849,  May  12; 
m.  Dr.  A.  J.  Maloy;  they  res.  in  Riverside,  Cal.  He  d.  1898. 
Mrs.  Maloy  still  res.  at  Riverside,  where  she  is  a  practising 
physician.  Their  one  dau.,  Manise,  is  a  dentist.  She  m.  Wm.  H. 
Hawley,  M.  D.,  and  res.  at  Aurora,  111. 
VII.  William,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1807,  Dec.  29;  merchant;  m.  Isabella, 
b.  1813,  Sept.  13,  dau.  of  Robert  Wallace,  New  Boston;  settled  at 
Piscataquog;  selectman.  He  d.  1852,  Nov.  21.  His  wife  is  still 
living.  They  had  ch.:  Josephine8,  b.  1841,  unm.;  Ella  W.8, 
b.  1849,  d.  1851. 
VII.  John  U.,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1817,  Feb.  24;  m.  1846,  Sarah  R.. 
b.  1826,  Oct.  6,  dau.  of  Willard  and  Anna  (Riddle)  Parker  of 
Bedford.  She  d.  1877,  March  25,  and  he  d.  1871.  Their  ch.  were: 
Anna  M.8,  b.  1847,  July  5,  m.  and  went  to  Florida  to  res.; 
Willard  P.8,  b.  1849,  Feb.  25,  d.  1851,  March  12;  Clarence  E.8,  b. 
1852,  Sept.  4,  m.  Addie  Winkley,  ch.,  John  W.9,  b.  1881,  Feb.  11, 
d.  1882,  Oct.  22,  Arthur  W.9,  b.  1882,  Aug.  17. 
VI.  Stephen,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  1775,  Nov.  7;  tanner;  m.  in  1800, 
Hannah  Swett,  b.  in  Bedford,  1777,  May  15  (see  Swett  Gen.). 
They  lived  in  the  old  long  house  near  the  tannery,  which  was 
built  by  his  ancestors.  In  1827  he  built  the  first  brick  house  in 
town;  a  large  two-story  building  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
Fred  A.  French.  This  house  was  dedicated  1828,  Jan.  8;  rela- 
tives and  friends  were  invited,  and  a  sermon  preached  by  the 
beloved  pastor,  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  who  took  for  his  text  2  Sam- 
uel 7:18,  19.  Stephen6,  d.  1850,  Sept.  4.  Had  tench.:  Hannah 
Plummer7,  b.  1801,  April  12,  m.  Ebenezer  Goffe  (see  Goffe); 
Dolly  Coburn7,  b.  1803,  Oct.  4,  d.  1826,  July,  unm;  Sarah  Whit- 
ney7, b.  1804,  Dec.  4,  m.  Josiah  Kittredge,  M.  D.,  of  Nashua, 
where  she  d.,  leaving  ch.;  Stephen'',  b.'1806,  Aug.  26;  Mary  J.7,  b. 
1808,  July  12,  m.  Humphrey  Moore,  D.  D.,  of  Milford,  where  they 
res.,  she  d.  1899,  aged  91,  with  mental  and  physical  faculties 
remarkably  preserved,  no  ch.;  Phineas1,  b.  1810,  May  23;  Betsey1, 
b.  1812,  April  27,  only  survivor  of  the  family,  aged  90;  James7,  b. 
1814,  March  2,  d.  1826;  Moses7,  b.  1817,  Sept.  19,  m.  Sarah  Gregg, 
settled  in  Nashua,  rem.  to  Milford. 
VII.  Stephen,  son  of  Stephen6,  b.  1806,  Aug.  26;  tanner  and  farmer;  the 
tanning  business,  which  had  been  carried  on  by  three  genera- 
tions of  this  name,  was  discontinued  by  Stephen7,  who  tore  down 
the  old  buildings  and  devoted  himself  to  the  more  congenial  occu- 
pation of  farming.  He  m.  Sarah  Stevens,  b.  1812,  June  5,  dau. 
of  Dr.  Samuel  Foster  of  Candia,  N.  H.,  but  living  in  Nashua 


GENEALOGIES. — FRENCH.  907 

when  m.  Stephen7  d.  1866,  July  16;  his  widow  d.  nearly  twenty 
years  later,  passing  triumphantly  beyond,  1884,  April  24.  They 
had  nine  ch.:  Benjamin  Franklin9,  b.  1833,  March  12;  Ellen 
Bacon8,  b.  1835,  Jan.  13,  m.  Mr.  Barney  Hinckley  of  Boston, 
Mass.,  now  living  in  Swampscott,  Mass.;  Celia  Nott8,  b.  1836,  Nov. 
28;  Mary  Colcord8,  b.  1838,  Oct.  30,  d.  1841;  Sarah  Emeline8,  b. 
1840,  Sept.  6;  Robert  H.8,  b.  1842,  Dec.  2;  James  Edward**,  b.  1844, 
Dec.  15;  Harriette  Augusta8,  b.  1848,  April  19,  m.  Charles  E.  Bur- 
siel  (see  Bursiel) ;  Alice  Bird8,  b. . 

VIII.  Benjamin  Franklin,  son  of  Stephen7,  b.  1833,  March  12;  in.,  1st, 
Sarah  Parke  of  Pontiac,  Mich.;  m.,  2d,  Mrs.  Saide  M.  Odell  of 
Portland,  Ore.     Have  two  ch.:  Ednah  E.9  and  Benjamin  Taylor.9 

VIII.  Celia  Nott,  dau.  of  Stephen7,  b.  1836,  Nov.  28;  m.,  1st,  Rev.  A.  B. 
Dascomb  of  Westminster,  Vt.,  who  d.  1894,  July  13.  She  m.,  2d, 
Mr.  Charles  H.  Dascomb,  and  res.  in  El  Paso,  Texas. 

VIII.  Sarah  Emeline,  dau.  of  Stephen7,  b.  1840,  Sept.  6;  m.  Mr.  George 
A.  Christian  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  She  has  one  ch.,  Grace  Os- 
borne9, who  m.  1892,  Oct.,  Mr.  S.  F.  Hinckley,  of  Boston.  He  d. 
1892,  Dec.  Mrs.  Christian  and  her  widowed  dau.  now  res.  in 
Boston. 

VIII.  Robert  H.,  son  of  Stephen7,  b.  1842,  Dec.  2;  fitted  for  college,  but 
gave  up  his  cherished  plans  at  his  country's  call  for  nine  months' 
men,  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  He  enlisted  in  the  Six- 
teenth Regiment  N.  H.  volunteers.  Was  in  Gen.  Banks'  divi- 
sion until  about  the  time  for  the  return  home  of  his  regiment, 
when  he  was  taken  sick  and  d.  in  hospital  at  Memphis,  Tenn., 

1862,  Aug.  24. 

VIII.  James  Edwards,  son  of  Stephen7,  b.  1844,  Dec.  15;  m.  Mrs.  Ella  L. 
Huntoon  of  Manchester,  N.  H.  They  res.  on  the  old  farm,  which 
in  turn  has  belonged  to  many  generation  of  ancestors.  Have  one 
ch.,  Harry  Nye,  b.  1889,  May  4.  Mrs.  Huntoon  had  a  daughter, 
Gerda  L.  Huntoon,  now  a  teacher  at  Claremont,  N.  H,,  also  a 
son,  Alonzo  Huntoon. 

VIII.  Alice  Bird,  M.  D.,  dau.  of  Stephen7,  studied  medicine,  graduating 
from  the  Boston  university  (see  Physicians).  In  1880  m.  Prof. 
Henry  Mills  of  N.  Y.,  and  res.  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  where 
Prof.  Mills  d.  in  1897.  Alice  B.  Mills,  M.  D.,  is  now  laboring  as 
a  missionary  among  the  poor  whites  in  West  Virginia. 
VII.  Phineas,  son  of  Stephen*5,  b.  1810,  May  23;  deacon;  m.,  1st,  1836, 
Feb.  16,  Betsey  Foster  of  Nashua,  b.  1811,  July  6,  and  d.  1839, 
May  14.  He  m.,  2d,  1840,  Sept.  3,  Lydia  G.  Hardy,  b.  1813,  June 
2,  and  d.  1850,  April  9.  He  m.,  3d,  1850,  Dec.  3,  Anna  Fisher,  b. 
1822,  Feb.  7,  dau.  of  Rev.  Jabez  Pond  Fisher,  who  d.  in  Deering. 
Phineas,  d.  1865,  Aug.  1.  Anna,  his  widow,  res.  in  Nashua  for  a 
time,  but  is  now  (1903)  living  with  her  dau.,  Isabella  G.  (French) 
Bigelow  in  Woburn,  Mass.  Ch.,  b.  in  Bedford,  1st  mar.,  Horace8, 
b.  1837,  Feb.  16;  Charles  Foster8,  b.  1839,  May  6;  2d  mar.,  Austin 
G8,  b.  1845,  Aug.  30;  Hannah  E8,  b.  1847,  March  19;  Lydia  F.8, 
b.  1849,  Nov.  17,  m.  Nathan  W.  Cutler  (see  Cutler);  3d  mar., 
Mary  Anna8,  b.  1851,  Sept.  13,  res.  in  Milford,  widow  of  the  late 
I.  J.  Burns  of  that  place,  no  ch.;  Clara8,  b.  1853,  July  23,  d.  1880, 
April  15;  Jabez  Fisher8,  b.  1855,  Sept.  17,  d.  1858,  March  8; 
Isabella  Graham*,  b.  1859,  Jan.  21;  Fanny  Fisher8,  b.  1861,  Aug. 
25,  a  teacher,  res.  in  Quincy,  Mass.;  a  dau.,  b.   1863,  June  8,  d. 

1863,  June  13;  Josephine  Elise8,  b.  1864,  April  18,  d.  1864, 
Nov.  17. 

VIII.  Horace,  son  of  Phineas7,  b.  1837,  Feb.  16;  enlisted,  1861,  May  5,  in 
the  U.  S.  Volunteers,  served  four  years  and  three  months,  one 
year  of  which  was  spent  in  a  Southern  prison.  Was  in  twenty- 
two  engagements,  and  was  mustered  out  with  rank  of  captain. 


908  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

In  1870,  April  4,  removed  to  West  Lebanon,  where  lie  still  res. 
Has  been  deacon  in  Congregational  church  several  years;  served 
in  the  legislature  in  1881;  is  now  postmaster  at  West  Lebanon, 
and  a  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.,  Masons,  and  Odd  Fellows.  (See 
biography.)  He  m.  1865,  April  4,  Mary  E.  Gillette,  b.  1841,  Aug. 
20.  Oh.:  Bessie  Foster9,  b.  1866,  Jan.  8,  an  artist,  had  been  in 
Colorado  Springs,  Col.,  about  three  years  for  her  health,  but  re- 
turned home  just  before  her  death  1903,  May  7;  Nathan  Gillette9 
and  Martin  Gillette9  (twins),  b.  1867,  Sept.  8,  Nathan  G.  d.  1868, 
Aug.  14,  and  Martin  G.  d.  1872,  Feb.  10;  Samuel  Filigree*,  b.  1871, 
May  6;  Frederick  Reginald*,  b.  1872,  Sept.  25;  Robert  Horace9,  b. 
1876,  June  11,  d.  in' infancy;  Ernest  Eugene9,  b.  1878,  May  3,  is 
studying  law  in  University  of  California,,  San  Francisco;  John 
McQu'esten9,  b.  1879,  April  21,  civil  engineer,  is  now  dredging 
Mansanillo  Harbor,  Mexico.  All  the  ch.  who  reached  maturity 
united  with  the  Congregational  church  in  their  youth.  The  four 
sons  now  living  are  all  graduates  of  Dartmouth  college,  and  all 
over  6  feet  tall. 
IX.  Samuel  Pingree,  son  of  Horace8,  b.  1871,  May  6;  is  a  teacher  in 
Ponahue  college,  Honolulu,  Hawaiian  Islands;  is  m.,  and  has  two 
ch.:  Harold  Campbell10,  b.  1901,  March  30;  Helen  Elizabeth10,  b. 
1902,  May  20. 
IX.  Frederick  Reginald,  son  of  Horace8,  b  1872,  Sept.  25;  is  consulting 
engineer  in  San  Raphael,  Cal.;  m.  1898,  Feb.  24,  Martha  Ophelia 
Hathaway  of  North  Tonawanda,  N.  Y.  They  have  Katherine 
Bennett10,  b.  1900,  Nov.  9. 

VIII.  Charles  Foster,  son  of  Phineas7,  b.  in  Bedford,  1839,  May  6;  enlisted 
1861,  Aug.,  in  N.  H.  Volunteers;  was  sergeant  of  Company  H, 
Third  Regiment  of  Infantry.  Captured  at  Pinkney  Island,  S.  C, 
and  sent  to  Libby  prison,  Richmond,  Va. ;  was  paroled  and  sent 
to  Camp  Parole  in  Indiana;  from  there  was  discharged  by  reason 
of  disability;  res.  in  Woburn,  Mass.  He  m.,  1st,  1860,  Sarah  M. 
Pattee  of  New  London,  who  d.  1861.  He  m.,  2d,  1864,  Louisa 
Boardman  of  Meredith,  who  d.  1865.  He  m.,  3d,  1868,  Oct.  17, 
Susan  Gordon  Marden  of  Short  Falls,  N.  H.  Ch.:  Louise9,  b. 
1865,  d.  1866;  Charles  William9,  b.  1869,  Oct.  23. 

VIII.  Austin  G.,  son  of  Phineas7,  b.  in  Bsdford,  1845,  Aug.  30;  enlisted  in 
First  N.  H.  heavy  artillery,  1864,  July  25;  discharged  at  close  of 
war.  He  m.,  1868,  Jan.  1,  Abby  N.  Waldron  of  Newbury,  Vt.,  b. 
1848,  Julv  12.  Ch.:  George  Francis,  b.  in  Newbury,  Vt,,  1868, 
Sept.  2;  Walter  Mervin9,  b.  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  1872,  Nov.  29,  m. 
1898,  Nov.  10,  Eva  E.  Wilson  of  Roxbury,  Mass.,  where  they  res.; 
Frank  Waldron9,  b.  Woburn,  1876,  June  29,  m.  1901,  Sept.  4,  Har- 
riet E.  Goodwin  of  Somerville,  res.  in  Woburn. 
IX.  George  Francis,  son  of  Austin  G.8,  b.  1868,  Sept.  2;  m.  1893,  June 
15,  Margaret  A.  Hall  of  Woburn.  He  d.  1899,  April  5.  Ch.: 
Hazel  Marion10,  b.  1895,  Sept.  25;  Ruth  Hall10,  b.  1897,  June  9; 
George  Francis10,  b.  1899,  June  18. 

VIII.  Hannah  E.,  dau  of  Phineas7,  b.  in  Bedford,  1847,  March  19;  m.  1871. 
May  18,  Jacob  Howard  Schryver,  who  d.  1899,  Jan.  13.  The 
family  res.  in  Columbus,  Ohio.  Ch.:  Helen  Moore9,  b.  Balti- 
more, Md.,  1875,  June  25,  stenographer;  Anna  Vista9,  b.  Mt, 
Sterling,  Ohio,  1877,  June  23,  stenographer;  Howard  French9,  b. 
Mt.  Sterling,  1885,  April  9,  graduate  from  the  high  school. 

VIII.  Isabella  Graham,  dau.  of  Phineas7,  b.  in  Bedford,  1859,  Jan.  21;  m. 
1892,  Nov.  23,  Melville  J.  Bigelow  of  Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  where 
they  now  res.  Ch.:  Howard  F.9,  b.  1896,  Jan.  1;  Anna  F.9,  b. 
1897,  Oct.  21. 
VII.  Betsey  (Eliza  O),  dau.  of  Stephen6,  b.  1812,  April  27;  is  the  only 
surviving  member  of  the  family  of  ten  ch.;   she  lately  (1902) 


GENEALOGIES. — FRENCH.  909 

celebrated  her  ninetieth  birthday,  and  is  still  active  in  social  and 
church  work.  She  m.  1835,  Dec.  15,  Thomas  W.  Gillis,  agent  of 
Nashua  Manufacturing  company.  They  res.  in  Nashua,  and  had 
ch.  there,  but  she  now  res.  in  Milford. 
VI.  William,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1781,  March  24;  was 
a  stone  cutter  and  farmer;  m.  in  Bedford  1807,  March  9, 
Agnes  (Nancy),  b.  in  Bedford,  1781,  Jan.  20,  dau.  of  John  and 
Mary  (McAffee)  Riddle.  They  settled  in  Prospect,  Me.,  now 
Stockton,  where  he  d.  1847,  March  1,  and  she  d.  1852,  June 
20.  Ch.  all  b.  in  Prospect,  Me.:  James  Riddle7,  b.  1809;  Sarah 
Ann7,  b.   1810,  Nov.  27,  m.  Nathan  Cutler  (see  Cutler);    Dolhi 

Coburn7,  b.  1818,  April  17;  John  Riddle'7,  b. ;  William  Riddle', 

b.  1822,  Feb.;  Robert7,  b.  1824,  Dec.  28;  Mary7  and  Nancy'1  Riddle 
(twins),  b.  1828,  June  11,  Mary7  d.  in  Prospect,  Me.,  1832,  May. 

VII.  Rev.  James  Riddle  French,  son  of  William6,  b.  1809;  was  a  gradu- 
ate of  Theological  seminary  at  Gilmanton,  N.  H.  Settled  in 
Peterborough,  N.  H.,  about  1842;  afterwards  agent  of  the  American 
Seaman's  Friend  society,  preaching  for  a  time  in  Havana,  Cuba. 
Settled  as  pastor  of  Bethel  church,  Portland,  Me.,  and  health  fail- 
ing, rem.  in  1856  to  his  native  place,  Stockton  Springs,  formerly 
Prospect,  Me.;  after  a  short  pastorate  there,  passed  to  his  rest  in 
March — a  short,  strenuous  life.  He  m.,  1st,  1832,  Sept.  13,  in 
Bedford,  Nancy  Riddle,  b.  in  Bedford,  1811,  June  4,  dau.  of 
Leonard  C.  and  Nancy  (Hutchinson)  French;  she  d.  in  Bedford, 
1848,  Sept.  26.  He  m.,  2d,  in  Nelson,  N.  H.,  Sophia  Newell,  b.  in 
Nelson,  dau.  of  Abel  Kittredge.  She  d.  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
1900.  Ch.,  1st  mar.:  Lucius  Thurston8,  b.  in  Bedford,  where  he 
d.  in  childhood;  George  Washington8,  b.  in  Gilmanton,  d.  in 
Bedford  in  childhood;  Austin  Bradford8,  b.  in  Peterborough,  1842, 
March  14,  m.  1865,  Aug.  22,  Sarah  Jane  French,  res.  in  Boston, 
Mass.;  James  Riddle8,  b.  Peterborough,  d.  in  Bedford  in  child- 
hood; William  Henry8,  b.  Peterborough,  d.  in  Bedford  in  child- 
hood; 2d  mar.,  James  Riddle8,  b.  in  Portland,  Me.,  m.  and  res.  in 
California;  Nancy  Sophia8,  b.  in  Stockton,  Me.,  m.  George  H. 
Hewes,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  res.  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

VII.  Dolly  Coburn,  dau.  of  Williams,  b.  1818,  April  17;  m.  1842,  Feb.  6, 
Alexander  Black,  and  res.  in  Stockton  Springs,  Me.  Ch.:  Annie 
S.8,  m.  Stephen  Goffe  (see  Goffe);  Emma  J.8;  William  F.8,  m. 
Mary  Porter,  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  and  Martha  C.8 

VII.  John  Riddle,  son  of  William6,  b.  ;  m.  Eliza  Jane  Black,  and 

res.  in  Maine  Prairie,  Cal.,  where  he  d.  Had  one  son,  James 
Alfred8,  who  m.  Hannah  Stowers,  Dixon,  Cal.,  and  d.  1900,  March. 
Ch.:  Benjamin  C.9,  Emma  B.9 

VII.  William  Riddle,  son  of  William6,  b.  1822,  Feb.;  m.  Augusta  Eustis 
and  res.  in  Stockton  Springs,  Me.,  where  he  d.  1880,  March  3. 
One  ch.,  Nancie  Marie8;  m.  J.  D.  Staples,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Have 
two  ch. :  Edith9  and  Gertrude9. 

VII.  Robert,  son  of  William6,  b.  1824,  Dec.  28;  m.  Frances  Stowers,  and 
res;  in  Stockton  Springs,  Me.,  where  he  d.  1890,  Oct.  11.  Ch.: 
Nathaniel  S.9,  Morris  R.8,  res.  in  Boston,  belongs  to  Sons  of  Revo- 
lution. 
VIII.  Nathaniel  S.,  son  of  Robert7,  is  a  professor  in  Roxbury  school;  m. 
Myra  Putnam.     Ch.,  John  R.9,  in  Harvard  college;  Ruth9. 

VII.  Nancy  Riddle,  dau.  of  William6,  b.  1828,  June  11;  m.  Samuel  A. 
Stowers,  and  res.  in  Stockton  Springs,  Me.,  where  she  d.  1860, 
Sept.  15.  They  had  Mary  Agnes8,  who  m.  Rev.  B.  B.  Merrill, 
Brewer,  Me.  Ch.:  Clifton9,  Albion9,  and  Arthur9. 
VI.  Capt.  Leonard  C,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  1785,  Feb.  10,  selectman, 
treasurer,  representative;  m.  1808,  Jan.  26,  Nancy  Hutchinson, 
Merrimack,  b.    1787,   April  20.      Leonard  C.   d.    1868,   Feb.   23. 


910  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

Nancy,  his  wife,  d.  1870,  Jan.  3.  They  had  ch.:  Margaret  Ann7, 
b.  1809,  April  17,  m.  Frederick  Wallace  (see  Wallace);  Nancy7,  b. 
1811,  June  4,  in.  Rev.  James  R.  French,  who  was  settled  at  Peter- 
borough and  later  at  Portland,  Me.  (see  French) ;  William  RJ,  b. 
1814,  June  29;  Leonard1,  b.  1817,  Nov.  11;  Susan  Jane7,  b.  1820,  Oct. 
8;  Sarah  F.7,  b.  1823,  Nov.  18,  m.  David  Stevens,  Jr.  (see  Stevens); 
Frederick  F.\  b.  1827,  Jan.  20;  Freeman  R.\  b.  1831,  Aug.  4. 

VII.  William  R.,  son  of  Capt,  Leonard  O.6,  b.  1814,  June  29;  m.  1841, 
June  10,  Sally  D.,  b.  1820,  March  20,  dau.  of  James  and  Anna 
(Dole)  Riddle  of  Bedford.  He  d.  1872,  Oct.  2,  and  Sally,  his  wife, 
d.  1894,  Feb.  7.  Ch.,  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.:  James8,  George8,  and 
Maitland8,  d.  young;  Anna8,  b.  1854,  Oct.  24,  m.  Henry  Miller  of 
Bedford,  settled  in  Kansas,  and  had  ch.;  Sally8,  b.  1856,  Dec.  25, 
m.  George  Hooper  and  res.  in  Weare,  had  one  son;  Etta8,  b.  1863, 
Jan.  9,  m.  Philip  Hart  of  Goffstown. 

VII.  Leonard  (M.  D.),  son  of  Capt.  Leonard  C.6,  b.  1817,  Nov.  11;  grad. 
Dartmouth  college  1843;  studied  medicine;  was  principal  for  a 
time  of  the  academy  at  Piscataquog.  He  m.  1st,  1846,  May  28, 
Sarah  Melville  of  Nelson,  N.  H.;  she  d.,  and  he  m.  2d,  1850,  Ann 
Maria  Melville;  after  her  death  he  m.  3d,  1867,  Mrs.  Mary  D. 
Moore,  who  is  now  living  in  Manchester.  He  practised  his  pro- 
fession in  Ashby  and  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  but  returned  to  Man- 
chester, where  he  res.  many  years,  and  d.  1892,  Feb.  14.  Had  two 
sons:  Leonard  Melville* ,  b.  1849,  July  26,  by  1st  mar.,  and  Henry 
M  8,  bv  2d  mar.  Henry  M8.  became  a  successful  physician  at  Con- 
cord, N.  H,  and  d.  1893,  June  13. 
VIII.  Leonard  Melville  (M.  D.),  son  of  Leonard7  (M.  D.),  b.  1849,  July  26, 
also  studied  medicine,  and  became  a  successful  physician  in  Man- 
chester, where  he  now  res.  He  m.  1887,  June  1,  Emma  Blood, 
dau.  of  Aretas  Blood  of  Manchester.  They  have  one  dau.,  Lavinia 
Margaret,  b.  1888,  April  20. 

VII.  Snsan  Jane,  dau.  of  Capt.  Leonard  C.6,  b.  1820,  Oct,  8;  m.  1842,  Dec. 
20,  David  J.  Clark,  a  lawyer  residing  in  Manchester,  where  he  d. 
1866,  Sept.  3.  His  widow  still  res.  in  Manchester.  Thev  had  two 
ch.:  Susan  E*,  b.  1846,  July  20;  David  F.8,  b.  1854,  Sept.  12,  was 
a  successful  lawyer,  d.  1890,  March  24. 
VIII.  Susan  E.  (Clark),  dau.  of  Susan  Jane7,  b.  1846,  July  20;  m.  1870, 
May  5,  Daniel  W.  Rah!et  of  Exeter;  they  have  one  dau.,  Ethel 
Clark9,  b.  1872,  July  29. 

VII.  Frederick  F.,  son  of  Capt.  Leonard  C.6,  b.  1827,  Jan.  20;  was  a 
farmer,  also  deacon  for  several  years.  He  m.  1856,  May  7,  Almira 
J.  Riddle,  who  still  res.  here.  He  d.  1896,  Aug.  1.  They  had 
ch.:  Fred  A.9,  b.  1861,  April  3;  William  Bfi,  b.  1864,  Dec.  28;  and  a 
dau.  who  d.  in  infancy. 
VIII.  Fred  A.,  son  of  Frederick  F.7,  b.  1861,  April  3;  m.  1889,  June  18, 
Jennie  McAllaster,  b.  1860,  Sept.  23,  dau.  of  William  and  Martha 
J.  (Goffe)  McAllaster.  They  have  Martha  Jane9,  b.  1892,  Aug.  22. 
VIII.  William  B.,  son  of  Frederick  F.7,  b.  1864,  Dec.  28;  m.  1891,  March 
11,  Jane  L.  Shepard,  b.  1872,  Nov.  25,  dau.  of  William  P.  and 
Sophronia  (Farley)  Shepard.  They  have:  Fred  W.9,  b.  1893, 
April  22;  and  George  F.9,  b.  1896,  July  22. 

VII.  Freeman  R.,  son  of  Capt.  Leonard  C.6,  b.  1831,  Aug.  4;  was  a  farmer, 
also  deacon,  selectman,  and  representative.  He  m.  1856,  Dec.  25, 
Augusta  A.  Johnson  of  Manchester,  b.  1836,  June  12.  He  d.  1900, 
Dec.  13.  They  had  two  ch.:  one  ch.8  d.  young,  and  Myra  Au- 
gusta8, b.  1872,  Oct.  30. 
VI.  Phineas  C,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  1791,  Dec.  14;  settled  in  Bedford;  m. 
1st,  1813,  Dec,  Hannah  Cutler,  b.  1792,  March  31,  dau.  of  Dr.  Na- 
than and  Elizabeth  (Swett)  Cutler.  She  d.  1845,  Dec.  5,  and  he 
m.  2d,  1847,  April  8,  Mary  Patten  of  Pepperell,  Mass.     Had  nine 


GENEALOGIES. — FRENCH.  911 

ch.  by  1st  mar.,  viz.:  Elizabeth7,  b.  1814,  Dec,  d.  1845:  Alfred7,  b. 
1816,  March,  d.  1845;  Frederick7,  b.  1818,  May,  d.;  Charles7,  b. 
1821,  March,  m.  Elmira  F.  Nichols  (see  Nichols),  d.  1849;  Mary 
E.7,  b.  1824,  Feb.,  d.;  Dolly  C.7,  b.  1827,  Oct.;  Nancy  J.7,  b.  1829, 
Dec;  Frederic  B.7,  b.  1831,  Dec;  Humphrey  M.7,  b.  1834,  Feb. 

VI.  Dea.  James,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  1794,  Nov.  22;  was  a  tanner  by 
trade,  a  man  of  influence,  and  deacon  of  Presbyterian  church. 
He  d.  unm. 

VI.  Rev.  Daniel,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  1796,  Jan.  28;  m.  1820,  Oct.  10, 
Polly,  b.  1797,  Feb.  10,  dau.  of  Hugh  Riddle  and  his  wife,  Ann 
Maria  Houston  (dau.  of  Rev.  John  Houston) .  He  settled  on  the 
homestead;  when  the  Presbyterian  church  was  built,  he  moved 
the  bell  for  its  belfry  tower  from  its  landing  place  to  the  church, 
requiring  two  pair  of  oxen  for  the  purpose.  The  bell  becoming 
cracked,  was  later  removed  from  the  belfry  and  allowed  to  fall, 
when  its  great  weight  caused  it  to  half  bury  itself  in  the  earth 
below.  He  was  elected  elder,  afterwards  pursued  a  theological 
education  at  Gilmanton,  and  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  church  at 
Nelson,  N.  H.,  where  he  remained  21  years;  was  settled  later  in 
Hudson,  N.  H.,  and  taught  singing-school  in  all  the  surrounding 
towns.  He  d.  in  Hudson,  1860,  July  20;  Polly,  his  wife,  d.  in 
Bedford,  1880,  Dec.  26.  Had  ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford:  Hugh  RJ,  b. 
1821,  Sept,  17;  Jane  E.~,  b.  1824,  July  24;  Silas  A.7,  b.  1828,  June 
27,  m.  1850,  Feb.  11,  Sarah  A.  Griffin,  res.  in  Nelson,  but  d.  in  Bed- 
ford, 1857,  Nov.;  Edward  Paynon',  b.  1831,  Jan.  15;  Daniel  M.7,  b. 
1833,  June  2,  d.  in  Bedford,  1834,  June  11. 
VII.  Hugh  R.,  son  of  Rev.  Daniel,  b.  1821,  Sept.  17;  m.  1st,  1842,  Oct.  27, 
Mary  J.,  b.  1820,  Nov.  9,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Holmes) 
Shepard.  She  d.  1864,  Oct.  22,  and  he  m.  2d,  Nancy  H.  Young; 
after  her  death  he  m.  3d,  Mrs.  Lizzie  Smith  of  Manchester,  who 
also  d.  and  he  m.  4th,  Mrs.  Mary  J.  (McAllaster)  Kendall,  b. 
1824,  Sept.  4,  and  d.  1898,  Jan.  1  (see  Kendall).  Mr.  French  d.  in 
Bedford  1888,  Dec.  9.  Had  ch.  by  1st  mar.  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.: 
George  Milton9,  b.  1846,  Jan.  6;  Edward  P.8,  b.  1851,  drowned  1864, 
Julv  16  (see  p.  642) ;  Lizzie  J.8,  b.  1855,  d.  1869,  June  16. 
VIII.  George  Milton,  son  of  Hugh  R.7,  b,  1846,  Jan.  6;  m.  1867,  Oct.  16, 
Marv  F.,  dau.  of  John  Gillis  of  Hudson,  N.  H.  He  d.  1886  Aug. 
3.  they  had  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford:  Err  in  Riddle9,  b.  1869,  Sept.  16; 
Lizzie9,   b.  1870,  Sept.  25;  Leon9,  b.  18^3,  Julv  25. 

IX.  Ervin  Riddle,  son  of  George  M.8,  b.  1869,  Sept.  16;  m.  1900,  Oct.  9, 
Bertha  E.,  b.  1871,  Dec.  24,  dau.  of  Joseph  S.  and  A.  Mary  (Aus- 
tin) Parkhurstof  Bedford.    Has  one  son:  Gillis10,  b.  1901,  Nov.  25. 

IX.  Lizzie,  dau.  of  George  M.8,  b.  1870,  Sept,  25;  m.  1902,  Jan.  29,  Rob- 
ert M.,  son  of  Hon.  Francis  Gordon  of  Merrimack.  They  res.  in 
Goffstown.  Thev  have  one  son:  Howard  French10,  b.  1903,  Jan.  14. 
VII.  Jane  E.,  dau.  of  Rev.  Daniel6,  b.  1824,  July  24;  m.  1849,  Feb.  1,  Ad- 
dison Heald,  and  res.  in  Milford.  Ch.:  Daniel  Milton8,  b.  1852, 
Jan.  9;  Mary  Jane8,  b.  1853,  July  5;  Willie  Addison8,  b.  1857,  Feb. 
22,  d.  1857,  April  9;  Sarah  Maria8,  b.  1858,  June  4. 
VII.  Edward  Payson,  son  of  Rev.  Daniel6,  b.  1831,  Jan.  15;  m.  1st,  1854, 
Oct.,  Serviah  B.,  dau.  of  Stephen  Kittredge  of  Alstead,  N.  H. 
She  d.  in  Bedford,  1874,  Jan.  He  m.  2d,  1878,  July  4,  Angeline 
M.  McKean.  Ch.,  1st  mar.:  Annie  S.8,  m.  Albert  Miller  of  Man- 
chester, now  res.  in  Junction  City,  Kan.,  and  has  ch.;  George  E.8, 
in.  1st,  Addie  McKean,  m.  2d,  Mary  E.  Hildreth,  res.  in  Man- 
chester; Frank  R.8;  Mary  J.8;  Harriet8,  and  Josie8.  The  last  four 
d.  1878  of  diphtheria,  within  a  few  days  of  each  other  (see  p.  643). 
Ch.,  2d  mar.:  Frank  P.8,  b.  in  Bedford,  1880,  Feb.  7;  Amy  R.8,  b. 
1882,  April  6. 


912  HISTORY    OF    BEDFORD. 

VI.  Robert  W.,  son  of  Stephen5,  b.  1801,  Oct.  31;  m.  1832,  April  24,  Har- 
riet Parker  of  Merrimack,  b.  1812,  June  23.  They  settled  in  Mer- 
rimack, and  had  nine  ch.:  Harriet  A.7,  b.  1833,  Feb.  1.,  d.;  Elmira7, 
b.  1834,  Oct.  11;  Antoinette7,  b.  1836,  Oct.  22;  Miron  W.7  b.  1838. 
July  20,  d.;  Edmund  PJ,  b.  1840,  July  24;  Allen  L.7,  b.  1842,  May 
14,  m.  Emma  F.  Peaslee,  d.  1902  or  '03;  Laurietla1  and  Marietta7 
(twins),  b.  1845,  March  9,  Marietta  m.  Charles  W.  Powell;  Charles 
A.\  b.  1847,  March  9;  Elton  W.\  b.  1850,  Nov.  27. 

VII.  Edmund  P.,  son  of  Robert  W.6,  b.  Merrimack,  1840,  July  24;  m. 
Marion  J.  Dodge,  and  res.  in  Haverhill,  Mass.  They  have  two 
ch.:  Harry8,  Florence8. 

VII.  Laurietta,  dau.  of  Robert  W.6,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1845,  March  9;  m. 
Elias  A.  Bryant,  and  res.  in  Manchester.  Have  two  ch.:  Harriett 
M.8  and  Mary  Louise.8 

VII.  Charles  A.,  son  of  Robert  W.6,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1847,  March  9;  m. 
.  Annie  Tribble,  and  res.  in   Somerville,  Mass.     Had  three  ch.: 
Charles  W.8;  Alice  P.8;  Ethelyn8,  d. 

VII.  Elton  W.,  son  of  Robert  W.6,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1850,  Nov.  27;  m. 
Minnie  J.  Peaslee,  and  res,  in  Medford,  Mass.  They  have  two 
ch.:  Edith  M.8  and  Lucile  G.8 
V.  David,  son  of  Gen.  William  French4,  who  came  from  Billerica  to 
Hollis,  thence  to  Bedford,  and  brother  of  Stephen5,  was  b.  1754, 
Sept.  15.  He  moved  from  Hollis  to  Bedford  in  1782,  Feb.;  m. 
Lydia,  dau.  of  Josiah  Parker  of  Hollis,  and  was  a  soldier  of  the 
Revolution.  He  d.  1790,  June  13,  and  his  wife  d.  1793,  April  8, 
aged  35.  They  had  ch.:  David6,  b.  1778,  Aug.  13,  d.  in  Amherst, 
aged  18;  Josiah*,  b.  1780,  Feb.  13;  John6,  b.  1781,  Dec.  31;  Lydia6,  b. 
1784,  May  24;  Hannah6,  b.  1786,  Feb.  28;  Isaac6,  d.  1790,  Feb.; 
Isaac  P.6,  b.  1790,  Oct.  8. 

VI.  Josiah,  son  of  David5,  b.  1780,  Feb.  13;  m.  Judith  Marstin  of  Tewks- 
bury,  Mass.;  settled  in  Rumney,  N.  H.,  and  had.  ch.:  Betsey 
Parker7;  Clinton7;  Parmelia7;  Samuel7;  Emeline7;  John7  and 
Charles.7 

VI.  Dea.  John,  son  of  David5,  b.  1781,  Dec.  31;  was  an  elder  in  the 
church  and  representative;  also,  1850,  a  member  of  the  convention 
for  revising  the  constitution  of  the  state.  He  m.,  1st,  1810,  March 
22,  Anna,  b.  1789,  March  23,  dau.  of  Joseph  Nevens  of  Hollis.  She 
d.  1838,  Oct.  28,  in  her  50th  year,  and  he  m.  2d,  1844,  Aug.  28, 
Sally  Mclntire  of  Goffstown,  dau.  of  Lieut.  Robert  Campbell  of 
New  Boston,  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  Dea.  John  d.  1861,  May  25. 
Ch.,  all  by  1st  mar.:  Ania7,  b.  1811,  April  18,  d.  1827,  Aug.  20; 
Almira7,  b.  1813,  Feb.  22,  d.  1835,  March  9;  Lucy7,  b.  1815,  April 
14,  d.  1856,  April  14;  Harriet  Newell7,  b.  1817,  Feb.  16,  d.  1874, 
March  24;  Catherine7,  b.  1819,  April  28;  Mary  Ann,  b.  1821,  Feb. 
22,  m.  Daniel  K.  Mack  (see  Mack);  John  Orr7,  b.  1823,  March  20, 
d.  1826,  Oct.  5;  David7,  b.  1825,  May  25,  d.  1826,  Oct.  25;  John  0.~, 
b.  1827,  Oct,  15;  David  BJ,  b.  1830,  Jan.  27;  Anna  Nevins7,  b. 
1832,  Aug.  18,  d.  1856,  Oct.  17. 

VII.  Catherine,  dau.  of  Dea.  John6,  b.  in  Bedford  1819,  April  28;  m.  1837, 
June  6,  William  Alvord  Burke,  b.  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  1811,  July  7, 
and  d.  at  Lowell,  Mass.,  1887,  May  28;  Catherine  d.  at  Lowell,  1870, 
March  7.  Mr.  Burke  m.  2d,  Elizabeth  Mary  Derby,  who  d.  at 
Lowell,  1900,  March  16.  He  filled  many  responsible  positions  of 
trust  as  agent  and  treasurer,  and  was  identified  with  the  cotton 
manufacturing  industrv  of  this  country.  Ch.  of  Catherine7:  Ellen 
Maria8,  b.  at  Lowell,  1838,  March  19,  d.  1838,  April  9;  Catherine 
Elizabeth8,  b.  at  Manchester,  1843,  Feb.  9,  d.  at  Lowell,  1898,  Jan. 
13;  William  French8,  b.  at  Lowell,  1845,  Aug.  31,  d.  at  Lowell, 
1857,  May  18;  Annie  Alvord6,  b.  at  Lowell,  1850,  Dec.  6;  Edward 
Nevim*,  b.  at  Lowell,  1854,  Jan.  19. 


GENEALOGIES. — FRENCH.  9 1 3 

VIII.  Annie  Alvord  (Burke),  dau.  of  Catherine,  b.  1850,  Dec.  6;  joined  the 
sisterhood  of  St.  Margaret's,  of  the  English  church,  and  is  now 
known  as  Sister  Annie  Margaret. 

VIII.  Edward  Nevins  (Burke),  son  of  Catherine7,  b.  1854,  Jan.  19;  pre- 
pared for  college  at  St.  Mark's  school,  Southboro,  Mass.,  and 
graduated  from  Trinity  college,  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1876.  He 
entered  the  employ,  the  same  year,  of  the  Lowell  Machine  shop. 
Lowell,  Mass.,  and  has  remained  there  to  the  present  time.  He 
m.  1st,  1881,  Nov.  17,  Grace  Abbot  Williams,  b.  at  Concord,  N.  H.. 
1858,  March  14,  and  d.  at  Lowell,  1885,  March  7.  He  m.  2d,  1899, 
Aug.  9,  Rebecca  Ellen  Norcross,  b.  at  Lowell,  1869,  Aug.  9.  Ch.. 
1st  mar.:  Ruth9,  b.  at  Lowell,  1883,  Jan.  26;  William  Alvord9,  2d, 
b.  at  Lowell,  1885,  Jan.  9;  2d  mar.,  Ellen  Crosby8,  b.  at  Lowell, 
1901,  Sept.  6. 
VII.  John  O.,  son  of  Dea.  John6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1827,  Oct.  15;  m.  1861, 
Oct.,  Ellen  Hutchinson,  b.  in  Norwich,  Vt.,  1832,  May  27.  They 
went  to  Eau  Claire,  Wis.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  extensive 
lumber  business  until  1872,  when  he  rem.  to  Olin,  Jones  county, 
la.,  and  in  1882  to  Maxwell,  Story  county,  la.,  still  following  the 
lumber  business.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  personality,  and  a 
leader  in  church  and  public  affairs.  He  was  mayor  of  the  town  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  being  struck  down  by  a  bullet  fired  by  an 
insane  man,  1887,  Oct.  22,  aged  60.  Their  ch.  are:  Amy  Frances6, 
b.  at  Eau  Claire,  Wis.,  1862,  Sept.  1;  Sarah  Isabella6,  b.  at  Eau 
Claire,  1865,  Jan.  15;  John  O.8,  Jr.,  b.  in  Eau  Claire,  1867,  Oct.  14; 
Nellie  Maria8,  b.  1862,  Feb.  5,  d.  1872,  Feb.  10;  Charles  Brainerd6, 
b.  Olin.  la.,  1875,  May  27. 

VIII.  Amy  Frances,  dau.  of  John  O.7,  b.  1862,  Sept.  1;  m.  1888,  May  10, 
Dr.  Calvin  O.  Sones  of  Panora,  la.  Dr.  Sones  and  wife  were 
graduated  from  Cornell  college,  Mt.  Vernon,  la.,  in  1881  and  1885, 
respectively.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  State  Uni- 
versity of  Iowa  in  1886,  and  has  practised  his  profession  in  Panora 
ever  since.  Their  ch.  are:  Helen  Margaret9,  b.  1892,  Jan.  6;  Ger- 
trude French9,  b.  1893,  Oct.  31;  Isabel9,  b.  1901,  Sept.  2. 

VIII.  Sarah  Isabella,  dau.  of  John  O.7,  b.  1865,  Jan.  15;  was  educated  at 
Cornell  college;  was  m.  1890,  June  18,  at  Maxwell,  la.,  to  Francis 
Clark  McLain,  who  has  followed  the  banking  business  in  Maxwell 
for  a  number  of  years.  Their  ch.  are:  Francis  Eugene9,  b.  1891, 
May  20;  Frederick  French9,  b.  1893,  June  22;  Arthur  Russell9,  b. 
1896,  Dec.  1,  d.  1897,  June  16. 

VIII.  John  O.,  Jr.,  son  of  John  O.7,  b.  1867,  Oct.  14;  m.  1891,  Oct.  14,  Miss 
Mina  Beltz  of  Maxwell,  la.  In  1901  he  rem.  to  Searsboro,  la. ,  and 
is  engaged  in  the  lumber  business.  Ch.:  John  Lynn9,  b.  1895, 
May  20;  Charles  Marion9,  b.  1899,  Dec.  12. 

VIII.  Charles  Brainerd,  son  of  John  O.7,  b.  1875,  May  27;  m.  1900,  June  6, 
Josephine  Higbee.     He  received  his  education  at  Northwestern 
university  and  Highland  Park  college,  Des  Moines,  la.     He  is  now 
a  pharmacist  at  Maxwell,  la. 
VII.  David  Brainard,  M.  D.,  son  of  Dea.  John6,  b.  1830,  Jan.  27;  was 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  college,  1850,  July;  studied  medicine 
and  located  in  Bath,  N.  H.  (see  Physicians).    He  m.  1855,  Feb.  27, 
Sarah  Isabella  Hutchinson  of  Norwich,  Vt.     Forced  to  leave  on 
account  of  failing  health,  he  went  West  and  located  in  Eau 
Claire,  Wis.,  where  he  d.  1861,  March  23,  "  full  of  good  works. " 
VI.  Lydia,  dau.  of  David5,  b.  1784,  May  24;  m.  Lester  Holt  of  Lyme, 
N.  H.,  and  had  ch.:    David7;  Lydia7;  Hannah7;  Parker7;  Alma7; 
Mary7;  Charles";  Newton7;  Harvey7;  Freeman7,  and  Olive7. 
VI.  Hannah,  dau.  of  David5,  b.  1786,  Feb.  28;  m.  1823,  June  10,  Israel 
(Isaac)  H.  Goodrich,  Esq.,  of  Lyndeborough,  and  had  two  sons: 
Israel7  and  James7. 
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914  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

VI.  Isaac  P.,  son  of  David5,  b.  1790,  Oct.  8;  m.  1815,  March  26,  Clarissa, 
dau.  of  Capt.  Nathan  Barnes,  and  res.  in  Danvers,  Mass.  They 
had  three  sons:  David7,  a  clergyman,  b.  1817,  Feb.  1;  George 
William7,  a  merchant,  b.  1819,  July  25;  and  Charles7,  a  physician. 

FRENCH. 

(Apparently  not  connected  with  preceding  family.) 

Cornelius  Haynes1,  son  of  Bartlett  L.  and  Delia  (Frisbie)  French, 
was  b.  Westford,  Vt.,  1827,  Nov.  23;  he  m.  1852,  Nov.  21,  Susan 
Stowe,  b.  Westford,  Vt.,  1822,  Oct.  31,  dau.  of  Ira  B.  and  Thiza 
S.  (Buggies)  Frisbie.  They  res.  in  Georgia,  Vt.,  where  he  d.  1877, 
Aug.  19.  A  few  years  later  his  familv  rem.  to  Bedford.  Ch: 
Ella  M.,  b.  1855,  Feb.  20  (see  Dunton);  Frank  E.,  b.  1858,  Oct.  6; 
Hattie  E.,  b.  1865,  April  24. 

HORACE  FRENCH. 

Horace  French  was  born  in  Bedford,  1837,  Feb.  16,  and  was  a  son  of 
Phineas  and  Betsey  Foster  French.  His  father  was  a  farmer  and  tanner. 
After  residing  on  the  old  homestead  for  thirteen  years  Mr.  French  went  to 
Milford,  where  he  remained  six  years,  being  employed  by  Moses  French 
in  the  old  Souhegan  cotton  mill.  He  then  went  to  Clinton,  Mass.,  where 
he  remained  two  years,  thence  to  Derry,  where  he  attended  school  for  one 
year.  During  the  four  years  next  ensuing  Mr.  French  attended  Kimball 
Union  academy  at  Meriden,  from  which  he  graduated  with  honors,  Cyrus 
Richards  being  principal  at  that  time. 

While  at  this  school,  during  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1860,  Mr.  French 
with  his  two  classmates,  Frank  Rew  and  Banti  Daniels,  discussed  the  ru- 
mors of  war  that  were  then  rife.  They  agreed  that  should  the  call  come 
they  would  enter  the  service  of  their  country.  Accordingly,  on  April  12, 
1881,  the  day  on  which  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon,  these  three  young 
men  journeyed  on  foot  from  Meriden  hill  fifteen  miles  to  Hartford,  Vt., 
which  was  the  nearest  place  to  enlist.  On  May  10  they  enlisted  in  Co.  F, 
Third  Vermont  Vol*.,  under  Cant.  Tom  Seaver,  who  is  now  living  in 
Woodstock,  Vt.  Col.  Samuel  E.  Pingree,  since  governor  of  Vermont, 
commanded  the  regiment. 

The  company  rendezvoused  at  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  and  on  July  24,  1861, 
went  to  Camp  Lyon,  near  the  chain  bridge  above  Washington.  Mr. 
French  was  promoted  to  orderly  sergeant,  then  to  lieutenant,  and  was  de- 
tailed as  an  aide-de-camp  on  Gen.  L.  A.  Grant's  staff,  who  was  then  com- 
manding the  famous  old  Vermont  brigade. 

Mr.  G.  G.  Benedict's  history  of  "Vermont  in  the  Civil  War, "  gives 
Captain  French  special  and  prominent  mention  in  many  instances,  and 
shows  him  to  have  been  in  the  thickest  of  the  engagement  at  the  battle  of 
the  Wilderness,  and  one  of  the  bravest  of  the  men  there.  Captain  French 
also  received  favorable  mention  in  General  Grant's  report  of  the  engage- 
ment. Benedict's  history  says:  "During  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness 
Gen.  L.  A.  Grant  was  directed  to  withdraw  his  brigade,  but  how  to  do  it 
in  the  face  oi  the  increasing  force  with  which  it  was  in  such  close  contact 
was  a  problem.  The  enemy  pressed  close  on  the  retiring  line  of  the  Sec- 
ond and  Fourth  regiments,  and  occupied  for  a  short  time  the  ground, 
strewn  with  their  dead,  on  which  they  had  fought.  Lieutenant  French, 
of  General  Grant's  staff,  who  had  been  sent  by  him  to  order  back  the 
Fifth,  had  his  horse  shot  from  under  him  and  was  captured  while  on  his 
way  with  the  order." 

While  a  prisoner  he  was  confined  for  a  year  in  fifteen  different  prisons  and 
pens.    Here  he  suffered  untold  hardships,  the  stories  of  which  can  be  told 


GENEALOGIES. — FRENCH.  915 

only  by  veterans  who  were  in  that  awful  strife.  After  escaping  twice  and 
being  recaptured,  he  was  exchanged  at  Fort  Fisher  and  brought  to  Annap- 
olis, where  he  reenlisted,  remaining  until  the  end  of  the  war.  After  his 
reenlistnient  he  found  a  captain's  commission  awaiting  him,  and  he  held 
that  rank  to  the  close  of  the  war.  Captain  French  was  mustered  out  with 
his  regiment  in  1865,  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  having  been  in  the  service  four 
years  and  three  months.  He  then  went  to  Hartford,  Vt.,  just  across  the 
river  from  his  present  West  Lebanon  residence.  Here  he  married  Mary  E. 
Gillett  in  1865,  and  together  they  went  to  the  settlement  of  Olcott's  Falls 
(now  Wilder),  Vt.,  and  were  pioneers  in  the  little  town  which  sprung  up 
on  the  banks  of  the  Connecticut  river,  and  is  now  well  known  for  its  paper 
manufacturing  industry. 

He  erected  the  first  house  ever  built  there  and  his  was  the  first  family  that 
ever  lived  there.  On  the  fifth  anniversary  of  his  marriage  he  removed  to 
West  Lebanon,  where  he  has  since  resided.  Mr.  French  is  postmaster  of 
West  Lebanon  and  occupies  one  of  the  finest  residences  in  the  village. 
He  is  a  citizen  highly  respected  by  all. 

Politically  he  is  a  Republican;  his  religious  belief  is  that  of  a  liberal 
Congregationalist.  Mr.  French  is  a  member  of  Franklin  lodge,  No.  6,  F.  & 
A.  M.,  St.  Andrews  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  Masons,  No.  1,  Mascoma  lodge, 
No.  20,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Lebanon,  also  of  the  G.  A.  R.  He  was  appointed  an 
aide  on  Commander  Shaw's  staff  at  Chicago,  and  is  entitled  to  the  rank  of 
colonel. 

Mr.  and  Mrs  French  have  had  by  their  union  eight  children,  four  of 
whom  are  now  living.  It  is  doubtful  if  a  family  in  New  Hampshire  can 
be  cited  where  four  sons  have  met  with  greater  success  than  these.  To  all 
who  know  Mr.  French  his  stature  is  a  predominating  feature,  and  his  four 
sons  aggregate  in  height  twenty-five  feet.  All  of  them  are  over  six  feet 
tall,  and  two  of  them  six  feet  four  inches. 

Samuel  Pingree  French,  named  after  his  father's  former  colonel,  aged 
32  years,  graduated  from  Dartmouth  college  in  1893.  For  eight  years  he 
has  been  principal  of  the  Ponahou  preparatory  school  in  Honolulu.  The 
school  has  nine  grades  and  the  building  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $75,000. 
Leaving  his  wife  and  two  children  there  Mr.  French  is  now  completing  a 
one  year's  post-graduate  course  at  Harvard  college. 

Frederick  Reginald  French,  aged  31  years,  is  in  Santa  Barbara,  Cal., 
where  he  has  a  lucrative  position  as  consulting  engineer.  He  graduated 
from  Dartmouth  college  in  1894. 

Ernest  Eugene  French,  aged  25  years,  is  on  his  last  year  in  the  Berkeley 
Law  School  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth  college 
in  1898. 

John  McQuesten  French,  named  for  John  McQuesten  of  Bedford,  "  the 
old  philosopher  and  farmer,"  is  24  years  of  age.  He  is  a  civil  engineer  and 
superintending  the  dredging  of  the  harbor  in  Manzanillo,  Mex. 

A  very  tender  place  is  touched  in  Mr.  French's  heart  when  mention  is 
made  of  his  daughter,  Bessie  Foster  French,  who  died  last  May  at  the  age 
of  37  years  4  months.  She  was  an  accomplished  young  lady,  beloved  by 
the  entire  community  in  Lebanon.  Her  life  was  one  that  remains  a  pleas- 
ant memory  in  the  hearts  of  a  legion  of  friends. 

ALFRED  J.  FRENCH,  M.  D. 

Alfred  Joseph  French,  M.  D.,  was  born  1823,  Jan.  16,  in  Bedford,  N.  H., 
which  was  also  the  birthplace  of  his  father,  Ebenezer  C.  French.  He  is 
of  Massachusetts  stock,  his  great-grandfather,  Ebenezer  French,  having 
spent  the  larger  part  of  his  long  life  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  where  his  son, 
Ebenezer,  2d,  the  grandfather  of  Alfred  J.,  was  born  and  bred. 

Ebenezer  French,  2d,  became  familiar  with  farm  labor  on  the  old  Bil- 
lerica homestead,  and  deciding  to  make  agriculture  his  life  occupation,  he 
moved  to  Bedford,  N.  H.,  where  he  took  up  a  large  tract  of  wild  land,  and 


916  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

by  dint  of  unremitting  toil  reclaimed  a  good  farm  from  the  forest.  A 
man  of  stanch  integrity  as  well  as  industry,  be  became  one  of  the  leading 
citizens  of  Bedford,  which  he  served  as  selectman  for  several  terms,  and 
represented  in  the  state  legislature.  Of  his  union  with  Rhoda  Coburn  of 
Dracut,  Mass.,  twelve  children  were  born,  Ebenezer  C,  being  the  eldest. 

Ebenezer  O.  French  was  born  in  Bedford,  1798,  Dec.  22,  and  died  1878, 
Aug.  7.  Brought  up  on  the  homestead  he  followed  from  his  youth  the 
occupation  of  farming,  which  he  continued  to  the  end  of  his  days,  meet- 
ing with  deserved  success.  He  married  Sally  Holbrook,  who  was  born  in 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  1798,  Dec.  1,  and  died  in  Bedford,  1834,  Sept.  3.  Her 
father,  Dea.  John  Holbrook,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  enlisting 
from  Roxbury,  and  for  some  time  having  charge  of  the  commissary  de- 
partment. At  the  close  of  the  war  he  settled  on  a  farm  in  Brighton, 
Mass.,  where  he  resided  until  1803.  He  then  moved  with  his  family  to 
Bedford,  N.  H.,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  at  the  age  of  72  years.  He 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  and  was  a 
delegate  to  the  convention  that  nominated  Andrew  Jackson  for  the  presi- 
dency. He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  in  which  he  served 
as  deacon  until  his  death.  Ebenezer  C.  and  Sallv  (Holbrook)  French  had 
two  children  :  Alfred  J.  and  Sarah  Elizabeth.  The  latter  was  born  1826, 
Feb.  11,  and  married  Stephen  Gaines  Allen  of  Boston,  1848,  Jan.  10,  Mon- 
day, and  died  1889,  March  25,  leaving  three  sons  :  Rollin  H.,  Stephen  G., 
Jr.,  and  Henry  F. 

Alfred  J.  French  enjoyed  the  advantage  of  a  good  education  with 
which  to  begin  life  ;  attending  first  the  Bedford  schools  and  subsequently 
the  Literary  and  Scientific  institute  at  Hancock,  N.  H,  in  1845. 

Afterward  he  took  a  course  at  the  Vermont  Medical  college  in  Wood- 
stock, where  he  was  graduated  in  1848.  Until  he  was  eighteen  years  of 
age  he  worked  on  the  farm  and  from  then  until  his  twenty-sixth  year  he 
was  engaged  in  general  study,  when  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  in  1849.  He  remained  there  for  a  year  and  a 
half,  after  which  he  located  in  Methuen,  Mass.,  where  for  seven  years  he 
practised.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he  removed  to  Lawrence,  Mass., 
where  he  practised  forty-two  years.  In  1897  Dr.  French  retired  from  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession.  From  1890  to  1902  Dr.  and  Mrs.  French 
made  their  summer  home  in  West  Ossipee,  N.  H. 

Dr.  French  was  for  years  closely  identified  with  the  municipal  and 
financial  affairs  of  Lawrence.  In  1859  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  branch 
of  the  state  legislature  and  served  two  terms,  being  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee on  elections.  He  was  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  poor,  and  in  1864 
was  elected  mayor  of  Lawrence.  Dr.  French  was  one  of  the  projectors  of 
the  Lawrence  National  bank,  which  was  organized  in  1872  with  a  capital 
of  $300,000,  and  he  served  for  five  years  as  president  of  that  institution. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  in  the  same  year  of  the  Broadway 
Savings  bank,  of  which  he  was  a  trustee  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  also  connected  with  other  business  interests  in  Lawrence,  having  for 
eight  years  been  president  of  the  Wright  Manufacturing  Company,  and 
was  one  of  the  three  owners,  which  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
Mohair  braid. 

Dr.  French  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Homeopathic  society, 
and  its  president  in  1890.  He  was  one  of  the  leading  members  of  the  First 
Baptist  church  of  Lawrence,  in  which  he  held  various  offices,  having  been 
deacon,  a  trustee,  treasurer,  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school, 
always  deeply  interested  in  its  prosperity,  and  a  generous  contributor  to 
its  support  as  well  as  to  other  good  causes.  In  politics  Dr.  French  was  a 
Republican.  He  was  a  member  of  several  fraternal  societies  including 
Royal  Arcanum,  the  Home  Cirole,  and  Pilgrim  Fathers,  of  which  last 
named  he  was  one  of  the  incorporators. 

On  Nov.  11,  1852,  Dr.  French  married  Sarah  Abigail  Hardy,  who  was 
born  in  Westminister,  Vt.,  June  25,  1827,  a  daughter  of  Silas  and  Abigail 


GENEALOGI ES.— FRENCH. — FULLERTON.  917 

(Farley)  Hardy  of  Hollis,  N.  H.  The  only  child  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  French, 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  was  born  March  6,  1855,  at  Methuen,  Mass.,  and  died 
April  28,  1863,  at  the  age  of  eight  years,  in  Lawrence.  Nov.  11,  1902, 
Dr.  French  and  wife  quietly  celebrated  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  their 
marriage. 

Alfred  J.  French,  M.  D.,  for  nearly  half  a  century  a  practising  homeo- 
pathic physician  and  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  respected  citizens 
of  Lawrence,  after  a  brief  illness  of  two  weeks,  died  at  his  home  Monday 
afternoon  at  4:30  o'clock,  Dec.  1,  1902.  The  funeral  services  of  Dr. 
French  were  held  Dec.  4,  at  the  First  Baptist  church,  Lawrence,  Mass. 
The  Rev.  Geo.  F.  Green  officiated.  Prayers  were  offered  at  the  home  at 
11  o'clock.  From  11:30  to  1:30  p.  m.  the  body  lay  in  state  at  the  church. 
The  principal  service  was  at  2  o'clock. 

In  compliance  with  the  request  of  Dr.  French  previous  to  his  death  the 
following  hymns,  favorites  of  the  departed,  were  sung  in  the  order  given: 
"Nearer  My  God  to  Thee,"  "Lead  Kindly  Light,"  and  "Abide  With 
Me."    The  eulogy  by  Dr.  Green  was  one  long  to  be  remembered. 

Mayor  James  F.  Leonard,  the  city  government,  and  most  of  the  ex- 
mayors  of  Lawrence  attended;  also  many  professional  men. 

The  bearers  were  the  deacons  of  the  church,  comprising  J.  H.  Safford, 
T.  T.  Fairbairn,  Geo.  M.  Nickerson,  Geo.  E.  Murray,  Nathan  O.  Magoon, 
and  Newell  E.  Wood.  Interment  was  in  Bellevue  cemetery,  where  a 
bronze  monument  marks  the  last  resting-place  of  Dr.  A.  J.  French. 

FULLERTON. 

This  name  was  given  to  a  Scotch  highlander  because  of  his  being 
the  first  owner  of  a  fulling  mill  used  in  manufacturing  heavy 
cloth.  From  being  called  a  "  Fuller  "  the  transition  to  Fuller- 
ton  was  easy.  He  lived  in  the  stirring  times  of  Sir  William  Wal- 
lace and  Robert  Bruce.  His  wife,  a  cousin  of  Robert  Bruce, 
harbored  the  latter  on  his  return  from  exile.  The  Fullerton  clans 
rallied  to  his  standard  and  rendered  valiant  service  in  the  decisive 
battle,  which  proved  a  crushing  defeat  to  the  English  army,  and. 
placed  Robert  Bruce  upon  the  Scottish  throne,  his  by  inheritance  as 
well  as  by  conquest.  As  a  reward  for  their  efficient  service  at  that 
time  (1307)  Bruce  gave  the  Fullertons  the  Id.  of  Arran,  a  domain 
seven  miles  long  by  four  miles  wide,  his  own  residence  being  only 
nine  miles  away  across  the  water.  The  old  ivy-covered  castle  of 
Kil  Michael  is  still  well  preserved,  though  it  has  guarded  the  in- 
terests of  the  Fullerton  family  nearly  600  years,  and  did  similar 
duty  for  an  unknown  length  of  time  for  its  previous  owners.  The 
present  occupant,  Robinson  by  name,  has  assumed  his  mother's 
maiden  name  (Fnllerton)  in  order  to  meet  the  requirement  that 
all  who  hold  the  estate  shall  bear  the  family  name.  It  is  said,  that 
"  possession  is  nine  points  of  the  law,"  Because  of  this,  and  the 
expensive  legal  contest  which  must  be  brought  to  a  successful 
issue,  Robinson  Fullerton  holds  the  estate  at  the  present  time, 
while  its  legal  heir  quietly  resides  here  in  Bedford,  known  as 
James  Fullerton.  Because  of  oppression  by  the  authorities,  and 
no  apparent  prospect  of  inheriting  the  estate,  there  being  three  or 
four  living  heirs  who  preceded  them,  the  parents  of  James  joined 
a  party  of  180  persons,  who  emigrated  to  America  in  1829.  They 
came  in  two  sailing  vessels,  were  nearly  three  months  upon  the 
ocean,  and  settled  in  Inverness,  Canada,  naming  their  township 
for  Inverness,  Scotland.  James  was  but  seven  years  old  at  this 
time.  In  1900  a  reunion  of  these  colonists  and  their  descendants 
was  held  in  Inverness,  Canada.  Though  seventy  years  had  elapsed 
since  first  they  came  15  of  the  original  180  were  present,  James 
among  the  number.    James1  and  Jeannette  (Murchie)  Fullerton, 


918  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

who  came  over,  had  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  of  which 
James2,  John2,  and  Neil2  have  res.  in  Bedford. 

II.  James,  son  of  James1,  was  b.  in  Currie,  Id.  of  Arran,  Scotland,  1822, 
April  6.  His  maternal  grandmother  was  a  Stuart,  thus  connect- 
ing the  family  with  the  royal  family  of  England,  while  as  already 
explained  they  were  connected  with  the  royal  family  of  Scotland. 
When  28  years  of  age  James  walked  from  Inverness,  Canada,  to 
Concord,  N.  H.;  settled  in  Bedford  1849,  as  a  farmer.  He  ni.,  1st, 
1851,  March  18,  Mary,  dau.  of  Neil  and  Catherine  (Carr)  McMillan. 
She  was  b.  Id.  of  Arran,  Scotland,  1826;  d.  Bedford,  1868,  Jan. 
17;  m.,  2d,  1870,  Dec.  15,  Harriet  Frances,  dau.  of  Samuel  and 
Sally  (Worthley)  Adams,  b.  Bedford  1837,  May  20.  Ch.:  James 
Hadley3,  b.  1852,  Feb.  11;  Mary  Jeanette,  b.  1854,  Jan.  18;  Marga- 
ret Ann3,  b.  1856,  March  28,  d.  1875,  July  8;  Catherine3,  b.  1858, 
Feb.  12,  d.  1859,  Dec.  14;  Neil  Eugene*,  b.  1860;  Jan.  27;  Charles 
John3,  b.  1863,  Sept,  20,  d.  1864,  Aug.  5;  Grace  Alice,  b.  1866,  June 
27,  d.  1867,  Jan.  23. 

III.  James  Hadley,  son  of  James2,  m.,  1st,  Julia ;  2d,  Lora  Owen 

of  Woodsville,  N.  H.  Has  been  supt.  -of  repairs  on  bridges  for 
Concord  &  Montreal  R.  R.,nowa  part  of  the  Boston  &  Maine 
R.  R.  system  for  nearly  20  years.  No  ch. : 
III.  Neil  Eugene,  son  of  James2;  m.  1877,  Sept.  25,  Etta  Maria,  b.  in 
Manchester,  1866,  June  18,  dau.  of  Tbomas  B.  and  Thankful  D. 
(Combs)  Spencer.  They  res.  in  Manchester.  Have  one  dau., 
Etta  May4,  b.  in  Manchester,  1888,  June  23. 

II.  John,  son  of  James1,  res.  in  Bedford  for  several  years;  served  in  the 
Civil  war  three  years  and  now  res.  in  Manchester.  He  m.  Rosina 
Maria,  b.  1833,  Feb.  5,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Sally  (Worthley) 
Adams.     They  have  an  adopted  dau.,  Ethel. 

II.  Neil,  son  of  James1,  m.  Mary  Carr  of  Inverness,  Quebec.  He  settled 
in  Bedford  1851,  later  rem.  to  Protoan,  Ontario,  and  now  res.  in 
Iowa.  His  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford,  were:  John  Carr3,  James  Edward3, 
Charles  Alexander3,  ch.  b.  elsewhere  were  Peter3,  Neil3,  Robert3 
(a  noted  singer) ,  Richard3, 3,  Jeanette8. 

FULTON. 

I.  Robert  was  b.  1812,  July  2,  son  of  James  and  Hannah  (Faulkner) 
Fulton  of  Deering.  He  received  a  good  district  school  education, 
also  attended  Phillips  academy  at  Andover,  Mass.,  becoming  a 
competent  mathematician  and  penman.  At  the  age  of  21  he  left 
home  to  serve  as  clerk  in  a  store  at  Francestown,  and  later  served 
in  the  same  capacity  at  Amoskeag.  In  1849  went  to  California, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  trade  two  years,  but  returning  settled  in 
Bedford,  1856.  In  early  life  was  appointed  major  under  Gen.  Joel 
Brown  of  the  New  Hampshire  state  militia,  and  in  1861  was  ac- 
tive in  organizing  the  Bedford  light  infantry,  being  chosen  first 
lieutenant  of  the  company.  He  held  other  positions  of  honor  in 
town;  was  selectman  two  years,  and  1862  elected  register  of  deeds 
for  Hillsborough  county,  serving  three  years.  He  m.  1840,  July  2, 
Mary  A.  Richards  of  New  Boston,  who  d.  1878,  May.  He  now 
res.  with  son  Herbert  in  West  Bedford.  Ch.:  Lyman  H2,  Herbert 
R.2,  and  Samuel  G.2,  who  now  res.  in  Portland,  Oregon. 

II.  Lyman  H.,  son  of  Robert1,  m.  and  res.  in  Manchester,  but  later 
rem.  to  Nashua,  where  he  d.  1903,  Sept.  Ch.:  William  L.3  of 
Woonsocket,  R.  I.;  Edward  H.3  and  Samuel3  of  Nashua;  George 
B.3  and  Etta  B.3  of  Antrim. 

II.  Herbert  R.,  son  of  Robert1,  was  b.  1846,  in  Peterborough;  farmer, 
selectman  1893,  member  of  Pres.  church  since  1864.  Received  a  com- 
mon school  education,  also  attended  commercial  college.     He  be- 


GENEALOGIES. — FULTON. — GAGE.  919 

came  a  member  of  the  Bedford  light  infantry  soon  after  its  organ- 
ization. In  June,  1864,  at  the  age  uf  18,  enlisted  as  private  in  Co. 
C,  First  Reg.,  N.  H.  heavy  artillery,  and  served  until  the  close  of 
the  war.  He  m.,  1st,  18*69,  Oct.  20,  Eliza  C,  b.  Portland,  Me., 
dan.  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Crosby)  Young  of  Gray,  Me.;  she 
d.  1877,  Jan.  [The  Youngs  were  of  English  descent.  Charles  was 
the  son  of  Nathaniel  of  the  same  town,  who  was  the  son  of  Abra- 
ham Young,  who  served  in  the  Revolutionary  army,  and  was  for 
a  long  time  Gen.  Washington's  aide-de-camp.]  Hem.,  2d,  1881, 
Feb.,  Mrs.  Sarah  E.  "Wood  of  Manchester,  dau.  of  James  F.  and 
Betsey  (Elliott)  Sanborn.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.  were  Minnie  E.3,  Charles 
H.3,  Ruthy  W.3,  who  d.  in  infancy,  1876. 

GAGE. 

I.  Aaron  Gage  came  from  Bradford,  Mass.,  to  Merrimack  in  1773. 

II.  Deacon  Aaron,  son  of  Aaron1,  m.  Martha  Stevens  of  Andover,  Mass.. 
and  res.  in  Merrimack  and  Bedford.  He  was  a  deacon  in  Dr.  Bur- 
nap's  church.  They  had  ten  ch.,  all  living  to  maturity,  viz.,  Han- 
nah3, m.  Dea.  Wm.  Moor  (see  Moor);  Aaron3,  Benjamin  S.3, 
Naomi3,  Solomon*,  Isaac3,  Sarah3,  Mary3,  Martha3,  Fanny.3 

III.  Benjamin  S.,  son  of  Dea.  Aaron2,  m.,  1st,  Miss  Nichols,  who  d.    He 

m.,  2d,  Annis,  b.  1784,  Oct.  9,  dau.  of  Lieut.  James  and  Sally  (Car- 
son) Moor  of  Bedford.  He  d.  1831,  Feb.  2,  aged  53,  and  Annis, 
his  wife,  d.  at  Woburn,  Mass.,  1865,  Aug.  10.  Ch.  b.  in  Bedford: 
Sally4,  b.  1811,  May,  d.  1812,  Aug.  3;  James  Moor*,  b.  1813,  May 
1,  d.  1854,  Dec.  20,  unin.;  Benjamin*;  William  W.4,  b.  1817,  April 
15,  m.  Eliza  A.  Melvin  and  d.  1869,  Jan.  17;  Gawn  jR.4,  BetsevR.4. 
b.  1820,  Nov.  28,  m.  Oliver  L.  Kendall  (see  Kendall;. 

IV.  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin  S.3,  b.  Bedford,  1815,  April  24;  m.,  1st, 

Mary  A.  Mix,  b.  1832,  and  d.  1862,  June  8.  He  m.,  2d,  at  Woburn, 
Mass.,  Lydia  Moor.  He  was  a  shoe  dealer,  and  d.  at  Concord,  1888, 
Sept.  21.  Lydia,  his  wife,  d.  1884,  Nov.  1.  Had  by  1st  mar.,  Mary 
Annis5,  b.  Concord,  1857,  July  8.  By  2d  mar.,  Bessie  Moor5,  b. 
1865,  April  26. 

IV.  Gawn  R.,  son  of  Benjamin  S.3,  b.  Bedford,  1819,  Jan.  26;  m.  Caroline 
Abbott,  b.  1822.  He  was  a  merchant  tailor  at  Woburn,  Mass.  He 
d.  1892,  Nov.  25,  and  his  wife  d.  1899,  March  26.  Ch.:  James  E.5. 
b.  1851,  Aug.  19;  Caroline  Elizabeth5. 

V.  Caroline  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Gawn  R.4,  b.  1859,  Sept.  5;  m.  1884,  June 
26,  Frank  B.  Richardson,  b.  Woburn  1859,  March  6.  The  latter  is 
a  graduate  of  Amherst  college  1880  and  is  now  dean  of  Burdett's 
Business  college,  Boston.  Res.  Woburn.  Ch.:  Ruth6,  Theodore6, 
and  infant  son6. 

III.  Solomon,  son  of  Dea.  Aaron2,  b.  in  Bedford;  was  a  farmer  and 
wheelwright.  He  m.,  1807,  Dec.  29,  Dorothy  Chase,  b.  Litchfield 
1787,  May  14,  dau.  of  Lieut.  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Darrah)  Chase, 
and  granddaughter  of  Francis  Chase,  the  first  Baptist  immersed 
in  N.  H.  They  res.  in  Bedford  but  rem.  to  Beloit,  Wis.,  where 
he  d.  1852,  March  4,  and  Dorothy  his  wife  d.  1864,  Sept.  10.  They 
had  thirteen  ch.  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.:  Harriet  U.4,  b.  1808,  Oct.  11, 
m.  Selden  Deroton  Mosely  and  res.  in  Beloit,  Wis. ;  Mary  Put- 
nam4, b.  1809,  Dec.  9,  m.  Calvin  Travis  and  res.  in  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  shed.  1850,  March  1;  Dolly4,  b.  1810,  Feb.  25,  d.;  Dolly 
Chase4,  b.  1812,  April  8,  m.  Isaac  Currier  and  resides  in  Manches- 
ter, N.  H.;  Frederic4,  b.  1813,  Sept.  3,  m.  Amanda  Smith  and  res. 
in  Woburn,  Mass.,  not  living;  Solomon4,  b.  1816,  Aug.  17,  m. 
Bethia  Annis  and  res.  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  not  living;  Silas 
Pratt4,  b.  1818,  Dec.  26,  m.  Lydia  Taylor  and  res.  Flovd,  Wis.,  not 


920  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

living;  Putnam  Farnum4,  b.  1821,  Jan.  26,  m.  Elizabeth  Griffith 
and  res.  Afton,  Wis.;  Martha  Jane  Patten4,  b.  1825,  Feb.  26,  d.; 
Martha  Jane  Patten*,  b.  1826,  July  13;  Francis  Flynn4,  b.  1828, 
Aug.  22,  m.  1852,  Oct.  6,  Elisha  Shapley  Tasker  and  res.  in  North- 
wood,  N.  H.;  Joseph  Franklin4,  b.  1830,  Feb.  1;  Annis  Eliza*,  b. 
1832,  Aug.  1. 

IV.  Martha  Jane  Patten,  dau.  of  Solomon3,  b.  Bedford  1826,  July  13;  m. 
1846,  April  26,  John  McGilvray  and  res.  in  Merrimack,  where  he  d., 
but  she  still  lives  aged  77.  They  had  ch. :  Franklin  Deroton5,  b. 
1849,  Aug.  1;  John  Clarke5,  b.  1853,  Feb.  23;  Dolly  Elbertie5,  b. 
1857,  Jan.  1;  Clarie  Frances5,  b.  1864,  Feb.  12;  Annis  Betkia5,  b. 
1867,  Jan.  5;  Harriette  Mary5,  b.  1871,  Jan.  27. 

IV.  Annis  Eliza,  dau.  of  Solomon3,  b.  Bedford,  1832,  Aug.  1;  m.  Enoch 
Marshall  of  Dunbarton,  N.  H.,  where  they  res.  She  d.  in  Milford 
1902,  Dec.  27,  leaving  children,  among  whom  were  Lydia5,  Bertha5, 

who  m. Goodhue  and  res.  in  Bow,  N.  H.;  Jessie,  a  teacher 

in  the  Milford  schools. 

III.  Isaac,  son  of  Dea.  Aaron2,  b.  1785,  March  4;  m.,  1st,  1808,  Miss  Polly 

Ingalls  of  Merrimack.  She  d.  and  he  m.,  2d,  1822,  Jane  Patten,  b. 
1794,  Feb.  14,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Dickey)  Patten  of  Bed- 
ford. Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Charles4,  b.  1810,  d.  1848;  Elizabeth*;  Sarah 
Ann*;  Henry  A.*  Ch.  by  2d  mar.:  Mary  Jane4,  b.  1826,  m.  1854,  S. 
C.  Anderson  of  Merrimack,  d.  1857;  William  P.*;  Caroline  A.4,  b. 
Bedford,  1830,  m.  Win.  Moore  of  Bedford  (see  Moore);  Aaron 
Quincy*;  Joseph4,  b.  1836,  d.  1849. 

IV.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Isaac3,  b.  Bedford,  1812;  m.  James  Parker  of  Mer- 

rimack. She  d.  1836,  leaving  one  dau.,  Mary  Elizabeth5,  b.  1836, 
Feb.  4,  m.  Edwin  Morrison  of  Bedford  (see  Morrison). 

IV.  Sarah  Ann,  dau.  of  Isaac3,  b.  Bedford  1815;  m.  1840,  Isaiah  Herrick 
of  Merrimack.  She  d.  1899.  Had  two  ch.:  Eizabeth5,  b.  1840;  Har- 
rison5, b.  1849,  both  living  in  Merrimack,  unm. 

IV.  Henry  A.,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1818;  m.,  1st,  Sarah  A.  Heard,  who  d. 
He'm.,  2d,  Elizabeth  Newell  of  Orford,  N.  H.,  and  d.  1895.  Had 
two  ch;  Mary  Lizzie6,  b.  1865,  now  Mrs.  Lucien  Thompson  of 
Durham,  N.  H.,  has  four  ch:  Hattie  N.5,  now  Mrs.  Frank  Osborn 
of  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  has  two  ch. 

IV.  William  P.,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  1824;  m.  Sarah  B.  Curtis;  he  d.  1888. 
They  had  two  ch:  Emma  J.6,  b.  1854,  d.  1874;  Charles  H.5,  b.  1862, 
d.  1884. 

IV.  Aaron  Quincy,  son  of  Isaac3,  b.  Bedford,  1833,  May  12;  m.  1860,  Jan. 
12,  Martha  J.  Moore,  b.  Bedford  1836,  July  1,  dau.  of  William  and 
Mary  (Kendall)  Moor.  They  settled  on  the  Col.  William  Moor 
farm  in  Bedford,  but  rem.  to  Manchester  1870,  where  he  has  been 
supt.  of  streets  on  the  west  side.  He  was  also  supt.  of  the  horse 
railroad  for  a  time,  but  is  now  engaged  in  the  produce  commission 
business.  Martha  J.,  his  wife,  d.  1897,  Feb.  3.  They  had  three  ch., 
b.  Bedford,  viz.:  Carrie  E.5,  b.  1861;  Gertrude  A.5,  b.  1868;  Mary  J.8, 
b.  1870. 
V.  Carrie  E.,  dau.  of  A.  Quincy*,  b.  Bedford,  1861,  Feb.  26;  m.  1885, 
Oct.  14,  Andrew  McDougal  of  Goffstown.  She  d.  1892,  May  10, 
leaving  one  son,  Roy  Gage6,  b.  Manchester,  1891,  Feb.  3. 

GAGE. 

I.  George  W.  Gage  was  b.  in  Merrimack,  1808,  Aug.  23,  the  son  of 
Phineas  and  Elizabeth  Gage.  He  m.,  1843,  Dec.  1,  Lovisia  M. 
Roby,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1820,  Aug.  7,  dau.  of  John  and  Patty 
(Woods)  Roby.  In  1843  he  purchased  the  Wm.  Caldwell  farm  of 
Parker  Hodgman,   and  moved  here  Dec.    1,   1843.     He  d.  1871, 


GENEALOGIES. — GAGE. — GAMACHE.  921 

March  4,  and  his  wife  d.  1892,  Feb.  25.  They  had  three  ch.: 
George  F.*,  b.  1844,  Aug.  2;  Charles  H*,  b.  1845,  Nov.  17;  Lovisia 
J.2,  b.  1849,  Jan.  19,  m.  Isaac  A.  Hodgman  (see  Hodgman). 

II.  George  F.,  son  of  George  W.1,  b.  Bedford,  1844,  Aug.  2;  m.  1876, 

June  7,   Mary  J.   Jenness,   b.   ,  dau.  of  Simon  and  Eliza 

(Paige)  Jenness  of  this  town.  He  d.  1882,  Sept.  28.  (See  p.  643.) 
Mary  J.,  his  wife,  m.,  2d,  1886,  Oct.  13,  Eddy  K.  Fox.  She  d. 
1902,  Jan.  8,  leaving  two  ch.  by  2d  mar.,  Charles  Henry3  and 
Florence3. 

II.  Charles  H.,  son  of  George  W.1,  b.  Bedford,  1845,  Nov.  17;  m.  1888, 
June  20,  Mrs.  Ida  L.  (Preston)  Robie  of  New  London,  b.  1858, 
Oct.  3,  dau.  of  Augustus  and  Ann  (Messer)  Preston.  They  have 
fourch.,  Bessie  Lovisia3,  b.  1889,  April  4;  Lucelia  Eva3,  b.  1891, 
April  23;  Charles  Harry3,  b.  1893,  Oct.  14,  Everett  Preston3,  b.  1896, 
July  15. 

GAGE. 

I.  Isaac  Gage  was  b.  1788,  Oct.  16,  and  m.  1816,  March  19,  Sally  Un- 
derwood, who  was  b.  1787,  July  8,  and  d.  1860,  Sept.  7.  They  res. 
in  Bedford.  Had  ch.:  Sally  Jane2,  b.  1817,  June  30,  m.  Proctor 
Parkhurst  of  Merrimack  (see  Parkhurst) ;  Thomas  U:2,  b.  1819,  Sept. 
30;   WiWam    U.*,  b,  1822,  Oct.  4;  Lydia  M.2,  b.  1825,  May  21;    m. 

1848,  Dec.  4, Merrill.     She  d.  1900,  Oct.  11;  Latitia  A.2,  b. 

1827,  Jan.  31;  m.  1849,  Nov.  20, .      She  d.  1856,  June  6;   Lu- 

cinda  E.2,  b.  1829,  March  9,  d.  1849,  March  17;  Edward  A.2,  b. 
1831,  Nov.  17,  d.  1876,  March  19. 

II.  Thomas  U.,  b.  Bedford,  1819,  Sept.  30;  m.  1845,  June  12,  Adaline, 
b.  1826,  Feb.  2,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Rhoda  (Coburn)  French  of 
Bedford.     They  had  ch.:  Eugene3,  Edward3,  Clara  Etta3. 

II.  William  U.,  b.  Bedford,  1822,  Oct.  4;  m.,  1st,  Mary  J.  Merrill,  who 

d. .      He  m.  2d,  1872,   Feb.   14,   Mrs.  Mary  A.    (Hodgman) 

Moor,  b.  Carlisle,  1831,  Nov.  10,  dau.  of  Geo.  and  Mary  (Parker) 
Hodgman  of  Bedford.  He  d.  1879,  July  26.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.: 
William  F.3,  b.  1856,  Sept.  24,  d.  1888,  April  17;  Sally  U.3,  b.  1861; 
Addie  L.3,  b.  1866.     Ch.  of  2d  mar.:  Ida  A.3,  b.  1875,  July  30. 


GAGE. 

Dea.  Charles  Gage  came  to  Bedford  about  1855.  He  was  b.  in  London- 
derry, 1815,  March  5,  the  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Ida  L.  (Preston)  Gage. 
He  m.  Mary  H.,  b.  1816,  June  16,  dau.  of  Solomon  and  Sally  (Colby)  New- 
ton of  Henniker.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade;  was  chosen  deacon  of 
Presbyterian  church  here  and  held  the  position  for  many  years.  He  d. 
1892,  June  20;  Mary,  his  wife,  d.  1889,  April  16. 


GAMACHE. 

John  Baptiste  was  b.  in  Lacolle,  Can.,  1851,  April  18;  farmer;  m. 
1886,  March  2,  Angeline  Beaudette,  b.  St.  Pierre,  Can.,  1858, 
March  2.  Settled  in  Bedford  about  1891.  Had  ch.,  b.  in  Man- 
chester: Alice2,  b.  1887,  Jan.  25;  Willie  B.2  and  Rosario2  (twins), 
b.  1888,  May  20;  Josephpha2,  b.  1890,  Aug.  8;  Augustine2,  b.  in  Bed- 
ford, 1891,  Nov.  29;  Romeo2,  b.  1893,  June  10;  Yvonne2,  b.  1894, 
Sept.  2;  Eliza2,  b.  1896,  Oct.  13;  Marie  Ester  H.2,  b.  1898,  Aug.  29; 
d.  1898,  Sept.  8;  Eugene,  b.  1899,  Dec.  11.  Angeline,  the  wife,  d. 
1900,  April  5. 


922  HISTORY   OV  BEDFORD. 

GARDNER. 

I.  Amos  and  Phoebe  (Tirrell)  Gardner  had  10  ch.,  b.  in  town,  viz.: 
Sarah*,  b.  1774,  Feb.  25;  Amos  Toanse2,  b.  1775,  Oct.  25;  Molly2, 
b.  1777,  Aug.  15;  Jacob2,  b.  1779,  Oct.  1;  Laban2,  b.  1781,  Sept.  25; 
Betty2,  b.  1783,  July  15;  John2,  b.  1785,  July  15;  Phebe2,  b.  1789, 
April  20;  Hulda2,  b.  1791,  July  12,  m.  1809,  Nov.  12,  Abel  Beard; 
Samuel?,  b.  1794,  April  25. 
II.  Samuel,  son  of  Amos1,  b.  1794,  April  25;  m.  1823,  May  23,  Alice  Stearns 
of  Billerica,  Mass.  They  were  a  worthy  couple,  honest,  original, 
kind-hearted;  they  won  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all,  and 
were  known  throughout  the  town  as  "Uncle  Sam"  and  "Aunt 
Alice."  Always  loyal  to  church  services,  the  social  prayer  meet- 
ing never  seemed  dull  when  he  was  speaking,  even  though  prayer 
and  exhortation  were  often  quaintly  mingled.  The  earnest 
originality  of  it  all  left  an  impression  upon  his  hearers  not  soon 
forgotten.  A  Sunday-school  pupil  wrote  in  her  diary,  1883,  Dec. 
30,  "The  bell  tolled  to-day  for  Uncle  Sam  while  Sunday-school 
was  in  session.  He  was  89  yrs.,  8  mos.,  the  oldest  man  in  town." 
"Aunt  Alice  "  d.  1874,  May  31.  They  had  no  ch.    An  .adopted  son, 

Willard,  b. ;  m.  Martha  Oheever  of  Bedford,  who  now  res., 

a  widow,  in  the  Old  Ladies'  Home  at  Lynn,  Mass. 

"UNCLE   SAM"  AND  "AUNT  ALICE"   GARDNER. 

Among  the  best-known  persons  in  Bedford  for  the  greater  part  of  the 
past  century,  were  "Uncle  Sam"  and  "Aunt  Alice"  Gardner.  There 
were  no  more  kind-hearted  people  than  they,  always  solicitous  for  the 
welfare  of  others.  Eccentric  in  many  respects,  and  ever  active,  no  one 
who  knew  Bedford  in  their  day  was  without  intimate  knowledge  of  them. 

Samuel  Gardner  was  the  son  of  Amos  and  Phebe  (Terrill)  Gardner. 
He  was  born  here  1794,  April  25,  and  always  lived  in  the  town.  As  a 
young  man  he  worked  for  Isaac  Riddle,  mostly  as  an  ox  teamster.  He 
made  frequent  trips  to  Boston  with  his  team,  freighting  goods  overland. 
He  became  acquainted  with  Alice  Stearns,  who  came  from  Billerica, 
Mass.,  to  do  housework  for  Mr.  Riddle,  and  they  were  married  1823, 
May  23.  The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  their  wedding  was  duly  observed  by 
their  friends  calling  upon  them  and  leaving  with  them  many  substantial 
tokens  of  appreciation. 

They  took  up  their  residence  after  marriage  upon  a  small  farm,  north 
of  the  Center,  where  by  prudence  and  industry  they  earned  a  substantial 
livelihood  for  many  years.  The  care  of  the  farm  did  not  take  all  of  his 
time,  but  Mr.  Gardner  found  plenty  of  extra  labor  among  the  neighbors, 
as  he  was  always  a  good  and  trusty  helper.  When  the  daughters  of 
Matthew  Patten  became  infirm,  they  arranged  with  this  worthy  couple  to 
come  and  care  for  them  and  their  estate,  which  they  did  until  the  death 
of  the  former.  Following  that,  they  moved  to  the  house  near  where  the 
railroad  station  now  stands,  and  there  they  rounded  out  their  long  career. 
"Aunt  Alice  "  died  1874,  May  31,  and  "  Uncle  Sam,"  1883,  Dec.  30. 

They  were  plain,  but  thoroughly  good  people,  most  generous  to  their 
fellow-men.  When  it  was  the  practice  to  seek  places  for  boarding  the 
"town  poor,"  before  the  "farm"  was  purchased,  their  home  was  the 
most  sought  by  the  unfortunates,  and  such  inmates  were  most  kindly 
cared  for.  Others  not  altogether  dependent,  frequently  arranged  it  to  be 
cared  for  by  this  worthy  couple,  as  it  was  never  difficult  to  make  the 
terms.  Their  house  was  not  infrequently  alluded  to  as  "  the  home  of  the 
unfortunate."  No  one  was  ever  turned  from  their  door  in  hunger  or  in 
need.  They  were  happy  in  their  philanthropy,  about  which  they  were 
always  engaged. 

"Uncle  Sam  "  became  converted  in  the  great  religious  revival  of  1831, 


GENEALOGIES. — GARDNER.  928 

aud  after  that  was  most  devoted  to  the  Church  and  the  cause.  He  was 
always  at  meeting,  unless  kept  away  by  sickness,  and  took  as  lively  an 
interest  in  the  outlying  district  meetings  and  the  prayer  meeting.  His 
prayers  were  of  the  most  fervent  kind,  and  his  exhortations  original  and 
impressive.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  former  pastors  of  the  church  wrote 
interesting  letters  of  appreciation,  in  which  they  referred  to  him  as  their 
most  efficient  helper  in  the  prosecution  of  their  work.  It  was  in  connec- 
tion with  his  work  for  Christianity  that  his  eccentricities  were  most 
marked  and  are  best  remembered.  He  had  not  read  extensively  outside 
the  Holy  Scriptures,  but  with  the  Bible  he  was  thoroughly  familiar.  He 
would  relate  incidents  of  the  Bible  with  singular  minuteness  and  fidelity 
to  the  text,  expounding  them  in  his  own  original  but  effective  way.  His 
sayings  were  quaint,  oftentimes  amusing,  but  always  made  with  an 
earnestness  that  could  not  be  mistaken.  His  funeral  was  held  at  the 
church,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace,  who  had  joined  the  church  when 
he  did,  preaching  the  sermon. 

"Aunt  Alice  "  was  in  every  way  a  real  helpmeet  to  her  husband.  She 
was  as  eccentric  in  her  way  as  was  he  in  his,  and  of  as  generous  impulses, 
and  as  devoted  a  Christian. 

GARDNER. 

I.  John  Gardner  came  to  Bedford  from  Norfolk  Co.,  Mass.,  previous 
to  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  was  one  of  the  soldiers  who  went 
from  this  town  to  serve  their  country  in  that  struggle  for  inde- 
pendence. He  was  probably  of  English  extraction,  judging  from 
the  fact  that  English  colonists  settled  in  Norfolk  Co.,  Mass.,  and 
also  from  the  characteristics  of  his  descendants.  His  wife's  name 
is  not  known,  and  but  one  son,  Ezekiel2. 
II.  Ezekiel,  son  of  John1,  was  the  second  teacher  of  music  in  town,  the 
first  being  John  Orr,  Esq.  He  attempted  to  give  his  pupils  some 
idea  of  time,  though  no  books  were  used  except  a  few  tunes 
pricked  off  by  himself,  with  the  bass  and  air  only.  A  book  con- 
taining these. tunes,  bears  date  of  1782.  He  was  appointed  by  the 
town  to  serve  as  chorister  or  conductor  of  the  large  choir  which 
rendered  music  for  all  religious  services.  This  was  when  the 
church  work  was  supported  by  public  taxation,  and  it  is  recorded 
that  he  served  the  town  very  acceptably.  He  m.  Miss  Chubbuck, 
who  also  came  from  the  Massachusetts  colonies.  They  were  the 
progenitors  of  a  large  family,  among  whom  was  Ezekiel3. 

III.  Ezekiel,  son  of  Ezekiel2;  m.  a  Miss  Nesmith,  native  of  Bedford,  but 

ancestry  unknown.  Their  ch.  were:  Mary4;  Franklin4;  William4 
(a  William  Gardner  m.  Sophronia  Martyn  of  Merrimack,  1832, 
April  5);  James4;  Fanny4;  Hannah4  (a  Hannah  Gardner  m.  1840, 
Dec.  31,  John  R.  Moor  of  Bedford);  Nancy4,  m.  William  Bursiel 
(see  Bursiel) ;  Adam4;  Thomas4;  Alfred4. 

IV.  James,  son  of  Ezekiel3,  was  b.  1811,  July  15,  in  Bedford,  where  he 

always  res.  and  was  well  known.  He  m.  1832,  Dec.  11,  Nancy 
Bursiel,  b.  1814,  Sept.,  dau.  of  William  and  Betsey  (French) 
Bursiel.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1885,  June  9;  his  wife  d.  in  Man- 
chester, 1895,  Aug.  2.  Their  ch.  were  all  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.: 
Daniel  F.5,  b.  1833,  Dec.  26;  Mary  E.s,  b.  1835,  Aug.  3,  m.  1864, 
April  6,  Charles  S.  Fisher  of  Manchester,  d.  in  Manchester,  1866, 
March  31;  Silas  M.5,  b.  1837,  June  5,  d.  1838,  March  15; 
Merinda  i?.5,  b.  1839,  Jan.  24;  Electa  J.5,  b.  1841,  Feb.  13; 
Lysander5,  b.  1843,  June  24;  Abbie  B.5,  b.  1845,  April  7,  m.  Will- 
iam F.  Conner  (see  Conner);  Dolly  Bryant5,  b.  1846,  Sept.  19, 
m.  Charles  A.  Riddle  (see  Riddle) ;  Harriet  M.5,  b.  1848,  Oct.  19, 
m.  Clinton  H.  Bixby  (see  Bixby);  Frank  Moore5,  b.  1850,  Nov.  18; 
Laura  R.5,  b.  1852,  Nov.  7,  m.  Charles  P.  Woodbury  (see  Wood- 
bury). 


924  HISTORY   OF    BEDFORD. 

V.  Daniel  F.,  son  of  James4,  b.  1833,  Dec.  26;  m.,  1st,  Mary  A.  Howard 
of  Amherst;  he  m.,  2d,  Emeline  C.  Kimball  of  Boxford,  Mass.,  by 
whom  he  had  one  ch.,  Nellie  Kimball;  wife  and  ch.  both  d. 
He  d.  in  Augusta,  Me.,  1884,  Feb.  24. 

V.  Merinda  R.,  dau.  of  James4,  b.  1839,  Jan.  24;  m.  in  Jan.,  1858, 
Henry  S.  Batchelder  of  Manchester.  They  now  res.  in  Meauwa- 
taka,  Wexford  Co.,  Mich.  Have  seven  ch.:  George  Henry6, 
Edith  Jennie6,  Nellie  May6,  Merinda6,  Mary  Elizabeth6,  Royal 
James6  and  Perley  Gardner6  (twins). 

Y.  Electa  J.,  dau.  of  James4,  b.  1841,  Feb.  13;  m.  1862,  Aug.  23,  Royal 
Cheney  of  South  Royalton,  Vt.  She  d.  in  Newton  Upper  Falls, 
Mass.,  1867,  Aug.  17.  Had  twoch.:  Eruest  Whitney6  (deceased); 
Bertha  Jane6,  m.  Charles  E.  Foster  (see  Foster). 

Y.  Lysander,  son  of  James4,  b.  1843,  June  24;  m.  Etta  E.  Marston  of 
Belmont,  Mass.,  and  res.  in  Walpole,  Mass.  Ch.:  Mildred6,  Ida 
Matilda6  (deceased);  Grace  Elizabeth6,  (deceased);  Nettie  Delle6; 
May  Stevens6;  Bessie6;  and  Ruby6. 

Y.  Frank  Moore,  son  of  James4,  b.  1850,  Nov.  18;  m.  1874,  Jan.  13, 
Emma  A.  Hewitt  and  res.  in  Canton,  N.  Y.  Ch.:  Frank6 
(deceased);  Leon6  and  Lena6  (twins,  Leon  deceased);  Kitty6; 
Carl6;  Robert6;  and  Earle6. 

GAULT. 

Two  brothers,  John1  and  Daniel  M.1,  res,  in  Bedford. 
I.  John  served  seven  years  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  During  this 
period  a  man  of  his  company  had  been  mysteriously  shot  for  four 
nights  in  succession  while  on  picket  duty.  On  the  fifth  day, 
when  his  name  was  called  as  the  sentinel  for  that  night,  "his 
knees  fairly  smote  together,"  but  he  would  not  flinch  from  doing 
his  duty.  As  darkness  began  to  deepen  a  bear  appeared  to  be 
slowly  approaching;  watching  it  carefully,  he  at  last  took  aim 
and  fired — when  lo!  a  dead  Indian  lay  before  him,  who,  under 
cover  of  a  bear  skin,  had  plotted  to  take  his  life,  as  he  had  the 
lives  of  the  four  men  who  preceded  him.  After  the  war  he  re- 
turned to  Bedford,  and  now  lies  in  the  South  cemetery,  District 
No.  2,  though  no  stone  marks  his  grave.  He  m.  Molly  Orr  of 
Bedford.  They  had  a  dau.,  Fanny,  b.  1790,  March,  who  m.  Daniel 
McLaughlin  (see  McLaughlin),  and  probably  other  ch. 
I.  Daniel  M.  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1777,  Feb.  20;  served  in  the  War  of 
1812;  m.  1813,  April  19,  Mary,  b.  1786,  Aug.  15,  dau.  of  James 
Campbell.  This  family  was  no  doubt  connected  with  the  Am- 
herst Campbells,  so  prominent  in  that  town's  affairs.  They  had 
ch.:  Abner  C.2,  b.  1815,  April  19;  John2,  b.  1816,  Nov.  29;  m.  1846, 
March  19,  Harriet  Ball;  James  C.2,  b.  1818,  Nov.  11;  Elizabeth  A.2, 
b.  1820,  Nov.  19;  m.  1848,  Dec.  18,  John  Kinson  (see  Kinson); 
Lemuel  B.2,  b.  1822,  Sept  15;  m.  1852,  Lucy,  widow  of  James  C. 
Gault;  Lydia  J.2,  b.  1825,  March  23;  m.  1852,  Aug.  10,  Stephen 
S.  Nelson;  Mary  A.2,  b.  1827,  June  20;  m.  1844,  Jan.,  Enoch  G. 
Parker. 

II.  Abner  C,  son  of  Daniel  M.1,  b.  1815,  April  19;  m.  Eliza  Stevens,  b. 
1824,  Aug.  6,  and  d.  1900,  Oct.  10.  They  settled  in  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.,  and  had  ch.:  Matthew3,  b.  1853,  Aug.  12;  Emily  G.3,  b. 
1856,  May  7;  James  E.3,  b.  1851,  Sept.  14,  d.  1854,  Dec.  20;  Esther 
W.3,  b.  1861,  May  27,  d.  1885,  April  13. 

II.  James  C,  son  of  Daniel  M.*,  b.  1818,  Nov.  11;  m.  1845,  Jan.  19, 
Lucy  Woods,  and  had  ch.:  George  E.%  b.  1846,  Sept,  27;  James  E.3, 
b.  1849,  May  2. 


GENEALOGIES. — GEORGE. — G1LMOKE.  925 

III.  George  E.,  son  of  James  C.2,  b.  1846,  Sept.  27;  in.  1865,  Jan.  19, 

Mary  J.  A.,  b.  1839,  Ang.  22,  dau.  of  Joseph  H.  and  Margaret 
(Patten)  Stevens.  Had  ch.:  Charles  H.*,  b.  1866,  Jan.  17;  Eva  M.*t 
b.  1868,  Jan.  15;  Bertha  M.4,  b.  1872,  April  28,  m.  W.  A.  Flan- 
ders of  Wentworth,  N.  H.;  George  H.4,  b.  1873,  Dec.  3,  m.  Neike 
J.,  dau.  of  George  Webber  (see  Webber);  William  Arthur4,  b. 
1876,  July  17. 

IV.  Charles  H.,  son  of  George  E.3,  b.  1866,  Jan.  17;  m.  Minnie  E.,  dau. 

of  Corwin  J.   Parker,  and  have  one  ch.,  Harold  C.5,  b.   1886, 

July  7. 
IV.  Eva  M.,  dau.  of  George  E.3,  b.  1868,  Jan.  15;  m.  Arthur  J.  Curtis. 

Had  one  ch.,  Bertha  May,  b.  1895,  April  5,  and  d.  1895,  Oct,  12. 
III.  James  E.,  son  of  James  C.2,  b.  1849,  May  2;  m.  1872,  April  16,  Abbie 

A.,  b.   1846,   Nov.  23,  dau.  of  Adam  and  Clarissa   (Hodgman) 

Patten.     Had  ch.:   Clara  M.4,  b.   1873,  April  2,  d.  1888,  Jan.  2; 

Louis4,  b.  1876,  Jan.  19;  Abbie4,  b.  1878,  Nov.  20. 

GEORGE. 

This  branch  of  the  George  family  came  from  England  and  settled 
in  Amesbury,  Mass.,  in  1665.  James1  was  one  of  the  first  settlers, 
and  became  a  "townsman"  at  its  organization.  He  had  three 
ch.,  among  whom  was  William  Francis2,  who  had  nine  ch., 
among  whom  was  James3,'  b.  April  27,  1701.  He  m.  1824,  Jan. 
18,  Susannah  French  of  Salisbury,  Mass.;  they  had  nine  ch., 
among  whom  was  Timothy4,  b.  1729.  He  mov.  to  Weare,  N.  H., 
and  served  as  one  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  during  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  He  m.  Hannah  Hoyt  of  Weare;  they  had  six  ch., 
one  of  whom,  Moses5,  b.  1762,  m.  Lydia  Emerson  of  Weare. 
They  had  seven  ch.,  the  youngest  of  whom,  Moses  Emerson6,  b. 
1807,  Feb.  5,  m.  Betsey  Harriman  of  Weare,  and  had  five  ch.; 
among  them  was  Jasper  Pillsbury1,  who  came  to  Manchester  with 
his  parents,  1855. 
VII.  Jasper  Pillsbury  was  b.  1843,  Oct.  10.  During  the  War  of  the  Re- 
bellion, 1861-'65,  served  in  Company  A,  Twelfth  Wisconsin  in- 
fantry, under  command  of  Gens.  Grant  and  Sherman.  Was 
engaged  in  the  fightings  and  marches  of  the  Georgia  and  Caro- 
lina campaigns.  He  returned  to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  after  the 
war,  and  m.  1867,  Sept.  5,  Emily  Augusta,  b.  1842,  May  23,  dau. 
of  James  A.  and  Mary  W.  (Wheeler)  Brigham  of  Manchester, 
They  moved  to  Bedford  1883.  While  there  he  served  as  deacon 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  the  town,  1886- '95,  also  its  clerk, 
and  from  1889-'94  its  treasurer.  He  was  collector  of  taxes  1893- 
'97;  a  member  of  the  school  board  1893-'98;  a  trustee  of  the  pub- 
lic library  and  its  librarian  from  its  opening,  1893,  Feb.  16,  until 
his  removal  to  Manchester  in  June,  1898.  Was  a  member  of  the 
state  legislature  from  Manchester,  1872.  A  son,  Milton  Brigham*, 
was  b.  1874,  Aug.  7. 
VIII.  Milton  B.,  son  of  Jasper  P.7,  b.  1874,  Aug.  7;  m.  1897,  Oct.  12,  Emma 
Louise,  dau.  of  James  B.  Turney  of  Bedford.  Their  ch.  are: 
Walter  Brigham9,  b.  Bedford,  1899,  Feb.  12;  Jasper  Turney9,  b. 
Auburn,  1901,  March  8. 

GILMORE. 

I.  James  Gilmore  of  Wrentham,  Mass.;  m.  1725,  Thankful  Tyrrell  of 
Abington,  Mass.  They  had  six  ch.:  Adam2,  Agnes2,  Thankful2. 
William2,  Tyrrell2,  and  White  field2. 


926  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

II.  Lieut.  Whitefield,  son  of  James1,  was  b.  1745,  Nov.  12;  was  killed 
1786,  May  12  (see  p.  636).  Was  one  of  the  Bedford  men  who 
served  in  the  Revolution.  He  m.  Margaret  Gilmore,  who  was  b. 
in  Bedford,  1743,  Nov.  6  (not  a  relative).  They  settled  in  Bedford 
and  had  five  ch.:  Janet8,  b.  1771,  Aug.  26;  Martha3,  b.  1773,  Jan. 
1;  James*,  b.  1775,  Jan.  15;  Mary3,  b. ,d.  1777,  Sept.  10;  John3. 

III.  James,  son  of  Whitefield2,  b.  1775,  Jan.  15;  m.  Ann  McAllaster,  b. 

1769,  Aug.  10,  dau.  of  William  and  Jerusha  (Spofford)  Mc- 
Allaster. James  d.  1839,  Feb.  28;  his  wife  d.  1838,  Nov.  10. 
They  bad  eight  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford:  William*,  b.  1798,  Feb.  1; 
Whitefield4,  b.  1799,  Aug.  20;  Freeman4,  b.  1801,  May  29;  Robert4, 
b.  1803,  Jan.  12;  Sally4,  b.  1805,  Jan.  25;  Margaret4,  b.  1807,  Jan. 
8;  Mary  Ann4,  b.  1808vDec.  16;  James4,  b.  1811,  April  5. 

IV.  William,  son  of  James3,  b.  1798,  Feb.  1;  m.  Matilda  Eaton,  b.  in 

Hopkinton,  1797,  Nov.  23,  and  d.  1879,  March  6.  He  d.  1862,  May 
13.  They  had  five  ch.:  George  Clinton6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1826,  Sept. 
25;  Nancy  Vose5,  h.  Bedford,  1828,  Sept.  8;  William  Afi,  b.  in 
Goffstown,  1830,  June  18;  Elizabeth  A.5,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1832, 
June  9;  James  S.&,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1835,  Aug.  27. 
V.  Col.  George  Clinton,  son  of  William4,  b.  1826,  Sept.  25;  is  connected 
with  the  N.  H.  Historical  society,  and  especially  interested  in 
matters  pertaining  to  the  military  history  of  the  state.  He  was 
chosen  by  Gov.  Tuttle  as  a  special  commissioner  to  prepare  a  list 
of  New  Hampshire  men  who  served  at  Bunker  Hill.  These 
names  were  placed  upon  four  memorial  tablets  which  also  con- 
tained a  list  of  the  Massachusetts  men  who  served  at  Bunker  Hill; 
they  were  erected  on  Winthrop  Square,  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and 
dedicated  1889,  June  17.  Mr.  Gilmore  was  state  senator,  1881-'82. 
He  m.  1853,  June  21,  Lucy  A.  Livingston,  b.  Walden,  Vt.,  1830, 
March  1.  They  res.  in  Manchester.  Their  ch.,  b.  in  Manches- 
ter, were:  Waldo  E.s,  b.  1854,  April  28;  George  L.6,  b.  1856,  Jan. 
16,  d.  1856,  March  1;  Olive  M.6,  b.  1857,  July  27,  d.  1863,  July  21; 
Willis  C.G,  b.  1861,  April  8,  d.  1861,  May  2. 
V.  Nancy  Vose,  dau.  of  William4,  b.  1832,  June  9;  m.  Amasa  O. 
Warner  of  Plover,  Wis.;  he  was  b.  in  Cabot,  Vt.,  1825,  Dec.  31. 
Nancy  Vose  d.  in  McDill,  1896,  Feb.  21.  Ch. :  Oliver  L.6,  b.  Frank- 
lin, N.  H.,  1853,  April  24,  d.  1855,  Sept.  1;  Lizzie  G.e,  b.  Clinton, 
Mass.,  1855,  Nov.  3a,  d.  1857,  Aug.  21;  Letter  F.*,  b.  Plover,  Wis., 
1858,  July  10;  Myra  A.6,  b.  Plover,  1860,  July  15;  Fred  B*  and 
Frank  3/.6  (twins),  b.  in  Plover,  1863,  June  2;  Sarah  O.6,  b.  in 
Plover,  1865,  Sept.  13. 

VI.  Lester  F.  (Warner),  son  of  Nancy  Vose5,  b.  1858,  July  10;  m.  St. 
Point,  Wis.,  1885,  Dec.  31,  Aurilla  Simons,  b.  Piola,  Kan.,  1866, 
April  23;  res.  in  Plover,  Wis.,  where  their  seven  ch.  were  b.: 
Clinton  A.7,  b.  1887,  July  17;  Walter  O.7,  b.  1890,  Feb.  25;  Lester 
G.7,  b.  1892,  May  14;  Edna  L.7,  b.  1894,  June  16;  Ada  M.7,  b. 
1893,  Aug.  6;  Blanche  M.7,  b.  1898,  Sept,  12;  Grace  R.7,  b.  1900, 
Dec.  27. 

VI.  Myra  A.  (Warner),  dau.  of  Nancy  Vose5,  b.  1860,  July  15;  m.  in 
Plover,  Wis.,  1883,  Nov.  27,  W.  Stanlev  Young,  b.  1859,  Feb.  23. 
They  have  had  four  ch.:  Hume  C.7,  b.  St.  Point,  Wis.,  1886,  May 
29;  Harry  S.7,  b.  St.  Point,  1888,  Oct.  7;  Myrle7,  b.  St.  Point, 
1890,  Oct,  2;  Jay  W.7,  b.  Templeton,  Wis.,  1895,  March  15,  d. 
1898,  Jan.  31. 

VI.  Fred  B.  (Warner),  son  of  Nancy  Vose5,  b.  1863,  June  2;  m.  at 
Green  Bay,  Wis.,  1888,  Sept.  l,Saidee  B.  Marshall,  b.  1865,  Sept. 
13.  Had  four  ch.,  b.  in  Hurley,  Wis.:  Harold7,  d.  young;  Saida 
A.7,  b.  1890,  Nov.  5;  Faye  E.7,  b.  1892,  Aug.  23;  Marshall  B.7,  b. 
1900,  June  8. 


GENEALOGIES. — GILMOKE.  927 

VI.  Frank  M.  (Warner),  son  of  Nancy  Vose5,  b.  1863,  June  2;  m.  in 
Rockford,  Iowa,  1894,  Sept.  11,  Kate  A.  Warner,  b.  1871,  May  18. 
They  res.  in  Randolph,  Wis.,  where  their  son,  Myron  O.7,  was  b. 
1897,  May  14. 

VI.  Sarah  O.  (Warner),  dau.  of  Nancy  Vose5,  b.  1865,  Sept.  13;  m.  1891, 
Sept.  3,  Charles  I.  Eckels  of  Buena  Vista.  Wis.,  who  was  b.  1862, 
Oct.  30.  Have  two  ch.,  b.  Buena  Vista;  W.  Clair7,  b.  1892,  Aug. 
24;  Myra7,  b.  1894,  Sept.  9. 
V.  William  A.,  son  of  William4,  b.  1830,  June  18;  m.  in  Holderness, 
N.  H.,  Caroline  A.  Whitten,  b.  in  Holderness,  1832,  April  10; 
res.  in  Manchester  where  their  two  ch.  were  b.:  Ella  M.6,  b.  1851, 
Dec.  21,  d.  1854,  Nov.  11;  William  E*,  b.  1854,  Oct,  25. 

VI.  William  E.,  son  of  William  A.5,  b.  1854,  Oct.  25;  m.  in  Augusta, 
Me.,  Laura  E.  Aukarloo,  b.  1856,  May  20.  Had  ch.:  John  R.7,  b. 
Manchester,  1878,  July  15;  Clinton  A.7,  b.  Woonsocket,  R.  I., 
1880,  Sept.  21;  Elizabeth  E.7,  b.  Lowell,  Mass.,  1882,  Jan.  1;  Will- 
iam E.7  b.  in  Lowell,  1884,  July  17;  Guy  W.7,  b.  Lowell,  1886, 
Nov.  11;  Lester  L.7,  b.  in  Lowell,  1890,  April  25;  Minnie  I.,  b.  in 
Lowell,  1892,  April  23. 
V.  James  S.,  son  of  William4,  b.  1835,  Aug.  27;  m.,  1st,  iu  Mt.  Ver- 
non, N.  H.,  Almira  J.  Averill,  b.  1837,  Aug.  29,  d.  1860,  April  24. 
He  m.,  2d,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Margaret  J.  Wallace,  b.  1840, 
Nov  15.  They  had  six  ch.:  Matilda  E.6,  b.  in  Bridesburg,  Pa., 
1866,  Sept.  3, 'm.  1891,  Oct.  17,  Maurice  K.  Swope  of  Fraukford, 
Pa.,  two  ch.  d.  young;  Robert  W6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1868,  Oct.  6,  m. 
1902,  June,  4,  Mae  A.  W.  Swearingen  of  Dunbar,  Pa,;  Catherine 
F.6.  b.  in  Bedford,  1870,  Aug.  21;  George  C.«,  b.  in  Bedford,  1876, 
July  7,  m.  1902,  April  3,  Elizabeth  C.  Barry  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.; 
Walter  J.6,  b.  Frankford,  Pa.,  1878,  April  6;  Charles  F.«,  b.  in 
Fraukford,  1879,  Dec.  26. 

GILMORE. 

I.  Isaac  Gilmore  b.  in  Merrimack,  1787,  Sept.  23;  m.  Sueanna,  dau.  of 
Benjamin  and  Hannah  Sprague,  who  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1 790,  April 
26.  Thev  had  ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford  but  two:  Thomas  B.2,  b.  1812, 
Julv  5;  Isaac  P.2,  b.  1814,  March  16;  Elbridge  G.2,  b.  1816,  Jan.  1; 
Susanna'2,  b.  1818,  March  24;  Mary  P.  #.2,  b.  1820,  March  12;  Lowell 
D.2,  b.  in  Hillsborough,  1822,  Aug.  20,  d.  1827,  Feb.  21;  Benjamin 
O.2,  b.  in  Hillsborough,  1825,  May  26,  d.  1827,  Aug.  22;  Harriett  T2, 
b.  1827,  Dec.  25;  Onslou2,  bt  1832,  March  8. 

II.  Thomas  B.,  son  of  Isaac1,  b.  1812,  July  5;  m.  Dolly  C.  Pease  in  1834, 
July  29.  He  d.  1876,  March  4,  and  she  d.  in  1889,  June  7.  Their 
ch.  were:  Sabrina3,  b.  1836,  Jan.  26,  d.  1841,  Nov.  17;  Leonora3, 
b.  1838,  Aug.  15,  d.  1839,  April  7;  Thomas  B.3,  b.  1841,  July  2,  d. 
1841,  Nov.  19;  Thomas  B.3,  b.  1843,  March  30,  d.  1848,  Jan.  19. 

II.  Isaac  P.,  son  of  Isaac1,  b.  1814,  March  16,  m.  Mary  E.  Winn  of 
Nashua,  1839,  Dec.  5.  She  was  b.  1815,  Jan  23,  and  d.  in  Worces- 
ter, Ma*s.,  1884,  Dec.  15.  He  d.  1861,  Feb.  4,  in  Haverhill,  Mass. 
Their  ch.  were:  Josephine  i?.3,  b.  in  Hollis,  N.  H,  1845,  March  17; 
Charles  P.3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1851,  April  6,  m.  Etta  Howard,  res.  in 
Gleasondale,  Mass.;  Thomas  B.3,  b.  in  Atkinson,  N.  H.  1854,  Nov. 
Supposed  to  be  dead  as  nothing  has  been  heard  of  him  since  1881. 

III.  Josephine  B.,  dau.  of  I^aac  P.2,  b.  1845,  March  17;  m.  George  F. 

Stearns,  1865,  Oct.  7.  They  res.  in  Worcester,  Mass.  Their  ch. 
were:  Clarence  F.*,  b.  1867,  Dec.  29;  Nellie  J.4,  b.  1873,  Feb.  9,  d. 
1873,  June  17;  Chloe  Gertrude4,  b.  1878,  Aug.  15. 

IV.  Clarence  F.,  son  of  Josephine  B.3,  b.  in  Lancaster,  Mass.,  1867,  Dec. 

29;  m.  Ada  Pauline  Dix,  1893,  Dec.  30.  Their  ch.,  Beatrice  E.6, 
was  b.  in  Holliston,  Mass.,  1895,  Jan.  3. 


928  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

II.  Elbridge  G.,  son  of  Isaac1,  b.  1816,  Jan.  1;  m.  in  Merrimack,  1840, 
May  14,  Roxanna  J.,  dau.  of  Reuben  and  Miriam  (Whiting) 
Stearns.  She  was  b.  in  Amherst,  1812,  Aug.  12,  and  d.  in  Bed- 
ford, 1875,  March  5.  He  d.  1887,  Aug.  26.  Their  ch.  were:  Mir- 
iam B.8,  b.  in  Bedford,  1842,  Jan.  23;  Helen  Frances3,  b.  in  Bedford, 
1843,  Aug.  24,  m.  Adam  McAfee  (see  McAfee) ;  Solon  Clarkson3,  b. 
in  New  Boston,  1846,  May  13;  Isaac  Onslow,  b.  in  Bedford,  1851, 
April  7,  d.  1863,  March  18. 
III.  Solon  Clarkson,  son  of  Elbridge  G.,  b.  1846,  May  13;  m.  in  1878, 
Dec.  26,  Mary  E.  Wilkinson,  who  was  b.  1855,  Oct.  6,  in  Brome, 
P.  Q.  He  d.  1884,  March  31.  Their  ch.  were:  Leonora  Estella4, 
b.  in  Bedford,  1880,  Nov.  6;  and  infant  son4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1881. 
Dec.  3,  d.  1882,  Jan.  1;  Mary  (Wilkinson)  Gilmore,  m.,  2d,  Randall 
W.  Bean  of  Cornish,  Me.,  1886,  Nov.  27.  They  res.  in  Manches- 
ter. 

II.  Susanna,  daughter  of  Isaac1,  b.  1818,  March  24;  m.  Samuel  Hatha- 
way in  Bedford,  1840,  Dec.  31.  They  lived  in  East  Boston,  Mass., 
where  he  d.  1895,  May,  and  she,  1896,  Oct.  18.  Their  ch.  were: 
Susan  Jane3,  b.  in  Medford,  Mass.,  1841,  Nov.  19,  d.  1868,  June 
12,  in  East  Boston;  Leonora3,  b.  in  Medford,  Mass.,  1843,  July 
11,  d.  in  East  Boston,  1869,  Oct,  6. 

II.  Mary  P.  S.,  dau.  of  Isaac1;  m.  Samuel  S.  S.  Hill  in  Bedford,  1843, 
Dec.  21,  and  d.  1874,  Nov.  29.  Their  ch.  were:  George  W.3,  b.  in 
Bedford,  1845,  March  18;  Mary  Arabelle3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1846, 
Oct.  18,  d.  in  Plaistow,  1863,  April  19;  Svsan  Josephine3,  b.in  Plais- 
tow,  1848,  March  27;  Byron3,  b.  in  Hudson,  1851,  June  9,  m.  Lucy 
J.  O.  Teague  of  Warren,  Me.,  res.  in  Lawrence,  Mass.;  Angeline 
L.3,  b.  in  Hudson,  1849,  July  25,  m.  1874,  Jan.  1,  Charles  Brown 
of  Lowell,  Mass. ;  Clara  Blanche3,  b.  in  Plaistow,  1854,  May  7. 

III.  George  W.  Hill,  son  of  Mary  P.  S.2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1845,  March  18; 

m.  1865,  March  18,  Elizabeth  Smith  in  Plaistow,  N.  H.  Their  ch. 
were:  Mary  Arabella*,  b.  in  Plaistow,  1866,  Feb.  2;  Fred  Pike*,  b. 
1867,  Dec.  16,  m.  1900,  Sept.  1,  Nettie  E.  Lord,  b.  in  Berwick, 
Me.,  1861,  March  16;  Samuel  H.4,  b.  1875,  Aug.  11,  d.1876,  July  10. 

IV.  Mary  Arabella,  dau.  of  George  W.3  (Hill),  b.  1866,  Feb.  2;  m.  1884, 

Feb.  13,  Albert  I.  Clifton  of  Boston,  Mass.;  res.  in  Haverhill. 
Their  ch.:  Albert  George5,  b.  1893,  Feb.  4;  Samuel  Hill5,  b.  1895, 
June  5;  Ruth  Mary5,  b.  1901,  Jan.  3. 

III.  Susan  Josephine  (Hill),  dau.  of  Mary  P.  S.2,  b.  1848,  March  27;  m. 

in  Dedham,  Mass.,  1868,  Dec.  9,  Isaac  N.  Cass,  who  was  b.  in 
Hampstead,  N.  H.,  1847,  March  9.  They  res.  in  Plaistow.  Their 
ch.  were:  Frank  WA,  b.  in  Plaistow,  1869,  Nov.  14;  Samuel  Estrich*, 
b.  1871,  Aug.  23;  Charles  E.4,  b.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  1874,  Oct.  23. 
d.  1878,  Oct.  15;  Ernest  R.4,  b.  in  Haverhill,  1880,  Feb.  8; 
Ellen  Bertha*,  b.  in  Haverhill,  1882,  Sept.  1. 

IV.  Frank  W.   (Cass),  son  of  Susan  Josephine3,  b.   1869,  Nov.   14;  m. 

Mary  A.  Murray  of  Cape  Breton,  who  was  b.  1868,  Jan.  31.  Their 
ch.:  Lewis  F.5,  was  b.  1897,  April  18. 

IV.  Samuel  Estrich  (Cass),  son  of  Susan  Josephine3,  b.  1871, Aug.  23;  m. 
1891,  Sept.  23,  Ella  A.  Morrison,  who  was  b.  1874,  Sept.  9,  in 
Methuen,  Mass.  Their  ch.:  Edward  A.5,  was  b.  in  Bradford, 
Mass.,  1892,  Sept.  8. 

IV.  Ellen  Bertha  (Cass),  dau.  of  Susan  Josephine8,  b.  in  Haverhill, 
1882,  Sept.  1;  m.  1901,  Oct.  30,  Percy  Douglass  Morgan,  b.  in  Grove- 
land,  Mass.,  1881,  May  23.     Had  one  ch. 

III.  Clara  Blanche  (Hill),  dau.  of  Mary  P.  S.2,  b.  1854,  May  7;  m.  in 
1874,  Jan.  1,  Lawren  Sydney  Wason,  who  was  b.  in  Chester,  1852, 
Feb.  15.  They  res.  in  Haverhill,  Mass.  Their  ch.:  Newman 
Wellington4,  b.  in  Haverhill,  1874,  Aug.  31;  Blanche  Estelle4,  b. 
in  Haverhill,  1878,  Sept.  11. 


GENEALOGIES. — GILMOKE.  929 

IV.  Blanche  Estelle  (Wason),  dau.  of  Clara  Blanche3,  b.  1878,  Sept.  11; 
m.  1900,  Jan.  2,  Harry  Ricker  Cate,  who  was  b.  1875,  March  18. 
Onech.:  Erford.5 
II.  Harriett  T.,  dan.  of  Isaac1,  b.  1827,  Dec.  25;  m.  in  Bedford,  1845, 
Feb.  20,  Samuel  B.  Shapley,and  d.  in  Stoneham,  Mass.,  1890,  Feb. 
25.  He  d.  1893,  Aug.  30,  in  Stonehani.  Their  ch.  were:  Marietta8, 
b.  in  Hudson,  N.  H.,  1851,  April  27;  Susan  Harriet8,  b.  in  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H,  1859,  July  22,  m.  1883,  June  21,  John  Campbell. 
She  d.  1887,  May  14. 

III.  Marietta  (Shapley),  dau.  of  Harriett  T.2,  b.  1851,  April  27;  m.  1879. 
June  21,  Lemuel  S.  Harding,  now  res.  in  Stoneham.  She  d.  1900, 
Dec.  13.  Their  ch.,  Harry  Spear4,  was  b.  in  Stoneham,  1881, 
March  31. 
II.  Onslow,  son  of  Isaac1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1832,  March  8;  m.  Abbie  Bon- 
ney  in  Stoneham,  Mass.  They  still  res.  there.  Their  ch.  were: 
Nellie3,  b.  in  Stoneham,  1866,  Sept.  23;  Susie3,  b.  in  Stoneham, 
1872,  June. 

III.  Nellie,  dau.  of  Onslow2,  b.  1866,  Sept.  23;  m.  1898,  Nov.  18,  Willard 
Massey,  b.  in  Reading,  Mass.,  1866,  May  15. 

III.  Susie,  dau.  of  Onslow2,  b.  1872,  June;  m.  1895,  Sept.  5,  Wilfred  A. 
Smith,  who  was  b.  1871,  Sept.  Their  ch.,  Wendall  Onslow4,  was 
b.  1898,  April  5. 

GILMORE. 

I.  James,  brother  of  Isaac,  was  b.  in  Merrimack,  N.  H.,  in  1787,  from 
whence  he  went  to  Hillsborough  and  settled  at  the  Lower  Village, 
where  he  built  the  house  since  owned  by  Simon  Perkins.  He  was 
a  cabinet  maker.  He  m.,  1st,  Harriet  Eades,  who  d.  1819,  Sept. 
15.  Their  ch.  were:  James2,  b.  1814,  July  14;  Isaac  E.2,  b.  1816, 
May  8;  Armanda2,  b.  1818,  April  14.  He  m.,  2d,  1820,  May  18, 
Sceers  French,  who  d.  1868,  Dec.  25.  He  d.  1864,  Jan.  31.  Their 
ch.  were:  Offin  F.2,  b.  1821,  Jan.  10;  William  Horace2,  b.  1823, 
June  10;  Edwin  F.2,  b.  1825,  June  29,  d.  1829,  Oct;  Onslow2,  b. 
1829,  May  29,  res.  in  Hillsborough;  Luther2,  b.  1833,  May  13;  Har- 
riett2, b.  1836,  June  11;  m.  O.  H.  Perry,  and  res.  in  W.  Somerville, 
Mass. 
II.  William  Horace2,  son  of  James  Gilmore,  b.  1823,  June  10;  m.  Har- 
riett E.  Herrick,  1848,  Nov.  9.  He  d.  1898,  Nov.  12.  Their  ch. 
were:  Charles  H.3,  b.  1849,  July  30,  res.  in  Council  Bluffs,  la.; 
Mary  E.s,  b.  1850,  Nov.  8;  Laura  A.s,  b.  1856,  Jan.  9. 

III.  Mary  E.,  dau.  of  William  Horace2,  b.  1850,  Nov.  8;  m.  1873,  Dec.  25, 
Artemas  Blood  of  Merrimack,  N.  H.  He  d.  1884,  Aug.  9.  Their 
ch.  were:  Laura  May4,  b.  1877,  Oct.  25;  Ida  Belle4,  b.  1879,  Jan. 
23.  Mary  (Gilmore)  Blood  m.,  2d,  Francis  A.  Burbank  of  Hop- 
kinton,  N.  H. 

III.  Laura  A.,  daughter  of  William  Horace2,  b.  1856,  Jan.  9;  m.  1883,  Jan. 
27,  Dr.  Herbert  D.  Gould  of  New  Boston.     Then-  ch.,  Mary  Her- 
rick, b.  1893,  Nov.  26,  d.  1894,  Feb.  28. 
II.  Luther,  son  of  James  Gilmore;  m. ,  and  has  one  dau.,  Mrs.  Geo.  A. 
Hall,  North  Chelmsford,  Mass. 

ADAM  GILMORE. 

Adam  Gilmore  could  not  be  said  to  be  a  man  of  note  in  the  community, 
but  he  was  a  useful  man.  Not  many  things  necessary  to  be  done  in  con- 
nection with  the  management  of  a  farm  were  too  difficult  for  him,  and  his 
industry  was  proverbial.  He  owned  a  good  many  tools,  and  could  do  a 
fair  job  in  carpentering;  could  build  carts,  sleds,  and  other  implements. 
He  frequently  did  the  work  of  a  mason  in  the  construction  and  repair  of 
60 


930  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

buildings,  and  was  something  of  an  expert  in  stone  masonry,  as  such  work 
was  done  in  his  day.  The  dams  and  other  stone  work  to  he  seen  on  the 
Bowman  brook  in  District  No.  4,  were  undertakings  upon  which  he 
wrought. 

He  kept  an  extensive  apiary,  and  could  do  anything  with  bees  which 
was  ever  done  by  any  person. 

Farriery,  as  understood  and  practised  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  years 
ago,  was  one  of  his  accomplishments,  and  he  would  treat  domestic  ani- 
mals,, or  operate  surgically  upon  them,  with  as  much  assurance  as  do  our 
modern  veternarians. 

Mr.  Gilmore  was  a  man  who  never  neglected  business,  but  when  his 
work  was  done  he  went  fishing,  if  the  season  permitted.  Cold  brook 
emptied  into  the  Merrimack  river  upon  his  land,  and  at  the  mouth  of  that 
brook  he  built  a  dam  into  which  he  fitted  an  eel-pot.  This  eel-pot,  together 
with  the  hook  and  line,  were  an  important  factor  in  the  family  economy. 
It  was  not  an  uncommon  thing  to  catch  from  a  half  bushel  to  a  bushel  of 
fish  at  a  time  in  this  way. 

The  industry,  frugality,  and  good  sense  of  Mr.  Gilmore  secured  to  him 
more  of  this  world's  goods  than  he  was  obliged  to  make  use  of  himself,  and 
he  was,  therefore,  able  to  help  others.  That  is  to  say,  he  generally  had 
money  to  lend. 

He  was  short  in  stature,  not  more  than  five  feet  and  a  half  in  height; 
strongly  built,  but  not  corpulent;  a  very  efficient  and  swift  workman  in 
whatever  he  undertook.  His  sympathies  did  not  extend  to  those  who  did 
not  succeed  in  life,  because  they  failed  to  practice  the  virtues  which  made 
him  independent. 

ADAM  GILMORE,  Jr. 

Adam  Gilmore,  Jr.,  inherited  all  the  good  qualities  of  his  father,  if  not 
all  those  common  to  mankind.  There  may  not  be  a  person  in  Bedford 
to-day  who  can  recall  a  harsh  word  spoken  concerning  him,  or  one  who 
ever  heard  him  speak  unkindly  of  any  human  being.  Until  the  year 
1849,  he  was  his  father's  faithful  and  intelligent  assistant,  then  the  excite- 
ment which  took  so  many  to  California  in  quest  of  gold  claimed  him,  and 
saying  good-by  to  family  and  friends,  he  went  to  that  then  unknown 
country  to  seek  his  fortune. 

In  crossing  the  isthmus  on  foot,  he  was  prostrated  by  fever,  but  with 
the  help  of  comrades  succeeded  in  reaching  the  Pacific  coast,  where  he 
recovered  his  health,  and  in  due  time,  with  others  from  this  vicinity,  he 
might  have  been  found  at  work  in  the  mines.  Less  than  two  years  of 
this  rough  life  was  enough  for  him,  and  he  returned  to  Bedford  bringing 
his  owii  wealth  and  that  of  others  entrusted  to  his  care.  Those  who  sent 
gold  to  friends  here  placed  the  nuggets  in  stout  canvas  bags  with  the  names 
of  those  to  whom  they  were  sent,  and  Adam  Gilmore  brought  them  along. 
That  was  all  there  was  to  it.  No  man,  woman,  or  child  ever  questioned 
his  honesty. 

Soon  after  his  return  from  California,  Mr.  Gilmore,  with  his  family, 
removed  to  Sauk  City,  Wis.,  where  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  in 
which  vocation  he  was  quite  successful. 

It  is  a  sad  thing  to  say  of  one  possessing  so  many  of  the  highest  and 
most  lovable  traits  of  character,  that  he  anticipated  the  will  of  the  Creator 
and  the  course  of  nature  by  his  own  act,  but  that  shadow  which  sometimes 
obscures  the  reason  fell  upon  his  pathway,  and  a  kindly  life  came  to  an 
untimely  end. 


GENEALOGIES. — GOFFE.  931 

THE  GOFFE  FAMILY. 

The  Goffe  family  is  supposed  by  some  to  be  collaterally  descended  from 
William  Goffe,  one  of  the  judges  who  condemned  Charles  I.  It  should, 
however,  be  said  that  Goffe  was  a  more  common  name  at  that  period  than 
at  present.  The  name  of  John  Goffe  is  found  on  the  records  of  Dr.  In- 
crease Mather's  church,  in  Boston,  as  early  as  1670,  and  it  was  not  till 
1660  that  Maj.-Gen.  William  Goffe  arrived  at  Boston,  in  his  flight  from 
England,  in  company  with  Whalley  and  Dixwell. 

It  may  be  here  remarked,  as  their  names  have  been  introduced,  that 
these  regicides  were  received  kindly  by  Governor  Endicott,  and  resided  in 
Cambridge  till  Feb.,  1661,  when  the  intelligence  reached  them  that  they 
were  not  included  in  the  act  of  indemnity.  They  then  removed  to  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and  were  concealed  by  the  principal  inhabitants.  They 
afterwards  resided  for  some  time  on  West  Rock,  a  high  bluff  near  New 
Haven,  and  in  the  neighboring  towns. 

But,  in  1664,  they  removed  to  Hadley,  Mass.,  and  remained  concealed 
fifteen  or  sixteen  years  in  the  house  of  Rev.  Mr.  Russell.  When  the 
Indians  attacked  the  town  in  1675,  and  threw  the  inhabitants,  assembled 
for  public  worship,  into  great  confusion,  Goffe,  who  was  entirely  unknown 
to  them,  white  with  age,  his  flowing  gray  locks,  with  a  commanding 
aspect,  and  clothed  in  an  unusual  dress,  suddenly  presented  himself 
among  them,  and  encouraging  them  by  his  exhortations,  placed  himself 
at  their  head,  and  by  his  military  skill  secured  them  the  victory.  The 
battle  had  scarcely  terminated  when  the  mysterious  stranger  disappeared, 
and  the  people,  alike  ignorant  of  the  place  whence  he  came  and  of  his 
retreat,  regarded  him  as  an  angel  sent  for  their  deliverance. 

There  is  a  story  told  of  Goffe  that  while  at  Boston  some  years  after  on  a 
visit,  he  met  with  an  old  friend  who  did  not  recognize  him.  The  English- 
man, being  somewhat  of  a  braggard,  declared  there  was  not  a  man  in 
America  that  could  wield  the  sword  with  him.  Goffe  seized  a  broomstick, 
and  in  a  few  minutes  disarmed  the  hero  by  knocking  the  sword  out  of  his 
hand.  The  Englishman  immediately  replied:  "You  are  Whalley,  Goffe, 
or  the  Devil." 


John  Goffe  came  over  from  England,  with  two  brothers,  in  1662  or  1663. 
In  what  relation  he  stood  to  William  Goffe,  the  regicide,  or  whether  any, 
is  a  matter  of  doubt.  The  name  is  found  very  early  in  the  annals  of 
Salem,  and  it  is  probable  there  was  an  affinity  between  them,  though  the 
degree  it  is  impossible  at  this  distance  of  time  accurately  to  determine. 

A  close  examination  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  society  records  dis- 
closes nothing  as  to  the  descendants  of  William  Goffe,  the  regicide.  The 
father  of  William  Goffe,  the  regicide,  was  named  Stephen  Goffe,  and  he 
was  rector  of  Stanmer,  Sussex,  England.  He  had  three  sons  at  least, 
Stephen,  John,  and  William.  John  became  a  Roman  Catholic  priest,  and 
was  the  assistant  of  Father  Petrie  in  the  chapel  royal  at  Whitehall. 
Stephen  became  a  Presbyterian  minister,  and  William,  the  youngest, 
while  an  apprentice  to  a  dry  Salter  in  London,  ran  away,  and  joined  the 
parliament  army.  He  rose  from  a  subordinate  rank  to  that  of  major-gen- 
eral, and  as  such  was  governor  of  Lincolnshire,  under  the  protectorate. 
He  sat  as  one  of  the  judges  to  try  Charles  I,  and  his  signature  and  seal  are 
attached  to  the  death  warrant. 

At  the  Restoration,  in  1660,  he  fled  to  this  country.  Now  it  is  manifest 
he  would  have  the  strongest  of  motives  for  keeping  himself  in  conceal- 
ment as  long  as  he  lived.  Sewall's  Diary  speaks  of  his  arrival  in  Boston, 
says  he  removed  to  Cambridge,  and  that  many  people  of  consideration 
called  upon  him  and  received  him  into  their  homes.  His  wife  seems  to 
have  remained  in  England.  When  the  proclamation  was  made  against 
him,  and  a  reward  was  offered  for  his  head,  he  disappeared.  Letters  are 
extant  which  his  wife  wrote  to  him  under  the  name  of  William  Goldsmith, 


932 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


in  which  she  speaks  of  their  children.  The  correspondence  was  conducted 
through  Increase  Mather,  pastor  of  the  Second  church  in  Boston. 

The  story  of  his  wanderings  is  a  long  one,  and  not  necessarily  a  part  of 
the  present  account.  But  the  striking  identity  between  the  given  names 
in  his  own  and  wife's  family,  and  that  of  his  father,  when  compared  with 
those  of  the  Goffes  who  came  to  Bedford,  coupled  with  family  traditions 
to  the  same  effect,  suggest  a  strong  inference  as  to  the  relationship.  There 
is  nothing  in  the  dates  of  birth  or  death  of  the  Bedford  Goffes  which  would 
render  it  impossible  for  them  to  be  descendants  of  the  regicide's  sons,  or 
brothers,  which  latter  they  probably  are. 

William  Goffe,  the  regicide,  kept  a  diary  through  all  his  stay  in  this 
country,  and  always  dated  the  entries  from  "Ebenezer,"  this  being  the 
place  where  he  happened  to  set  up  his  home  for  the  time  being,  for  of 
course  it  is  obvious,  if  the  diary  should  fall  into  the  possession  of  his  pur- 
suers, it  would  be  possible  to  trace  his  course,  and  thus  cause  annoyance  to 
those  who  had  sheltered  him.  This  diary,  after  his  death,  came  into  the 
possession  of  Governor  Hutchinson  of  Massachusetts,  and  was  destroyed 
when  his  house  was  burned  at  the  time  of  the  Stamp  Act  riots. 

It  is  significant  that  incidents  in  the  life  of  Gen.  William  Goffe  after  he 
came  to  this  country,  which  have  only  appeared  in  print  within  the  last 
sixty  years,  gathered  from  various  sources,  were  familiar  household  tales 
in  the  family  of  the  Bedford  Goffes.  When  one  considers  the  times,  the 
absence  of  newspapers,  the  dangers  of  travel,  the  infrequency  of  visitors, 
the  variety  of  letters,  one  naturally  asks  how  these  tales,  since  amply  con- 
firmed, came  into  the  possession  of  these  Goffes  and  were  so  sacredly  pre- 
served and  transmitted  from  generation  to  generation  unless  some  strong 
tie  united  John  Goffe  of  Salem  with  the  regicide.  If  he  were  his  son  the 
explanation  is  simple,  natural,  and  probable.  Theodore  A.  Goffe  always 
claimed  descent  from  Gen.  William  Goffe,  and  repudiated  the  paper  writ- 
ten by  his  brother  Joseph,  who  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  cast  a  doubt 
upon  the  time-honored  tradition. 

I.  John  Goffe,  who  came  from  England  with  his  two  brothers  in  1662 
or  1663,  was  admitted  to  "  Increase  Mather's  Church  "in  1676  or 
1677.  He  took  the  usual  oaths  at  about  the  same  date.  He  m. 
Hannah  Sumner  of  Boston  about  1678,  and  d.  at  Boston  July  24, 
1716.     His  wife  d.  between  1715  and  1720.     They  had  twelve  ch. 


John*,  b.  1679,  Sept.  18. 

Hannah2,  b. . 

Samuel2,  b.  1683,  June  19. 
Joseph2,  b.  1685,  March  8. 

William2,  b. . 

William2,  b.  1687,  Sept.  29. 
Hannah2,  b.  1691,  July  24. 

Ebenezer2,  b.  . 

Elizabeth2,  b. . 

Sarah2,  b. . 

Sarah2,  b. . 

Sarah2,  b. . 


Baptized. 
1679,  Sept.  24. 
1681,  July  16. 
1683,  June  24. 

1685,  March  15. 

1686,  Aug.  29. 

1687,  Oct.  2. 
1691,  Aug.  2. 

1692  or  1693,  Feb.  12. 

1695,  May  5. 

1696,  Dec.  13. 
1699,  June  11. 
1701,  Jan.  4. 


Admitted  to  the  Second  or 
Increase  Mather's  church. 

1706,  June  9. 
1697,  Aug.  22. 
1727,  Dec.  24. 


1728,  March  10. 
1709  or  1710,  Jan.  22. 


II.  John  Goffe,  b.  1679,  and  d.  1748,  Sept.  18,  was  commonly  known  as 
"Squire"  Goffe.  He  went  to  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  in  1700,  in 
which  year,  or  in  1701,  he  m.  Hannah  Parish,  b.  in  Boston  in 
1679.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  Parish,  who  had  a  garrison 
house  in  the  south  part  of  Dunstable,  now  Nashua;  Robert  Parish, 
his  wife,  and  oldest  daughter  were  massacred  by  the  Indians  about 
1691;  the  two  young  girls  hid  under  a  hogshead  in  the  cellar  and 
were  saved.     One  of  these  girls  married  John  Goffe,  Esq.,  and  be 


GENEALOGIES. — GOFFE.  933 

came  the  mother  of  Col.  Johu  Goffe.  They  had  five  ch.:  John*,  b. 
1701,  March  25;  bap.  in  Second  or  North  church  (Increase  Mather's) 
1701,  March  25.  Sarah3,  m.  Benjamin  Kidder;  bap.  Second  or 
North  church  1709,  Aug.  21.  Sarah3,  m.  Edward  Linkfield;  bap. 
Second  or  North  church  1711,  April  15. 

III.  Col.  John  Goffe,  son  of  "  Squire  "  John2,  b.  1701,  March  25;  d.  1781, 

Oct.  20;  m.  1722,  Oct.  16,  Hannah  Griggs  of  Roxbury,  Mass.;  she 
was  b.  1702,  Oct.  2,  and  d.  1798,  May  18  (see  sketch).  They  had 
nine  ch. :  Hannah4,  m.,  1st,  Thomas  Chandler  (see  Chandler); 
2d,  Capt.  John  Bradford;  Esther4,  m.  James  Walker  (see  Walker); 

Elizabeth4,   m.   Coston;  Sarah4,   m.   Rev.   John  Rand   (see 

Rand);  Marcy4,  m.  Nathaniel  Martin;  Rebecca4,  in.  Capt.  Samuel 
Moor  (see  Moor);  Margaret4,  m.  Col.  John  Moore  (see  Moore); 
Polly4,  m.   Josiah  Wallace;  John*,  b.   1727,  Feb.  16. 

IV.  Major  John  Goffe,  son  of  Col.  John3;  b.  1727,  Feb.  16,  m.  1749,  Sept. 

17,  Jemima  Holden  of  Groton,  Mass.  She  was  b.  1727,  Feb.  24, 
and  d.  1818,  Sept.  11.     He  d.  1813,  Feb.  3  (see  sketch). 

They  had  eleven  ch.: 

Samuel6,  b.  1750,  Dec.  5;  m.  Mercy  Ann  Vickery,  he  settled  in  Goffs- 
town,  lived  there  a  number  of  years,  and  then  moved  to  Homer, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  d.  1842,  Dec.  1. 

Hannah5,  b.  1753,  March  27;  m.  Richard  Hawes  and  settled  in  Maine, 
where  she  lived  a  number  of  years  and  had  three  ch. ;  she  re- 
turned to  Bedford,  where  she  lived  a  number  of  years,  then  rem. 
to  Nashua,  where  she  d.  1840,  March  19. 

John5,  b.  1755,  May  7;  settled  in  Derryfield,  now  Manchester,  and 
lived  there  some  years,  when  he  moved  to  New  York,  where  he 
d.  1848,  Feb.  17. 

Susannah5,  b.  1757,  Oct.  2;  m.  John  Griffin,  lived  in  Manchester  and 
was  drowned  in  the  Merrimack  river  with  her  husband,  1785, 
Dec.  16. 

Stephen5,  b.  1760,  March  29;  engaged  in  privateering  at  the  time  of 
the  Revolutionary  war,  and  probably  d.  in  1777,  as  he  was  never 
heard  of  afterward. 

William5,  b.  1762,  April  6;  entered  the  Continental  army  and  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Saratoga,  1777,  Sept.  19. 

Griggs5,  b.  1764,  April  6,  d.  1814,  Sept.  7. 

Joseph5,  b.  1766,  Aug.  6;  m.  1796,  Dec.  20,  Elizabeth  Waters  of  Sut- 
ton, Mass. ;  was  a  minister  of  the  gospel  and  settled  at  Millbury, 
Mass.,  where  he  d.  1846,  April  24,  at  the  age  of  79  (see  sketch). 

Theodore  A.5,  b.  1769,  June  25,  settled  in  Bedford  on  his  father's 
farm,  where  he  d.  1860,  Nov.  5. 

Polly5,  b.  1771,  June  23;  m.  Josiah  Wallace  and  settled  in  Bedford, 
afterwards  in  Antrim,  where  she  d  .  1854,  Oct.  24  (see  Wallace) . 

Esther5,  b.  1773,  Nov.  27,  d.  in  Homer,  N.  Y.,  1841,  Nov.  17;  m. 
Samuel  Griggs. 
V.  Theodore  Atkinson,  son  of  Major  John4;  m.  1798,  June  25,  Anne 
Griggs,  who  was  b.  1775,  Sept.  19,  and  who  d.  1859,  Sept.  16,  by 
whom  he  had  the  following  ch.:  John6,  b.  1799,  May  5;  Gilbert6, 
b.  1801,  Feb.  18,  went  to  Alabama,  where  he  d.  unrn.  1823,  June 
23;  Stephen6,  b.  1803,  March  16,  m.  Mary  T.  Cutler;  Nancy*,  b.  1805, 
Aug.  1,  d.  1888,  Aug.  16,  m.  John  A.  McGaw,  who  was  b.  1801, 
Jan.  29,  and  d.  1871,  July  13;  Eliza6,  b.  1807,  Oct,  15,  d.  1898,  Dec. 
2,  m.  John  Parker  of  Manchester  and  settled  in  Bedford  (see 
Parker);  William6,  b.  1809,  Dec.  14,  d.  1897;  Hannah6,  b.  1814,  Jan. 

18,  d.  1815,  Feb.  28;  Nathan6,  b.  1816,  Jan.  27,  m.  Mary  Ann 
Dupee  (Goza)  of  Kentucky,  and  settled  in  Bunch's  Bend,  La. 

VI.  John,  son  of  Theodore  A.5,  b.  1799,  May  5;  m.  1826,  Jan.  31,  Jane 
Riddle,  who  was  b.  1800,  Sept.  3,  and  d.  1875;  he  d.  1873.  They  had 
six  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford:  Martha  J.7,  b. ,  m.  William  McAllister, 


934  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

he  d.  1888,  Sept.  28,  and  she  d.  1898,  Jan.  10  (see  McAllaster) ; 
George  WJ,  b.  1828,  July  25;  Nancy  M.7,  b.  1830,  d.  1831,  Sept.  19; 
Eliza  A.7,  b.  1832,  d.  1834,  Feb.  21;  Margaret  T.7,  b.  1833,  m.  Eu- 
gene Smith  of  St.  Clair,  Mich,  d.  1891,  Jan.  13;  Ann  E.7,  b.  1839, 
d.  1840,  Sept.  21. 

VI.  Stephen,  son  of  Theodore  A5,  and  Anne  (Griggs)  Goffe;  m.  1825, 
Nov.  22,  Mary  T.  Cutler,  and  d.  1836,  June  24;  she  was  b.  1804, 
July  26,  and  d.  1894,  June  13.  They  had  five  ch.:  Gilbert7,  b.  1828, 
July  28,  now  living  in  Roseland,  Ind.;  Theodore  A.7,  b.  1831, 
Jan.  5,  living  in  Portland,  Ore.,  where  he  works  for  the  Oregon 
Railway  and  Navigation  Co.;  Mary  Francis1,  b.  1833,  Feb.  10; 
Nathan  C.7,  b.  1835,  Feb.  5;  Stephen7,  b.  1837,  Jan.  31,  m.  Annie 
S.  Black,  b.  1843,  Feb.  8,  he  d.  1900,  Sept.  7. 
VII.  Mary  Francis,  dau.  of  Stephen6,  b.  1833,  Feb.  10;  m.  James  M.  Rol- 
lins; d.  1857,  March  24;  he  d.  1854,  April  25,  aged  27;  their  only 
ch.  was  James  Trask8,  who  d.  1854,  Jan.  20,  aged  3  mos.  and  16 
days. 

VI.  Nancy,  dau.  of  Theodore  A.5  and  Anne  (Griggs)  Goffe;  m.  1826, 
June  20,  John  A.  McGaw,  and  d.  1888,  Aug.  13;  he  was  b.  1801, 
Jan.  29,  and  d.  1871,  July  13.  They  had  five  ch.:  one  d.  in  in- 
fancy; Harriet  Ann7,  b.  1832,  Jan.  30,  m.  Freeman  Perkins 
Woodbury,  1856,  Nov.  10,  lived  in  New  York  for  many  years,  and 
now  living  in  Bedford   (see  Woodbury) ;  Hannah  Thornton7,  b. 

1834,  July  15,  m.  1862,  April  10,  Rev.  William  H.  Fenn,  and  is 
now  living  in  Portland,  Me.;  Helen7,  b.  1838,  March  17,  m.  1867, 
June  13,  Fleming  Smith  of  New  York,  where  she  now  lives;  Fran- 
ces Eliza7,  b.  1841,  Jan.  19,  m.  1864,  April  14,  Charles  H.  Wood- 
bury, lived  in  New  York  (see  Woodbury). 

VI.  William,  son  of  Theodore  A.5  and  Anne  (Griggs)   Goffe;  m.,  1st, 

1835,  March  17,  Clarissa  Laberee,  who  was  b.  1807,  Dec.  13,  and  d. 
1844,  Nov.  23.  He  m.,  2d,  1845,  April  8,  Betsey  Riddle,  who 
was  b.  1819,  Dec.  9.  He  d.  1897,  Nov.  7.  He  had  four  ch.  by  his 
first  wife:  Harriet  F.7,  b.  1836,  Feb.  29,  d.  1847,  April  15;  Charles 
H.7,  b.  1838,  June  11,  m.  1870,  April  21,  Georgie  Goza;  John  L.7, 
b.  1841,  Dec.  7,  d.  1876,  Aug.  18;  Clarissa  L.7,  b.  1844,  Nov.  30;  d. 
1844,  Dec.  3.  By  his  second  wife  six  ch.:  Clara  A.7,  b.  1846,  Feb. 
27,  d.  1881,  Nov.  13,  m.  1871,  Sept.  13,  John  Henry  Waters;  Louis 
K.7,  b.  1849,  Sept.  26,  d.  1902,  June  9,  m.  1880,  Oct.  27,  Edith  Au- 
gusta Patterson;  James  R.7,  b.  1851,  Aug.  10,  m.  1890,  Sept.  29, 
Eleanor  Taylor;  Sarah  Frances7,  b.  1853,  May  3,  d.  1856,  Feb.; 
William  G.7,  b.  1855,  April  19,  m.  1887,  Dec.  23,  Florence  Hawley; 
EmmaG.7,b.  1860,  Jan.  4,  m.  1888,  Jan.  4,  William  Henry  Smyth. 

VI.  Nathan,  son  of  Theodore  A.5  and  Anne  (Griggs)  Goffe,  was  educated 
for  a  Roman  Catholic  priest  but  never  took  orders.  He  studied 
medicine  and  practised  as  a  physician  at  Bunch's  Bend,  La., 
where  he  m.  1852,  June  2,  Mary  Ann  Dupee,  widow  of  George  W. 
Goza.  She  was  b.  1822,  July  4,  and  d.  1897,  March  14.  He  d. 
1863,  March  1.  They  had  six  ch.:  Anna7,  b.  1853,  May  23,  d.  1854, 
Sept.  7;  John7,  b.  1854,  Aug.  17,  d.  1859,  Jan.  18;  Aurora7,  b.  1856, 
Feb.  3,  m.  1880,  Jan.  22,  G.  W.  Hackney;  Theodore7,  b.  1860,  May 
2;  Louisiana7,  b.  1858,  Feb.  15,  d.  1859,  July  27;  Samuel  Dupuy7, 
b.  1861,  July  20,  d.  1864,  Oct.  31. 
VII.  George  W.,  son  of  John6  and  Jane  Riddle  Goffe;  m.  Elizabeth  H. 
Tisdale;  she  was  b.  1830,  Oct.  13,  and  d.  1892,  Nov.  28;  he  d.  1895, 
Aug.  30.  They  had  nine  ch.:  Florence9,  b.  1854,  Sept.  4;  Jane 
Riddle9,  b.  1856,  May  8,  m.  George  S.  Eastman,  1887,  Jan.  1; 
John9  and  Annie9,  b.  1863,  June  16,  d.  1864,  Aug.  21  and  24;  Mary9 
b.  1865,  March  20,  d.  1871,  March  11;  John9,  b.  1867,  Jan.  24,unm.; 
Annie  Bell9,  b.  1869,  July  5,  d.  1871,  Dec.  10;  George9  and  Louis9, 
b.  1874,  Oct.  22,  Louis  d.  1882,  April  1. 


GENEALOGIES. — GOFFE.  935 

IX.  Florence,  dan.  of  George  W.7  and  Elizabeth  H.  (Tisdale)  Goffe;  m. 
Dr.  Marcus  E.  Tully,  1879,  Feb.  20.  They  have  three  ch.:  Helen 
Fleming,10  b.  1880,  Oct.  13,  m.  Milton  J.  Whitely,  1902,  April  9; 
Louis  Edward10,  b.  1884,  Feb.  26;  Herbert  Goffe10,  b.  1886,  Nov. 
15. 

COL.  JOHN  GOFFE. 

Col.  John  Goffe  was  a  man  of  some  consequence  in  his  day.  He  was 
born  in  1701,  probably  in  Boston,  and  was  the  only  son  of  John  Goffe,  Esq., 
who  with  his  family  came  to  Londonderry  at  an  early  period.  The  father 
was  a  man  of  property,  as  we  learn  by  his  will,  a  copy  of  which  is  still  in 
existence.  He  died  in  1748,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  in  Bed- 
ford. He  bequeathed  to  his  daughter  Mary,  £50,  10s,  old  tenor,  and  one 
cow.  To  his  grandson,  Benjamin  Litchfield,  he  gave  one  hundred  acres 
of  land  in  the  township  of  Londonderry — "it  being  one  hundred  acres 
grant  in  the  charter  of  said  Londonderry."  He  also  gave  to  his  grandson, 
John  Kidder,  all  his  right,  title,  and  interest  to  a  fourth  division  in  Lon- 
donderry. To  a  number  of  granddaughters  he  gave  forty  shillings  each, 
and  the  remainder  of  his  property  he  left  to  his  son  John,  and  his  grand- 
children, the  heirs  of  his  daughter,  Mary  Woods.  His  son  John  was 
appointed  executor. 

The  subject  of  this  brief  memoir  settled  at  the  mouth  of  Cohos  brook, 
the  outlet  of  Massabesic  pond,  at  the  Merrimack  river,  about  three  miles 
below  the  city  of  Manchester,  at  what  is  called  Moore's  village.  His  oc- 
cupation in  early  life  was  hunting,  which  in  the  new  state  of  the  country 
was  no  doubt  delightful  and  profitable.  He  is  designated  in  some  old 
deeds  as  "  Hunter  John."  This  mode  of  life,  with  which  he  was  familiar 
from  early  years,  and  which  at  that  time  was  common  among  the  hardy 
youth  of  New  England,  qualified  him  for  the  service  in  which  he  was 
afterwards  engaged.  It  brought  him  in  frequent  contact  with  Indians, 
and  gave  him  a  knowledge  of  their  language,  manners,  and  customs,  be- 
sides making  him  an  excellent  marksman.  In  1746  he  was  captain  of  a 
company  of  militia,  and  was  sent  to  protect  the  frontier  against  the  incur- 
sions of  the  Indians.  While  on  this  expedition  he  wrote  the  following 
letter  to  Governor  B.  Wentworth: 

"5  May,  1746. 

"May  it  please  your  Excellency:  I  got  to  Penny  cook  on  Saturday,  early 
in  the  morning,  and  notwithstanding  I  sent,  the  Monday  after  I  left  the 
Bank,  yet  my  bread  was  not  baked;  but  there  was  about  2501b.  weight 
which  supplied  20  men,  which  I  sent  to  Canterbury  as  soon  as  I  got  them 
— and  I  kept  the  Baker  and  several  soldiers  to  baking  all  Sabbath  day,  and 
proposed  to  march  on  Monday,  as  soon  as  possible  ;  but  about  midnight, 
two  men  came  down  from  Contookook  and  brought  the  unhappy  news  of 
two  men  being  killed  ;  and  the  two  men  that  came  down  told  me  that  they 
saw  the  two  men  lie  in  their  blood  and  one  man  more  that  was  missing. 
And  hearing  I  was  here,  desired  me  to  assist  in  making  search,  so  that  I 
am  with  all  expedition  going  up  the  Contoocook,  and  will  do  what  I  can  to 
see  the  enemy.  I  shall  take  all  possible  care  for  the  protection  of  the  fron- 
tier and  destruction  of  the  enemy.  The  Indians  are  all  about  our  fron- 
tiers. I  think  there  was  never  more  need  of  soldiers  than  now.  It  is 
enough  to  make  one's  blood  cold  in  one's  veins,  to  see  our  fellow  creatures 
killed  and  taken  upon  every  quarter  ;  and  if  we  cannot  catch  them  here,  I 
hope  the  General  Court  will  give  encouragement  to  go  and  give  them  the 
same  play  at  home.  The  white  man  that  is  killed  is  one  Thomas  Cook, 
and  the  other  is  Mr.  Stevens,  the  minister's  negro.  These  are  found,  and 
one  Jones,  a  soldier,  is  not  found.  They  have  but  few  soldiers  in  the 
Fort ;  have  not  as  yet  sought  much  for  him.  I  am  going  with  all  possible 
expedition — and  am  "      Your  Excellency's  most  humble  and 

most  dutiful  subject  and  servant, 

"John  Goffe. 

'■  Pennycook,  about  2  o'clock  in  the  morning,  May  5,  1746." 


986  HISTOltY   OF    BEDFORD. 

In  1757,  according  to  the  annals  of  Portsmouth,  Colonel  Goffe  joined  the 
army  at  Albany,  under  General  Webb,  colonel  of  the  regiment  raised  by 
New  Hampshire,  of  which  he  was  lieutenant-colonel.  This  was  in  the 
"Seven  Years'  War,"  so  called,  waged  by  the  French  and  Indians  on  one 
side,  and  the  English  and  continental  troops  on  the  other.  In  1761  he  was 
at  Ticonderoga,  as  we  learn  from  a  letter  written  by  him  to  his  only  son, 
Lieut.  John  Goffe.  He  was  stationed  at  Fort  William  Henry,  which  sur- 
rendered to  the  French  ;  eighty  out  of  two  hundred  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire regiment  were  murdered  by  the  Indians,  as  they  marched  out  of  the 
fort,  unarmed,  after  they  had  capitulated.  Primus  Chandler's  father  lost 
his  life  here.  Thomas  Campbell,  William  Caldwell,  and  Josiah  Warren, 
of  New  Boston,  barely  escaped  with  their  lives. 

Ha  was  appointed  colonel  by  Governor  Wentworth,  and  held  his  com- 
mission as  such  till  the  Revolutionary  war.  In  the  register  of  New 
Hampshire  for  1768  we  find  him  colonel  of  the  ninth  regiment  of  militia. 

At  the  time  of  the  American  Revolution  Colonel  Goffe  was  too  old  to 
take  an  active  part  as  a  soldier,  but  the  country  was  not  deprived  of  the 
benefit  of  that  long  experience  in  arms  which  he  had  acquired.  His  only 
son,  already  mentioned,  an  inhabitant  of  Bedford,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
army,  and  held  a  major's  commission. 

The  following  is  a  letter  from  Colonel  Goffe  to  his  son,  Major  Goffe: 

"Portsmouth,  Sept.  24,  1777. 

"Sir: — Col.  Bellows  goes  off  to-day  to  head  as  many  volunteers  as  will 
push  off  to  reinforce  Gen.  Gates.  Our  army  are  now  in  possession  of 
Ticonderoga.  In  order  to  cut  off  Burgoyne's  retreat,  who  was  on  the  17th 
of  this  month,  within  four  miles  of  Stillwater,  with  his  main  body,  as  we 
are  assured  by  Gen.  Stark's  letter  of  that  date,  pressing  the  State  to  exert 
every  nerve,  and  to  march  at  least  half  the  militia  of  this  State.  And  now 
is  the  time  to  cut  off  their  whole  army.  And  if  we  do  but  all  go  without 
hesitation,  I  verily  believe  it  will  put  an  end  to  the  war.  And  if  you  could 
go  yourself,  for  a  fortnight  or  three  weeks,  I  believe  it  would  encourage 
many. 

' '  Every  man  and  officer  will  have  pay,  as  the  last  militia  had.  But  it 
must  be  done  without  loss  of  time.  And  if  your  brother-in-law,  Samuel 
Moor,  would  be  forward  in  this  affair,  it  would  be  to  his  everlasting 
honor.    Pray  show  yourselves  friends  to  the  country  this  once. 

"  I  am  your  loving  father, 

"John  Goffe. 

"  To  Maj.  John  Goffe. 

"  Pray  let  Capt.  Moor  see  this  after  you  have  read  it." 

Colonel  Goffe  was  not  only  a  military  officer,  but  for  years  a  civil  officer. 
He  was  called  to  perform  such  duties  as  the  following.  Record  of  a  mar- 
riage by  John  Goffe,  Esq. : 

(Copy  of  the  certificate.) 

"Province  of  New -Hampshire. 
"  To  either  of  the  ordained  ministers  of  the  Gospel  of  said  Province,  or 
either  of  the  Justices  for  said  Province: — You  are  hereby  empowered  to 
join  together  in  holy  matrimony,  James  Martin  and  Sarah  Parker,  unless 
some  legal  impediment  appear  to  you  to  the  contrary. 
"  Given  at  Portsmouth,  Jan.  12,  1761. 

"B.  Wentworth." 

On  the  back  of  the  certificate  is  the  following: 

' '  Joined  together  in  holy  matrimony,  the  within-named  John  Martin 
and  Sarah  Parker. 
"April  6,  1761. 

"John  Goffe,  J.  of  Peace." 


GENEALOGIES. — GOFFE.  937 

Iii  1771  the  towns  in  New  Hampshire  were  divided  into  five  counties, 
and  consequently  a  general  reorganization  of  the  courts  took  place.  Col- 
onel Goffe  was  appointed  judge  of  probate  for  Hillsborough  county,  which 
office  he  retained  till  1776,  when  a  general  change  took  place  among  the 
officers  of  the  courts.  This  was  probably  the  last  office  he  held.  He  re- 
moved to  Bedford  some  time  previous  to  the  Revolution,  and  represented 
Bedford  and  Amherst  in  general  court. 

Colonel  Goffe  was  one  of  the  most  important  men  of  this  vicinity,  often 
elected  to  offices  of  trust  by  his  fellow-citizens,  and  enjoying  also  the  con- 
fidence of  the  colonial  government.  He  was  a  religious  man.  While  the 
country  was  new,  and  the  towns  around  destitute  of  a  stated  ministry,  he 
was  accustomed  to  conduct  divine  service  on  the  Sabbath  in  his  own 
house.  It  is  said  he  sang  and  prayed,  and  read  a  selected  discourse,  to  the 
edification  of  his  audience.  Some  who  are  now  living  attended  these 
meetings.  Not  only  the  people  of  Bedford,  but  of  Goffstown,  and  probably 
Merrimack  and  Litchfield,  resorted  thither  for  public  worship. 

MAJOR  JOHN  GOFFE, 

son  of  the  preceding  Col.  John  Goffe,  on  arriving  at  age  was  set  up  in 
business  in  Bedford  by  his  father,  who  built  the  first  sawmill  and  grain 
mill  in  the  town,  on  a  small  stream  (Crosby's  brook)  about  three  miles  be- 
low Manchester  city,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  river.  He  was  commis- 
sioned a  coroner  by  Gov.  Benning  Wentworth  in  1762.  He  also  held  a 
commission  of  lieutenant  in  the  First  company,  Ninth  regiment  of  militia, 
as  early  as  1761,  and  perhaps  earlier.  In  1764  Governor  Wentworth  gave 
him  a  captain's  commission,  and  in  1768  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
major. 

He  served  in  the  Revolution,  as  did  several  of  his  sons,  two  of  whom 
lost  their  lives  in  that  struggle.  Stephen  was  lost  at  sea,  and  William  was 
killed  in  an  engagement.  We  have  before  us  several  letters  of  Stephen 
and  William  Goffe  to  their  parents.  Stephen's  last  is  dated  Boston,  Sept. 
4,  1777,  in  which  he  says:  "  I  am  going  out  in  a  brig  from  Boston  for  a  five 
months'  cruise."  We  believe  he  was  never  afterwards  heard  from.  The 
last  letter  received  from  William  was  to  his  brother  John,  dated  "  Fort 
Miller  (N.  Y. ),  July  16th,  1777,"  in  which  he  says  he  writes  to  let  him 
know  that  he  had  lost  his  captain  in  battle,  two  sergeants,  and  eight  pri- 
vates. "  I  do  not  expect  to  come  home  very  soon,  for  we  have  battles 
almost  every  day." 

In  the  old  graveyard  in  Bedford  there  rest,  side  by  side,  the  mortal  re- 
mains of  John  Goffe,  Esq.,  Col.  John  Goffe,  and  Major  John  Goffe.  At 
the  right  hand  side  of  each  repose  the  ashes  of  their  wives. 

"Goffstown,"  and  "  Goffe's  Falls,"  so  named  for  Colonel  Goffe,  will 
hand  down  the  name  to  posterity. 

Of  "  Goffe's  Falls,"  now  the  name  of  a  depot  on  the  Boston  &  Concord 
railroad,  there  is  a  tradition  or  two  among  the  old  people  in  the  neighbor- 
hood, which  it  may  be  well  to  relate,  though  for  the  authenticity  we  can- 
not be  responsible. 

It  is  said  that  one  Bushnell,  a  hunter  and  early  settler  at  Cohos  brook, 
was  one  day  out  hunting  in  the  immediate  vicinage  of  Goffe's  Falls,  near 
a  projecting  rock,  from  which  he  discovered  pieces  of  pure  lead  hanging 
like  icicles  or  stylactites.  He  took  his  hatchet  from  his  belt  and  severed 
them  from  their  hold,  and  placed  them  in  his  pouch.  At  that  instant  a 
deer  rose  from  its  ambush  near  by,  when  he  hastily  fired  at  it,  wounding 
but  not  killing  it.  The  deer  dashed  into  the  river,  and  Bushnell  after  him 
with  all  possible  speed. 

Failing  to  secure  his  game,  he  returned  to  where  he  supposed  he  found 
the  lead,  but  could  discover  no  trace  of  it.  He  went  home  and  told  his 
story  to  Colonel  Goffe,  who  helped  him  run  his  lead  into  bullets. 


938  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

Ever  afterwards  he  was  unable  to  find  the  exact  spot,  although  he  spent 
much  time  in  hunting  for  it.  We  cannot  explain  the  mystery  of  the 
story,  but  tell  it  to  others  as  it  was  told  to  us. 

Another  incident  is  told  of  this  Bushnell,  in  connection  with  the  early 
settlement  at  Goffe's  Falls. 

He  had  acquired  the  ill-will  of  an  Indian,  who  determined  upon  his 
destruction.  Bushnell  was  a  single  man  and  boarded  out.  His  sleeping 
apartment  was  on  the  first  floor  of  the  house,  of  which  the  Indian  was 
aware.  One  night  Bushnell  was  absent,  and  the  lady  of  the  house  occu- 
pied the  bed.  In  the  night  she  was  aroused  from  her  slumber  by  a  hand 
passing  over  her.  She  demanded,  "Who  is  this?"  when  an  Indian  re- 
plied, ' '  Never  fear,  missus,  me  no  hurt  you  ! ' ' 

It  is  supposed  the  incidental  absence  of  Bushnell  was  all  that  saved  his 
life. 

REV.  JOSEPH  GOFFE. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  auto-biography  of  this  individual  will 
not  be  deemed,  it  is  hoped,  too  lengthy,  considering  the  interest  with 
which  they  will  be  read  in  his  native  town: 

"I  was  born  in  Bedford,  N.  H.,  near  the  western  bank  of  the  Merri- 
mack river,  on  the  6th  day  of  August,  1766.  My  father's  name  was  John 
Goffe,  and  my  mother's  maiden  name  was  Jemima  Holden,  from  Groton, 
Mass.  They  were  married  Sept.  17th,  1749,  and  settled  in  Bedford  on  a 
new  farm,  on  which  they  lived  and  died  in  a  good  old  age.  My  parents 
were  respectable  and  pious  people — members  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  of  the  good  old  Puritan  stamp,  who  always  maintained  religious 
worship  in  the  family,  and  brought  up  their  family  with  a  moral  and 
religious  strictness  which  is  rarely  to  be  found  at  the  present  day.  They 
had  a  family  of  eleven  children,  seven  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  which 
I  was  the  sixth  son,  and  eighth  child  in  succession;  and  though  their 
worldly  circumstances  were  not  affluent,  but  comfortable,  they  afforded 
their  children  all  the  opportunity  for  learning  the  state  of  the  times  and 
the  newness  of  the  country  would  then  permit. 

"  My  father  was  a  farmer  by  profession,  but  bore  military  commissions 
under  George  II  and  III,  and  served  in  their  wars  with  the  Indians  and 
French  in  Canada.  He  was  usually  called  Maj.  John  GoA'e,.and  was  the 
only  son  of  Col.  John  Goffe  of  Derryfield  (now  Manchester,  N.  H.).  My 
grandfather  was  a  man  of  some  eminence  in  his  day  as  a  military  man, 
and  commanded  a  regiment  when  Canada  was  surrendered  to  the  British 
and  Colonial  arms.  Besides  his  military  commission,  he  held  a  variety  of 
civil  offices  in  the  state,  such  as  judge  of  probate,  justice  of  the  peace, — 
often  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  and  was  an  intimate  friend  of 
Governor  Wentworth  and  Colonel  Atkinson,  and  other  public  men  of  that 
day.  But  what  is  infinitely  more  for  his  honor,  he  was  a  man  of  dis- 
tinguished piety,  and  did  much  for  the  promotion  of  religion  in  the  new 
settlement  around  him.  I  can  remember  him  well.  He  was  rather  above 
the  middle  stature,  not  corpulent,  but  of  a  commanding  presence  and 
aspect.  His  memory  is  perpetuated  in  the  name  of  the  large  and  respect- 
able town  of  Goffstown,  N.  H.,  of  which  he  was  a  large  and  one  of  the 
original  proprietors. 

"  There  is  one  thing  further  respecting  our  family  which  I  would  just 
mention  as  a  matter  of  curiosity,  if  nothing  more,  and  that  is  their  lon- 
gevity, so  far  back  as  I  can  remember.  My  grandfather  when  he  died  was 
87  years  old,  my  grandmother,  96,  my  father,  85,  my  mother,  91,  two 
aunts  on  my  father's  side,  between  93  and  100,  and  I  have  now  brothers 
and  sisters  living  far  advanced  in  life. 

"  1  was  brought  up  on  my  father's  farm,  which  was  of  considerable 
extent,  where  I  worked  on  the  farm,  in  the  mills,  and  did  considerable  at 


GENEALOGIES. — GOFFE.  939 

lumbering  and  rafting  on  the  Merrimack  river,  until  I  was  more  than  21 
years  of  age.  Thus  early  inured  to  labor  and  fatigue,  I  obtained  a  firm- 
ness and  solidity  of  constitution,  which  but  few  of  my  brethren  in  the 
ministry,  and  especially  at  the  present  day  ever  enjoyed.  This  enabled 
me  to  go  through  my  studies  with  ease,  and  to  labor  in  the  ministry 
nearly  double  as  much  as  was  customary  at  that  day.  For  nearly  thirty 
years  I  was  very  rarely  absent  from  the  pulpit  on  the  Sabbath. 

"  My  advantages  for  an  early  education  were  very  limited.  I  enjoyed 
no  more  than  two  or  three  months  in  a  year  in  a  common  school,  and  that 
of  a  low  character,  kept  chiefly  by  foreigners,  in  which  nothing  was 
taught  but  reading  and  spelling,  writing  and  arithmetic,  and  I  believe 
nothing  more  was  known  by  the  masters  themselves.  At  that  time,  and 
in  that  place,  it  was  generally  thought  that  no  native  American  was 
capable  of  teaching  a  common  English  school.  Suitable  books  of  instruc- 
tion werp  very  few  and  scarce,  and  grammar,  geography,  and  other 
studies  now  common  in  schools,  were  then  rarely  heard  of.  I  had,  how- 
ever, such  a  thirst  after  knowledge,  that  I  improved  every  opportunity 
and  means  to  obtain  it,  and  while  my  playmates,  on  a  rainy  day  and  other 
occasions,  were  spending  their  time  in  idleness  and  folly,  I  was  poring 
over  such  books  as  I  could  obtain,  and  particularly  mathematical  books, 
of  which  I  was  fond.  Thus,  by  what  I  obtained  at  school,  and  what 
I  picked  up  by  myself,  by  the  time  I  was  17  or  18  years  old,  I  was  thought 
qualified  to  keep  a  common  English  school,  and  actually  engaged  in  this 
business  for  two  or  three  of  the  succeeding  winters.  I  then  began  to 
think  in  earnest  of  obtaining,  if  possible,  a  college  education,  and  set 
about  acquiring  the  means  to  defray  the  expense.  My  parents,  having 
then  a  large  family  to  maintain,  could  do  but  little  to  assist  me,  but 
through  their  kind  indulgence  and  help,  and  the  blessing  of  God,  I  soon 
obtained  means  sufficient,  as  I  thought,  to  justify  a  beginning.  Accord- 
ing, in  Nov.,  1787,  being  then  a  little  more  than  21  years  old,  and  there 
being  then  no  academies  or  high  schools  in  the  country,  to  which  I  could 
go  to  pursue  the  necessary  preparatory  studies,  I  went  to  Windham,  and 
put  myself  under  the  care  and  instruction  of  the  Rev.  Simeon  Williams, 
tbe  minister  of  that  town,  who  was  in  the  habit  of  taking  students  and 
preparing  them  to  enter  college.  With  him  I  studied  the  Latin  and 
Greek  languages,  and  such  other  things  as  were  necessary,  for  about 
seventeen  months,  or  until  May,  1789,  when,  with  his  recommendation, 
I  went  to  -Dartmouth  college,  where  I  was  examined  by  the  proper 
authorities,  and  received,  as  in  good  standing,  into  the  Sophomore  class, 
on  the  15th  of  that  month.  I  then  applied  myself  with  satisfactory  dil- 
igence to  the  several  classics  then  in  use,  until  the  Commencement, 
August  21st,  1791,  when  I  graduated  A.  B.,  with  a  class  of  nearly  fifty 
students,  the  largest  class  that  then  had  ever  been  in  that  college.  Thus, 
in  three  years  and  about  nine  months,  after  I  commenced  my  preparatory- 
studies,  I  was  honored  with  my  first  degree  at  the  age  of  25. 

"The  officers  of  the  College,  while  I  was  there,  were  John  Wheelock, 
President;  Bezaleel  Woodward,  Professor  of  Natural  Philosophy  and 
Mathematics;  John  Smith,  Professor  of  Languages,  and  Moses  Fisk, 
Tutor. 

"It  was  my  great  object  and  aim,  from  the  beginning,  to  qualify 
myself  to  become  a  preacher  of  the  gospel.  Of  this  I  never  lost  sight,  and 
of  course,  made  all  my  studies  subservient  to  it.  To  this  great  work  I 
was  strongly  inclined,  though  I  then  had  but  faint  conceptions  of  the 
arduousness  of  the  labors,  and  the  amazing  responsibilities  of  the  office  at 
which  I  aspired. 

"Having  progressed  thus  far  as  to  pass  through  College,  my  next  step 
was  to  apply  myself  to  the  study  of  the  Bible,  of  which  I  had  some  knowl- 
edge, and  of  systematic  theology,  of  which  I  knew  nothing.  At  that  day 
there  were  no  public  Divinity  schools  or  Theological  Institutions,  as  at 
present,  to  which  students  might  resort  to  finish  their  preparations  for 


940  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

the  pulpit.  The  custom  then  was  for  young  men  to  study  with  some 
noted  Divine,  who  was  in  the  habit  of  instructing  candidates  for  the 
ministry  in  Systematic  Divinity,  Pastoral  Theology,  and  the  various 
duties  of  the  sacred  office.  Accordingly,  immediately  after  leaving  Col- 
lege, I  put  myself  under  the  guidance  and  instruction  of  the  late  Dr. 
Burton,  of  Thetford,  Vt.,  with  whom  I  lived  and  studied  about  three 
months.  He  first  taught  me  the  great  outlines  of  Divine  truth  in  a  con- 
nected and  systematic  order,  and  gave  me  such  other  instruction  respect- 
ing the  study  of  the  Bible,  and  the  work  of  the  ministry,  as  has  been  of 
great  advantage  to  me  to  the  present  day.  The  assistance  I  received  from 
him  was  good  and  great,  and  I  shall  ever  hold  his  name  in  grateful 
remembrance. 

"The  following  winter  I  spent  in  teaching  school,  and  in  aiding  a 
young  man  in  his  preparation  for  college.  By  the  way,  I  was  the  first, 
and  he  the  second,  that  had  ever  obtained  a  public  education  from  our 
native  town.  Being  desirous  of  continuing  my  studies,  as  preparatory  to 
the  ministry,  and  to  obtain  the  best  instruction  time  and  circumstances 
would  permit,  in  May,  1792,  I  went  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  put  myself 
under  the  guidance  and  instruction  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Edwards,  late  Pres- 
ident of  Union  College,  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  who  was  then  a  pastor  of  a 
church  in  that  city.  With  him  I  studied  about  six  months,  and  enjoyed 
his  accurate  and  luminous  instruction,  when  I  measurably  filled  up  his 
extensive  system  of  Divinity,  the  outlines  of  which  I  had  previously 
traced  with  Dr.  Burton.  These  two  eminent  divines  were  the  only 
earthly  instructors  in  the  doctrines  and  precepts  of  the  gospel  I  ever 
enjoyed.  With  them  I  laid  the  foundation  of  all  the  knowledge  of 
Divinity  I  ever  possessed,  and  though  their  systems  were  different  in 
some  points,  I  never  could  follow  either  of  them  in  all  particulars;  yet,  to 
both  of  them,  I  still  feel  under  the  greatest  obligations.  They  taught  me 
to  read  and  think  for  myself,  which  I  have  ever  done,  and  which  has  led 
me,  in  some  non-essential  points,  to  differ  from  them  both. 

"  Dr.  E.  Griffin,  late  President  of  Williams  College,  was  my  fellow- 
student  with  Dr.  Edwards.  We  boarded,  studied,  wrote,  slept,  and 
recited  together,  and  at  last  were  examined  together  by  the  Association  of 
the  Western  District  of  the  County  of  New  Haven,  on  the  30th  day  of 
Oct.,  1792.  Dr.  Edwards,  and  the  late  Dr.  Trumbull,  the  historian  of 
Connecticut,  were  the  prominent  members  of  that  Association. 

"Having  thus  finished  my  preparatory  studies,  and  obtained  a  license 
to  preach  the  gospel,  agreeably  to  the  usages  of  Congregational  churches, 
I  returned  to  my  father's,  in  Bedford,  where  I  tarried  a  few  days. 
A  peculiar  train  of  minute  circumstances  and  events  had  been  in  opera- 
tion for  years,  the  tendency  and  meaning  of  which  I  did  not  then  under- 
stand, but  which  I  afterwards  learned  were  designed  by  the  Supreme 
Ruler  of  the  world  to  fix  my  location,  and  bring  me  to  the  scene  of  my 
future  labors  and  connections  in  life.  The  events  which  then  transpired 
in  close  dependence  on  each  other,  experimentally  taught  me  that  God, 
in  his  Providence,  orders  and  governs  the  world,  and  that  his  hand  and 
agency  extend  to  the  most  minute  concerns  of  men — that  he  fixes  the 
bounds  of  our  habitation,  and  that  not  a  sparrow  or  a  hair  falls  to  the 
ground  without  him — a  truth  I  have  never  lost  sight  of  to  this  day. 
Under  this  secret  but  controlling  direction,  I  returned  fvom  my  father's 
in  New  Hampshire  to  Oakham,  in  the  County  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  where 
I  had  kept  a  school  the  preceding  winter,  and  there  I  delivered  my  first 
sermon  in  the  pulpit,  and  in  the  presence  of  my  old  friend  Rev.  Daniel 
Tomlinson,  on  the  18th  of  Nov.,  1792.  My  text  was  1  Cor.  1:23, — '  For  we 
preach  Christ  crucified,' — which  was  a  kind  of  preface  or  motto  to  my 
whole  subsequent  ministry.  It  has  been  my  great  aim  and  endeavor  to 
preach  a  crucified  Saviour  as  the  only  hope  of  a  sinful  world;  and  how 
well  I  have  done  it,  the  great  and  final  day  will  declare. 

"  While  at  Oakham,  where  I  tarried  a  few  days,  I  received  an  in  vita- 


GENEALOGIES. — GOFFE.  941 

tion  to  preach  at  Sutton,  North  Parish  (now  Millbnry)  where  I  preached 
my  first  sermon  on  the  second  day  of  December  following;  and  here  has 
been  the  place  of  my  ministerial  labors,  and  of  my  residence,  ever  since; 
and  though  invited  to  preach  in  several  places,  as  a  candidate  for  settle- 
ment, I  could  never  consent;  and  the  church  and  people  here,  knowing 
the  peculiar  circumstances  in  Providence  which  first  brought  me  here, 
were  strongly  desirous  that  I  should  continue  and  settle  among  them,  and 
therefore  would  not  consent  that  I  should  leave  them.  From  all  that  had 
transpired,  I  was  fully  convinced  that  this  was  the  place  where  I  should 
live  and  labor  for  God.  It  seems  that  he  had  a  great  work  for  me  to  do, 
and  I  must  stay  and  do  it.  Owing,  however,  to  peculiar  circumstances 
and  the  state  of  the  times,  and  especially  to  an  unhappy  controversy 
between  the  church  and  parish  on  one  part,  and  Rev.  Eben  Chaplin,  my 
immediate  predecessor,  on  the  other,  they  delayed  giving  me  a  formal  cail 
for  settlement  until  Jan.,  1794;  and  for  the  same  reason,  I  delayed  giving 
them  an  answer  for  several  months  after.  The  day  for  my  ordination 
was  appointed  on  the  10th  of  Sept.,  1794.  I  was  then  solemnly  set  apart 
by  a  respectable  Ecclesiastical  Council  to  the  work  of  the  gospel  ministry. 
"That  was  an  important  era  of  my  life.  It  witnessed  the  attainment 
of  the  great  object  at  which  I  had  been  aiming  from  the  beginning,  and 
now  I  had  nothing  before  me  but  to  go  to  work  for  God,  and  to  fulfil  the 
ministry  I  had  received,  which  I  have  done  with  much  weakness,  imper- 
fection and  fear;  but,  through  the  divine  assistance  and  blessing,  not 
without  some  desirable  success." 

The  manuscript  next  goes  on  to  give  an  account  of  his  labors  among  his 
people,  his  manner  of  preaching,  the  revivals  under  his  ministry,  and  his 
manner  of  conducting  them,  his  dismission,  etc.     He  then  says: 

"  Thus,  after  preaching  to  this  people  as  a  candidate  and  pastor  for  the 
space  of  thirty-eight  years,  and  after  witnessing  seven  distinct  seasons  of 
special  revival,  and  after  receiving  nearly  400  members  into  the  church, 
I  was  released  from  the  stated  labors  of  the  ministry  at  the  age  of  64 
years,  and  retired,  under  comfortable  worldly  circumstances,  into  the 
more  private  walks  of  life,  consoled  with  the  reflection  that  I  left  the 
church  and  parish  in  the  highest  state  of  increase,  both  in  numbers  and 
wealth,  that  I  had  ever  known  them.  The  church,  when  I  was  dismissed, 
contained  215  members,  a  large  portion  of  them  males. 

"After  about  a  year's  rest  and  retirement,  my  health  was  so  far 
restored  that  I  thought  I  could  and  ought  to  do  something  more  in  the 
vineyard  of  the  Lord.  Accordingly,  I  spent  a  part  of  the  three  succeeding 
years  in  my  native  state,  New  Hampshire,  chiefly  as  a  missionary  and 
supply  in  the  Counties  of  Hillsborough  and  Sullivan,  where  I  trust  I 
labored  not  altogether  in  vain.  Several  were  hopefully  converted,  and 
added  to  the  church,  in  the  places  where  I  exercised  my  ministry.  I  was 
in  New  Hampshire  during  the  summers  of  1832  and  '33,  when  what  were 
called  protracted  meetings  were  held  in  various  towns  and  churches  in 
that  region,  eight  or  ten  of  which  I  attended,  and  assisted  in  carrying 
them  on." 

Remarks  are  here  made  upon  protracted  meetings,  multiplying  meet- 
ings in  times  of  revival,  sudden  conversions,  and  other  things  connected 
with  his  ministry.    He  then  remarks : 

"  One  event  of  my  life  has  afforded  me  no  small  satisfaction  in  the 
reflection,  which  is,  that  I  was,  as  I  believe,  the  first  person  who  brought 
into  public  notice  the  great  and  glorious  plan  of  instituting  the  present 
Board  of  Commissioners  of  Foreign  Missions.  I  was  a  member  of  the 
General  Association  of  Massachusetts,  which  met  at  Bradford,  I  think, 
in  the  year  1810,  and  was  made  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Overtures. 
My  old  friend,  the  late  venerable  Dr.  Spring  of  Newburyport,  aided  by 


942  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

the  Professors  at  Andover,  and  several  others,  had  formed  and  matured 
the  grand  design  of  instituting  such  a  Board,  with  a  view  of  the  conver- 
sion of  the  world  to  Christ.  The  good  Dr.  Spring  desired  me  to  put  some 
notice  of  this  on  my  minutes,  which  I  did,  and  laid  it  before  the  Associa- 
tion as  an  article  for  their  consideration  and  action.  The  Association 
adopted  the  plan,  and  proceeded  to  choose  the  first  Board  of  Commission- 
ers, in  which  I  assisted  by  my  voice  and  vote." 

THE  GORDON  FAMILY. 

I.  Nathaniel  Gordon,  b.  in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  Ireland;  a  farmer  by 
occupation,  of  Scotch-Presbyterian  descent,  intended  to  settle  in 
Virginia  where  there  was  an  elder  brother,  but  the  vessel  in  which 
he  sailed  was  obliged  to  put  into  Boston.  He  m.,  in  Ireland,  Sarah 
Martin,  and  had  four  ch.:  John2;  Samuel2;  Elizabeth2,  and  Hannah.2 
He  settled  in  Shirley,  Mass.,  in  1742,  and  d.  in  Peterborough,  N.  H., 
about  1789,  aged  83. 
II.  John,  son  of  Nathaniel1  and  Sarah  (Martin)  Gordon,  b.  1721;  m. 
1762,  Mary  Campbell  of  Townsend,  Mass.;  came  to  Bedford  about 
1774,  and  purchased  of  his  brother  Samuel  a  fifty-acre  lot,  which  is 
a  part  of  the  Gordon  farm,  so  called.  He  d.  1798,  April  29.  They 
had  fourteen  ch.:  Josiah3,  b.  1762,  d.  1824,  July  11;  Elizabeth3,  b. 

;   Nathaniel3,  b. ;  Anna3,  b. ;  Mary3,  b. ;  Samuel3, 

b. ,   m.  Isabella  McPherson,  had  ch.,  rem.  to  Hillsborough, 

thence  to  Stockbridge,  Oneida  county,  N.  Y.    He  d. .    James3, 

b. ,  m.  Elizabeth  West  of  Belfast,  Me.  They  had  two  daugh- 
ters, who  lived  in  Boston;   Sally3,  b.  ,    m.  Cotton  Eaton  of 

Goffstown,  and  had  twelve  ch.;  moved  to  Maine.    She  d. ; 

William3,  b. ;   Robert3,  b. ;  Rebecca3,  b.  ,   m.  William 

Reed  of  Boston.  They  had  five  sons  and  two  daughters.  She  d. 
;     Daniel3,  b. . 

III.  Josiah,  son  of  John2;  m.  1792,  Jane,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Dea. 

Robert  Walker.  They  had  four  ch.  He  was  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier. The  linen  shirt  that  he  wore  to  the  army  was  made  from 
flax  raised,  hatcheled,  and  woven  on  the  Gordon  farm  by  his 

mother,  and  is  still  in  existence.     Ch.:  Adam*,  b.  ;    Hannah*, 

d.  in  infancy;  Eliza4,  b.  1797,  March  11,  m.  1832,  Oct.  5,  Peter  P. 
Woodbury,  M.  D.,  (see  Woodbury) ;  Jane4,  b.  1799,  Sept.  23,  d. 
1888,  Oct.  14,  unm. 

IV.  Adam,  son  of  Josiah3;  m.  1825,  Oct.,  Eliza,  dau.  of  Joseph  W.  Page. 

He  d.  1861,  May  6.     They  had  nine  ch.:  Joseph  W.5,  b. ,  d. 

in  infancy;  Martha  J5,  b. ,  d.  in  infancy;  Ann  E.5,  b. ,  d. 

in  infancy;  Josiah5,  b. ,  went  to  California,  the  time  and  place 

of  his  death  is  unknown;  George  William5,  b.  1831,  March  1,  Pen- 
sacola,  Fla.,  d.  1888,  Feb.  7,  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  Eliza  J.6,  b. 
1835,  Feb.  15,  Key  West,  Fla.,  d.  1890,  May  27,  New  York  city; 

Charles  C.s,  b. ,  d. ;  Oliver  E.5,  b. ,  d. ;   Florian 

W.5,  b.  1845,  Sept.  14,  d.  1885,  Oct,  22. 

III.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John2,  b. ;  m.  Jonathan  Bailey;  lived  and  d. 

at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  had  six  ch.,  Daniel4,  Sarah4,  Eliza4, 
John  G.4,  Gilman4,  Sophronia4,  and  Jonathan4. 

III.  Nathaniel,  son  of  John2;  m.  Mille  Rand,  and  d.  in  1827.  They 
had  five  ch.:  Alfred4,  b. ,  m.  Mary  Jones,  and  went  to  Illi- 
nois.   Sarah4,  b. ,  m.  Enos  Reed  of  East  Cambridge,  Mass., 

and  had  seven  ch.  She  d.  1881,  May  5.  Nancy4,  b. ,  m.  Rob- 
ert Walker,  settled  in  Illinois,  had  four  ch.     She  d. .     Emily4, 

b. ,  m.  Mr.  Prentiss,  had  one  ch.,  and  d.  at  Billerica  in  1841. 

Mary4,  b. ,  m.  John  Nichols,  settled  in  Illinois,  and  had  nine 

ch.     Shed. . 


GENEALOGIES. — GORDON. — GRANZ. — HADLEY.  943 

III.  Anna,  dan.  of  John2,  b. ;  in.,  1st,  Robert  Rand,  by  whom  she 

had  ten  ch.  He  d.  in  the  War  of  1812.  She  m.,  2d,  Joseph  Bai- 
ley of  Hillsborongh,  by  whom  she  had  two  ch.,  Josiah  G.4  and 
Ann  Rebecca.4    She  d. . 

III.  Mary,  dan.  of  John2,  b. ;  m.  Oliver  Newell.    He  d.  in  the  West 

Indies  in  1802.  They  had  fonr  ch.,  Nancy4,  James4,  John4,  and 
Oliver4.    They  lived  in  Lempster.     She  d.  in  1848. 

III.  William,  son  of  John2,  b. ;  graduated  at  Dartmouth  college  in 

1811;  entered  the  practice  of  law  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  where 
he  d.  in  1835  of  inflammation  of  the  lungs  in  consequence  of  an 
injury  from  a  passing  carriage,  while  handing  a  letter  to  a  stage 
driver. 

III.  Robert,  son  of  John2,  b. ;  m.  Elizabeth  Carlisle  of  Brighton. 

They  had  two  sons,  Robert4,  George.4  Robert  graduated  from  col- 
lege in  1844,  and  went  to  California;  George  graduated  at  West 
Point  in  1845,  and  was  in  the  Mexican  war  under  Gen.  Scott;  was 
in  all  his  battles,  and  was  wounded  while  escorting  a  train  to 
Vera  Cruz.     Robert  d.  in  1824. 

III.  Daniel,   son  of  John2;  m.   1825,  Feb.,  Louisa  Dole.      He  d.  . 

They  moved  to  Beloit,  Wis.,  in  1845,  where  descendants  of  the 

family  still  live.      They  had  five  ch.:  Elizabeth  D.4,  b. ,  m. 

Richard  Dole,  who  was  Indian  agent  in  Lincoln's  first  administra- 
tion.    She  d. .    Mary  J.4,  b. ,  d.  unru.     Louisa4,  b. , 

d.  unm.  John  B.4,  b. ,  m.,  1st, ,  2d, ,  d. .  Rich- 
ard D.4,  b. ,  d.  about  19  years  of  age. 

II.  Samuel,  son  of  Nathaniel1  and  Sarah  (Martin)  Gordon;  m.  Eleanor 
Mitchel  of  Shirley,  Mass.,  who  was  born  in  Limerick  county, 
Ireland,  and  came  to  this  country  at  the  age  of  6.  They  had 
thirteen  ch.:  Samuel3;  Sarah3;  Elizabeth3;  Hannah3;  Nathaniel3, 
Eleanor3;  Jane3;  Mary3;  Nehemiah3;  John3,  and  Nancy3.  Two  d. 
in  infancy. 

GRANZ. 

I.  Max  Otto  was  b.  Plaisa,  Germany,  1865,  Oct.  29,  son  of  Louis  and 
Amaliue  (Lobel)  Granz.  He  came  to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  previous 
to  1894,  and  settled  in  Bedford  previous  to  1900;  carpenter  and 
farmer.  He  m.  1888,  April  23,  Anna  Teresia,  b.  1864,  May  2,  dau. 
of  Gollhelf  and  Tuliane  (Lohnier)  Sunder,  Obercunnersdorf ,  Ger- 
many. Ch.,  b.  Plaisa,  Ger.:  Anna  Flora2,  b.  1888,  May  1;  Max 
Bruno2,  b.  1889,  Aug.  3;  Otto  I.2,  b.  1891,  Jan.  24.  Ch.,  b.  Man- 
chester, N.  H.:  Selma  Lizzie2,  b.  1894,  Dec.  17;  Willie2,  b.  1896, 
May  14,  d.  1896,  Sept.  28;  Rosa  Ema2,  b.  1898,  July  24.  Ch.,  b. 
Bedford:  Minna  Clara,  b.  1900,  Dec.  1;  Franz  Heinrich,  b.  1903, 
Jan.  11. 

HADLEY. 

I.  Amos  Ervin,  farmer,  was  b.  1847,  Oct.  21,  son  of  Amos  Woodbury 
and  Esther  H.  (Elliot)  Hadley  of  Dunbarton.  He  m.  1865,  May 
25,  Maria,  b.  1845,  Dec.  26,  dau.  of  Rodney  and  Hannah  (Harris) 
Worthley  of  Boston,  Mass.  Ch.:  Amos  Edward2,  b.  Dunbarton, 
1866,  March  14,  m.  1890,  May  19,  Emma  M.  Hadley,  res.  in  Weare; 
Harris  Peirson2,  b.  1869,  Sept,  6,  m.  1899,  Oct.  4,  Lilla  M.  Boyd, 
res.  P.  Q.;  Ina  Ednah2,  b.  Goffstown,  1872,  May  3,  d.  1888,  July  5; 
Francis  Ervin2,  b.  New  Boston,  1877,  Oct.  16,  m.  1903, Ham- 
mond. 


944  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 


HALL. 

The  earliest  record  of  this  name  in  New  England  is  1634,  when  John 
Hall  of  Lynn  was  admitted  freeman;  Robert,  of  Boston,  a  blacksmith, 
was  a  member  of  the  church  at  that  time;  six  others  were  admitted  prior 
to  1650.  The  Halls  became  residents  of  Billerica,  Mass.,  after  1750,  and  in 
1826  were  extinct  in  that  town. 

III.  Samuel,  probably  grandson  of  Samuel,  who  in  1638  was  a  member 

of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  company,  was  of  Billerica, 
and  m.,  1st,  1727,  Jan.  25,  Hannah  Kittredge,  who  d.  1750,  July 
21.  He  m.,  2d,  1751,  April  24,  Hannah  Saunders  of  Tewksbury. 
Record  shows  that  he  had  a  son  b.  by  1st  mar.,  1747,  March  28,  who 
d.  1749,  Oct.  31. 

IV.  Thomas,  supposed  to  be  son  of  Samuel3,  was  of  Billerica.     He  m. 

1761,  April  15,  Lydia  Keyes,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  four 
daughters.  He  d.  1772,  May  10.  His  widow  m.,  2d,  Samson 
Crosby,  moved  to  Milford,  N.  H,  had  one  dan.,  and  d.  in  1836, 
aged  94. 
V.  Nathan,  son  of  Thomas4,  was  b.  1767,  Aug.  6.  He  m.  about  1790. 
Ruth  Ann,  dau.  of  Peres  and  Abigail  Waterman,  Oakham,  Mass.. 
who  by  her  father  was  a  lineal  descendant  from  the  Plymouth 
pilgrim  of  that  name.  Nathan  was  a  blacksmith;  he  used  to 
relate  that  when  apprenticed  to  the  trade  he  has  many  a  time 
gone  in  from  the  shop  and  eaten  for  supper  just  fourteen  spoons- 
fuls  of  brown  bread  and  milk,  by  count,  then  returned  and  worked 
till  9  o'clock.  He  d.  1812,  Oct.  12;  his  wife  d.  1815,  Jan.  12. 
VI.  Benjamin,  son  of  Nathan5,  was  b.  in  Milford,  N.  H,  1812,  Sept.  17, 
youngest  of  a  family  of  nine  ch. ,  four  sons  and  five  daughters,  all 
of  whom  were  m.  and  living  in  New  Hampshire  in  1837,  but  bv 

1850  three  had  d.     He  m.,  1st,  J 836,  April  13,  Sarah  M.,  b. -, 

dau.  of  Isaac  Atwood  of  Bedford.  He  became  a  permanent  resi- 
dent of  this  town  in  1848,  Nov.,  and  res.  for  a  number  of  years  on 
the  farm  owned,  cleared,  and  occupied  by  Isaac  Atwood  and  his 
father  for  71  years,  now  occupied  by  Ervin  R.  French.  In  1850  he 
was  the  only  man  of  his  name  in  town,  and  at  the  present  time. 
1903,  the  name  is  extinct.  He  in.,  2d,  Mrs.  Louisa  J.  Barnes  of 
Reed's  Ferry,  N.  H.  (see  Moore),  and  continued  to  res.  in  town 
until  his  death,  1895,  May  4.  Oh.,  all  by  1st  mar.:  Benjamin  Or- 
lando7, b.  1837,  Aug.  15,  was  drowned  in  what  is  now  called 
Damon's  mill-pond,  when  but  a  lad  (see  p.  641);  Sarah  E.7,  b. 
1839,  May  21,  m.  Willard  Clinton  Parker  (see  Parker);  Philo  E.\ 
b.  1848,  Feb.  22;  Clara  E.7,  b.  1850,  July  8,  d.  1850,  July  21. 
VII.  Philo  E.,  dau.  of  Benjamin6,  b.  1848,  Feb.  22;  m.  and  located  in  fche 
West,  where  she  d.  Had  three  ch.,  two  sons,  one  of  whomd., 
and  a  dau.,  Nellie8.  The  other  son  m. ,  and  located  in  Lowell. 
Mass.,  where  Nellie  also  made  her  home. 


HARDY. 

George  Henry1,  son  of  Rodney  and  Judith  Ann  (Gilmore)  Hardy, 
was  b.  in  Manchester,  1875,  April  4.  Has  res.  in  town  about  25 
years;  farmer.  He  m.  1901,  Sept.  28,  Lillian  Frances,  b.  Boston, 
Mass.,  1881,  Feb.  21,  dau.  of  George  and  Sarah  (Rowe)  Kingslev. 
They  have  Alice  May2,  b.  1902,  Oct.  22. 


GENEALOGIES. — HESELTON. — HODGMAN.  945 

HESELTON. 

In  the  year  1637  there  lauded  at  Salem,  in  the  Province  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  in  New  England,  the  Rev.  Ezekiel  Rogers  and  about 
sixty  families  who  had  come  from  the  counties  of  Yorkshire  and  Devon- 
shire in  old  England  for  the  purpose  of  planting  a  colony  in  the  wilds  of 
the  new  world. 

In  Mr.  Rogers'  company  were  two  brothers  bearing  the  names  of  Rob- 
ert and  John  Heselton,  who,  in  consideration  of  certain  grants  of  land  in 
the  new  territory  commenced  clearings  and  erected  dwellings  upon  lands 
bordering  on  the  Merrimack  river,  and  were  the  first  settlers  in  the 
present  town  of  Bradford,  Mass. 

John  Heselton,  after  a  few  years  at  Bradford,  crossed  the  Merrimack 
and  lived  and  died  in  Haverhill.  He  married  Joan  Auter,  said  to  have 
been  of  Biddeford,  England,  and  from  the  family  of  a  Mr.  Holman  of  that 
place. 

I.  John  (his  descendant  in  the  sixth  generation),  m.  Lydia  Flint  of 
Reading,  Mass.,  and  lived  in  Manchester.  Their  ch.  were: 
Lydia2;  Stephen2;  KadmieP,  b.  1804,  Aug.  2;  Caleb2;  Betsey2; 
John2;  Lucinda2;  Lavina2;  Washington2;  Adaline2;  Leonard2; 
Reuben.2 
II.  Kadmiel,  son  of  John1,  b.  1804,  Aug.  2;  m.  1834,  Hannah  Kennedy, 
b.  Goffstown,  1804,  June  2,  and  d.  in  Manchester,  1870,  Nov.  2. 
He  came  to  Bedford  with  his  sons,  Robert  and  Granville,  in  1877, 
and  d.  here  1884,  Oct.  2.  Hadch.,  b.  in  Manchester:  Augustus3, 
b.  1835,  Feb.  4,  d,  1841,  March  9;  Harrison  Weston3,  b.  1837,  Feb. 
9;  Hannah  Jane3,  b.  1838,  Nov.  5,  d.  1841,  March  9;  Robert  Ken- 
nedy3, b.  1840,  Dec.  14;  Granville3,  b.  1843,  March  2;  Francis 
Henry3,  b.  1846,  Jan.  17,  d.  1870,  Aug.  4;  George  Albert3,  b.  1850, 
June  28,  d.  Nashua,  1901,  Dec.  28. 
III.  Harrison  Weston,  son  of  Kadmiel2,  b.  1837,  Feb.  9;  m.  1859,  July  2, 
Almira  Whitten  of  Malone,  N.  Y.,  b.  1836,  April  12.  Hed.  1902, 
Oct.  2.  Had  ch.:  George  O.4,  b.  1860,  April  20,  m.  1888,  Oct.  10, 
Ella  L.  Waterman,  b.  Groton,  Vt.,  1864,  Sept.  21;  Frank  A.*,  b. 
1861,  June  10,  drowned  1868,  June  9. 
III.  Granville,  son  of  Kadmiel,2  b.  1843,  March  2;  m.,  1st,  1871,  Sept.  7, 
Marcia  M.  Baxter  of  Bangor,  N.  Y.,  b.  1849,  Nov.  15,  and  d.  1881, 
Jan.  7;  he  also  m.  1881,  Nov.  2,  Lilla  M.  Ferguson,  b.  Bedford, 
1857,  May  17,  dau.  of  Thomas  M.  and  Marcia  L.  (McAllister)  Fer- 
guson. He  d.  Bedford,  1902,  Jan.  27.  Thev  had  one  dau.,  Flora 
Marcia4,  b.  1884,  April  18. 

HODGMAN. 

The  family  tree  of  Hodgman  extends  back  to  Thomas  of  Reading, 
Mass.,  1663.     The  line  of  descent  is  as  follows: 

I.  Thomas;  m.  Mary  Merrill;  had  a  son,  Josiah'2. 
II.  Josiah;  m.  Elizabeth ;  had  a  son,  Thomas3. 

III.  Thomas;  m.  1784,  Jan.  14,  Abigail  Gerry,  and  had  nine  sons,  eight 

of  whom  grew  up  and  had  families:  Thomas*,  Josiah4,  Benjamin4, 
Jonathan4,  Joseph4,  David4,  Timothy4,  John4,  and  Samuel4. 

IV.  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas3;   m.   1740,  Elizabeth  Blood  of  Concord, 

Mass.     Had  a  son,  Abijah5. 
V.  Abijah,  son  of  Thomas4,  b.  1750;  m.,  1st,  Beulah  Kibby;  m.,  2d, 
Rhoda  Sprague.     Had  a  son,  Abijah6. 
VI.  Abijah,  son  of  Abijah*,  was  b.  1775,  Oct.  11;  m.  1801,  Sept.  3,  Abi- 
gail Dowse,  b.  1779,  Sept.  9.    Settled  in  Bedford,  1803.     Abijah 
d.  1864,  May  15;  his  wife  d.  1870,  Jan.  1.     They  had  nine  ch.: 
William7,  b.  1802,  May  14;  George7,  b.  1804,  Aug.  4;  Clarissa7,  b. 
61 


946  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

1806,  Aug.  4,  m.  Adam  N.  Patten  (see  Patten) ;  Abijah,  Jr.7,  b. 
1809,  March  25,  m.  1834,  Mary  Barnard,  d.  1835,  Jan.  1,  no  ch.; 
Abigail7,  b.  1811,  May  23,  m.  Rodney  McLaughlin  (see  McLaugh- 
lin); Frederic*,  b.  1813,  Nov.  12;  Isaac  Parker"*,  b.  1816,  Aug.  4; 
John1,  b.  1820,  Nov.  6;  James  F.7,  b.  1823,  Sept.  2,  d.  1860,  Sept. 
13. 
VII.  William,  son  of  Abigail6,  b.  1802,  May  14;  m.  in  1835,  Martha  Hodg- 
man,  who  d.  1849,  Sept.  2.  He  d.  1865,  Sept.  27.  They  had  one 
dau.,  Sarah  E.,  b.  1835,  Dec.  25,  she  m.  1854,  July  9,  Edward 
Hutchins  of  Carlisle,  Mass.,  and  d.  1878,  July  4. 
VII.  George,  son  of  Abijah6,  b.  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  1804,  Aug.  4;  came  to 
Bedford  with  his  parents  when  but  eight  months  old.  In  1829 
rem.  to  Carlisle,  Mass.,  returned  to  Bedford  in  1835,  and 
settled  in  Amherst  in  1873.  He  m.,  1st,  1829,  March  19,  Mary 
Parker  of  Merrimack,  b.  in  Bedford,  1810,  March  19;  she  d.  here 
1850,  May  23.  He  m.,  2d,  Mrs.  Sally  Gillis  Mitchell,  b.  in  Merri- 
mack, 1806,  June,  and  d.  1890,  May  24.  He  d.  in  Amherst,  1897, 
April  28,  aged  92.  Had  ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Mary  Elizabeth8,  b.  in 
Carlisle,  Mass.,  in  May,  d.  1830,  July  4;  Mary  Abbie8,  b.  in  Car- 
lisle, 1831,  Nov.  10,  m.,  1st,  James  C.  Moore,  2d,  William  U. 
Gage  (see  Moore  and  Gage);  Julia8,  b.  Carlisle,  1834,  June  30; 
George,  Jr.8,  b.  in  Bedford,  1838,  May  13;  John  P.8,  b.  in  Bedford, 
1840,  Nov.  26;  William  H.8,  b.  in  Bedford,  1844,  June  7,  mus- 
tered into  U.  S.  service  in  Company  E,  Fifteenth  N.  H.  Volun- 
teers, d.  1863,  Jan.  23,  in  Carrollton,  La.;  Thomas  E.8,  b.  1846, 
Sept.  10;  d.  1850,  April  9. 

VIII.  Julia,  dau.  of  George7,  b.  1834,  June  30;  m.  1857,  July  30,  Isaac 
Parker,  Jr.,  of  Amherst,  who  d.  1882,  Aug.  She  still  res.  in 
Amherst.  Their  ch.  were:  George  E.9,  b.  1859,  Nov.  6,  and  Fred 
H.9,  b.  1861,  July  4. 
IX.  George  E.  (Parker),  son  of  Julia8,  b.  1859,  Nov.  6;  m.  1886,  Jan.  27, 
Mary,  b.  1866,  Feb.  6,  dau.  of  Robert  Atkinson  of  Philadelphia, 
Pa.  They  have:  George  A",  b.  1886,  Oct.  30;  Charles  R.10,  b. 
1889,  Jan.  18;  Annie  J.10,  b.  1890,  March  30:  Forrest  G.10,  b.  1892, 
May  31;  Lizzie  M.10,  b.  1894,  April  14;  Willard  H.10,  b.  1897, 
Aug.  5. 
IX.  Fred  H.  (Parker),  son  of  Julia8,  b.  1861,  July  4;  m.  1885,  Jan.  14, 
Alice  F.,  b.  Groton,  Mass.,  1861,  March  8,  dau.  of  Charles  H. 
Holden  of  Nashua.  They  have:  Wilbert  F.™  b.  1890,  Sept.  2, 
and  Clvde  H.*>,  b.  1894,  July  19. 

VIII.  George,  Jr.,  son  of  George7,  b.  1838,  May  13;  m.  1861,  Hannah,  b. 
1844,  Aug.  7,  dau.  of  Dwelly  Mitchell  of  Bedford.  He  was  mus- 
tered into  U.  S.  service,  Company  B,  Ninth  N.  H.  Volunteers, 
1862,  July  12,  and  d.  at  Fairfax,  Va.,  1862,  Nov.  12.     No  ch. 

VIII.  John  P.,  son  of  George7,  b.  1840,  Nov.  26;  was  mustered  into  U.  S. 
service  in  Fourth  N.  H.  Volunteers,  1861,  Sept.  18;  reenlisted  in 
the  same,  1864,  Feb.  18;  was  discharged  with  his  regiment,  1865, 
Aug.  27.  He  m.,  1st,  1868,  March  26,  Esther  S.,  b.  in  Dunbarton, 
1843,  May  19,  dau.  of  Moses  R.  Paige  of  Bedford;  she  d.  in  Am- 
herst, 1879,  Sept.  14.  He  m.,  2d,  1882,  Nov.  23,  Laura  A.,  b.  in 
Moultonborough,  1842,  Sept.  25,  dau.  of  Josiah  W.  French  of 
Loudon,  N.  H.  He  moved  to  Amherst  in  1870,  returned  to  Bed- 
ford in  1872,  and  rem.  to  Amherst  again  in  1873,  where  he 
still  res.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.  were:  George  H.9,  b.  1869,  June  3,  m. 
1891,  Sept.  8,  Dora  F.,  b.  in  Amherst,  1872,  Jan.  1.,  dau.  of  John 
M.  Prince,  he  d.  1898,  Oct.  3,  no  ch;  John  Q.9,  b.  Amherst,  1871, 
May  3;  Edwin  G.9,  b.  in  Bedford,  1872,  Sept.  18;  Jessie  M.9,  b.  in 
Amherst,  1874,  Aug.  13;  Gracie  D.9,  b.  1876,  May  21,  d.  1887,  May 
27;  Erne  R.9,  b.  1877,  Oct.  16,  d.  1880,  May  9,  and  Ethel  F.9,  b. 
1886,  Feb.  9,  by  2d  mar. 


GENEALOGIES. — HODGMAN. — HOGG.  947 

IX.  Edwin  G.,  son  of  John  P.8,  b.  1872,  Sept.  18;  m.  1893,  April  8,  Sarah 
E.,  b.  Baltimore,  Md.,  1873,  Nov.  26,  dau.  of  Andrew  J.  Jackson. 
They  res.  in  Amherst.  Have  ch.:  Rodney  J.10,  b.  1893,  Nov.  30; 
Charlotte  E.10,  b.  1895,  Jan.  17,  d.  1895,  Aug.  17;  Elmer  E.10,  b. 
1898,  Sept.  10. 
VII.  Frederic,  son  of  Abijah6 ,  b.  1813,  Nov.  12;  m.  1839,  Maria  Houston, 
whod.  1885,  Feb.  13.  He  d.  1893,  Mav  19.  They  had  two  ch.: 
Sarah  A.8,  b.  Bedford,  1842,  Mav  31,  d.*1858,  Oct.  9;  Abby  M.8,  b. 
1845,  July  31,  d.  1859,  Feb.  21. 
VII.  Isaac  Parker,  son  of  Abijah6,  b.  Amherst,  1816,  Aug.  4;  m.  1842, 
Dec.  1,  Emily,  b.  1818,  Oct.  14,  dau.  of  Timothy  and  Mehitable 
(Pratt)  Mitchell  of  Merrimack.  They  settled  in  Bedford  and  had 
ch.:  Clinton  Parked,  b.  1844,  May  24;  Emily  Samantha8,  b.  1846, 
May  10,  d.  1851,  Feb.  9;  Isaac  Abijah*,  b.  1847,  Oct.  20;  Emma 
Juliet9',  b.  1851,  May  1;  James  Clifton  French6,  b.  1852,  Dec.  4;  John 
Monroe8,  b.  1854,  July  17;  Charles  Edward8,  b.  1856,  Nov.  4,  d. 
1871,  Aug.  31;  Thomas  Frederick8,  b.  1861,  Nov.  26,  d.  1865,  Feb. 
15;  Ella  Luzana  Samantha9,  b.  1865,  June  6. 

VIII.  Clinton  P.  son  of  Isaac  Parker7,  b.  1844,  May  24;  farmer;  m.  1874, 
March  19,  Julia  A.,  b.  in  Bedford,  1845,  April  19,  dau.  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Sarah  A.  (Parkhurst)  Flint;  res.  in  Bedford;  he  d. 
1888,  Dec.  6.  They  had  ch.:  Albert  C.9,  b.  1875,  May  4;  NeUie 
A.9,  b.  1876,  April  30;  Lewis  E.9,  b.  1878,  June  22:  Arthur  N.9,  b. 
1881,  June  26;  Sarah  A.9,  b.  1882,  Oct.  23;  Waldo  M.9,  b.  1885, 
Jan.  29. 

VIII.  Isaac  Abijah,  son  of  Isaac  Parker7,  b.  1847,  Oct.  20;  farmer;  m. 
1875,  Dec.  9,  Lovisia  J.,  b.  in  Bedford,  1849,  Jan.  19,  dau.  of 
George  W.  and  Lovisia  M.  (Roby)  Gage;  res.  in  Merrimack. 

VIII.  Emma  J.,  dau.  of  Isaac  Parker7,  b.  1851,  May  1;  m.  1878,  May  21, 
Joseph  E.  Fowle  of  Amherst,  b.  1846,  May  27.  They  have  two 
ch.:  Marion  E.9,  b.  1880,  July  16;  Edward  P.9,  b.  1884,  Sept.  6. 

VIII.  James  C.  F.,  son  of  Isaac  Parker7,  b.  1852,  Dec.  4;  farmer;  m.  1880, 
March  10,  Katie  L.  Kittredge,  b.  1855,  May  11,  dau.  of  Joseph  Kit- 
tredge  of  Merrimack.  They  res.  in  Merrimac.  Have  a  son, 
Frederick  J.9,  b.  1881,  Dec.  12. 

VIII.  Ella  L.  S.,  dau.  of  Isaac  Parker7,  b.  1865,  June  6;  m.  1891,  Sept.  23, 
George  F.  Upham  of  Merrimack,  b.  in  Amherst,  1865,  Sept.  21. 
Have  onech.,  Ralph  H.9,  b.  1898,  Dec.  11. 
VII.  John,  son  of  Abijah6,  b.  1820,  Nov.  6;  m.  1845,  July  1,  Harriet 
Sprague,  b.  Hingham,  Mass.,  1818,  May  25;  res.  in  Bedford; 
served  in  the  Civil  war.  Was  superintendent  of  the  Sunday- 
school  and  town  treasurer  for  a  number  of  years.  He  d.  in  Mel- 
rose, Mass.,  1897,  April  21.  Harriet,  his  wife,  d.  in  Melrose, 
Mass.,  1896,  Nov.  6.     Both  are  buried  in  Bedford. 

HOGG. 

I.  James  Hogg,  a  Scotchman  who  lived  in  the  northeast  part  of  Ire- 
land, had  among  other  children,  two  sons,  Robert2  and  Joseph2, 
who  came  to  America  and  settled  in  Londonderry. 
II.  Joseph,  son  of  James1;  m.  Mary,  b.  in  Londonderry,  dau.  of  James, 
and  Elizabeth  (Gregg)  Moor.    They  had  seven  ch.,  viz.:  Thomas3 
William3,  Hugh3,  James3,  Agnes  N.3,  Mary3,  Sarah3. 
By  an  act  of  the  legislature  in  1803  the  four  sons  had  their  names 
changed  from  Hogg  to  Moor  (thus  taking  their  mother's  maiden 
name).   For  record  of  Thomas,  Hugh,  Agnes  N.,  Mary,  and  Sarah 
see  "  History  of  Francestown." 
For  William  and  James  see  Moore. 
III.  William,  son  of  Joseph2;  m.  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Capt.  Samuel  and 

Rebecca  (Goffe)  Moor. 
III.  James,  son  of  Joseph2;  m.  Elizabeth  Giles  of  New  Salem. 


948  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

HOLBROOK. 

Dea.  John  Holbrook  was  born  in  Roxbury,  and  served  several  years  in  the 
Revolutionary  war,  with  his  brother  Ebenezer,  who  was  taken  by  the  enemy 
and  died  in  captivity.  When  he  became  prisoner,  he  gave  John  his 
watch,  which  is  still  owned  and  kept  by  John  Holbrook  of  Madison,  Me., 
and  is  a  good  timekeeper.  John  afterwards  settled  in  what  is  now  Brigh- 
ton. He  joined  what  was  then  the  Third  Congregational  church,  Cam- 
bridge, under  Rev.  John  Foster,  D.  D.,  and  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
deacon  in  that  church.  He  once  attended  an  ordination,  as  delegate  from 
that  church,  in  the  western  part  of  Massachusetts.  On  his  way  he  called 
on  Rev.  Abiel  Holmes  of  the  First  church,  who  was  to  preach  the  sermon, 
and  kindly  offered  to  assist  him  on  his  way.  The  doctor  concluded  to 
ride  with  Dr.  Foster,  but  would  be  glad  to  have  the  deacon  take  his  bag- 
gage, and  in  putting  it  in  he  repeatedly  charged  Deacon  Holbrook,  "  Be 
sure  you  take  care  of  the  trunk,  for  it  contains  the  cloak  and  the  parch- 
ment." 

In  1803,  Deacon  Holbrook  removed  to  Bedford,  and  in  1804  was  added 
to  the  session  of  this  church.  In  1832  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  electors  of 
president  and  vice-president  of  the  United  States.  His  death  occurred 
suddenly  Sabbath,  1835,  Dec.  12,  having  attended  meeting  and  listened 
to  the  exercises  of  the  day  with  great  attention,  and  even  found  the  last 
hymn.  He  died  just  after  leaving  the  house  of  God  in  his  sleigh  with  his 
wife,  being  a  most  solemn  providence  and  loud  call  to  the  congregation. 
The  text  selected  at  his  funeral  was  Hebrews  11:21:  "  By  faith,  Jacob, 
when  he  was  dying,  worshiped,  leaning  on  the  top  of  his  staff." 

"When  Dea.  John  Holbrook,  with  his  family,  moved  to  Bedford  from 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  he  bought  a  farm  of  Mr.  Gilcrist  in  the  northwest  cor- 
ner of  the  town  on  what  is  now  known  as  Holbrook  hill,  it  being  the 
highest  land  in  the  town.  The  original  house  is  still  standing  where  five 
generations  of  Holbrooks  have  lived,  and  three  generations  have  been  born 
there.  The  house  was  built  by  Mr.  Gilcrist  somewhere  about  1780.  Dea. 
John,  as  his  sons  grew  up  and  married,  set  off  a  part  of  his  large  farm  to 
each  one  until  four  of  them  had  homes  and  families  near  each  other,  the 
farthest  being  not  over  100  rods  apart.  Two  of  these  houses  have  been 
burned  and  one  torn  down,  so  there  is  but  one  of  the  originals,  and  that  is 
the  old  home  place.  The  house  on  the  Abiel  Holbrook  place  was  rebuilt 
and  still  stands.  The  descendants  have  died  or  moved  away  until  only  one 
branch  remains  on  the  hill,  viz.:  Arthur  W.  Holbrook,  great  grandson; 
also  Chester  Mason  and  Harold  Arthur  Holbrook,  great,  great  grandsons 
of  the  Dea.  John  who  first  came  to  Bedford.  The  four  sons  who  had 
homes  on  the  hill  were  Ralph,  Eben,  Thomas  G.,  and  Abiel,  all  having 
families  born  there. 

I.  John  Holbrook  of  Roxbury,  Mass.  (see  sketch) ,  who  was  b.  1663  and 

d.  1735,  aged  72  yrs.,  had  at  least  one  son,  Ralph2. 
II.  Ralph,  son  of  John1;  m.  Dorothy  Williams  and  had  five  ch.:  John*, 
Ebenezer3,  Polly3,  Elizabeth3,  and  Dolly3. 

III.  Dea.  John,  son  of  Ralph2,  was  b.  1758,  March  12,  at  Roxbury,  Mass.; 

d.  1835,  Dec.  12.  He  was  m.  in  1783,  to  Sarah  Griggs,  Brookline, 
Mass.,  who  d.  1843,  June  19.  They  had  nine  ch.:  Peggy  W.4,  b.  in 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  1785,  Dec.  21,  d.  young;  Polly*,  b.  at  Roxbury, 
1787;  John*,  b.  at  Boston,  1790;  Ralph*,  b.  at  Brighton,  1794, 
Feb.  5;  Ebenezer*,  b.  Brighton,  1796,  May  23;  Sarah4,  b.  Brighton, 
1798,  Dec.  1,  m.  Ebenezer  C,  son  of  Ebenezer  French  (see 
French);  Thomas  G.*,b.  Brighton,  1801,  April  20;  Abiel*,  b.  in 
Bedford,  1803,  July  7;  Joseph  G.4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1807,  Dec.  25,  d. 
1833,  Dec.  22,  at  Watertown,  Mass.,  from  injuries  received  in  a 
stage,  was  unm. 

IV.  Polly,  dau.  of  Dea.  John3,  b.  1787;   m.  John  Walker  of  Madison, 

Me.,  where  she  d.  1873,  July  26.     Had  four  ch.:   Sarah  G.5,  b. 


GENEALOGIES. — HOLBROOK.  949 

1806,  Feb.,  m.  1851,  Feb.  6,  Bradbury  Perkins,  d.  1880,  Oct.  13, 
no  ch.;  Manj  C.5,  b.  1809,  Feb.;  Lydia  M.5  and  John  W.6  (twins), 
b.  1822,  Feb.  22;  Lydia  M.  d.  1894,  March;  John  W.  d.  in  in- 
fancy. 

V.  Mary  C.  (Walker),  dau.  of  Polly4,  b.  1809,  Feb.;  m.  1832,  May,  Rob- 
ert Morrison,  had  three  ch.:  Eliza  J.6  and  "William  K.6  (twins),  b. 
1838,  July,  and  Flora  A.6,  b.  1848,  March. 
IV.  John,  son  of  Dea.  John3,  b.  1790;  m.  Marie  Eames  at  Madison,  Me. 
He  d.  1856.  They  had  eighteen  ch.,  four  of  whom  were  twins:  John, 
Jr.5,  b.  1819;  Naomi5,  b.  1821;  Josiah5  and  Maria5,  b.  1822;  Rich- 
ard G.5,  b.  1824;  William*,  b.  1826;  Warren5,  b.  1829;  George5,  b. 
1832;  Olive5,  b.  1833;  Joel5,  b.  1836;  Eliza5,  b.  1838;  Byron5,  b. 
1840.    Record  incomplete. 

V.  William,  son  of  John4,  b.  1826;  m.  1852,  April,  Nina  Moore.  Have 
one  ch.:  Emma  H.6,  b.  1854,  April  29. 
IV.  Ralph,  son  of  Dea.  John3,  b.  1794,  Feb.  5;  m.  in  1824,  Lucv  Dodge 
of  New  Boston,  who  d.  1895,  Dec.  8.  He  d.  1866,  Dec.  12.  They 
had  seven  ch.:  Sarah  Annis5,  b.  1825,  Feb.  22,  m.  1846,  June  2, 
Darius  F.  Robinson  of  New  Alstead,  N.  H.,  d.  1880,  June  11,  at 
Oak  Creek,  Wis.;  Mary  Walker6,  b.  1827,  July  7;  Lucy  Ann5,  b. 
1829,  Sept.  17,  m.  1862,  Feb.  5,  David  Witherspoon,  d.  1881,  Feb. 
6,  no  ch.;  Lydia  Dodge*,  b.  1832.  Feb.  26;  Griggs5,  b.  1835,  June  16, 
m.  1862,  Aug  21,  Mary  Jane  Shirley  of  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.  He 
d.  in  Andersonville  prison,  1864,  Aug.  22  (see  Civil  War);  Ralph5, 
b.  1838,  Jan.  14;  Levi5,  b.  1841,  Feb.  4,  d.  1845,  May  7. 

V.  Mary  Walker,  dau.  of  Ralph4,  b.  1827,  July  7;  m.  1865,  April  7, 
Thomas  Ranson.  They  had  one  ch.,  viz.:  Griggs  Holbrook6,  b. 
1868,  Aug.  7,  and  m.  1892,  June  16,  to  Olive  B.  Stevenson.  They 
had  ch. 

V.  Lydia  Dodge,  dau.  of  Ralph4,  b.  1832,  Feb.  26;  m.  1866,  Nov.  8, 
Joseph  Wright  of  Belfast,  Me.  Their  ch.  are:  Ralph  Holbrook6, 
•b.  1867,  Sept.  13,  m.  1902,  April  17,  Cynthia  C.  Titus;  Sarah  May6, 
b.  1872,  Feb.  6. 

V.  *Ralph,  son  of  Ralph4,  b.  1838,  Jan.  14;  m.  1867,  March  27,  Mrs. 
Henrietta  (Parker)  Parkhurst,  who  d.  1902,  Feb.  13.  They  res.  in 
Amherst.  Had  two  ch:  Cora  Etta6,  b.  1868,  July  2;  Annie  May6, 
b.  1871,  March  20,  m.  1901,  May  17,  Aaron  W.  Dodge. 
IV.  Ebenezer,  son  of  Dea.  John3,  b.  1796,  May  23;  m.  1819,  March, 
Matilda,  b.  1800,  Aug.  25,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Rhoda  (Coburn) 
French.  He  d.  1852,  June  8.  They  had  three  ch.:  David1',  b.  1819, 
Nov.  18;  Maria  Jane6,  b.  1822,  March  10;  John6,  b.  1829,  June  13. 

V.  David,  son  of  Ebenezer4,  b.  1819,  Nov.  18;  m.  1852,  Feb.  29,  Julia  A. 
Lovall.  He  d.  1894,  Aug.  10.  They  had  five  ch.:  Eliza  M.6,  b. 
1856,  Nov.  19,  d.  1879,  Sept.  17;  Arthur  E.6,  b.  1859,  June  3;  Har- 
riet6, b.  1861,  Sept.  4,  d.  1862,  Nov.  7;  Ira  W.6,  b.  1864,  April  17, 
m.  1889,  Jan.  31,  Mary  A.  Eldridge;  Edward  D.6,  b.  1866,  Sept. 
30,  m.  1895,  June  13,  Alice  G.  Lawrence. 

V.  Maria  Jane,  dau.  of  Ebenezer4,  b.  1822,  March  10;  m.  1849,  Feb.  19, 
Albion  Barker.  They  had  two  ch.:  George  Holbrook6,  b.  1850, 
Feb.  10,  d.  1854,  Aug.  22;  Ella  Frances6,  b.  1856,  July  9. 

V.  John,  son  of  Ebenezer4,  b.  1829,  June  13;  m.  1864,  Oct.  19,  Josephine 
Lord,  who  d.  1873.  He  d.  1885,  March  8.  Had  two  ch.:  Ebene- 
zer6, b.  1869,  Sept.  16;  William6,  b.  1871. 
IV.  Thomas  G.,  son  of  Dea.  John3,  b.  1801,  April  20;  m.,  1st,  1826;  Dec. 
26,  Asenath  Riddle,  who  d.  1845,  June  23.  He  m.,  2d,  1845,  Nov. 
4,  Mrs.  Submit  (Walker)  Atwood,  dau.  of  Robert  Walker,  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  the  town.     She  d.  1889,  Nov.  1.    He  d.  1888, 

♦Ralph  Holbrook  of  Amherst  has  an  old  silver  tankard,  made  of  silver  coin,  bear- 
ing the  inscription  of  his  grandfather,  of  the  same  name.  The  inscription  is  dated 
1735. 


950  HISTORY    OF  BEDFORD. 

July  4.  There  were  four  ch.  by  the  first  mar. :  George5  b.  1830, 
April  22,  m.  1852,  Nov.  23,  Emma  Brown.  Had  one  son,  George 
H.6,  b.  1858,  Aug.  7;  James5,  b.  1832,  Aug.  22;  Albert  R.5,  b.  1837, 
March  21,  was  killed  by  sharpshooters  at  Petersburg,  1864,  Sept. 
1  (see  Civil  War);  Silas5,  b.  1839,  Nov.  11. 

V.  James,  son  of  Thomas  G.4,  b.  1832,  Aug.  22,  m.  1856,  June  8,  Har- 
riet I.  Drew.  He  d.  1865,  Dec.  4.  Had  two  ch.:  Frank  T.6,  b. 
1857,  March  28,  d.  1866,  Nov.  22;  Arthur  W.b,  b.  1862,  Aug.  17. 
VI.  Arthur  W.,  son  of  James,  b.  1862,  Aug.  17;  m.  1886,  May  5,  Adella 
S.  Mason,  of  Burke,  N.  Y.  They  have  two  sons,  Chester  Mason7, 
b.  1887,  April  4;  Harold  Arthur7,  b.  1890,  Nov.  11. 

V.  Silas,  son  of  Thomas  G.4,  b.  1839,  Nov.  11;  m.  1868,  Dec.  31,  Lucy 
S.  Crosby,  who  d.  1876,  May  4.  He  d.  1880,  May  4.  They  had 
one  son,  Albert  A.6,  b.  1869,  Sept.  26.  The  latter  m.  1892,  April 
20,  Lottie  Wood  of  Arizona.  He  d.  1895,  June  17,  at  Tucson,  Ariz. 
IV.  Abiel,  son  of  Dea.  John3,  b.  1803,  July  7;  m.  1833,  Jan.,  Lucy  Sand- 
erson. He  d.  1878;  April  17.  Lucy,  his  wife,  d.  1887,  Dec.  14. 
They  had  three  ch.:  Joseph  G.5,  b.  1834,  March  2;  Susan5,  b.  1837, 
March  12,  d.  1854,  July  30;  Horace5,  b.  1841,  Feb.  3. 

V.  Joseph  G.,  son  of  Abiel4,  b.  1834,  May  2;  m.  1863,  May  14,  Sarah  E. 
Cram  of  Amherst,  who  d.  1893,  Sept.  11.  They  had  five  ch.: 
Willie  H.6,  b.  1864,  Sept.  27;  Fred  G.6,  b.  1868,  Oct.  27;  Frank  D.6, 
b.  1869,  Dec.  29,  m.  1901,  May  7,  Frances  Seaw;  IJzzie  S.«,b.  1873, 
July  18;  Alonzo  H.6,  b.  1875,  April  30,  m.  1901,  Jan.  1,  Anna  L. 
Gillingham. 
VI.  Fred  G.,  son  of  Joseph  G.,  b.  1868,  Oct.  27;  m.  1898,  Nov.  9,  Bessie 
I.,  b.  in  Bedford,  1875,  Feb.  7,  dau.  of  Benjamin  W.  and  Mehita- 
ble  (Little)  Nichols.  They  have  Ray  Nichols7,  b.  1902,  Nov.  4. 
VI.  Lizzie  S.,  dau.  of  Joseph  G.,  b.  1873,  July  18;  m.  1900,  April  18,  Rev. 
Charles  E.  Lewis  of  Yarmouth,  N.  S.  Res.  in  Fall  River,  Mass. 
Have  two  ch.:  Erving  Holbrook7,  b.  1901,  June  13;  Helen  Beatrice7, 
b.  1903,  July  15. 

V.  Horace,  son  of  Abiel*,  b.  1841,  Feb.  3;  m.  1867,  May  9,  Lucretia  D., 
b.  1844,  Mav  29,  dau.  of  Elijah  P.  and  Sallv  J.  (Gage)  Parkhurst. 
Had  ch.:  Etta  S."  and  Ella  L.e  (twins),  b.  1869,  April  20,  d.  1871, 
Jan.  25;  Dora  Delma6,  b.  1871,  June  14;  Grace  Everlina6,  b.  1885, 
Nov.  25. 

HULL. 

The  Hull  family,  a  large  and  distinguished  one  in  the  early  history  of 
the  New  England  colonies,  is  of  English  origin. 

Coming  from  the  mother  country  the  emigrant  with  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren landed  in  America  in  the  early  half  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
establishing  their  home  in  the  Massachusetts  colony. 

Here  they  and  their  descendants  endured  all  the  privations  of  the  early 
settlers,  and  suffered  the  many  persecutions  of  the  religious  sect  whose 
tenets  they  embraced,  almost  without  exception,  they  having  become 
converts  of  the  Quaker  faith,  as  expounded  by  their  founder,  George  Fox. 
The  severity  of  these  persecutions  becoming  barbarous  in  their  nature, 
they  naturally  looked  about  for  a  more  agreeable  abiding  place,  removing 
to  Rhode  Island,  that  harborage  of  non-conformists  of  all  sects.  From 
here  they  have  scattered  over  New  England,  and  may  be  found  in  Canada 
and  the  West. 

I.  The  Rev.  Joseph  Hull,  from  whom  the  family  of  Bedford  by  that 
name  trace  their  lineage,  was  b.  in  1594.  Took  his  degree  at  St. 
Mary's  Hall,  Oxford,  in  1614;  was  instituted  rector  of  Northleigh, 
Devon,  Eng.,  1621,  April  4th.  He  resigned  his  benefice,  upon  re- 
ligious scruples,  in  1631,  and  gathering  a  company  of  emigrants  in 
Devon  and  Somerset,  he  sailed  from  Weymouth,  Eng.,  with  his 


GENEALOGIES. — HULL.  951 

2d  wife,  Agnes,  seven  ch.  and  three  servants,  1635,  March  20.  He 
landed  in  America  and  became  the  first  minister  at  Weymonth, 
Mass.  Founded  Barnstable,  Mass.,  1639.  Was  excommunicated 
at  Barnstable  merely  for  going  to  Yarmouth  without  leave,  but 
was  afterward  readmitted.  Minister  at  Isles  of  Shoals  1641;  at 
York,  Me.,  1642;  at  Oyster  River  in  1662,  and  again  at  the  Isles  of 
Shoals.    He  d.  1665,  Nov.  19,  and  was  buried  at  York,  Me. 

II.  Tristram,  son  of  Joseph1,  b.  1624,  d.  1666;  m.  Blanche .     He  was 

selectman  of  Barnstable  for  many  years;  a  captain.  He  left  prop- 
erty to  the  value  of  1,150  pounds,  2  shillings,  5  pence,  a  large 
amount  in  those  days. 

III.  Joseph,  son  of  Tristram2  of  Barnstable,  b.  1652;  m.  Experience,  dau. 
of  Robert  and  Deborah  Harper,  1676,  May  5.  He  was  governor's 
assistant,  1699,  1701-'03.  Suffered  much  persecution  because  he 
was  a  member  of  the  society  of  Friends,  of  which  community  he 
was  a  minister.  In  1681,  May,  he  was  fined  for  beating  the  sheriff 
who  had  persecuted  him  as  a  Quaker.     Had  a  son,  Tristam*. 

III.  Here  Capt.  John  Hull,  also  son  of  Tristam2,  deserves  honorable  men- 

tion. His  home  was  on  the  island  of  Couanicut,  but  most  of  his 
time  was  spent  upon  the  seas.  He  m.  the  dau.  of  an  English  ad- 
miral. Capt.  Wager  of  the  British  navy  m.  another  dau. ;  they, 
dying,  left  a  son  Charles  Wager,  whom  his  uncle,  Capt.  Hull, 
brought  to  live  with  him,  and  they  followed  the  seas  in  company. 
Meeting  a  French  corsair  at  one  time  in  the  English  Channel, 
when  on  board  his  uncle's  ship,  and  seeing  the  former  making 
ready  to  fight,  young  Wager  advised  his  uncle  to  go  below,  as  be- 
ing a  Quaker  he  was  obliged  to  "  stand  by  the  testimonies  "  and 
be  a  non-combatant.  The  nephew  meantime  prepared  to  strike 
the  French  vessel  amidships.  The  old  gentleman,  despite  his 
principles,  came  up  the  gangway,  surveyed  the  situation,  and 
calmly  remarked,  "Charles,  if  thee  means  to  run  that  vessel 
down  thee'd  better  luff  a  little,"  and  Charles  did  "  luff  a  little," 
and  with  such  good  effect  that  the  French  crew  were  presently 
floundering  about  in  the  water.  One  of  the  drowning  French- 
men attempted  to  climb  to  safety  by  a  rope  hanging  over  the  side 
of  the  English  vessel.  The  good  Quaker  captain  quietly  took  a 
hatchet  and  cutting  off  the  rope  at  the  ship's  edge,  remarked, 
"  Friend,  if  thee  wants  that  rope  thee  may  have  it."  This  exploit 
attracted  the  attention  of  the  British  government,  and  for  his  gal- 
lant conduct  while  with  Hull,  young  Wager  ultimately  became 
first  lord  of  the  British  admiralty,  and  a  member  of  the  privy 
council.  He  has  a  monument  in  Westminster  Abbey.  It  was 
this  same  Capt.  John  Hull  who  gave  his  dau.  a  dowry  of  her 
weight  in  silver  upon  her  marriage  with  young  Sewall,  saying  as 
he  did  so,  "  There,  son  Sewall,  use  her  kindly  and  thank  heaven 
for  her.     Not  every  wife  is  worth  her  weight  in  silver." 

IV.  Tristram  Hull,  son  of  Joseph3,  of  Westerly,  R.  I.,  b.   1677,  d.  1718. 

He  m.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Charles  Dyer,  a  son  of  William  and 
Mary  Dyer,  the  latter  meeting  her  death  by  execution  upon  Bos- 
ton Common  for  being  a  Quaker,  1660,  Jan.  1.  The  ch.  of  Tris- 
tram and  Elizabeth  (Dyer)  Hull  were:  Mary5,  Samuel5,  Joseph5, 
Hannah5,  Bathsheba5,  Charles5,  Stephen5,  Elizabeth5,  and  Sarah5. 
V.  Stephen  Hull,  son  of  Tristram4,  b.  in  1715;  m.  by  Isaac  Sheldon,  jus- 
tice, 1738,  April  27,  Martha  Morey,  both  living  near  Point  Judith, 
South  Kingston,  R.  I.  Their  ch.  were:  Joseph6,  Elizabeth6,  Ste- 
phen6, Latham6,  Samuel  Dyer6,  Elias6,  Sarah6,  and  Hannah6. 
VI.  Elias  Hull  was  b.  in  Stonington,  Conn.,  1748,  April  13.  He  enlisted 
in  the  Revolutionary  war  as  private  under  Christopher  Gardner, 
captain,  1775,  April,  Colonel  Varnum  being  in  command  of  the 
Rhode  Island  regiment  to  which  his  company  was  attached.     He 


952  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

was  promoted  successively  as  ensign,  lieutenant,  and  captain. 
Served  his  term  and  was  honorably  discharged  1778,  May.  Soon 
after  he  rem.  to  Bennington,  Vt.,  where  he  remained  for  several 
years;  afterward  to  Lempster,  N.  H.,  where  he  established  his 
home  and  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  a  retired  pensioner. 
After  the  war,  following  his  early  taste  for  military  life,  he  re- 
sumed connection  with  the  old  time  militia,  his  entire  service  cov- 
ering a  period  of  thirty  years.  He  d.  at  the  age  of  86  years,  at 
Lempster,  and  was  buried  at  that  place.  After  his  retirement  his 
was  a  familiar  figure  upon  the  streets  of  his  adopted  town.  Of 
erect  carriage  and  true  military  bearing,  he  might  be  seen  daily, 
walking  briskly  along,  or  galloping  by  upon  a  favorite  saddle 
horse.  It  is  related  of  him  that  he  never  performed  but  one  day's 
work  in  his  life,  and  that  upon  a  wager  which  he  won.  He  was 
extremely  fond  of  horses,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  had  eleven 
saddle  horses  in  his  stable,  not  one  of  which  could  be  harnessed. 
A  quaint  old  time  gentleman,  his  garb  was  characteristic  of  the 
man, — tall  silk  hat,  ruffled  shirt  front,  invariably  carrying  a  nice 
cane,  and  a  large  silk  handkerchief  protruding  from  his  coat  pocket 
which  he  evidenced  great  pride  in  flourishing  as  suited  the  occa- 
sion. Passing  his  last  years  in  peace  and  comfort,  from  the  re- 
ward his  service  to  his  country  had  brought  him,  he  d.  honored 
and  respected  by  all  privileged  to  know  him.  Captain  Hull  m., 
1st,  Mary  Campbell,  by  whom  he  had  five  ch.:  Horace7,  Harriet7, 
Homer7,  Hendrick7,  and  Hiram7;  m.,  2d,  Cynthia  Carpenter,  about 
the  year  1795,  in  Charlestown,  N.  H.;  had  three  sons,  Elias"1, 
Ephraim  CJ,  Nathaniel  BJ 
VII.  Elias  rem.  to  Canada  at  an  early  age,  where  his  descendants  are 

now  living. 
VII.  Ephraim  C,  b.  in  Bennington  1800,  June  1;  m.,  1st,  1823,  Dec.  28, 

Louisa  Graves,   b.    1804,  April   15;  d.   .     Ch.:  Nathaniel  B.9, 

Cynthia8,  Henry8,  Anne8,  and  William9;  m.  2d,  1834,  Oct.  9,  Lucy 
Graves  Locke,  b.  in  Acworth  1811,  May  2.   Have  one  ch.,  Louisa8. 

VIII.  William  Hull,  the  only  surviving  child  of  Ephraim  C,  m.  Emily 
Bliss,  and  res.  at  Susquehanna  Depot,  Pa.,  where  with  his  sons 
he  is  engaged  in  the  railroad  business.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ephraim  Hull  have  been  dead  several  years. 

VIII.  Nathaniel  B.  Hull,  son  of  Ephraim  C,  b.  1824,  Oct.  2;  in.,  1st,  Mrs. 
Sarah  P.  Mclntire,  1844,  Dec.  9,  b.  1825,  July;  d.  1872,  Dec.  23. 
Ch.:  Edgar  Henry9,  b.  1846,  April  25,  d.  1848,  Sept.  10; Edward9,  b. 
1848,  March  29,  d.  1853,  April;  Rolla  Arthur9,  b.  1855,  March  10, 
d.  1859,  Feb.  14;  m.,  2d,  Mrs.  Addie  E.  Starkweather,  1873,  Dec.  3. 
Rem.  from  Charlestown,  Mr.  Hull  came  to  Bedford  in  1875,  March, 
where  he  purchased  a  productive  farm  upon  the  River  road, 
making  that  his  home  until  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred 
1889,  April  18.  He  held  here  several  town  offices,  was  interested 
in  all  matters  pertaining  to  neighborood  and  town  affairs,  a  citi- 
zen whose  influence  was  sure  to  be  in  the  right  direction.  A 
noticeable  trait  in  his  character  was  that  he  never  differed  with 
any.  Forming  his  own  convictions  he  strictly  adhered  to  them, 
but  never  questioned  the  right  of  others  to  their  own  opinions. 
Both  he  and  Mrs.  Hull  were  active  and  helpful  in  all  the  social 
interests  of  the  town,  Narragansett  Grange  particularly  bene- 
fiting by  the  inspiration  of  their  ready  aid. 
VII.  Nathaniel  B.,  third  son  of  Elias  and  Cynthia  (Carpenter)  Hull,  was 
b.  at  Bennington,  Vt.,  1802,  Sept.  1st;  m.,  1st,  Lima  Keyes  of 
Acworth,  N.  H.,  1825,  Nov.  24.  She  d.  1839,  April  7.  Had  two 
Lima  J.8,  Orison  N.s 

VIII.  Lima  J.,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  B.7,  b.  at  Lempster,  1828,  Jan.  28;  d.  at 
Newport,  N.  H.,  1894,  Jan.  27;  m.,  1st,  Oliver  F.  Stearns  of  New- 


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port,  who  d.  1878,  April  2;  m.,  2d,  Alvin  H.  Holman  1886,  Feb.  24. 
Ch.  of  Oliver  F.  and  Lima  (Hull)  Stearns:  Edward  E.9,  Frankie 
L.9,  and  William  W.9,  none  of  whom  are  living. 

VIII.  Orison  N.,  son  of  Nathaniel  B.7,  b.  at  Lempster,  1838,  Nov.  13.  Com- 
pleting an  apprenticeship  as  jeweler  in  the  town  of  Newport,  he 
rem.  to  Cowansville,  P.  Q.,  where  he  soon  established  himself  in 
a  profitable  mercantile  business,  and  has  since  made  that  place  his 
home.  Mr.  Hull  is  prominent  in  political  affairs,  having  held 
several  offices  under  the  crown,  is  interested  in  all  matters  of 
church  and  charitable  interests,  a  wide-awake,  public-spirited  cit- 
izen. He  m.  Ellen  Gleason  of  Cowansville.  They  have  two  daugh- 
ters, Alberta9,  wife  of  Rev.  Mr.  Grisbrooke,  and  Edith  C.9,  liv- 
ing at  home.  Nathaniel  B.  Hull  in.,  2d,  Enieline  C,  dau.  of 
Capt.  Abram  Moore  of  Lempster.  Mrs.  Hull  d.  1891,  June  20. 
Had  one  ch.:  Edmund  Burke6.  Left  motherless  in  childhood, 
young  Nathaniel  was  received  into  the  home  of  his  aunt,  wife  of 
Judge  Aaron  Matson  of  Stoddard.  Here  the  boy  was  carefully 
watched  over,  receiving  and  learning  those  lessons  of  thrift  and 
industry  which  marked  his  life.  Engaging  in  the  hotel  business 
soon  after  his  marriage  he  followed  this  pursuit  through  his  active 
years.  Patrons  of  hostelries  of  which  he  was  proprietor  always 
found  him  a  genial,  courteous  host.  During  the  years  spent  in 
Lempster  and  Newport  he  was  several  times  called  by  his  towns- 
men to  positions  of  responsibility,  always  sustaining  such  part 
accorded  him  with  dignity  and  credit  to  himself  and  townsmen. 
Coming  to  Bedford  in  1873,  he  passed  the  remaining  years  of  his 
life  at  his  home  on  the  River  road,  in  peace  and  quietude,  happy 
in  the  competence  his  industry  had  brought  him,  and  the  daily 
companionship  of  children  and  grandchildren.   He  d.  1881,  Feb.  1. 

VIII.  Edmund  Burke  Hull,  only  child  of  Nathaniel  B.  and  Enieline  C. 
(Moore)  Hull,  was  b.  in  Lempster,  N.  H.,  1850,  May  11.  Rem. 
with  his  parents  to  Newport  when  a  child,  where  he  received  his 
early  education,  completing  with  a  course  at  New  London,  N.  H. 
Coming  to  Bedford  in  1873  he  soon  obtained  a  position  in  the  office 
of  the  Concord  R.  R.  corporation,  performing  his  duties  to  the 
satisfaction  of  his  employers.  An  enthusiast  upon  the  subject  of 
farming,  in  1885  he  resigned  his  previous  position  and  turned  his 
attention  to  that  pursuit.  Establishing  himself  in  the  milk  busi- 
ness he  has  followed  these  occupations  to  the  pr  sent  time.  Mr. 
Hull  was  elected  to  the  board  of  selectmen  in  1892,  and  was  re- 
elected chairnian  of  the  board  in  1893;  was  representative  to  general 
court  in  1897-'98.  He  belongs  to  no  secret  order  but  the  grange, 
the  principles  of  which  he  is  a  firm  advocate.  He  m.  1877,  Oct.  9, 
Sarah  M.,  dau.  of  Hon.  George  Foster  of  Bedford  (see  Foster  Gen.) . 
Their  ch.  are:  Harry  Foster9,  b.  1878,  July  24;  Grace  Ethelyn9,  b. 
1880,  Oct.  14. 
IX.  Harry  F.  Hull,  the  only  male  descendant  of  the  ninth  generation 
from  the  Rev.  Joseph  Hull,  emigrant,  through  Nathaniel  B.,  son 
of  Elias,  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  and  business 
college  at  Manchester.  Followed  the  occupation  of  bookkeeper  for 
four  years.  Always  possessed  with  a  love  for  horses  and  out  of 
door  life  he  subsequently  established  himself  and  is  at  present 
conducting  a  prosperous  livery  business  in  West  Manchester. 
IX.  Grace  E.,  a  graduate  of  the  Manchester  high  school,  supplemented 
her  studies  by  a  business  course,  including  stenography.  She  re- 
sides with  her  parents  at  the  family  home  on  the  River  road. 


954  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

JENNESS. 

I.  Frauds  came  from  England  in  1660;  had  a  son  Richard'2,  who  was 

father  of  Nathaniel3. 

John4,  son  of  Nathaniel3,  had  a  son  Nathaniel5,  who  was  father  of 

Thomas6. 

VI.  Thomas  wash,  in  Rye,  N.   H.,  1774;  m.  Sally  Paige  and  had  ch.: 

Fanny7,  Jonathan7,  Joseph7,  James7,  Simon1,  Polly7,  and  Abigail7. 

VII.  Simon,  son  of  Thomas,  was  b.  Rye,  1811,  Aug.  30;  m.,  1st,  Mersilvia 

Fox,  and  settled  in  Bedford,  1839.     She  d.  1843.     He  m.,  2d,  1844, 

Oct.  13,  Eliza  Paige,  who  d.  1869,  March  3.     He  m.,  3d,  ,  and 

d.  1891,  Jan.  18.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.  were:  Albert  M.»,  Simon  Bil- 
lings8, d.  1856,  Nov.  14,  Mersilvia  Ann*;  ch.  of  2d  mar.:  Maria 
Frances8  (see  Jenkins),  and  Mary  Jane%. 

VIII.  Albert  M.,  son  of  Simon,  was  b.  1838,  Aug.  18;  farmer;  m.  1861, 
April  18,  Mary  Ann  Melendy,  b.  Amherst  1841,  Dec.  22,  dau.  of 
Capt.  Charles  Melendy.  They  settled  in  Bedford,  rem.  to  Mil- 
ford,  thence  to  Illinois,  where  they  lived  17  years,  then  returned 
to  Bedford,  1883.  Served  in  Civil  war.  Have  ch.:  Albert  Wil- 
lis9, b.  1863,  Feb.  17;  Nellie  Alice9,  b.  1866,  April  4;  Mersilvia  Agnes9, 
b.  1874,  May  19;  Fred  Eugene9,  b.  1878,  June  30. 
IX.  Nellie  Alice,  dau.  of  Albert  M.8,  b.  1866,  April  4;  m.  1887,  Dec.  9, 
Herbert  C.  Hutchinson  of  Milford;  res.  in  Springfield,  Mass. 
They  have:  Mary  Lucy10,  Royal  Herbert10. 
IX.  Mersilvia  A.,  dau.  of  Albert  M.8,  b.  1874,  May  19;  m.  1893,  Aug.  30, 
Harry  E.  Hutchinson  of  Milford;  res.  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  and 
has  Alice  Sylvia10. 

VIII.  Mersilvia  Ann,  dau.  of  Simon7;  m.  1861,  April  18,  Alfred  Quaid, 
who  d.  in  the  service,  1864,  Dec. 

VIII.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  Simon7;  m.,  1st,  1876,  George  Gage  (see  Gage); 
m.,  2d,  1886,  Oct.  13,  Eddy  K.  Fox.  She  d.  1902,  Jan.  8,  leaving 
two  children,  Charles  Henry  Fox  and  Florence  Fox. 

JENKINS. 

This  family  came  from  Andover,  Mass.,  where  Samuel1  was  b. 
1803,  April  8,  and  m.  Mary  Kimball  Carleton,  b.  No.  Andover, 
Mass.,  1808,  Feb.  4;  she  d.  1888,  July  4.  In  April,  1856,  they 
came  to  Bedford,  where  he  d.  1858,  Dec.  15.  Their  children  who 
resided  here  were:  Farnham2,  Putnum2,  and  Damon2. 
II.  Farnham,  son  of  Samuel1,  was  b.  Andover,  Mass.,  1832,  Nov.  2; 
farmer;  m.  1864,  May  12,  Mary  Luciuda,  b.  1839,  Sept.  26,  dau.  of 
Alfred  and  Lucinda  (Jenkins)  Jones;  she  d.  1897,  Jan.  19.  They 
had  ch.:  Nettie  Cordelia3,  b.  1867,  May  31,  and  Ernest  Alfred3,  b. 
1872,  May  8. 

III.  Nettie  Cordelia,  dau.  of  Farnham2;  m.  1895,  Dec.  8,  Nelson  Hardy 
Chute  of  Lyndeborough;  she  d.  1903,  Jan.  31,  leaving  two  ch.: 
Helen  Gertrude4,  b.  1896,  Oct.  3,  and  Ralph  Howard,  b.  1898, 
July  8. 
II.  Putnum,  son  of  Samuel1;  m.  1864,  Oct.  4,  Maria  Frances,  dau.  of 
Simon  and  Mersilvia  (Fox)  Jenness.  Was  engaged  as  farmer  and 
blacksmith  in  town  for  several  years,  but  rem.  to  Amherst  about 
1896.  Had  two  ch.:  Arthur3,  b.  1866,  Dec.  4,  d.  1868,  March  24; 
George  A.3,  b.  1869,  May  5,  m.  1895,  Dec.  12,  Ellen  F.,  b.  1861, 
dau.  of  Isaiah  and  Frances  (Page)  Richards  of  Goffstown. 

III.  Damon,  son  of  Samuel1,  m.  1st,  1884,  Nov.,  Phoebe,  b.  1842,  dau.  of 
Alfred  and  Lucinda  (Jenkins)  Jones;  she  d.  1886,  Oct.  4;   m.   2d, 

Fanny .      They  res.  in  Merrimack  and  have  one  son;  Damon 

d.  1903,  May  22. 


GENEALOGIES. — JONES. — KENDALL.  955 

JONES. 

This  family  is  closely  connected  with  the  Jenkins  family,  both  of 
which  trace  their  ancestry  to  Andover,  Mass.,  notwithstanding 
one  or  two  generations  of  the  family  which  located  here,  had  pre- 
viously resided  in  Lyndeborough. 
I.  Alfred  was  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  1813,  Jan.  19;  m.  Lucinda  Jen- 
kins, b.  Mont  Vernon,  1809,  Sept.  28.  They  res.  for  a  time  in 
New  Boston,  but  came  to  Bedford  in  1845,  where  he  d.,  1876, 
June  18.  His  wife  d.  1882,  April  11.  Their  ch.  were  b.  in  New 
Boston,  viz. :  Mary  Lucinda'2,  b.  1839,  Sept.  26,  m.  Farnham  Jen- 
kins (see  Jenkins);  Phoebe2,  b.  1842,  m.  Damon  Jenkins  (see  Jen- 
kins); Alfred2,  b.  1848,  May  13. 
II.  Alfred,  son  of  Alfred1,  b.  1848,  May  13;  m.  1872,  Aug.  29,  Ida,  b. 
1851,  Sept.  29,  dau.  of  Adam  and  Lucy  (Tompkins)  Campbell. 
They  had  ch.:  Charles  Forest3,  b.  1873,  July  26;  Herman  Ells- 
worth3, b.  1874,  Dec.  29;  Hattie  May3,  b.  1887,  Feb.,  d.  1896,  Julv 
16;  Clarence  Elwin3,  b.  1880,  Sept.  9. 

KENDALL. 

The  Kendall  family  of  Bedford  are  direct  descendants  from  Francis 
Kendall1,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1640.  He 
settled  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  for  we  find  him,  on  Dec.  18th  of  that 
year,  subscribing,  with  thirty-one  others,  town  orders  for  Woburn. 
Sewall,  in  his  genealogical  notice  of  the  family,  says  of  Francis: 
"  He  was  a  gentleman  of  great  respectability  and  influence  in  the 
place  of  his  residence.  He  served  the  town,  at  different  times, 
eighteen  years  on  the  board  of  selectmen,  and  was  often  ap- 
pointed on  important  committees." 

III.  Nathan,  one  of  the  descendants  of  Francis,   settled  in  Litchfield, 

N.  H.,  in  1734.  He  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  the  town,  and 
also  one  of  the  petitioners  to  the  provincial  legislature  for  a  town 
charter  whereby  they  could  legally  tax  and  be  taxed  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  gospel  and  education.  He  had  two  sons,  Nathan4,  and 
Timothy*.  Nathan  moved  to  Amherst,  N.  H.,  and  was  the  ances- 
tor of  the  Amherst  family  of  Kendalls. 

IV.  Timothy  m.  for  his  first  wife,  Sally  Walker,  dau.  of  James  Walker, 

2d,  of  Bedford,  and  had  one  dau.  For  his  second  wife  he  m.  a 
Miss  Lund  of  Litchfield,  by  whom  he  raised  a  large  family. 
Nathan5,  a  son  of  this  family,  m.,  in  1808,  Miss  Elizabeth  Thomp- 
son of  Windham,  N.  H.,  and  in  1823  moved  to  Bedford,  settling 
in  the  center  of  the  town.  They  had  five  sons  and  one  dau. : 
Nuthan6,  Oliver  Lund6,  Eliza6,  Thomas  Franklin6,  Charles  Henry6,  and 
James  Thompson6.    His  wife  d.  1851,  May  3,  and  he  d.  1861,  Aug.  25. 

VI.  Nathan  m.  Miss  Elizabeth  Gould,  dau.  of  Deacon  Ambrose  Gould 
of  Hollis,  N.  H.,  and  settled  in  Concord,  N.  H.  He  was  a  deacon 
in  the  South  Congregational  church,  engaged  in  Sunday-school 
work,  a  member  of  the  board  of  education,  and  a  good  citizen. 
He  was  at  the  head  of  the  iron  department  of  the  Abbot-Downing 
coach  factory.  He  d.  suddenly,  in  1849,  leaving  three  children: 
Frederick  Augustus7,  now  a  retired  army  officer,  res.  in  Cleve- 
land, O. ;  John  Adams7,  who  was  killed  by  the  cars  at  Dedham. 
Mass.,  in  1888;  Sarah  Elizabeth7,  who  m.  Edward  W.  Merrill  of 
Concord,  N.  H. 

VI.  Oliver  Lund,  b.  1810,  Dec.  2;  m.,  in  1839,  Miss  Betsey  R.  Gage,  by 
whom  he  had  two  ch. :  William  Gage7,*  b.  in  1840,  was  a  member 

*  Wm.  Gage  Kendall,  b.  1840,  March  25,  studied  dentistry  with  his  uncle  Edward,  in 
Paris,  France.  He  was  the  first  soldier  from  Bedford  to  enlist  for  three  vears  in  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion,  1861,  May  9.  He  d.  at  Camp  Beauford,  Md.,  1861.  Nov.  25,  the 
flr-t  three-years  man  thatd.  from  this  town.  His  remains  ware  brought  home  for 
burial,  the  Bedford  Light  infantry  doing  escort  duty. 


056  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

of. the  Second  Regt.,  N.  H.  Vols.  He  d.  in  camp  in  1861;  Annice 
Moore7,  b.  in  1849,  d.  in  Florence,  Italy,  in  1898,  Aug.  His  wife  dy- 
ing in  1859,  Sept.  6,  he  in.,  in  1863,  Miss  Emily  B.  Cutter  of  West- 
ford,  Mass.     He  d.  1899,  Nov.  30;  his  wife  Emily  d.  1899,  Dec.  11. 

VI.  Eliza,  b.  1812,  Oct.  7;  m.  Benjamin  F.  Emerson  of  Nashua,  N.  H.; 
she  d.  1870,  Sept.  26.  They  had  two  sons:  Benjamin  Kendall7, 
now  professor  of  geology  at  Amherst  college,  and  Charles  Edward7, 
a  civil  engineer. 

VI.  Thomas  Franklin,  b.  1816,  Oct.  13;  m.  1850,  Feb.  21,  Miss  Jane  F. 
Butterfield.  They  had  two  ch.:  Ella  Jane7,  b.  1851,  Sept.  11,  d. 
1902,  Oct.  23,  and  Louis  Warren7,  b.  1853,  Sept,  5,  d.  1861,  Feb.  4. 
His  wife  d.  1884,  Jan.  20.  He  d.  1898,  March  15. 
V.  Charles  Henry,  b.  1818,  Oct.  20,  now  occupies  the  old  Kendall 
homestead.  He  has  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in  all  that  per- 
tains to  the  welfare  of  the  center  of  the  town,  and  has  done  much 
to  beautify  its  streets  and  public  grounds.  He  never  sought  pre- 
ferment, political  or  otherwise,  but  in  1876  his  townsmen  elected 
him  delegate  to  the  constitutional  convention  at  Concord. 

VI.  James  Thompson,  the  youngest  son,  was  b.  1821,  Aug.  25.  He  m. 
1851,  June  19,  Mary  Jane  McAllaster,  dau.  of  Capt.  John  McAl- 
laster.  He  d.  1877,  May  20,  and  his  wife  d.  1898,  Jan.  1.  Four 
sons  were  the  fruit  of  this  union:  John  Edward7,  b.  1852,  Sept.  10, 
d.  1856,  April  24;  Willis  Byron7,  b.  1857,  March  12,  now  res.  in 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  m.  1891,  June  2,  Florence  M.  Pike;  George 
McAllaster7,  b.  1858,  Nov.  4,  lives  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  m.  1902,  June 
25,  Miss  Veronica  Marie  Conrad  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ;  Elmer  Ells- 
worth7^. 1861,  March  20,  is  located  in  Chicago,  111.,  m.  1885,  June 
30,  Adela  Frances  Parker  of  Chicago,  by  whom  he  has  had  four 
daughters  and  one  son:  Elma  Esther8,  b.  1887,  April  7;  Helen 
Adela8,  b.  1888,  Sept.  10;  Florence  Frances8,  b.  1891,  Aug.  9;  Par- 
ker8, b.  1894,  June  13;  Charlotte  Lillian8,  b.  1898,  Feb.  18. 

KENDALL. 

I.  Ephraim  Kendall  was  b.  in  Amherst,  N.  H.,  about  1816,  and  rem.  to 
Bedford  when  quite  a  young  man.  He  m.  Mary  McClary  of  Bed- 
ford, who  d.  1859,  Aug.  8,  aged  41.  They  had  six  ch.:  James2,  b. 
1839,  Nov.  26;  Edmund2,  b.  1841,  Aug.  19;  Esther  Jane2,  b.  1843, 
Oct.  22,  m.  1865,  June,  George  K.  Jewell  of  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  d. 
1867,  Oct.;  Ephraim2,  Jr.,  b.  1846,  May  7,  moved  to  Manchester  in 
1887,  and  now  res.  there;  Mary  Ann2,  b.  1848,  Oct.  13,  m.  Warren 
E.  Tripp  of  Boston,  moved  to  New  York,  where  they  now  res.; 
George  Franklin2,  b.  1851,  Dec.  20,  d.  in  May,  1869. 
II.  James,  son  of  Ephraim1,  b.  1839,  Nov.  26;  moved  to  Galesville, 
Wis.  When  18  years  of  age  he  enlisted  in  the  army,  in  the  Civil 
war.  He  d.  of  wounds  received  at  the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss., 
and  was  buried  near  Port  Hudson,  La. 
II.  Edmund,  son  of  Ephraim1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1841,  Aug.  19;  enlisted  in 
the  army  in  1862,  and  served  until  the  close  of  the  Civil  war, 
being  twice  wounded  in  action.  Is  now  an  operative  in  the  Amos- 
keag  mills  at  Manchester.  He  m.  in  New  Boston,  1866,  June  19, 
Frances  Marie,  b.  in  Stoddard,  1844,  Sept.  1,  dau.  of  John  S.  and 
Lucretia  (Robb)  McNeill.  They  had  two  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.: 
John  Neill8,  b.  1872,  March  16;  Flora  Lucretia3,  b.  1874,  Aug.  22, 
m.  1902,  March  26,  James  Edmond,  res.  in  Manchester. 
III.  John  Neill,  son  of  Edmund2,  b.  1872,  March  16;  m.  1896,  June  15, 
Georgia  Fowler  Miller;  res.  in  Manchester.  Ch.:  Edmund  Mil- 
ler4, b.  1897,  Aug.  16;  Dorothy  Frances4,  b.  1899,  Dec.  20;  Henry 
Fowler4,  b.  1902,  March  20,  d.  1902,  March  24. 


GENEALOGIES. — KILTON. — KING.  957 

KILTON. 

I.  Melvin  was  b.  in  Grafton,  1833,  May  19,  sou  of  James  M.  and  Sally 
(Ford)  Kilton;  farmer.  Has  res.  here  about  20  years.  He  m. 
1859,  Feb.  24,  Ann  M.,  b.  iu  Grafton,  1841,  Oct.  19,  dau.  of  Con- 
stance and  Sarah  J.  (Prescott)  Gile.  Have  two  ch.:  Nellie  Louise2, 
b.  Grafton,  1859,  Dec.  31,  m.  1883,  May  31,  Llewellyn  T.  Barnard, 
res.  in  Goffstown;  Orra  Gile2,  1862,  April  10. 
II.  Orra  Gile,  son  of  Melvin1;  m.  1896,  March  18,  Grace  M.,  b.  in  Man- 
chester, 1878,  dau.  of  Fred  F.  and  Mary  F.  (Stevens)  Lane,  who 
have  lived  here  about  10  years;  res.  in  Bedford.  Have  one  son, 
Earl,  b.  1897,  Feb.  4. 

KING. 

I.  Asa  B.  King,  m.  1816,  Dec.  31,  Mary  Rolfe;  both  were  of  Man- 
chester. They  had  six  ch.:  Asa  J.2;  Belinda2;  Emily2;  Henry2; 
Loammi2;  David  Cody2;  and  Solomon2,  d.  aged  16  mos. 

II.  Asa  J.,  son  of  Asa  B.1,  was  b.  1817,  Dec.  12;  he  m. .    They  had 

four  ch.:  George  E.3,  b.  1857,  March  26,  m.  1884,  June  15,  Arie  E. 
Scales,  no  ch.;  John  S.s,  b.  1859,  Aug.  25;  Eliza  Mfi,  b.  1865,  Oct. 
31;  Emma  E.3,  b.  1868,  March  27,  d.  1890,  Jan.  26. 

III.  John  S.,  son  of  Asa  J.2,  b.  1859,  Aug.  25;  m.  1880,  Feb.  22,  Estella 
Balcom.  Had  four  ch.:  Ernest  S.4;  E.  Erving4;  Grace  M.4;  Will- 
iam G.4 

III.  Eliza  M.,  dau.  of  Asa  J.2,  b.  1865,  Oct.  31;  m.  Carleton  C.  Conaut. 

Have  two  ch.:  Harry4,  b.  1897,  Feb.  6;  Wesley4,  b.  1902,  Jan. 
II.  Loammi,  son  of  Asa  B.1,  m.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  1826,  Jan.  11,  dau. 
of  David  and  Betsey  Cady,  who  were  among  the  first  settlers  of 
Bedford.  One  of  her  family  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  the  early 
days.  Her  father  res.  in  the  southwest  part  of  the  town,  and 
raised  large  crops  of  hops  for  market.  The  house  has  since  fallen 
to  decay,  and  only  a  large  elm  tree  marks  the  spot.  Mary  Eliza- 
beth m.  three  times:  1st,  Loammi  King,  who  d.  in  early  hfe;  2d, 
Ephraim  Kendall,  who  res.  near  the  Pulpit  farm;  3d,  C.  K.  Pierce 
of  Goffstown.  She  d.  in  Manchester,  1903,  Feb.  4.  Oh.  of  Lo- 
ammi and  Mary  Elizabeth:  Samantha3,  b.  1847,  March  11,  unm., 
res.  at  The  Weirs,  N.  H.;  Martha  Jane3,  b.  1852,  July  23,  m. 
Frank  M.  Forsaith  of  Manchester,  where  they  now  res.;  Mary 
Annah*,  b.  1854,  Aug.  17;  Ida  Elizabeth,3,  b.  1856,  April  9,  unm.', 
res.  in  Manchester;  George  Asas,  b.  1858,  April  19. 

III.  Mary  Annah,  dau.  of  Loammi2,  b.  1854,  Aug.  17;  m.  John  E.  Tuson 
of  Manchester,  where  they  now  res.  Had  ch. :  Edwin  F.4,  b.  1847, 
Feb.  16;  Albert  M.4,  b.  1880,  Jan.  1. 

III.  George  Asa,  son  of  Loammi2,  b.  1858,  April  19;  m.  1878,  Aug.  6,  Clara 
E.,  b.  1839,  Sept.  29,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  C.  and  Lydia  (Eaton)  French. 
They  res.  in  the  northwest  part  of  the  town,  known  as  District 
No.  8.  They  had  two  ch.:  Allen  French4  and  Alice  Lizzie4  (twins), 
b.  1880,  April  24.  The  latter  d.,  aged  4  mos.  Allen  French  grad. 
from  McGaw  Normal  institute  at  Reed's  Ferry,  1899,  June  9. 
II.  David  Cady,  son  of  Asa  B.1,  was  b.  in  Derry,  1836,  Oct.  11.  He  m. 
in  Salem,  N.  H.,  1857,  Jan.  10,  Sarah  Messer  Nichols,  b.  in  Suna- 
pee,  1823,  Feb.  4.  He  d.  1902,  July  9,  and  his  wife  d.  in  Salem, 
N.  H.,  1901,  Jan.  4.  They  had  three  ch.,  all  b.  in  Derry,  viz.: 
Helen  Lizzie3,  b.  1858,  March  29,  m.  1880,  July  5,  John  T.  Little- 
field  of  Salem;  Mary  Abbie3,  b.  1861,  March  28,  m.  1881,  Jan.  10, 
John  H.  Pierce  of  Derry;  John  Edmund3,  b.  1863,  June  19. 

III.  John  Edmund,  son  of  David  Cady2,  b.  1863,  June  19;  m.  1886,  Sept. 

29,  Jennie  Isabelle  Ross  of  Salem.  They  had  ch.:  Walter  Ed- 
mund4, b.  1887,  Aug.  1.  Ethel  Isabelle4,  b.  1892,  Jan.  2;  Mildred 
Verna4,  b.  1896,  Oct.  15;  George  Samuel4,  b.  1899,  July  16. 


958  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

KINSON. 

I.  John  Kinson  with  his  wife  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  the 
town  of  Weare,  and  had  a  family  of  five  ch. :  Olive2;  Anna2;  Mary2, 
JosepJt2;  and  Deborah2. 
II.  Joseph  m.  Sally  Colby,  and  had  ch.:  Harriet3,  m.  Jesse  George; 
John3;  Achsah3,  m.  George  Way  of  Bedford;  Apphia3,  m.  Athmore 
Emerson,  and  had  two  ch.,  Abbie4  and  Elvira4;  Richard3,  m. 
Susan  Cilley. 

III.  John,  b.   1820,  May  6;   d.  1877,  July  18,  came  to  Bedford  and  m., 

1844,  Dec.  18,  Elizabeth  A.  Gault,  b.  1817,  Nov.  19,  d.  1873,  March 
28.  Ch.:  Mary  Jane*,  b.  1845,  Nov.  21;  John4,  b.  1847,  Sept.  30,  d. 
Mondovi,  Wash.,  1892,  June,  m.  Lena  Bell  Butley,  1875,  July  15; 
Francena  Agnes*,  b.  1849,  June  13;  Harriet  E.4,  b.  1851,  April  9,  d. 
1853,  Oct.  15.;  Jared  P.4,  b.  1854,  Nov.  15,  d.  1858,  March  15;  Lucy 
M.4,  b.  Merrimack,  1857,  Feb.  1;  Lyman  Marshall4,  b.  Merrimack, 
1860,  July  2,  m.  1886,  March  2,  Eunice  Stevens,  b.  1856,  Nov.  5. 

IV.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1849,  June  13,  m.  Bedford,  1863,  Nov. 

26,  Jed.  Frye  Patterson  of  Merrimack,  b.  1834,  July  26,  d.  Rum- 
ney,  1898,  Dec.  3.  Ch.:  Sarah  Lizzie5,  b.  Merrimack,  1865,  June 
15;  Jed.  Frye5,  b.  Dorchester,  1874,  Dec.  27,  d.  Bedford,  1869, 
April  21;  Otto  Ansell5,  b.  Dorchester,  1874,  Dec.  27;  Jed  Edward5, 
b.  Dorchester,  1876,  May  26;  James  Perkins5,  b.  Dorchester,  1878, 
May  3,  d.  1879,  April  22. 

V.  Sarah  Lizzie  (Patterson),  dau.  of  Mary  Jane4,  b.  1865,  June  15;  m. 
in  Canaan,  1884,  Feb.  21,  Sylvester  Davis  Clough  of  Dorches- 
ter, b.  Putney,  Vt.,  1855,  d.  Rumney,  1899,  Dec.  21.  One  ch., 
Lela  Mae6,  b.  Rumney,  1889,  Aug.  29. 

V.  Otto  Ansell  (Patterson),  son  of  Mary  Jane4,b.  1874,  Dec.  27;  m.  Ply- 
mouth, 1900,  Aug.  15,  Minnie  Florence  Caldon  of  Rumney.  Two 
ch.:  Bernard  Otto6,  b.  Rumney,  1901,  June  8,  d.  1901,  June  16; 
Ethel  Mae6,  b.  Plymouth,  1902,  Aug.  24. 

V.  Jed.  Edward  (Patterson),  son  of  Mary  Jane4,  born  1876,  May  26;  m. 
Concord,  1899,  Sept.  16,  Mary  Gertrude  Shastany.  Two  ch. :  Jed. 
Edward6,  b.  1901,  Dec.  11,  d.  1902,  Feb.  1;  Elizabeth  Genevieve6,  b. 
1902,  Nov.  26. 
IV.  Francena  Agnes,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1849,  June  13;  m.  1875,  Feb.  2, 
John  Qaimby  of  Dorchester.    Ch.:  Lsona  Mynola5,  b.  1875,  Nov. 

27,  m.  1898,  May  21,  George  Rowan,  b.  1867,  Feb.  12;  John5,  b. 
1877,  Nov.  28;  Chester  Burnell5,  b.  1880,  Jan.  14;  Ila  Zella5,  b. 
1882,  Jan.  9,  m.  1900,  Dec.  17,  Arthur  M.  Cole,  d.  1902,  Jan.  5,  one 
ch.,  Caster  S.6,  b  1901,  June  18;  Clyde5,  b.  1884,  March  31;  Daisy 
May5,  b.  1886,  July  31. 

LORD. 

I.  Jesse  Lord,  father  of  Samuel  Lord,  came  from  Bury,  Lancashire, 
Eng.,  in  1818,  and  settled  in  Pawtucket,  R.  I.  The  following 
year,  1819,  he  sent  for  his  family  consisting  of  his  wife,  one  dau., 
Alice2,  and  four  sons,  Samuel'2,  James2,  Richard2,  and  Benjamin2. 
His  wife  being  sick  with  consumption  came  as  far  as  Liverpool 
and  d.  there;  the  dau.  remaining  with  her  mother,  afterwards 
m.  in  England,  but  came  to  America  later.  The  four  sons  came 
to  America  and  ."joined  the  father. 
II.  Samuel  began  to  learn  hand  engraving  for  calico  printing  in  Eng- 
land, but  as  there  were  no  print  works  in  America  at  that  time, 
he  went  to  work  in  the  Slater  cotton  mill,  the  first  cotton  mill  in 
America,  and  still  in  existence.  Afterwards  he  moved  to  Lowell, 
Mass.,  then  to  Taunton,  Mass.,  to  finish  his  trade.  He  moved  to 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  in  1852,  July,  to  take  charge  of  the  engraving 


GENEALOGIES. — LORD.  959 

in  the  print  works,  and  a  few  years  later  bonght  a  farm  in  Bed- 
ford, but  continued  to  work  at  his  trade  until  about  1870,  when  he 
came  to  live  on  the  farm  until  the  death  of  his  son,  James,  who 
carried  on  the  farm,  when  he  went  to  Attleboro,  Mass.,  but 
returned  to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  in  1891,  Sept.,  and  d.  at  the  home 
of  his  dau.,  1893,  July  26,  aged  91  years,  3  months.  He  m.  1823, 
Oct.  9,  Sarah  Worsley,  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah  (Hallam)  Worsley, 
who  came  from  Bury,  Lancashire,  Eng.,  in  1819,  and  settled  in 
Pawtucket,  R.  I.  She  was  b.  1805,  Nov.  4,  and  d.  1852,  June  11. 
They  had  twelve  ch.  In  1856,  Aug.,  he  m.  Caroline  N.  Carpen- 
ter, who  d.  1863,  Feb.  In  Nov.,  1865,  he  m.  Lucy  H.  Brooks,  who 
d.  1892,  Aug.  19,  at  Providence,  R.  I.  The  ch.  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  were  as  follows: 

III.  Abby  Ann,  b.  1824,  Aug.  29;  m.  George  R.  Haswell,  1841,  Oct.  25. 
Ch.:  Arthur  Wilder*,  b.  1842,  Aug.  3,  d.  1843,  Aug.  17;  Eugene 
Gerald4,  b.  1844,  Feb.  9,  enlisted  in  Second  N.  H.,  afterwards 
reenlisted  in  Second  U.  S.  cavalry,  was  wounded  in  second 
battle  of  Bull  Run,  and  d.  in  the  hospital  at  David's  Island, 
N.  Y.,  1863,  April  2;  Arthur  Wheldon4,  b.  1846,  Jan.  19,  enlisted 
in  Ninth  N.  H.,  wounded  at  battle  of  the  wilderness,  taken  pris- 
oner, and  d.  in  hospital  in  Richmond,  Va.,  1864,  July  20.  Res. 
in  Manchester,  N.  H. 

III.  Sarah  Davis,  b.  Oct.  15,  1826;  res.  Manchester,  N.  H. 

III.  Dwight  Armstead,  b.  1828,  April  12;  m.  Evelyn  L.  Baker,  1847, 
March  11;  d.  1875,  July  12.  Ch.,  Ella  Maria4,  b.  1848,  March  4, 
d.  1852,  July  20;  Clara  Waldo4,  b.  1850,  April  7,  d.  1853,  June  5; 
Dwight  Clarence4,  b.  1855,  Dec.  6,  m.  Sophia  Cook,  1879,  May  20, 
has  two  ch.,  Clarence  Arthur5,  b.  1881,  Dec.  19,  Ida6,  b.  1886,  April 
10.     Res.  East  Greenwich,  R.  I. 

III.  Samuel  Bentley,  b.  1829,  Sept.  4;  m.  Mary  Brierly,  1850,  Nov.  5. 
Ch.:  Ellen  Cora4,  b.  1851,  Aug.  3,  m.  Frederick  E.  Drowne,  1879, 
June  22,  has  two  ch.,  Frederick  L.5,  b.  1881,  Aug.  28,  Frank  O.5, 
b.  1886,  May  16;  Charles  Waldo4,  b.  1853,  Oct.  16,  m.  Mina  Gibbs, 
1881,  July  7,  has  three  ch.,  Charles  Bentlev5,  b.  1882,  May  30, 
Howard  R.5,  b.  1893,  Dec.  15,  Ralph5,  b.  1898.   Res.  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

III.  William  Worsley,  b.  1832,  Feb.  27,  d.  1832,  Dec.  12,  Taunton,  Mass. 

III.  John  Henry,  b.  1834,  Feb.  13,  d.  1899,  Dec.  28;  m.  Emily  A.  Berry, 
1859,  Sept.  22.  He  served  in  the  First  N.  H.  battery,  and  was 
wounded.  Ch.:  Henrv  A.4,  b.  1861,  May  4,  m.  Eva  A.  Pond, 
1886,  Jan.  20,  ch.,  Emilie  Anna5,  b.  1889,  Jan.  13;  William 
Arthur4,  b.  1866,  July  24,  d.  1869,  Jan.  4.     Res.  Attleboro,  Mass. 

III.  James  Scott,  b.  1836,  Dec.  4,  d.  1882,  Sept.  1.  Enlisted  in  Fifteenth 
N.  H.  The  only  drafted  man  from  Bedford  who  enlisted,  the 
others  procured  substitutes;  res.  Bedford. 

III.  George,  b.  1838,  Oct.  15,  d.  1841,  Feb.  16,  at  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

III.  Frank  Jesse,  b.  1842,  Feb.  5;  m.  Annie  Macomber,  1866,  Nov.  29. 
Ch.:  Lizzie  Gertrude4,  b.  1871,  Jan.  14;  Frank  Clifford4,  b.  1874, 
April  26,  enlisted  in  Illinois,  and  afterwards  served  in  the  U.  S. 
signal  corps.     Res.  Berkeley,  Mass. 

III.  Edward  Delos  Lord,  adopted  by  Mrs.  H.  C.  Parker,  and  took  her 
name,  b.  1844,  July  24;  m.  1st,  Elizabeth  G.  Salisbury,  1866,  Nov.  1, 
who  d.  1895,  Jan.  27.  Ch.:  Arthur  L.4,  b.  1867,  June  4,  m.  Olive 
Nadeau,  1895,  ch.,  Ruth5,  b.  1898,  Aug.;  Courtland  Foster4,  b.  1872, 
April  7,  d.  1873,  Aug.  2;  Edward  Stark4,  b.  1874,  May  23.  He  m. 
Mary  E.  Congdon,  1896,  May  12,  for  his  2d  wife.  Ch.:  John  Kil- 
burn4,  b.  1899,  Sept   14.    Res.  Providence,  R.  I. 

III.  Waldo  Ames,  b.  1846,  Dec.  15;  m.  Emma  F.  Cole,  1869,  May  21.  Ch.: 
Lena  A.4,  b.  1870,  Feb.;  Hattie4,  b.  1871,  Sept.  15;  Jessie4,  b.  1876, 
Feb.     He  m.  for  his  2d  wife,  Rosa  Blaisdell;  res.  Hampton,  Conn. 

III.  Alice  Gertrude,  b.  1848,  May  22;  m.  Joseph  G.  Adams,  1888,  Jan. 
19;  res.  Manchester,  N.  H. 


960  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 


MACK. 


The  Mack  family  originally  resident  in  Bedford  were  descendants 
of  John  Mack1  and  his  wife  Isabella,  who  was  dan.  of  Sir  John 
Brown,  a  titled  nobleman,  being  a  peer  in  the  realm  of  Ireland. 
Mr.  Mack  was  of  Scotch  ancestry,  thongh  himself  probably  b.  in 
Ireland.  In  1732  he  and  his  wife  emigrated  to  America  from 
Londonderry,  Ireland,  and  settled  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.  He 
was  a  blacksmith,  and  a  specimen  of  his  handicraft  is  preserved 
in  the  collection  of  the  N.  H.  Historical  society.  He  was  b.  in 
1698,  and  d.  1753,  April  12.  His  wife  d.  in  1770.  Their  ch.  were: 
William"2,  Janette2,  John2,  Robert2,  Martha2,  Elizabeth2,  Andrew2, 
and  Daniel2. 
II.  Andrew,  son  of  Johni,  b.  in  1748,  d.  1820,  July  11;  m.  1774,  Oct.  25, 
Elizabeth  Clark,  b.  in  1748,  d.  1830,  Feb.  14,  dan.  of  Robert  Clark 
of  Derry,  and  res.  in  Londonderry.  He  was  a  prosperous  farmer, 
a  skilled  artisan,  and  prominent  in  town  affairs.  Their  ch.  were: 
Jane3,  b.  1775,  Oct.  22,  d.  1850,  April  20;  Letitia3,  b.  1777,  May  6, 
d.  1849,  Jan.  12;  Elizabeth3,  b.  1778,  Nov.  10,  m.  Hon.  David 
Stiles  of  Temple,  who  d.  1873,  March  27,  she  d.  1873,  March  27; 
John3,  b.  1780,  Aug.  7,  m.  Phebe  Goodrich  of  Lyndeborough  for 
his  1st  wife,  and  Hannah  Abbott  of  Wilton  for  his  2d  wife,  who 
d.  1854,  July  16,  he  d.  1854,  July  16;  Isabella3,  b.  1782,  March  9, 
d.  1812,  June;  Robert3,  b.  1784,  Feb.  16,  m.  1813,  Anne  Clark, 
dau.  of  Robert  Clark  of  New  Boston,  he  d.  1870,  Sept.  9;  An- 
drew3, b.  1786,  Jan.  19,  m.  Maria  L.  Burns,  1824,  Jan.  12,  d.  1875, 
June  16,  grad.  at  Dartmouth  college,  1808;  Daniel*,  b.  1788,  Dec. 
14,  d.  1878,  Aug.  12. 

III.  Daniel  (see  Biographical  Sketch),  son  of  Andrew2,  settled  in  Bed- 

ford in   1812,  and  followed  the  occupation  of  a  blacksmith.    In 

1820,  Nov.  20,  he  m.  Sophia  Kendrick,  b.  1784,  Feb.  5,  d.  1872, 
March  16,  dau.  of  Stephen  Kendrick  of  Amherst.  In  1836  he 
was  elected  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  was  twice 
chosen  a  delegate  from  the  Londonderry  Presbytery  to  the  general 
assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  the  United  States.  Their 
ch.  were  Daniel  Kendrick*,  b.  1821,  Aug.  9;  Rufus4,  b.  1823,  Aug. 
1,  d.  1844,  June  13;  Sophia  Neal4,  b.  1826,  Sept.  16,  d.  1827,  Julv 
28;  Isabella4,  b.  1828,  May  11,  d.  1841,  Aug.  28. 

IV.  Daniel  Kendrick,  son  of  Daniel3,  b.  1846,  Jan.  20;  m.  Mary  Ann,  b. 

1821,  Feb.  22,  d.  1853,  Nov.  8,  dau.  of  Deacon  John  French  of 
Bedford.  They  had  two  daughters,  Harriet  Ann5,  b.  1848,  Oct,  27, 
and  Isabella  Graham5,  b.  1851,  Feb.  24.  Isabelle  grad.  at  Mount 
Holyoke  seminary  in  1875;  was  a  teacher  there  from  1875  to  1885, 
when  she  returned  home  to  aid  in  the  care  of  her  parents;  and 
since  their  decease  has  continued  to  reside  at  the  old  homestead 
in  West  Manchester.  For  his  2d  wife,  Mr.  Mack  m.  1856,  Oct. 
8,  Mary  Baldwin,  b.  1826,  June  26,  d.  1896,  Sept.  23,  dau.  of 
Samuel  D.  Baldwin  of  Mont  Vernon,  by  whom  he  had  no  ch.  He 
d.  1895,  Feb.  9. 

V.  Harriet  Ann,  dau.  of  Daniel  Kendrick,  b.  1872,  July  16;  m.  William 
Ela  Buck,  b.  1838,  April  8,  a  native  of  Hampstead.  In  1886 
Dartmouth  college  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts.  He  was  a  teacher  and  superintendent  of  schools 
forty-one  years,  serving  as  teacher  eighteen  years,  eight  of  them 
as  principal  of  grammar  schools  in  the  city  of  Manchester;  and 
here  he  subsequently  served  as  superintendent  of  public  schools 
for  twenty-three  years.  He  resigned  the  position  in  June,  1900, 
on  account  of  poor  health.  Their  ch.  are:  George  Kendrick6,  b. 
1874,  Sept.  9,  grad.  at  Williams  college  in  1896;  Walter  French6, 
b.  1876,  Jan.  3,  grad.  at  New  Hampshire  college  in  1897;  Burton 


GENEALOGIES. — MACK.  961 

Winthrop6,  b.  1878,  Jan.  19,  grad.  at  Dartmouth  college  in  1900; 
Arthur  Ela6,  b.  1880,  Jan.  28,  grad.  at  Dartmouth  college  in  1901, 
a  post-grad,  of  Harvard  university,  1902,  and  at  this  writing 
(1903),  a  student  at  the  University  of  Leipsic,  Germany;  Edward 
Morris6,  b.  1882,  Nov.  4,  d.  1883,  July  12;  Helen  Isabella6,  b.  1883, 
Oct.  29,  at  this  writing  a  member  of  the  Sophomore  class  at 
Mount  Holyoke  college. 

DEACON  DANIEL  MACK. 

By  John  K.  McQuesten. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  in  1788.  He 
was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  eight  children  born  to  Andrew  and  Eliza- 
beth (Clark)  Mack.  Of  the  ancestry  of  the  Mack  family  nothing  is  known 
prior  to  John  Mack,  who  married  Sybella,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Brown. 
John  and  Sybella  Mack  emigrated  from  Londonderry,  Ireland,  to  London- 
derry, N.  H.,  where  they  located  previous  to  1736.  So  much  has  been 
said  and  written  of  the  characteristics  of  this  strong  Scotch-Irish  people, 
it  does  not  seem  needful  here  to  say  more  than  that  Deacon  Mack  was  a 
typical  product  of  that  virile  race. 

In  the  absence  of  details  as  to  his  childhood  and  youth,  it  may  be  as- 
sumed that  his  circumstances  differed  in  no  material  respect  from  those  of 
most  other  boys  of  that  day.  He  doubtless  performed  his  full  share  of  the 
labors  of  the  farm,  and  at  an  early  age  began  to  work  in  his  father's 
blacksmith  shop,  thus  learning  the  trade  which  was  his  occupation  till  late 
in  life.  His  school  advantages  were  very  limited.  It  is  doubtful  if  dis- 
trict schools  were  in  session  more  than  eighteen  weeks  in  a  year  in  those 
days,  and  not  many  boys  could  attend  the  short  summer  term  after  the  age 
of  ten  years.  There  is,  however,  one  fact  to  be  borne  in  mind  in  this  con- 
nection. Young  Mack  was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  eight  children, 
strong  in  mental  qualities  and  scholarly  ambitions,  who  have  taken  high 
rank  in  both  business  affairs  and  educational  matters.  Such  an  inheri- 
tance, and  a  memory  well  nigh  infallible,  were  important  factors  in  fitting 
him  for  the  duties  of  life.  In  such  an  environment  he  was  trained  to  read 
intelligently,  to  reason  logically,  and  to  accept  righteousness  as  the  rule  of 
life. 

In  1812,  then  at  the  age  of  twenty-four,  Mr.  Mack  located  in  Piscata- 
quog,  and  there  began  his  lifework.  He  left  home  expecting  to  establish 
himself  in  Boscawen,  but  the  outlook  in  that  town  was  not  to  his  mind; 
so  he  turned  his  face  southward,  intending  to  find  work  in  Massachusetts. 
He  stopped  at  the  tavern  of  William  Parker,  Esq.,  in  Piscataquog,  for  a 
night's  lodging,  and  in  the  course  of  conversation  it  became  known  that 
Mr.  Mack  was  a  blacksmith,  and  was  looking  for  a  place  in  which  he 
might  locate  in  that  business.  Mr.  Parker  at  once  informed  him  that 
there  was  a  vacant  shop  across  the  river,  and  that  a  blacksmith  was  needed 
in  the  neighborhood.  After  a  cursory  investigation  he  decided  to  begin 
there,  and  did  so,  doubtless  without  once  thinking  that  more  than  sixty 
years  of  life,  with  all  its  varied  experiences,  its  joys  and  sorrows,  its  hopes 
and  disappointments,  were  before  him  in  that  place. 

An  incident,  illustrative  of  the  customs  of  the  times,  occurred  soon  after 
he  opened  shop.  An  elder  in  the  church  in  Bedford  was  among  his  first 
patrons.  He  brought  a  yoke  of  oxen  to  be  shod,  and  after  the  first  animal 
had  been  placed  in  the  sling,  the  elder  asked,  "Where  is  the  bottle?" 
The  smith's  answer  was,  "  I  have  none  and  do  not  intend  to  keep  one." 
In  that  day  a  customer  was  expected  to  furnish  a  pint  of  rum  when  he  had 
a  pair  of  oxen  shod.  This  was  years  before  Lyman  Beecher  and  his  asso- 
ciates began  the  temperance  movement  which  all  the  churches  adopted, 
and  which  is  broader  and  deeper  in  its  effects  to-day  than  ever  before.  Mr. 
Mack  was  a  thorough-going  temperance  man  all  through  life. 
62 


962  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

The  variety  of  work  done  by  men  of  his  trade  was  much  greater  than  at 
present.  The  hardware  store  of  to-day, was  not  then  in  existence,  and  if 
an  article  in  iron  was  needed  the  blacksmith  was  expected  to  supply  it. 
Any  work  called  for  was  done  at  this  shop.  Mr.  Mack  could  make  a  bet- 
ter plow  than  any  man  in  the  region,  and  temper  steel  to  perfection.  His 
industry  was  proverbial.  When  occasion  demanded  he  wrought  sixteen 
hours  a  day,  and  there  was  nothing  perfunctory  about  his  work.  His  mo- 
tive of  action  was  to  do  all  he  could  afford  for  what  he  should  be  paid,  and 
not  to  spend  unnecessary  time  in  doing  a  thing  that  he  might  claim  the 
more  for  its  accomplishment. 

In  1830  a  great  revival  of  religion  occurred,  and  at  this  time  Mr.  Mack, 
with  many  others,  united  with  the  church.  He  was  then  forty- two  years 
old.  Up  to  this  time  he  had  lived  an  active  and  energetic  life,  character- 
ized chiefly  by  efforts  to  acquire  property.  Though  always  moral  in  con- 
duct and  speech,  a  regular  church  attendant  and  liberal  supporter,  he  did 
not  till  this  time  publicly  identify  himself  with  the  church.  This  profes- 
sion was  with  him  a  momentous  thing,  and  no  one  who  knew  the  man 
could  doubt  for  a  moment  the  reality  of  his  conversion.  The  cause  he  es- 
poused became  dominant.  The  study  of  the  scriptures  engrossed  his  spare 
time;  he  attended  all  religious  meetings  held  in  the  neighborhood,  and 
heartily  contributed  to  their  support.  In  his  case  the  zeal  of  the  new  con- 
vert continued  to  the  end.  At  that  time  the  mid-week  service  was  held 
in  the  afternoon.  This  meeting  was  by  him  attended  as  regularly  as  were 
the  Sunday  services,  and  never  considered  lost  time.  He  was  a  liberal 
supporter  of  the  cause  of  missions,  and  of  other  benevolent  objects.  He 
gave  one  hnndred  dollars  a  year  to  the  American  Board,  and  in  some  in- 
stances more  than  that.  It  would  doubtless  be  a  surprise  to  many  who 
knew  him  if  the  aggregate  of  his  benefactions  were  known.  An  enter- 
prise having  the  advancement  of  Christianity  as  its  object,  found  in  him 
a  friend  and  cordial  supporter. 

In  1836  Mr.  Mack  was  made  an  elder,  and  he  served  in  that  capacity 
thirty  years.  He  was  chosen  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  session  in  1841, 
and  was  twice  sent  as  a  representative  of  the  Londonderry  Presbytery  to 
the  general  assembly  of  the  United  States. 

During  the  early  struggles  of  the  college  and  seminary  at  Oberlin,  O., 
those  having  the  interests  of  that  institution  in  charge  made  strenuous 
efforts  to  induce  families  of  high  character  to  settle  in  the  town,  so  that 
the  community,  socially,  might  be  in  harmony  with  the  aims  of  the  college. 
Among  the  families  sought  was  that  of  Deacon  Mack.  This  circumstance 
not  only  indicates  what  the  character  of  the  man  and  his  family  was,  but 
shows  that  their  reputation  was  more  than  local. 

At  the  time  when  the  subject  of  this  sketch  connected  himself  with  the 
church,  and  previously  throughout  its  history,  the  doctrines  of  Calvinism 
were  verv  prominent.  Possibly  not  so  much  so,  however,  as  in  some 
towns  adjacent  to  B3dford,  yet  the  teachings  of  the  great  Genevan  were 
sufficiently  conspicuous.  When  we  consider  the  traditions  of  the  race 
from  which  Deacon  Mack  sprang,  and  the  attitude  commonly  held  by  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  that  day,  one  might  suppose  that  the  Deacon 
would  have  been  found  in  the  front  rank  of  the  defenders  of  those  severe 
doctrines.  But  to  the  credit  of  the  man,  and  in  honor  to  his  memory,  let 
it  be  said  he  cared  less  for  theological  distinctions  and  points  of  doctrine 
than  for  doing  justice,  loving  mercy,  and  walking  humbly  before  God. 
He  could,  however,  intelligently  argue  points  and  well  support  his  argu- 
ments; and  he  was  as  well  informed  in  old  school  and  new  school  contro- 
versies as  were  his  contemporaries,  but  he  looked  upon  these  things  as  of 
little  value  compared  with  the  regeneration  of  human  nature. 

Deacon  Mack  had  a  mind  of  his  own.  It  was  clearer,  more  logical,  and 
better  informed  than  some  were  wont  to  think.  He  looked  deeper  into 
the  merits  of  a  subject  than  most  men;  he  was  strong  in  conviction,  and 
outspoken  in  matters  he  deemed  important.     He  was  not  of  those  who 


GENEALOGIES. — MACK. — MACPHERSON.  963 

hold  convictions  without  evidence,  and  therefore  cannot  be  moved  by  evi- 
dence. "  Let  us  examine  the  word  of  God,"  was  an  expression  often  on 
his  lips,  and  this  he  did  devoutly  and  critically.  The  writer  can  never 
forget  a  discussion  between  the  Deacon  and  others  relative  to  the  forgive- 
ness of  enemies.  Several  took  the  ground  that  it  was  one's  duty  to  for- 
give under  any  and  all  circumstances,  and  that  this  was  the  teaching  of 
scripture.  He  claimed  that  the  forgiving  of  an  unrepentant  person  was 
an  act  without  force  or  effect,  and  therefore  useless  and  out  of  place. 
This  controversy  was  long  and  earnest,  and  it  satisfied  at  least  one  listener 
that  it  is  not  an  easy  matter  to  contend  successfully  with  one  as  thor- 
oughly equipped  on  such  points  as  was  the  man  whose  character  we  are 
considering. 

The  later  years  of  the  life  of  our  friend  were  a  period  of  rest  and  con- 
templation. Surrounded  by  a  kind  and  loving  family,  and  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  an  ample  estate,  he  gradually  slowed  into  the  terminus  of  earthly 
life.  As  in  the  case  of  many  another  of  correct  habits  and  intelligent  liv- 
ing, the  hand  of  disease  was  not  laid  upon  him;  but  like  a  shock  of  corn 
fully  ripe,  he  was,  in  his  ninetieth  year,  called  into  the  presence  of  his 
Master  and  an  innumerable  company  of  kindred  spirits. 

His  funeral  was  attended  by  his  lifelong  friend  and  fellow-townsman, 
the  Rev.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace,  D.  D.,  the  Rev.  E.  G.  Selden,  then  his  pas- 
tor, and  the  Rev.  William  Clark  of  Amherst,  his  dear  friend  and  kins- 
man, who  pronounced  a  fitting  and  eloquent  eulogy. 

In  1820  Deacon  Mack  was  married  to  Miss  Sophia  Kendrick,  a  lady  of 
great  beauty  of  character  and  person,  by  whom  he  had  four  children. 
There  were  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  Both  of  the  daughters  and  one 
of  the  sons  died  in  early  life.  The  survivor,  Daniel  Kendrick  Mack,  out- 
lived his  father  by  seventeen  years,  dying  in  his  seventy-fourth  year  at 
the  old  homestead,  where  he  had  always  lived,  highly  esteemed  by  all 
who  knew  him.  This  son  had  two  most  worthy  daughters,  and  the  lack 
of  a  son  caused  Deacon  Daniel  (the  subject  of  this  sketch)  more  than  once 
to  remark  with  apparent  regret  that  he  had  no  grandson  who  could  per- 
petuate the  family  name. 

(See  also  the  genealogy  of  the  Mack  family.) 

MacPHERSON  (McFERSON). 

The  name  is  also  spelled  McPherson,  Ferson,  Farson,  and  other  ways. 
This  family  trace  their  ancestry  to  a  warlike  people  in  Germany,  called 
the  Chatti,  who  after  long  and  bravely  resisting  the  Roman  emperor, 
Tiberius  Caesar,  were  forced  to  leave  their  native  country.  They  em- 
barked for  Great  Britain,  but  were  driven  by  storms  to  the  north  of  Scot- 
land, about  A.  D.  76.  Increasing  rapidly,  they  soon  overspread  all  this 
north  country.  Their  line  of  descent  can  be  traced  back  to  Kenneth  II, 
but  here  begins  with  Gillicattan  Moi,  chief  of  Clan  Chattan,  who  on  ac- 
count of  his  military  genius  and  unusual  size  was  given  the  epithet  Moi. 

The  MacPhersons  formed  one  of  the  divisions  of  Clan  Chattan,  which 
occupied  the  northern  counties  of  Scotland.  The  Mclntoshes,  McDuffees, 
(see  McAfee),  Mcllvains,  McKeans,  and  other  "Macs"  were  included  in 
the  same  clan  (probably  including  also  the  McDoles).  To  escape  religious 
persecution  the  family  emigrated  to  Ireland  in  the  seventeenth  century. 
Here  they  were  bitterly  opposed  by  the  Irish,  who  resented  having  stran- 
gers come  among  them  and  acquire  property.  Hence  we  find  many  of 
these  hard-pressed  Scotchmen  emigrating  to  America,  hoping  thus  to  bet- 
ter their  condition.  Paul  MacPherson,  accompanied  by  his  son,  William, 
landed  in  Boston  in  1732,  the  remainder  of  the  family  reaching  Ports- 
mouth the  next  year,  among  them  two  other  sons  of  Paul,  viz.,  James  and 
Samuel. 

One  of  the  name,  supposed  to  have  been  a  brother  of  Paul,  settled  in 
Goffstown.    His  children  were:  John,  who  settled  in  Bedford,  m.   Nancy 


964  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

McDole,  and  had  eight  children;  William,  who  remained  in  Goffstown: 
James,  who  settled  in  Dnnbarton;  Molly,  who  returned  to  Ireland;  Peggy, 
who  m.  a  Morrison  and  settled  in  Henniker;  and  Jennie,  who  d.  on  the 
voyage  and  was  buried  at  sea.     (Hist,  of  Francestown.) 

I.  John  McFerson,  probably  a  son  of  the  above  mentioned  John;  m. 

Agnes ,  and  res.  in  Bedford.     Had  ch.:  Anne2,  b.  1777,  Feb. 

10;  William  McDowell2,  b.  1778,  Dec.  16;  Isabel2,  b.  1782,  May  7,  m. 
Samuel  Gordon  (see  Gordon) ;  Rosanna2,  b.  1785,  April  4;  John'2, 
b.  1787,  May  25;  Jenny2,  b.  1791,  June  8;  Thomas  McDole2,  b. 
1794,  March  16;  Nancy2,  b.  1797,  March  2. 
II.  William  McDowell  (McDole),  son  of  John1,  b.  1778,  Dec.  16;  m. 
Sarah  W.,  b.  1782,  April  10,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Dolly  (Coburn) 
French.  Had  ch.:  Dolly  French3,  b.  1805,  June  29,  m.  1829,  Nov. 
24,  Hiram  Dunlap  of  Bedford;  James3,  b.  1806,  Oct.  6;  Stephen3, 
b.  1808,  Feb.  19;  Sarah  Ann3,  b.  1810,  Sept.  6,  m.  Richard  Dole  of 
Beloit,  Wis.  (see  Dole);  Nancy  Jane3,  b.  1812,  June  23;  Louise3, 
b.  1814,  Aug.  5;  William3,  b.  1816,  July  1;  John3,  b.  1818,  May  5: 
Caroline3,  b.  1819,  Dec.  3;  Asenath3,  b.  1821,  May  17. 

III.  James  (McPherson),  son  of  William2,  b.  in  Bedford,   1806,   Oct.   6; 

farmer,  and  by  trade  a  bricklayer  and  plasterer;  m.,  1st.  Jane  Par- 
ker, b.  in  Bedford,  1812,  May  6,  dau.  of  Jesse  and  Jane  (Moor) 
Parker.  The  McPherson  family  were  noted  singers  and  members 
of  the  Presbyterian  choir  here.  His  wife  d.  1861,  May  12,  and  he 
m.,  2d,  Martha  E.  Barron.  He  d.  1878,  Dec.  12.  Ch.,  b.  in  Bed- 
ford, by  1st  mar.:  James  Almus4,  b.  1835,  Oct.  10,  d.  1860,  June 
12,  unm.;  Keziah  Jane*,  b.  1836,  Dec.  31;  Dollyette*,  b.  1839,  Dec. 
15;  Onslow  French*,  b.  1843,  Jan.  3;  Alma  Parker*,  b.  1848,  March 
1,  d.  1871,  May  4,  unm;  by  2d  mar.,  Lillabell4,  b. ,  June   10. 

IV.  Keziah  Jane,  dau.  of  James3,  b.  1836,  Dec.  31;  m.  Ephraim  Warren 

Butterfield,  b.  in  Bedford,  1830,  Aug.  18.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
milkman.  He  d.  1893,  Feb.  6,  and  his  wife  d.  1894,  April  11.  Ch. 
b.  in  Bedford:  Charles  Warren5,  b.  1861,  Dec.  21,  d.  1868,  Aug.  11; 
Etta  Jane5,  b.  1866,  Jan.  18;  Emma  Eliza5,  b.  1868,  May  1,  d.  1899, 
May,  unm;  Louis  Edwin5,  b.  1870,  Oct.  2,  d.  1895,  Sept.  17,  unm. 
V.  Etta  Jane  (Butterfield),  dau.  of  Keziah  Jane4,  b.  1866,  Jan.  18;  m. 
1885,  Dec.  2,  Charles  A.  Grant,  and  rem.  to  Manchester,  where 
she  d.  1901,  leaving  one  child,  Rebecca  Blake6,  b.  in  Manchester, 
1889,  July  4. 

IV.  Dollyette,  dau.  of  James3,  b.  1839,  Dec.  15;  sang  in  a  church  at 
Lowell,  Mass.,  for  some  years,  and  m.,  1873,  June  10,  Stephen  A. 
Bullens,  b.  in  Lowell,  1838,  July  19.  He  was  a  soldier  in  Co.  G, 
Sixth  Regt.,  Mass.  Vols.,  in  the  Civil  war;  was  a  contractor  of 
machinist  work.  He  d.  in  Lowell,  1893,  May  6.  His  widow  still 
res.  there. 

IV.  Onslow  French,  son  of  James3,  b.  1843,  Jan.  3;  enlisted  in  the  Civil 
war,  1861,  Oct.  11,  in  Co.  I,  Seventh  Regt.  Inf.,  N.  H.  Vols.;  re- 
enlisted  1864,  Feb.  28.  He  m.  1868,  Aug.  11,  Ellen  Lyons,  b.  1850, 
March  15,  in  Mitchellstown,  County  Cork,  Ireland.  They  res.  in 
Manchester,  where  he  d.,  1888,  June  11.  Ch.  b.  in  Manchester: 
James5  and  Jennie5  (twins),  b.  1869,  July  14;  William5,  b.  1871, 
Dec.  5;  Charles  F.5,  b.  1872,  Dec.  5,  m.  IdaN.  Plumpton,  divorced 
1900,  May;  Frederick5,  b.  1875,  Dec.  27,  d.  1876,  Aug.  9;  Lauretta5, 
b.  1877,  July  6;  John5,  b.  1879,  April  29;  d.  1882,  Dec.  13;  Marga- 
ret5, b.  1880,  Aug.  6;  Ellen  Agnes5,  b.  1882,  July  13,  d.  1882,  Sept. 
3;  Terasu5,  b.  1883,  Oct.  7,  d.  1884,  Jan.  6;  Eleanor5,  b.  1885,  Dec.  7. 
V.  James,  son  of  Onslow4,  b.  1869,  July  14;    m.   Edith  Higgins.     One 

ch.,  Kenneth6. 
V.  Jennie,  dau.  of  Onslow4,  b.  1869,  July  14;  m.  1889,  Jan.  31,   George 
Sanford,  b.  in  Auburn,  1866,  Sept.  19;  engineer;  res.  in  Manches- 
ter.    Ch.:  Walter  E.6,  b.  1891,  Dec.  10;  Gertrude  J.6,  b.  1893, Nov. 
3;  Arthur  F.6,  b.  1895,  Feb.  14;  Ernest  G.6,  b.  1897,  Dec.  16. 


GENEALOGIES. — MANNING.  965 

MANNING. 

I.  William  Manning  came  from  England,  accompanied  by  a  son  and 
dan.,  William2  and  Hannah2,  abont  1634.  He  purchased  an  estate 
in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1638,  but  d.  in  Boston. 
II.  William,  son  of  William1,  wasb.  in  England  abont  1614,  joined  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  colony,  and  settled  in  Cambridge  in  1638.  He 
inherited  the  family  homestead;  became  a  merchant  and  promi- 
nent citizen  of  the  town;  was  selectman  15  years;  a  member  of 
the  general  court;  was  engaged  in  the  settlement  of  at  least  18 
estates,  and  chairman  of  the  committee  of  two  chosen  to  receive 
and  disburse  the  funds  used  in  the  construction  of  Harvard  hall. 
This  was  the  first  building  erected  for  Harvard  college,  and  stood 
82  years,  when  it  was  destroyed  by  fire,  1764,  Jan.  24,  together 
with  5,000  volumes  of  books,  and  the  cabinet  of  apparatus.     He  m. 

Dorothy ,  who  d.  1692,  July  26,  aged  80.     He  d.  1691,  March 

14,  aged  76.  Ch.:  Hannah3;  Samuel3;  Sarah3;  Abigail3;  John3; 
Mary3;  Timothy.3  (?) 

III.  Samuel,  son  of  William2,  was  b.  1644,  July  21;  settled  in  Billerica, 

Mass.,  where  he  became  prominent  in  town  and  military  affairs. 
In  1696  he  built  a  substantial  home  which  was  used  as  a  garrison 
house  for  that  part  of  the  town,  and  still  stands,  well  preserved, 
known  as  the  Manning  Manse,  and  the  gathering  place  of  his 
descendants,  6,012  in  number,  in  their  annual  reunions.  Of  his 
fourteen  ch.,  seven  sons  m.,  and  their  descendants  are  located 
from  Maine  to  California.  He  m.,  1st,  1664,  April  13,  Elizabeth 
Stearns,  b.  at  Watertown,  and  d.  at  Billerica,  1671,  June  24.  Had 
two  ch.  Hem.,  2d,  1673,  May  6,  Abiel  Wight,  b.  at  Medfield, 
1654,  Jan.  1.  Had  twelve  ch.  He  d.  1710-'ll.  Feb.  22.  Ch.:  Sam- 
uel4; John4;  Timothy4;  Hannah4;  William4;  Mary4;  Sarah4;  Doro- 
thy4; Isaac4;  Ephraim4;  Elizabeth4;  Timothy4;  Eliphalet4;  Abiel.4 

IV.  William,  son  of  Samuel3,  was  b.  in  Billerica,  1677,  June  27;  served 

as  ensign  in  the  French  and  Indian  war.  He  m.,  1st,  Elizabeth, 
b.  1679,  June  8,  dan.  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Champney)  French  of 
Billerica.  She  was  a  granddaughter  of  the  William  French  who 
came  over  in  1635  (see  French).  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  d.  1736, 
Sept.  19,  and  he  m.,  2d,  1737,  April  19,  Mrs.  Mary  Shed.  He  d. 
1764,  March  25.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.:  Elizabeth5;  Esther5;  Mary5; 
William5;  Jacob5;  Sarah5;  Rachel5;  Martha5;  Hannah.5 
V.  Jacob,  son  of  William4,  was  b.  in  Billerica,  1710,  March  27;  m. 
1736-'37,  Jan.  20,  Martha  Beard,  b.  in  Billerica,  1714,  Aug.  21, 
dan.  of  Andrew  and  Mary  Beard.  He  d.  1762,  Sept.  5;  his  widow 
d.  1798,  Feb.  10,  both  at  Billerica.  Ch.,  b.  at  Billerica:  Jacob6; 
Mary6;  Isaac6;  Jesse6;  Thomas6;  David6;  Martha6;  David6;  Es- 
ther.6 

VI.  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob5,  was  b.  in  Billerica,  1739,  Nov.  8;  a  cabinet 

maker  and  farmer;  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  one  of 
those  who  marched  on  the  Lexington  alarm,  1775,  April  19.  He 
m.  1763,  June  2,  Sarah  Butterfield  of  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  who  d. 
in  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  1831,  Jan.  21,  aged  89.  He  was  killed 
by  falling  from  a  load  of  hay  in  Lyndeborough,  1808,  July  16. 
Their  ch.  were  b.  in  Billerica,  viz.:  Martha7;  Esther7;  Jacob1;  Asa.7 

VII.  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob6,  was  b.  in  Billerica,  1771,  Dec.  16;  a  cabinet 

maker.  He  m.  1796,  April  26,  Lucy  Andrews,  b.  at  Carlisle, 
Mass.,  1774,  June  11.  They  settled  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  but 
rem.  to  Lyndeborough,  N.  H,  about  1803,  where  he  d.  of  spotted 
fever  after  a  few  hours'  illness,  1812  (probably).  His  widow  m., 
2d,  Moses  Fisher  of  Francestown.  Had  one  son:  Asa  Manning 
Fisher.  She  d.  at  Francestown,  1841,  March  14.  The  ch.  of 
Jacob  and  Lucy  were:  Jacob8;  Solomon*;  Lucy8,  m.  Dean  Bixby 
(see  Bixby) .  . 


966  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VIII.  Solomon,  son  of  Jacob7,  was  b.  at  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  1799,  May  16.- 
After  the  early  death  of  his  father  he  lived  with  his  uncle,  Asa, 
until  21.  He  then  went  to  Medford,  Mass.,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed 5  years  by  Dudley  Hall,  having  charge  of  all  the  farming 
operations  of  his  employer.  When  25  he  had  saved  about  $1,000, 
which  he  invested  in  a  farm  at  Bedford,  walking  to  this  town 
from  Medford,  a  distance  of  50  miles,  looking  over  and  purchas- 
ing the  farm  one  day  and  returning  to  Medford  the  next.  The 
next  year,  1825,  he  settled  on  the  farm,  which  is  still  occupied  by 
his  descendants.  This  farm  produced  the  first  crop  of  hops  raised 
in  town,  and,  perhaps,  the  first  in  New  Hampshire,  the  previous 
owner  having  brought  the  roots  from  Wilmington,  Mass.,  an 
industry  which  continued  throughout  the  vicinity  for  50  years. 
In  1831,  during  a  deep  religious  interest  in  town,  Mr.  Manning 
and  wife  were  among  the  91  persons  who  united  with  the  church. 
He  served  as.  selectman,  1846;  was  of  mild  temperament,  quiet 
disposition,  and  physically  very  strong.  He  m.  1823,  Mary 
Fletcher  of  Tyngsboro,  b.  1800,  March  22,  at  Ashby,  Mass.,  dau. 
of  Jonas  and  Polly  (Woodward)  Fletcher.  He  d.  1862,  Nov.  6; 
his  widow  d.  1878,  March  12,  both  at  Bedford.  Ch.,  all  b.  in  Bed- 
ford but  Joseph*,  who  was  b.  at  Tyngsboro,  1824,  April  22;  Jacob 
Warren*,  b.  1826,  Feb.  20;  Mary*,  b.  1828,  April  27;  Dudley  Hall9, 
b.  1829,  Oct.  24;  Solomon9,  b.  i831,  Aug.  29;  Lucy  Ann9,  b.  1833, 
June  3,  m.  1851,  Nov.  28, William  Kingman  of  Reading,  Mass., 
where  she  d.,  1855,  April  6;  Sarah  Jane9,  b.  1835,  June  11,  d.  1853, 
April  13;  Harriet  Abigail9,  b.  1837,  Dec.  6,  d.  1859,  March  15. 
IX.  Joseph,  son  of  Solomon8,  was  b.  at  Tyngsboro,  Mass.,  1824,  April 
27;  came  with  his  parents  to  Bedford  in  1825;  a  mason  by  trade, 
he  assisted  in  the  erection  of  the  first  cotton  mills  in  Lawrence, 
Mass.  He  m.  in  Bedford,  1849,  Oct.  25,  Miriam  Noyes,  b.  at  Bos- 
cawen,  N.  H.,  1824,  March  20,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Jane  (Noyes) 
Hall.  They  settled  in  Reading,  Mass.,  but  rem.  to  Pepin,  Wis., 
1856,  and  Lake  City,  Minn.,  in  1868.  Here  he  became  extensively 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  investment  business.  He  d.  at 
Lake  City,  1898,  April  6.  Ch.:  Rosinella10,b.  at  Reading,  1851, 
Sept.  8;  Sarah10,  b.  at  Reading,  1853,  April  26,  d.  at  Lake  City, 
1900,  Anril  7;  Vallie  Frances10,  b.  at  Pepin,  1857,  Oct.  8;  Charles 
Russell10,  b.  at  Pepin,  1858,  Oct.  24,  d.  1860,  July  23;  Eben  Joseph10, 
b.  at  Pepin,  1862,  Jan.  15. 

X.  Rosinella  (Rose  N.)  dau.  of  Joseph9,  b.  1851,  Sept.  8;  m.  at  Lake 
City,  1875,  Nov.  30,  Nelson  Cook  Pike,  b.  1848,  Nov.  18,  at  War- 
ren, Lake  county,  111.;  res.  in  Lake  City,  where  she  d.  1899, 
March  19.  Ch.:  Jay  Nelson11,  b.  1876,  Oct.  1;  Roy  Manning11,  b. 
1879,  Sept.  29. 

X.  Vallie  Frances,  dau.  of  Joseph9,  b.  1857,  Oct.  8;  res.  Lake  City;  m. 
there,  1876,  Oct.  81,  Charles  Edward  Dutcher,  b.  1852,  May  13,  at 
Waupan,  Fond  du  Lac  county,  Wis.  Ch.,  b.  at  Lake  City: 
Charles  Russell11,  b.  1878,  April  8;  Miriam  Pearl11,  b.  1885,  July  8. 

X.  Eben  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph9,  b.  1862,  Jan.  15;  m.  at  Des  Moines,  la., 
1887,  Sept.  22,  Libbie  Laurene,  b.  at  Bentonsport,  la.,  1865,  April 
17, dau. of  Robert  Lee  and  Jennie  Margaret  (Yeager)  Clark.  Ch.: 
Leora  Clark11,  b.  1894,  March  10;  Joseph  Robert11,  b.  1901,  March 
22,  at  Des  Moines. 
IX.  Jacob  Warren,  son  of  Solomon8,  b.  at  Bedford,  1826,  Feb.  20;  has 
been  proprietor  of  the  Reading  Nursery  since  1854,  introducing  in 
the  meantime  a  number  of  new  varieties  of  fruit,  also  ornamental 
trees  and  shrubs.  He  m.  1858,  Dec.  25,  Lydia  Brooks,  b.  at  Con- 
cord, N.  H.,  1839,  Sept.  19,  dau.  of  Abiel  and  Mary  Lamson  (Felt) 
Chandler;  res.  Reading,  Mass.,  where  their  ch.  were  b.,  viz.: 
Warren  Henry10,  b.  1860,  Nov.  7;   William  Solomon10,  b.  1862,  Dec.  8; 


GENEALOGIES. — MANNING.  967 

Jacob  Woodward™,  b.  1866,  June  1;  Abiel  Chandler10,  b.  1874,  Dec. 
15;  Benjamin  Fletcher10,  b.  1877,  Jan.  6.  The  two  latter  are 
engaged  in  landscape  and  nursery  work. 

X.  Warren  H.,son  of  Jacob  W.9,  b.  1860,  Nov.  6;  landscape  architect, 
assisted  in  laying  out  the  grounds  for  the  "World's  Fair  at  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  and  since  engaged  in  laying  out  parks  and  grounds  of 
private  estates  throughout  the  country.  He  m.  1885,  June  2,  Hen- 
rietta Hamlin,  b.  in  Reading,  1858,  May  30,  dau.  of  Daniel  Ford 
and  Angelina  (Burt)  Pratt;  res.  in  Brookline,  Mass.  Ch.,  b.  in 
Brookline:  Harold  Olmstead11,  b.  1890,  April  23,  d.  1890,  April  24; 
Warren  Harold11,  b.  1895,  Aug.  8. 

X.  William  S.,  son  of  Jacob  W.9,  b.  1862,  Dec.  8;  landscape  architect, 
superintendent  of  Essex  county  parks,  of  New  Jersey;  res.  at 
West  Orange,  N.  J.  He  m.  1887,  June  29,  Jessie  Elizabeth,  b.  at 
Danielsonville,  Conn.,  1860,  Jan.  9,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Louisa 
(Sessions)  Stockwell. 

X.  Jacob  Woodward,  son  of  Jacob  W.9,  b.  1866,  June  1;  landscape 
architect,  being  associated  with  his  brother,  Warren  H.,  in  this 
business.  He  m.  1889,  July  15,  Florence  Fairfield,  b.  1866,  July  8, 
at  South  Berwick,  Me.,  dau.  of  James  Fairfield  and  Helen  M.  (De 
Rochemont)  Nason;  res.  in  Reading.  Ch.:  Roger  Woodward11, 
b.  1891,  June  4,  d.  1891,  Sept.  12,;  Gerald  Guy11,  b.  1900,  July  8. 
IX.  Mary,  dau.  of  Solomon8,  b.  1828,  April  27;  m.  1849,  Oct.  25,  Hart- 
well,  son  of  Daniel  Nichols  of  Reading,  Mass.  Ch.,  b.  at  Read- 
ing: Ida  Maria10,  b.  1855,  April  18,  d.  1857,  Dec.  29;  Adeline  Lil- 
lian10, b.  1858,  Oct,  20;  Sidney  Parker10,  b.  1860,  Sept.  2,  d.  1862, 
Aug.  27;  Louise  Frances10,  b.  1864,  Jan.  2;  Arthur  Edward10,  b. 
1870,  Aug.  22. 

X.  Adeline  L.  (Nichols),  dau.  of  Mary9,  b.  1858,  Oct.  20;  m.  1893,  July, 
Benjamin  Frank  Gale;  res.  in  Wakefield,  Mass.  Have  a  son: 
Frank  Hartwell11,  b.  1895,  March  18. 

X.  Louise  F.  (Nichols),  dau.  of  Mary9,  b.  1864,  Jan.  2;  m.  Charles  E., 
son  of  Edward  H.  Walton  of  Wakefield,  Mass.  Ch.:  Blanche 
Lillian11,  b.  1885,  Jan.  7;  Marion  Louise11,  b.  1887,  March  26;  Mar- 
jorie11,  b.  1892,  March  19;  Edward  Hazen11,  2d,  b.  1895,  March  8. 
LX.  Dudley  H.,  son  of  Solomon8,  b.  at  Bedford,  1829,  Oct.  24,  was  a  con- 
tractor and  builder.  He  moved  to  Pepin,  Wis.,  where  he  had 
charge  of  a  lumber  yard,  and  was  employed  at  his  trade.  In  1860 
he  engaged  in  farming;  1865,  went  to  Pithole  City,  Pa.,  where 
he  built  oil  tanks  and  placed  machinery  connected  with  the  oil 
wells.  In  1867  returned  to  Wisconsin,  settling  at  Shullsburg, 
where  he  was  closely  connected  with  the  Congregational  church, 
serving  as  its  trustee,  clerk,  treasurer,  deacon,  and  choir  leader. 
From  thence  moved  to  Sibley,  la.,  and  four  years  later,  1887,  to 
Grinnell,  la.  While  at  Pepin  was  superintendent  of  Union  Sun- 
day-school three  years;  at  Pithole  City  was  superintendent  Sunday- 
school  two  years,  and  at  Sibley  prominent  in  church  work  and  the 
temperance  movement.  He  m.  1859,  Oct.  24,  Ellen  Malvina,  b. 
at  Mercer,  Pa.,  1838,  July  14,  dau.  of  Wilson  and  Elizabeth  F. 
(Meckling)  Law.  He  d.  at  Grinnell,  1900,  Aug.  14.  Ch.:  Mary 
Harriett10,  b.  at  Gratiot,  Wis.,  1860,  Nov.  8,  d.  1861,  April  11; 
Georgianna\  b.  at  Gratiot,  1862,  Nov.  26;  Nellie  Jane10,  b.  at 
Gratoit,  1866,  Oct.  19,  d.  1873,  Jan.  12;  Lucy  Maud  Law10,  b.  at 
Shullsburg,  1869,  March  23,  instructor  in  piano  and  pipe  organ, 
State  College  for  the  Blind,  Vinton,  la.;  Myra  Nellie10,  b.  at 
Shullsburg,  1872,  Sept.  1;  Eileen  Law10,  b.  at  Shullsburg,  1877, 
June  2,  d.  1877,  July  27. 

X.  Georgiana,  dau.  of  Dudley  H.9,  b.  1862,  Nov.  26;  m.  at  Grinnell, 
1888,  May  10,  John  Randall  Davis;  res.  in  Danielson,  Conn.  Ch. : 
Eileen  May11,  b.  at  Avoca,  la.,  1889,  May  9;  Edward  Manning11, 
b.  Grinneli,  1891,  Aug.  15. 


968  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

IX.  Solomon,  son  of  Solomon8,  b.  at  Bedford,  1831,  Aug.  29;  has  always 
res.  on  the  homestead;  was  selectman,  1872;  a  charter  member  and 
first  master  of  Narragansett  grange,  organized  1875;  was  instru- 
mental in  securing  the  location  of  Manchester  &  Milford  R.  R. 
through  Bedford  Center,  and  a  member  of  the  state  legislature  in 
1900- '01.  He  m.,  1st,  1855,  Nov.  29,  Hannah  M.,  b.  1833,  Sept.  4,  dau. 
of  Ebenezer  and  Mary  (Holt)  Jones  of  Andover,  Mass.  She  d.  in 
Bedford,  1862,  Oct.  2.  He  m.,  2d,  1863,  Dec.  17,  Antress  P.,  b. 
1840,  Dec.  15,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah  A.  (Parkhurst)  Flint 
of  Bedford.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.,  b.  at  Bedford:  Franklin  Ebenezer™, 
b.  1858,  Jan.  17;  Mary  Ella10,  b.  1860,  June  18.  Ch.  of  2d  mar.,  b. 
at  Bedford:  Harriet  Flora10,  b.  1866,  May  1;  William  Solomon™,  b. 
1867,  Dec.  15;  Julia  Leonora10,  b.  1869,  Aug.  26;  Margie  Ann10,  b. 
1872,  Dec.  24. 

X.  Franklin  E.,  son  of  Solomon8,  b.  1858,  Jan.  17;  m.  1894,  Nov.  10, 
Mary  H,  b.  in  Nashua,  1866,  Jan.  30,  dau.  of  Frank  H.  and  Han- 
nah (Stinchfield)  Brown;  res.  in  Bedford  on  a  farm  adjoining  the 
family  homestead.  They  had  one  ch. :  Florence11,  b.  1899,  Nov. 
18,  d. 

X.  William  S.,  son  of  Solomon9,  b.  1867,  Dec.  15;  res.  on  the  home- 
stead. He  m.  1895,  June  12,  Georgiana  F.,  b.  at  North  Charles- 
town,  1870,  May  4,  dau.  of  Gardner  and  Marion  (Way)  Way. 
She  is  a  descendant  of  Hannah  Dustin,  and  has  in  her  possession 
a  rocking-chair  known  as  the  Dustin  chair.  Ch.,  b.  in  Bedford: 
Doris  Way11,  b.  1900,  Aug.  28;  Marion  Anstress11,  b.  1901,  Aug.  25. 

MARTIN. 

I.  Nathaniel  Martin  came  from  Goffstown  to  Bedford,  and  m.  Marcy 
Goffe,  dau.  of  Col.  John  Goffe.  They  had  nine  ch., — six  sons  and 
three  daughters:  Ichabod2;  Timothy2;  Nathaniel2;  Robert2;  Moses2; 
Jesse2;  Hannah2;  and  Deborah2;  the  other  name  not  given.  Most 
of  the  family  removed  to  Maine.  Jesse  was  a  minister  of  the 
gospel,  of  the  Methodist  persuasion,  located  in  Vassalborough, 
and  Deborah  m.  Patrick  McLaughlin  (see  McLaughlin). 

I.  James  Martin,  not  of  the  above  family,  m.  Sarah  Parker,  sister  of 
Dr.  Parker  of  Litchfield  and  dau.  of  John  Parker.  They  moved 
to  Bedford  and  located  on  the  farm  later  occupied  by  Capt. 
Thomas  Chandler.  He  d.  about  1792.  They  had  five  ch.:  James2; 
Jeremiah2;  Sally2,  m.  Theophilus  Griffin  of  Manchester,  and  res. 
in  Nashua;  Lydia2;  and  Polly2.  All  the  family  but  Sally  rem.  to 
Wolfeborough. 

McAFEE  (McDUFFEE). 

For  the  probable  location  of  the  early  ancestry  of  this  family    see 
MacPherson. 

I.  Matthew  McDuffee  was  b.  in  Rochester,  N.  H.,  1720.  When  a 
young  man  he  moved  to  Londonderry,  where  he  m.,  1st,  Nancy 
Aiken,  who  d.  leaving  one  ch.  He  m.,  2d,  Susannah  Morrison  of 
Londonderry,  by  whom  he  had  six  ch.,  the  first  two  b.  in  London- 
derry. In  1760  he  rem.  to  Bedford  and  settled  on  the  homestead, 
which  was  occupied  by  his  descendants  for  120  years.  It  is  now 
owned  by  Eddy  W.  Stevens.  Here  he  farmed  and  kept  a  store. 
He  d.  1799,  April  15,  aged  79,  and  Susannah,  his  wife,  d.  1799, 
Dec.  9,  aged  69.  Ch.:  William*,  b.  1758;  Samuel2,  b.  1760;  Mary2, 
b.  1763,  May  16,  m.  John  Aiken,  res.  in  Merrimack  (see  Aiken); 
John2,  b.  1764,  d.  1766,  April  21;  James2  (no  record);  David?, 
b.  1770;  Susannah2,  b.  1772,  m.  Thomas  Chandler  of  Bedford  (see 
Chandler);  Matthew2,  b.  1775,  d.  1777,  Oct.  11. 


GENEALOGIES. — MCAFEE.  969 

II.  William,  son  of  Matthew1,  b.  1758;  changed  the  spelling  of  the 
name  from  McDuffee  to  the  still  earlier  form  of  McAfee.  He  m. 
Elizabeth  Boise,  b.  1762,  dan.  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Ann  Boise, 
who  came  to  Bedford  from  the  north  of  Ireland.  They  lived  on 
the  old  homestead,  where  he  d.  1806,  May  22,  aged  48,  and  his 
wife  d.  1853,  April  1,  aged  91.  They  had  ch.:  Samuel3,  b.  1783; 
Anne3,  b.  1786,  m.  John  Orr  of  Bedford  (see  Orr);  John3,  b.  1788; 
Mary*,  b.  1790;  Susannah3,  b.  1794,  d.  aged  20,  buried  at  Bedford 
Centre;  David3. 

III.  Samuel,  son  of  William2,  b.  Bedford,  1783,  April  9;  m.  1815,  Jan. 

24,  Catherine,  b.  1792,  Aug.  14,  dau.  of  Lieut.  John  and  Susannah 
(Allison)  Holmes  of  Londonderry.  They  lived  on  the  old  home- 
stead in  Bedford,  where  their  nine  ch.  were  b.  He  d.  1855, 
Nov.  8,  and  Catherine,  his  wife,  d.  1871,  Feb.  19.  Ch.:  Alfred*, 
b.  1815,  Nov.  18;  William*,  b.  1816,  Dec.  20;  Adam*,  b.  1818, 
Sept.  29;  John  Holmes*,  b.  1820,  Sept.  27;  Jane  H.*,  b.  1823,  July  2; 
Catherine*,  b.  1825,  May  22;  Samuel*,  b.  1827,  Dec.  24,  d.  1845, 
July  2;  Ira  Jackson4,  b.  1829,  Aug.  1,  d.  1835,  Jan.  2;  Achsah  Ann*, 
b.  1832,  Dec.  12. 
IY.  Alfred,  son  of  Samuel3,  b.  1815,  Nov.  18;  m.  1850,  Dec.  26,  Nancy 
P.  B.,  b.  1823,  Aug.  15,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Holmes) 
Shepard  of  Bedford.  He  lived  on  the  old  homestead  until  the 
death  of  his  wife,  when  it  passed  out  of  the  family,  having  been 
in  the  McDuffee-McAfee  name  120  years.  He  d.  1887,  April  9. 
His  wife  d.  1880,  June  19.  Ch.:  Emma5,  b.  1851,  Dec.  11,  m.  Geo. 
Chapman  and  res.  at  Point  Butte,  N.  B.,  had  four  ch.;  Charles5, 
b.  1855,  April;  John  Anderson5,  b.  1861,  May  4;  Thomas  Edgar5, 
b.  1863,  March  2,  m.  Mary  Pate  of  Nashua,  had  six  ch. 

V.  Charles,  son  of  Alfred4,  b.  1855,  April;  m.  Susie  Drucker  of  Amherst 
and  res.  in  Hudson.  They  had  four  ch.:  Alfred6;  Elizabeth6; 
Carl6;  and  Violet6. 

V.  John  Anderson,  son  of  Alfred4,  b.  1861,  May  4;  m.  1893,  Oct.  9, 
Grace,  b.  1873,  dau.  of  Silas  and  Augusta  (Mace)  Parkhurst  of 
Amherst.  Ch.:  Floyd  Parkhurst6,  b.  1895,  Aug.  7,  d.  1896,  Dec.  8; 
Marion  Augusta6,  b.  1897,  Aug.  5;  Everett  Parkhurst6,  b.  1898, 
Sept.  21;  Harriette  Elizabeth6,  b.  1901,  May  16. 

IV.  William,  son  of  Samuel3,  b.  1816,  Dec.  20;  m.  1865,  Mar.  16,  Orline 

Mary,  b.  1836,  Oct.  10,  dau.  of  William  and  Mary  (Farley)  Flint 
(see  Flint).  In  early  life  he  was  engaged  in  boating  on  the 
Merrimack  river,  and  it  was  in  his  boat  that  the  first  cloth  woven 
in  Manchester  mills  was  conveyed  to  Boston.  In  1852  he  went  to 
California,  and  for  eight  years  was  engaged  in  gold  mining.  In 
the  spring  of  1868,  he  returned  to  Bedford  and  located  on  a  farm 
in  the  west  part  of  the  town,  where  he  res.  until  his  death,  1902, 
June  24.  Had  one  dan.,  Ella  Darrah5,  b.  1866,  Dec.  11,  m. 
George  L.  Walch  of  Merrimack  (see  Walch  Gen.). 
IV.  Adam,  son  of  Samuel3,  b.  1818,  Sept.  29;  m.,  1st,  1847,  Sept.  19, 
Elizabeth  Rebecca  Brooks  of  Putney,  Vt.,  who  d.  1858,  Feb.  10. 
He  m.,  2d,  1865,  Sept.  10,  Helen  Frances,  b.  1843,  Aug.  24,  dau. 
of  Elbridge  G.  and  Roxanna  (Stearns)  Gilmore.  He  was  an 
electrician  in  Boston,  but  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  were  spent 
upon  his  farm  in  Bedford,  to  which  he  came  in  1870.  Helen,  his 
wife  d.  1880,  Dec.  22,  and  he  d.  1881,  Sept.  23.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.: 
Franklin  Brooks5,  b.  1848,  July  2;  Elizabeth  Malona5,  b.  1853, 
July  3.  Ch. -of  2d  mar.:  Ida  Jane5,  b.  E.  Boston,  1866,  July  6, 
d.  1867,  Dec.  2;  Helen  Frances5,  b.  1868,  Sept.  28,  d.  1868,  Nov.  2; 
Annie  Louise*,  b.  Bedford,  1870,  June  16,  m.  1901,  Sept.  1, 
Herbert  E.  Tozier  of  Manchester. 
V.  Franklin  B.,  son  of  Adam4,  b.  1848,  July  2;  m.  1880,  Jan.  1,  Maria  L., 
dan.   of   Levi  Fisher  of  Merrimack.      Ch.:   Emma  J.6,  b.    1881, 


970  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

Feb.  18,  m.  1902,  March  11,  Harry  W.  Trow  of  Nashua;  Adam  F.6, 

b.  1882,  Oct.  12;  Mary  E.6,  b.  1886,  March  20. 
IV.  John  Holmes,  son  of  Samuel3,  b.  1820,  Sept.  27;  m.   1853,  Feb.  24, 

Sophia,  dau.  of  Eri  Kittredge  of  Merrimack.     He  was  a  farmer 

and  brickmaker  in  the  south  part  of  Bedford;  d.  1878,  June  19. 

Sophia,  his  wife,  d.  1878,  June  17.     No  ch. 
IV.  Jane  H.,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1823,  July  2;    m.   1852,  Nov.  11,  Eri, 

son  of  Eri  Kittredge  of  Merrimack,  where  they  res.     Eri  d.  1891, 

Feb.   19,  and  Jane  H.  d.  1896,  Dec.  7.     Had  one  son,   William 

Frank6,  b.  1854,  Sept.  8,  d.  1891,  Feb.  16,  unm. 
IV.  Catherine,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1825,  May   22;    m.   1850,   Nov.    14, 

Joseph,   son  of  Eri  Kittredge    of    Merrimack,   where  they  res. 

Joseph,  d.  1891,  Nov.  10.     They  had  two  ch.:  Katie  Louisa5,  b. 

1855,  May  11,  m.  James  C.  Hodgman  of  Bedford  (see  Hodgman); 

Joseph  Walter*,  b.  1859,  Sept.  1. 
V.  Joseph   Walter   (Kittredge),   son  of  Catherine,   b.   1859,   Sept.    1; 

m.  1879,  June  4,  Ella  E.  Fuller  of  Merrimack.    He  d.  1881,  Oct.  28. 

Had  two  ch. :  Harry  Fuller6  and  Ella  Isabel6. 
IV.  Achsah  Ann,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.   1832,  Dec.  12;  m.  1864,  July  10, 

Charles    A.   Snell,  and  lived  in  Boston.     Ch.:    Sarah  Elizabeth6, 

b.  1865,  May  5;  Katherine  Etta5,  b.  1867,  May  24,  m.  1888,  April  9, 

Clinton  A.  Moore  of  Manchester;  Charles  Adam6,  b.  1871,  June 

29,  d.  1891,  Oct.  19. 
V.  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Snell),  dau.   of  Achsah  Ann4,  b.    1865,   May  5; 

m.  1885,  May  5,  Daniel  Conner  of  Manchester.     They  have  one 

dau.,  Mabel  Etta,  b.  1886,  Aug.  10. 

III.  John,  son  of  William2,  b.   1788;   m.,  1st,   Sally  Wallace,  who  d.; 

m.,  2d,  Mary  Gilcreast  of  Goffstown.  He  res.  while  here  on  the 
place  now  owned  by  Lyman  Kinson,  but  later  rem.  to  Lebanon, 
N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.:  Susan  J.4,  m.  Wm.  Strong 
of  Philadelphia  and  left  two  ch.;  Eliza  A.*  Ch.  by  2d  mar.: 
a  son4,  d.  young;  Mary  Jane*;  and  William*. 

IV.  Eliza  A.,  dau.  of  John8,  m.,  1st,  John  L.  Gilman  of  Gilmanton, 

N.  H.     Had  two  ch.     She  m.,  2d,  John  L.  Mason  of  Concord, 

N.  H. 
IV.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  John3;   m.  William  H.  Richardson  of  Rome, 

N.  Y.,  and  res.  in  Lebanon,  N.  H.     Had  one  son5,  who  d.  unm. 
IV.  William,  son  of  John3,  m.  and  lived  in  Lebanon,  where  he  had  five 

ch. ,  three  of  whom  are  now  living. 
III.  Mary,  dau.  of  William2,  b.   1790;   m.   Daniel  Parker  and  res.  in 

Manchester.     Had  two  ch. :  William  M.4,  who  m.  Miss  Winn  of 

Hudson;  Elizabeth4,  m.  George  Stark  of  Nashua. 

III.  David,  son  of  William2,  b. ;  m.  1824,  Feb.  23,  Sarah  K.,  b. , 

dau.  of  James  and  Submit  (Atwood)  Darrah,  and  res.  where 
Miss  Martha  Woodbury  now  lives.  After  his  death  Sarah  K.  m., 
2d,  A.  Chase  Darrah  of  Merrimack.  David  and  Sarah  K.  had 
four  ch.:  Paulila4,  b.  1825,  Feb.  17;  Sidney  David*,  b.  1827, 
May  22;  Franklin  R.4,  b.  1828,  Nov.  29,  d.  1848,  April  29;  Henry4. 

IV.  Sidney  D.,  son  of  David8,  b.  1827,  May  22;  m.  1852,  Feb.  22,  Mary  J. 

Otterson  of  Hooksett,  where  he  was  a  merchant  for  many  years. 
Had  three  ch.:  Ida  B.5,  b.  1860,  Oct.  17;  Hiram  S.5,  b.  1864, 
Nov.  16,  d.  in  infancy;  Mary  Cochran5,  b.  1866,  Dec.  8. 

II.  Samuel,  son  of  Matthew1,  b.  1760;  was  with  General  Stark  at  Ben- 
nington, and  d.  from  wounds  received  there,  1777,  Aug.  17,  aged 
17  years. 

II.  James,  son  of  Matthew1,  (?)  m.  1829,  Nov.,  Mary  Harris  (see  Vital 
Statistics). 

II.  David,  son  of  Matthew1,  b.  1770;  m.  Polly  (Mary),  b.  1777,  Aug.  80, 
dau.  of  Wm.  and  Jerusha  (Spofford)  McAllaster.  He  d.  1809, 
April  3.     Polly  m.,  2d,  1811,  Jan.  24,  Adam  Gilmore  of  Bedford. 


GENEALOGIES. — MCALLASTEK.  971 

David  and  Polly  had  four  ch.:  Susannah3,  b.  1798,  d.  1801, 
Nov.  26;  Isaiah3,  b.  1802,  d.  1804,  Sept.  16;  Sally  McAllaster3, 
b.  1805,  d.  1809,  Aug.  22;  James3,  b.  1806,  d.  1807,  Nov.  16. 

McALLASTER. 

The  earliest  record  that  can  be  found  of  the  McAllasters  of  Bedford  is 
about  1735. 

I.  Richard  McAllaster  and  Ann  Miller  were  married  in  Ireland.  They 
came  over  to  this  country  in  the  winter  of  1738-'39,  and  at  once 
found  their  way  to  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  as  we  conclude,  for  he 
was  a  citizen  in  full  standing  there  in  1741,  but  soon  after  there 
was  quite  a  migration  from  Londonderry  to  the  promising  settle- 
ment of  Narragansett,  No.  5  (now  Bedford),  and  Richard  McAl- 
laster seems  to  have  been  one  of  the  number.  He  settled  on  a 
farm  west  of  Bedford  Center  and  now  known  as  the  Hadley 
Stevens  farm.  He  came  to  Bedford  probably  in  the  spring  of 
1743,  and  was  one  of  the  leading  landholders  at  the  organization 
of  the  town  in  1750.  His  name  appears  among  the  petitioners  of 
Bedford,  then  called  •'  Souhegan  East"  to  the  governor  and 
assembly  for  protection  against  the  Indians,  1744,  June  12.  His 
wife  d.  1776,  March  12,  in  her  sixty-seventh  year.  The  ch.  of 
Richard  and  Ann  (Miller)  McAllaster  were  nine  in  number,  viz.: 
Archibald2,  who  was  b.  in  Ireland,  settled  in  Wiscasset,  Me. ,  and 
hived  to  a  great  age;  John2,  b.  on  the  ocean,  1739,  Jan.  18;  Will- 
iam2, b.  in  Londonderry,  1741,  July  14;  the  ch  ,  b.  in  Bedford,  were 
Mary2,  b.  1743,  Aug.  10;  Ann2,  b.  1745,  Nov.  6,  d.  1760,  Oct.  31; 
Susannah2,  b.  1747,  Aug.  20;  Richard,  Jr.2,  b.  1749,  Oct.  20;  James2, 
b.  1752,  Feb.  29;  Benjamin2,  b.  1754,  May  31. 
II.  John,  son  of  Richard1,  was  b.  on  the  ocean,  1739,  Jan.  18.  This 
fact  was  recorded  at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  that  being  their  first  stopping 
place  when  they  arrived  in  this  country.  He  enlisted  as  a  soldier 
in  the  French  and  Indian  war,  1758,  April  17,  and  was  also  out 
for  a  time  in  the  Revolutionary  army.  He  was  a  stirring,  wide- 
awake man,  a  blacksmith  bv  trade,  and  settled  in  Antrim  in 
1776. 
II.  William,  son  of  Richard1,  b.  1741,  July  14;  m.  in  1765,  Jerusha  Spof- 
ford  of  Rowley  (now  Georgetown),  Mass.,  and  settled  in  Wiscas- 
set, Me.  They  removed  to  Bedford  in  1779,  making  the  passage 
in  a  vessel  bound  for  Newbury  port.  He  was  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  and  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He  d.  at  Bedford,  1787, 
Feb.  17.  His  wife  was  a  person  of  rare  mental  qualities  and  fine 
personal  appearance.  She  was  b.  1742,  May  17,  and  d.  1812,  Nov. 
26,  while  on  a  visit  at  Newport,  N.  H.,  where  she  was  buried,  her 
grave  stone  still  being  well  preserved.  Their  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford, 
were:  Sarah3,  b.  1766,  Dec.  25;  Ann3,  b.  1769,  Aug.  10,  m.  James 
Gilmore  (see  Gilmore);  William3,  b.  1772,  June  12;  John3  and 
MnrtJia3  (twins),  b.  1774,  Dec.  25;  Polly  (Mary),  b.  1777,  Aug.  30, 
m.,  1st,  David  McAfee,  2d,  Adam  Gilmore,  d.,  1838,  June  25; 
James3,  b.  1779,  Nov.  30;  Benjamin3,  b.  1782,  April  12;  Apphia  S.3, 
b.  1785,  Nov.  28. 
III.  Sarah,  dan.  of  William2,  b.  1766,  Dec.  25;  m.  James  McLaughlin. 
"  Parental  opposition  early  troubled  the  course  of  true  love  in  this 
case,  resulting  in  estrangement  and  betrothal  of  the  fair  lady  to 
another.  While  a  merry  quilting  party  was  in  progress,  in  fur- 
therance of  the  preparations  for  a  hasty  marriage,  the  mystical 
last  stitch  being  contended  for,  the  discarded  lover  arrived  after 
long  absence;  smiting  the  work  with  his  riding  whip  he 
exclaimed,  '  John  Goffe  shall  never  sleep  under  that  quilt!'    The 


972  HISTORY   OP   BEDFORD. 

prospective  bride  was  easily  brought  to  the  same  determination, 
hence  the  name  of  James  McLaughlin  appears  above."  They  set- 
tled in  Bedford  and  afterwards  removed  to  Niagara,  Upper 
Canada,  where  she  d.  1794.  He  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  d. 
at  the  house  of  his  son  in  Bloomfield,  N.  Y.,  1821,  Feb.  20. 
III.  William,  son  of  William2,  b.  1772,  June  12;  m.  Jane  McKinley. 
They  settled  in  Newport;  later  removed  to  Morristown,  N.  Y. 
He  d.  1845,  Nov.  6. 

III.  John  and  Martha,  twin  ch.   of  William2,  were  b.  1774,  Dec.  25. 

Martha  m.  1797,  Dec.  29,  Andrew  Aiken  (see  Aiken).  John  m. 
1800,  March  13,  Jane  Aiken,  and  settled  in  Bedford.  He  d.  1853, 
July  25,  and  Jane,  his  wife  d.  1854,  Jan.  3.  They  had  twelve 
ch.  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.:  Gilman4,  b.  1800,  Dec.  12,  m.  in  1829, 
Syrene  Stearns,  res.  in  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  d.  1841,  Aug.  6; 
Achsah4,  b.  1802,  Sept.  20,  m.  Zacheus  Patten  (see  Patten);  Sally4, 
b.  1804,  March  1,  m.  Adam  Chandler  (see  Chandler);  Rodney4,  b. 
1806,  Jan.  5,  del  Mary  Emerson,  who  d.  1862,  June  27,  he  d.'l858, 
Jan.  11,  near  Battle  Creek,  Mich.;  Margaret  A*,  b.  1808,  March  5; 
John*,h.  1810,  May  30;  Isaac*,  b.  1812," Feb.  17;  Adeline*,  b.  1813, 
Sept.  15;  Alfred4,  b.  1815,  Nov.  20,  d.  1830,  Sept.  4;  William*,  b. 
1819,  May  25;  George  L.*,  b.  1822,  May  26;  Mary  Jane*,  b.  1824, 
Sept.  4. 

IV.  Margaret  A.,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1808,  March  5;  m.  1831,  Nov.  29, 

Reuben  B.  Gibson.  They  res.  in  Methuen,  Mass.,  two  years, 
then  moved  to  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  where  they  lived  until  1851. 
They  then  moved  to  Minnesota,  where  they  spent  the  remainder 
of  their  days.  He  d.  1872,  Nov.  13,  and  she  1889,  Aug.  29.  They 
had  ch.:  Elizabeth  Jane5,  b.  1834,  April  11;  Adelaide5,  b.  1840, 
March  15;  Loretta5;  b.  1841,  Dec.  18;  Cassius  Clay5,  b.  1844,  Dec.  29, 
m.  1889,  Nov.  26,  Elizabeth  Robinson. 

V.  Elizabeth  Jane  (Gibson),  dau.  of  Margaret  A.4,  b.  1834,  April  11; 
m.,  1st,  1853,  Dec.  22,  George  Henry  Oakes,  who  d.  1868,  Feb.  21. 
She  m.,  second,  Dr.  Thomas  Chatterton  Schell,  who  d.  1882,  Sept. 
2.  Had  two  ch.  by  first  mar.,  viz.:  Martha  Jane6,  b.  1854,  Sept. 
28,  d.  1855,  July  27;  George  Lewis6,  b.  1855,  Dec.  12,  d.  1856, 
March  25. 

Y.  Adelaide  (Gibson),  dau.  of  Margaret  A.4,  b.  1840,  March  15;  m.  1856, 
Feb.  28,  Amos  B.  Dunn,  who  d.  1882,  July  2.  They  had  two  ch.: 
Margaret  Louise6,  b.  1859,  Aug.  9,  m.  1883,  Aug.  27,  George  Will- 
iam Smith;  Loretta6,  b.  1869,  June  2,  d.  1869,  June  23. 

V.  Loretta  (Gibson),  dau.  of  Margaret  A.4,  b.  1841,  Dec.  18;  m.  1869, 
Jan.  6,  Curtis  Grant  Lewis,  who  d.  1897,  April  29.  They  had 
three  ch.:  Grace6,  b.  1869,  Oct,  29,  m.  1891,  June  4,  Charles  W. 
Wanzer;  Maud6,  b.  1875,  Aug.  24;  Curtis  Grant,  Jr.6,  b.  1882,  May 
13,  d.  1882,  June  8. 
IY.  John,  son  of  John3,  b.  1810,  May  30;  m.  1839,  April  11,  Merab  French, 
b.  1811,  Sept.  27,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Rhoda  (Coburn)  French. 
They  res.  in  Bedford,  where  he  d.  1849,  May  23.  She  d.  in  Law- 
rence, Mass.,  1881,  June  16.  Their  son,  John  Gilman5,  was  b.  in 
Bedford,  1841,  Dec  9. 

Y.  John  Gilman  (M.  D.),  son  of  John4,  b.  1841,  Dec.  9;  m.  1869,  Oct. 
19,  Almeda  Norton  Tirrell  of  Nashua,  N.  H.  They  settled  in 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  where  he  is  one  of  the  leading  physicians  (see 
Physicians).  They  have  four  ch.:  Frederick  Danforth6,  b.  1872, 
Oct.  2;  graduated  at  Amherst  college,  1894,  and  Harvard  Medical 
school,  1898,  now  practising  medicine  and  surgery  in  Lawrence; 
Frank  Barr6,  b.  1874,  Sept.  17,  graduated  from  Amherst  college, 
1896,  and  Yale  Divinity  school,  1899,  is  now  pastor  of  Congrega- 
tional church  at  Bedford,  Mass.;  Grace  Tirrell6,  b.  1880,  Feb.  2; 
Helen  Webster6,  b.  1884,  Jan.  24. 


GENEALOGIES. — MCALLASTER.  973 

IV.  Isaac,  son  of  John3,  b.  1812,  Feb.  17;  m.  1859,  Feb.  3,  Anna  Frances 
Tisdale,  and  res.  in  Bedford.  He  d.  1885,  Oct.  10.  Had  four  ch., 
b.  in  Bedford:  Frank  Tisdale5,  b.  1862,  Oct.  28;  Grace  Amelia6,  b. 
1864,  d.  at  Manchester,  1886,  Ang.  2;  Adelaide  Louisa5,  b.  1865. 
Oct.  13;  Arthur  Little5,  b.  1870,  Jan.  8. 

V.  Frank  Tisdale,  son  of  Isaac*,  b.  1862,  Oct.  28;  rem.  to  Denver,  Col., 
in  1888,  and  m.  1899,  Oct.  26,  Minnie  C.  Hartford. 

V.  Adelaide  Louisa,  dau.  of  Isaac4,  b.  1865,  Oct.  13;  m.  at  Manchester, 

1892,  July  5,  Robert  D.  W.  McKay.     They  now  res.  in  Dorches- 
ter, Mass.,  and  have  two  dans.:  Grace  Maude6,  b.  Manchester, 

1893,  May  6;  Verna  Tisdale6,  b.  Manchester,  1894,  Nov.  22. 

V.  Arthur  Little,  son  of  Isaac4,  b.  1870,  Jan.  8;  m.  at  Manchester,  1895, 
Jan.  8,  Josephine  E.  Cass,  and  they  have  two  sons,  Norman 
Francis6,  b.  in  Manchester,  1896,  April  4;  Frederick  Tisdale6,  b, 
in  Manchester,  1898,  Jan.  16. 
IV.  Adeline,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1813,  Sept.  15;  m.  1835,  April  7,  Charles 
Moore,  who  was  b.  in  Manchester  1808,  June  6.  They  res.  in 
Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  where  she  d.  1868,  March  22,  and  he  d.  1870, 
July  12.  They  had  six  ch.:  Jane5,  d.  in  infancy;  Kate5,  d.  in  in- 
fancy; Charles  E.5,  d.  in  infancy;  Josephine  Louise5,  b.  1838,  Dec.  8; 
Adeline  M5,  b.  1842,  Nov.  12;  Charles5,  b.  1855,  Oct,  20. 

V.  Josephine  Louise  (Moore),  dau.  of  Adeline4,  b.  1838,  Dec.  8;  m.  at 
Detroit,  Mich.,  1859,  Dec.  8,  Sullivan  M.  Cutcheon.  They  had 
twoch.:  Louise6,  b.  1860,  Oct.  22;  Sullivan6,  b.  1871,  Oct.  20,  d. 
1876,  Sept,  13. 
VI.  Louise  (Cutcheon),  dau.  of  Josephine  L.5,  b.  1860,  Oct.  20;  m.  1883, 
Oct.  25,  Edwin  Armstrong.  Had  three  ch.:  Philip7,  b.  1885,  Dec. 
8;  Catherine7,  b.  1888,  Sept.  11;  Josephine7,  b.  1891,  July  22. 

V.  Adeline  M.  (Moore),  dau.  of  Adeline4,  b.  1842,  Nov.  12;  m.  at  Ypsi- 
lanti, Mich.,  1863,  May  12,  Robert  W.  Hemphill  and  had  three  ch.: 
Robert  W.6,  b.  1864,  Sept.  19;  Charles  M.6 ,  b.  1866,  April  4,  m. 
1890,  May  7,  Mary  C.  Curtis;  Josephine6,  b.  1872,  Sept,  1;  m.  1898, 
May  11,  Wilford  D.  Crocker. 

V.  Charles  (Moore),  son  of  Adeline4,  b.  1855,  Oct.  20;  m.  1878,  June  27, 
Alice  W.  Merriam  of  Middleton,  Mass.,  and  had  two  ch.:  McAl- 
laster6,  b.  1881,  March  17;  Merriam6,  b.  1890,  Aug.  31. 
IV.  William,  son  of  John3,  b.  1819,  May  25;  m.  1852,  April  22;  Martha 
Jane,  dau.  of  John  and  Jane  (Riddle)  Goffe,  and.  res.  in  Bedford, 
where  he  d.  1888,  Sept,  29,  and  she  d.  1898,  Jan.  10.  Their  ch.,  b. 
in  Bedford,  were:  Eliza5,  b.  1855,  July  23,  d.  1857,  May  10;  Helen 
Frances5,  b.  1857,  June  26;  John  Goffe5,  and  Jennie  Aiken5  (twins), 
b.  1860,  Sept.  23;  Jennie  Aiken  m.  1889,  June  18,  Fred  A.  French 
(see  French) ;  Oilman5,  b.  1868,  Nov.  4. 

V.  Helen  Frances,  dau.  of  William4,  b.  1857,  June  26;  m.  1879,  Nov.  6, 
Wilfred  S.  Chaplin  and  res.  in  Georgetown,  Mass.  They  have  ch.: 
Carleton  McAllaster6,  b.  1881,  June  15;  Hester  Helen6,  b.  1883, 
Jan.  15;  Henry  Prescott6,  b.  1885,  Feb.  2;  infant6,  b.  1886,  Dec.  23, 
d.  1887,  Jan.  1;  John  Howard6,  b.  1893,  Dec.  4. 

V.  John  Goffe,  son  of  William4,  b.  1860,  Sept.  23;  m.  in  Bedford,  1888, 
Oct.  17,  Mamie  F.  Vose,  b.  1865,  Feb.,  dau.  of  John  Gilman  and 
Mary  (Keniston)  Vose.  Ch.:  Richard  Vose6,  b.  1892,  May  9;  Will- 
iam Roy6,  b.  1895,  May  7;  John  Parker6,  b.  1897,  Oct.  31. 

V.  Gilman,  son  of  William4,  b.  1868,  Nov.  4;  m.  1898,  July  26,  Bessie 
M.  Wasley  and  res.  in  Manchester.  Have  one  dau.,  Helen  Louise6, 
b.  1900,  April  6. 
IV.  George  L.,  son  of  John3,  b.  1822,  May  26;  m.,  1st,  1850,  June  12, 
Mary  J.  Hayes  of  Dexter,  Mich.  He  went  to  Hinsdale,  Mich., 
when  a  young  man,  and  engaged  in  the  hat,  cap,  and  fur  trade, 
and  then  accepted  the  agency  for  the  Singer  Sewing  Machine  Co. 
He  moved  to  Marshall,  Tex.,  in  April,  1885,  and  there  m.,  2d,  1888, 


974  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

July  11,  Mrs.  Katie  Wilcox.  He  d.  1896,  Jan.  12,  after  about  a 
week's  sickness  of  pneumonia.  A  dau.  by  the  first  wife  now  res. 
in  Chicago. 

IV.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1824,  Sept.  4;  m.,  1st,  1851,  June  19, 
James  T.  Kendall,  who  was  b.  1821,  Aug.  25,  and  d.  1877,  May  20. 
Had  ch.  (see  Kendall).  She  m.,  2d,  1882,  Nov.  8,  Hugh  Riddle 
French,  who  d.  1888,  Dec.  9  (see  French) ;  she  d.  1898,  Jan.  1. 

HI.  James,  son  of  William2,  b.  1779,  Nov.  30;  m.  1818,  Jan.  11,  Rachel 
Dupee  and  settled  in  Boston.  He  was  a  master  mechanic  and 
superintendent  of  public  buildings,  also  member  of  common  coun- 
cil in  1837-'38.  He  d.  1853,  April  15.  His  wife  was  of  Wrentham, 
Mass.,  and  of  French  Huguenot  descent.  She  was  b.  1795,  April 
23,  and  d.  1865,  Oct.  29. 

III.  Benjamin,  son  of  William2,  b.  1782,  April  12;  m.  1807,  Nov.  19, 
Anne  Barr  (see  Barr),  and  settled  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  where 
he  carried  on  a  cabinet  and  chair  factory.  He  d.  in  Morristown, 
N.  Y.,  1864,  Oct.  9,  and  she  d.  1865,  Feb.  13. 

III.  Apphia  S.,  dau.  of  William2,  b.  1785,  Nov.  28;  in.  John  Gilmore 
and  settled  in  Newport,  N.  H.  She  d.  1866,  July  25,  and  he  d. 
1843,  Jan.  31,  aged  61. 
II.  Susannah,  dau.  of  Richard1,  was  b.  1747,  Aug.  20.  Record  shows 
that  there  was  a  Susannah  McAllaster  m.  to  Hugh  Moore  in  Bed- 
ford, 1792,  March  21.  They  settled  in  Amherst  and  lived  to  good 
old  age.  Circumstances  indicate  that  the  first  Susannah  d.  in 
infancy,  and  the  wife  of  Moore  was  a  second  dau. ,  to  whom  the 
same  name  was  given,  b.  about  1756.  She  d.  1842,  June  8. 
II.  Richard  J.,  son  of  Richard1,  b.  1749,  Oct.  20;  was  last  taxed  in  Bed- 
ford 1772  and  moved  to  Antrim.  He  was  prominent  among  the 
first  settlers  there,  and  was  a  member  of  the  first  board  of  select- 
men.    He  moved  to  Alstead  and  subsequently  to  Springfield,  Vt. 

His  wife  was  Susannah .     They  had  several  ch. 

II.  James,  son  of  Richard1,  b.  1752,  Feb.  29;  was  last  taxed  in  Bedford 
in  1773.  He  m.  in  1773,  Oct.,  Sally  McClary  of  Bedford,  and 
moved  to  Antrim.     He  d.  1823,  Aug.  27,  and  she  d.  1841,  July  2. 

McCLARY. 

I.  David  McClary,  a  former  resident  of  Merrimack,  N.  H,  rem.  to 
Goffstown  and  thence  to  Bedford  about  1783.  He  settled  upon 
the  farm  and  erected  the  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mr. 
Henry  Tarr  in  the  northwest  part  of  the  town.  He  was  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier  and  fought  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He  m. 
.  Had  ch.:  Isabel2,  b.  1769,  Nov.  4;  Rachel2,  b.  in  Merri- 
mack 1772,  Jan.  22,  m.  a  Mr.  Dinsmore  of  Goffstown;  James2,  b. 
in  Merrimack  1774,  March  23;  Mary2,  b.  in  Merrimack  1776,  Aug. 
27,  d.  young;  Elizabeth2,  b.  in  Merrimack  1779,  May  23,  m.  1818, 
Aug.  11,  Alexander  Caldwell  of  New  Boston,  and  d.  1859,  Dec.  27; 
Mary2,  b.  in  Goffstown  1783,  Sept.  2,  m.  James  Wilkins  and  moved 
to  New  York;  Jennet2,  b.  in  Bedford  1785,  Oct.  19,  d.  in  Goffstown 
1868,  Jan.  9,  unm. 
II.  James,  son  of  David1,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1774,  March  23;  had  the 
farm  after  the  death  of  his  father.  About  1855  he  rem.  from  Bed- 
ford to  Wisconsin.  He  m.  Jennie  McAllister  of  Antrim,  andd.  in 
Galesville,  Wis.,  1863,  May  18,  aged  89  yrs.,  1  mo.,  24  d.  Ch.  all  b. 
in  Bedford:  Elizabeth3,  b.  1814,  Dec.  4,  m.  1839,  May  2,  Calvin 
Wyman  of  Goffstown,  where  she  d.  1901,  Nov.  8;  Daniel3,  b.  1816, 
Aug.  23,  m.  Harriet  Wyman  of  Goffstown,  he  d.  in  Madison,  Wis. ; 
Mary3,  b.  1818,  July  16,  m.  Ephraim  Kendall  (see  Kendall);  Jane3, 
b.  1821,  May  2,  m.  Benjamin  Hopkins  of  New  Boston,  where  she 
is  now  living;  David3,  b.  1825,  Aug.  3,  d.  in  Goffstown,  1893,  Nov. 
30,  unm. 


GENEALOGIES. — MCDOWELL.  9.75 


Mcdowell  or  mcdole. 

This  family  comes  from  Scotch  ancestry,  which,  like  so  many  of  our 
townspeople's  ancestors,  had  settled  in  the  north  of  Ireland  (see  McPher- 
son).  A  father  and  his  two  sons,  whose  names  we  have  not  learned, 
joined  the  Massachusetts  Bay  colony  about  1630  or  1640.  The  father 
was  killed  in  Boston  in  a  singular  manner,  a  tub  of  butter  falling  upon 
and  crushing  his  chest.  One  son  died  soon  after.  The  other  son  married 
and  settled  in  Londonderry,  where  three  children  were  born,  Thomas, 
William,  and  Mary.  Both  parents  died  when  the  children  were  small, 
but  they  found  a  home  with  a  Mr.  McLaughlin.  Thomas  and  William 
both  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  as  members  of  Arnold's  division. 
Thomas  caught  the  horse  for  Arnold  to  ride  when  he  fled  to  the  British 
warship.  After  the  war  ended  their  company,  200  strong,  had  to  travel 
on  foot  to  Boston.  Some  of  their  members  were  unable  to  keep  in  the 
ranks  for  such  a  distance.  Their  comrades  solved  the  matter  by  purchas- 
ing a  horse  for  $  1,600  (Continental  money),  and  allowing  the  weaker  or 
older  members  of  the  company  to  take  turns  in  riding.  Whoever  was  rid- 
ing at  noon  or  night  rode  ahead  to  provide  accommodations  for  the  others, 
when  they  were  sometimes  well-fed,  sometimes  ill- fed.  In  1784  Thomas 
and  William  went  to  Shirley  Hill,  Goffstown,  where  they  parted,  Thomas 
going  to  Vermont,  where  he  was  never  heard  from  after. 

I.  William  built  the  second  log  house  on  the  hill.  He  also  aided  Anti- 
pice  Dodge,  the  first  settler  on  the  North  Mt.  (Uneanoonuc)  to  move 
his  goods  on-  horseback  over  the  South  Mt.  (Uucanoonuc).  He 
m.  1787  Mary  Witherspoon  of  Chester.  Ch.:  William  Jr.2,  b.  1790, 
d.  1809;  David2,  b.  1792,  d.  1825,  served  9  mos.  in  the  War  of  1812; 
Lucy2,  b.  1792,  d.  1816;  Betsey2,  b.  1796,  d.  1818;  Nancv2,  b.  1796, 
d.  1817;  Alexander2,  b.  1798,  d.  1823;  Frances2,  b.  1800,  d.  1823; 
Joseph2,  b.  1803,  d.  1856;  Mary2,  b.  1807,  d.  1822. 
II.  Joseph,  son  of  William1  m.  Ann  Clogstone.  Had  six  ch.,  one  of 
which  was  James3.  Four  of  the  other  ch.  are  now  living  in  the 
West. 

III.  James,  son  of  Joseph;  m.,  1st,  1828,  Jane  F.,  b.  1812,  Aug.  21,  dau.  of 

Samuel  and  Susan  (Tinker)  Witherspoon.  She  d.  1850,  Nov.  14. 
He  m.,  2d,  Lucinda  Hart  of  Goffstown,  b.  1822  and  d.  1869.  Oct. 
19.  He  settled  in  Goffstown  but  came  to  Bedford  in  1839.  Ch.  b. 
in  Goffstown  were:  Sophronia4,  b.  1829,  Oct.  6,  d.  1845,  Sept.  6; 
Mary4,  b.  1833,  d.  1847,  Jan.  22;  William*,  b.  1834,  March  31.  Ch. 
b.  in  Bedford  were:  Samuel*,  b.  1839,  Nov.  15;  David*,  b.  1841, 
Jan.  12;  James4,  b.  1843,  Sept.  15,  soldier  in  Civil  war,  d.  1882, 
April  4;  Jennie  S.4,  b.  1848,  Nov.  4,  d.  1871,  June  22;  John  W.*,  b. 
1850,  Oct.  25. 

IV.  William,  son  of  James3,  b.   1834,  March  31;  m.  1861,  Oct.  25,  Ellen 

E.  Noyes  of  Springfield,  who  d.  1899,  Jan.  5.  Their  son,  William 
Gordon5  b.  1869,  m.  1890,  Dec.  24,  Ada  J.  (Carey)  Rogers,  b.  1866. 
Have  one  son,  Herbert  W.6,  b.  1893,  Sept.  4. 

IV.  Samuel,  son  of  James3,  b.  1839,  Nov.  15;  served  in  the  Civil  war. 
He  m.,  1st,  Lydia  A.  Noyes  of  Springfield,  who  d.  1877.  He  m., 
2d,  Nora  Brown  of  Manchester.  They  have  two  ch.,  Leo5  and 
Cleo5.    Res.  in  Manchester. 

IV.  David,  son  of  James3,  b.  1841,  Jan.  12,  also  served  in  the  Civil  war. 
He  m.  1865,  Alice  Willard,  of  Concord,  who  d.  1890.  He  d. 
1895,  Oct.  25.     They  had  a  dau.  who  res.  in  Warner. 

IV.  John  W.,  son  of  James3,  b.  1850,  Oct,  25;  m.,  1st,  1880,  Dec.  25, 
Emma  E.,  b.  1856,  Oct.  20,  dau.  of  Rufus  and  Louisa  (Prince) 
Parkhurst,  She  d.  1886,  May  15;  he  m.,  2d,  1888,  Jennie  D.  Man- 
ning of  Manchester.  They  have  one  dau.,  Martha  Frances5,  b. 
1890,  Oct.  11. 


976  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 


McKINNEY. 

I.  "William  McKinney  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1784,  Dec.  19.  He  m.,  1805, 
June  25,  Jane,  b.  1786,  Oct.  31,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  (Moor) 
Shirley  of  Goffstown.  They  rem.  to  Spencer,  N.  Y.,  thence  to 
Newburg,  Ind.  He  d.  1859,  July  16,  and  his  wife  d.  1865,  Dec.  9. 
Had  twelve  ch. :  Margaret-2,  b.  Bedford,  1806,  April  19,  m.  Elisha 
Castle,  she  d.  1841,  May  17;  Mary'2,  b.  Bedford,  1808,  Jan.  19; 
John2,  b.  Bedford,  1810,  April  13;  James2,  b.  Bedford,  1812,  June 
17;  William2,  b.  Goffstown,  1814,  April  13;  ch.,  b.  Spencer,  N.Y., 
Thomas  Shirley2,  b.  1817,  Jan.  17;  Joshua  Vose2,  b.  1819,  Oct.  22; 
Nancy  Jane2,  b.  1822,  Feb.  21;  Harriet  Shirley2,  b.  1825,  Feb.  22; 
Martha  Maria2,  b.  1828,  Feb.  19;  Cornelia2  and  Cordelia2  (twins),  b. 
1830,  July  5,  Cornelia  m.  Isaac  Adams  and  d.  Newburg,  Ind., 
1853,  July  25. 
II.  Mary,  dau.  of  William1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1808,  Jan.  19;  m.  1835,  Feb. 
4,  Henry  L.  Cox,  b.  in  South  Carolina,  1813,  July  13.  He  d.  1868, 
Sept.  21,  and  she  d.  1881,  Sept.  14,  at  Newburg,  Ind.     They  had 

nine  ch.:    Henry3,  b.  1836,  Nov.  29,  d. ;   James  J.3,  b.  1838, 

Nov.  6,  d. ;  Rhoda  L.3,  b.  1840,  Oct.  6,  d. ;  Annie*;  Will- 
iam H.:\  b.  1844,  Oct.  29,  d.  in  the  army,  1865,  June  6;  Harriet 

M8;  Mary  J.3,  b.  1848,  Aug.  17,  d. ;  Franklin3,  b.  1852,  Aug. 

6;  d. ;  Fannie3,  b.  1855,  Jan.  1,  d. . 

III.  Annie  (Cox),  dau.  of  Mary2,  b.  1842,  June  8;  m.  1862,  Sept.  11,  Emery 
McCool,  and  res.  in  Chandler,  Ind.  Had  two  sons:  Henry  F.4  and 
William  F.4,  both  of  whom  are  physicians  at  Evansville,  Ind. 

III.  Harriet  M.  (Cox),  dau.  of  Mary2,  b.  1846,  Feb.  26;  m.  1862,  Oct.  9, 
Hiram  H.  Williams.  Had  three  ch.:  Henry4,  Annie4,  and  Nellie4. 
II.  John,  son  of  William1,  b.  Bedford,  1810,  April  13;  m.,  1st,  at  Ithaca, 
N.  Y.,  1833,  Jan.  7,  Elizabeth  Ostrander,  b.  1810,  Oct.,  and  d. 
1847,  Dec.  27.  He  m.,  2d,  1847,  June  3,  Francis  Wilder,  b.  Boon- 
ville,  Ind.,  1824,  Dec.  25.  Res.  at  Wichita,  Kan.  Ch.  of  1st 
mar.:  Mary  P.3,  b.  1835,  Dec.  25,  m.  at  Newburg,  John  Edwards, 
and  d.  1883,  Dec.  18;  Georgiana8.  Ch.  of  2d  mar.,  b.  Newburg, 
Ind.:  Jay  S.8;  Joshua  T.3,  b.  1849,  Oct,  27,  d.  1859,  July  1;  Charles 
H.3,  b.  1851,  March  2,  d.  1852,  March  7;  Ora  S8;  Dotia  Belle3,  b. 
1855,  Oct.  19,  d.  1856,  July  17;  Eliza  Jane8;  Bertha,  Guile8;  Robert 
Moor3,  b.  1862,  Oct.  15,  m.  1882,  Feb.,  Emma  Shea,  res.  at  Newburg. 

III.  Georgiana,  dau.  of  John'2,  b.  Newburg,  Ind.,  1837,  April  2;  m.  1855, 
June  17,  James  H.  Hudson,  and  d.  1892,  May  11.  They  res.  in 
Boonville,  Ind.    Had  three  ch.:  Fannie4,  John  W.4,  Charles  E.4 

III.  Jay  S.,  son  of  John2,  b.  Newburg,  1848,  April  1;  m.  Ella  Sargent, 
and  res.  in  Newburg.  He  d.  1876,  March  21.  Had  two  ch.:  Har- 
riet J.4;  Edward  S.4 

III.  Ora  S.,  son  of  John2,  b.  in  Newburg,  1853,  Feb.  1;  m.  1887,  Apri 
27,  Emma  Root;  is  proprietor  of  "Rock  Island"  book  exchange; 
res.  Wichita,  Kau. 

III.  Eliza  Jane,  dau.  of  John2,  b.  1857,  Aug.  31;  m.  1880,  Nov.,  John  H. 
Siegel.  She  d.  1887,  Feb.  28.  They  had  res.  at  New  Ulm,  Minn. 
Had  one  son,  Ora  John.4 

III.  Bertha  Guile,  dau.  of  John2,  b.  at  Newburg,  1860,  May  26;  m.  1881, 
Sept.  11,  W.  A.  Minick,  and  res.  in  Wichita,  Kan.  They  have 
Arthur  D.4  and  Aileen4. 
II.  James,  son  of  William1,  b.  Bedford,  1812,  June  17;  farmer;  in.  1835, 
Dec.  31,  at  Newburg,  Emiline  E.  H.  Posey,  b.  1816,  July  2,  and  d. 
1873,  July  7.  He  d.  1876,  Nov.  28.  Had  ch.,  b.  at  Newburg; 
Minerva  J.3;  Mary  A.3,  b.  1838,  Oct.  5,  d.  1838,  Oct.  14;  Walker  J.8; 
William  C.3,  b.  1842,  July  18,  d.  1842;  Catherine  E.8;  John  F.8: 
William  H.8;  Thomas  L.3,  b.  1850,  Oct,  16,  d.  1874,  Feb.  3;  Charh* 
C8;  Cordilia  D.s,  b.  1854,  Dec.  5,  d.  1855,  Sept.  21;  James  B.8 


GENEALOGIES. — MCK1NNEY.  977 

III.  Minerva  J.,  dau.  of  James'2,  b.  Newburg,  1886,  Nov.  12;  in.  1856, 
March  6,  A.  B.  Hndson,  who  d.  1862,  Feb.  22.  They  res.  in 
Boonville,  Ind.     Ch.:  James  W.4;  Mary  E.4;  Emiline  F.4 

III.  Walker  J.,  son  of  James2,  b.  Newburg,  1840,  March  17;  m.  1866,  May 
2,  WiUiams  Francis  Boner,  b.  1848,  Feb.  11.  He  was  1st  Lieut. 
Company  I,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-sixth  Regt. ,  Indiana  Vols., 
in  the  great  Rebellion.  He  d.  1898,  Jan.  26.  His  widow  res.  in 
Oakland  City,  Ind.  They  had  ch.:  Nettie  B.4;  Eva  F.4;  WilliamW.4 

III.  Catherine  E.,  dau.  of  James2,  b.  Newburg,  1844,  Dec.  14;  m.,  1st, 
1861,  April  2,  Charles  W.  Pyatte;  divorced  1876.  She  m.,  2d, 
Frank  A.  Moor,  a  dealer  in  lumber;  res.  Evansville,  Ind.  Ch., 
1st  mar.:  James  N.4;  Charles  McK.4;  Gertie  E.4;  Orlando  J.4  Ch. 
of  2d  mar.,  Jennie  E.4 

III.  John  F.,  son  James2,  b.  Newburg,  1846,  March  31;  m.  1867,  Nov.  14, 
Martha  A.  Griffiths,  b.  1850,  July  11.  He  is  a  contractor,  and  res. 
at  Evansville,  Ind.  Ch.:  Charles  W.4;  Minerva  E.4;  George  S.4; 
Annie  E.4;  Frank  E.4;  Clayton  R.4;  John  P.4 

III.  William  H,  son  of  James2,  b.  at  Newburg,  1848,  Sept.  11;  m.  1874. 
Nov.  5,  Laura  Palmer.  He  is  a  veterinary  surgeon,  residing  at 
Geneseo,  111.    Ch.:  Guy  H.4;  Rena  E.4 

III.  Charles  C,  son  of  James2,  b.  at  Newburg,  1852,  Sept.  11;  m.  1872, 
Feb.  1,  Olive  B.  Boner;  is  a  stable  keeper,  and  res.  at  Evansville, 
Ind.     Ch.:  William  C.4;  Arthur  E.4. 

III.  James  B.,  son  of  James2,  b.  Newburg,  1857,  Aug.  5;  m.  1882,  May  7, 
Mollie  C.  Beatly;  res  in  Jeffersonville,  Ind.    Ch.:  Grace4;  Ray  B.4 
II.  Wiliiam,  son  of  William1,  b.  Goffstown,  1814,  April  13;  m.,  1st,  1840, 
April  15,  Rhoda  Spellman,  b.  1819,  Sept.  20,  and  d.  at  Boonville, 
Ind.,  1840,  June  21.     He  m.,  2d,  1841,  Sept.  12,  Catherine  Cox,  b. 
at  Derby,  Conn.,  1817,  Sept.  6.     He  was  a  merchant-miller  at 
Sterling,  111.     He  d.  1888,  June  21,  and  Catherine,  his  wife,  d. 
1899,  March  29. 
II.  Thomas  Shirley,  son  of  William1,  b.  at  Spencer,  N.  Y.,  1817,  Jan. 
17;  m.  1843,  May  3,  Salome  B.  Chase,  b.  at  Antwerp,  N.  Y.,  1822, 
March  30.     He  d.  at  Newburg,  Ind.,  1853,  May  18.     His  wife  d. 
at  Sterling,  111.     Had  one  son,  Albert  H.3 
II.  Joshua  Vose,  son  of  William1,  b.  Spencer,  N.  Y.,  1819,  Oct.  22;  is  in 
furniture  business  at  Sterling,  111.     He  m.,  1st,  1847,  May  20, 
Jeanette  Garwood,  b.  in  Ohio,  1828,  Nov.  18;  d.  1849,  June  12. 
He  m.,  2d,  1850,  May  12,  Emeline  Garwood,  b.  1827,  May  13,  d. 
1868,  Aug.  4.     He  m.,  3d,  1869,  Dec.  17,  Mary  E.  Little,  b.  in 
Goffstown,  1823,  Aug.  5.     Ch.  of  1st  mar.,  Harriet  J.3    Ch.  of  2d 
mar.,  William  E.8;  Margaret  O.3;  Thomas  S.3;  Mary  A.3;  John 
G.3;  Russell  S.3 
II.  Nancy  Jane,  dau.  William1,  b.  Spencer,  N.  Y.,  1822,  Feb.  21;  m.  1846, 
May  10,  Francis  Macy,  b.  Nantucket,  Mass.,  1823,  Jan.  16,  a  car- 
penter.    She  d.  1879,  Oct.  10.     He  d.  1884,  July  31,  at  Boonville, 
Ind.     Ch.:  Ella3;  Frank3. 
II.  Harriet  Shirley,  dau.  of  William1,  b.  Spencer,  N.  Y.,  1825,  Feb.  22; 
m.  Carlos  Johnson,  Newburg,  Ind.     She  d.  1846,  June  15.     They 
had  a  son,  Shirley  Johnson3. 
II.  Martha  Maria,  dau.  of  William1,  b.  Eteeka,  N.  Y.,  1828,  Feb.  19; 
m.,  1st,  1845,  Feb.  24,  Curtis  DeForest,  b.  Boonville,  Ind.,  1824, 
July  10,  and  d.  1865,  Sept.  10.     She  in.,  2d,  1868,  Oct.  8,  George 
T.  Medcalf ,  b.  1838,  March  27.     She  d.  1900,  Dec.  27.    He  res.  at 
Newbury,  Ind.  Ch.:  Mary  J.3;  William  H.3;  Frances  B.3;  Thomas 
C.8;  Joseph  A.3;  John  M.8;  Albert  C.3;  Daniel  W.3;  Neel  C.3 
II.  Cordelia,  dau.  of  William1  (twin  to  Cornelia),  b.  Spencer,  N.  Y., 
1830,  July  5;  m.  1856,  Sept  7,  Addison  S.  Melvin,  b.  Chester, 
Ohio,  1828,  Sept.  22,  a  merchant.     He  d.  Newburg,  Ind.,  1893, 
July,  and  she  d.   1898,  July  23.    Ch.:  Joshua  M.3;  Arthur  N.3; 
Addison  S.3;  Alonzo  D.3;  Jennie  R.8 
63 


978  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 


Mclaughlin. 

I.  John  McLaughlin  and  his  wife,  Mary,  came  from  Ireland  about 
1735,  settled  in  Bedford  on  land  which  he  afterward  sold  to 
Samuel  Gordon.  He  occupied  a  house  a  little  north  of  the  pres- 
ent so-called  Gordon  house.  He  afterward  built  a  small  house  on 
the  south  side  of  the  farm  afterward  known  as  the  McLaughlin 
farm,  about  a  mile  southeast  of  the  Center.  This  farm  is  now 
owned  by  Martin  Kelly.  On  this  farm,  in  this  house  or  in  the  one 
built  by  his  great  grandson  Rodney  McLaughlin  just  north  of  the 
road,  there  either  were  born  or  resided,  at  least,  six  g  iterations  of 
the  McLaughlin  family.  John  McLaughlin  was  the  first  town 
clerk  of  Bedford,  serving  two  years  in  1750  and  1751.  He  had  five 
ch. :  John2,  Thomas2,  Isabella2,  Rosanna2,  and  Mary2.* 
II.  Capt.  Thomas,  2d  son  of  John1  and  Mary  McLaughlin;  m.  Margaret 
Ayers  of  Derry,  and  is  supposed  to  have  resided  on  a  farm  a  little 
north  of  the  Bowman  brook  on  the  River  road.  He  served  as 
ensign  in  Canada  in  1754,  as  lieutenant  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  was 
knocked  down  by  earth  thrown  up  by  a  ball  on  the  retreat  of  the 
Americans  at  Charlestown  Neck.     He  moved  to  Maine  in  1802  or 

*Tnere  is  in  possession  of  a  descendant  the  will  of  Mary  McLaughlin,  in  a  fine 
state  of  preservation,  which  reads  as  follows: 

"  In  the  name  of  God  Amen  this  18th  Day  of  September  D  1784  I  Mary  McLaughlin 
of  Bedford  in  the  County  of  Hillsborough  in  the  State  of  New  Hampshire  Widow 
being  of  an  advanced  age  and  weakened  Constitution  but  of  a  sound  dispossing 
mind  and  Memory  Thanks  to  God  then  for  Calling  to  mind  that  it  is  appointed  for 
all  persons  once  to  Die  i>o  make  this  my  last  Will  and  Testament  I  Recomend  my 
Soul  to  God  who  gave  it  And  my  Body  to  t.e  Buried  in  a  decent  christian  like  man- 
ner at  the  discretion  of  my  Executor  nothing  doubting  but  I  shall  Receive  the  same 
again  by  the  mighty  power  of  God  through  Jesus  Christ  And  as  to  su  h  woridy 
Estate  where  wiih  it  has  pleased  God  to  bless  me  I  give  and  disposs  of  in  the  follow- 
ing manner  and  form  viz 

"Imprimis  I  give  to  my  Daughter  viary  Simpson  my  two  iron  pots  one  iron  dish 
Kettle  a  done  iron  Skillet  two  pewter  Basons  and  a  wooden  plater  and  a  note  her 
late  husband  Thomas  Simpson  owed  me  of  3  :  15  :  0  :  on  Int  rest  and  my  iron  Hatchet 
and  my  Bed  Bolster  two  pillows  and  two  Blankets  and  two  sheets  and  my  home 
spun  pladed  sown 

"  Item  I  giv  to  my  Grand  daugh  er  Isabel  Daughter  to  my  said  daughter  Mary 
Simpson  my  Riding  hood  and  a  Chest  with  one  drawer  and  my  Tramel 

"  Item  I  give  to  my  Grand  daughter  Isabel  Gibson  my  Cloak 

"  Item  I  give  to  William  McFerson  of  Goffstown  a  plain  Chest  and  Bed  and  a  Bed- 
sted 

"  Item  I  give  to  my  son  John  McLaughlin  my  black  Gown  and  black  peticoat 

"Item  I  give  to  my  son  Thomas  McLaughlin  all  that  he  owes  me  on  notes  and 
otherwise  on  condition  that  he  provide  at  his  own  Co*t  a  pair  of  Handsora  well  cut 
double  Gravestones  and  sets  them  up  at  my  Grave  and  my  late  husbands  in  Memory 
ofhishonorel  father  John  McLaughlin  and  me  and  I  also  give  him  mj  s  ill  yards 
And  my  fur  her  will  is  that  what  money  is  due  me  on  Notes  or  otherwise  not  b>  fore 
willed  I  order  my  Executor  to  collect  as  soon  after  my  ecease  as  may  c-  nven- 
iently  be  done  and  my  Funeral  charges  nnd  charges  of  sickness  &c  be  paid  out  of 
the  same  And  if  then  shall  be  any  money  lefr  beside  the  Charges  aforementioned 
and  paying  my  Executor  the  money  h  expends  lor  the  robate  of  this  my  will  &c 
and  for  his  necess  iry  trouble  in  Executing  this  my  wil  &c  my  will  is  that  my  Exe- 
cutor pay  the  same  to  mv  above  said  son  Thomas  McLaughlin  to  help  him  to  pur- 
chase the  G'-avestones  above  mentioned  Ami  my  will  is  that  all  other  of  my  Estate 
not  before  willed  and  ordered  whatsoever  or  whensoever  the  same  may  he  found  I 
give  to  mv  ab  >ve  sail  Daughter  Mary  Simpson  And  I  nominate  consti  ufe  and 
apooint  I>hn  Orr  of  said  Bedford  Gentleman  to  be  Executor  of  this  my  last  will  and 
Testament  Hereby  Rev  king  and  dNannulin-'  all  other  Wills  Legacies  and 
Bequests  and  Executor-  by  me  willed  ar«d  named  Ratifieing  and  confirming  this  and 
no  other  to  be  mv  last  Will  and  Testament 

"The  da v  and  year  above  named 

"Signed  Sealed  oublished  pronounced  and  declared  by  said  Mary  McLaughlin  as 
her  last  Will  and  Testament  in  presence  of  us 

"  Dav  d  P  'tten 

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"  Mary  x  Patten 

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"Alexander  Patten 

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"  Mary  x  McLaughlin" 
mark 


GENEALOGIES. — MCLAUGHLIN.  979 

1803,  where  he  died,  aged  84.  He  left  descendants  in  Maine  and 
Massachusetts.  A  grandson,  Ephraim  McLaughlin,  adopted  the 
name  of  Mason  for  himself  and  family  in  1842. 
II.  John,  son  of  John1,  was  b.  in  Ireland,  1720,  June  1;  m.  Jannet  Tag- 
gart,  who  was  b.  1736,  Jan.  7,  and  d.  1819,  Nov.  14.  He  d.  in 
Bedford,  1807,  Oct.  28.  They  had  seven  ch.:  Isabella3,  b.  1759, 
March  12;  James3,  b.  1761,  June  13;  Martha3,  b.  1763,  June  29; 
Patrick8,  b.  1767,  Aug.  19;    John3,  b.  1775,  April  19;    Daniel8,  b. 

1778,  Dec.  24;  Mary3,  b. ,  d.  1786,  May  7.     Their  descendants 

reside  chiefly  in  Maine. 

III.  Patrick,  son  of  John2,  b.  1767,  Aug.  19;  m.,  1793,  Deborah  Martin,  b. 

1771,  Jan.  3,  dan.  of  Nathaniel  and  Marcy  (Goffe)  Martin  (the  latter 
being  a  dau.  of  Col.  John  Goffe).  Patrick  d.  1834,  Nov.  16. 
Deborah,  his  wife,  d.  1832,  Jan.  30.  They  had  eight  ch.,  all  b.  in 
Bedford:  Polly1,  b.  1794,  March  2,  d.  1815,  Sept.  5;  Darnel*,  b. 
1798,  Feb.  4;  John*,  b.  1800,  July  16;  Hannah*,  b.  1802,  July  31; 
Rodney*,  b.  1804,  Aug.  12;  Nancy*,  b.  1808,  Nov.  20,  d.  1831,  Sept. 
7,  and  two  who  d.  in  infancy. 

IV.  Daniel,  son  of  Patrick3,  b.  1798,   Feb.  4;   m.  1st,  Fanny  Gault,  b. 

1790,  March;  dau.  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  John  Gault,  and  his 
wife,  Molly  Orr,  of  Bedford.  Fanny,  his  wife,  d.  1854,  Sept.  14. 
He  m.,  2d,  Harriett  E.  Johnson  of  Stoddard,  1870,  March  31,  and 
d.  1876,  Oct.  2.  Had  six  ch.  by  1st  mar.,  all  b.  in  Bedford:  John 
Gault5,  b.  1821,  enlisted  in  Co.  H,  Tenth  N.  H.  regiment,  and 
served  throughout  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  d.  at  the  Soldiers' 
Home  at  Tilton,  N.  H.,  1897,  July  17;  Deborah5,  b.  1822,  d.  1853, 
March  23;  Nancv  Jane5,  b.  1824,  m.  Greenleaf  Walker  (see 
Walker);  Dolly  Frances8,  b.  1826,  Feb.,  d,  1847,  Aug.  31;  George 
Gault5,  b.  1830,  Juue  5;  Patrick  Henry5,  b.  1834. 
IV.  John,  son  of  Patrick3,  b.  1800,  July  16;  m.  in  Guilford,  Me.,  1826, 
April  23,  Martha  Glass,  b.  Danville,  Me.,  1800,  Sept.  11,  and  d. 
Derry,  N.  H.,  1870,  Jiily  17.  John  d.  1875,  Feb.  8.  They  had  six  ch.: 
Mary  Jane5,  b.  Guilford,  Me.,  1827,  March  7,  d.  in  Bangor,  Me., 
1833,  Oct.  6;  Rodney5,  b.  Guilford,  Me.,  1828,  April  9;  Persis5,  b. 
in  Guilford,  Me.,  1829,  July  29,  d.  in  Bangor,  Me.,  1855,  Dec.  6; 
John5,  b.  in  Guilford,  Me.,  1831,  March  11,  d.  in  Bangor,  Me., 
1837,  March  6;  Mary  Jane5,  b.  Orrington,  Me.,  1834,  July  27;  John 
Edwards5,  b.  Bangor,  Me.,  1839,  July  7,  d.  in  Bangor,  Me.,  1839, 
Sept.  17. 

V.  Rodney,  son  of  John4,  b.  1828,  April  9;  m.  1855,  Nov.  6,  Cynthia 
White  at  Washington  Heights,  New  York  City.  She  was  b.  in 
Dixfield,  Me.,  1825,  March  29,  and  d.  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass., 
1897,  Dec.  6.  He  res.  at  present  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H.  They  had 
one  ch.:  Frederic  Rodney6,  b.  1856,  Oct.  1,  at  Jamaica  Plain, 
Mass. 

V.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  John4,  b.  1834,  July  27;  m.  W.  H.  S.  Lawrence 

of  Bangor,  Me.,  and  had  one  child,  Percy  F6.,  b. ,  d.  1896. 

She  d. . 

IV.  Hannah,  dau.  of  Patrick3,  b.  1802,  July  31;  m.  Charles  Rollins  (see 
Rollins).  Her  descendants,  Rodney  F.  Rollins,  his  sister,  Mrs. 
Eliza  D.  (Rollins)  Porter  and  family,  and  George  C.  McLaughlin 
are  the  only  descendants  of  the  McLaughlin  family  now  residing 
in  Bedford. 
IV.  Rodney,  son  of  Patrick3,  b.  1804,  Aug.  12;  m.,  1st,  1831,  Oct.  25, 
Abigail  Hodgman,  b.  1811,  May  23,  dau.  of  Abijah  and  Abigail 
(Dowse)  Hodgman  of  Bedford:  she  d.  1846,  Oct.  21.  He  m.,  2d, 
1847,  June  10,  Jerusha  C.  Spofford,  b.  1813,  May  29,  dau.  of 
Chandler  Spofford;  she  d.  1854,  Aug.  18.  Rodney  d.  1851,  Aug. 
23.  There  were  seven  ch.  by  the  1st  mar.  and  three  by  the  2d 
mar.,  all  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.:  Abijah  Hodgman5,  b.  1832,  July  26, 


980  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

d.  1834,  Sept.  2;  Nancy6,  b.  1835,  Feb.  21,  d.  1858,  Mar.  16;  Sarah 
A.5,  b.  1837,  June  1,  m.  George  Whitford  (see  Whitford);  Rodney 
Sumner5,  b.  1839,  July  9;  Clarissa  Hodgman6,  b.  1841,  Dec.  17,  d. 
1844,  Aug.  13;  Charles  Edward5,  b.  1844,  June  6,  d.  in  Longview, 
Tex.,  1873,  July  25,  while  serving  as  civil  engineer  during  the 
building  of  the  Southern  Pacific  railroad;  an  infant5,  b.  and  d. 
1846,  Oct.  10;  Abby  Elizabeth5,  b.  1848,  Sept.  9,  d.  1850,  June  2; 
Harriet  Ella5,  b.  1850,  Aug.  26,  d.  1850,  Dec.  22;  Herman  C.5,  b. 
1851,  Dec.  19. 
V.  Herman  C,  son  of  Rodney4,  b.  1851,  Dec.  19;  m.  Hermione  Leonard ; 
res.  in  Manchester,  where  he  d.  1899,  March  9.  Had  four  ch.,  b. 
in  Manchester:   ,  b.  1883,  Feb.  17,  d.  1884;   ,  b.  1884,  July 

16,  d. ;  Alice6,  b.  1885,  Nov.  28;  T.  Leonard6,  b.  1889,  March  26, 

d.  1890,  Jan. 

McQUESTEN. 

William  McQuesten,  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  family  of  this  name, 
came  to  America  about  1735,  and  settled  in  Litchfield,  N.  H.  The  family 
originated  in  Argyleshire,  Scotland,  and  removed  from  that  place  to  Cole- 
raine,  north  of  Ireland,  towards  the  close  of  the  sixteenth  century. 

I.  William  McQuesten,  b.  1685;  d.    1769;    m.   Margaret   Arbuckle,  b. 
1688,  d.  1776.     Ch.:  John2,  William2,  Simon2,  and  Margaret2. 
II.  William,  son  of  William*,  b.   1732;  d.   1802;  m.  Margaret  Nahor,  b. 
1738,  d.  1796.  Ch.:  Williams,  David3,  Hugh3,  John3,  James3,  Eliza- 
beth3, Lucy3,  Sarah3,  Mary3,  and  Jane3. 

III.  David,  son  of  William2,  b.  1758,  Sept.  27;  d.  1829,  July  29;  m.  Marga- 

ret Fisher  of  Londonderry,  b.  1760;  d.  1833,  April  13.  Came  to  Bed- 
ford in  1795.  Ch.:  William*,  Samuel*,  Sally  B.*,  David*,  Margaret  N.*, 
Eliza*,  Calvin*,  and  Mary  P.* 

IV.  William,  son  of  David3,  b.  1787,  Nov.  29;  d.   1818,  Oct.  4;  m.  Clar- 

issa, dau.  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Gove,  1813,  April  26,  d.  1883,  March 

17.  Ch.:  Eliza5,  b.  1814,  Aug.  8,  m.  1838,  Dec.  28,  Harrison  Hobson, 
d.  1887,  June  17;  Charles  Frederick  Gove5,  b.  1816,  April  1,  d.  1873, 
Oct.  10,  m.  Louisa  Gleason;  William5,  b.  1818,  Oct.  31,  d.  1826, 
Sept.  3. 

IV.  Samuel,  son  of  David,3  b.  1789,  June  11;  d.  1861,  Aug.  5;  m.  1838, 
Jan.  23,  Lucinda  S.,  dau.  of  Dr.  Samuel  Foster  of  Candia,  b.  1805, 
Sept.  9,  d.  1891,  June  16.  (See  biographical  sketch.)  Ch.:  Samuel 
Foster5,  b.  1839,  May  4,  d.  1863,  June  13,  he  was  a  musician  in  Co. 
G,  Sixteenth  N.  H.  Vols.,  and  d.  in  the  service  at  New  Orleans, 
La. ;  John  K.5,  b.  1842,  May  27,  m.  1868,  Nov.  5,  Lucia,  dau.  of  Rev. 
Calvin  and  Rhoda  (Little)  Cutler  of  Windham,  b.  1839,  May  4; 
David5,*  b.  1846,  Jan.  2,  d.  1860,  Dec.  10. 

IV.  Sally  B.,  dau.  of  David3,  b.  1791,  July  10;  d.  1857,  Dec.  31;  m.  Stephen 
Sawyer,  1824,  Dec.  6.  Ch.:  Luther  Dimmock5,  b.  1826,  Sept.  10,  m. 
1853,  June  22,  Azubah  T.  Ames  and  d.  1892,  Jan.  14;  Samuel  F.5, 
b.  1828,  July  5,  m.  1850,  May  6,  Jane  Maria  Hinman,  and  d.  1860, 
Aug.  27;  Mary  E.5,  b.  1829,  Dec.  6,  m.  1855,  June  29,  Horatio  C. 
Laws,  d.  1900,  Feb.  5;  Stephen  P.5,  b.  1832,  Jan.  13,  m.  1853,  June 
21,  Frances  Phoebe  Gillett,  b.  1832,  Sept.  1,  d.  1897,  March  18. 

IV.  David  (M.  D.),  son  of  David3,  b.  1793,  Sept.  13;  d.  1850,  May  20; 
m.  1823,  ,  Pamelia  Richardson.  He  was  a  physician  and  lo- 
cated in  Washington,  N.  H.  In  this  and  the  surrounding  towns 
he  had  a  large  practice.  Ch.:  Julia5,  b.  1825,  April  22,  m.  1st, 
1844, ,  Dr.  Austin  Newton,  m.  2d,  William  F.  Newton,  Esq., 

*  David  McQuesten,  who  attended  school  in  District  No.  4,  made  a  wager  with  a 
schoolmate  one  night  as  to  which  sho  Id  reach  home  first.  Both  started  at  his  ut- 
most speed,  but  David,  as  he  rushed  into  the  house,  only  had  time  to  say,  "I've 
done  it,"  when  he  fell  to  the  floor,  dead. 


GENEALOGIES. — MCQUESTEN.  981 

d.  1883,  Sept.  21;  Lucretia5,  b.  1827,  May  10,  m.  1885,  Dec.  25, Will- 
iam F.  Newton,  Esq.;  Lucelia5,  b.  1830,  March  14,  m.  1853,  Sept. 
8,  William  Holt,  d.  1883,  Aug.  5;  Margaret5,  b.  1832,  d.  1853, 
March  9;  William  W8,  b.  1833,  Dec.  28,  m.  1866,  May,  Eliza  F. 
Webb;  Jane5,  b.  1836,  Dec.  10,  m.  1856,  July  9,  Milton  P.  Currier; 
John  Q.  A.5,  b.  1835,  Aug.  22,  m.  1860,  May  1,  Louisa  Keyes;  Sam- 
uel5, b.  1839,  July  2,  d.  1840,  June  17;  Charles  A.5,  b.  1841,  July  10, 
m.  Ellen  Brown;  Hattie  S.5,  b.  1843,  Oct.  10,  m.  1865,  Aug.  9, 
James  J.  Russling,  d.  1894,  Nov.  9. 

IV.  Margaret  N.,  dau.  of  David3,  b.  1796,  Feb.  12;  d.  1893,  June  9.  Her 
life  was  wholly  passed  at  the  homestead,  and  she  died  in  the  room 
in  which  she  was  born. 

IV.  Eliza,  dau.  of  David3,  b.  1799,  Aug.  13;  d.  1877,  April  7;  m.  1835, 
Aug.  25,  Jonas  Varnum.  Ch.:  Hannah5,  b.  1836,  June  5;  Edward 
P.5,  b.  1838,  Sept.  28,  m.  1864,  Oct.,  Martha  J.  Storer;  Jonas  P.5,  b. 
1841,  Dec.  31,  m.  1895,  June  18,  Louisa  Livingston  Bradford;  Will- 
iam Bentley  Oliver5,  b.  1843,  Aug.  17,  d.  1865,  Oct.  7. 

IV.  Calvin  (M.  D.»,  son  of  David3,  b.  1801,  Aug.  1;  d.  1885,  Oct,  20.  He 
was  a  physician,  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  San- 
bornton  Bridge,  where  he  remained  but  a  short  time.  Removing 
thence  he  established  himself  in  Brockport,  N.  Y. ,  practised  med- 
icine ten  years,  and  then  engaged  in  manufacturing  in  Hamilton, 
Ontario,  making  that  place  his  home.  He  was  m.  1st,  to  Margaret 
Barker  Lerned,  1831,  Oct.  11.  Ch.:  Calvin,  Jr.5,  b.  1834,  Aug.  15, 
d.  1834,  Aug.  25;  Calvin  Brooks5,  b.  1837,  Oct.  27;  James  Barker5, 
b.  1841,  July  10,  d.  1841,  Julv  29.  He  m.  2d,  1844,  Sept.  9,  Esti- 
mate R.  E.  Baldwin.  Ch.:  Isaac  Baldwin5,  b.  1847,  Nov.  26,  d. 
1888,  March  7;  David5,  b.  1849,  Nov.  12,  d.  1854,  Dec.  8.  He  m., 
3d,  1853,  Dec.  22,  Elizabeth  Fuller,  and  d.  1897,  May  10. 

IV.  Mary  Parker,  dau.  of  David3,  b.  1804,  Feb.  28;  d.  1825,  Sept.  25. 

This  sketch  makes  no  record  of  this  branch  of  the  McQuesten  family 
later  than  the  grandchildren  of  David  McQuesten,  who  came  to  Bedford 
in  1795. 

DEACON  SAMUEL  McQUESTEN. 
A  sketch  by  Mrs.  Mary  J.  (Fisher)  Conant. 

Deacon  Samuel  McQuesten  was  the  son  of  David  and  Margaret  Fisher 
McQuesten,  and  was  born  in  Litchfield,  N.  H,  in  1789.  His  parents  re- 
moved from  that  town  in  1795,  and  settled  in  Bedford,  now  Manchester, 
where  the  family  have  since  resided.  The  house  then  standing  was  built 
in  1760,  and  rebuilt  and  enlarged  in  1810. 

Of  the  four  sons  of  David  McQuesten,  Samuel  remained  at  home,  the 
stay  and  support  of  his  parents,  and  aided  by  his  sisters,  cared  for  them 
with  filial  devotion  while  they  lived. 

He  was  a  man  of  good  sense,  sound  judgment,  and  irreproachable  habits. 
Peaceable,  quiet,  and  unassuming  in  manner,  he  won  the  respect  of  the 
community  in  which  he  lived. 

He  was  well  informed  in  regard  to  the  public  matters  of  his  time,  and 
though  in  no  wise  a  politician,  he  made  an  intelligent  use,  not  of  the  suf- 
frage only,  but  of  other  privileges  which  are  the  birthright  of  every  citizen. 

He  was  not  a  great  talker,  but  he  was  a  good  listener,  and  an  occasional 
pertinent  question  or  remark  from  him  added  much  to  the  interest  of  the 
social  circle.  Under  his  grave  demeanor,  those  intimately  acquainted 
with  him  knew  there  was  a  vein  of  humor,  and  can  well  recollect  the 
twinkle  of  his  eye  which  showed  his  relish  for  a  good  joke. 

In  1832  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  he  had  been  for  several  years 
a  member,  chose  him  as  one  of  its  elders,  an  office  for  which  he  was  pecul- 


982  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

iarly  fitted.  He  could  look  back  upon  a  long  line  of  Presbyterian  ances- 
tors, was  nurtured  in  its  principles,  and  had  become  thoroughly  ac- 
quainted with  its  tenets,  doctrines,  and  usages.  To  this  may  be  added  the 
fact,  that  of  the  numerous  adult  male  descendants  of  his  maternal  grand- 
father, Deacon  Samuel  Fisher  of  Londonderry,  in  the  first  and  second  gen- 
eration, one  half  were  Presbyterian  elders.  He  was  dignified  in  his  per- 
sonal appearance,  with  a  countenance  of  marked  gravity  which  was  not 
assumed. 

In  1836  the  Londonderry  Presbytery  showed  their  confidence  in  his  char- 
acter and  ability  by  electing  him  lay  delegate  to  accompany  the  Rev.  John 
M.  Bartley  of  Hampstead  to  the  general  assembly  which  met  at  Pittsburg, 
Pa.  Between  these  two  gentlemen  there"  existed  a  warm  personal  friend- 
ship. 

Deacon  McQuesten  was  married  in  1838  to  Miss  Lucinda  Foster  of 
Nashua.  Introducing  this  new  element  into  his  household  perceptibly 
broadened  its  outlook,  without  in  any  measure  neutralizing  its  former  ex- 
cellence. They  were  "  given  to  hospitality,"  and  if  they  did  not  entertain 
angels  unawares,  they  received  into  their  home  a  class  of  cultivated,  intel- 
ligent Christian  people,  thus  making  their  home  influence  mutually  agree- 
able, improving  and  elevating.  The  law  of  kindness  was  in  their  hearts, 
and  in  various  ways  they  aided  and  encouraged  many  who  were  seeking  a 
better  education  than  their  environment  afforded. 

In  1845  Deacon  McQuesten  resigned  his  ecclesiastical  office,  and,  with 
his  family,  removed  his  church  relation  from  Bedford  and  connected  him- 
self with  the  First  Congregational  church  in  Manchester,  under  the  pas- 
torate of  his  townsman  and  friend,  the  Rev.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace,  D.  D. 

In  glancing  backward  through  a  vista  of  sixty  years,  one  view  meets 
the  mental  vision  of  the  writer  which  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  mention.  It 
is  the  subject  of  this  sketch  in  connection  with  his  colleagues  in  office, 
constituting  at  that  time  the  session,  Deacons  Moody  M.  Stevens,  Richard 
Dole,  John  French,  and  Samuel  McQuesten.  Each  had  a  personality  of 
his  own,  but  in  their  efforts  for  the  welfare  of  the  church  they  were  a 
unit.  Their  responsibilities,  which  were  by  no  means  light,  were  met 
with  firmness  of  purpose,  patient  investigation,  and  unbiased  decision.  A 
portion  of  God's  heritage  had  been  given  in  charge  to  them,  and  they 
labored  to  preserve  in  its  purity  the  faith  once  delivered  to  the  saints,  and 
the  practice  which  is  the  legitimate  fruit  of  that  faith.  No  clamor  from 
without,  or  partisan  opinion  from  the  church,  made  them  swerve  from 
what  they  considered  to  be  just  and  right.  Such  men  are  a  wall  of 
strength  to  any  church,  and  though  they  have  for  many  years  been  pro- 
moted to  a  higher  sphere,  they  deserve  to  be  held  in  honorable  remem- 
brance. 

The  last  years  of  Deacon  McQuesten  were  marked  by  great  physical 
weakness.  Never  robust,  he  reached  the  limit  of  life  earlier  than  men 
usually  do  who  live  as  he  did.  After  life's  work  was  done,  his  attitude 
was  that  of  one  "  only  waiting."    The  hour  of  his  release  came  in  1861. 

MINOT. 

I.  William  Minot  was  b.  in  Hampstead,  1812,  May  23,  and  m.  Betsey 
M.  Twombly,  b.  in  Wilton,  1820,  March  14.  They  had  a  son, 
William  Henry  fi 
II.  William  Henry,  son  of  William1,  was  b.  in  Hampstead,  1844, 
June  9;  farmer  and  musician;  he  m.,  1867,  Mary  Ella,  b.  1849, 
dau.  of  James  and  Olivia  (Elliot)  Walker  of  this  town,  and  when 
he  came  to  Bedford,  res.  on  the  old  Potter  place  on  the  River 
road.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Haverhill,  Mass.. 
to  which  place  his  parents  had  rem.;  served  in  the  Civil  war  in 
the  First  N.  H.  heavy  artillery,  and  after  the  war  closed  res.  for  a 
time  in  Manchester.     Mr.  Minot  was  a  musician,  inheriting  his 


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talent  as  a  violinist  from  his  father,  who  was  one  of  the  finest  of 
his  time  in  Haverhill,  Mass.  He  was  a  member  of  Louis  Bell  post, 
G.  A.  R.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1894,  Dec.  22;  his  wife  d.  in  Reed's 
Ferry,  1900,  July  11.  Their  ch.  were:  Mary  Florence3,  b.  in 
Manchester,  1867,  Sept.  1,  m.  George  H.  Wiggin  (see  Wiggin); 
Grace  Ell3,  b.  in  Milton,  1869,  Jan.  28;  Alice  Eveleth3,  b.  in 
Milton,  1873,  July  4;  Bessie3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1884,  Feb.  21. 

MITCHELL. 

I.  Dwelly  was  b.  in  East  on,  Mass.,  1800,  July  27,  son  of  Timothy  and 
Mehitabel  (Pratt;  Mitchell:  farmer.  He  came  to  N.  H.  in  1815, 
and  with  his  father  did  some  casting,  of  which  there  are  some 
articles  yet  in  existence  (1903).  He  m.  1823,  Oct.  30,  Eliza  D., 
b.  here  1803,  May  17,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Atwood) 
Smith.  They  settled  in  Merrimack,  but  came  to  this  town  previ- 
ous to  1828,  where  he  d.  1890,  Sept.  27.  His  wife  d.  1883,  Jan.  25. 
They  had  ch.,  b.  in  Merrimack:  George  W.'2,  b.  1824,  Feb.  10,  and 
Moody  C.2,  b.  1825,  Dec.  20.  These  two  sons  d.  in  Bedford,  1839, 
Sept.  1.  Both  were  drowned  in  the  Merrimack  river  at  Cohos 
falls,  just  below  Goff's  Falls.  The  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford  were: 
Lucretia  C.2,  b.  1828,  Feb.  12,  m.  1846,  Feb.  19,  Robert  Mears,  res. 
in  Manchester;  Mary2  and  Martha2  (twins),  b.  1831,  Jan.  31, 
d.  1841,  June  20;  Timothy  S.2,  b.  1833,  Dec.  10,  m.,  1st,  1859, 
Nov.  10,  Margaret  Horren,  2d,  1868,  Feb.  24,  Rose  McGown,  res. 
in  Manchester;  Samuel  C.2,  b.  1835,  Nov.  3,  m.,  1864,  Feb.  3, 
Emily  Breace,  res.  in  Paw  Paw,  111.,  where  he  d.  1899,  Feb.  7; 
Nelson  R.2,  b.  1838,  May  11,  in.,  1871,  Nov.  17,  Emma  Coalman, 
res.  Chicago,  111.;  Williams  D.2,b.  1840,  July  27;  Abby  J.2,  b.  1842, 
March  24,  d.  1843,  July  5;  Hannah  E.2,  b.  1844,  Aug.  7,  m.,  1st. 
1862,  Jan.  18,  George  Hodgman,  Jr.,  2d,  1865,  Sept.  13,  William 
Henderson,  res.  in  Merrimack;  James  L.2,  b.  1847,  July  1. 

II.  Williams  D.,  son  of  Dwelly1,  b.  1840,  July  27;  m.,  1876,  May  4, 
Malvina,  b.  Danvers,  Mass.,  1857,  March  23,  dau.  of  James  and 
Fanny  (Short)  Henderson;  farmer  and  surveyor;  res.  in  Bedford, 
but  rem.  to  Merrimack,  where  he  has  been  deacon  of  Congrega- 
tional church,  1890-1903;  also  selectman  1902-'03.  His  wife  d. 
1894,  Dec.  21.  They  had  one  son:  Eugene  M.3,  b.  here  1877, 
March  29,  d.  in  Merrimack,  1892,  April  1. 

II.  James  L.,  son  of  Dwelly1,  b.  1847,  July  1;  m.  1873,  Aug.  7,  Mrs. 
Mary  A.  Young,  b.  1843,  Feb.  24,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Susan 
(Morse)  Ferguson.  They  had  ch.:  Meltie  N.3,  b.  1874,  June  24; 
Leroy  N.3,  b.  1878,  Feb.  3.  Mrs.  Young  also  had  two  sons: 
Ben  R.  Young,  b.  1866,  July  10,  and  John  F.,  b.  1868,  July  20. 

MORRISON. 

I.  Samuel  Morrison,  Jr.,  according  to  tradition,  was  b.  in  Scotland; 
emigrated  to  the  north  of  Ireland;  again  emigrated  in  1730  and 

settled  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.     He  m.  Mary .     They  had  ch.: 

Susanna2,  b.  1731,  Sept.  17,  m.  Miller  or  McAfee;  Samuel2,  b. 
1734,  July  23;  Mary2,  b.  1736,  Oct.  6,  m.  McAfee  or  Miller;  and 
John2. 
[I.  John,  son  of  Samuel1,  was  a  farmer  and  res.  in  Bedford.  He  m. 
Elizabeth,  b.  1757,  Dec.  15,  dau.  of  Col.  Daniel2  and  Ann  (Cox) 
Moor.  Was  in  battle  of  Bennington  iinder  General  Stark.  The 
Morrison  Family  Gen.  says  he  d.  in  Bedford,  over  90  years  of  age, 
while  the  Moor  family  Gen.  claims  he  d.  in  Barnston,  P.  Q.,  date 
unknown.  They  had  twelve  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford:  Daniel  Moor3,  b. 
1776,  Aug.  16;  Susanna*,  b.  1778,  Dec.  30;  Ann3,  b.  1781,  April  5; 


984  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

EHzabeth  Eunice*,  b.  1783,  May  7;  Samuel  McDuffie8,  b.  1785, 
May  19;  Mary8,  b.  about  1786  or  1787;  John,  Jr.8,  b.  1789,  Sept.  6; 
William8,  b.  1791,  July  12;   David*,  b.  1794,  May  4;  Nancy8,  b. 

,  m.  Epbraim  Pierce  of  Danville,  Vt.;  Jenette8;  Elienor8,  m. 

Mr.  Martin. 
III.  Susanna,  dau.  of  John2,  b.  1778,  Dec.  30;  m.  Daniel8  Moor  (Hannah2, 
James1,  see  Moor),  b.  Antrim,  1778,  Feb.  1;  rem.  to  Barnet,  Vt. 
Have  descendants  living  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

III.  Elizabeth  Eunice,  dau.  of  John2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1783,  May  7;  m.  about 

1803,  Henry  Leavenworth,  b.  New  Haven,  Conn.,  1782,  Dec.  10. 
Res.  Danville,  Vt.,  then  went  to  New  York.  He  was  appointed 
captain  Twenty-fifth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  1812,  April  12;  major  of 
the  Ninth  Infantry,  1813;  was  breveted  lieutenant-colonel  for 
distinguished  service  at  Chippewa,  1814,  July  5;  breveted  colonel 
for  distinguished  service  at  the  battle  of  Niagara,  in  which  he 
was  wounded,  1814,  July  25.  He  commanded  an  expedition 
against  the  Indians  700  miles  above  Council  Bluffs  on  Missouri 
river;  was  breveted  brigadier-general  for  ten  years'  service  and 
made  brigadier-general  in  the  army,  1833.  He  d.  at  Cross 
Timbers,  near  the  Falls  of  Washita,  Kan.,  1834,  July  21,  while  on 
an  expedition  against  the  Pawnees  and  Comanches.  He  built 
the  fort  at  Laavenworth,  Kan.,  hence  the  name.  Was  m.  three 
times  and  is  buried  at  Delphi,  N.  Y.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.,  b.  at  Dan- 
ville, Vt.:  JesseNenry*;  Eunice  Elizabeth*. 

IV.  Col.  Jesse  Henry  (Leavenworth),  son  of  Elizabeth  Eunice3,  b.  1807, 

March  29;  graduated  at  West  Point,  1826;  as  civil  engineer, 
superintended  the  building  of  the  docks  and  piers  at  Chicago,  111. 
In  1862  was  commissioned  colonel  of  Second  regiment,  Colorado 
infantry;  raised  one  thousand  men  at  Denver  and  defended  one 
thousand  miles  of  the  frontiers  against  the  Indians.  He  m.  1832, 
June  12,  Elvira  C.  Clark,  b.  Sherburne,  N.  Y.,  1813,  Jan.  3.  He 
d.  at  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  1885,  March  12.  They  had  ch.:  Henry  C.6; 
Mary  E.5;  Alida  C.6;  Jessie  E.5;  Franklin6;  Festus  A.6;  Harriet 
May0;  Kate5. 

IV.  Eunice  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Elizabeth  Eunice3,  b.  1804;  m.  1825, 
Duncan  McNabb,  b.  Danville,  Vt.,  1804,  June  11.  He  d.  from 
injuries  received  by  the  explosion  of  a  boiler  in  the  rolling  mill  at 
Hamilton,  Can.,  1869,  April  28.  She  d.  at  Dunton,  111.,  1872, 
April.  Ch.:  Jesse  L.5;  Henry  L.5;  Duncan  A.6;  George  W.6; 
Mary5;  Atlanta5. 

III.  Mary,  dau.  of  John2,  b.  Bedford,  about  1786  or  1787;  m.  Samuel3 
Moor  (Hannah2,  James1,  see  Moor),  b.  Antrim,  1780,  May  20; 
rem.  to  Barnet,  Vt.  A  grandson,  Russell  L.  Moor5,  res.  in  St. 
Paul,  Minn. 

III.  John,  Jr.,  son  of  John2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1789,  Sept.  5;  m.  Elizabeth 

Stiles,  b.  1791.  He  was  farmer;  rem.  to  Barnston,  P.  Q.,  where  he 
d.  1834.  His  wife  d.  1875,  Aug.  Ch.  b.  Barnston:  Elizabeth4,  d. 
unm.;  Elvira4,  b.  1816,  m.  Rufus  Heath  of  Barnston,  P.  Q.; 
Nancy*;  John*;  Katherine  A.*,  b.  1829,  Dec.  15;  Mark4,  b.  1821,  d. 

1852,  Lowell,  Mass.,  unm.;  Sarah4,  b. ;  d.  Barnston,  P.  Q., 

unm.;  Jennette4,  d.,  aged  3  years;  Louisa4,  d.  Haverhill,  Mass., 
unm.;  Caleb4,  m.  Abigail ,  had  a  dau.,  Olive5. 

IV.  Nancy,  dau.  John,  Jr.3,  b.  1819,  Jan.  3;  m.  Sullivan  Green,  b.  Dan- 

ville, Vt.,  1804,  July  9;  a  farmer;  res.  at  Barnston,  P.  Q.  He  d. 
1875,  May  9.     She  d.  Lowell,  Mass.,  1891,  June  24.     They  had  one 

IV.  John,  son  of  John,  jr.3,  b.  1826,  Feb.  28,  at  Barnston,  P.  Q.,  m. 
1845,  Parmelia  Park,  b.  Lowell,  Mass.,  1826,  Jan.  10.  He  served 
two  years  in  the  Civil  war;  was  selectman  and  assessor,  Barnet, 
Vt.,  where  he  d.  1881,  July  31,  and  his  wife  d.  1895,  June  6.     Ch.: 


GENEALOGIES. — MORRISON.  985 

Calivinia  T.5;  Francis  A.6;  Sarah  L.5;  Alonzo  J.5;  Callie  T.6;  Her- 
bert L.&;  Lola  A.6;  Elmer  E.5 
IV.  Katherine  A.,  dau.  of  John,  Jr.3,  b.  1829,  Dec.  15;  in.  1850,  Jan.  27, 
Wm.  H.  Witherell,  b.  Ossipee,  1825,  Nov.  2,  a  manufacturer  and 
farmer  in  Willianistown,  Vt.     She  d.  1898,  Feb.  25. 

III.  David,  son  of  John2,  b.  Bedford,  1794,  May  4;  m.  1816,  Feb.   15, 

Lydia  Streeter.  He  was  a  merchant  at  Woonsocket,  R.  I.  Lydia, 
his  wife,  d.  1875,  Sept.  6,  and  he  d.  1878,  March  18.  Ch.:  Emily4, 
b.  Cumberland  Hill,  R.  I.,  1818,  Aug.  15,  m.  1855,  Aug.  6,  A.  T. 
Wilkinson,  b.  1815,  June  10,  and  d.  1899,  res.  at  Milford,  Mass.; 
Minerva4,  b.  1821,  July  14,  d.  1821,  Nov.  29;  Maria*;  Celinda4,  b. 
1824,  Oct.  5,  d.  1887,  Jan.  19;  Napoleon  Bonaparte4,  b.  Smithfield, 
R.  I.,  1829,  Aug.  18,  m.  1856,  Sept.  15,  Martha  Whipple,  b.  No. 
Providence,  R.  I.,  1828,  March  26,  res.  Woonsocket;  Pauline  E.4, 
b.  1832,  July  15,  d.  1848,  Aug.  27;  Lucian  R.4,  b.  1835,  Jan.  29,  d. 
1836,  Oct.  3. 

IV.  Maria,  dau.  of  David3,  b.   1822,  April  17;  m.  1841,  Robert  Smith 

Wilkinson,  b.  Smithfield,  R.  I.,  1817,  Feb.  19.  She  d.  Milford, 
Mass.,  1866,  Dec.    Had  three  ch.-  David  L.&;  Elida5;  Frank  E.5 

III.  Jenette,  dau.  of  John'2,  b.  Bedford;  m.  Dexter  Mason,  a  shoemaker 

who  d.  at  Island  Pond,  Vt.,  1857,  April.  She  d.  1864.  Ch.: 
Mary  J.4,  b.  1808,  d.  Barnet,  Vt.,  1828;  Comfort  Susan*;  Emeline4, 
b.  1822,  d.  Island  Pond,  Vt.,  1884,  unm.;  Jonatfmn*;  (ieorqe  W>; 
Elienor*;  William4,  d.  at  Island  Pond,  aged  50,  unm.;  Charles4. 

IV.  Comfort  Susan  (Mason),  dau.  of  Jenette3,  b.  at  Danville,  Vt.,  1824, 

March  11;  m.  1846,  Jan.  20,  Clark  H.  Ladd,  b.  at  Danville,  1823, 
Dec.  19.  He  is  a  carpenter  and  res.  at  Island  Pond,  Vt.  Ch.: 
AmeliaS.6;  Seth  W.5;  Mary  J.5;  Elienor  E.6;  Martha  J.5;  Lizzie  C.6; 
Flora  B.5;  Abbie  L.6;  John  F.5;  Nettie  G.6;  Luther  H.5 

IV.  Jonathan  (Mason),  son  of  Jenette3,  b.  at  Barnet,  Vt.,  1826,  April  9; 
engineer.  He  m.  1850,  April  4,  Elizabeth  W.  Hazelton,  b.  at 
Barnet,  1829,  Dec.  29.  Ch. :  Emily  J.5;  Frank  H.5;  Richard  P.6; 
Mary  E.6;  Charles  F.6;  Jenette  M.5;  Elienor  E.5;  Freeman  D.5; 
Willis  H.6 

IV.  George  W.  (Mason),  son  of  Jenette8,  b.  in  Barnet,  1828,  March  4; 
m.  1848,  July,  Mary  A.  Percival,  b.  Coventry,  Vt.,  1830.  He 
enlisted  1862  in  Civil  war  in  Company  B,  Ninth  Regt.,  Vt.  Vols. 
Is  a  carpenter,  res.  at  Island  Pond. 

IV.  Elienor  (Mason),  dau.  of  Jenette3,  b.  Barnet,  1831,  July  2;  m.  1849, 
March  24,  Uriah  Ladd,  b.  Stanstead,  P.  Q.,  1829,  Feb.  18.  He 
was  an  Advent  minister,  and  d.  1882,  Aug.  30,  at  Stanstead. 
Ch.:  Ella  P.5;  Emma  F.5;  George  C.5;  Wm.  D.5;  Charles  U.8; 
Zillia  E.6;  Fred  H.5 


MORRISON. 

I.  Samuel  third  generation  from  Dea.  Halbert  Morrison,  who  emi- 
grated to  this  country  in  1718,  and  d.  in  Londonderry,  1755,  June 
6,  m.  Isabel  Spear  of  Derry,  and  settled  in  Dunbaxton.  Ch. :  John2; 
James2,  b.  1794,  March  16,  d.  1866,  Dec.  1;  Mary2,  b.  1797,  May  25, 
d.  1876,  March  17,  m.  in  Bedford,  Benjamin  Dowse,  b.  Billerica, 
Mass.,  1777,  Feb.  10,  d.  1876,  Oct.  18;  Ebenezer2;  David2;  Joseph 
Mills2;  Samuel2,  b.  1801,  d.  1850,  June  1. 
II.  James,  son  of  Samuel1,  b.  Dunbarton,  1794,  March  16;  m.  Hannah 
Perley  of  Dunbarton,  b.  1796,  Oct.  12;  d.  1877,  Oct.  10;  settled  in 
Bedford  in  1823.  Ch.:  Jeremiah  Hardy8,  b.  Dunbarton,  1822,  Sept. 
15;  Eliza  Ann3,  b.  1824,  March  2,  m.  William  B.  Stevens,  M.  D. 
(see  Stevens);  David3,  b.  1826,  Jan.  6,  d.  1849,  Oct.  12;  Samuel 
Edwvrt,  b.  1829,  Sept.  2. 


986  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

III.  Jeremiah  Hardy,  son  of  James2,  b.  1822,  Sept.  15;  m.  in  Rumney, 
1851,  Nov.  27,  Rebecca  A.  Hough  of  Hanover;  settled  in  Nashua, 
where  he  d.  1892,  Jan.  28.  Ch.:  Fannie  Adella4,  b.  1856,  June  22; 
Mary  Abbie4,  b.  1858,  Nov.  11;  Hattie  Ann  Eliza4,  b.  1860,  Nov. 
28,  d.  1866,  March  3. 

III.  Samuel  Edwin,  son  of  James2,  b.  1829,  Sept.  2;  m.  1857,  Dec.  24, 
Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  1836,  Feb.  4,  dau.  of  James  and  Elizabeth  I. 
(Gage)  Parker  of  Merrimack.  He  d.  1884,  June  15;  his  wife  d. 
1863,  June  18  (see  Gage). 
II.  Samuel,  b.  Dunbarton,  1801;  m.  Eliza  Perley  of  Dunbarton,  b. 
1803,  d.  1847,  Oct.  14.  Came  to  Bedford  with  his  brother  James, 
and  they  occupied  adjoining  farms.  Oh. :  Josiah  Hadley8,  b.  1833, 
Jan.  18;  Perley  Humphrey3,  b.  1834,  d.  New  York  city,  1885; 
Elbridge  Gilbert3,  b.  1836,  Sept.  5;  is  now  in  National  Soldiers' 
Home,  Virginia  (see  Civil  War) ;  Samuel  Harrison3,  b.  1841,  Feb.  7; 
s  killed  at  Second  Battle  of  Bull  Run,  Virginia,  1862,  Aug.  30  (see 
Civil  War) ;  Mary  Eliza*,  b.  1844,  Jan.  29;  Hannah  Frances3,  b. 
1847,  Sept.  28,  d.  1849,  Nov.  1. 

III.  Josiah  Hadley,  son  of  Samuel2,  b.  1833,  Jan.  18;  rem.  to  Portsmouth, 
where  he  m.,  1871,  Dec.  25,  Mary  S.  Jones.  He  d.  1892,  July 
26.     Ch.:  Frank4;  Emma  Jones4,  b.  1873,  Oct. 

III.  Mary  Eliza,  dau.  of  Samuel2,  b.  1844,  Jan.  29;  m.  1869,  May  27, 
Charles  H.  Marshall,  b.  in  Dunbarton,  1843,  Sept.  8.  They  res.  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.  Ch.  b.  in  Manchester:  Annie  May4,"b.  1870, 
Nov.  17;  Fred  Willis4,  b.  1872,  Dec.  14;  Hattie  Eliza4,  b.  1875, 
Aug.  7;  Lena  Augusta4,  b.  1877,  Jan  25. 

MOOR. 

I.  John  Moor  was  b.  in  Ireland  in  1683.  The  name  of  his  wife  was 
Jenet.  They  were  of  Scotch  descent,  and  strongly  attached  to  the 
Presbyterian  polity.  Religious  persecutions  in  Ireland  led  them 
to  leave  their  native  land  for  America,  that  they  might  here  enjoy 
in  peace  the  faith  and  worship  of  their  fathers.  This  in  some 
measure  accounts  for  their  tenacious  adherence  to  their  denomi- 
national forms.  They  came  to  Londonderry,  N.  H,  about  1772, 
bringing  with  them  their  son  William,  who  in  later  years  settled 
in  this  town,  and  Elizabeth,  who  m.  Nathaniel  Holmes,  and  lived 
in  Londonderry.  John  and  Janet  were  a  frugal,  industrious  hus- 
band and  wife,  and  soon  possessed  a  competence.  Mrs.  Moor  was 
a  great  reader  of  the  Rev.  John  Flavel's  works,  hence  was  some- 
times called  Jenny  Flavel.  She  was  always  punctual  in  her  daily 
devotions;  her  Bible  was  her  constant  companion.  He  was  a 
prominent  man  in  Londonderry,  honest,  honorable,  and  upright  in 
all  his  dealings.  He  d.  1774,  Jan.  24,  in  his  91st  year.  She  d. 
1776,  March  8,  aged  89  years.  Ch.,  b.  in  Ireland,  were:  William2, 
b.  1717;  Elizabeth2,  b.  1719.  Ch.  b.  in  Londonderry:  Robert2,  b. 
1726;  Daniel2,  b.  1730,  Feb,  11. 
II.  William,  son  of  John1,  m.  in  Londonderry  Molly  Jack,  about  1739; 
settled  here  in  1745,  on  the  farm  afterwards  used  for  many  years 
as  the  town  farm,  but  now  owned  by  George  H.  Wiggin.  It  is 
said  that  he  was  religious  from  his  youth  up,  and  his  home  a 
scene  of  good  order  and  domestic  peace,  where  the  worship  of 
God  was  regularly  maintained.  He  was  a  strict  observer  of  the 
Sabbath,  regularly  attending  divine  service,  and  catechizing  his 
family  and  servants  in  the  evening,  as  was  the  custom  in  those 
days.  At  the  first  town  meeting,  1750,  June  6,  he  was  chosen 
one  of  the  doorkeepers;  constable,  1753;  selectman,  1755;  chosen 
one  of  the  first  board  of  "  Elders  "  about  the  time  Rev.  John 
Houston  was  ordained,  1757;  signed  Association  Test,  1776.    This 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  987 

good,  man  was  the  owner  of  several  colored  persons  called  ser- 
vants, two  of  whom  were  known  as  Peter  and  Titus  Moor  (see 
article  on  Slavery).  In  the  northeast  corner  of  the  old  cemetery 
a  gravestone  bears  this  inscription:  "This  stone/ Is  erected  by 
Lieut. /James  Moor  to  the/Memory  of  Peter  Moor/a  m  gro  servant 
of  William  Moor,  elder/ He  died  July  9,  1790/ In  the  3Sth  yr.  of  his 
age./"  Another  inscription  on  a  stone  in  the  South  cemetery 
follows:  "  Titus  A.  Moor/ died/ Sept.  27,  1854./aged  87  yrs." 
William  Moor  (Elder)  d.  in  Bedford,  1789,  Feb.  17,  in  his  72d  year. 
Had  ch.,  b.  in  Londonderry:  Nancy3,  b.  about  1840,  m.  Thomas 
English  (see  English);  Jenet5,  b.  1744,  March  26;  Molly3,  m.  Will- 
iam Gibson,  settled  in  Lyman,  N.  H.;  had  ten  ch.,  of  whom  two 
were  living  in  1850,  but  no  trace  of  descendants  found  in  1902. 
Ch.  b.  in  Bedford:  John*,  b.  1746,  Feb.  7;  Elizabeth3,  b.  about  1750: 
James5,  b.  1754;   William5,  b.  1760,  Feb.  19. 

III.  Jenet,  dau.  of  William2  (Elder),  b.  1744,  March  26;   m.  Alexander 

Jameson,  b.  in  Londonderry,  1743.  They  rem.  to  Antrim,  1775, 
thence  to  Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y.,  1798.  He  d.  1807,  Sept.  1.  She 
d.  at  Hamburg,  N.  Y.,  1830,  July  22.  Had  ch.,  b.  in  Antrim: 
Thomas*;  Mary*,  b.  1779,  Nov.  22,  m.  Mr.  Degarnio;  William*; 
Margaret*;  Nancy*;  Hugh* 

IV.  Thomas  (Jameson),  son  of  Jenet3,  b.  1778,  May  13;  was  a  cooper; 

settled  in  Hamburg,  N.  Y.;  justice  of  the  peace;  rem.  to  Boston, 
Erie  county,  N.  Y.;  ensign  under  Gen.  Scott,  in  War  of  1812;  was 
promoted  captain.  He  m.  Rebecca  Taggart  of  Antrim,  who  d. 
1848,  Jan.  3.     He  d.  1859,  March  28.     Had  eight  ch. 

IV.  William  (Jameson),  son  of  Jenet3,  b.  1781,  March  20;  res.  in  Roch- 
ester, N.  Y. ;  officer  in  War  of  1812.  He  in.  Hannah  Reed  of 
Bloomfleld,  N.  Y.,  who  d.  1866,  Nov.  22.  He  d.  1836,  Jan.  16. 
They  had  five  ch. 

IV.  Margaret  (Jameson),  dau.  of  Janet3,  b.  1782,  May  1;  m.  1800,  Israel 
Ferris,  a  tailor;  res.  Warren,  N.  Y.  He  went  West  to  better  his 
fortune,  and  was  never  heard  from  afterward;  supposed  to  have 
been  murdered  for  his  money.  She  d.  1853,  July  25,  in  Madison, 
Ind.     Had  four  ch. 

IV.  Nancy  (Jameson),  dau.  of  Jenet3,  b.  1784,  July  7;  m.  1810,  Elisha 
Clark,  and  res.  in  Hamburg,  N.  Y.  He  d.  1861,  March  14.  She 
d.  1868,  Dec.  22.     Had  one  son,  John  E.5 

IV.  Hugh  (Jameson),  son  of  Janet3,  b.  1786,  Oct.  1;  m.,  1st,  1809,  Aug. 
6,  Susanna  Moor,  b.  1790,  Oct.  1,  dau.  of  Obadiah  and  Sarah 
(Miller)  Moor,  who  d.  1831,  Jan.  3.  He  m.,  2d,  1833,  June  27, 
Mrs.  Mahala  (Hall)  Clark.  He  d.  1870,  Aug.  19.  She  d.  1888, 
Dec.  16.     (See  Jameson  Genealogy,  published  in  1901.) 

III.  John,  son  of  William2  (Elder),  m.  Betsey  Miller;  res.  in  Bedford; 

rem.  to  Hancock,  1773;  in  1790  he  exchanged  his  Hancock  farm 
for  Robert  Matthews'  farm  in  Bedford,  since  owned  many  years 
by  George  Hodgman.  He  d.  Bedford,  1839,  May  11,  aged  93.  Ch. : 
Mary*,  b.  Bedford,  1773,  April  29;  Janet*,  b.  1775,  Dec.  26,  in  Han- 
cock; William*,  b,  1778,  July  12;  Jane4,  b.  1781,  Feb.  23,  m.  Jesse 
Parker  (see  Parker);  David*,  b.  1783,  Aug.  23;  James4,  b.  1786, 
April  27,  enlisted  in  War  of  1812,  never  heard  from,  supposed  to 
have  been  killed;  Robert*,  b.  1788,  May  11;  John*,  b.  Bedford,  1790, 
Oct.  22;  Thomas*,  b.  1793,  April  14;  Elizabeth*,  b.  1795,  Dec.  26. 

IV.  Mary,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1773,  April  29;  m.  1799,  Adam  Gibson,  and 

settled  in  Lyman,  N.  H.     She  d.  1840.     He  d.  1854,  May  27,  aged 
81.  Hadch.:  Humphrey  Nelson6;  Sarah  Moor5;  Margaret5;  Mary  Jane5; 
Adam  U.5.  b.  1809,  July  8,  rem.  to  Wisconsin;  Simuel5 
V.  Humphrey  Nelson  (Gibson),  son  of  Mary4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1800,  Sept. 

21;  m. .     Their  dau.  m.  Isaac  G.  Perry,  architect  of  the  new 

state  house,  Albany,  N.  Y. 


988  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

V.  Sarah  Moor  (Gibson),  dau.  of  Mary4,  b.  1802,  April  14;  m.  1824,  Jan. 
29,  Eber  Eastman,  b.  1800,  Aug.  16,  in  Lyman,  N.  H.  He  d.  1871, 
Sept.  10,  and  she  d.  1863,  June  26.  Had  seven  ch.:  Jennette  S.6; 
Richard  S.6;  Ruth  K.6;  Laurette  G.6;  Dan  Derby6;  Salathiel6; 
Adam  Gibson.6 

V.  Margaret  (Gibson),  dau.  of  Mary4,  b.  Lyman,  1804,  Feb.  14;  m. 
John  Burt,  b.  1800,  Feb.  8;  settled  in  Lyman,  then  rem.  to  Brim- 
field,  111.,  where  he  d.  1863,  April  11,  and  she  d.  1867,  Sept.  23. 
Had  ten  ch.:  John  Clark6;  Caroline  A.6;  Arozina  L.6;  Oscar  S.6; 
Timothy  H.6;  Milo  B.6;  Clarissa  J.6;  Moses  E.6;  Harry  H.6;  George.6 

Y.  Mary  Jane  (Gibson),  dau.  of  Mary4,  b.  1807,  Nov.  28;  m.  Milo  Ben- 
nett; they  left  Illinois  for  California  in  1849  overland  route.  He 
was  killed  by  the  Indians.  She  reached  San  Francisco  with  the 
ch.,  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  One  son  was  named  Jesse  Moor 
Bennett. 

Y.  Samuel  (Gibson)  son  of  Mary4,  b.  Lyman,  1811,  Dec.  26;  m.,  1st, 
Mary  G.  Haskins,  b.  Lyman,  1816,  Dec.    11,   and  d.    1879,  Jan.  1, 

having  had  five  ch.     He  m.,  2d, Bean.     She  d.  leaving  one 

ch.  He  m.,  3d,  1856,  Oct.  18,  Esther  M.  Martin,  b.  Swansey,  N.  H., 
1823,  July  10,  and  d.  1895,  Dec.  21,  leaving  five  ch.  He  d.  at 
Whitefield,  1889,  March  21.  Ch.:  Edwin6,  Janette  E.6,  Hannah6, 
Emilie6,  Phoebe  Jane6,  Mary  J.6,  Charles  A.6,  Harry  A.6,  Hattie  E.6 
Carrie  A.6,  William  Ellsworth.6 
IY.  Janet,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  Hancock,  1775,  Dec.  26;  m.  Joseph  Little, 
b.  Derry,  1775,  March  11;  settled  in  Lyman.  She  d.  1843,  Oct.  14; 
he  d.  1854,  July  7.  Had  ch.:  Betsey5,  b.  1806,  Nov.  6,  m.  Lyman 
Bemis,  res.  in  Littleton,  and  d.  1854,  March  3;  Caldwell5 ',  William6, 
Sabin5,  Lettice5,  Lydia5,  b.  1817,  Aug.  9. 

Y.  Caldwell  (Little),  son  of  Janet4,  b.  Lyman,  1807,  March  9;  m.  1841, 
Sept.,  Lydia  C.  Steere,  b.  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  1815,  April  12.  He 
d.  1868,  Dec.  13,  and  his  wife  d.  1897,  March  18.  Had  two  ch.: 
Milo  M.6,  Janet.6 

Y.  "William  (Little),  son  of  Janet4,  b.  Lyman,  1810,  April  22;  m.  1840, 
March  12,  Maria  Stevens,  b.  Smithfield,  R.  I.,  1819,  Feb.  25;  res. 
in  Lyman.  He  d.  1887,  Sept.  30,  and  his  wife  1899.  Had  nine  ch.: 
Lettice  Luella  Melissa6,  William  Granville6,  Lena  Agnes6,  Olivia 
A.6,  Caroline  B.  G.6,  Bonnie  Alfred6,  Gus  B.6,  Edith  Tift,6  Will- 
iam Douglas.6 

Y.  Sabin  (Little),  son  of  Janet4,  b.  Lyman,  1812,  March  15;  m.  1846, 
Jan.  1,  Lodisa  Smith,  b.  1823;  res.  in  Lyman.  She  d.  1886,  Nov. 
Ch.:  Harriet  B.6,  E.  Frank,6,  Ellen  P.6,  Mary  H.6,  Harry  A.6 

Y.  Lettice  (Little),  dau.  of  Janet4,  b.  Lyman,  1815,  March  16;  m.  Caleb 
Gardner.  She  d.  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  1882,  Feb.  Ch.:  Livingston6, 
Hopkins6,  and  Lettice6. 

Y.  Lydia  (Little),  dau.  of  Janet4,  b.  Lyman,  1817,  Aug.  9;  m.  1834,  Dec. 
11,  Jeffrey  B.  Clough,  b.  1809,  April  7.  Shed,  at  Janesville,  111., 
1855,  May  16.  He  d.  at  Clyde,  111.,  1867,  Dec.  5.  Had  ten  ch.: 
William  G.6,  Cassius  M.6,  Helen  Jenette6,  Caleb  G.6,  Susan  B.6, 
Betsey  Maria6,  Savilla  Annette6,  Jeffrey  Bennett6,  Alberto  Arling- 
ton,6 Charles  E.6 
IV.  David,  son  of  John3,  b.  Hancock,  1783,  Aug.  23;  farmer  and  brick- 
maker;  res.  in  Lyman;  rem.  to  Limington,  Me.;  m.  1804  Esther 
Moody,  b.  at  Limington,  1787,  Jan.  1.  She  d.  1846,  May  1.  He  d. 
1859,  Jan.  1.  Had  twelve  ch.:  Eliza5,  b.  1806,  d.  1834,  m.'  Freeman 
Johnson;  Mary5,  b.  1808,  Dec.  6,  m.  Irvin  Small;  res.  in  Gorham, 
Me.  She  d.  1889,  April  30;  Joseph5,  b.  1810,  Sept.,  d.  1831,  unm.; 
David,  Jr.6;  John5;  Esther5,  b.  1816,  Dec.  8,  d.  1832,  March  2;  Jane 
W5;  Henry5;  Simon5,  b.  1822,  June  2,  d.  1822,  Dec;  Priscilla5,  b. 
1825,  Jan.  8,  d.  1852,  March,  unm.;  Maria5;  Olive5,  b.  1831,  Dec.  6, 
d.  1852,  June  1,  unm. 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  989 

V.  David,  Jr.,  son  of  David4,  b.  Limington,  Me.,  1812,  May  23;  m.,  1st, 
1837,  Nov.  2,  Elizabeth  Small,  b.  Limington,  1817,  June  14,  and  d. 
1865,  Aug.  21.  Had  seven  ch.  He  m.,  2d,  1867,  Harriet  Davis 
Payne;  res.  in  Gorham,  Me.  Had  three  ch.  He  d.  1876,  Oct.  27. 
Ch. :  Mary  E.6,  Henry  W.6,  Charles  S.6,  Isaac  W.6,  Ella  F.6,  Eve- 
lyn H.6,  Lizzie  B.6,  David  C.6,  Annie  B.6,  Harry  S.6. 

V.  John,  son  of  David4,  b.  1814,  Sept.  6;  m.,  1st,  1840,  Aug.  20,  Harriet 
S.  Boothby,  b.  1817,  June  28,  and  d.  1859,  Dec.  28.  Had  two  ch. 
He  m.,  2d,  1860,  Oct.  20,  Hannah  Irish,  b.  1831,  July  22.  Had  two 
ch.  He  d.  1878,  July  2,  and  shed.  1892,  Dec.  22.  Ch.:  Abbie6, 
Mary  S.6,  Hattie6,  John6. 

V.  Jane  W.,  dau.  of  David4,  b.  1818,  Aug.  25;  m.  1838,  Jan.  1,  James 
D.  S.  Webster,  b.  in  Gray,  Me.,  1810,  Nov.  12;  res.  Limington. 
He  d.  1876,  Feb.  3.  Ch.:  John  M.6,  Elbridge6,  Clara  L.6,  Mary  E.6, 
Royal  S.6,  James6,  Joseph6,  Henry  M.6,  Ida  J.6 

V.  Henry,  son  of  David4,  b.  Limington  1820,  Sept.  21;  m.  Mary  J. 
(Boothby)  Moody.     He  d.    1863.  Ch.:  Katherine6,  David  Irving6. 

V.  Maria,  dau.  of  David4,  b.  1828,  June  18;  m.  1849,  Nov.  29,  William 
B.  Irish,  b.  in  Gorham,  Me.,  1828,  Feb.  27.  Res.  Portland.  She 
d.  1885,  Feb.  18.  Had  one  ch.,  Ida  A.6 
IV.  Robert,  son  of  John3,  b.  1788,  May  11;  m.;  rem.  to  Pennsylvania. 
Had  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  All  trace  of  this  family  is  lost. 
IV.  John,  son  of  John3,  b.  Bedford  1790,  Oct.  22;  m.  about  1815  Deborah 
Sherman,  b.  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  1787,  June  3;  they  res.  in  Lisbon 
until  1836,  when  they  rem.  to  Anderson,  111.;  farmer.     He  d.  1849 

or  '50;  she  d. .     Ch.  b.  in  Lisbon,  N.  H.:  Priscilla  Welsh5,  Mary 

Crary5,  Electa  Sherman5,  Eliza  T.5,  John5,  Daniel5,  Reuben5,  drowned 
when  three  years  of  age. 

V.  Priscilla  Welsh,  dau.  of  John4,  b.  in  Lisbon,  1816,  Oct.  29;  went  to 
Illinois  with  her  parents  in  1837;  m.,  1st,  about  1840,  Judge  John 
J.  Davison,  b.  Shrewsbury,  N.  J.,  1787,  Jan.  1;  farmer  and  civil 
engineer;  res.  at  New  Lenox,  111.,  and  one  of  first  settlers  of  Joliet, 
111.  He  d.  1844,  March  26.  She  in.,  2d,  1845,  April  17,  Dr.  Benj. 
F.  Allen,  b.  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  1815,  Dec.  12;  author  of  "Irena," 
in  which  he  makes  his  wife  the  heroine.  Shed,  at  Joliet,  1881, 
Jan.  24.  He  m.,  2d,  Lucy  Moor;  d.  at  San  Jose,  Cal.,  1891,  Aug. 
12.  His  widow  was  res.  there  in  1900.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Mary  J.6, 
Rachel  Deborah6;  2d  mar.:  Helen  Augusta6,  Florence  M.6,  Jiilia6, 
Frank  E.6,  Mortimer  Ayers6,  Minnie  Iradell6. 

V.  Mary  Crary,  dau.  of  John4,  b.  Lisbon,  1820,  Sept.  13;  m.  1840,  April 
23,  Morrison  Francis;  res.  at  Cambridge,  111.;  he  was  an  extensive 
farmer,  miller,  stock,  and  grain  dealer.  In  1849  went  overland  to 
California  as  a  gold  seeker  with  his  brothers-in-law,  John  and 
Daniel  Moor;  returned  and  res.  at  Andover,  111.,  where  he  d.  1873, 
Oct.  28.  Ch.  b.  at  Andover:  Emily  E.6,  Evelyn  G.6,  John  M.6, 
Fannie6,  Mary6,  Eliza  A.6,  Frank  F.6,  Nellie6. 

V.  Electa  Sherman,  dau.  of  John4,  b.  at  Lisbon,  1822,  May  24;  m.  1843, 
May  21,  at  Andover,  111.,  Charles  W.  Davenport,  b.  New  York 
city,  1818,  March  8;  farmer;  res.  at  Cambridge,  111.  She  d.  1860, 
March  28,  and  he  d.  at  Orion,  111.,  1899,  Jan.  5.  Ch.:  Mary  Esther6, 
Priscilla  A.6,  Charles  S.6,  James  T.6,  Henry  Snapp6,  Mary  E.6 

V.  Eliza  T.,  dau.  of  John4,  b.  Lisbon,  N.  H,  1824,  March  9;  m. 
1842,  Oct.  4,  Vincent  M.  Ayers,  b.  at  New  Canaan,  Conn.,  1822, 
Aug.  :-i;  res.  in  Campbell,  Cal.  Ch.:  Claudius  N.6,  Mary  Moor6, 
Adoniram  J.6,  Clarence  M.6,  Allen  Davison6,  Annie  Eliza6, 
Mabel6. 

V.  John,  son  of  John4,  b.  at  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  1826,  Sept.  17;  m.  at  Ando- 
ver, 111.,  1846,  Jan.  29,  Ruth  A.  Stanclart,  b.  in  Lancaster,  N.  Y., 
1828,  Dec.  10.  He  was  a  farmer;  went  overland  in  1849  with  a 
party  to  California,  being  180  days  on  the  road  to  the  gold  mines. 


990  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Arriving  there  1849,  Oct.  10,  he  d.  1849,  Dec.  20,  on  thf  South  fork 
of  Feather  river.  His  wife  d.  at  Andover,  111.,  1899,  Feb.  5.  Ch.: 
Lauretta  S.6,  Emily  Jane6. 

V.  Daniel,  son  of  John4,  b.  at  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  1828,  May  14;  m.,  1st, 
Arozina  L.  Burt,  b.  at  Lyman,  N.  H.,  1830,  Oct.  16,  dau.  of  John 
and  Margaret  (Gibson)  Burt.     She  d.   1855,  Feb.  18.     He  m.,  2d, 

and  d.  1858.     Had  three  ch.,  b.  and  d.  young. 

IV.  Thomas,  son  of  John8,  b.  Bedford  1793,  April  14;  m.  1815  Octavia 
Webb,  b.  in  Lunenburg,  Vt.,  1793.  He  res.  in  Lyman,  N.  H.; 
farmer  and  shoemaker.  He  d.  1866,  July  30;  his  widow  d.  1876. 
Ch. :  Azariah  Webb5;  James  Thomas5;  Delancy  C.6,  b.  1821,  April; 
Lucy5;  Maria5,  b.  Lyman,  1825,  m.  John  Kelsen,  who  d.  1896; 
Greenleaf  Webb5;  Frank  I.5,  b.  Lyman,  1829,  res.  North  Lansing, 
Mich.;  Nancy  F.5,  Bernice  R.5,  b.  Lyman,  1840. 

V.  Azariah  Webb,  son  of  Thomas4,  was  b.  at  Lyman,  1817;  was  pro- 
prietor of  the  "  Willey  House  "  many  years  and  later  landlord  of 
the  "  Old  Hotel  "  in  Whitefield;  was  called  "  Colonel  ";  lived  some 

years  at  San  Jose,  Cal.     He  m.,  1st,  Harriet  Gordon;  she  d. ; 

He  m.,  2d,  Mrs.  Dorcas  Chase,  of  Portland,  Me.  He  d.  1897,  Sept. 
7.     Had  one  son,  John  A.6 

V.  James  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas4,  b.  in  Lyman,  1819,  Sept.  28;  farmer, 
school  teacher,  also  engaged  in  lumber  and  hotel  business.  He 
m.  1854,  Oct.,  Martha  Thornton,  b.  in  Lyman,  1828,  March,  and 
d.  1880,  Jan.  23.  He  d.  at  Lisbon  1899,  Oct.  2.  Had  ch. :  Edward 
W.6,  William  Thornton6,  Carrie  M.6 

V.  Lucy,  dau.  of  Thomas4,  b.  1823,  Jan.  30;  m.  1883,  May  17,  Dr.  Ben- 
jamin F.  Allen,  b.  1815,  Dec.  12,  at  Watertown,  N.  Y.;  author  of 
"  Irena."  She  was  his  second  wife,  her  cousin  Priscilla  W.  Moor 
having  been  the  first  wife. 

V.  Greenleaf  Webb,  son  of  Thomas4,  was  b.  at  Lyman,  1830,  Aug.  24; 
m.  1856,  March  18,  Miss  Lucia  Lambkin,  b.  at  Maidstone,  Vt., 
1835,  July  4;  res.  at  Lyman,  N.  H.,  Maidstone,  and  Guildhall, 
Vt.;  farmer  and  prominent  citizen  of  the  town.  He  d.  1883, 
March  26.  Ch.:  Hattie  W.6,  Ida  Morille6,  Edwin  A.6,  Lulie  Stan- 
ley6, Frank  F.6,  Lenora  Marcia6,  Florence  Delia6. 

V.  Nancy  F.,  dau.  of  Thomas4,  b.  1832,  Dec.  19;  was  a  teacher  at  Reed's 
Ferry,  N.  H.,  rem.  to  Benton  Harbor,  Mich.,  where  she  owned  a 
large  dry  goods  store.  She  m.  Hon.  Henry  Snapp,  attorney  and 
representative  in  congress  1872.  She  d.  while  on  a  visit  to  Chi- 
cago 1894,  Dec.  Hed.  1895. 
IV.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  Bedford,  1795,  Dec.  26;  m.  John  Well- 
man,  b.  in  Lyndeborough  1790,  July  18,  son  of  Jacob  and  Hannah 
(Bof/e)  Wellman.     He  d.  1855,  Sept.     She  was  living  1866.     Had 

ch.,  b.   in  Lyndeborough:  William5,  b. ,  d.  about  1852:  John5, 

Nancy5;  Keziah5;  Israel  P.5;  James5,  b.  1839,  res.  Emporia,  Kan. 

V.  John  (Wellman),  son  of  Elizabeth4,  b. ,  was  supposed  to  have 

been  on  a  train  of  cars  when  they  left  New  York  city,  and  ran 
into  an  open  drawbridge  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  in  May,  1853.  He 
was  never  heard  from  after.  Walter  French  of  Bedford  was 
killed  there. 

V.  Nancy  (Wellman),  dau.  of  Elizabeth4,  b.  1823,  Feb.  24;  m.  1846, 
Aug.  31,  Daniel  Sargent.  Had  Frank  D.6,  b.  Milford,  1853,  Oct. 
29,  and  d.  1862,  Nov.  8.     She  res.  in  Milford. 

V.  Keziah  (Wellman),  dau.  of  Elizabeth4,  b. ;  m.,  1st,  1855,  May 8, 

Hiram  Story;  res.  in  Antrim;  he  was  a  manufacturer  of  bedsteads; 
d.  1866,  June  22,  aged  42.  They  had  two  ch.,  b.  and  d.  young. 
She  m.,  2d,  1872,  Feb.  6,  Henry  W.  Austin;  res.  in  Milford. 

V.  Israel  P.  (Wellman),  son  of  Elizabeth4,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  1828, 
March  1;  m.  1855,  April  1,  Orra  A.  Dun  ton;  lived  in  Hancock, 
Antrim,   Alstead,   Stoddard,   and  now  res.  in  Gilsum.     Served 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  991 

three  years  in  the  Civil  war.  Enlisted  from  Stoddard  1862,  Aug. 
13,  in  Company  G,  Fourteenth  Regt.,  N.  H.  Vols.  Ch.:  Henry 
P.6;  George  W.6;  Ida  A6;  Nellie  I.6;  John  R.**;  Charles<\ 
III.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William2  (Elder),  b.  in  Bedford  about  1750;  m. 
1793,  Jacob  Wellman,  b.  1746,  May  13,  in  Dunstable,  now  Nashua. 
She  was  his  2d  wife;  lived  in  Lyndeborough.  He  was  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolution  and  received  a  pension  of  $26.66  per  year.  He 
d.  1834,  April  20.  Date  of  her  death  unknown.  Ch.:  William4, 
b.  1795,  Dec.  20,  d.  1812,  Feb.  19;  Daniel4,  b.  1798,  Jan.  13,  d.  1798, 
March  29. 

III.  Lieut.  James,  son  of  William2  (Elder),  b.  in  Bedford,  1754;  m.  Sally 

Carson.  He  res.  in  Bedford  on  the  homestead  till  1835,  when  he 
sold  his  farm  to  the  town  for  the  poor  farm,  and  rem.  to  a  small 
place  near  the  Center.  His  wife  d.  1837,  Feb.  20,  aged  81.  He  d. 
1838,   Oct.  20,  aged  84.     Ch.:  Sally4,  b.  1776,  June  27,  d.   1804, 

March  21;  m.  ;  Daniel*,  b.  1778,  June  28;  William4,  b.  1780, 

Jan.  28,  m.  Catherine ,  he  d. ;  John  C.4,  b.  1782,  June  12, 

d.  1807,  April  17,  num.;  Annis4,  b.  1784,  Oct,  9,  m.  Benjamin  S. 
Gage  (see  Gage);  Isaac4,  b.  1787,  Jan.  2,  m.  Ruth  Watkins;  res. 
Madison,  N.'Y.,  where  he  hung  himself  1838,  March  10;  Eliza- 
b  th4,  b.  1789,  Mav  26,  m.  Gawn  Riddle  (see  Riddle);  Richard 
D.4,  b.  1792,  June  16,  d.  1822,  Nov.  17,  unm.;  Mary4,  1797,  Jan. 
18,  d.  1823,  Sept.  15,  unm.;  Margaret4,  b.  1801,  April  26,  d.  1833, 
Oct,  29,  unm. 

IV.  Daniel,  son  of  Lieut  James3,  b.  1778,  June  28;  m  Mary  L.  Weston, 

b.  in  Antrim,  1780,  Nov.  12;  res.  in  Montpelier,  Vt.  He  d.  1812, 
Nov.  14.  Ch. :  Achsnhb;  Fannie5;  Sarah  A.5,  m.  John  Harwood, 
res.  in  Montpelier;  Richard5,  d.  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

V.  Achsah,  dau.  of  Daniel4;  m.  Jeremiah  Breed,  and  res.  in  Sharon, 
N.  H.     Rem.  to  Danville,  111.,  where  he  d.  1839.     Had  three  ch. 

V.  Fannie,  dau.  of  Daniel4;  m.  Freeman  Buxton;  rem.  to  Montpelier. 
They  had:  Mary  A.6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1831,  April,  and  d.  1831, 
May  19. 

III.  William  (Dea.),  son  of  William2  (Elder),  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1760, 

Feb.  19.  Was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution;  serving  in  Col. 
Stickney's  Regt.  at  Bennington,  in  Col.  Kelly's  Regt,  during  the 
Rhode  Island  and  Portsmouth  campaigns,  and  in  Col.  Nichols' 
Regt,,  1780,  July  5—1780,  Oct.  23.  Rate  of  wages  per  month, 
£134;  amount  of  wages  for  three  and  one  half  months,  486£,  17s.; 
265  miles  travel,  79£,  10s.;  detained  rations,  10£,  18s.;  whole 
amount  577£,  5s.  (Continental  money).  Was  pensioned  by  con- 
gress at  $26  per  year.  He  was  justice  of  the  peace  forty  years, 
deacon  in  Presbyterian  church,  1803,  to  his  death,  1844;  moder- 
ator and  selectman  several  years.  He  was  an  honest,  honorable, 
and  upright  man.  He  m.,  1st,  1788,  March  25,  Isabella  McClary, 
b.  in  Bedford,  1769,  Nov.  4,  and  d.  1822,  Aug.  18.  He  m.,  2d, 
1824,  Jan.  26,  Hannah,  dau.  of  Dea.  Aaron  Gage  of  Merrimack. 
He  d.  1844,  May  5.  Hannah,  his  wife,  d.  1855,  April  2.  Ch.: 
James*,  b.  1789,  Jan.  24;  Jesse*,  b.  1792,  July  22;  Nancy*,  b.  1794, 
Oct.  23;  Jane*,  b.  1797,  June  28;  Adams*,  b.  1799,  Oct.  17;  Will- 
iam4, b.  1802,  Jan.  24,  d.  1802,  Jan.  30;  David4,  b.  1803,  March  26, 
d.  1803,  Dec.  29.  Andrew  English*,  b.  1804,  Nov.  16;  Elizabeth  Me- 
Clary*,  b.  1808,  Feb.  17;  William  English4,  b.  1810,  July  9,  went 
to  sea  in  early  life  and  never  heard  from  afterwards;  Mary  Jack*, 
b.  1813,  Sept.  9. 

IV.  James,  son  of  Dea.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1789,  Jan.  24;  m.  about 

1815,  Sarah,  b.  1789,  dau.  of  Elijah  Chandler.  At  the  request  of 
his  father  he  built  the  L  on  the  north  side  of  the  house,  and  fol- 
lowed the  old  Scotch  custom,  viz.,  the  oldest  son  residing  at 
home  with  his  father.    He  d.  1837,  May  19,  and  his  wife  d.  1843, 


992  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

May  21.  Ch.:  Sophronia5,  b.  1817,  d.  1838,  June  29;  Jesse5,  b. 
1818,  d.  1845,  June  19,  unm.;  William  C.6,  b.  1822,  went  South  for 
his  health  and  was  lost  in  a  gale  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  1846, 
June  25,  unm.;  Andrew5,  rem.  West;  James  F.5,  schoolteacher, 
rem.  to  Eau  Clair,  Wis.,  has  been  mayor  of  the  city,  is  in  insur- 
ance business,  m. ,  has  a  son,  Frank6;  Isabella5,  b.  1831,  Sept., 

d.  1834,  Dec.  14;  infant  son5,b.  1836,  Oct.,  d.  1836,  Nov.  29. 

IV.  Jesse  (M.  D.),  son  of  Dea.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1792,  July  22; 
studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Muzzy  of  Dartmouth  college;  he  prac- 
tised at  Lugana,  Province  of  Yucatan,  Mexico,  and  later  at 
Beloit,  Wis.  He  m.  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Eliza  A.  Mosier,  who  d. 
1855.  He  d.  at  Beloit,  1860.  They  had  ch.:  Sarah  Jane5;  Isa- 
bella5, m.  Wadsworth;  Mary5;  Lucia5;  William5;  Charles5;  Anna 
Eliza5;  Barnes.5 
V.  Sarah  Jane,  dau.  of  Dr.  Jesse4,  b.  1829,  March  10;  m.  1846,  March 
10,  Dexter  G.  Clark,  M.  D.,  b.  in  Amherst,  Mass.,  1819,  Feb.,  a 
physician  and  banker.  She  d.  1857,  March.  He  d.  at  Rockford, 
111.,  1861,  Oct.  5.     Ch.:  Jesse  Moor6;  Mary  Ella6. 

IV.  Nancy,  dau.  of  Dea.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1794,  Oct.  23;  m.  1821, 
May  17,  Capt.  Ira  Spalding  of  Merrimack.  She  d.  1829,  April  7. 
Their  ch.:  Ira5,  b.  1822,  May  8,  d.  1832,  July  30;  Ephraim  Heald5, 
b.  1824,  Dec.  7,  d.  1890,  Feb.  20,  unm.;  William  Moor5,  b.  1823, 
Nov.  10;  Nancy  Isabella5,  b.  1827,  Jan.  28. 
V.  Capt.  William  Moor  (Spalding),  son  of  Nancy4,  b.  in  Merrimack, 
1823,  Nov.  10.  In  1845  went  to  Galveston,  Texas;  engaged  in 
dredging  the  Trinity  river  for  navigation.  Also  had  contracts 
for  raising  steamers  and  other  vessels  sunk  in  Southern  ports 
during  the  Civil  war.  In  1880  went  to  Colorado,  and  engaged  in 
fruit  and  stock  raising.  He  m.  1866,  April  25,  Ada  R.  Callaway, 
b.  in  Greensboro,  Ala.,  1837,  Oct,  18,  and  d.  1875,  March  30.  He 
d.  1894,  May  7,  on  a  visit  to  Gonzales,  Texas.  Ch.:  Carrie  Belle6; 
Nancy  Olivia6;  Elizabeth  Beulah6. 
V.  Nancy  Isabella  (Spalding),  dau.  of  Nancy4,  b.  1827,  Jan.  28;  m. 
1851,  May  8,  William  Kimball,  b.  in  Mason,  N.  H,  1814,  Sept.  20. 
Ch.:  EdwardS.6;    Isabel  Moor6;  Ephraim  G.6 

IV.  Jane,  dau.  of  Dea.  William8,  b.  1797,  June  28.  About  1820  went  to 
Lowell,  Mass.,  and  taught  school.  She  joined  the  Baptist  church, 
and  in  1841  erected  a  schoolhouse  at  her  own  expense,  freely 
giving  the  use  of  it  to  the  Baptist  church  until  they  were  able  to 
build  a  house  of  their  own.  In  1844  went  to  Texas  and  joined  her 
brother,  whom  she  had  not  seen  for  twenty  years.  Taught  school 
there  four  years;  went  to  Beloit,  Wis.,  in  1848;  had  charge  of  the 
orphan  asylum  in  Milwaukee  one  and  one  half  years,  when  her 
health  fading,  she  went  to  Jefferson,  Wis.,  where  she  d.  1851. 
While  in  Texas  her  brother,  who  was  a  slave  owner,  gave  her  a 
colored  girl  named  Minerva.  On  her  death  bed  she  said  "  I  have 
had  the  deepest  anguish  on  account  of  that  girl.  My  soul  has  not 
gone  as  fully  into  liberty  as  it  ought,"  but  she  added,  "  I  have 
gained  the  victory  and  God  has  forgiven  me." 

IV.  Adams  (M.  D.),  son  of  Daa.  William3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1799,  Oct.  17; 
graduated  at  Dartmouth  college,  1822;  was  a  physician.  In  his 
profession,  in  science,  in  literature,  in  politics,  and  in  his  knowl- 
edge of  current  events,  Dr.  Moor  was  abreast  of  the  times.  He 
res.  at  Littleton,  N.  H.,  and  was  more  familiar  with  the  history 
of  his  adopted  town  than  any  other  person.  He  spent  the  last 
years  of  his  life  in  preparing  its  history  for  publication.  His 
death  is  supposed  to  have  been  hastened  by  the  death  of  his  son, 
William  A.,  who  was  killed  at  Fredericksburg,  Va.  He  m.,  1st, 
1829,  June  1,  Annie  M.  Little,  b.  Newbury,  Mass.,  1803,  Dec.  4, 
and  d.  1842,  March  31.     He  m.,  2d,  1843,  Aug.  16,  Maria  Little,  b. 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOE.  993 

1806,  Jan.  6,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  He  d.  1863,  Nov.  5.  His 
widow  d.  1887,  July  4,  at  Lynn,  Mass.  Had  six  ch.:  Maria  L.5,  b. 
1830,  Oct.  11,  d.  of  cholera  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  1854,  July  8,  unm.; 
Isabella  McClary5,  b.  1833,  Nov.  24,  m.  1855,  Dec.  13,  Judge  Edwin 
P.  Green,  and  d.  at  Akron,  Ohio,  1869,  March  13;  Elizabeth  Adams5; 
William  Adams5;  Annie  Mary5,  b.  1844,  April  15,  d.  the  same  day; 

V.  Elizabeth  A.,  dau.  of  Dr.  Adams  Moor4,  was  b.  1837,  May  29;  m.  1870, 
April  25,  Judge  Green,  who  m.  her  sister  Isabella;  res.  in  Akron, 
Ohio.      Ch.:  Isabella  McClary6;  William  Adams6;  Mary  Little6. 

V.  William  A.,  son  of  Dr.  Adams  Moor4,  was  b.  1842,  March  27;  en- 
listed as  a  private  in  Fifth  N.  Y.  Vols.,  "  Duryea's  Zouaves;"  was 
at  battle  of  Big  Bethel;  then  transferred  to  Fifth  N.  H.  Vols., 
Colonel  Cross'  regiment,  and  appointed  captain.  He  was  killed 
at  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  1862,  Dec.  13.,  aged  20  years, 
8  months,  16  days;  the  youngest  captain  from  the  state  of  New 
Hampshire  in  the  great  Rebellion. 

V.  James  White  (M.  D.),  son  of  Dr.  Adams  Moor4,  b.  1846,  Dec.  11; 
graduated  at  Dartmouth  college;  physician.  He  is  an  acknowl- 
edged authority  in  the  city  of  New  York  upon  the  question  of 
microbes  and  contagion  in  disease.  He  m.  1874,  April  2,  Caroline 
Emily  Granger,  b.  New  Ipswich,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Clarissa  P. 
(Bullard)  Granger;  res.  New  York  city.   One  ch.:  Mabel  Granger6. 

IV.  Andrew  English,  son  of  Dea.  William*',  b.  in  Bedford,  1804,  Nov. 
16;  was  a  sea  captain  for  many  years;  settled  in  Galveston,  Tex. 
He  freed  his  slaves  upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  and  rem.  to 
Springfield,  Ohio,  where  he  d.  unm. 

IV.  Elizabeth  McClary,  dau.  of  Dea.  William3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1808, 
Feb.  17;  m.,  1st,  1833,  Horace  White,  M.  D.,  b.  in  Bethlehem, 
N.  H.,  1810,  March  17.  They  res.  in  Colebrook,  N.  H.  In  1836 
he  was  chosen  by  the  New  Hampshire  Emigrating  Co. ,  to  go  West 
and  locate  a  tract  of  land  for  the  company.  In  1837,  Feb.,  he 
arrived  at  Beloit,  Wis.,  where  he  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land. 
The  town  was  organized  1842,  Feb.  1 7.  Joseph  Colley  and  John 
P.  Houston  were  chosen  supervisors,  Samuel  G.  Colley,  agent  of 
highways,  Dr.  Jesse  Moor,  school  commissioner,  and  Richard 
Dole,  fence  viewer,  all  formerly  of  Bedford.  In  1839  Mr.  White 
was  elected  the  first  judge  of  probate  for  Rock  county,  Wis.  He 
d.  at  Beloit,  1843,  Dec.  23.  His  widow  m.,  2d,  1844,  Samuel  Hin- 
man,  M.  D.,  of  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  who  d.  at  Beloit,  1865,  Nov.  8. 
She  d.  in  New  York  city,  1901,  Nov.,  aged  93  years,  8  months,  the 
last  of  her  race.  She  was  a  Daughter  of  the  Revolution.  Ch.  of 
1st  mar.:  Horace5;  James  A.5,  was  a  journalist,  became  deranged, 
committed  suicide  at  Washington,  D.  C;  Mary  Elizabeth5;  and 
Clara  W5  Ch.  by  2d  mar.:  Lucy  M.5,  b.  at  Beloit,  1846,  Aug.  20, 
d.  1862,  Oct.  14;  Frances  M.5 

V.  Horace  (White),  son  of  Elizabeth  McC.4,b.  at  Colebrook,  1834,  Aug. 
10;  m.,  1st,  1859,  April,  Martha  Hale  Root  of  Chicago.  She  d. 
and  he  m.,  2d,  1875,  Feb.,  Amelia  J.  MacDougall,  b.  Joliet,  111., 
1850,  Sept.  11.  He  is  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  an  emi- 
nent authority  on  finance  and  said  to  be  the  best  equipped  all- 
round  editor  in  the  United  States.  Ch.:  Amelia  Elizabeth6;  Abby 
MacDougall6;  Martha  Root6. 

V.  Mary  Elizabeth  (White),  dau.  of  Elizabeth  McC.4,  b.  Chicago,  111., 
1839,  May;  m.  in  Beloit,  1865,  June  13,  George  W.  Hale,  b.  Low- 
ell, Mass,  1838,  June  24.     She  d.  in  Chicago,  1867,  March  29. 

V.  Clara  W.  (White),  dau.  of  Elizabeth  McC.4,  b.  Beloit,  1842,  June  4; 
m.  1868,  Dec.  29,  Walker  D.  Simms,  b.  Pulaski,  N.  Y„  1841,  Nov. 
12;  res.   Beloit.      She  d.  1898,   June  20.      Ch.:    Horace  White6; 
Clara  Louise6;  Frances  Hinman6. 
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994  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

V.  Frances  M.  (Hinman),  son  of  Elizabeth  McC.4,  b.  Beloit,  1849,  Jan. 
17;  m.  1871,  April  23,  Francis  F.  Orbiston,  b.  1843,  Jan.  23,  in 
Raynham,  Norfolk  county,  Eng.  He  is  a  mining  engineer  at 
Sydney,  Australia.     Ch.:  Bessie6;  Louis  Horace6. 

IV.  Mary  Jack,  dau.  of  Dea.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1813,  Sept.  9;  young- 
est of  eleven  ch.  In  1837  she  went  with  her  brother-in-law,  Dr. 
Horace  White,  and  family  to  the  then  territory  of  Wisconsin,  to 
what  is  now  the  city  of  Beloit.  On  Christmas  eve,  1839,  Dec,  m. 
Harvey  Wilson  Bundy,  b.  in  Lunenburg,  Vt.,  1814,  Feb.  15;  the 
first  white  couple  m.  in  Beloit.  As  there  was  no  licensed  minister 
in  the  place  at  that  time,  the  marriage  ceremony  was  performed 
by  Samuel  G.  Colley  (formerly  an  old  neighbor  in  Bedford).  In 
1853  they  went  to  California  in  a  five  and  a  half  months'  journey 
across  the  plains,  thence  to  Gold  Hill,  Nev.,  where  Mr.  Bundy 
was  interested  in  gold  mining.  He  d.  there  1880.  She  d.  at  Al- 
den,  Cal.,  1900,  June  21.  Ch.:  Sophronicfi;  Andrew6,  d.  aged  9 
months;  Mary5,  d.  aged  1  year.  8  months;  George6,  d.  aged  2  years; 
William  Henry5,  b.  1855,  d.  1876. 
V.  Sophronia  (Bundy), dau.  of  Mary  Jack4,  was  b.  at  Beloit,  1841,  Sept. 
29;  m.  1862,  William  H.  Smith,  b.  1834,  at  Coaticooke,  P.  Q.;  rem. 
to  Gold  Hill,  Nev.,  where  she  d.  1872.  Ch.:  Isabel  H.6;  Harold B«. 
II.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  in  Ireland,  1719,  came  to  this  country 
with  her  parents.  She  m.,  1st,  1840,  Nathaniel  Holmes,  and  set- 
tled in  Londonderry.  He  d.  1764,  Sept.  25.  She  m.,  2d,  Maj. 
George  Duncan,  whom  she  survived.  She  d.  1795.  Had  twelve 
ch.,  b.  in  Londonderry:  Jane3,  m.  William  Moor,  son  of  Charter 
John2  (for  genealogy,  see  Hist,  of  Peterborough,  N.  H.,  page 
169);  Sarah3,  m.  Samuel  Clark,  res.  Londonderry;  Mary3,  m.  Abra- 
ham Morrison  (see  Morrison  Gen.);  John3;  Jonathan3,  m.  his 
cousin  Mary,  dau.  of  Col.  Robert  Moor  (see  Allison  Gen.  page  71); 
Elizabeth3,  m.  Robert  Morrison  (see  Hist,  of  Peterborough,  N.  H., 
page  178);  Robert3;  William3;  Agnes  Nancy3,  m.  Daniel  Mack; 
res.  Tompkins  county,  N.  Y.;  Robecca3,  twin  to  Nathaniel,  m. 
Nathaniel  Watts,  Londonderry;  Nathaniel3,  twin  to  Rebecca,  m. 
Catharine  Allison  (see  Hist,  of  Peterborough,  page  78) ;  Esther®. 

III.  Lieut.  John  (Holmes),  son  of  Elizabeth2,  b.  1747,  in  Londonderry, 
was  lieutenant  in  a  company  of  militia  in  Londonderry;  refused 
to  sign  Association  Test  in  1776.  He  m.,  1st,  1765,  his  cousin 
Martha,  dau.  of  Col.  Robert  Moor.  She  d.  1778,  Sept.  5.  Hem,, 
2d,  1780,  Susannah  Allison,  b.  1759,  Oct.  13.  He  d.  1794,  Nov.  2. 
His  widow  d.  1809,  April  28.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Mary4,  m.  Peter 
Clement;  res.  at  Hillsborough,  N.  H.  (See  Hist,  of  Weare,  page 
774) ;  a  son4,  was  lost  at  sea  when  16  years  of  age.  Ch.  by  2d 
mar.:  Martha4,  m.  Col.  William  Moor  (see  Col.  William  Moor); 
Jenet4,  m.  her  cousin  Robert  Holmes,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
(Moor)  Holmes;  Elizabeth4,  b.  1788,  May  11,  m.  Thomas  Shepard 
of  Bedford  (see  Shepard);  Susannah4,  b.  1790,  March  11,  m. 
Thomas  Atwood  of  Bedford  (see  Atwood) ;  Catharine4,  b.  1792,  m. 
Samuel  McAfee  of  Bedford  (see  McAfee);  Samuel4,  d.  1786,  when 
a  child;  John,  Jr.4,  b  1786,  d.  1813,  while  in  his  junior  year  at 
Dartmouth  college.  He  was  betrothed  to  Margaret,  dau.  of  Rev. 
William  Morrison,  D.  D. ,  of  Londonderry. 

III.  Esther  (Holmes),  dau.  of  Elizabeth2,  m.  John  Moor3,  son  of  Capt. 
William2,  son  of  James1;  rem.  to  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  and  had  three 
ch.  He  drew  a  chalk  line  on  the  floor  one  day,  and  asked  all  the 
family  who  wished  to  go  with  him  to  Ohio,  to  cross  over.  One 
son  having  d.,  the  remainder  of  the  family  started  on  the  journey 
and  were  never  heard  from  afterward. 
II.  Robert  (Lieut. -Col.),  son  of  John1,  was  b.  in  Londonderry,  1726, 
May  26.     He  lived  and  d.  there,  1778,  Oct.  25.     He  m.  Mary , 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  995 

who  was  probably  living,  1819,  with  her  son  William  in  Canada. 
Had  ten  ch.,  viz.:  Janet3,  m.  Hon.  Robert  Wallace,  res.  in  Hen- 
niker;  Martha3,  m.  Lieut.  John  Holmes;  John3,  m.  Mary  Holland, 
res.  Londonderry  and  Lancaster;  Mary3,  m.  her  cousin,  Jonathan 
Holmes;  Elizabeth3,  m.  John  Campbell,  res.  in  Henniker;  Ann3, 
m.  James  Wallace,  res.  in  Henniker;  William3,  b.  1767;  Robert3, 
m.  Janet  Rolfe,  res.  in  Goffstown;  Hannah3,  m.  William  Wal- 
lace, res.  in  Henniker.  (For  genealogy  of  Elizabeth,  Janet,  Ann, 
and  Hannah,  see  Cogswell's  Hist,  of  Henniker,  N.  H.) 

III.  William,  son  of  Lieut. -Col.  Robert2,  b.   in  Londonderry,   1767;    m. 

1784,  Elienor,  b.  Bedford,  1767,  dau.  of  Col.  Daniel  Moor  of  Bed- 
ford. They  lived  at  Upper  Cc  >6s,  N.  H,  and  later  in  Kingsley, 
P.  Q.;  farmer.  He  d.  1817,  July  8.  She  d.  1836,  Oct.  19.  Ch.: 
Ann*;  Robert4,  b.  1798;  Daniel*;  William4,  b.  1793,  d.  1805;  Mary*; 
James4,  b.  1805,  d.  1850,  July  25,  unm;  Elizabeth*. 

IV.  Ann,  dau.  of  William3,  b.  1785;  m.  Peter  Sharp;   res.  in  Kingsley, 

P.  Q.     Had  two  ch.:  Daniel5  and  Christopher6. 

IV.  Daniel,  son  of  William3;  b.  in  Londonderry,  1791,  March  1;  m.  1816, 
March  31,  Abigail  Quimby,  b.  Peacham,  Vt.,  1799,  Feb.  8;  res.  at 
Kingsley,  P.  Q.;  farmer;  gave  each  of  his  sons  a  farm  from  the 
homestead,  and  the  youngest  son  now  lives  (1900)  on  the  remain- 
ing 300  acres.  Ch.:  Robert5,  Mary5,  William5,  Daniel5,  Calvin  J.5, 
Jonathan  Gilman5,  John  Colborne5,  Joseph  Henry5. 

IV.  Mary,  dau.  of  William3,  b.  Upper  Cos,  N.  H,  1810,  April  1;  m.  1834, 
May  18,  Simeon  Miner  Denison,  b.  Rutland,  Vt.,  1801,  April  2; 
farmer  and  mill  owner  at  Denison 's  Mills,  P.  Q.  He  d.  1865,  May 
11.  She  d.  1899,  Nov.  26.  Ch.:  Avery  William5,  Isaac  Williams5, 
To spt) li  "Root 

IV.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William3,  b.  Kingsley,  P.  Q.,  1807,  Sept.  14;  m. 
1824,  March  14,  Jonathan  D.  Bean,  b.  Wheelock,  Vt.,  1800,  Sept. 
13;  res.  at  Lawrence,  N.  Y.  Ch.:  James5,  Mary  A.5,  Elienor5, 
Harriet  A.5,  Nancy6. 
II.  Daniel  (Colonel),  son  of  John1,  b.  in  Londonderry,  1730,  Feb.  11.  He 
came  to  Bedford  previous  to  1748,  and  settled  on  the  farm  lately 
occupied  by  Bradford  Beal.  He  sold  it,  1779,  to  Col.  Stephen  Dole 
for  5,500  pounds  (probably  Continental  money),  and  purchased 
the  farm  of  David  Scoby,  now  owned  by  Thomas  S.  Burns.  He 
was  a  man  of  positive  character,  keen  intelligence,  remarkable 
memory,  strong  mind,  and  iron  will,  who  allowed  nothing  to 
swerve  him  from  his  convictions  of  duty.  He  was  selectman 
1758,  1766,  1776;  on  Committee  of  Safety,  1775.  In  the  provincial 
congress,  at  Exeter,  it  was  voted,  1775,  Aug.  24,  "  That  Capt. 
Daniel  Moor  be  appointed  Col.  of  the  Regt.  of  Militia  lately  com- 
manded by  Col.  John  Goffe."  He  was  active  throughout  the 
Revolutionary  war  in  promoting  the  enlistment  of  men,  and  con- 
stantly engaged  in  mustering  and  paying  the  men  enlisted  in  the 
Continental  service.  His  service  is  best  shown  by  orders  to  the 
officers  of  his  regiment.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  sent 
by  him  to  Capt.  Samuel  Philbrick  of  Weare: 

Bedford.  Sept.  ye  16'h  1776. 
State  of         \  To  Capt.  Samuel  Philbrick. 

New  Hampshire  \ 

Persuant  to  A  Resolve  of  ye  Council  &  Assembly  of  said  State,  I  am 
Call1  up«»n  immediately  to  Raise  Eighty  four  men  out  of  my  Regt.  to  be 
ready  to  march  In  ten  Days  to  join  the  army  at  New  York,  therefore  I 
Require  you  forth  with  to  Raise  and  Equip  with  Arms,  Sixteen  men  out  of 
your  Company  and  you  are  to  Call  up  n  the  alarm  List  as  well  as  the  train- 
ing Band,  and  you  are  to  let  them  know  for  their  encouragement  They 
Shall  Receive  Twenty  Dollars  Down  upon  their  passing  Muster,  as  a 
Bounty  given  which  shall  be  afterward  Made  Equal  to  the  Bounty  given 
by  the  Massachusetts  State  in  the  same  service,  therefore  the  Day  Ap- 
pointed for  them  to  pass  Muster  is  Thursday  ye  twenty-sixt  of  this  In- 
stant at  ten  o'clock  at  the  house  of  Robert  McGregor  in  Goffstown— fail 
not  and  make  Due  Return  of  your  Doing. 

Daniel  Moor,  Coll. 


996  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Copy  of  a  letter: 

To  Capt.  Samuel  Philbrick. 
I  am  called  upon  by  the  Supreme  Authority  of  this  State  to  forward  our 
quota  of  men  to  Ticonderoga  without  loss  of  time,  by  Express  of  Gen. 
Schuyler  to  the  Committee  of  Safety  for  this  State.  Therefore  as  you  love 
your  Country,  as  you  are  a  Friend  to  the  Great  the  Glorious  Cause,  The 
Cause  of  Liberty  in  which  we  are  all  embarked,  I  trust  you  will  lose  no 
time  in  keeping  and  forwarding  the  men  Proportioned  to  you  to  raise. 
Therefore  I  desire  you  to  make  me  a  return  of  the  Men's  Names  and  what 
Capt  they  have  enlisted  with,  immediately,  in  ordt  r  that  I  can  make  a  re- 
turn to  the  Committee  of  Safety,  which  I  am  called  on  for.  Given  under 
my  hand  at  Bedford  the  22  Day  of  April  1777.    N.  B.  Fail  not  in  so  Doing. 

Daniel  Moor,  Con. 

In  another  letter  lie  says  to  Capt.  Philbrick: 

The  Enimies  Army  are  moving  in  all  Quarters— for  Heaven's  sake,  for 
your  country's  sake,  and  for  your  own  Sake,  Exert  yourself  in  getting 
your  men  an  i  sending  them  forward  without  a  moment's  loss  of  time. 
Fail  not  in  so  doing. 

Daniel  Moor,  Con. 

Bedford  May  ye  5th  1777. 

Colonel  Moor  marched  with  his  regiment,  1777,  Sept.  29,  from 
Bedford  to  Bennington  and  Saratoga.  On  Oct.  17th  Burgoyne 
surrendered  to  General  Gates  at  Saratoga.  This  victory  proved 
the  turning  point  of  the  whole  war,  as  it  led  France  to  declare  for 
the  American  cause.  Oct.  27th,  Colonel  Moor  returned  with  the 
regiment,  the  Bedford  men  being  in  Capt.  John  Duncan's  com- 
pany. The  original  of  the  following  letter  is  in  the  pension 
bureau  at  Washington,  D.  C: 

Bedford  August  ye  5  Day  1778. 
For  Capt.  Samuel  Moor, 

Sir.  A  Vierorous  Attack  at  this  time  appears  Very  Likely  to  be  pro- 
ductive of  Happy  Consequences  and  of  Immediately  putting  an  end  to  the 
war  on  this  Continent.  Therefore  you  are  hereby  Directed,  forthwith 
without  an  Hour's  Delay  of  time  to  Call  your  Company  together,  Training 
Band  and  Alarm  List  and  use  your  utmost  Endeavors  to  raise  As  Many 
Volunteers  as  Possible  to  mount  their  Horses  and  go  forward  with  all 
Speed  to  providence  in  the  State  of  Rhode  Island  and  put  Theirselves 
under  the  command  of  Gem  Sullivan.    .    .    . 

He  then  closes  with  this  appeal: 

I  pray  for  God's  sake  that  every  officer  and  Man  will  exert  themselves 
for  the  good  of  their  Country,  And  meet  me  at  Amherst  Meeting-house  on 
Sunday  ye  9th  Instant  at  Eight  O'clock  in  the  forenoon. 

Daniel  Moor,  Con. 
To  Capt.  Samuel  Moor  in  Derryfleld,  there  with  care  and  speed. 

(See  War  Rolls  of  the  Revolution  and  N.  H.  town  and  State  Papers  for 
further  records.) 

He  m.,  in  1751,  Ann  Cox  of  Londonderry,  b.  1729.  She  d.  1804, 
Feb.  14.  He  d.  1811,  April  13.  Had  seven  ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford: 
John*,  b.  1752,  Aug.  28;  Daniel3,  b.  1755,  Feb.  20,  was  killed  at  the 
raising  of  a  barn  on  the  Morrill  place,  then  occupied  by  his 
brother-in-law,  John  Morrison,  1776,  July  3;  Elizabeth3,  b.  1757, 
Dec.  15,  m.  John  Morrison  (see  Morrison);  Marys,  b.  1759  (?  ),  Oct. 

26;  Elienor3,  b.   16,   m.   William  Moor,   son  of  Lieut.-Col. 

Robert  Moor  (see  that  family);  Anne?,  b. 3;  William3,  b.  1773, 

Sept.  12. 
III.  John,  son  of  Colonel  Daniel2,  b.  1752,  Aug.  28;  m.  Annis  Wallace, 
b.  Bedford,  1757,  Jan.  5,  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah  (Woodburn) 
Wallace;  res.  in  Bedford.  He  d.  1809,  July  31,  and  his  wife  d. 
1824,  May  31.  Had  ten  ch.:  James*,  b.  1779;  Daniel*,  b.  1780,  Sept. 
12;  Sally*,  b.  1782;  John  W.*,  b.  1783,  Feb.  22;  Ann*,  b.  1785,  June 
12,  m.  Samuel  Barron  of  Merrimack  (see  Barron);  Robert*,  b.  1787, 
July  18;  Jenny4,  b.  1790,  m.  Lieut.  Samuel  Barron  of  Merrimack, 
his  3d  wife,  they  had  a  son,  Moses5,  b.  1824,  June  27,  d.  1856,  at 
Hannibal,  Mo.;  Thomas  W.*,  b.  1792,  April  12;  Abel  Goodrich4,  d. 
Baltimore,  Md.;  William4,  b.  1794,  Sept.  9,  d.  1795,  Aug.  25. 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  997 

IV.  James,  son  of  John3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1779;  m.  Rebecca  Harvey;  set- 
tled in  Bedford,  but  rem.  about  1803  to  Tingwich,  P.  Q.;  farmer. 
His  wife  d.  about  1812.  He  d.  1855,  April.  Ch.:  Louisa  McGregor5, 
b.  in  Bedford,  1804;  Sarah  Sterens5,  b.  Tingwich,  1805;  Annis  Wal- 
lace5, b.  Tingwich,  1808;  John5,  d.  young;  Rebecca6,  d.  aged  27, 
unm. 
V.  Louisa  McGregor,  dau.  of  James4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1803;  m.  1828, 
George  Shaw,  b.  in  Claremont,  N.  H.,  1804,  Nov.  2;  res.  at  Dan- 
ville and  Shipton,  P.  Q.  She  d.  1878,  April  17.  He  d.  1896,  Aug. 
22.     Ch.:  Louisa  Mfi,  George  Aylmer6,  Jairus6,  Esther  C.6 

VI.  Louisa M.    (Shaw),  dau.   of  Louisa  McG.5,  b.   in  Shipton,  P.  Q., 

1830,  March  19;  m.  1852,  Jan.  28,  Isaac  W.  Stockwell,  b.  Derby, 
Vt.,  1821,  Nov.  7.  Ch.:  George  Isaac7,  Charles  Frederick7,  Albert 
Ellsworth7,  Amelia  Melissa7,  Charles  Edward7. 

VI.  George  Aylmer  (Shaw),  son  of  Louisa  McG.5,  b.  Shipton,   P.   Q., 

1831,  Dec.  26;  m.  1853,  July  20,  Elizabeth  A.  Mahaffey,  b.  in  Ship- 
ton,  1832,  May  29;  groceryman;  res.  in  Cherry  Valley,  HI.  Ch.: 
Clarence  T.  A.7,  Ada  Alice7,  Sarah  Malissa7. 

VI.  Jairus  (Shaw),  son  of  Louisa  McG.5,  b.  Shipton,  1834,  Jan.  26;  m. 
1860,  March  1,  Mary  A.  Morrill,  b.  Shipton,  1841,  May  2;  res.  in 
Danville,  P.  Q.  He  d.  1871,  Oct.  2.  She  m.,  2d,  Andrew  Harri- 
man;  and  res.  Kennebunk,  Me.  Ch.,  b.  Danville:  Mary  L.7, 
Frank  A.7,  Ada  C.7,  Arthur7,  Etta  Melissa7,  Ella  Melina7. 

VI.  Esther  C.  (Shaw),  dau.  of  Louisa  McG.5,  b.  Shipton,  1843,  June  6; 
m.  1871,  Aug.  23,  Philander  Hartwell,  b.  Lunenburg,  Vt.,  1841, 
Jan.  4;  farmer;  res.  in  Lunenburg.  Ch.:  Flora  M.7,  Alice  M.7, 
Arthur  P.7,  Albert  C.7,  Ellen  M.7„Celia7,  Mahala7. 
V.  Sarah  Stevens,  dau.  of  James4,  b.  Tingwich,  1805;  m.  Alvah  Leet,  b. 
in  Claremont,  N.  H.,  1801,  May  5;  farmer.  She  d.  1877,  June  28, 
and  he  d.  at  Danville,  P.  Q.,  1880,  Feb.  24.  Ch.:  Timothy6,  Sarah 
Mahala6,  James6,  John6,  Simeon6,  Mary  Annis6,  Hiram6. 
V.  Annis  Wallace,  dau.  of  James4,  b.  Tingwich,  1808,  May  13;  m.  Har- 
vey Hall;  farmer;  res.  in  Shipton,  P.  Q.  She  d.  1850,  Sept.  28. 
He  d.  1897,  July  16.    Ch.:  Simeon6,  James6,  Betsey.6 

IV.  Daniel,  son  of  John3,  b.  Bedford,  1780,  Sept.  12;  m.  1807,  Susannah 

Riddle,  b.  1784,  Jan.  5,  dau.  of  John  and  Mary  (McAfee)  Riddle 
of  Bedford.  He  was  called  "Major";  was  a  farmer;  res.  in  Bedford. 
He  d.  1850,  Oct.  15.  His  widow  d.  1862,  Sept.  3.  Ch.:  Agnes R.5, 
b.  1809,  May  20,  m.  Samuel  S.  Parker  (see  Parker) ;  Robert  R.6, 
b.  1811,  Jan.  1,  m.  Lucy  Goodwin  of  Marlboro,  Mass,  res. 
Manchester,  where  he  d;  1878,  April  23;  William  P.5,  b.  1814,  Aug. 
3;  John  R.5,  b.  1816,  July  13;  Susan  Ann6,  b.  1819,  Oct.  20,  d.  1845, 
Nov.  9,  unm.;  Matthew  R.5,  b.  1824,  July  15. 

V.  William  P.,  son  of  Daniel4,  b.  Bedford,  1814,  Aug.  3;  m.  1840  Betsey 

J.  Richardson  of  Litchfield,  who  d.  1866,  June  22.  He  d.  1845, 
March  2.  Had  one  ch.,  William  N.6 
VI.  William  N.,  son  of  William  P.5,  was  b.  in  Merrimack,  1842,  July  31; 
m.  1870,  Aug.  17,  Fannie  C.  Whitney,  b.  Plymouth,  Mass.;  town 
clerk  of  Litchfield,  1867-'69.  Enlisted  1861,  July  5,  Co.  K,  Four- 
teenth Mass.  Inf.  (became  First  Mass.  heavy  artillery)  for  three 
years;  reenlisted  1863,  Nov.  6,  credited  to  Lawrence,  Mass.; 
wounded  at  battle  of  Strawburg  Plains,  Va.,  1864,  Aug.  15;  dis- 
charged because  of  wounds  1865,  Jan.  6.     Was  general  passenger 

agent  and  auditor  on  Newburg,  D ,  and  Conn.  R.  R.    Res.  at 

Matteawan,  N.  Y.  He  d.  1897,  Sept.  10.  Ch.:  William  E.7,  Fan- 
nie G.7,  Alton  M.7,  Bessie7,  Hattie  Weston.7 
V.  John  R.,  son  of  Daniel4,  b.  Bedford,  1816,  July  13;  m.  Hannah  Gard- 
ner of  Bedford.  He  d.  1859,  April  1.  She  d.  1872,  Jan.  18.  Ch. 
b.  in  Bedford:  Leonard  P.6,  b.  1843,  Dec,  d.  1866,  Feb.  2;  John 
F.6,  b.  1846,  Nov.,  d.  1862,  June  19;  Susan6,  b.  1848,  April  14;  Jen- 
nie6, b.  1852,  May  10,  m.  Eugene  Piersons  of  Manchester. 


998  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

VI.  Susan,  dau.  of  John  R.5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1848,  April  14;  m.  1867,  Dec. 
21,  Albert  T.  Barr  of  Manchester;  a  prominent  Odd  Fellow;  rep- 
resentative 1903.  Ch.:  Leonard  A.7,  b.  1868,  Nov.  26,  d.  1869,  Oct. 
1;  Rena  Estelle7,  b.  1872,  Aug.  16;  Arthur  Chesley7,  b.  1875,  Sept. 

6,  m.  1901,  Oct.  30,  Dorothy  E.  Cray  of  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  res. 
Manchester;  Edna  A.7,  b.  1876,  Sept.  8,  d.  1877,  Feb.  2;  Grace7,  b. 
1878,  May  4,  d.  1879,  April  14. 

V.  Matthew  R.,   son  of  Daniel4,  b.   Bedford,  1824,  July  15;  m.   Mary 

Bass,  b.  Hancock,   1825,   May  5,  who  d.   at  Stoddard,  1900,  May. 

Was  police  officer  for  many  years  at  Cambridge,  Mass.    Res.  at 

Antrim,  N.  H.     Ch.:  William   E.6,   b.    Boston,   Mass.,  1851,  Feb. 

28,  d.  Boston,  1876,  June  3;  George  H.6,  b.  Boston,  1854,  March  9, 

m.  1879  Annie  M.  Fowler,  b.  Jefferson,  Me.,  res.  Somerville,  Mass.; 

Mary  A.e 
VI.  Mary  A.,  dau.   of  Matthew  R.,  b.   at  Somerville,  1857,  July  24;  m. 

1880,  John   E.    A.   Mulliken,   b.  Lexington,  Mass.,  1856,  Sept.  8. 

Res.  Somerville.     Ch. :  William  E.7,  Ethel  C.7 
IV.  Sally,  dau.  of  John3,  b.  1782;  m.  Josiah  or  Freeman  Frink;  lived  in 

Westmoreland  or  Walpole.     Had  three  ch.:  Freeman5,   Josiah6, 

and  Harriet5.     All  trace  of  this  family  is  lost. 
IV.  John  W.,  son  of  John3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1783,  Feb.  22;  m.  1809,  Feb. 

7,  Sarah  Dunlap,  b.  in  Antrim,  1784,  Nov.  16.  They  res.  here. 
His  wife  d.  1824,  March  24.  He  fell  from  a  building  on  which  he 
was  at  work  for  his  brother  Robert,  and  was  killed  1824,  April  24, 
just  one  month  after  the  death  of  his  wife.  Ch.  b.  in  Bedford: 
James5,  b.  1810,  April  29,  d.  at  sea  1834,  Sept.  16;  Horace5,  b.  1812, 
July  15,  d.  1841,  Oct.  8,  unm.;  Mary5,  b.  1814,  Nov.  14,  after  the 
death  of  her  parents  was  brought  up  as  adopted  daughter  of  Col. 
William  Patten,  she  d.  1841,  Jan.  2;  Adam5. 

V.  Adam,  son  of  John4,  b.  1818,  Jan,  5:  went  to  sea  at  an  early  age  and 
enlisted  in  the  navy.  Had  trouble  with  his  superior  officer  and 
deserted.  Enlisted  in  navy  1852,  July  26,  under  the  name  of  Will- 
iam Jones.  Was  appointed  boatswain  on  the  sloop  of  war  Albany, 
which  was  last  spoken  on  the  Pacific  coast  1854,  Sept.  28.  All  on 
board  supposed  to  have  been  lost. 
IV.  Robert,  son  of  John3,  b.  Bedford,  1787,  July  18;  m.  1817  Mary  Bar- 
ron of  Merrimack,  b.  1791,  April  23,  a  sister  of  Samuel  Barron, 
who  m.  Ann  Moor,  sister  of  Robert4.  He  was  a  farmer,  captain 
of  the  old  militia,  overseer  of  the  poor.  His  wife  d.  1847,  Sept.  27. 
He  d.  1858,  Feb.  17.  Ch.  b.  in  Bedford:  Mary  Annis5,  b.  1818,  Jan. 
5,  d.  1883,  June  25,  unm.;  Charles  Humphrey5,  b.  1821,  July  7;  Har- 
riet Augusta6,  b.  1824,  Sept.  3,  d:  1858,  March  24,  unm;  Samuel  Bar- 
ron5, b.  1826,  July  7;  Nancy  Jane5,  b.  1832,  Oct.  28,  d.  1842,  Jan.  8. 

V.  Charles  Humphrey,  son  of  Robert4,  b.  Bedford,  1821,  July  7;  farmer, 
lumberman,  selectman  several  years.  He  m.,  1st,  Mary  J.  Barn- 
ard, b.  1830,  Feb.  27,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Martha  Dunlap  (Riddle) 
Barnard.  Shed.  1866,  May  23.  He  m.,  2d,  Sarah  J.,  b.  1843, 
Jan.  19,  dau.  of  Nathan  and  Elizabeth  (Woolson)  Cutler.  He  d. 
1876,  July  24.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Clarence  E.6,b.  1860,  Feb.  11,  d. 
1861,  April  28;  Mary  A.e,  b.  1862,  July  12,  d.  1864,  Aug.  17;  Mary 
J.6,  b.  1866,  May  9,  teacher,  unm. ;  res.  in  Manchester. 

V.  Samuel  Barron,  son  of  Robert4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1826,  July  7;  m.  1857, 
April  22,  Cynthia  I.  Dickey  of  Deering,  N.  H.  Res.  in  Merri- 
mack, N.  H.,  and  Arlington,  Mass.  He  d.  1886,  Oct.  1.  Ch.: 
Samuel  E.6,  b.  1858,  April  14,  d.  1858,  May  18,  in  Merrimack; 
Robert  Bi/ron6;  Arthur  D.6,  b.  1861,  Dec.  29,  d.  1884,  June  21;  in- 
fant son6,  b.  andd.  1865,  July  11;  Charles,6  b.  1867,  Feb.  10,  d.  1868, 
Nov.  27,  in  Merrimack;  son6,  b.  and  d.  1869,  Nov.  15,  Arlington, 
Mass.;  Mary  C.6,  b.  in  Arlington,  1871,  Aug.  8,  d.  1872,  July  17; 
Albert  P.6 and  Alfred  P.6  (twins),  b.  in  Arlington,  1873,  Oct.  3; 
Albert  P.6,  d.  1874,  March  28,  and  Alfred  P.6,  d.  1874,  Jan.  23. 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOE.  999 

VI.  Robert  Byron,  son  of  Samuel  Barron5,  b.  Merrimack,  1859,  Dec.  2; 
m.  1890,  July  23,  Carrie  F.  Hanson,  b.  South  Acton,  Mass.,  1869, 
Dec.  6;  commission  merchant.  Res.  Arlington,  Mass.  Ch.:  Mil- 
dred7, Lois7,  Pauline  Byron7. 

IV.  Thomas  Wallace,  son  of  John3,  b.  Bedford,  1792,  April  12;  farmer; 
selectman  1844;  representative  in  the  legislature  1853.  He  m. 
1823,  April  22,  Nancy  Cox  Moor,  his  cousin.  She  d.  1869,  Feb.  8, 
aged  65  yrs.,  11  mos.,  19  d.  He  d.  at  Nashua,  1878,  Feb.  16.  Ch. 
b.  Bedford:  William*,  b.  1824,  Oct.  19;  Martha  Jane5,  b.  1830,  Feb. 
21,  d.  1832,  Sept.  11;  Annis  Jane5,  b.  1834,  April  15,  d.  1836,  March 
18;  Thomas  Wallace,  Jr.*,  b.  1837,  Oct.  19;  Margaret  Ann*,  b.  1839, 
Oct.  10;  Olive  Wallace5,  b.  1841,  Nov.  2,  d.  1843,  Aug.  28. 
V.  William,  son  of  Thomas  W.4,  b.  Bedford,  1824,  Oct.  19;  m.  1850, 
Nov.  27,  Caroline  A.  Gage,  b .  Bedford,  1830,  dan.  of  Isaac  and 
Jane  (Patten)  Gage.  He  was  a  farmer,  captain  in  the  old  inilitia, 
lieutenant  in  the  Bedford  light  infantry  (an  independent  company 
in  town  during  the  Civil  war  1861-'66).  He  d.  1882,  Aug.  20. 
V.  Thomas  Wallace,  Jr.,  son  of  Thomas  W.4,  b.  Bedford,  1837,  Oct.  19; 
m.,  1st,  1861,  Feb.  19,  Lura  Smith,  b.  Weare,  N.  H.  She  was 
divorced  1870.  He  m.,  2d,  1880,  May  6,  Ella  C.  Edwards  of  Bos- 
ton, Mass.     He  was  divorced  1901.     Ch.  by  first  mar.:  Clara  Ann6. 

VI.  Clara  Ann,  dan.  of  Thomas  Wallace,  Jr.5,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1866, 
Dec.  27;  went  to  Michigan  with  her  mother;  m.  1885,  Dec.  23, 
Fred  B.  Durette;  farmer.  Res.  Armada, Mich.  Ch.:  Margie  Moor7, 
b.  New  Haven,  Mich.,  1886,  June  6;  Harry  Smith7,  b.  Armada, 
Mich.,  1890,  Aug.  6. 
V.  Margaret  Ann.,  dau.  of  Thomas  W.4,  b.  Bedford,  1839,  Oct.  10;  m. 
1861,  June  27,  Luther  Kittredge,  b.  Merrimack,  1836;  ,a  moulder 
by  trade.  Res.  in  Nashua;  rem.  to  Merrimack  1885,  where  he  is  a 
farmer.     Collector  of  taxes  for  Nashua  1877-'79. 

III.  Mary,  dau.  of  Col.  Daniel2,  b.  Bedford,  1759,  Oct.  26;  m.  about  1782 

James  Shirley,  b.  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  1759.  They  res.  on  Shirlev 
Hill,  Goffstown.  He  d.  1855,  March  31,  aged  96.  Ch.  b.  in  Goffs- 
town:  Nancy4,  b.  1784,  m.  Joshua  Vose  of  Bedford  (see  Vose); 
Jane4,  b.  1786,  Oct.  31,  m.  William  McKinney  (see  McKinney); 
Thomas4,  b.  1789,  d.  1834,  May  13,  unm.,  at  Satassia,  Miss.;  Dan- 
iel M.*,  b.  1791;  James*,  b.  1794,  May  5;  John*,  b.  1797,  Dec.  10  (see 
Shirley  of  Bedford);  Gilman4,  b.  1799,  teacher  at  Cortland,  N.  Y., 
d.  1822,  Aug.  18,  unm.,  at  Gilmanton  academy,  Franklin  Co.,  Ala.; 
William4,  lived  at  Cortland,  N.  Y.;  Robert  i/.4,  b.  1808,  Jan.  5. 

IV.  Daniel  M.  (Shirley),  son  of  Mary3,  b.  in  Goffstown  1791;  m.  Jane, 

dau.  of  Capt.  Robert3  Moor  of  Bristol,  N.  H.;  farmer,  res.  on  the 
homestead  at  Shirley  Hill.  He  d.  1855,  Aug.  23.  Ch.:  Robert  M.5; 
Nancy5,  m.  Gilman  Shirley  of  Bedford  (see  Shirley);  Mary  J.5; 
Joseph5,  Harriet5,  Daniel5,  Horace5. 

IV.  James  (Shirley),  son  of  Mary3,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1794,  May  5;  was 
a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  college;  an  attorney.  He  m.,  1st,  1820, 
Harriet  Walsworth  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  who  d.  1834.  He  m.,  2d, 
1835,  Adeline  Quincy,  of  Boston,  Mass.  Res.  in  Vicksburg,  Miss. 
General  Grant's  entrenchments  ran  through  his  front  yard;  his 
house  was  destroyed  and  he  was  given  possession  of  the  house  of 
a  rebel  by  General  Grant.  After  the  surrender  a  great  many 
claimed  to  have  been  loyal,  and  Gen.  Grant  referred  their  cases  to 
Mr.  Shirley.  The  labor  and  excitement  proved  more  than  he 
could  endure,  and  he  d.  1863,  Aug.  8.  Ch.  of  first  mar:  James, 
Jr.5,  Frederick5,  Robert  Quincy5,  Alice  Eugenie5. 

IV.  Robert  M.  (Shirley),  son  of  Mary3,  b.  Goffstown,  1808,  Jan.  5;  was 
a  seventh  son  of  a  seventh  son,  famous  for  curing  the  king's  evil;  he 
tilled  the  ancestral  acres,  and  engaged  in  buying  hops.  He  m.,  1st, 
Sophia  McCutchen,  b.  in  New  London,  N.  H.,  1805,  April  15,  and 


1000  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

d.  1870,  Dec.  6.  He  m.,  2d,  Lucretia  Houston,  b.  in  Bedford,  1820, 
July  20,  and  d.  1890,  Feb.  18.  He  d.  1889,  Jan.  20.  Oh.,  all  by 
first  mar.,  b.  in  Goffstown:  James  Quincy6,  Mary  Helen5,  Abigail 
Frances5,  Edward  Carlton5. 
V.  James  Quincy,  son  of  Robert  M.4  (Shirley),  was  b.  in  Goffstown, 
1829,  Nov.  14;  m.  Almira  McPherson  of  Bedford,  dau.  of  William 
McD.  McPherson.  He  went  to  California  in  1850,  when  20  years 
of  age,  and  engaged  in  mining  and  stock  raising;  was  successful 
in  the  latter  business  in  California,  Idaho,  Utah,  and  Oregon. 
When  21  years  of  age  he  drove  a  herd  of  cattle  from  Council  Bluffs, 
la.,  to  San  Francisco,  Cal.  Almira,  his  wife,  d.  and  he  m.,  2d,  1887, 
Feb.  11,  Millie  Mayo  Hall,  b.  in  Augusta,  Me.,  1847,  Nov.  14,  and 
now  matron  of  Children's  Home,  Portland,  Ore.     He  d.  1895,  Feb. 

27,  at  Portland,  Ore.,  from  injuries  received  1895,  Jan.  30,  while 
driving  a  pair  of  horses  at  Union,  Ore.,  having  been  thrown  under 
the  horses'  heels  and  his  ribs  crushed  by  the  wheels.  He  was 
moved  300  miles  to  the  hospital  at  Portland. 

III.  Anne,  dau.  of  Col.  Daniel2,  b.  Bedford;  m.  1788,  June  17,  James  Mc- 

Questen  of  Litchfield,  a  farmer.  Had  ch.,  b.  in  Litchfield:  Daniel*; 
William*;  James*;  John*;  Clifton  C.4,  b.  1799,  Feb.  7,  d.  1802;  Jane*; 
Henry*;  Nancy4,  b.  1806,  Sept.  10,  d.  unm.;  Mary  S.4,  b.  1809,  May 

28,  m.  her  cousin,  Daniel4  Moor  (son  of  William3,  son  of  Col. 
Daniel2);  Martha  M.4,  b.  1811,  Oct.  22,  m.  her  cousin,  Joseph4 
Moor  (son  of  William3,  son  of  Col.  Daniel2). 

IV.  Daniel  (McQuesten),  son  of  Anne3,  b.  Litchfield,  1789,  Dec.  8;  farmer 

and  brickmaker;  m.,  1st,  1818,  Dec.  23,  Alice  Bryant,  b.  Leicester, 
Mass.,  1797,  Dec.  15,  and  d.  1846,  Nov.  4.  He  m.,  2d,  1848,  Jan. 
27,  Susan  Craft,  b.  Washington,  Vt.,  1804,  Dec.  3,  and  d.  1870, 
May  21.  He  d.  1872,  Sept.  14.  Ch.,  by  1st  mar.,  b.  Litchfield: 
Charles5;  Tryphena  W.5;  Daniel  M.5;  Nancy5;  Joseph  B.5;  Mary 
A.5;  Daniel5;  James.5    Ch.  of  2d  mar.:  Daniel  Moor.5 

IV.  William  (McQuesten),  son  of  Anne3,  b.  Litchfield,  1792,  Jan.  8;  m. 
Judith  Oakes,  who  d.  at  Rockport,  Mass.  He  d.  in  Alabama. 
They  had  a  son:  William5,  who  d.,  aged  20. 

IV.  James  (McQuesten),  son  of  Anne3,  b.  Litchfield,  1794,  Feb.  28;  was 
a  general  in  the  old  militia,  prominent  and  well  known  in  Man- 
chester. He  m.,  1st,  1817,  Feb.  28,  Betsey  C.  Young,  b.  Man- 
chester, 1797,  Jan.  9,  and  d.  1835,  Oct.  26.  He  m.,  2d,  1836,  Dor- 
cas Wallace,  b.  1792,  and  d.  1874,  April  21.  He  d.  1853,  Aug.  21. 
Ch.,  b.  in  Manchester:  Mary  A.5;  Willliam5;  Jonathan  Young8; 
James5;  Clifton  C.5;  John  Cyrus5;  Jerome  B.5 

IV.  John  (McQuesten),  son  of  Anne3,  b.  in  Litchfield,  1796,  Feb.  14;  m. 
1826,  Dec.  26,  Louisa  Butler,  b.  1809,  June  9;  res.  in  Litchfield, 
then  rem.  to  Wisconsin;  when  gold  was  discovered  in  California 
he  made  several  trips  across  the  plains  with  ox  and  horse  teams; 
served  one  year  in  Civil  war,  in  Company  A,  Forty-first  regiment, 
Wis.  Vols.  His  wife  d.  at  Plattsville,  Wis.,  1859,  Sept.  15.  He 
d.  at  Grandview,  Minn.,  1880,  Oct.  6.  Ch.:  Varnum  B.5;  Clin- 
ton5; John  A.5;  Leroy  Napoleon5;  Mary  Louisa5;  Jerome  B.5;  Orlan 
doC.5 

IV.  Jane  (McQuesten),  dau.  of  Anne3,  b.  in  Litchfield,  1801,  July  16;  m. 
1826,  March  1,  William  Bean,  b.  Sutton,  N.  H,  1800,  Nov.  8,  and 
d.  1859,  Sept.  16.  She  d.  Sanapee,  N.  H,  1893,  May  3.  Ch.  b. 
in  Sutton:  Daniel5;  James  M.5;  Joseph5;  Mary  A.5;  Franklin  P.5; 
Nancy  M.5;  Hannah  J.5;  Martha  Moor.5 

IV.  Henry  (McQuesten),  son  of  Anne3,  b.  Litchfield,  1803,  Aug.  14;  m. 
Elizabeth  Wingate  Chase,  b.  Litchfield,  1801,  Sept.  14;  was  a 
farmer.  He  d.  1867,  Feb.  24.  His  wife  d.  1886,  Nov.  17.  Ch.  b.  in 
Litchfield:  Benjamin5;  William5;  Henry  Wingate5;  James  Frank- 
lin.5 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOS.  1001 

III.  Col.  William,  son  of  Col.  Daniel2,  b.  Bedford,  1773,  Sept.  12;  was 

prominent  in  town  affairs,  and  imbued  with  the  military  spirit  of 
his  father.  In  Aug.,  1812,  as  captain,  he  drilled  his  company 
every  day  for  two  weeks,  expecting  hourly  to  receive  orders  to 
march  to  Portsmouth;  was  promoted  adjutant,  1816,  July  4; 
major,  1817,  and  colonel,  1818,  June  20;  resigned,  1820,  March  9. 
His  regiment  was  the  Ninth,  the  same  commanded  by  his  father 
during  the  Revolution.  Though  a  tavern  keeper  for  many  years, 
he  was  a  total  abstainer  from  alcoholic  drinks;  a  man  of  positive 
convictions,  well  versed  in  public  affairs,  he  secured  the  respect  of 
all.  He  was  selectman,  1816-'19,  1828,  and  1835,  being  a  member 
of  the  board  of  selectmen  that  bought  the  William  Moor,  Elder, 
homestead  for  a  town  farm;  he  was  representative,  1832-'33.  He 
m.,  1st,  1800,  Feb.  11,  Martha  Holmes  of  Londonderry,  his  cous- 
in's dau.  She  d.  1834,  Dec.  25,  aged  53.  He  m.,  2d,  1835,  Susan 
(Bowman)  Wallace,  widow  of  Thomas  Wallace  of  Goffstown,  and 
rem.  to  Goffstown,  where  he  d.  1839,  March  25.  His  widow  d.  in 
Henniker,  1886,  Feb.  14,  aged  90.  Ch.  all  b.  Bedford  by  1st  mar. : 
Daniel*,  b.  1801,  Feb.  23;  Nancy  Cox4,  b.  1803,  Feb.  19,  m.  Thomas 
Moor4,  (son  of  John3,  son  of  Col.  Daniel2) ;  Joseph  Colley*,  b.  1805, 
April  7;  Susanna4,  b.  1806,  Feb.  3,  d.  1807,  April  23;  John  Holmes4, 
b.  1807,  June  15,  d.  1812,  Jan.  23;  Timothy  Fuller*,  b.  1809,  June 
16;  Elizabeth*,  b.  1810,  Dec.  29;  Nathaniel  H*,  b.  1812,  Dec.  24; 
William*,  b.  1815,  Mav  20;  Martha  Jane4,  b.  1817,  d.  1821,  March 
30;  Margaret  Morrison*,  b,  1820,  May  20;  Robert  Cox*,  b.  1823,  Mav 
20;  David  McG.*,  b.  1825,  July  26. 

IV.  Daniel,  son  of  Col.  William3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1801,  Feb.  23;  was  a 

school  teacher,  also  taught  penmanship;  town  clerk,  1835;  select- 
man, 1837-'39;  rem.  to  Merrimack,  1840.  He  m.,  1st,  Mary  S.  Mc- 
Questen,  his  cousin,  who  d.  1840,  Feb.  29.  He  m.,  2d,  1841,  April 
1,  Sarah  Stevens  of  New  Boston.  He  d.  1850,  Aug.  13,  and  his 
widow  d.  at  Boston,  Mass.,  1855,  Jan.  13.  Ch.,  by  1st  mar.,  b.  in 
Bedford:  William  Clinton5,  b.  1829,  Jan.  3,  m.  1854,  March  23, 
Martha  J.  Moor,  his  cousin  (dau.  of  William4,  son  of  Col.  Will- 
iam3), he  d.  1854,  Aug.  16;  James  Clifton5;  Martha  J.5,  b.  1832,  June, 
d.  1834,  Jan.  5;  Daniel  Leroy5;  George  Burnham5;  Joseph  Harrison6. 
Ch.  by  2d  mar.:  Ervin  J.b 
V.  James  Clifton,  son  of  Daniel4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1830,  April  8;  m.  1852, 
Nov.  16,  Mary  A.  Hodgman,  b.  Carlisle,  1831,  Nov.  10,  dau.  of 
George  and  Mary  (Parker)  Hodgman  of  Bedford;  was  a  brick 
maker;  rem.  to  Scranton,  Pa.,  1860.  Enlisted  in  Fifth  N.  Y. 
heavy  artillery,  was  taken  prisoner  at  battle  of  Cedar  Creek,  Va., 
1864,  Oct.  19,  and  confined  in  Libby  prison,  Richmond,  where  he  d. 
1864,  Dec.  25.  Ch.:  Mary  E.6;  George  Leroy6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1858, 
Jan.  16,  d.  1863,  Nov.  7;  Sadie  /.6,  b.  Scranton,  Pa.,  1861,  June  30. 
Mrs.  Mary  A.  (Hodgman)  Moor  m.,  2d,  William  U.  Gage,  and 
had  a  dau.:  Ida  A.,  b.  1875,  July  30  (see  Gage) . 

VI.  Mary  E.,  dau.  of  James  Clifton6,  b.  1853,  Oct.  9;  m.  1872,  Oct.  24, 
George  A.  Powers,  b.  in  Milford,  1848,  June  28.  They  have  one 
son:  Fred  Elmer7,  b.  1881,  Nov.  21. 

VI.  Sadie  J.,  dau.  of  James  Clifton5,  b.  1861,  June  30;  m.  1893,  Nov.  1, 
Alonzo  W.  Howard,  b.  Lyndeborough,  1853,  June  28,  and  res.  in 
Milford.  Ch.:  Clarence  Wells7,  b.  1895,  Feb.  4;  Helen  Moor7,  b. 
1898,  Jan.  31. 
V.  Daniel  Leroy,  son  of  Daniel4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1834,  Nov.  27;  m.  1855, 
Dec.  18,  Sarah  F.  Chadwick,  b.  Francestown,  1838,  Aug.  11;  res. 
at  Nashua,  Wheeling,  Va.,  and  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  was  leader 
of  a  band  in  the  Civil  war;  kept  hotel  at  Cleveland,  where  he  d. 
1898,  April  8.  His  wife  d.  1872,  March  2.  Ch.:  Helen  L.6,  d. 
young;  Walter  L.B,  b.  1866,  Dec.  12;  Mildred6,  b.  1868,  Nov.  7,  m., 


1002  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

1st,  1885,  Sept.  25,  Robert  Pocock  of  Wooster,  Ohio,  m.,  2d,  Mr. 
Austin,  and  res.  in  Cleveland;  Alton  Clifton6,  b.  1870,  Aug.  1,  res. 
in  Cleveland. 
V.  George  Burnham,  son  of  Daniel4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1837,  Nov.  29; 
enlisted  for  three  months  when  President  Lincoln  called  for 
75,000  volunteers  to  put  down  the  great  Rebellion;  was  one  of  the 
"  First  Defenders  of  Washington  "  ;  was  discharged,  and  returned 
to  Bedford;  enlisted,  1861,  Sept.  16,  for  three  years;  was  appointed 
corporal;  discharged  for  disability,  1863,  Feb.  23,  and  returned  to 
Bedford;  enlisted,  1864,  Feb.  10,  in  N.  H.  Vol.  cavalry;  was  cap- 
tured at  Lacy's  Springs,  Va.,  1864,  Dec.  21,  and  confined  in  Libby 
prison,  where  he  met  his  brother,  James  C,  a  few  days  before  he 
d.  He  was  paroled  and  discharged,  1865,  June  2,  at  Baltimore, 
Md.  He  d.  1886,  March  7,  at  Vassalboro,  Me.,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Soldiers'  Home. 
V.  Joseph  Harrison,  son  of  Daniel4,  b.  Bedford,  1840,  Feb.  4;  enlisted, 
1st,  1861,  Sept.  9,  and  served  in  the  Civil  war  for  two  enlistments 
of  three  years  each;  was  slightly  wounded.  He  m.  1875,  July  15, 
Georgia  Ansell  of  Manchester,  where  they  res.;  he  is  a  locomo- 
tive engineer.  They  adopted  about  1880,  Harry  J.  Mansur,  b. 
Bradford,  Mass.,  1880,  July  15. 
V.  Ervin  Jay,  son  of  Daniel4,  was  b.  in  Merrimack,  1844,  Nov.  24; 
enlisted,  1864,  March  30,  in  Troop  C,  First  regiment,  N.  H.  cav- 
alry, credited  to  Weare;  was  wounded  in  Gen.  Wilson's  raid, 
1864,  June  30;  taken  prisoner,  1864,  July  15,  at  Prince  George's 
Court  House,  Va. ;  on  his  way  to  Libby  prison  he  escaped  and 
rejoined  his  regiment;  was  wounded  at  Shepardstown,  Va.,  1864, 
July  25,  and  dismissed  at  Concord,  1865,  July  15.  He  m.  1872, 
March  28,  Lydia  A.  Quimby  of  Concord.  Ch.:  Frank  E.6;  Wal- 
ter H.6;  Sarah  Florence.6 

IV.  Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  son  of  Col.  William3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1805,  April 
7;  m.  1832,  June  12,  Martha  McQuesten,  his  cousin,  and  res.  in 
Bedford,  Merrimack,  and  Goffstown.  He  was  captain  in  the  old 
militia;  collector  of  taxes  in  Bedford.  Martha,  his  wife,  d.  in 
Goffstown,  1887,  April  30,  and  he  d.  in  "Weare  while  on  a  visit, 
1887,  Nov.  21.  Had  ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford:  Mary  Shirley5;  Susan 
Jane5  and  Martha  Ann5  (twins),  b.  1835,  Aug.  22,  Susan  Jane  d. 
young;  Abel  F.5;  David  Rollins.5 
V.  Mary  Shirley,  dau.  of  Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1833, 
Dec.  16;  m.  1851,  May  10,  Ziba  A.  Hoit  of  Goffstown,  b.  1825, 
June  7,  who  was  engaged  in  lumber  business  for  some  years,  and 
represented  the  town  of  Weare  in  the  legislature,  1862-'63;  now 
res.  in  Goffstown.  Ch.:  Martha  A.6;  Ella  J.6,  b.  in  Weare,  1857, 
Aug.  24,  m.  1877,  Aug.  29,  Charles  S.  Parker  of  Goffstown,  and  d. 
1878,  Feb.  3;  Frank  A.6;  Belle  M.e;  Addie  L.6,  b.  Goffstown,  1872, 
April  16,  d.  1888,  Jan.  10. 

VI.  Martha  A.  (Hoit),  dau.  of  Mary  Shirley5,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1853, 
Aug.  13;  m.  1871,  April  10,  C.  Ed.  Gove,  b.  Weare,  1844,  Jan.  7;  a 
farmer  and  lumberman;  res.  in  Riverdale,  N.  H.  Ch.:  Charles 
A.7;  Carrie  E.7 

VI.  Frank  A.  (Hoit),  son  of  Mary  Shirley5,  was  b.  in  Weare,  1862,  Jan. 
9;  is  a  graduate  of  Bellevue  Medical  college,  N.  Y.;  was  city  phy- 
sician of  Manchester,  1886;  returned  to  New  York,  thence  to  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  d.  1894,  Aug.  23. 

VI.  Belle  M.  (Hoit),  dau.  of  Mary  Shirley5,  was  b.  in  Weare,  1867,  Sept.  4; 
m.  1890,  June  4,  George  F.  Bartlett,  b.  in  Weare;  res.  in  Goffs- 
town. Ch.:  Celia  Hoit7;  Sherman  A.7;  Mary  Ella.7 
V.  Martha  Ann,  dau.  of  Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  b.  in  Bedford,  1835,  Aug. 
22;  m.  1861,  June  29,  Nathan  F.  Hunkins,  b.  Sandown,  N.  H., 
1827,  July  9.     He  d.  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1889,  Feb.  21;  his  wife  still 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  1003 

res.  there.  Their  ch.:  Mary  Ella6,  b.  in  Plaistow,  N.  H.,  1865, 
April  29,  m.  1890,  June  4,  at  Goffstown,  Fred  Rumney  (?)  Moor,  b. 
1865,  and  d.  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1899,  Feb.  18.  She  res.  in  Hav- 
erhill. 

V.  Abel  F.,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  b.  in  Bedford,  1837,  June  12; 
was  roadmaster  of  Concord  R.  R.  several  years;  went  to  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  1877,  returned  to  Goffstown,  and  d.  there,  1896,  Sept.  18. 
He  in.  1861,  Aug.  4,  Eliza  A.  Simons,  b.  in  Weare,  1844,  Feb.  27. 
Ch.:  Marietta6;  Lena  May6,  b.  1868,  Aug.  2,  d.  1871,  March  30; 
Helen  Frank6,  b.  Concord,  1872,  Oct.  30,  m.  1893,  Sept.  2,  John 
W.  Sargent,  b.  Dunbarton,  1867,  Sept.  6,  and  res  in  Goffstown. 

V.  David  Rollins,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  Colley,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1843, 
Feb.  4;  enlisted  from  Weare,  1861,  in  Civil  war,  Company  E, 
Fourth  N.  H.  Vols.;  reenlisted  1864,  Jan.;  was  severely  wounded. 
Notary  public,  and  res.  in  Amherst,  N.  H.  He  m.  1880, 
Oct.  16,  Boston,  Mass.,  Margaret  Heskett.  Ch.:  Joseph  H.6,  b. 
in  Goffstown,  1883,  April  19;  Martha  A.6,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1884, 
Aug.  31;  infant  son,6,  b.  and  d.  1886,  Feb.  16;  Jennie  F.6,  b.  1887, 
Sept.  16;  Carrie  B.6,  b.  1891,  Feb.  4,  in  New  Boston;  Emma  L.6, 
b.  in  Amherst,  1894,  June  1. 
IV.  Timothy  Fuller,  son  of  Col.  Williams,  b.  in  Bedford,  1809,  June  16; 
m.  1838,  Jan.  9,  Clarissa  E.  Emery,  b.  Newbury,  N.  H.,  1806,  Oct. 
14.  Lived  in  town  except  about  four  years  in  Merrimack.  Cap- 
tain of  Bedford  highlanders  in  old  militia;  brick  maker  and 
farmer.  She  d.  1885,  Oct.  14,  at  Cambridge,  Mass.  He  d.  at 
Bedford,  1889,  Jan.  28.  Ch.  all  b.  here:  William  Wilson5;  Sarah 
JJ>;  Charlotte  Ann5;  Philip  Quincy5,  b.  1844,  Sept.  6,  d.  1846,  July 
4;  Amos  Harvey5,  b.  1846,  April  6,  d.  1848,  June  15. 

V.  William  Wilson,  son  of  Timothy  Fuller4,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1839, 
June  17;  m.  at  Groton,  Mass.,  1874,  Jan.  1,  Sophia  H.  Babcock,  b. 
at  Wilmot,  N.  H.,  1851,  May  1;  farmer  and  superintendent  of  a 
large  brick  making  plant  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  twelve  years,  also  one 
year  for  the  Oxford  Iron  Co.,  at  Oxford,  N.  J.  Is  genealogist  of 
this  Moor  family,  having  the  names  of  5,000  descendants  of  John 
and  Jenet  Moor.  He  res.  at  Concord.  •  Had  one  ch.,  Marion6,  b. 
1875,  April  10,  at  Concord,  and  d.  at  Bedford,  1888,  Dec.  1. 

V.  Sarah  J.,  dau.  of  Timothy  Fuller4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1841,  May  22;  m. 
at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  1873,  Feb.  17,  Charles  H.  Wheeler,  b.  1839, 
Nov.  He  was  a  salesman;  d.  1901,  Oct.  28.  Sarah,  his  wife,  res. 
at  West  Somerville,  Mass.  Ch.,  b.  Cambridge:  Charles  Perley6, 
b.  1874,  July  17,  m.  1902,  Nov.  26,  Cora  Alice  Maynard  of  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  res.  there;  Carrie  N.  G.6 
VI.  Carrie  N.  G.  (Wheeler),  dau.  of  Sarah  J.5,  b.  in  Cambridge,  1876, 
March  18;  m.  1897,  Oct.  16,  George  A.  Getchell,  a  salesman;  res. 
in  West  Somerville.  They  have  Harold  Alfred7,  b.  in  Cambridge, 
1898,  Oct.  16. 

V.  Charlotte  Ann,  dau.  of  Timothy  Fuller,  b.  in  Bedford,  1842,  Oct.  13; 
m.  1873,  Aug.  12,  Edward  E.  Priest,  b.  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  1836; 
is  an  engineer.  They  res.  in  Cambridge.  Had  one  ch.,  Clarissa 
A.  if.6 
VI.  Clarissa  A.  M.  (Priest),  dau.  of  Charlotte  Ann5,  b.  1874,  Nov.  23;  m. 
1892,  Nov.  23.  Everett  P.  Ireland  of  Corinna,  Me.,  where  they 
res.  They  have  Lucy  Ann7,  b.  in  Corinna,  1894,  July  2. 
IV.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Col.  William8,  b.  Bedford,  1810,  Dec.  29;  m.  1831, 
Sept.  27,  Lancy  Weston,  b.  in  Antrim,  1800,  Nov.  11.  Res. 
Antrim  till  1846,  when  they  came  to  Bedford.  Was  superinten- 
dent of  poor  farm  two  years;  went  to  Michigan  1850;  farmer.  He 
d.  at  Mt.  Clemens,  Mich.,  1877,  Dec.  9.  She  res.  at  Richmond, 
Mich.  Ch.  all  b.  in  Antrim:  Nathaniel  H5,  Leonard  C.5,  b.  1834, 
Dec.   13,   d.   1839,  Oct.  14;  Clinton  Harrison5;  Clark  W.5,  b.  1842, 


1004  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

Dec.  8,  enlisted  in  Company  I,  Ninth  Regt.,  Mich.  Vols,  d.  at 
West  Point,  Ky.,  1861,  Dec.  4;  George  W.5 

V.  Nathaniel  H.  (Weston),  son  of  Elizabeth4,  b.  Antrim,  1833,  July  21; 
m.,  1st,  1859,  Dec.  29,  at  Weare,  Hannah  Hoit,  b.  1882,  Dec.  6,  and 
d.  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  1862,  June  30.  He  m.,  2d,  1871,  Lura 
(Smith)  Moor  (divorced  wife  of  Thomas  W.  Moor).  She  d.  Rich- 
mond, Mich.,  1889,  March  19.  He  became  deranged  and  took 
laudanum  from  which  he  d.  1893,  April  4.  Ch.  of  1st  mar., 
Willie  Holmes6. 

Y.  Clinton  Harrison  (Weston),  son  of  Elizabeth4,  b.  Antrim,  1839,  Dec. 
7;  m.  1872,  May  4,  Mattie  A.  Ketchem  (are  divorced).  He  is  a 
manufacturer  of  saw  tools;  res.  La  Crosse,  Wis.  Ch.:  Fred6  and 
Frank6  (twins),  b.  Detroit,  1874,  Feb.  10. 

Y.  George  W.  (Weston),  son  of  Elizabeth4,  b.  Antrim,  1846,  Aug.  7; 
m.,  1st,  1875,  Dec.  29,  Jennie  Bowman,  b.  Chesterfield,  Mich., 
1849,  Oct.  31,  and  d.  1897,  April  7.  He  m.,  2d,  1900,  March  13, 
Mrs.  Cornelia  (Merrill)  Freer,  b.  Detroit,  1849,  May  12.  He 
is  sash,  door,  and  blind  manufacturer  and  lumber  dealer;  res. 
Richmond,  Mich.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Charles  C.6;  Winfred  I.6; 
Clinton  C.6 
IY.  Nathaniel  H.,  son  of  Col.  William3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1812,  Dec.  24; 
res.  in  Bedford;  farmer  and  butcher;  rem.  to  Cambridge,  Mass.; 
in  baking  and  hotel  business;  returned  to  Manchester,  N.  H., 
where  he  d.  1880,  Nov.  25.  He  m.,  1st,  1837,  May  9,  at  Bed- 
ford, Jane  Smith,  who  d.  at  Cambridge,  1847,  Jan.  6;  no  ch.  He 
m.,  2d,  1852,  July  28,  Susan  E.  Spencer,  b.  in  Cambridge,  1827, 
Nov.  13.  She  d.  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  1899,  July  16.  They  had 
five  ch.,  b.  at  Cambridge:  Lizzie  S.5,  b.  1853,  June  29,  d.  1863, 
Dec.  6;  Henry  W.  jET.5;  Adelaide  F.5,  b.  1860,  Sept.  9,  d.  1862, 
March  28;  Ida  Weston5  (a  twin),  b.  1863,  March  6;  m.  1887,  June 
15,  Alpheus  Gray  of  Dover,  an  overseer  in  the  mill,  res.  Man- 

Y.  Henry  W.  H.,  son  of'  Nathaniel  H.4,  b.  Cambridge,  1856,  Feb.  23; 
m.  1884,  July  9,  Jemima  Stewart.  He  is  a  painter,  and  res.  in 
Manchester.    Ch.:  Elizabeth  Marion6;  Walter  A.6;  Lillian  S.6 

Y.  Ada  White,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  H.4,  and.  twin  to  Ida  Weston6,  was 
b.  Cambridge,  1863,  March  6,  and  m.  1888,  Jan.  10,  William  T. 
Brent,  a  tinsmith;  res.  in  Manchester.  Ch.:  Fred  Spencer8; 
Percy  Gray6;  Arthur  Thompson6;  Charles  Nathaniel6;  Frank 
Samuel6;  George  Herbert6;  Ernest  Ray6. 
IY.  William,  son  of  Col.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1815  May  20;  m.  1836, 
Aug.,  Mary  A.  Kendall,  b.  1814,  May  23.  They  res.  in  Hooksett, 
but  returned  to  the  homestead  in  Bedford  where  he  manufac- 
tured brick.  In  1853  he  had  the  contract  for  2,500,000  brick  for 
the  extension  of  the  state  house  in  Boston,  considered  a  large 
contract  in  those  days;  selectman  in  1849.  He  d.  1880,  Oct.  20. 
His  widow  d.  1892,  Jan.  15.  Ch.,  b.  here:  Martha  J.5,  b.  1836, 
July  1,  m.,  1st,  William  C.  Moor  (son  of  Daniel4,  son  of  Col.  Will- 
iam3). She  m.,  2d,  Aaron  Q.  Gage  (see  Moor  and  Gage);  Eliza- 
beth M.6,  b.  1839,  March  14,  d.  1841,  Dec.  20;  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth5, b.  1849,  Dec.  9,  m.  1873,  Dec.  24,  George  F.  Barnard  (see 
Barnard) ;  Estella  M.5 

V.  Estella  M.,  dau.  of  William4,  b.  1854,  Dec.  15;  m.  1875,  Dec.  24, 
John  W.  Hoit  of  Goffstown,  where  they  res.  He  is  farmer  and 
lumberman.  They  have  Ralph  Henry6,  b.  1888,  June  26. 
IV.  Margaret  Morrison,  dau.  of  Col.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1820,  May 
20;  m.,  1st,  1842,  Dec.  29,  Ephraim  White,  b.  Londonderry,  1803, 
a  manufacturer  of  brick  in  Bedford  and  Plaistow,  where  he  d. 
1854,  April  12.  She  m.,  2d,  1865,  May  2,  Gamaliel  Gleason  of 
Andover,  Mass.,  who  d.  1879,  March  24.  She  d.  1890,  Dec.  21.  Ch. 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  1005 

by  1st  mar.:  Moores  Ephraim5;  George  G.5,  b.  Plaistow,  1849, 
March,  d.  1851,  Jan.  5;  Mary  Ella5,  b.  Plaistow,  1854,  Feb.  6,  d. 
1862,  July  5,  at  Cambridge,  Mass. 

V.  Moores  Ephraim  (White),  son  of  Margaret  Morrison4,  was  b.  Bed- 
ford, 1845,  Oct.  26;  enlisted  1864,  March  30  (credited  to  Weare), 
in  Company  B,  First  N.  H.  Cav.  Appointed  sergeant;  was  mus- 
tered out  at  close  of  war,  1865,  July  15.  Was  a  mason  and  builder 
at  Andover,  Mass.,  where  he  m.  1893,  July  3,  Katie  C.  Brown,  b. 
Boston,  Mass.,  1850,  May  18.  He  d.  at  Andover,  1899,  Jan.  11. 
She  still  res.  there. 
IV.  Robert  Cox,  son  of  Col.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1823,  May  20;  m. 
1845,  Nov.  20,  Jane  Sweetzer  of  Hooksett,  b.  1825,  Sept.  25;  res. 
in  Merrimack,  Bedford,  Plaistow,  and  rem.  to  Scranton,  Pa., 
1851;  brick  manufacturer;  d.  at  Scranton,  1890,  Aug.  25.  She 
d.  1887,  Sept.  21.  Ch.:  Georgiana5;  Joseph  A.5;  Edward  A.6,  b. 
1855,  Jan.  10,  d.  1855,  March  20;  Harry  G.5,  b.  1869,  Jan.  20,  d. 
1869,  June  15;  Jennie5;  Ruth5. 

V.  Georgiana,  dan.  of  Robert  Cox4,  was  b.  Plaistow,  1850,  July  28,  and 
m.  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  1871,  July  4,  Levi  S.  Hackett,  b.  Bedford, 
1839,  Jan.  9.  He  is  a  brick  maker;  res.  in  Scranton,  Pa.  He  en- 
listed 1862,  Jan.  30,  in  Fifty-second  Regt.,  Penn.  Vols,  in 
Civil  war.     Ch.:  Burton  C.6;  Frank  D.6 

V.  Joseph  A.,  son  of  Robert  Cox4,  b.  in  Scranton,  1852,  Dec.  28;  m. 
1876,  July  5,  Josephine  A.  Snow.  Dealer  in  beef  and  pork;  res. 
at  Scranton.     Ch.:  Jessie  M.6;  Harrv  B.6;  Hattie  Irene6. 

V.  Jennie  Ruth,  dan.  of  Robert  Cox4,  b."  1870,  Feb.  21;  m.  1888,  Nov., 
Louis  A.  Shipman.  Had  two  ch.:  Infant  son6,  b.  and  d.;  son6, 
b.  1895. 
IV.  David  McGregor,  son  of  Col.  William3,  b.  Bedford,  1825,  July  26; 
m.  1851,  Aug.  9,  Charlotte  A.  Quested,  b.  Amesbury,  Mass.,  1833, 
Feb.  2,  and  d.  at  Penacook,  1894,  Nov.  3.  He  d.  there  1897, 
March  23.  Ch.:  Edward  S.5;  Frank  E.6,  b.  1855,  Aug.  18,  d.  Bed- 
ford, 1856,  Sept.  27;  Marion  E5;  Ella  Gertrude5;  Elmer  A.5,  b. 
Manchester,  1863,  Sept.  5,  d.  1865,  July  19;  Martha  A.8,  b.  Man- 
chester, 1865,  Nov.  10;  m.  1900,  July  2,  Charles  Benoit,  b.  East 
Douglas,  Mass,  1859,  March  1,  res.  Penacook;  Bertha  Isabella5,  b. 
Manchester,  1873,  Aug.  26,  d.  at  Penacook,  1898,  May  24. 

V.  Edward  S.,  son  of  David  McG.4,  was  b.  Bedford,  1853,  Dec.  2;  he 
m.,  1st,  1874,  Sept.  15,  Lovina  Clark  of  Lawrence,  Mass.;  were 
divorced.  He  m.,  2d,  1898,  Feb.  22,  Mrs.  Mabel  Adams.  He  d. 
1900,  March  30. 

V.  Marion  E.,  dau.  of  David  McG.4,  was  b.  Bedford,  1857,  Aug.  3,  and 
m.  1880,  March  13,  George  H.  Chandler;  res.  Penacook.  Ch.: 
Jennie  Maud6,  b.  Manchester,  1884,  Nov.  24,  m.  1901,  July  27, 
Arthur  W.  Dunham,  b.  Canaan,  N.  H.,  1881,  May,  res.  Penacook; 
Guy  William6,  b.  Penacook,  1893,  April  10;  Earl  Moor6,  b.  Pena- 
cook, 1896,  March  23,  d.  1897,  March  26. 

V.  Ella  Gertrude,  dau.  of  David  McG.4,  was  b.  Bedford,  1859,  Sept. 
14;  m.  1886,  Nov.  4,  Osgar  Brown  of  Lawrence,  Mass.,  who  d. 
1891,  March  25.  She  res.  at  Penacook.  Ch.:  Ernest  Osgar6,  b. 
Lawrence,  1887,  July  21;  Elmer  Roy6,  b.  Lawrence,  1889,  Aug.  21. 

LIEUT.  JOHN  MOOR. 

I.  Lieut.  John  Moor,  b.  about  1705,  place  of  birth  and  parentage  not 
known,  was  of  a  race  entirely  distinct  from  the  early  settlers  of 
this  town,  who  bore  the  same  name.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen 
in  the  affairs  of  this  town;  selectman,  1755;  1761  and  1773  modera- 
tor. Signed  the  Association  Test,  1776.  He  was  undoubtedly  the 
.    John  Moor,  ensign  in  Capt.  Richard  Emery's  company,Col.  Nathan- 


1006  HISTORY    OF  BEDFORD. 

iel  Meserve's  regiment,  in  the  Crown  Point  expedition,  March  7  to 
Nov.  5,  1757.  In  Council  and  House,  New  Hampshire  Province, 
April  18  to  25,  1758,  "Ensign  John  Moor  allowed  36£  14s  for 
losses  at  Fort  William  Henry."  In  Col.  John  Goffe's  regiment, 
raised  for  the  expedition  for  the  invasion  of  Canada,  John  Moor 
was  first  lieutenant  in  Capt.  Nehemiah  Lovewell's  company  from 
March  18  to  Dec.  8,  1760.  Vallentine  Sullivan  of  this  town  was  a 
soldier  in  his  company.  He  came  here  before  1742,  settled  on  a 
farm  on  the  River  road  near  where  John  K.  McQuesten  lives,  on 
the  place  lately  owned  by  Ephraim  and  James  Harvill,  now  in 
Manchester,  since  1853,  June.  He  was  m.  in  Boston,  Mass.,  1732, 
Oct.  26,  by  Rev.  John  Moorhead,  to  Margaret  Jack.     He  d.  1779, 

Sept.  25,  "in  the  74th  year  of  his  age."   Margaret,  his  wife,  d. . 

Thev  had  eight  ch.:  John,  Jr.2,b.  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1734,  June;  Jennet2, 
b.  Boston,  1736,  Jan.  2,  d.  Bedford,  1778,  June  14,  in  43d  year; 
James2,  b.  Chelsea,  1739,  July  29;  Daniel,2,  b.  Bedford,  1742,  March 
2;  David2,  b.  Bedford,  1745,  Nov.  24;  Mary2,  b.  Bedford,  1748,  Feb. 
4;  William2,  b.  Bedford,  1752,  April  16. 
II.  John,  Jr.,  son  of  Lieut.  John1,  b.  Chelsea,  1734,  June;  m.  about  1760, 
Mary  McKean,  b.  Boston,  1740,  Sept.  He  was  a  soldier  in  Capt. 
Richard  Emery's  Co.,  1757,  March  7.  Taken  prisoner  at  Fort 
William  Henry.  There  were  two  John  Moor,  Jvs.,  here  in  June, 
1776;  which  one  of  the  two  signed  the  Association  Test  I  am 
unable  to  determine.  The  story  of  his  being  a  prisoner  is  best 
told  in  his  petition  to  Governor  Wentworth,  Nov.  20,  1759,  for 
relief: 

To  His  Excellency  Benning  Wentworth,  Esq  Captain  General,  Governor  & 
Commander  in  Chief  in  &  over  his  Majesty s  Province  of  New  Hampshire. 
The  Honorable  his  Majestys  Council  &  House  of  Representatives  in  Gen- 
eral Assembly  Conven>  d. 

The  Humble  Petition  of  John  Moor.  Junr  of  Bedford  in  the  Province  afore- 
said Humbly  Shewn—  Thar  he  Inlisted  a  S  ddier  in  Captain  Richard 
Emery's  Compy.  the  Eighth  of  March  A.  D.  1757.  Was  Taken  Captive,  at 
Fort  William  Henry,  from  there  Carried  to  Montreal,  from  there  to  Que- 
beck,  there  Lay  Seven  Weeks  of  the  Small-p«>x.  from  thence  sent  to  Old 
France.  There  Confined  in  the  Goal  &  Hospital,  Ten  Months  from  there 
Sent  to  Old  England,  from  thence  Transported  to  New  York,— Before  I  got 
on  Shore  pressed  on  board  a  man  of  war,  from  thence  to  Cape  Britain  from 
there  to  Quebeck.  from  there  To  Boston,  &  the  first  Day  of  ovr  1759, 
Had  Liberty  (as  a  sick  man)  to  return  home,  from  the  time  I  was  taken 
Captive  until  this  Day,  I  hnve  not  received  one  peny  from  King  or  Gmtry, 
&  Lost  -sundry  Things  by  the  Knemy  as  will  appear  by  the  annexed  ace  & 
Suffered  too  many  hardships  to  be  Here  enumerated—  For  all  which, 
Time,  Loss  &  Suffering,  Your  Petitioner  Prays  Such  recompense  as  in  your 
great  wisdom  &  Usual  Clemency  you  think  Sufficient,  &  your  Petitioner,  as 
in  Duty  bound  will  ever  pray 

John  Moor 

Novr  20th  A.  D.  1759 

Taken  from  me  by  the  enemy  at  Fort  William  Henry— a  Good  Gun— Good 
Coat,  a  Westcoat,  a  Good  Shirt  &  Breches,  Shoes  &  Stockings,  a  Hatt— 

John  Moor 

Sworn  to  before  Mathew  Thornton  Justice  of  Peace 

(In  council,  January  10,1760,  read,  and  sent  down  to  the  assembly.  In  H.  of 
Rep.  next  day  voted  to  allow  John  Moor  £  127— 10.  new  tenor  in  full  for  this 
petition.  Council  concurred,  and  Governor  Wentworth  "consented  "  to  it. 
—Vol.  xi,  page  178,  N.  H.  Town  Papers.) 

He  d.  1811,  Aug.  7,  "in  his  78th  year."  His  wifed. .  Ch.:  Will- 
iams, b.  1762,  Nov.  13;  Margaret*,  b.  1763,  Sept.  6;  Rachel3,  b.  1765, 
Sept.  20;  Elizabeth3,  b.  1767,  May  26,  m.  John  Burns  (see  Burns); 
Robert3,  b.  1769,  May  6;  Marv3,  b.  1771,  Sept.  27;  Letitia3,  b.  1774, 
June  20;  Anna3,  b.  1776,  Nov.  30;  Jennv3,  b.  1780,  June  5,  d. 
here  1863,  unm.;  John3,  b.  17??,  Oct.  16. 
III.  Margaret,  dau.  of  John,  Jr  2,  b.  1763,  Sept.  6:  m.,  1st,  about  1788, 
William  Holmes,  b.  1760,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (McCanley) 
Holmes.    They  lived  in  Duubarton;  in  1788  rem.  to  Antrim,  where 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR.  1007 

he  d.  1798,  aged  38.  She  m.,  2d,  1801,  Jan.  1,  William  Coombs,  b. 
Merrimack,  1758,  April  18.  (For  their  descendants  see  History 
of  Antrim.) 
III.  Letitia,  dau.  of  John,  Jr.2,  b.  1774,  June  20;  m.  John  Parker  and  lived 
in  "Manchester.  Had  four  ch.:  Mary  Ann4,  Susan4,  Franklin4, 
William4. 

II.  James,  sou  of  Lieut.  John1,  b.  Chelsea,  1739,  July  29;  may  have  been 
the  James  Moor  who  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776.  There 
was  another  James  Moor  here  old  enough  to  have  signed  it. 

II.  Daniel,  son  of  Lieut.  John1,  b.  Bedford,  1742,  March  2.  There  were 
two  Daniel  Moors  in  town  1776,  June.  One  of  them  signed  the 
Association  Test.     Which  ? 

II.  David,  son  of  Lieut.  John1,  b.  Bedford,  1745,  Nov.  24;  signed  Asso- 
ciation Test,  1776.    His  wife's  name  was  Jennette ,  by  whom 

he  had  Isabel3,  b.  1773,  Nov.  11;  John3,  b.  1775,  Dec.  23;  Mar- 
garet3, b.  1778,  March  3. 

II.  William,  son  of  Lieut.  John1,  b.  1752,  April  16;  lived  here  until  1780 
or  later.  Undoubtedly  he  was  one  of  the  two  William  Moors  who 
signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776.  By  his  wife,  Martha,  had  ch.: 
Daniel3,  b.  1775,  Dec.  7;  Mary3,  b.  1777,  Dec.  20,  d.  1778,  Sept.  25; 
Jenny3,  b.  1779,  July  14. 

MOOR. 

I.  Samuel  Moor,  his  parentage  unknown;  m.  1776,  Feb.  23,  Mary 
Cochran,  dau.  of  Joseph  Cochran  of  this  town.  He  owned  the 
mills  on  the  Piscataquog  river,  in  this  town,  now  Manchester,  in 
1779.  He  signed  a  petition  with  others,  1769,  April  12,  thanking 
Gov.  John  Wentworth  for  his  wise  and  prudent  measures  in 
dividing  the  state  into  counties.  The  date  of  his  or  his  wife's 
death  is  unknown.  They  had  ten  children,  b.  in  town:  Joseph2, 
b.  1776,  Nov.  3;  Samuel2  and  Mary2  (twins),   b.    1778,   Sept.    15; 

Agnes  Nancy2,  b.  1780,  Aug.  3,  m.  Anderson,  res.   Concord; 

Margaret*,  b.  1782,  Sept.  10;  Andrew*,  b.  1784,  Oct.  4;  John?,  b.  1786, 
Aug.  21;  Sarah*,  b.  1789,  March  15;  Betsey2,  b.  1793,  June  15. 
II.  Margaret,  dau.  of  Samuel1,  b.  1782,  Sept.  10;  m.  1804,  Feb.  16, 
Joseph  Little  of  Goffstown,  b.  1778,  Dec.  11,  d.  1847,  March  18. 
He  was  a  mechanic  and  house  builder  in  Goffstown,  where  their 
eight  ch.  were  born:  Vnshtfl,  b.  1804,  Nov.  22;  John3,  b.  1806,  Sept. 
24,  m.  Nancy  Frances  Poor;  Robert*,  b.  1809,  Jan.  25;  Albert?,  b. 
1813,  April  3;  Otis3,  b.  1815,  Aug.  22,  m.  Charity  Smith  of  Ohio, 
farmer  at  Audubon,  111.,  d.  1872,  Feb.;  Sarah*,  b.  1817,  Dec.  8; 
Joseph3,  b.  1821,  Oct.  31,  clergyman,  d.  1854,  Dec.  19,  unm.; 
Oscar3,  b.  1823,  July  24,  a  merchant,  d.  1846,  Aug.  19,  unm. 

III.  Vashti  (Little),  dau.  of  Margaret2,  b.  1804,  Nov.  22;  m.  1827,  April 
3,  Lemuel  N.  Pattee  of  Goffstown.  He  was  register  of  probate, 
Hillsborough  county,  for  ten  years,  secretary  of  state  of  New 
Hampshire  three  years;  d.  1870,  April  1.  One  ch.,  Mary  Frances4, 
b  in  Goffstown,  m.  John  B.  Woodbury,  and  d.  at  Antrim. 

III.  Robert  (Little),  son  of  Margaret2,  b.  1809,  Jan.  25;  m.  1839,  Sept.  30, 
Charlotte,  b.  1808,  June  22,  dau.  of  William  and  Ruth  Pike.  Is  a 
farmer  and  stock  raiser  at  Rosemanth,  111.  One  ch.:  Mary  F.4, 
grad.  of  Jacksonville  Female  college,  HI.,  m.  John  W.  Kitchell, 
attorney-at-law,  Pana,  111. 

III.  Albert  (Little),  son  of  Margaret2,  b.  1813,  April  3;  m.  Harriet  Gould, 

dau.  of  John ;  was  a  farmer,  also  deputy  sheriff;    res.   New 

London,  Andover,  and  Goffstown,  where  he  d.,  1875,  Dec.  22.  One 
ch.:  George  A.4,  m.  Helen  Hatch  of  Damariscotta,  Me.,  res.  Cam- 
bridgeport,  Mass. 


1008  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

III.  Sarah  (Little),  dau.  of  Margaret2,  b.  1817,  Dec.  8;  m.  1842,  Dec.  22, 
Alfred  Story,  b.  1810,  Jan.  12;  a  merchant;  was  selectman  and 
representative.  Shed.  1899,  Jan.  18.  Ch.  b.  Goffstown:  Charles 
A.4;  John  William4,  m.  Annie  Austin  of  Goffstown;  Margaret4. 

II.  Andrew,  son  of  Samuel1,  b.  Bedford,   1784,  Oct.  4;  m.   ■« .     They 

had  a  son,  Joseph8,  b.  in  town,  perhaps  others. 

III.  Joseph,  son  of  Andrew2;  m. ;  lived  in  Michigan.     Had  four  ch. : 

Joseph,  Jr.4;  Asa4;  Mark  B.4;  Hannah  B*. 

IV.  Hannah  R.,  dau.  of  Joseph3;  m.  Rev.  Hiram  Beckwith,  b.  Lempster; 

res.  Spring  Lake,  Mich.  Ch. :  Andrew5,  Libby5,  Ruth5,  and  Luez5. 
II.  John,  son  of  Samuel1,  b.  Bedford,  1786,  Oct.  21;  m.  1812,  Lucy 
Blanchard,  b.  Medford,  Mass.,  1788,  July  28,  dau.  of  Caleb  and 
Lucy  (Hall)  Blanchard;  res.  Maiden,  Mass.,  Somersworth,  N.  H., 
and  Berwick,  Me.,  where  he  d.,  1868,  March  6.  He  kept  a  country 
store.     His  wife  d.  1871,  Jan.  15.     Ch.:  Almira*,  b.  Maiden,    1812, 

Dec.  28;  Harriet3,  b.   ,   d.    1818,  Nov.  18;  Lucy3;    George*,  b. 

Somersworth,  1826,  Feb.  25;  Harriet  Eliza3,  b.  1827,  May  12; 
John,  Jr.*,  b.  1828,  Nov.  12. 

III.  Almira,  dau.  of  John2,  b.  1812,  Dec.  28;  m.  1837,  Oct.  5,  Matthew  A. 
Chandler,  b.  1804,  July  24.  Agent  in  cotton  mills  for  some 
years  at  Great  Falls;  rem.  to  Sharon,  O.,  where  he  d.,  1886,  July 
24.  She  d.  1888,  March  16.  Ch.:  Lucy  A.4;  Julia  E.4;  John4,  m. 
Sarah  A.  Peckham,  is  a  jeweler,  Cleveland,  O.,  ch.,  Willie  Edgar5; 
Edgar  L.4,  m.  Amanda  Harper,  res.  Olathe,  Kan.;  Harriet4, 
teacher;  Mary  A.4,  teacher;  George  A.4,  m.  Ellen  Tarr,  one  ch., 
Virginia6;  Frances  Emma4,  m.  Arthur  W.  Buck,  two  ch.,  Mary 
L.5,  Winnifred  Maud5. 

III.  George,  son  of  John2,  b.  1826,  Feb.  25;  m.  1857,  Feb.  18,  Sarah 
Sewell  Baker,  b.  Kennebunk,  Me.,  1825,  Jan.  1;  druggist  at  Som- 
ersworth, N.  H.;  treasurer  of  town  of  Berwick  for  14  years;  d. 
there,  1902,  Dec.  27. 

III.  John,  Jr.,  son  of  John2,  b.  1828,  Nov.  12;  m.  1857,  Dec.  30,  Jane 
Ellen  Taylor,  b.  Taunton,  Mass..  1833,  Jan.  23;  he  was  an  exten- 
sive manufacturer  of  jewelry,  employing  150  to  200  persons,  at 
Providence,  R.  I.     He  d.  while  on  a  visit  to  Great  Falls,  N.   H., 

1894,  July  13.  Ch.  b.  at  Providence:  Frank  Blanchard4,  m.  Car- 
oline Eva  Goodman,  res.  Cleveland,  O.;  Effie  Taylor4;  Florence 
Lin  wood4  and  Flora  Rounds4  (twins) ,  Florence  Lin  wood  m.  Joseph 
Albert  Bartlett,  res.  Providence,  R.  I. 

II.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Samuel1,  b.  Bedford,  1789,  March  15;  m.  1824,  Feb. 
15,  David  Austin  Whittemore,  b.  Litchfield,  1803,  May  31,  a  farmer. 
She  d.  1845,  March  4.  Ch.  b.  Litchfield:  Mary  Jane*,  David  Coch- 
ran*; George  Washington*;  Noyes  Pattee*;  Sarah  Frances*;  Margaret 
Little*;  Orson  Perham3,  b.  1836,  Aug.  17,  d.  1873,  Sept.  3,  unm; 
Harriet  Adelaide3;  Charles  William3,  b.  1840,  Aug.  8,  m.  1877,  Feb. 
14,  Sarah  F.  Hoyt. 

III.  Mary  Jane  Whittemore,  dau.  of  Sarah2,  b.  1825,  June  28;   m.    1848, 

July  11,  Sylvester  Symonds,  b.  1813,  d.  1890,  Nov.  25.  Ch.: 
Frances  W.4.  Charles  &*;  Hattie  S.4,  m.  Dr.  C.  N.  Bates,  Boston; 
Irvin  F.*[  Myrtle  B.4,  m.  Rev.  C.  H.  Chapin,  Hancock. 

IV.  Charles  S.  (Symonds),  son  of  Mary  Jane3;  m.  Louise  N.  Grinnell  of 

Charlestown.     Ch. :  Ruth5,  Charles  E.6 

IV.  Irvin  F.  (Symonds),  son  of  Mary  Jane3;  m.  Maud  A.  Dean  of  Oswe- 
go, N.  Y.     Ch.:  Maud  Lillian5,  Mary  Dean5. 

III.  David  Cochran  (Whittemore),  son  of  Sarah2,  b.  1826,  Oct.  22;  m. 
1873,  Dec.  31,  Elmira  D.  Roper;  was  a  noted  horseman;  built  a 
race  track  in  Manchester;   res.  in  town  before  his  mar.      He  d. 

1895,  May  17,  and  his  wife  d.  1898,  Sept.  29.  A  son,  R.  N.2,  res. 
Hopedale,  Mass. 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR. — MOOKE.  1009 

III.  George  Washington  (Whittemore),  son  of  Sarah2,  b.  1828,  April  27; 
m.  1857,  Nov.  26,  Ellen  S.  Campbell.  He  d.  at  Nashua,  1900, 
April.  One  ch.,  Frederick4,  m.  Alice  Eugenia  Gay,  and  had  ch., 
Daisy  Gay5,  Richard5,  Frederick  Leon5,  and  two  others5. 

III.  NoyesPattee  (Whittemore),  son  of  Sarah2,  b.  1830,  Feb.;  m.  about 
1860,  Augusta  Stark  of  Manchester,  who  d.  1889.  Onech.:  Lewis4. 

III.  Sarah  Frances  (Whittemore),  dau.  of  Sarah2,  b.  1832,  Feb.   7;    m. 

1859,  Sept.  22,  George  Bailey  of  Acworth.     Ch.:  Lura  J.4 

III.  Margaret  Little  (Whittemore),  dau.  of  Sarah2,  b.  1834,  June  2;  m. 
1854,  May  2,  Francis  Haywood.  Ch. :  Dame  F.4;  Ida  M.4,  m. 
Augustus  Fletcher. 

III.  Harriet  Adelaide  (Whittemore),  dau.  of  Sarah2,  b.  1838,  Aug.  15;  in. 

1860,  April  5,  William  P.  Wallace,  b.  1838,  Feb.  11.  Ch.:  Nellie  C.4; 
Harry  W.4;  George  W.4;  Grace  M.4 

IV.  Nellie  C.  (Wallace),  dau.  of  Harriet  Adelaide;  m.  J.  Clinton  Smith. 

Had  ch. :  Marian  L.5,  Mary  Adelaide5. 

MOORE. 

William  and  James,  brothers,  were  born  in  Londonderry  (family  given 
on  another  page  by  another  name). 

I.  William  Moore,  b.  1769,  Oct.  10;  m.  about  1789,  Rebecca,  b.  Man- 
chester, 1771,  July  10,  dau.  of  Capt.  Samuel2  and  Rebecca  (Goffe) 
Moor.  (See  Capt.  Samuel2,  Maj.  Samuel1.)  They  came  to  this 
town  and  settled  on  the  River  road,  on  the  farm  owned  by  the  late 
Thomas  G.  Worthley,  a  son-in-law.  He  built  a  saw  and  grain 
mill  near  where  James  Mitchell  now  lives.  He  d.  1838,  April  7, 
while  Rebecca,  his  wife,  d.  1827,  July  2.  Had  twelve  ch.: 
Hugh2;  Joseph2;  Polly2;  Reuben2,  b.  1797,  Nov.,  d.  1803,  Sept.; 
Achsah2,  b.  1799,  May  19,  d.  1872,  July  7,  unni.;  Stephen2,  b.  1802, 
Sept.,  d.  1804,  Jan.  12;  Louisa2,  b.  1804,  Jan.  5,  d.  1879,  June  10, 
unni.;  Margaret  D.2;  Rebecca2,  b.  1808,  April  21,  m.  1841,  Dec.  1, 
Thomas  G.  Worthley  (see  Worthley);  Stephen2;  Sarah  J.2,  b.  1815, 
May  6,  m.  Cyrus  Moor,  2d  cousin  (see  Capt.  Samuel2,  Maj.  Sam- 
uel1, Moor  family);  Rachel2. 

II.  Hugh,  son  of  William1,  b.  Bedford,  1790,  Nov.  14;  m.  Jane  Gil- 
christ. He  kept  the  tavern  at  Thornton's  Ferry  for  many  years. 
He  d.  1855,  Aug.  17.  In  1865  she  was  taxed  in  Merrimack  as 
"  Widow  Hugh  Moor."  Their  ch.  were:  Ann  Augusta3,  Adaline 
G.3,  Eliza3,  James3. 

II.  Joseph,  son  of  William1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1792,  Sept.  7;  m.  Sophia  R. 
Richardson,  b.  Andover,  Mass.,  1797,  April  17.  He  d.  1873,  April 
24,  and  she  d.  1879,  Oct.  21.  Had  ch.,  b.  Bedford:  William  P.  R.3; 
Hugh  G.3;  Charles  A.3,  b.  1820,  rem.  to  Beloit,  Wis.,  d.  1857,  June 
1;  Louisa  J.s;  Lydia  M.3;  Margaret  EA 
III.  Louisa  J.,  dau.  of  Joseph2,  b.  1827;  m.,  1st,  Edmund  Hale;  m.,  2d, 
Reuben  Barnes,  who  hung  himself  while  insane,  1886,  June  26, 
in  Merrimack.  She  m.,  3d,  1889,  June  27,  Benjamin  Hall  of  Bed- 
ford, who  d.  1895,  May  4.     She  res.  in  Reed's  Ferry,  N.  H. 

II.  Polly,  dau.  of  William1,  b.  Bedford,  1794,  Sept.  7;  m.  Daniel  Harris, 
b.  in  Bedford.  She  d.  1853,  Oct.  31.  Had  ch.:  Mary  J.3,  Achsah*, 
and  Rebecca3. 

II.  Margaret  D.,  dau.  of  William1,  b.  Bedford  1806,  Feb.  9;  m.  Horatio 
Shedd  of  Wilmington,  Mass.  She  d.  1883,  May  3.  They  had  one 
dau.,  Amira  M.3,  b.  1835,  June  12,  m.  Nathaniel  Chase  of  Nashua, 
d.  1897,  Nov.  7. 

II.  Stephen,  son  of  William1,  b.  Bedford,  1810,  Aug.  1;  m.  Caroline 
Hardy  and  lived  in  "  Squog."    He  d.  1860,  April  16. 

II.  Rachel,  dau.  of  William1,  b.  1817,  Oct.  15;  m.   1841,  John  Hendry. 
Shed.  1866,  June  22.     Ch.:  EUen  R.3,  b.   1842,  d.  1845,   Dec.    17; 
John3;  Jane  R.3;  Frank3;  Clinton3. 
65 


1010  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

I.  James  Moor  (brother  of  William)  was  b.  Londonderry,  1766,  Dec. 
22.  He  m.  1790,  Jan.  28,  Elizabeth  Giles,  b.  New  Salem,  N.  H., 
1769,  March  17.  He  res.  in  Londonderry  for  a  time,  then  rem.  to 
Dorchester,  N.  H.,  where  all  his  children  were  born  except  the 
eldest.  They  were:  John  Giles2,  Joseph2,  Ebenezer  G.2,  Moody 
M.2,  Freeman2,  James,  Jr.2,  Thankful  F.2. 
II.  John  Giles,  son  of  James1,  was  b.  in  Londonderry,  1790,  Nov.  27; 
m.  Fanny  Dow  and  lived  on  the  River  road  near  Goffe's  Falls.  He 
d.  1860,  Feb.  29,  and  she  d.  1893,  Nov.  16,  aged  95  years,  9  months, 
3  days.  Their  ch.  were:  James3;  Sarah  D.3;  John3;  Elizabeth  A3; 
Laura  J.3;  Gilman  D.3,  b.  1836,  March,  m.  Mary  Davenport  and 
res.  Manchester;  Henry  C.3 
III.  James,  son  of  John  Giles2,  b.  Bedford,  1821,  March  26;  m.,  1st,  Emily 
Noyes  of  Tunbridge,  Vt.  He  m.,  2d,  Emily  Towne.  He  d.  at 
Mechanicsville,  N.  Y.,  1882,  Nov.  Had  three  ch.:  Ella4,  George4, 
Mary4. 

III.  Sarah  D.,  dau.  of  John  Giles2,  b.  Bedford,   1827,   Jan.   5;   m.   1857, 

Charles  F.  Peck  of  Boston,  a  pattern  maker.  Ch.:  Charles  F.*, 
Nellie  Frances*. 

IV.  Charles  F.  (Peck),  son.  of  Sarah  D.3,  b.  So.    Boston,    1858,   May  18; 

m.  1879,  Sept.,  Laura  J.  Pottle,  b.  1856;  res.  in  Boston.  Had  two 
ch.:  Ethel  E.5,  b.  1880,  Sept.  5,  and  John  F.5,  b.  1886,  June  17. 

IV.  Nellie  Frances  (Peck),  dau.  of  Sarah  D.,  b.  Boston,  Mass.,  1860, 
April  9;  m.  1885,  March  26,  John  J.  McDonald,  b.  Salem,  Mass., 
1858,  Sept.  8;  res.  Boston.     They  have  Grace  Evelyn5. 

III.  John,  son  of  John  Giles2,  b.  Bedford,  1828;  m.,  and  res.  in  Knox- 
ville,  Tenn.  Had  five  ch.:  Laura4,  James4,  John4,  Addie4, 
William4. 

III.  Elizabeth  A.,  dau.  of  John  Giles2,  b.  Bedford,  1831,  May  8;  m.  1851, 

March  31,  Henry  C.  Joy,  b.  Durham,  1826,  April  3.  He  d.  1868, 
May  2.  She  res.  in  Manchester.  Their  ch.  were  b.  there  except 
Kate,  viz.:  Florence  I.4,  b.  1852,  Feb.  24,  m.  1896,  June  23,  Will- 
iam P.  Farmer,  b.  1852,  res.  Manchester;  Kate4,  b.  Boston,  1855, 
Feb.  16;  Jefferson  D.4,  b.  1861,  May  12,  d.  1864,  March  17;  Bar- 
bara B.*;  Fanny  Maud*. 

IV.  Barbara  B.  (Joy),  dau.  of  Elizabeth  A.,  was  b.  1865,  April  21;  grad. 

of  high  school,  1883,  Wellesley  college,  1887,  and  principal  of  Wil- 
son Grammar  school  (1901),  Manchester. 

IV.  Fanny  Maud  (Joy),  dau.  of  Elizabeth  A.,  was  b.  1867,  Nov.  13; 
grad.  of  Manchester  High  school,  1885,  Worcester  State  Normal 
school;  teacher  in  Bennett  school,  Boston,  1901. 

III.  Laura  J.,  dau.  of  John  Giles2,  b.  1833,  April  5;  m.  Jerome  B.  Stur- 
tevant  of  Manchester,  and  res.  on  the  old  homestead  on  the  River 
road.    He  d.  1901,  July  18,  aged  76. 

III.  Henry  C,  son  of  John  Giles2,  b.  1841,  Aug.;  m.,  1st,  Sarah  E.  Mont- 
rose of  Pleasantville,  N.  Y.;  m.,  2d,  1873,  Nov.  27,  Jane  M.  How- 
land,  b.  Hyde  Park,  N.  Y.,  1848,  Feb.  16,  and  d.  1877,  May 
25;  he  m. ,  3d,  Julia  Scheer  of  New  York  city,  where  they  now 
res.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.,  Henry  C,  Jr.4,  d.  aged  16.  Ch.  by  2d  mar., 
Fanny  Dow4,  m.  Richard  M.  Dudley  of  Kentucky;  Grace  How- 
land4,  m.  Edward  P.  Purdy  of  Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 

MOOR. 

II.  Capt.  Samuel,  son  of  Maj.  Samuel1  Moor;  m.  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Col. 
John  Goffe,  and  res.  in  Manchester.  Hadch.:  Nathaniel3;  Samuel8; 
Joseph3;  and  Rebecca3,  m.  Wm.  Moor  (see  Wm.  and  James  Moore 
families) . 
III.  Col.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel2;  m.  Sally  Walker,  and  res.  in 
Manchester.     Had  a  son,  Nathaniel*. 


GENEALOGIES. — MOOR. — NEWTON.  1011 

IV.  Capt.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Col.  Nathaniel3;  b.  in  Manchester,  1813, 
Nov.  3;  m.,  1st,  1839,  Joanna  H.  Crosby,  b.  1820,  d.  1867,  Oct.  14; 
m.,  2d,  Laura  Crosby,  b.  1822,  Dec.  22,  sister  of  the  first  wife. 
He  was  farmer  and  station  agent  at  Goffe's  Falls,  Bedford  side; 
captain  in  the  old  militia;  representative  in  the  legislature,  and  a 
much  respected  citizen  of  the  town.  He  d.  1884,  Feb.  7.  His  wife 
d.  1892,  April  2.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Myra  J.5,  b.  1840,  Oct.  12,  m. 
Jonathan  Mead,  d.  1866,  Aug.  12;  Harrison  E.5,  b.  1842,  March  29, 
d.  1844,  Dec.  10;  George  C.5;  Rebecca  Wallace5,  b.  1851,  April  22, 
d.  1852,  Sept.  3. 
V.  George  C.,  son  of  Capt.  Nathaniel4,  was  b.  1845;  he  enlisted  as 
private,  1865,  Feb.  10.  Credited  to  Manchester.  He  d.  in  camp, 
1865,  Feb.  23. 

III.  Samuel,  Jr.,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel2;  m.  Betsy  French  and  res.  in 

Manchester.     Had  a  son,  Russell4. 

IV.  Russell,  son  of  Samuel,  Jr.3,  was  b.  in  Manchester,  1801,  Feb.  16; 

m.  Eunice  Barker,  b.  1806,  May  30.  They  lived  in  Claremont, 
but  returned  here,  1839,  April;  was  a  farmer  and  res.  near  Goffe's 
Falls.  He  d.  1871,  Jan.  4.  She  d.  1882,  March  25.  Ch.: 
Samuel  P.5;  Charlotte  M.5,  b.  1830,  Jan.  13,  d.  1832,  Nov.  13; 
Ira  A.5 
V.  Ira  A.,  son  of  Russell4,  was  b.  in  Claremont,  1833,  Nov.  16;  m.  1862, 
Aug.,  Myra  Storrs  of  Dorchester,  N.  H.;  was  proprietor  of  the 
"Waverly  House"  in  Manchester;  captain  of  a  company  of  the 
Amoskeag  Veterans;  represented  Ward  4  in  the  legislature,  1885. 
He  d.  1887,  Dec.  13.    His  widow  still  res.  in  Manchester. 

III.  Capt.  Joseph,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel'2;  m.  Elizabeth  Kennedy  and 

res.  in  Manchester.    Had  a  son,  Cyrus4. 

IV.  Cyrus,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph3,  was  b.  Manchester,  1800,  July.     He  m. 

Sarah  J.,  b.  Bedford,  1815,  May  6,  dau.  of  William  and  Rebecca 
(Moor)  Moore  (2d  cousins).  They  lived  at  Goffe's  Falls,  where  he 
was  a  farmer  and  lumberman.  His  wife  d.  1868,  March  3.  (On 
her  gravestone  she  is  called  Jane  P.)     He  d.  1876,  May  28. 

DEA.  JAMES  MOOR. 

Dea.  James  Moor,  b.  about  1714,  by  occupation  a  miller,  was  an  early 
settler  in  Souhegan  East,  or  Narragansett  No.  5.  He  signed  the  petition, 
1750,  May  10,  to  Governor  Wentworth,  to  incorporate  the  town  of  Bed- 
ford. When  the  town  was  incorporated  and  the  south  part  of  Souhegan 
East  was  annexed  to  Merrimack,  Deacon  Moor's  farm  was  in  Merrimack. 
He  lived  where  the  house,  north  of  the  schoolhouse  in  District  No.  7,  on 
the  brow  of  the  hill,  stands.  At  the  ordination,  1757,  Sept.  28,  of  the  Rev. 
John  Houston,  the  first  minister  in  town,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the 
"elders."  The  name  of  his  wife  was  Isabel.  He  died  1769,  Oct.  14, 
aged  55. 

The  children  of  James  and  Isabel,  so  far  as  known,  were: 

1.  James,  b. .  The  name  of  his  wife  was  Martha.  He  was  select- 
man of  Merrimack  in  1750  (?).     See  History  of  Antrim,  N.  H. 

2.  John,  b*. ;  was  living  in  Bedford  in  1771. 

3.  Jenet,  b. ;  unm.  1771. 

4.  Mary,  b.  1761;  d.  1776,  Jan.,  aged  15  years. 

NEWTON. 

I.  Richard,  uncle  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  the  celebrated  English  philos- 
opher, was  in  Sudbury,  Mass.,  in  1640,  was  made  a  freeman  in 
1645,  and  was  one  of  the  petitioners  for  the  town  of  Marlborough, 
Mass.,  in  1657.  He  d.  1701,  Aug.  24,  "aged  about  100  years." 
His  descendants  in  the  line  to  Rev.  Albert  F.  Newton,  formerly 
of  this  town,  are  as  follows: 


1012  HISTORY   OF   BEDFOKD. 

II.  Joseph,  who  d.   1727,  having  been  deacon  of  the  Congregational 
chnrch  in  Marlborough,  Mass.,  from  1710  to  his  death. 

III.  Joseph,  b.  1673,  May  24;  d.  1744,  Oct.  3;  res.  in  Marlborough,  Mass. 

IV.  Uriah,  b.  1707,  Aug.  20;  d.  1759,  May  15. 
V.  Uriah,  b.  1736,  May  17;  d. . 

VI.  Jonathan,  b.  1761,  April  27;  m.  Betsey  Brigham  of  Princeton,  Mass. 
VII.  Asa,  b.  in  Alstead,  1791,  July  17;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and 
Abigail  (Clark)  Gould  of  Merrimack.  He  d.  1856,  Dec.  27 
(buried  in  Nashua) . 
VIII.  Elbridge  Gould  was  b.  Acworth,  1818,  May  27;  m.  Jerusha  E.,  b. 
Grafton,  Vt.,  dau.  of  John  Waldo  Stearns,  a  lineal  descendant  of 
"The  Waldos"  in  Italy,  who  founded  the  Waldenses;  she  d. 
1901,  March  13,  aged  79  years.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1874,  Jan.  27, 
having  moved  here  from  Milford  (where  he  is  buried)  when  his 
children  were  quite  young.  They  were:  Albert  Francis9;  Ellen  L.'-* 
and  William  Wallace9  (who  d.  in  infancy  and  are  buried  in 
Milford,  N.  H.);  Frederick  Clarence9;  and  George  Wentworth9. 

IX.  Rev.  Albert  Francis,  son  of  Elbridge  Gould8,  was  b.  Salmon  Falls, 
N.  H.,  1848,  April  3;  he  has  proven  a  successful  preacher  of  the 
gospel,  having  taker)  630  members  into  the  church  during  his 
pastorates  which  now  cover  25  years,  1877-1902  (see  sketch) .  He 
m.  Mary  E.  Wright  of  Milford.  They  have  ch.:  Alice  Bertha10; 
Florence  Beatrice10;  and  Helen  Gertrude10. 

IX.  Frederick  Clarence  (M.  D.),  son  of  Elbridge  Gould8,  was  b.  in  Mil- 
ford, 1858,  Dec.  15;  a  physician  and  surgeon;  graduated  from  the 
University  of  New  York.  He  m.  Josephine  H.  Martin;  d. 
Chicago,  111.,  1887,  Jan.  12;  no  ch.  (see  Physicians). 

IX.  George  Wentworth  (M.  D.),  son  of  Elbridge  Gould8;  was  b.  Milford, 
1860,  Dec.  11.  Graduated  from  medical  department  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  1884.  Professor  of  gynecology  (see  Physicians) . 
He  m.  Jennette  Jackson  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Their  ch.  are: 
Harold  Jackson10  and  Frederick  Albert10,  b.  in  Chicago,  111. 

ALBERT  F.  NEWTON. 

Rev.  Albert  F.  Newton  was  born  in  Salmon  Falls,  N.  H.,  1848,  April  3, 
the  son  of  Elbridge  Gould  and  Mrs.  Jerusha  E.  (Stearns)  Newton.  He  is 
a  lineal  descendant  from  Richard  Newton,  uncle  of  the  celebrated  English 
philosopher,  and  by  his  mother,  the  daughter  of  John  Waldo,  a  lineal 
descendant  of  "The  Waldos  of  Italy  who  founded  the  Waldenses." 
Hence  we  find  the  intellectuality  and  religious  tendencies  of  his  ancestors 
combined  in  him.  His  parents  removed  from  Milford  to  this  town  when 
their  children  were  quite  young,  hence  his  boyhood  days  were  spent  here. 
He  early  manifested  a  desire  for  a  liberal  education,  and  bent  his  efforts  in 
that  direction.  He  graduated  from  Appleton  academy,  New  Ipswich,  in 
1870;  from  Dartmouth  college  in  1874,  and  from  Andover  Theological 
seminary  in  1877.  He  was  ordained  and  installed  in  his  first  pastorate  at 
Townsend,  Mass.,  1877,  Sept.  5,  and  has  held  pastorates  as  follows  from 
1877-1902: 

Townsend,  Mass.,  Cong,  church, 

Marlboro,  Mass.,  Union  church, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Rochester  Ave.,  now  Imanuel, 

Haverhill,  Mass.,  Union  Cong,  church, 

North  Leominster,  Mass.,  from  1901,  Dec.  1  to  July,  1902, 

25  630 

Copy  of  a  letter  from  Hon.  Elijah  A.  Morse,  representative  to  congress 
from  Massachusetts: 


Members 

Years. 

received. 

5 

48 

10 

254 

6 

226 

3 

72 

2, 

30 

GENEALOGIES. — NEWTON. — NEVINS.  1013 

House  of  Representatives  U.  S„  January  31st,  1901. 

I  know  Mr.  Newton  to  be  an  eloquent,  earnest,  devout  minister  of  the  gospel— a 
man  like  Stephen,  of  faith  and  prayer. 

Elijah  A.  Morse. 

Copy  of  the  Minutes  of  the  Council  dismissing  Rev.  Albert  F.  Newton 
from  his  ten  years'  pastorate  at  Marlboro,  Mass.,  Jan.  14,  1892: 

RESULTS  OF  COUNCIL: 

It  is  with  much  regret  that  we  are  called  upon  to  record  the  departure  of  our 
friend  and  brother,  Rev.  Albert  F.  Newton,  from  his  ten  years'  pastorate  of  the  Union 
Congregational  church,  Marlboro,  Mass.,  to  the  Rochester  Avenue  Congregational 
ohurfh.  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Our  confidence  in  Brother  Newton's  earnestness  and  faithfulness  is  unabated.  His 
intense  and  vigorous  appeals,  his  strong,  direct,  and  forcible  methods,  his  interest 
in  temperance,  in  the  public  schools,  in  all  matters  appertaining  to  education  as  well 
as  religion,  cannot  be  forgotten  by  us. 

He  has  certainly  won  fo<  himself  a  large  place  not  only  in  the  hearts  of  those  con- 
nected with  the  church  which  he  now  leaves,  and  in  the  respect  of  his  ministerial 
brethren,  but  also  in  the  judgment  of  thoughtful  and  influential  men  not  so  immedi- 
ately connected  with  him  through  this  city  and  throughout  the  state. 

We  commend  Brother  Newton  for  his  fearless  conscientiousness,  his  unflagging 
energy,  his  heroic  persevering  spirit.  As  his  own  people  have  so  well  said,  we  deem 
him  "  firm  in  friendship,  sound  in  the  faith,  consecrated  to  evangelical  work,  to 
Christian  charities  and  temperance,  gifted  as  a  speaker,  devoted  as  a  preacher  of 
righteousness  and  a  laborer  in  the  vineyard  of  the  Lord.  We  also  most  heartily  com- 
mend Mrs.  Newton  as  a  most  earnest,  conscientious  helper,  and  feel  confldent'thatin 
all  Christian  and  temperance  effort  her  ability  can  scarcely  be  surpassed." 

As  Brother  Newton  leaves  this  field  where  he  is  so  well  known  for  his  faithfulness 
and  good  works,  we  pray  that  the  blessing  of  God  mav  attend  him  and  his  family  in 
the  new  field  of  effort  to  which  he  has  been  called,  and  that  many  souls  may  be  gath- 
ered into  the  heavenly  kingdom  through  his  instrumentality. 

We  also  hereby  record  our  sympathy  with  and  interest  in  the  church,  etc. 

Rev.  D.  E.  Adams,  moderator,  Rev.  E.  L.  Chute,  scribe,  and  Rev.  Granville  Yager, 
committee  on  results.    Unanimously  adopted  by  the  council. 

NEVINS  (NEVENS). 

I.  The  origin  of  the  Bedford  branch  of  this  family  is  somewhat  obscure. 
Tradition  relates  that  the  father  (name  unknown)  with  wife, 
Margaret,  sailed  from  Ireland,  being  Scotch-Irish,  in  1711,  and 
landed  in  Nova  Scotia,  Thomas2,  their  oldest  son,  having  been 
born  during  the  passage.  In  after  years  two  other  sons,  David2 
and  William2,  were  born,  but  whether  in  Nova  Scotia  or  Massa- 
chusetts is  not  known.  After  the  birth  of  William  the  father 
attempted  to  return  to  Ireland  and  was  lost  on  the  passage.  The 
family  was  separated  for  a  time,  but  all  at  length  settled  in  Hollis, 
N.  H.  Thomas  afterward  moved  to  Hebron  and  Hanover,  in 
which  latter  town  he  d.    David  settled  in  Plymouth. 

II.  William,  m.  Mary ,  and  continued  to  reside  in  Hollis,  where 

he  was  quite  prominent  in  town  affairs  (see  Worcester's  History). 
Five  of  his  sons  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  three,  in- 
cluding Joseph3,  were  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  hill,  where  Phineas8 
was  killed.  Ensign  William3  was  afterwards  taken  prisoner  and 
d.  on  a  prison  ship;  other  sons  of  William2  were  Benjamin8  and 
John3,  also  the  youngest,  named  Nathan3.  We  know  of  but  one 
descendant  of  William  bearing  the  name  of  Nevins,  viz.,  Miss 
Sarah  Nevins  of  Concord,  N.  H. 
III.  Joseph,  son  of  William2,  was  b.  Hollis,  1748,  July  20;  m.,  1st.,  1772, 
Feb.  20,  Sarah  Powers;  2d,  Lucy  Sawtelle.  He  d.  in  Hollis,  1813, 
Aug.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.  were:  Sarah4,  b.  in  Hollis,  1772,  Dec.  3,  d. 
voung;  Joseph4,  b.  1774,  June  10,  d.  young;  Phineas4,  b.  1776,  May 
5,  d.  Bedford,  1851,  March  7;  Sarah4,  b.  1777,  Dec.  17;  Hannah4, 
b.  1779,  June  13,  d.  Nashua,  1852,  Sept.  4,  m.  Josiah  Kidder;  Hep- 
zibah4,  b.  1781,  June  6.  Ch.  of  2d  mar.  were:  Lucy4,  b.  1783,  Dec. 
30;  Mary4,  b.  1786,  July  4,  m.  1808,  March  16,  Daniel  Mooare  and 
res.   in  Hollis;  Anna4,  b.    1789,   March  23,  m.  John  French  (see 


1014  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

French);  Gardner4,  b.  1792,  Feb.  18,  probably d.  young;  Parmelia4, 
b.  1794,  March  16;  Gardner4,  b.  1797,  Feb.  6;  Susan4,  b.  1799,  April 
12;  Joseph4,  b.  1801,  April  8,  d.  unm.,  Bedford,  1830,  Dec.  2. 
IV.  Gardner,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  in  Hollis,  1797,  Feb.  6;  m.  1825,  Jan.  25, 
Esther  R.,  b.  1801,  dau.  of  Nathan  and  Anna  (Remich)  Barnes, 
and  settled  in  Bedford.  He  was  deacon  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
here  for  many  years  and  a  highly  respected  citizen.  Even  to-day 
(1903)  he  is  spoken  of  by  those  who  knew  him  as  "one  of  the  best 
of  men."  His  children,  all  girls,  proved  themselves  teachers  of 
marked  ability.  He  d.  Newton,  Mass.,  1876,  Oct.  16;  his  wife, 
Esther,  d.  Boston,  Mass.,  1884,  April  21.  Their  ch.  were:  Mary 
Adeline5,  m.  Holman  Churchill  of  Kankakee,  111.,  where  she  d. 
1856,  July  21,  buried  in  Bedford;  Ann  Jane5;  Helen  M5,  d.  Kan- 
kakee, 111.,  1857,  Jan.  25,  aged  25,  buried  in  Bedford;  Lucy  Saw- 
telle5,  m.  Robert  Hathorne  of  Boston,  where  she  d.  leaving  one 
dau.,  Helen  Nevins6;  Hannah  T.b 

V.  Ann  Jane,  dau.  of  Gardner4;  m.  1846,  E.  Stone  Goodwin  and  res.  in 
Boston.  Had  ch.:  John  Cheever6,  Minnie  B.6,  and  Georgia  I.6 
Mrs.  Goodwin  now  res.  with  her  youngest  daughter  in  Los  Ange- 
les, Cal. 

V.  Hannah  T.,  dau.  of  Gardner4;  m.  1861,  April,  Lucien  Ingalls,M.  D., 
b.  in  Merrimack,  N.  H.  They  settled  in  Andover,  Me.,  also  res. 
in  Falmouth,  Me.,  in  both  of  which  places  he  practised  his  profes- 
sion. She  d.  Andover,  Me.,  1871,  April.  Had  three  ch.,b.  in 
Andover,  Me.:  Gardner  Nevins6,  who  d.  young;  Grace  Nevins6,  b. 
about  1866;  Alice  L.6,  b.  about  1868,  d.  suddenly  1894,  March  17, 
had  served  one  year  as  nurse  in  a  Boston  hospital. 
VI.  Grace  Nevins  (Ingalls),  dau.  of  Hannah  T.5,  b.  about  1866;  was  a 
nurse;  was  studying  medicine  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  when  she  m. 
Carroll  Remich;  they  res.  in  Seattle,  Wash.,  and  have  four  ch. 

NICHOLS. 

I.  This  family  emigrated  from  Scotland  and  settled  in  Billerica,  Mass. , 
some  time  previous  to  1775,  and  here  Benjamin1  was  born.  He 
m.,  1st,  Elmira  Blanchard;  2d,  Comfort  (Tidd)  Tay,  widow  of 
Capt.  Jesse  Tay.  (Her  parents  had  also  emigrated  from  Scotland, 
long  before  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  her  father  and  two 
brothers  served  in  the  Continental  army  under  Washington.) 
Comfort  (Tidd)  Tay  was  b.  Woburn,  Mass.,  about  1765,  and  had 
a  dau.,  Betsey  Tay,  by  her  first  marriage.  Benjamin  res.  for  a 
time  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  then  rem.  to  Milford,  N.  H.,  and  again 
to  Bedford,  having  purchased  the  Worcester  farm  (the  birthplace 
of  Worcester,  the  lexicographer).  This  farm  has  since  been  the 
Nichols  home  for  more  than  a  century,  having  descended  from 
father  to  son,  Benjamin,  until  it  is  now  occupied  by  the  fourth 
Benjamin.  The  present  house  contains  lumber  taken  from  the 
original  house  in  which  Worcester  was  b.  Benjamin1  and 
Elmira,  his  wife,  had  ch.:  Benjamin2;  Blanchard2,  d.  unm.  in 
Bedford;  Elzaphan2;  Stephen'2,  who  rem.  to  Winchester,  Mass.; 
Tracy2;  Rebecca2;  Betsey2,  m.  John  Upton,  d.  about  1853;  Lydia2, 

m.  Tarbell,  res.  in  Milford,  d.  about  1865,  had  ch.:  Joseph3 

and  Nancy3,  who  m. Perham;   Lucy  Blanchard2,  m.  John 

Shepard  (see  Shepard). 
II.  Capt.  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin1,  was  b.  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  1795, 
May;  farmer;  m.  1824,  Nov.  11,  Betsey  Jane,  b.  Milford,  N.  H., 
dau.  of  George  and  Betsey  (Tay)  Conant,  and  res.  in  Bedford. 
Was  engaged  in  teaming  for  Dea.  John  French,  who  was  propri- 
etor of  a  store  on  Joppa  Hill.  At  that  time  the  trade  was  mostly 
barter,  i.  e.,  hay,  rye,  wheat,  corn,  butter,   cheese,  hides,  etc., 


GENEALOGIES. — NICHOLS.  1 015 

were  taken  in  exchange  for  goods.  These  articles  Benjamin  con- 
veyed to  Boston  with  a  six-ox  team  and  exchanged  for  groceries, 
varions  kinds  of  cloth,  farm  implements,  etc.,  requiring  a  week 
to  make  the  trip  and  return.  He  d.  1878,  Dec.  23.  Had  ch.: 
•  Benjamin  Waiter*',  Elmira  F.3,  m.,  1st,  Charles  French  of  Bedford, 
m.,  2d,  John  G.  Richardson  of  Winchester,  Mass.,  where  she  d., 
one  ch.,  Florence  E.4;  Betsey  J.3,  m.  Stillman  A.  Shepard  (see 
Shepard);  Abby  A.3,  m.  Roger  Spanlding,  res.  in  California,  has 
five  ch.,  Charles4,  Maud4,  Leonora4,  Walter4,  Harold4;  William 
H.  H3 

III.  Benjamin  W.,  son  of  Benjamin'2,  b.  1825,  March  5;  farmer.     He  m., 

1861,  April  19,  Mehitabel  Little,  b.  St.  David,  N.  B.,  1838,  Dec.  9, 
dan.  of  Stillman  and  Clara  A.  (Chase)  Spaulding.  He  d.  1885, 
June  8.  Ch.:  Tracy  William4,  b.  1862,  Nov.  30,  d.  1883,  July  24; 
Clara  Chase4,  b.  1865,  March  19,  m.  1890,  March  15,  Andrew  B. 
Bunton,  res.  Manchester;  Laura  Mabel4,  b.  1867,  June  7,  m.  1896, 
Sept.  29,  Charles  F.  Churchill,  res.  Pittsfield;  Benjamin  Walter4, 
b.  1869,  April  4;  Jennie  Conant*,  b.  1871,  April  4;  Mary  Blanche4, 
b.  1873,  March  29,  m.  1896,  Oct.  7,  Lowell  A.  Rowe,  res.  Man- 
chester; Bessie  Inett4,  b.  1875,  Feb.  7,  m.  F.  G.  Holbrook  (see 
Holbrook) . 

IV.  Jennie  Conant,  dau.  of  Benjamin  W.3,  b.  1871,  April  4;   m.  1891, 

July  1,  George  Taylor,  and  res.  in  Manchester.  They  have  two 
ch.:  Ruth5;  Mehitabel5. 

III.  William  H.  H,  son  of  Benjamin2,  b.  1841,  Feb.  5;  m.  1863,  Sept.  7, 
Sarah  J.  Webber;  served  in  Civil  war  (see  Military  Record). 
Their  ch.  are:  Minnie  J.4,  b.  1864,  Jan.  27;  Carrie  M.4,  b.  1867, 
March  16;  Evie  E.4,  b.  1869,  Oct,  4;  Myra  F.4,  b.  1871,  July  29; 
Annie  B.4,  b.  1874,  Oct.  21;  Mattie  B.4,  b.  1877,  Feb.  6;  Marcia 
W.4,  d.  1880,  May  18;  Marcia  W.,  2d4,  b.  1884,  Jan.  13;  Sadie  M.4, 
b.  1886,  Sept.  21. 
II.  Tracy,  son  of  Benjamin1,  was  b.  Milford,  N.  H.,  1803,  May  8.  He 
went  to  Danvers,  Mass.,  when  quite  young,  and  while  a  young 
man  settled  in  Woburn,  where  he  engaged  in  the  currier's  trade. 
He  m.,  1st,  1826,  May  7,  Louisa  R.  Kimball  of  Woburn,  Mass., 
who  d.  1837,  April  20,  leaving  four  ch.  He  m.,  2d,  1842,  April  15, 
Mrs.  Lydia  R.  (Stratton)  Richardson  of  Woburn,  who  d.  1891, 
Nov.  29,  leaving  four  ch.  He  d.  1881,  Feb.  2.  Ch.:  George  Col- 
lins*, b.  1826,  June  27;  John  Curtis3,  b.  Stoneham,  Mass.,  1828, 
Feb.  29;  Stillman3,  b.  Woburn,  Mass.,  1830,  June  9;  Mary  Louisa3, 
b.  1835,  April  1;  Martha  Ann3,  b.  1839,  May  9;  Charles  Albert3, 
b.  1842,  April  26;  Sarah  Maria3,  b.  1843,  Nov.  19;  Frank  Cabin3, 
b.  1849,  Sept.  26. 

III.  George  Collins,  son  of  Tracy2,  b  1826,  June  27;  m.  1843,  Dec.  9, 
Ann  Tidd  of  Woburn;  he  d.  1886,  Sept.  26.  They  had  one  son, 
Tracy  Warren4,  b.  1852,  Dec.  21,  m.  1877,  Nov.  7,  Susette  Eliza 
Tillson  of  Woburn. 

III.  Stillman,  son  of  Tracy2,  b.  1830,  June  9;  m.  1855,  June  23,  Hannah 
Frances  Durgin  of  Lee,  N.  H.  Had  ch.:  Nellie  F.4,  b.  1857, 
Aug.  23,  d.  1864,  July  10;  Fred  Stillman4,  b.  1862,  Sept,  19,  m. 
1887,  June  16,  Flora  C.  Greenleaf  of  Woburn,  and  d.  1889,  Sept.  1; 
George  Wilbur4,  b.  1865,  Aug.  26,  m.  Emma  Louise  French  of 
Winchester,  and  d.  1897,  Dec.  5;  Arthur  Curtis4,  b.  1869,  June  20, 
m.  1899,  Nov.  11,  Mrs.  Sarah  R.  G.  Barnes  of  Boston. 

III.  Mary  L.,  dau.  of  Tracy2,  b.  1835,  April  1;  m.  George  Parker  of 
Woburn;  she  d.  1897,  Aug.  24.  They  had  four  ch.:  Helen  Louise4, 
b.  1865,  April  12,  G.  (G.  indicates  graduates  of  Woburn  high 
school);  Gertrude  Evangeline4,  b.  1870,  Dec.  11,  d.  1871,  Oct.  1; 
John  Curtis4,  b.  1872,  June  10,  G.,  m.  1898,  Mabel  Louise  Hovey 
of  Woburn;  George  Newton4,  b.  in  Ayer,  1876,  Aug.  26. 


1016  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

III.  Martha  A.,  dan.  of  Tracy-,  b.  1839,  May  9;  G.;  m.  1865,  Oct.  11, 
Milton  Moore  of  Woburn.  Had  three  ch.:  Mabel4,  b.  1867,  Aug. 
19,  G.;  Arthur  Milton4,  b.  1869,  Aug.  25,  d.  1877,  July  21;  Nellie 
Dean4,  b.  1871,  May  9,  G. 

III.  Charles  A.,  son  of  Tracy2,  b.  1842,  April  26;  m.  1865,  March  30, 
Evelena  Orville  Sutherland  of  Woburn,  G.  Had  three  ch.: 
Carrie4,  b.  1867,  July  25,  d.  1869,  Sept.  26;  Grace  C.4,  b.  1872, 
Jan.  9,  G.,  m.  1901,  Jan.  31,  Edwin  Kimball  Porter  of  Woburn; 
Albert4,  b.  1878,  April  15. 

III.  Sarah  M.,  dau.  of  Tracy2,  b.  1843,  Nov.  19;  m.  1869,  Dec.  29,  George 
Jacob  Monroe  of  Woburn.  Had  seven  ch.:  Edith  Marion4,  b. 
1870,  Nov.  9,  G.;  Florence  Lydia4,  b.  1872,  Aug.  29,  G.;  Martha 
Ada4,  b.  1874,  Dec.  7,  G.;  George  Chalmer4,  b.  1877,  July  18,  G.; 
Bertha  Nichols4,  b.  1880,  May  25,  G.,  m.  1903,  April  6,  Arthur 
Linwood  Parker  of  Concord,  N.  H.;  Harold  Knapp4,  b.  1884, 
July  10,  G.;  Ralph  Milton4,  b.  1886,  Sept.  6. 

III.  Frank  Calvin,  son  of  Tracy2,  b.  1849,  Sept.  26;  m.,  1st,  1880,  Feb.  12, 
Mary  L.  Crosby  of  Woburn,  Mass.,  G.  He  m.,  2d,  1886,  June  15, 
Sarah  Elizabeth  Carter  of  Wilmington,  Mass.  Had  eight  ch.: 
Rufus  Stratton4,  b.  1881,  Sept.  24;  Dana  Frank4,  b.  1883,  Aug.  3, 
d.  1888,  March  19;  Byron  Carter4,  b.  1887,  July  2,  d.  1895,  Feb.  22; 
Hubert  Frank4,  b.  1890,  July  3;  Walter  Collins4,  b.  1891,  Oct.  9; 
Alice  Russell4,  b.  1893,  April  12;  Ernest  William4,  b.  1895,  Feb.  15; 
Ruth  Elizabeth4,  b.  1897,  March  23. 
II.  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Benjamin1,  m.  Joseph  Spaulding  of  Lyndeborough; 
she  d.  about  1850.  They  had  ch.:  ,Stillmans;  Benjamin8;  Stephen8; 
Caroline3;  and  John8. 

III.  Stillman,  son  of  Rebecca2,  b.  Milford,  1807;  m.  Clara  Ann  Chase, 
b.  Moore's  Mills,  N.  B.,  1805.  Had  ch.:  Mehitabel  Little4,  b.  1838, 
Dec.  9,  m.  Benjamin  W.  Nichols;  Roger4. 

NORDSTROM. 

Carl  Albert  Nordstrom  was  b.  in  Sweden,  1867,  Aug.  4,  the  son  of 
John  Nordstrom,  a  sea  captain.  He  went  to  sea  at  fourteen  years 
of  age,  visited  South  America,  New  Zealand,  and  other  places, 
and  when  seventeen  years  old  had  sailed  around  the  world.  He 
visited  the  United  States  in  1884,  remained  about  two  years,  when 
the  longing  for  old  ocean's  attractions  again  took  possession  of 
him,  and  he  put  to  sea  once  more,  this  time  in  American  ships. 
He  landed  in  New  York  city  again  in  1887,  Aug.  3,  and  arrived 
in  Manchester  the  next  day.  Here  he  m.  1894,  March  14, 
Augusta  Lindquist,  b.  in  Sweden,  1867,  Aug.  1,  and  who  came  to 
America  when  two  years  old.  They  settled  in  Manchester,  but 
now  res.  in  Bedford.  Have  ch. :  Evert  Frederick2,  b.  Manchester, 
1894,  Dec.  26;  Louise  Josephine2,  b.  1896,  Oct.  18;  Alfred  Wal- 
ter2, b.  1898,  Nov.  25;  Elin  Charlotte2,  b.  1900,  Dec.  1;  Esther 
Annette2,  b.  Bedford,  1902,  Nov.  11. 

ORR. 

Of  the  ancestors  of  this  family  we  quote  from  a  manuscript  written  by 
Ann  Orr,  fifty  years  ago: 

"The  Orrs,  found  among  the  first  settlers  of  Bedford,  were  of  Scottish 
origin.  Their  ancestry  belonged  to  a  company  of  Scotch  Presbyterians, 
who  were  invited  by  James  I  of  England  to  come  and  settle  in  the  coun- 
ties of  Antrim  and  Londonderry,  where  a  number  of  estates  had  been  con- 
fiscated on  occasion  of  the  rebellion  of  the  Irish  nobility. 

"  Daniel  and  John  Orr,  the  immediate  ancestors  of  the  families  of  that 


GENEALOGIES. — OUR.  1017 

name  in  Bedford,  were  born  in  the  parish  of  Belemong,  county  of  Antrim, 
in  Ireland.  Receiving  a  suitable  education  they  became  schoolmasters  by 
profession.  They  were  both  married  in  Ireland,  Daniel  to  Eleanor  On-, 
and  John  to  Margaret  Kamel. 

"  With  the  hope  of  becoming  owners  of  land  and  possessors  of  liberty, 
they,  with  their  sister,  Mrs.  Janet  Orr  Dinsmore,  and  her  husband,  emi- 
grated to  America  about  the  year  1726,  and  settled  in  Londonderry,  where 
they  resided  for  a  time. 

"Daniel  Orr  died  in  that  town,  in  middle  age,  of  palsy,  by  which  dis- 
ease he  had  been  unable  to  labor  for  some  years." 

I.  John  Orr  emigrated  to  this  country  from  the  north  of  Ireland  with 
his  brother,  Daniel,  and  sister,  Jennet,  in  1726.  They  first  res.  in 
Londondery,  but  John  moved  thence  to  Bedford,  where  he  res.  on 
the  farm  now  owned  by  Albert  L.  Flint.  He  had  m.  Margaret 
Kamel  in  Ireland.  John  and  his  wife  both  died  very  suddenly  of 
fever  in  1754,  May,  within  four  days  of  each  other.  He  was  "a 
fine  specimen  of  a  shrewd,  pious,  plain-hearted  Scotchman.'" 
There  were  several  ch.,  one  or  two  of  which  were  b.  in  Ireland: 
one  son  was  drowned  in  childhood  (see  page  586);  Annis2,  b. 
about  1735,  m.  Dea.  John  Aiken  (see  Aiken);  Mary2,  m.  Joseph 
Houston  of  Bedford;  Margaret2,  m.  Jacob  McGaw,  Esq.,  of  Mer- 
rimack; HugK2  and  John'1. 
II.  Hugh,  oldest  son  of  John1;  ni.  Sarah  Reed  of  Londonderry  and  set- 
tled on  part  of  the  paternal  farm.  He  sold  to  his  brother,  and 
went  to  Hancock  or  Antrim;  then  went  to  Rockingham,  Vt., 
thence  to  Homer,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d.  His  family,  supposed  to 
consist  of  six  daus.  and  three  sons,  are  scattered  over  the  western 
country.  Three  ch.  were  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.:  Matthew3,  b.  1775, 
Feb.  27;  John,  b.  1777,  May  31;  Marian,  b.  1779,  Aug.  23. 

II.  Hon.  John,  youngest  son  of  John1,  bought  out  his  brother  Hugh 

and  settled  on  the  homestead;  was  state  senator,  1797-1805.  He 
was  m.,  1st,  1771,  Dec.  18,  by  Rev.  John  Houston,  to  Jane,  dau.  of 
Dea.  Benjamin  Smith,  bv  whom  he  had  five  sons  and  three  daus. 
Jane,  his  wife,  d.  1786,  Sept.  5.  He  in.,  2d,  1888,  May  20,  Sarah 
dau.  of  Rev.  John  Houston;  they  had  four  daus.  and  three  sons. 
Hed.  1823,  Jan.,  aged  75  (see  Biography).  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Ben- 
jamin^, b.  1772,  Dec.  1;  Margaret8,  b.  1774,  Sept.  1-,  m.  1800,  Nov., 
Samuel  Chandler  (see  Chandler) ;  James3,  b.  1776,  May  12,  went 
to  sea,  settled  in  Newburn,  S.  C;  Adam3,  b.  1778,  April  20; 
Mary3,  b.  1780,  April  13,  m.  1832,  Sept,  19,  Rev.  William  Milti- 
more  of  Falmouth,  Me.,  and  res.  in  Litchfield,  1850;  Annis3,  b. 
1782,  Sept.  22,  m.  1805,  Rev.  David  McGregor  and  d.  1806,  leav- 
ing no  ch.:  Hugh3,  b.  1784,  Sept.  28,  went  in  the  fall  of  1805  to  his 
brother  at  Tobago,  W.  I.,  where  he  d.  six  mos.  later;  John?,  b. 
1786,  Aug.  21.  Ch.  2d  mar.,  Jane3,  b.  1789,  May  14;  William3,  b. 
1790,  Sept.  30;  Isaac3,  b.  1792,  June  26;  Sarah3,  b.  1794,  April  5; 
Robert3,  b.  1797,  Dec.  23;  Ann3,  b.  1799,  Sept.  21;  Elizabeth  Smith3, 
b.  1801,  July  1,  d.  1822,  in  Sangus,  Mass.,  where  she  was  attending 
school,  under  the  care  of  Rev.  Joseph  Emerson. 
III.  Hon.  Benjamin,  son  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1772,  Dec.  1;  m.  1805,  Eliza- 
beth, dau.  of  Capt.  Richard  Toppan,  who  had  removed  from 
Newburyport  to  Topsham,  1799.  She  was  of  the  fourth  genera- 
tion in  descent  from  John  Robinson  of  Leydeu  memory.  They 
had  eleven  ch.,  of  whom  two  sons  received  a  collegiate  edu- 
cation, viz.:  John,  who  graduated  at  Bowdoin  college,  1834, 
studied  divinity  at  Bangor,  and  settled  in  the  ministry  at  Alfred, 
Me. ;  Henry,  graduated  at  Bowdoin  college,  1846,  and  settled  as  a 
lawyer  in  Brunswick  (see  Biography) . 

III.  Adam,  son  of  Hon.   John2,  b.  1778,  April  20;   was  apprenticed  to 

Hon.  Benjamin  Russell  in  the  printing  business,  Boston;  went  to 


1018  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

Tobago,  W.  I.,  1798;  was  attorney  for  plantations  and  master  in 
chancery  in  the  king's  court;  d.  in  Tobago,  1820,  Jan.,  unm. 

III.  John,  son  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1786,  Aug.  21;  m.  Ann  McAfee  of  Bed- 
ford, and  moved  to  Elba,  N.  Y.,  about  1810;  was  still  res.  there 
1850.  Had  two  sons  (one  of  whom  d.  in  infancy)  and  five  daus. , 
who  settled  in  New  York  and  farther  West. 

III.  Jane,  dau.  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1789,  May  14;  m.  John  P.  Wallace  of 
Merrimack;  rem.  to  Greensborough,  Vt.,  where  they  still  res., 
1850.  They  had  three  sons  that  lived  to  maturity;  one  d.  on  his 
way  to  Texas;  the  second  was  a  successful  teacher,  and  the 
youngest  was  preparing  for  college  in  1850  (no  further  record). 

III.  William,  son  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1790,  Sept.  30;  graduated  at  Dart- 
mouth college,  1815,  studied  law  in  Troy,  N.  Y.;  settled  in  New 
Orleans,  where  he  d.  1828,  unm. 

III.  Rev.  Isaac,  son  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1792,  June  26;  graduated  at  Yale  col- 

lege (see  Biography);  he  m.,  1st,  Mary  Morris,  by  whom  he  had 
three  sons,  one  of  whom,  Edward,  settled  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  and 
had  several  ch.,  the  other  two  d.  previous  to  1850;  Mary,  his  wife, 
having  d.,  Rev.  Isaac  m.  2d,  Matilda,  dau.  of  Dr.  Samuel  Kidder 
of  Medford,  Mass.  He  d.  1844,  April  28.  They  had  one  son, 
Samuel  Kidder4. 

IV.  Samuel  Kidder,  son  of  Rev.  Isaac3,  was  b.  in  Medford,  Mass.,  1836, 

May  24;  he  m.  in  Lowell,  1858,  Dec.  31,  Joan  Stevens,  b.  in  Dra- 
cut,  Mass.,  1838,  May  8;  she  is  still  living.  He  d.  at  Amherst, 
Mass.,  1897,  May  17.  They  had  three  ch.:  Edward  Stevens5,  b.  in 
Amherst,  Mass.,  1859,  Oct.  5;  Henry  Page5,  b.  1864,  Feb.  4,  d. 
1870,  Nov.  24;  Matilda  Kidder5,  b.  1868,  May  18  (is  still  living). 
V.  Edward  Stevens,  b.  in  Amherst,  Mass.,  1859,  Oct.  5;  has  been  gen- 
eral agent  of  Baltimore  &  Ohio  S.  W.  railroad.  He  m.  1889, 
June  4,  Mary  Agnes  Orr,  b.  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  1865,  Oct.  16,  dau. 
of  William  Campbell  and  Mary  (Anderson)  Orr.  They  res.  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  where  their  three  ch.  were  born:  Edward  Burr6,  b. 
1896,  Nov.  9;  Katherine6,  b.  1900,  Aug.  19;  Mary6,  b.  1902,  July  5. 

III.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1794,  April  5;  m.  Rev.  William 
Chapin,  as  his  second  wife,  and  res.  in  Greensboro,  Vt.  Mr. 
Ohapin  d.  1850.    They  had  two  ch.,  a  son  and  dau. 

III.  Robert,  son  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1797,  Dec.  23;  graduated  at  Yale  col- 
lege 1820;  studied  law  with  his  brother,  Benjamin,  in  Bruns- 
wick, Me.,  and  settled  in  Topsham,  where  he  d.  in  1829. 

III.  Ann,  dau.  of  Hon.  John2,  b.  1799,  Sept.  21;  m.  1825,  July,  Rev. 
Samuel  A.  Worcester;  went  with  him  to  the  Cherokee  Mission, 
Georgia,  and  with  part  of  the  tribe  removed  west  to  Arkansas. 
They  settled  at  Park  Hill,  New  Echota,  where  she  d.,  leaving  a 
number  of  ch.  At  the  time  of  the  trouble  with  the  Indians  in 
Georgia,  her  husband  was  unjustly  imprisoned,  on  which  occasion 
she  manifested  great  fortitude  and  resolution. 
I.  Daniel,  who  came  over  with  his  brother,  John,  1726,  had  m.,  in  Ire- 
land, Eleanor  Orr;  they  res.  in  Londonderry,  N.  H,  where  he  d. 
in  middle  life.  Had  four  ch.:  John2;  Jennet2;  Margaret2;  George2. 
II.  George,  son  of  Daniel1,  was  but  an  infant  when  his  parents  d.,  and 
his  life  proved  a  very  eventful  one  (see  War  Record,  p.  493). 
Having  completed  his  term  of  service  for  his  country  he  returned 
home  and  steadily  but  slowly  pursued  the  cultivation  of  his  farm, 
which  yielded  an  ample  supply  for  the  real  wants  of  himself  and 
his  family.  Possessing  in  the  highest  degree  the  confidence 
and  good  will  of  his  neighbors  and  the  respect  and  affection  of 
his  family,  seeking  nothing  for  them  or  himself  but  a  compe- 
tence, he  "through  life  enjoyed  a  high  degree  of  domestic  happi- 
ness. Being  blessed  with  a  retentive  memory,  though  destitute 
in  his  youth  of  the  advantages  of  a  school  education,  he  had,  by 


GENEALOGIES. — ORE.  1019 

travel,  by  observation  and  reading,  laid  up  a  fund  of  entertaining 
and  useful  knowledge  which  it  was  his  delight  to  communicate  to 
others.  His  health  was  so  firm  through  life  that  he  never  needed 
the  aid  of  a  physician  until  within  one  week  of  his  death,  which 
took  place  1807,  Oct.  17,  having  nearly  completed  his  seventy- 
fifth  year.  He  m.  Margaret,  dau.  of  Thomas  Wallace,  and  settled 
in  Bedford,  where  he  d.  1807,  Oct.  17.  They  had  four  ch.  b.  here: 
Jane3;  Eleanor3,  m.  1816,  May  22,  Samuel  Sawyer,  d.  1841,  Feb. 
21,  aged  62,  buried  in  Bedford;  Ann3,  b.  1782,  Sept.  21,  d.  1849, 

Nov.  9,  was  a  noted  teacher  (see  biography);  Margaret3,  b. . 

d.  here  1819,  June  3,  aged  34. 

III.  Jane,  dau.  of  George'2;  m.  1816,  Feb.  27,  Ebenezer  Fisher,  a  son  of 

Dea.  Samuel  Fisher  of  Londonderry,  one  of  the  patriarchs  of  that 
famous  Scotch-Irish  colony.  She  d.  1839,  June  8,  aged  62,  and  is 
buried  in  Bedford.     They  had  a  dau.,  Mary  J.* 

IV.  Mary  J.  (Fisher),  dau.  of  Jane3,  was  b.  in  Londonderry  1820,  she 

was  the  granddaughter  of  Samuel  Fisher,  one  of  the  emigrant 
settlers  of  that  town,  and  probably  his  only  surviving  grandchild 
at  the  time  of  her  death.  Most  of  her  early  life  was  spent  in 
Bedford,  school  teaching  being  her  occupation.  She  m.  E. 
Tolman  Conant  of  Greensboro,  Vt. ,  who  d.  1861,  leaving  her  with 
eight  ch.  to  care  for.  She  d.  in  Hardwick,  Vt.,  1903,  May  20, 
aged  83  years.  Four  ch.  are  still  living:  Prof.  C.  S.  Conant8  of 
Concord;  Mrs.  J.  H.  McLowd5  of  Hardwick,  Vt.;  Mrs.  F.  B. 
Wright6  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  Mrs.  George  W.  Simpson6  of 
East  Craftsbury,  Vt. 
I.  Jennet,  who  came  over  with  her  brothers,  John  and  Daniel,  m. 

Dinsmoor,   and  settled  in  Windham,  where  some  of  her 

descendants  were  living  in  1850. 

HON.  JOHN  OEK. 

At  the  age  of  five  years  he  lost  both  his  parents  within  a  week  of  each 
other.  The  family  were  kept  together  one  year  under  the  care  of  Annis, 
then  nineteen.  They  were  then  put  out  to  different  famihes,  under  the 
direction  of  their  guardian,  Dea.  Robert  Walker.  John  he  took  into  his 
own  family  until  he  was  fourteen.  The  deacon  adhered  to  the  good  old 
system  of  family  discipline,  and  from  him,  John  (as  he  used  to  say  him- 
self in  advanced  age)  received  just  the  training  he  needed.  "  There  was 
in  me,"  said  he,  "by  nature,  a  recklessness,  an  obstinacy  and  self-will 
which  would  not  have  borne  the  least  indulgence."  Several  anecdotes, 
related  by  the  companions  of  his  childhood,  show  the  seeds  of  that  integ- 
rity, reflection,  and  sound  judgment,  which  in  after  life  distinguished 
him  in  the  halls  of  legislation,  mingled  with  that  firmness,  perseverance, 
and  dauntless  bravery  which  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  of  volunteers 
on  the  field  of  Bennington. 

After  leaving  the  service  of  Deacon  Walker  he  spent  a  few  years  as  a 
hired  laborer  with  friends  in  Londonderry  and  Bedford.  About  the  age 
of  nineteen  he  went  with  some  other  young  men  into  the  state  of  Maine, 
and  engaged  in  the  business  of  a  carpenter.  There  he  considered  himself 
in  after  life  to  have  been  in  imminent  danger.  ' '  The  workmen  in  this 
business,"  said  he,  "were  accustomed  to  receive  from  their  employers  a 
portion  of  ardent  spirits  at  certain  hours  of  the  day.  At  first  I  took  it 
only  to  avoid  singularity;  but  soon  I  found  my  appetite  increased  and 
would  catch  myself  looking  up  at  the  sun  to  see  if  eleven  o'clock  was 
drawing  near.  I  was  convinced  that  I  was  in  danger  of  becoming  a 
drunkard.  I  had  not  the  wisdom  or  courage  to  break  off  altogether,  but 
I  determined  I  would  have  no  set  time  for  my  drams.  If  I  had  not  taken 
this  resolution  no  doubt  I  should  have  filled  a  drunkard's  grave  before  this 
time." 


1020  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

About  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  returned  to  Bedford,  and,  in  company 
with  his  brother,  Hugh,  commenced  the  cultivation  of  the  farm  left  them 
by  their  father,  being  the  same  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Samuel 
Patten.  At  the  age  of  twenty-three  he  bought  out  his  brother's  share  of 
the  farm,  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Catherine  Smith, 
built  a  saw  and  grist  mill,  and  engaged  with  great  ardor  in  the  business  of 
improving  his  farm.  But  his  business  was  soon  interrupted  by  the  com- 
mencement of  the  Revolutionary  struggles.  He  took  a  very  warm  and  de- 
cided stand  in  support  of  the  liberties  of  his  country. 

He  joined  the  company  of  volunteers,  who  in  the  year  1777,  under  the 
command  of  General  Stark,  marched  to  oppose  the  further  progress  of 
Burgoyne's  army  then  stationed  at  Stillwater.  He  received  a  lieutenant's 
commission  under  Captain  McConnell,  in  Colonel  Stickney's  regiment, 
and  left  with  his  company  for  Bennington.  The  following  sketch  was 
drawn  up  by  himself,  at  the  request  of  his  son,  Isaac,  giving  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  commencement  of  the  battle  at  Bennington  and  his  suffering, 
after  being  wounded  in  the  knee,  which  made  him  a  cripple  and  left  a 
running  sore  for  life: 

"On  the  16th  of  August,  1777,  I  was  called  to  engage  a  detachment 
of  the  British,  which  had  been  sent  out  from  Stillwater  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  the  military  stores  deposited  at  Bennington.  They  had  been 
checked  in  their  march  on  the  14th  about  six  miles  from  Bennington  by 
the  appearance  of  Stark's  brigade,  where  they  cast  up  two  breastworks 
nearly  half  a  mile  apart.  On  the  morning  of  the  16th  Colonel  Nichols, 
with  a  detachment  of  the  volunteers,  was  ordered  by  a  circuitous  route 
to  attack  the  main  breastworks  as  soon  as  another  detachment  should 
attack  it  in  the  rear.  I  was  in  a  detachment  of  two  hundred  to  attack 
the  minor  breastworks  as  soon  as  we  could  hear  Nichols'  gun.  We 
marched  from  the  main  body  about  half  a  mile,  and  then  arranged  our- 
selves in  front  of  the  breastworks  about  fifty  or  sixty  rods  distant,  with 
trees  and  corn  intervening,  which  prevented  our  seeing  each  other. 

"  About  four  o'clock  p.  m.  Nichols  began,  and  the  cracking  of  muskets 
were  such  the  imagination  could  see  men  falling  by  dozens.  We  arose 
and  with  shouts  marched  rapidly  to  the  attack.  In  the  meantime  I 
remembered  the  fate  of  Col.  Hale,  who  about  two  months'  before  was 
overtaken  in  his  retreat  from  Ticonderoga  by  the  enemy,  skulked  in  the 
beginning  of  the  action,  lost  his  standard,  and  was  degraded.  Resolving 
that  no  one  should  have  cause  to  impeach  me  with  cowardice,  I  marched 
on  with  the  appearance  of  a  brave  soldier.  When  we  had  passed  through 
the  wood  and  cornfields  we  came  in  sight  of  the  enemy  at  about  fifteen 
rods  distance.  They  commenced  firing  of  muskets  at  an  alarming  rate, 
so  that  it  seemed  wonderful  that  any  of  the  attacking  party  should  escape. 
At  that  time  an  expression  of  the  Prince  of  Orange  came  into  my  mind 
'every  bullet  has  its  billet,'  and  I  soon  found  one  commissioned  to  lay  me 
low.  After  having  lain  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes,  one  of  our  sergeants 
came  and  offered  to  take  me  off  the  ground.  I  told  him  he  was  unable, 
for  I  could  not  help  myself.  He  said  he  would  not  leave  me  there,  for  the 
enemy  might  come  and  kill  me.  He  therefore  called  a  soldier  to  his 
assistance.  They  took  hold  of  me  by  my  arms  and  attempted  to  carry  me 
off,  but  the  balls  flew  directly  at  us,  so  that  I  charged  them  to  lay  me 
down  instantly,  each  take  a  hand  and  stoop  so  low  that  the  flax  would 
conceal  them,  and  drag  me  on  my  back  to  the  cornfield,  where  I  should 
be  out  of  sight  of  the  enemy.  This  order  they  obeyed,  and  took  me  to  the 
road  where  many  of  the  wounded  were  collected.  I  was  then  carried  to 
the  general's  quarters  where  I  lodged  that  night  without  rest. 

"In  the  morning  Robert  Smith  came  and  asked  the  German  surgeon 
to  examine  and  dress  my  wound.  He  complied  and  put  a  bandage  on  it, 
but  took  no  pains  to  reduce  the  fractured  bone.  Smith  took  him  aside 
and  asked  him  what  he  thought  of  my  case.  He  said  it  would  have 
been  as  well  if  my  head  had  been  cut,  for  I  must  die.     This  opinion  was 


GENEALOGIES. — ORR.  1021 

not  told  me  until  I  recovered.  For  more  than  a  month  I  lay  under  the 
care  of  our  regimental  doctor,  suffering  pain  which  I  need  not  attempt  to 
describe,  continually  losing  health  and  strength.  It  was  the  opinion  of 
some  that  I  could  not  recover,  but  I  had  a  considerable  flow  of  spirits, 
and  was  sometimes  merry,  so  that  some  of  my  attendants  thought  I  was 
deranged. 

"  After  the  departure  of  the  brigade  I  employed  a  private  surgeon,  who 
had  more  skill,  to  attend  me,  and  sometime  in  November  I  began  to  feel 
better,  and  my  stomach  regained  its  proper  tone  for  food,  but  the  doctor 
appointed  my  diet  of  light  food;  this  became  disagreeable,  for  I  hankered 
especially  for  hearty  meat.  One  day  I  longed  for  pork  and  beans,  and 
the  desire  increased  and  continued  until  evening.  I  did  what  I  could  by 
reasoning  to  suppress  this  appetite,  but  in  vain,  and  I  considered  myself 
in  a  situation  similar  to  that  of  the  Israelites  in  the  wilderness,  when 
their  soul  loathed  the  light  food.  And  I  feared  that  God  had  given  me 
up  to  my  heart's  lust  to  wander  in  councils  of  my  own;  but  in  the  even- 
ing I  found  relief  without  any  visible  cause,  which  made  me  inexpressa- 
bly  happy.  1778,  Feb.  4,  I  set  out  on  a  bed  in  a  sleigh  and  arrived  on  the 
14th  at  my  house  in  health.  I  was  unable  to  step  without  crutches  until 
October  following.  During  all  this  time  of  pain  and  weakness  I  felt  no 
great  anxiety  about  the  things  of  time,  but  as  soon  as  I  was  able  to  walk 
without  crutches  I  returned  to  my  habits  of  industry,  and  by  the  blessing 
of  God  on  my  endeavors  I  have  obtained  a  competence  of  the  good  things 
of  time,  and  enjoyed  as  much  happiness  as  generally  falls  to  the  heart  of 
humanity  in  this  world  of  changes.  May  the  giver  of  all  good  inspire  me 
with  gratitude  and  prepare  me  for  a  better  world;  for  the  time  of  my 
departure  is  at  hand. 

"John  Orr." 

Mr.  Orr  was  an  honor  to  his  native  town.  After  having  filled  various 
important  offices  in  the  town  and  state,  he  departed  this  life  in  January, 
1823,  aged  75,  full  of  years  and  honor.  His  memory  is  held  in  great  ven- 
eration. The  following  inscription  appears  on  his  gravestone  in  the  old 
graveyard.  "As  an  officer  of  the  church,  distinguished  for  a  discriminat- 
ing judgment,  uncommon  decision,  candor,  and  meekness.  He  lived  and 
died  in  an  unshaken,  practical  adherence  to  the  faith  once  delivered  to  the 
Saints."  His  influence  was  always  on  the  side  of  virtue  and  religion;  he 
was  active  in  every  good  enterprise;  his  voice  was  often  heard  in  the 
religious  conference,  and  many  now  living  remember  well  the  interest  he 
gave  to  these  occasions.  In  the  language  of  one  who  knew  him  well, 
"  He  was  one  of  Nature's  nobility,"  and  to  him  may  be  applied  the  follow- 
ing from  the  great  poet: 

"  He  was  a  noble  gentleman; 
The  general  voice 

Sounds  him  for  courtesy,  behaviour,  truth, 
And  every  fair  demeanour,  an  example. 
Titles  of  honor  add  not  to  his  fame. 
Who  was  himself  an  honor  to  the  title." 

HON.  BENJAMIN  ORE, 

son  of  Hon.  John  Orr.  The  following  is  from  the  sketch  of  Mr.  Jacob 
McGaw,  Esq.,  Bangor: 

Mr.  Orr  was  born  at  Bedford,  Dec.  1,  1772,  and  in  his  boyhood  expressed 
a  desire  for  public  education.  To  have  gratified  this  wish  would  have 
been  very  pleasing  to  his  father,  but  as  he  had  seven  other  sons,  and  as  his 
property  was  not  large  enough  to  do  equally  well  for  all  of  them,  he 
deemed  it  unjust  to  allow  Benjamin  the  boon  he  had  requested.  Instead 
of  pursuing  the  course  to  which  his  inclination  and  judgment  both  pointed, 
he  was  apprenticed  to  a  house wright.  He  served  his  master  with  fidelity 
some  two  or  three  years,  but  circumstances  occurred  at  that  time  which 


1022  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

induced  Mr.  Orr  to  endeavor  to  be  released  from  his  apprenticeship.  A 
bargain  was  concluded  by  which  Mr.  Orr  stipulated  to  pay  his  master  a 
sum  of  money,  so  soon  as  he  could  earn  it,  instead  of  his  unfinished  term. 
The  payment  was  honorably  made,  from  the  proceeds  of  his  labors  in  the 
art  to  which  he  had  been  apprenticed. 

Mr.  Orr's  thirst  for  a  thorough  literary  education  was  so  intense  as  to 
produce  the  resolution  that  nothing  short  of  providential  interposition 
should  prevent  him  from  obtaining  it.  Animated  by  the  hope  of  final 
success,  he  labored  with  such  diligence  and  skill  that  he  was  not  only  able 
to  pay  the  money  due  to  his  former  master,  but  also  to  commence  a  course 
of  study  preparatory  to  a  collegiate  course.  His  studies,  his  mechanical 
labors,  and  school  teaching  were  made  subservient  to  this  ultimate  object, 
and  allowed  him  no  time  for  recreation.  His  pleasures  consisted  in  antici- 
pation of  the  future.  After  Mr.  Orr  became  his  own  master,  he  first 
labored  in  the  upper  part  of  New  Hampshire.  There  he  became  an  occa- 
sional scholar,  under  Mr.  Paul  Langdon,  an  eminent  teacher,  who  was 
preceptor  of  an  academy  at  Fryeburg,  Me.  It  was  poverty  alone  that 
made  him  an  occasional  scholar.  But  even  the  suspension  of  his  studies 
did  not  cause  him  to  swerve  from  the  one  grand  object  that  was  always  in 
his  view,  viz.,  eminence.  It  is  said  that  some  of  the  grandest  specimens 
of  architectural  beauty  existing  in  Maine  were  produced,  in  part  at  least, 
by  his  labor  at  that  time. 

Thus  he  labored  and  studied,  enjoying  the  respect  of  all  who  knew  him, 
and  the  admiring  friendship  of  the  few  with  whom  at  that  early  period  of 
his  life  he  was  intimate.  The  strength  of  attachment  and  respect  of  a 
few,  who,  like  him  were  poor  and  struggling  for  knowledge,  was  surpris- 
ingly great,  and  never  ceased  or  abated  but  with  their  earthly  existence. 

In  August,  1796,  he  had  fitted  himself,  with  such  aid  as  his  other  avoca- 
tions permitted  him  to  receive  from  his  able  preceptor,  Mr.  Langdon,  to 
be  admitted  to  two  years'  advanced  standing  in  Dartmouth  college.  He 
struggled  through  his  first  year  in  college,  depending  on  his  own  resources 
entirely.  Near  the  close  of  this  year,  disease,  induced,  perhaps,  from  too 
severe  application  of  all  his  powers  to  study,  seized  upon  him  with  such 
intensity  as  to  give,  for  a  time,  but  little  hope  of  his  recovery.  In  this 
extremity,  when  death  was  expected  to  do  its  work  upon  the  sick  man,  the 
Hon.  John  Orr,  father  of  Benjamin,  was  notified  of  his  son's  condition. 
All  the  tender  feelings  of  a  fond  father  were  instantly  aroused,  and  with 
his  utmost  speed  the  father  hastened  once  more  to  see,  if  possible,  his 
first-bbrn  child,  and  to  give  his  parting  blessing.  But  Infinite  Wisdom 
and  Benevolence  had  important  labor  for  the  suffering  scholar  yet  to  per- 
form, and  therefore  he  lived.  So  soon  as  the  feeble,  but  returning,  health 
of  the  son  would  permit,  he  returned,  after  an  absence  of  nearly  ten  years, 
to  his  father's  bouse,  there  to  enjoy  the  fulness  of  his  father's  love,  and  all 
the  fondness  and  kind  attentions  of  his  brothers  and  sisters.  Here  the 
affectionate  care  of  darling  sisters  ministered  to  his  convalescence,  and  his 
health  was  restored,  after  months  of  confinement,  so  as  to  enable  him  to 
return  to  college. 

At  this  time  a  new  era  commenced  with  fewer  obstacles  to  be  overcome 
than  had  heretofore  obstructed  the  attainment  of  his  darling  object.  His 
father  saw  with  what  indomitable  eagerness  he  had  pressed  onward  in 
pursuit  of  education,  and  that  providential  interpositions  had  at  length 
arrested  his  progress  when  he  had  arrived  in  full  view  of  the  goal.  Paren- 
tal feelings  could  not  permit  the  cup  of  happiness  and  of  honor  to  be 
dashed  from  the  lips  of  his  son  at  the  moment  when  its  attainment  seemed 
to  be  certain,  after  such  long  and  painful  struggles  had  been  exerted  and 
endured.  The  means  of  making  such  loans  as  would  enable  Mr.  Orr  to 
complete  his  collegiate  course  as  were  in  his  father's  power,  were  offered, 
and  gratefully  accepted.  In  August,  1798,  he  received  the  degree  of  A  B., 
and  quitted  college  with  honorable  standing  as  a  scholar,  notwithstanding 
the  very  numerous  and  great  hindrances  that  were  constantly  occurring. 


GENEALOGIES. — ORE.  1023 

Mr.  Orr,  immediately  after  commencement,  entered  the  office  of  the 
late  Gov.  Samuel  Dinsmore  as  a  student  at  law,  and  pursued  his  studies 
under  the  direction  of  Governor  Dinsmore  from  one  to  two  years.  He 
then  entertained  the  belief  that  Maine,  at  that  time  a  province  of  Massa- 
chusetts, presented  higher  attractions  to  the  ambition  of  a  young  lawyer 
than  New  Hampshire  did.  He  proceeded  to  Hallowell,  in  Maine,  and 
there  placed  himself  under  the  tuition  of  the  Hon.  Samuel  S.  Wilde,  then 
an  eminent  counselor-at-law,  but  now  a  venerable  and  learned  judge  of 
the  supreme  judicial  court  in  Massachusetts.  In  the  summer  or  autumn 
of  1801,  Mr.  Orr  was  admitted  to  practice  law  in  the  court  of  common 
pleas,  and  in  1804  or  1805  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  supreme  judicial 
court.  His  residence  was  principally  in  Brunswick,  but  during  a  few 
years  in  Topsham.  These  towns  are  only  separated  by  the  Androscoggin 
river,  but  lie  in  different  counties,  Cumberland  and  Lincoln. 

Mr.  Orr's  location  presented  to  him  the  opportunity  of  practising  his 
profession  in  both  the  counties  before  mentioned.  In  each  of  these 
counties,  at  that  time,  were  lawyers  holding  very  eminent  standing  in 
their  profession.  Among  them  were  the  late  Chief  Justice  Parker  of 
Massachusetts,  and  the  late  Chief  Justice  Mellen  of  Maine.  Such  a  man  as 
Mr.  Orr  soon  proved  himself  to  be,  could  not  long  be  in  practice  at  the  same 
courts  with  these  gentlemen,  without  opportunity  of  hazarding  a  trial  of 
his  inexperienced  strength,  with  them  or  some  of  them.  His  clients  never 
repined  that  their  counselor  and  advocate  was  of  fewer  years  at  the  bar 
than  the  counselors  of  their  adversaries.  Within  a  short  period  after  Mr. 
Orr's  admission  to  practice  in  the  supreme  judicial  court,  he  stood  in  the 
first  class  of  lawyers  in  both  counties. 

When  Maine  became  one  of  the  United  States  in  1820,  Mr.  Orr's  emi- 
nent standing  had  become  so  generally  known  that  he  was  called  to  go 
into  every  county  in  the  state  to  advocate  one  side  of  the  most  important 
cases  to  be  heard  in  the  supreme  judicial  court.  From  this  period  until 
the  time  of  his  death,  in  1828,  he  followed  the  circuit  of  the  supreme  judi- 
cial court  through  the  state  as  regularly  as  did  the  judges  themselves. 
No  man  in  the  state  pretended  to  hold  rank  above  Mr.  Orr;  few,  if  any, 
thought  themselves  his  equal. 

Chancery  powers  were  very  late  in  being  introduced  into  the  state 
courts,  although  United  States  courts  were  early  clothed  with  equity 
powers.  When  a  circuit  of  the  United  States  court  was  first  held  in  this 
young  state,  a  bill  in  equity  of  great  importance  was  filed  in  that  court, 
and  Mr.  Orr  was  called  to  oppose  the  Hon.  Jeremiah  Mason,  who  was 
brought  from  his  native  state,  New  Hampshire,  and  who  had  long  stood, 
"higher  than  any  of  the  people,  from  his  shoulders  and  upward."  His 
success  was  complete  and  triumphant.  In  this  department  of  law  he  was 
without  a  rival  in  the  state.  On  this  occasion  he  was  highly  comph- 
mented  by  Mr.  Mason,  in  the  presence  of  a  number  of  persons  at  his  own 
house,  in  Portsmouth.  Mr.  Orr's  powers  were  principally  devoted  to  the 
profession  which  he  so  much  adorned.  But  when  he  could  render  good 
service  in  promoting  the  cause  of  science  or  virtue,  he  readily  yielded  him- 
self to  the  advancement  of  those  objects.  Therefore,  when  called  to  serve, 
first  as  an  overseer,  next  as  a  trustee,  and  finally,  as  treasurer,  of  Bowdoin 
college,  he  cheerfully  devoted  himself  to  the  performance  of  very  impor- 
tant duties  and  services  connected  with  the  several  offices  thus  devolved 
upon  him  during  twenty  of  the  last  years  of  his  life.  His  good  name  and 
valuable  services  are  still  cherished  and  kindly  remembered  by  the  old  and 
tried  friends  of  that  institution. 

About  the  year  1813  conflicts  existed  relative  to  lands  in  Maine,  of 
immense  interest  and  value,  between  proprietors  whose  patents  over- 
lapped each  other,  and  incluiing  many  hundred  settlers  and  their  farms. 
Men  who  had  settled  and  paid  for  their  lands,  to  one  set  of  proprietors, 
were  in  many  instances  driven  from  their  farms  and  homes,  and  all  that 
they  held  dear,  without  having  any  means  of  adequate  redress.    Tumultu- 


1024  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

ous  and  riotous  proceedings  ensued.  Legislative  aid  was  invoked,  and, 
finally,  by  general  consent,  Mr.  Orr  and  Hon.  Judge  Bailey  were  selected 
to  adjust  the  adverse  claims,  and,  by  general  rules,  to  settle  troubles  that 
nearly  reproduced  an  intestine  insurrection.  The  whole  matters  were  hap- 
pily and  satisfactorily  closed. 

Mr.  Orr's  political  opinions  were  in  harmony  with  those  of  Washington, 
and  the  men  who  formed  and  administered  for  the  first  twelve  years  the 
institutions  of  the  United  States.  In  other  words,  he  was  a  Federalist  of 
the  old  school.  In  1816  he  yielded  to  the  importunity  of  his  friends  and 
suffered  himself  to  be  a  candidate  for  representative  to  congress,  to  which 
office  he  was  elected,  and  served  through  one  congress  with  ability.  Bxit 
political  life  interfered  with  his  professional  pursuits,  and  after  the  brief 
period  of  two  years  was  wholly  abandoned. 

A  single  remark  may  be  made  in  regard  to  Mr.  Orr's  domestic  life.  His 
wife  was  a  lady  of  fine  manners  and  well  fitted  to  preside  in  a  family 
where  hospitality  and  generous  friendship  were  extended,  to  the  utmost 
limit,  towards  every  individual  who  became  a  guest  in  their  house. 

REV.  ISAAC  ORE. 

This  gentleman,  distinguished  for  his  literary  and  scientific  attainments, 
and  for  his  numerous  philosophical  letters  and  essays,  was  half-brother  of 
Hon.  Benjamin  On',  by  a  second  marriage,  and  grandson  of  Rev.  John 
Houston.  He  became  early  impressed  with  the  importance  of  religion, 
and  united  with  the  church,  in  this  town,  in  his  seventeenth  year.  He 
had  been  learning  a  trade,  but  soon  turned  his  attention  to  study,  with  the 
view  of  preparing  for  the  ministry.  His  college  life  gave  promises  of 
future  usefulness.  Rev.  R.  R.  Gurley  of  Washington  city,  one  of  his 
classmates,  says:  "  He  was  my  earliest,  most  respected,  and  most  faithful 
collegiate  friend.  We  occupied  the  same  room  for  a  long  time,  and  a  gen- 
tleman of  higher  and  more  original  talent,  more  sterling  integrity,  more 
truthfulness  and  disinterestedness  of  character,  is  seldom  seen.  In  all 
branches  he  was  a  good,  and  in  mathematical  and  philosophical  learning, 
a  profound,  scholar.  He  had  in  these  latter  branches  no  superior,  and  few 
equals  in  college."  We  copy  this  from  a  sermon  on  his  death  by  Rev.  A. 
R.  Baker,  Medford,  Mass.,  from  which  we  take  the  following  extract: 
"His  instructor,  Professor  Emerson,  of  Andover  Theological  seminary, 
says,  '  I  always  felt  sure  that  a  difficult  problem,  which  had  passed  un- 
solved from  one  to  another  of  his  fellow-students  in  the  recitation-room, 
would  be  stopped  by  him,  for  he  was  always  prepared.'  " 

After  leaving  college  he  became  associate  instructor  in  the  asylum  for 
the  deaf  and  dumb  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  he  remained  till  1824,  when 
he  resigned  his  office  and  took  charge  of  a  similar  institution  in  Canajo- 
harie,  N.  Y.  There  he  married  Miss  Mary  Morris,  an  amiable  lady,  and 
soon  returned  to  Bedford,  N.  H.,  where  he  pursued  and  completed  his  pre- 
parations for  the  ministry,  and  was  licensed  by  the  Presbytery  of  London- 
derry in  1827.  It  was  during  this  brief  residence  in  his  native  town  that 
the  pastor  of  the  church  first  became  acquainted  with  Mr.  Orr,  and  was 
deeply  impressed  with  his  high  intellectual  and  moral  worth.  During 
this  period  he  preached  occasionally,  but  nowhere  for  any  length  of  time, 
except  Tyngsboro,  Mass.,  and  Amherst,  N.  H. ,  in  the  former  of  which 
places  he  also  instructed  in  the  academy;  but  his  impaired  health  did  not 
allow  him  to  assume  a  pastoral  charge. 

His  wife  died  soon  after  the  birth  of  her  youngest  child,  and  about  this 
time  he  accepted  the  office  of  city  missionary  in  Washington,  D.  C.  His 
second  wife  was  Matilda,  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Kidder  of  Medford, 
Mass.  It  was  while  engaged  at  Washington  that  he  became  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  African  race,  and  was  appointed  agent  of  the  American  Col- 
onization society,  and  afterwards  secretary  of  the  African  Education  so- 
ciety, and  editor  of  its  public  journal. 


GENEALOGIES. — ORE.  1025 

Subsequently  he  was  employed  as  a  reporter  of  the  United  States  senate 
for  the  National  Intelligencer,  and  in  this  capacity  wrote  those  letters  in  the 
New  York  Commercial  Advertiser,  under  the  signature  of  "Hampden,"  and 
those  in  the  Boston  Courier,  under  the  signature  of  "Timoleon,"  which 
were  widely  circulated,  and  are  still  resorted  to  as  political  documents  of 
great  permanent  value.  Prostrated  by  a  disease  which,  it  was  believed, 
too  severe  application  to  study  produced,  and  which  had  been  undermin- 
ing his  constitution  for  many  years,  he  returned  in  the  spring  of  1842  to 
New  England;  resided  a  year  in  Medford,  and  then  went  to  Amherst, 
Mass.,  where  his  disease,  which  was  consumption,  gathered  strength  and 
terminated  his  life  on  the  28th  of  April,  1844,  in  the  fifty-first  year  of  his 
age. 

Mr.  Orr  was  a  man  of  extraordinary  powers  of  mind.  His  mental  con- 
stitution was  wonderfully  adapted  to  the  most  abstruse  subjects  in  phil- 
osophy and  mathematics.  The  compiler  of  this  brief  sketch  well  remem- 
bers his  last  visit  at  Bedford. 

He  was  most  interesting  and  affectionate  to  all  his  friends,  and  at  the 
same  time,  with  those  who  could  enter  into  his  thoughts,  he  poured  forth 
the  most  profound  and  lofty  speculations.  During  that  visit  his  favorite 
topic  was  the  theory  of  creation.  He  believed  that  God  had  always  been 
actively  benevolent,  that  there  had  been  some  objects  on  which  to  spend 
his  beneficence;  hence,  he  carried  the  existence  of  matter  back  to  an  in- 
definite period,  in  external  ages,  and  without  making  it  co-existent  with 
God,  gave  it  a  sort  of  indefinite  past  duration. 

Mr.  Orr's  correspondence  was  with  some  of  the  most  gifted  minds  in  the 
country,  as  Professor  Fisher,  previous  to  his  lamented  death,  Dr.  Bow- 
ditch,  and  others,  to  whom  he  communicated  his  views  respecting  the  for- 
mation of  the  universe. 

His  publications  were  numerous,  and  were  given  to  the  public  princi- 
pally through  journals  and  newspapers  of  the  day.  In  the  Washington 
Mirror  of  1835-'36  he  published  twelve  articles  on  various  mathematical 
and  philosophical  subjects,  signed  "O.;"  also,  in  the  same  periodical, 
"  Strictures  on  Dr.  Newman's  Theory  of  Gravitation."  In  the  Boston 
Courier  and  United  States  Telegraph  of  1836  he  published  a  number  of  philo- 
sophical questions  and  essays;  ten  essays  on  infinites  and  other  mathe- 
matical and  philosophical  subjects,  signed  "  O. "  in  the  Boston  Courier  in 
1839,  and  several  articles  in  Professor  Sillman's  Journcd  of  Science  and  Art. 

Mr.  Orr.  amid  these  profound  speculations,  was  not  deficient  in  poetry, 
as  his-"  Ennui,"  published  in  New  Haven  in  1818;  his  "  Christmas  Eve^' 
in  Hartford,  1820;  "  Farewell  to  Georgetown,"  in  the  American  Spectator, 
1830;  and  the  "Student's  Family,"  in  the  United  States  Telegraph,  1833, 
abundantly  testify. 

With  other  subjects  he  was  also  conversant.  He  left  a  MSS.  commen- 
tary on  the  Prophecy  of  Daniel,  another  on  the  book  of  Revelation,  also,  a 
political  manual,  incomplete. 

The  inquiry  may  be  made,  Was  Mr.  Orr's  knowledge  entirely  theoret- 
ical, or  did  he  reduce  it  to  practice?  In  reply,  it  may  be  said  that  the  ap- 
plication of  the  air-tight  principle  to  the  common  stove  originated  with 
him,  and  to  him  we  are  indebted  in  part  for  all  the  subsequent  improve- 
ments in  warming  our  houses  and  economy  in  the  consumption  of  fuel. 

But  more  than  all,  Mr.  Orr  was  a  religious  man.  His  life  was  pure,  and 
his  aims  elevated.  His  departure  from  life  was  most  triumphant.  "  He 
had  lain  in  great  weakness  and  distress  many  days,"  to  quote  the  sermon 
already  alluded  to,  "and  when  he  was  dying,  said,  'Come,  Lord  Jesus, 
come  quickly.  Glory,  glory  to  his  sovereign  grace,  in  that  I  will  rejoice 
— oh,  I  will  rejoice — it  is  my  only  hope — it  is  the  hope  of  the  world.  God 
is  merciful;  he  is  good.  Oh,  salvation  is  all  of  grace,  free  grace.  All  the 
days  of  my  appointed  time  will  I  wait,  till  my  change  come,  but  I  hope,  if 
it  be  God's  will,  I  may  go  to-day— on  God's  holy  Sabbath.  I  know  not 
how  I  could  employ  myself  among  fallen  spirits,  for  I  could  not  help  sing- 
66 


1026  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

ing  Glory  to  God.     I  want  to  be  with  Christ.     I  want  to  see  his  glory. 
Glory,  glory  to  God  in  the  highest.'  " 

Some  of  his  last  words  were  addressed  to  his  wife,  who  gave  expression 
to  the  sentiment  in  some  verses,  of  which  the  following  is  the  first: 

"  O  keep  me  not,  dearest,  keep  me  not  here, 
Visions  of  glory  are  circling1  me  near, 
Angels  are  watching1  and  waiting  for  me, 
My  spirit  is  struggling,  and  longs  to  be  free. 
My  home,  oh,  'tis  pleasant — I  soon  shall  be  there, 
All  pure  and  all  holy— untortured  by  sorrow,  by  sin,  or  by  care." 

The  impression  has  formerly  been  that  men  of  philosophical  and  mathe- 
matical genius  are  not  generally  Christians.  But  is  this  true  ?  Newton 
was  a  Christian.  Locke  was  a  Chrisiian;  and  so  was  our  own  Bowditch. 
His  dying  scene  was  beautiful.  "  On  the  morning  of  his  death,"  says  his 
pastor,  "when  his  sight  was  very  dim,  and  his  voice  almost  gone,  he 
called  his  children  around  his  bedside,  and  arranging  them  in  the  order  of 
age,  pointed  to  and  addressed  each  by  name,  and  said,  '  You  see  I  can  dis- 
tinguish you  all,  and  I  now  give  you  my  parting  blessing.  The  time  is 
come.  Lord,  now  lettest  thou  thy  servant  depart  in  peace,  according  to 
thy  word. '  These  were  his  last  words.  After  this  he  was  heard  to  whis- 
per, in  a  scarcely  audible  tone,  the  words  '  pretty,  pleasant,  beautiful. ' 
But  it  cannot  be  known  whether  he  was  thinking  of  his  own  situation  as 
pleasant,  in  being  surrounded  at  such  a  time  by  those  he  loved,  or  whether 
he  had  caught  a  joyful  glimpse  of  the  spiritual  world." 

ANN   ORR. 

Of  the  four  daughters  of  George  Orr,  Ann  was  the  third,  and  was  born 
1782,  Sept.  21.  In  her  home,  which  through  life  she  looked  back  upon  as 
an  exceptionally  happy  one,  she  was  trained  to  industry,  frugality,  and 
obedience  to  and  respect  for  those  in  authority.  She  also  had  such  advan- 
tages for  school  instruction  as  the  town  afforded.  Children's  books  were 
scarce,  but  she  had  the  Bible,  and  when  quite  young  she  learned  the 
Westminster  Assembly  shorter  catechism.  Later  on  she  committed  to 
memory  the  larger  catechism,  with  scripture  proofs,  which,  to  say  nothing 
of  the  rules  of  faith  and  practice  and  the  theological  knowledge  obtained, 
might  be  considered  of  as  much  use  in  strengthening  the  mind  as  a  course 
in  the  higher  mathematics. 

When  she  had  become  of  some  note  as  a  teacher  in  her  own  town,  she 
was  called  to  a  neighboring  town  to  teach.  One  evening  she  was  with 
some  ladies  who  had  enjoyed  the  advantages  afforded  by  distinguished 
ladies'  seminaries.  After  talking  of  their  different  alma  maters,  one  said, 
"  Miss  Orr,  where  did  you  obtain  your  education?"  Her  answer,  terse 
and  true,  was,  "  In  the  chimney  corner,  by  the  light  of  a  pine  knot." 

She  did  not,  however,  undervalue  their  advantages.  She  took  a  just 
measure  of  herself,  not  only  of  what  she  was,  but  of  what  she  failed  to  be, 
and  never  assumed  to  be  what  she  was  not. 

After  the  period  of  childhood  was  past,  her  own  and  her  father's  friend, 
Hon.  John  Orr,  gave  her  free  access  to  his  library,  which  contained  many 
of  the  standard  works  of  that  day.  She  gladly  availed  herself  of  that 
privilege,  and  we  may  imagine  her  in  her  favorite  "chimney  corner" 
reading  just  such  books  as  her  mental  palate  craved,  as  she  had  history, 
biography,  theology,  and  poetry  from  which  to  choose. 

She  read  them  in  such  a  way  as  to  make  the  ideas  her  own,  and  so  stim- 
ulated her  mental  power  and  enriched  and  strengthened  her  mind,  as  to 
enable  her  to  grasp  with  appreciation  the  great  questions  of  the  nineteenth 
century,  and  to  take  her  place  in  the  front  rank  of  noble,  intellectual 
Christian  women. 

She  commenced  teaching  1801,  May  1.     Of  the  success  attained  in  her 


GENEALOGIES. — ORE. — PARKER.  1027 

vocation,  we  may  judge  by  the  demand  of  the  public  for  her  services.  For 
forty-five  consecutive  years  we  find  her  at  her  post,  and  of  each  of  the 
three  remaining  years  of  her  life  she  taught  either  a  private  or  a  family 
school. 

She  was  deeply  interested  in  the  moral  and  religious  welfare  of  her 
pupils.  Her  religious  teaching  was  not  obtrusive,  but  she  improved  her 
opportunities.  In  the  later  years  of  her  life  she  received  from  her  pupils 
an  appropriate  and  elegant  gift,  as  a  testimonial  not  only  of  what  she  had 
done  for  the  donors,  but  in  recognition  of  her  lifework.  The  idea  was 
started  by  three  gentlemen  past  middle  age,  residing  in  Boston,  who  had 
been  her  pupils,  representing  together  the  pulpit,  the  bar,  and  the  medi- 
cal profession.  Rev.  Silas  Aiken,  D.  D.,  J.  O.  Barnes,  Esq.,  and  Dr. 
Gregg.  Their  testimony  that  her  lifework  had  not  been  in  vain  added 
much  to  the  comfort  of  her  last  years. 

Christian  principles  dominated  her  life,  and  she  was  active  in  all  Chris- 
tian work.  In  the  Sunday-school  she  was  a  prominent  teacher;  in  the 
inquiry  room,  her  pastor's  aid;  and  was  often  called  to  the  sick  and  dying 
to  give  spiritual  counsel  and  comfort.  She  loved  the  church  of  which  she 
had  so  long  been  a  member,  and  labored  for  its  best  interests,  its  purity, 
and  its  honor. 

The  last  time  she  left  her  home  it  was  to  walk  to  the  church  to  attend 
the  Thursday  prayer-meeting.  The  next  week,  on  Friday,  Nov.  9,  1849, 
after  a  severe  illness  of  six  days,  she  was  released  from  her  earthly  labors. 

"  Hope  was  changed  to  glad  fruition, 
Faith  to  sight,  and  prayer  to  praise." 

Her  funeral  service  was  attended  at  the  church  on  Sunday,  when  Rev. 
Thomas  Savage  preached  from  the  text:  "Be  ye  therefore  steadfast,  im- 
movable, always  abounding  in  the  work  of  the  Lord." 

PARKER. 

This  family  have  traced  their  ancestry  to  the  remote  progenitor,  who 
in  the  eleventh  century  entered  England  with  William  the  Conqueror. 

I.  Capt.  James  Parker  came  to  this  country  from  England  in  1634.  He 
m.  1645,  March  23,  Elizabeth  Long  of  Woburn,  Mass.,  and  became 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Groton,  where  he  was  very  prominent 
in  the  affairs  of  the  town.  He  was  one  of  the  first  board  of  select- 
men chosen  1662,  and  continued  in  that  capacity  most  of  the  time 
until  1669;  was  representative  to  the  general  court  1693.  In  1662 
was  deacon,  the  next  year  sergeant,  and  later  captain,  being  active 
in  the  Indian  wars.  Was  chosen  selectman  of  Dunstable,  though 
not  a  resident  of  the  town. 
II.  Capt.  Josiah,  son  of  Capt.  James1,  b.  in  Groton  1665,  served  in  the 
war  against  the  Indians.  He  m.  Elizabeth  Foxton  of  Boston,  and 
became  a  resident  of  Cambridge;  he  d.  1731. 

III.  Rev.  Thomas,  son  of  Capt.  Josiah2,  b.    1700,   Dec.   7;  graduated  at 

Harvard  college  1718;  settled  in  the  ministry  at  Dracut,  1721;  d. 
1765,  March  18.  He  had  five  ch.:  Thomas4,  John*,  William*,  Mat- 
thew11, and  Jonathan*. 

IV.  Capt.  John,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas3,  settled  in  Litchfield  and  served  in 

the  War  of  the  Revolution,  commanding  a  company  of  rangers  at 
the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He  m.  a  descendant  of  Rev.  John  Cot- 
ton, the  second  minister  of  Boston,  and  had  seven  ch.:  Lydia5,  m. 
Thomas  Whittle;  Nabby5,  m.  William  Parker  of  Bedford  (Piscata- 
quog);  Polly5,  m.  John  Boies  and  went  to  Maine  (see  Boies); 
Sally5,  m.  James  Martin;  Lucy6,  m.  John  Tufts;  John5,  m.  Letty 
Moor;  William5,  m.,  1st,  Hannah  Aiken,  2d,  Widow  McGaw. 


1028  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

IV.  "William,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas3  (killed  in  the  mill  yard,  see  Casual- 
ties); m.  Mehitabel  Baldwin  of  Boston;  they  had  four  ch.:  Bet- 
sey5, m.  John  Barber  of  Boston;  Polly5,  m.  Jonas  Varnum  of 
Dracut;  William5;  John5,  who  went  to  sea  and  was  lost. 
V.  William,  son  of  William4,  b.  Litchfield,  1755,  Jan.  21;  d.  1819;  m. 
Nabby  Parker,  b.  Litchfield,  1765,  Oct.  25,  dau.  of  Capt.  John 
Parker;  she  d.  1846,  June.  He  was  known  as  the  father  of  Squog 
(see  biography).  They  had  ten  ch.:  Susan6,  b.  1783,  Oct.  21,  d. 
1844,  m.  Jonathan  Palmer;  Daniel6,  b.  1786,  Sept,  20,  m.  Polly 
McAfee;  William6,  b.  1789,  April  28,  m.  Susan  Whittle;  Betsey6, 
b.  1791,  Sept.  23,  m.  James  Parker;  Isaac,  b.  1794,  June  23,  m. 
Jane  Poor;  Robert*,  b.  1797,  May  13;  Oilman6,  b.  1800,  July  7,  d. 
1846,  m.  Ann  Hills;  John9,  b.  1803,  May  7;  Mary,6,  b.  1806,  Mav 
11,  m.  L.  F.  Harris;  Edward6,  b.  1809,  March  22,  d.  1815,  April  8. 

VI.  Robert,  son  of  William5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1797,  May  13;  m.,  1st,  Char- 

lotte Chamberlain;  m.,  2d,  Mille  Rand,  b.  in  Bedford,  1795,  April 
29,  dau.  of  Dea.  Jonathan  Rand;  he  d.  1844.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.: 
George  Washington7,  b.  1823,  Aug.  16;  Charlotte  Ann7,  b.  1825, 
Aug.  14,  m.  Henry  Sanderson  and  res.  in  Bedford;  Robert7,  b. 
1826,  Aug.  6.  Ch.  of  2d  mar.:  Mary  A.,  m.  John  Cayzer  and  res. 
in  Manchester;  Philander  P.7,  m.  N.  T.  Folsom,  M.  D.,  res.  in 
Manchester,  had.  ch.;  Francis  Way  land*;  Emily  J.7,  m.  Orson  C. 
Tolman  and  res.  in  Nelson,  had  a  dau,  Grace.8 

VII.  Francis  Wayland,  son  of  Robert6,  b.  1837,  Oct.  9;  d.   1902,  March 

10;  m.,  1st,  Phenie  Hall,  who.  d.  1871;  2d,  Frank  Stuart  of  Boston. 
The  remains  of  himself  and  his  second  wife  were  cremated,  and 
the  ashes  are  deposited  in  the  family  lot  at  West  Manchester.  He 
had  one  dau.  by  his  first  wife,  Annie,  who  d.  at  the  age  of  19,  and 
is  buried  by  the  side  of  her  mother  in  West  Manchester  (see  biog- 
raphy) . 
VI.  John,  son  of  William5,  b.  Bedford,  1803,  May  7;  lawyer;  m.  1832, 
Dec.  25,  Eliza  Goffe,  b.  in  Bedford,  1807,  Oct.  15,  dau.  of  Theodore 
Goffe.  He  came  to  the  River  road,  Bedford,  to  live  in  1848,  and 
d.  there  1881,  Feb.  Of  him  the  librarian  of  the  Manchester  library 
remarked  at  the  time  of  his  death,  "  He  has  read  more  books  than 
any  man  in  Manchester."  Eliza,  his  wife,  d.  1898,  Dec.  2,  having 
lived  most  of  the  ninety-one  years  of  her  life  on  land  granted  by 
England  to  her  ancestor,  Col.  John  Goffe,  for  distinguished  ser- 
vices in  the  Colonial  wars.     They  had  two  ch. :  Charles  Irving'',  b. 

1838,  March  10;  Frances  Eliza1,  b. . 

VII.  Charles  Irving,  son  of  John6  and  Eliza  (Goffe)  Parker,  b.  1838, 
March  10;  m.  1862,  May  19,  Frances  Avery  of  Carrollton,  111.,  b. 
1842,  June  24;  they  had  three  ch.:  Adela  Frances*,  b.  1864,  Feb.  26, 
at  Virden,  111.;  John  Edward8,  b.  1865,  April  15,  at  Virden,  111., 
m.  Adah  Barbara  Slater,  res.  Chicago;  Mabel  Lillian8,  b.  1876, 
July  10,  at  Danville,  111.  (see  biography) . 

VIII.  Adela  Frances,  dau.  of  Charles  I.7  Parker;  m.  1885,  June  30,  Elmer 

E.  Kendall.     They  have  five  ch.,  all  b.  in  Chicago  (see  Kendall). 
VII.  Frances  Eliza,  dau.  of  John6;  m.    1863,  March  26,  Col.  Edward  L. 
Bailey,  and  res.  in  Bedford.     They  have  one  son,  I^eivis9. 

VIII.  Lewis  (Bailey),  son  of  Frances  Eliza7,  is  principal  of  Rock  Rimmon 

school  in  Manchester.     Res.  in  Bedford.     He  m.  ,  and  has 

three  ch.:  Parker9,  Fleming  Smith9,  John9. 
IV.  Matthew,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas3,  b.  in  Litchfield;  m.  and  had  a  son 
Thtups  ** 
V.  James,  son  of  Matthew4,  b.  1774;  m.  Betsey,  b.  Bedford,  1791,  Sept. 
23,  dau.  of  William  and  Nabby  Parker.  He  d.  1822,  March  26. 
Ch.:  Henry  C.6,  b.  1813,  Jan.  22;  Jannet  M.6,  b.  1821,  May  2,  d. 
1822,  April  16.  Mrs.  Parker  m.,  2d,  James  Walker,  of  Bedford: 
had  two  sons,  James  P.  and  Charles  H.  (See  Walker). 


GENEALOGIES. — PARKER.  1029 

WILLIAM  PARKER,  ESQ. 

This  gentleman,  a  native  of  Litchfield  (see  genealogy),  moved  to  this 
town  in  1785.  He  had  been  in  the  Revolutionary  service,  and  was  stationed 
one  winter  in  Oharlestown,  on  Winter  Hill.  He  built  a  small  house,  which 
stood  near  the  schoolhouse,  No.  5;  worked  first  at  shoemaking,  and  there 
his  oldest  son  and  second  child  was  born.  While  engaged  there  he  used  to 
walk  out  about  twilight,  at  evening,  and  seat  himself  on  the  side  hill,  near 
the  present  mansion  house,  and  there  he  would '  contemplate  the  future 
prospect.  It  was  then  all  woods,  there  being  only  one  house  at  the  Mills, 
and  one  where  Deacon  McQuesten  lives,  and  another  east  of  James  Har- 
vel's  on  the  interval. 

While  sitting  there  he  had  a  view  of  the  travel  from  Concord  to  Boston, 
and  also  down  the  Mast  road,  turning  off  each  way  to  Concord  and  Boston. 
Some  little  lumber  lay  on  the  landing,  on  a  little  spot  cleared  off  to  roll  in 
masts.  Here  it  occurred  to  him  that  some  day,  ere  long,  it  would  become 
a  place  of  business.  The  land  was  owned  by  old  Mr.  Samuel  Moor.  He 
thought,  if  he  was  able,  he  would  purchase  an  acre,  so  as  to  command  the 
four  corners  where  he  built  his  tavern  house,  where  his  stable  stood, 
where  his  store  stood,  and  where  his  house  now  stands.  Accordingly,  he 
applied  to  Moor  to  know  what  he  would  take  for  an  acre  of  land,  and  let 
him  select  it  anywhere  he  chose.  Mr.  Moor  would  sell  on  this  condition, 
one  acre  for  $100,  and  a  pair  of  calf-skin  boots.  Parker  wanted  the  land 
but  he  was  poor,  and  did  not  know  how  to  raise  the  money.  He  went  to 
one  Amos  Martin,  and  offered  him  one  half  in  common  if  he  would  take 
hold  and  help  him  buy  the  acre.  Martin  at  first  agreed  to  do  so,  but  on 
reflection  thought  the  land  too  high  and  backed  out.  Not  so  with  Parker. 
He  persevered,  closed  the  bargain,  took  his  deed,  and  paid  promptly,  ac- 
cording to  his  agreement.  He  moved  the  little  house  he  had  built  near 
the  schoolhouse  to  the  spot  where  the  tavern  now  stands,  added  a  little  to 
it,  and  resumed  the  business  of  shoemaking,  which  he  now  united  with  a 
little  store  of  spirits  and  tobacco. 

As  his  business  increased  he  took  an  apprentice,  laid  up  money,  was 
soon  able  to  purchase,  in  his  way,  about  six  or  eight  thousand  of  boards, 
at  four  dollars  per  thousand;  rafted  and  sent  them  to  Newburyport;  sold 
them  for  eight  dollars;  made  a  handsome  profit;  and  laid  out  the  money 
in  the  purchase  of  more  boards,  which  he  sent  off  with  equal  success.  Here 
was  the  starting  point  in  his  lumber  trade,  that  brought  him  so  much  prop- 
erty. In  this  way  he  added  to  his  acres,  and  added  to  his  trade,  and  a  very 
few  years  found  him  in  possession  of  a  store  of  goods. 

He  soon  became  popular  as  an  honest  trader,  and  this  multiplied  his 
customers.  All  this  time  his  tavern  was  open  to  travelers,  and  being  in  a 
central  place  he  had  as  much  company  as  he  could  accommodate,  and 
money  was  coming  in  from  all  quarters. 

He  always  paid  punctually,  and  in  this  way  raised  his  credit  in  Bos- 
ton, so  that  he  could  get  trusted  for  any  quantity  of  goods.  "I  have 
known,"  says  his  son-in-law,  "his  creditors,  when  settling  up  his  bill 
where  he  purchased  his  West  India  goods,  to  hand  him  at  the  close  fifty 
dollars,"  no  doubt  in  order  to  retain  his  custom. 

In  1796  or  1797  he  built  his  large  tavern  house  and  added  to  his  store, 
his  business  all  the  time  increasing.  He  established  his  brother-in-law, 
William  Parker,  in  trade  in  West  Goffstown;  he  was  known  as  "  Farmer 
Bill."  That  being  a  good  place  to  get  lumber  in  exchange  for  goods  they 
soon  became  wealthy. 


1030  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


FRANCIS  WAYLAND  PARKER. 

In  the  educational  circles  of  the  country  there  was  no  more  familiar 
name  during  the  last  part  of  the  nineteenth  century  than  that  of  Francis 
Way  land  Parker.  He  was  a  zealous  student  of  the  subject  of  education, 
a  progressive  thinker,  and  a  man  who  had  the  courage  to  make  application 
of  his  convictions,  however  much  they  might  clash  with  time-honored 
methods.  His  long  connection  with  public  schools  gave  him  splendid  oppor- 
tunity to  put  the  results  of  his  study  to  practical  test. 

He  was  born  in  Bedford  in  1837,  the  son  of  Robert  and  Mille  (Rand) 
Parker,  and  grandson  of  William  Parker,  who  has  been  called  the  founder 
of  the  village  of  Squog.  His  love  for  and  interest  in  teaching  came  to  him 
naturally;  his  maternal  grandfather,  Jonathan  Rand,  was  the  first  re- 
corded teacher  in  Derryfield,  now  Manchester,  and  his  mother  was  a 
famous  teacher.  His  father,  a  skilful  cabinet-maker,  died  when  Francis 
was  but  six  years  of  age,  and  his  circumstances  were  such  as  made  it  a 
struggle  for  him  to  acquire  an  education. 

At  eight  years  of  age  he  was  taken  from  school  and  bound  out  to  a 
farmer  of  Goffstown,  where  he  remained  five  years,  at  work  upon  the 
farm,  and  attending  school  only  a  few  weeks  each  winter.  He  then  went 
to  the  academy  at  Mont  Vernon,  earning  enough  money  at  odd  jobs  out 
of  school  hours  to  pay  his  board.  He  went  from  there  to  Hopkinton  acad- 
emy, and  when  sixteen  years  of  age  taught  a  winter  term  of  school  at  Cor- 
ser  hill  in  Boscawen.  He  continued  teaching  for  several  winters,  serving 
several  terms  at  Auburn.  When  twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  taught  the 
village  school  at  Hinsdale,  and  came  from  there  to  be  principal  of  the 
grammar  school  at  Piscataquog. 

In  1858  he  was  chosen  principal  of  the  school  at  Carroll  ton,  111.  His  ex- 
periences there  were  very  interesting.  He  had  in  one  room  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  pupils,  ranging  in  ages  from  twelve  to  twenty- 
five  years,  with  one  assistant.  He  remained  there  two  years,  when  he  re- 
signed to  go  to  war. 

His  ancestors  had  a  noble  war  record.  His  great-great-grandfather  was 
Major  John  Goffe  of  Revolutionary  fame,  and  his  grandfather  had  been  a 
drummer-boy  with  John  Stark  at  Bunker  Hill.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
the  Fourth  New  Hampshire  regiment,  but  before  the  regiment  was  mus- 
tered he  was  made  first  lieutenant  of  Company  E.  In  the  following  win- 
ter he  was  made  captain,  and  m  1864  was  placed  in  command  of  the  regi- 
ment. At  Deep  Bottom  he  was  suddenly  given  command  of  a  brigade, 
and  during  the  attack  was  severely  wounded  in  the  chin  and  neck.  For 
weeks  he  lay  in  the  hospital.  After  his  release  he  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  lieutenant-colonel,  taking  full  command  of  the  regiment  after 
the  battle  of  Fort  Fisher,  in  which  Colonel  Bell  was  killed. 

When  mustered  out  in  1865,  Aug.,  he  accepted  the  principalship  of  the 
grammar  school  at  Manchester,  where  he  remained  three  years.  He  then 
went  to  Dayton,  O.,  where  he  entered  prominently  upon  his  work  of 
reform  in  educational  methods.  He  was  strongly  opposed  by  the  people 
and  the  other  teachers,  but  he  had  the  loyal  support  of  the  board  of  edu- 
cation, and  was  chosen  principal  of  the  Normal  Training  school  there,  of 
which  he  was  made  assistant  superintendent  in  1871.  His  wife  dying,  he 
resigned  this  position,  and  left  for  Europe,  for  the  purpose  of  studying 
further  the  science  of  education.  He  spent  two  and  a  half  years  at  King 
William's  university  at  Berlin,  and  then  under  a  private  teacher,  took  a 
two  years'  course  in  Hegelian  philosophy.  During  his  vacations  he 
traveled  over  the  continent,  visiting  schools.  He  returned  to  America  in 
1875,  and  accepted  the  superintendency  of  schools  at  Quincy,  Mass.  It 
was  here  that  his  reputation  as  a  foremost  educator  became  established. 
During  the  three  years,  over  thirty  thousand  visitors  inspected  the  schools 
under  his  charge,  and  Charles  Francis  Adams,  one  of  the  school  board, 


GENEALOGIES. — PAEKEE.  1031 

wrote  two  pamphlets  regarding  the  work  done,  which  were  given  wide 
circulation.  In  1880  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  supervisors  of  schools  of 
Boston,  which  position  he  held  for  two  years,  when  he  decided  to  aban- 
don superintending  to  come  into  closer  contact  with  practical  instruction. 
He  declined  the  offer  of  the  superin tendency  of  the  schools  of  Philadelphia, 
but  accepted  the  principalship  of  the  Cook  County  Normal  school  at 
Chicago,  where  he  rounded  out  his  long  professional  career  in  the  educa- 
tional field.  He  was  bitterly  opposed  by  the  conservatism  of  citizens  and 
teachers,  but  he  persevered  in  his  new  and  scientific  methods  of  instruc- 
tion until  the  victory  for  educational  progress  was  securely  won. 

Colonel  Parker  was  the  author  of  "Talks  on  Teaching,"  "Practical 
Teacher,"  "How  to  Study  Geography,"  "  Outlines  in  Geography," 
"Tract  on  Spelling,"  and  "Talks  on  Pedagogics."  He  visited  every 
state  in  the  Union  on  his  lecture  tours.  Among  the  subjects  of  his  lec- 
tures were:  "The  Child  and  Nature,"  "The  Child  and  Man,"  "Artist  or 
Artisan— Which ?"  "Home  and  School,"  "The  Ideal  School,"  and  "  Edu- 
cation and  Democracy."    He  was  twice  married  (see  genealogy). 

CHARLES  IRVING  PARKER. 

Charles  Irving  Parker,  son  of  John  and  Eliza  (Goffe)  Parker,  was  born 
in  Bedford,  1838,  March  10,  a  cousin  of  Col.  Francis  Wayland  Parker. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  the  place,  and  entered  Dartmouth  col- 
lege in  1859,  but  left  before  commencement  of  his  senior  year,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  cavalry  contingent  of  the  army  in  the  Civil  war,  which  Dart- 
mouth sent  to  the  service  of  her  country.  The  honors  of  the  class  were 
conferred  upon  him,  nevertheless,  and  the  degrees  of  A.  B.  and  A.  M. 
were  granted. 

After  his  return  from  the  war,  in  which  he  surrendered  to  Stonewall 
Jackson  at  Harper's  Ferry,  he  took  up  the  work  of  teaching,  which  he 
made  his  life  profession,  and  with  marked  success,  after  a  short  business 
experience  at  Virden,  111. 

He  took  charge  of  the  schools  of  Virden  for  a  time,  then  went  to  Car- 
linville,  the  county  seat,  of  whose  public  schools  he  was  given  the  direc- 
tion. In  1869  he  was  called  to  Joliet  as  superintendent,  and  in  1874  to 
Danville.  Two  years  later  he  went  to  Chicago,  and  became  principal  of 
the  Oakland  school.  This  school  grew  so  rapidly  under  his  care  that 
more  room  had  to  be  provided,  and  later  a  second  building  was  con- 
structed. 

Professor  Parker  brought  this  school  to  such  perfection  that  it  ranked 
second  to  none  in  the  state.  Distinguished  educators  from  all  over  the 
country  came  to  observe  it  as  the  model  school,  and  there  for  nine  years 
he  gave  his  whole  heart  and  soul  to  the  task  of  devising  and  directing  the 
best  methods  of  instructing  youth. 

In  1885  he  was  made  superintendent  of  the  South  Chicago  schools, 
where  as  enviable  success  attended  his  efforts.  At  the  various  state  fair 
exhibitions,  where  pupils  from  several  sections  contended  for  supremacy, 
the  pupils  from  Professor  Parker's  charge  always  placed  their  mark  high 
upon  the  roll  of  achievement.  He  was  ever  an  indefatigable,  as  well  as 
an  intelligent,  worker  in  the  educational  field.  In  1886  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  Illinois  State  Teacher's  association,  and  later  became  a 
life  director  in  the  National  Educational  association.  In  1893  he  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  state  board  of  education  by  the  governor  of  the 
state. 

Few  teachers  have  enjoyed  a  longer  course  or  more  successful  work 
than  has  he,  and  none  could  be  held  in  higher  esteem  by  the  people 
among  whom  he  labored  (see  genealogy) . 


1032  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


PARKER. 

I.  Ebenezer  Parker,  b.  iu  Chelmsford,  Mass.;  rem.  to  Merrimack, 
N.  H.,  and  m.  Keziah,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Hassell  (Keziah's  oldest 
sister  was  the  first  white  ch.  b.  in  Merrimack) .  He  d.  in  Merri- 
mack, 1804,  April  16,  age  51,  and  his  wife  d.  1816,  Feb.  24,  age 
68.  They  had  ch.:  John2,  Benjamin2,  Jesse2,  Joseph2,  Rachel2, 
Betsey2,  and  Willard2. 
II.  Jesse,  son  of  Ebenezer1;  m.  1809,  Oct.  31,  Jane,  b.  1781,  Feb.  23, 
dau.  of  John  and  Betsey  (Miller)  Moor.  He  d.  1824,  Nov.  27, 
aged  42,  She  d.  1863,  May  27.  Ch.  b.  here:  Keziah3,  b.  1811, 
Jan.  29,  m.  Samuel  Patten  (see  Patten);  Jane3,  b.  1812,  May  6, 
m.  James  McPherson  (see  McPherson);  Jesse3,  b.  1814,  April  3; 
Ebenezer3,  b.  1820,  d.  1834;  Thomas3,  b.  1822,  April  17. 

III.  Jesse,  son  of  Jesse2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1814,  April  3;  farmer  and  brick- 

maker,  res.  Merrimack,  Plaistow,  and  again  in  Merrimack  about 
1855.  He  m.  about  1842,  Lydia  Curtis,  b.  1819,  Oct.;  he  d.  1861, 
Sept.  9,  and  she  d.  in  Manchester,  1878,  Sept.  7.  Ch.:  DeWitt  CS, 
b.  Merrimack,  1843,  Oct.  24;  Sarah  J.*,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1845, 
May  20;  Corwin  J.*,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1847,  Feb.  10;  Tji/dia  J*, 
b.  Plaistow,  1850,  June  16;  George  Tom*,  b.  Plaistow,  1852,  Sept. 
19;  Mary  S.4,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1856,  July  2,  d.  1861,  Aug.  2. 

IV.  DeWitt  C,  son  of  Jesse3,  b.  Merrimack,  1843,  Oct.  24;  m.,  1st,  1869, 

Dec.  30,  Adelaide  Fosdick  of  Bedford.  She  d.  1871,  April  6.  He 
m.,  2d,  1872,  Feb.  26,  Lovina  D.  (Miller)  Crosby,  b.  1850,  in 
Broome,  Can.  She  d.  1886,  Aug.  13.  He  in.,  3d,  1890,  Sept.  24, 
Lilla  S.  Thayer,  b.  Stockholm,  N.  Y.,  1859,  Aug.  24;  res.  Spring- 
field, Mass. 
IV.  Sarah  J.,  dau.  of  Jesse3,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1845,  May  20;  m.  1861, 
Simeon  L.  Parker  (no  relation),  b.  in  Bedford,  1847,  Oct.  21,  son 
of  Daniel  and  Mary  E.  (Way)  Parker  of  Bedford.  Sarah  J., 
d.  in  Bedford  1900,  May  28.  Their  ch.  were  b.  in  Bedford, 
viz.:  Jessie5,  b.  1867,  May  30,  m.  1888,  Oct.  6,  Orrin  J. 
Howard,  b.  Rochester,   N.  H.,  1857,  Aug.  14;  res.  Griffn,  Ga.; 

Lewis  W.5,  b.  1869;   Mary  A.5,  b.  ,  m.  John  E.  Stowell  (see 

Stowell;    Simeon  J.5,  b.  1872,  Oct.  7. 

V.  Lewis  W.,  son  of  Sarah  J.  (Parker)  b.  in  Bedford,  1869;  m.  1889, 
May  19,  Mary  Ann,  b.  in  Bedford,  1872,  July  10,  dau.  of  Wilson 
and  Rosella  (Mace)  Blood.  Ch.  b.  in  Bedford:  Myrtle  M.6,  b. 
1891,  July;  Wilson  L.6,  b.  1899,  July. 

V.  Simeon  J.,  son  of  Sarah  J.  (Parker),  b.  in  Bedford,  1872,  Oct.  7;  m. 
1890,  Nov.  15,  Sarah  Coulter,  b.  in  England,  1873,  Jan.  10,  and 
res.  Maynard,  Mass.  Ch.  b.  Maynard:  Harry  L.6,  b.  1891,  June 
29;  Orrin  J.e,  b.  1892,  Oct.  22;  Charles  O.6,  b.  1893,  Dec.  22;  Albert 
C.6,  b.  1894,  March  22;  Ralph  R.6,  b.  1895,  June  28,  d.  1895,  Sept, 
1;  Jesse  Irene6,  b.  1898,  Nov.  11. 
IV.  Corwin  J.,  son  of  Jesse3,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1847,  Feb.  10;  enlisted, 
1862,  Feb.  24,  Co.  K,  Third  Regiment,  N.  H.  Vol.  Inf.;  reenlisted 
1864,  Feb.  25;  was  appointed  sergeant.  He  m.,  1st,  1866,  Mary  A. 
Fosdick,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1849,  Aug.  23;  res.  in  Merrimack  and 
Bedford.  She  d.  here  1883,  May  8.  He  in.,  2d,  Mary  (Seavy) 
Campbell  of  Bedford.  He  d.  New  Boston,  1898,  May  9.  Ch.  of 
1st  mar. :  Minnie  E.5,  b.  Merrimack,  1867,  Sept.  27,  m.  Charles  H. 
Gault  (see  Gault);  Jesse  C.5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1870,  June  13;  L,ena 
M.b,  b.  Merrimack,  1871,  Oct.  22;  Gawn  Gage5,  b.  in  Merrimack, 
1874,  Nov.  8,  m.  1897,  March  21,  Alma  Albertie  Hanson,  b.  Copen- 
hagen, Denmark,  1860,  June  14,  is  a  cook,  res.  in  Lawrence,  Mass. 

V.  Jesse  C,  son  of  Corwin  J.*,  b.  Bedford,  1870,  June  13;  m.  1888, 
Nov.  3,  Helen  E.  McKellips,  b.  in  Weare,  1870,  Oct.  5;  res.  in 
Hillsborough.      Ch.:    Dorris    G.e,  b.    in  Weare,    1889,   Nov.    3; 


GENEALOGIES. — PA11KEK.  1033 

Ward  S.6,  b.  in  Weare,  1890,  Dec.  2;  Mollie  M.6,  b.  in  Hills- 
borough, 1893,  Nov.  2;  Donald  M.6,  b.  Hillsborough,  1895,  Sept.  27. 
V.  Lena  M.,  dau.  of  Corwin  J.,  b.  1871,  Oct.  22;  m.  1897,  Jan.  27, 
Amos  R.  Stoddard,  b.  Nelson,  N.  H.,  1858,  Sept.  25;  res.  No. 
Adams,  Mass.  Ch.:  Gladys  M.6,  b.  1897,  July  6,  d.  1897,  July  12; 
Howard  P.6,  b.  Milford,  N.  H.,  1899,  May  17. 

IY.  Lydia  J.,  dau.  of  Jesse3,  b.  in  Plaistow,  1850,  June  16:  in.  1877, 
June  6,  Charles  D.  Wheeler;  res.  Griffin,  Ga.  Ch.:  Charles  P.5, 
b.  1878,  Aug.  4,  d.  Manchester,  1878,  Dec.  21;  Anna  Leah5,  b. 
Saco,  Me.,  1886,  Oct.  4. 

IV.  George  Tom,  son  of  Jesse8,  b.  Plaistow,  1852,  Sept.  19;  m.  1874, 
Sept.  1,  Mary  F.  Courser,  b.  in  Warner,  1849,  Nov.  7;  res.  Spring- 
field, Mass.  *  They  have:  Lillian  M.5,  b.  Springfield,  1876,  Aug.  29. 

[II.  Thomas,  son  of  Jesse2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1822,  April  17;  m.  Alma 
Goodnow,  b.  in  Unity,  1822,  Oct.  19.  He  served  three  years  in  the 
Civil  war  in  Company  G,  Third  U.  S.  artillery;  went  to  Califor- 
nia, 1852,  and  d.  there,  1865,  Feb.  His  wife  d.  in  Lowell,  Mass., 
1869,  July.  Ch.:  Jesse  H.\  b.  Lowell,  1843,  Dec.  31;  Alma  J.4,  b. 
in  Lowell,  1847,  May  11;  Frank  T.4,  b.  Lowell,  1850,  April  17, 
unm. 

RVJesse  H.,  son  of  Thomas3,  b.  1843,  Dec.  31;  m.,  1st,  1864,  April  1, 
Clara  Pressey,  who  d.  1872,  Oct.  19.  He  m.,  2d,  1880,  Sept.  1, 
Philena  Moxley,  b.  1844,  Nov.  29;  res.  Lowell,  Mass.;  is  a 
moulder.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.:  Charles  F.5,  b.  1864,  Dec.  4,  d.  1899, 
April  17;  Fred  H.5,  b.  1868,  June  12;  2d  mar.:  Minnie5,  b.  1882, 
April  7;  Philena  A.5,  b.  1883,  May  28;  Mabel  A.5,  b.  1886,  July  21. 

IV.  Alma  J.,  dau.  of  Thomas3,  b.   1847,  May  11;   m.  1866,   June   11, 
James  Fife  Ross,  b.  Edinboro,   Scotland,  1847,   Oct.  23,  and  d. 
Lowell,  1891,  Jan.  13.     They  have  one  ch.:  Charles  Edward5. 
V.  Charles  Edward  (Ross),  son  of  Alma  J.4,  was  b.  1868,  Dec.  26;  m. 

1892,  June  15,  Ida  F.  Woodbridge,  b.  Nashua,  1872,  Nov.  30; 
shoemaker,  res.  Haverhill,  Mass.    Ch.:   Jennie  A.6,  b.   Lowell, 

1893,  May  8;  Elnora  E.6,  b.  Lowell,  1894,  May  20. 

II.  Rachel,  dau.  of  Ebenezer1;  m. Mills;  two  of  their  sons,  David 

and  Cyrus  Mills,  became  ministers,  the  former  settling  in  Peoria 

and  the  latter  a  missionary  in  Ceylon. 
II.  Willard,  son  of  Ebenezer1,  was  b.  1790,  April  14;  settled  in  Bedford; 

he  m.  1820,  March  16,  Anna,  b.  1795,  March  3,  dau.  of  Hugh  and 

Ann  Maria  Riddle.     He  d.  1873,  April  29,  and  she  d.  1876,  Oct.  7. 

They  had  ch-:  Ann  Maria3;  John  Orr8;  Sarah  Riddle3,  m.  John  U. 

French  (see  French);   Margaret  Patten3;  Robert  Riddle3,  b.  1834, 

March  20,  d.  1834,  April  28;   Willard  Clinton9. 
III.  Ann  Maria,  dau.  of  Willard2,  was  b.  1821,  July  3;  m.  1842,  Nathan 

H.  Richardson.     She  d.  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  1863,  Sept.  7.    Mr. 

Richardson  d.  in  Newburg,  N.  Y.,   1894,  Nov.     They  had  two 

daughters,  Sarah  Maria4  and  Annie4,  both  of  whom  d.  young. 

III.  John  Orr,  son  of  Willard2,  was  b.  1824,  March  23;  m.,  1st,  1847, 

Nov.,  Annis  C.  Cochrane  of  New  Boston,  who  d.  1854,  March. 
He  m.,  2d,  1857,  Jan.  1,  Nancy  A.  Vose,  b.  1829,  Aug.  13,  dau.  of 

.     He  d.   1890,   Feb.   17.    Had   ch.  by  1st  mar.:    Marv 

Elizabeth4,  b.  1849,  d.  1858;   Willard  Boyd*,  b.  1853,  July  4. 

IV.  Willard  Boyd,  son  of  John  Orr3,  b.  1853,  July  4;  graduated  at  Dart- 

mouth college,  1875;  is  now  professor  at  Benton  Harbor  college, 
Mich.  He  in.,  1878,  July,  Angie  L.  Norcross.  They  have 
John  O.5,  b.  1883,  March. 

III.  Margaret  Patten,   dau.   of  Willard2,  was  b.   1830,   March  26;    m. 

George  B.  Shattuck  of  Bedford.  She  d.  1871,  June  17,  and  he  d. 
1901,  Jan.  20.  They  had  two  ch.:  Charles  P.4,  b.  1856,  d.  1856; 
Mary*,  b.  1859. 

IV.  Mary  (Shattuck),  dau.  of  Margaret  Patten,  b.    1859;    m.    Charles 

Butler,  and  had  one  ch.,  George  S.5,  b.  1881,  July  9. 


1034  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

III.  Willard  Clinton,  b.  1835,  Aug.  4;  m.  1858,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  1839, 
May  21,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  M.  (Atwood)  Hall.  He  d. 
1887,  July  23,  and  his  wife  d.  1893,  Nov.  28.  They  had  one  son, 
Joseph  C.4,  b.  1861,  March  2,  and  d.  1875,  Nov.  15. 

PARKER. 

I.  Samuel  S.  Parker  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1807,  March  19.  He  m. 
Agnes  R.,  b.  in  Bedford,  1809,  May  20,  dau.  of  Daniel  and 
Susannah  (Riddle)  Moor.  He  d.  1847,  Nov.  27.  Ch.:  Daniel  W.-. 
b.  in  Bedford,  1836,  Jan.  2,  m.  1863,  Aug.  31,  Nellie  H.  Smith, 
res.  Cambridgeport,  Mass.,  one  ch.,  Samuel  Eli3,  d.  aged  4  months; 
Leonard  S.2,  b.  1837,  Jan.,  d.  1837,  Aug.  3. 

Note.     Other   families  bearing  the  name  of  Parker  have  resided  in 
town,  who  seem  to  have  no  family  connection  with  any  of  the  preceding. 

PARKHURST. 

I.  George  Parkhurst,  the  first  American  ancestor  of  this  family,  came 
from  Ipswich,  Suffolk  Co.,  England,  about  1640,  and  settled  in 
Watertown,  Mass.  He  had  seven  ch.,  one  of  whom  was  Joseph2. 
II.  Joseph,  son  of  George1,  b.  in  England,  came  with  his  parents  to 
Watertown;  he  m.  1856,  June  26,  Rebecca  Reed  of  Concord,  Mass., 
and  settled  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.  They  had  five  ch.,  of  which 
one  was  Ebenezer3. 

III.  Ebenezer,  son  of  Joseph2,  was  b.  in  Watertown,  Mass.     He  m. 

Mary ,  and  settled  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  prior  to  1699,  on  the 

place  now  known  as  Owl's  Nest,  and  which  only  passed  out  of 
the  family  in  1899.     He  had  six  ch.,  James4  among  them. 

IV.  James,  son  of  Ebenezer3,  was  b.  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  1707,  Nov.  18, 

and  in.   Abigail  .    They  had   eight  ch.,  of  which  one  was 

Philip5. 
V.  Philip,  son  of  James4,  was  b.  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  1745,  April  17, 
and  m.  1771,  March  14,  Mary  Spalding.  He  d.  1810,  Dec.  14. 
Their  ch.  were:  Andrew6,  b.  1773,  March  16;  John6,  b.  1775, 
June  5;  Mary6,  b.  1777,  June  1;  Hennje,b.  1779,  Sept.  14;  Ephraim6, 
b.  1783,  April  11;  Silas6,  b.  1785,  Nov.  7;  Polly6,  b.  1788,  Dec.  5. 
VI.  Henry,  son  of  Philip5,  was  b.  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  1779,  Sept.  14, 
and  m.  1802,  April  29,  Lydia  Spalding,  b.  1784,  April  23.  He 
moved  to  Amherst,  1808,  thence  to  Bedford,  1809,  and  built  the 
house,  afterward  occupied  by  Simon  Jenness,  on  the  farm  adjoin- 
ing the  Horace  Greeley  place.  In  1830  he  returned  to  Amherst, 
where  he  d.  1861,  Feb.  20,  and  his  wife  d.  1867,  Jan.  15.  Their 
ch.  were:  Silas1,  b.  1803,  March  7;  Mary7,  b.  1804,  July  8,  d.  1809, 
July  23;  Lydia7,  b.  1805,  Sept.  9,  d.  1890;  Henry7,  b.  1807,  Jan.  7, 
d.  1893;  Spalding7,  b.  in  Bedford,  1809,  July  14,  d.  1882,  April  12; 
Mary  A.7,  b.  1811,  Jan.  18,  d.  1868,  Jan.  17;  Sally7,  b.  1813,  Aug. 
24,  d.  1883,  Jan.  10;  Polly7,  b.  1814,  March  25,  d.  1814,  Oct.  3; 
Polly7,  b.  1815,  Oct.  7,  d.  1816,  March;  StiHman'1,  b.  1816,  March  11; 
Ephraim7,  b.  1819,  Oct.  3,  d.  1820,  June  15;  Emily7,  b.  1823, 
June  11,  d.  1843,  Dec.  13. 
VII.  Silas,  son  of  Henry6,  b.  1803,  March  7;  m.,  1st,  1828,  Jan.  5, 
Parmelia  Perry;  m.,  2d,  1847,  Dec.  9,  Mary  A.  Roby.  Their  ch. 
were:  John  S.8,  b.  1828,  Oct.  20,  d.  1852,  March  21;  William  B.8, 
b.  1830,  Dec.  14;  Silas  P.8,  b.  1832,  Nov.  9;  Maria  A.8,  b.  1834, 
Nov.  4;  James  S.8,  b.  1837,  Jan.  7;  Albert  H.s,  b.  1840,  Nov.  25, 
d.  1842,  Dec.  17;  George  W.8,  b.  1844,  Dec.  17;  Marietta8,  b.  1849, 
Oct.  9;  Elmer  A.8,  b.  1865,  April  13. 


GENEALOGIES. — PARKER.  1035 

VIII.  Silas  P.,  son  of  Silas7,  b.  1832,  Nov.  9;  m.  1861,  April  3,  Augusta  H. 
Mace.  Their  ch.  were:  John  M.9,  b.  1863,  Feb.  20,  d.  1864, 
July  31;  Harry  G.9,  b.  1866,  March  13;  Parmelia9,  b.  1867,  Sept.  15, 
d.  1868,  Sept.  1;  Fred  E?,  b.  1869,  Aug.  8;  Roscoe9,  b.  1870,  Nov.  30; 
Grace  P.9,  b.  1872,  May  15;  Luna  A.9,  b.  1873,  June  14. 
IX.  Fred  E.,  b.  in  Amherst,  1869,  Aug.  8;  m.  1899,  Nov.  8,  Ethel 
Olivia,  b.  in  Amherst,  1878,  Sept.  27,  dau.  of  William  S.  and 
Ellen  M.  (Holbrook)  Peaslee,  and  settled  at  once  (1899)  on  their 
farm  in  Bedford.  They  have  Kenneth  William*0,  b.  1902, 
April  10. 
VII.  Stillman,  son  of  Henry6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1816,  March  11;  m.  1852, 
Nov.  25,  Margaret  Peaslee  of  Bradford,  N.  H.  He  moved  to 
Amherst,  where  he  was  engaged  in  lumber  business  for  some 
years,  and  returned  to  Bedford  in  1865.  Margaret,  his  wife,  d. 
1901,  April  17.  Their  ch.  were:  John  H.8,  b.  1855,  d.  1857; 
John  H.8,  b.  1858,  Oct.  26;  Emma  J.8,  b.  1861,  Sept.  17;  Hattie  M.8, 
b.  1865,  March  15,  m.  Justin  L.  Piper,  and  res.  in  Bradford; 
Frank8,  b.  1868,  d.  1869. 

VIII.  Emma  J.,  dau.  of  Stillman7,  was  b.  in  Amherst,  1861,  Sept.  17; 
m.  1882,  April  26,  John  H.  Atwood  of  Dunbarton.  She  d.  1902, 
Jan.  16.  Their  ch.  were:  Edith  Pearl9,  b.  1883,  Jan.  16;  Lyman 
Stillman9,  b.  1894,  May  30,  d.  1894,  Sept.  3. 
VI.  Ephraim,  son  of  Philip5,  b.  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  1783,  April  11; 
m.  1807,  May  3,  Sarah  Proctor  of  Chelmsford,  and  settled  in  the 
west  part  of  Bedford,  on  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Henry  L. 
Peaslee,  the  house  then  standing  in  the  field  west  of  the  road. 
In  the  summer  of  1818  he  built  the  main  part  of  the  house,  now 
occupied  by  Mr.  Peaslee,  where  he  d.  1819,  Oct.  30.  Their  ch. 
were:  Sarah  Ann7,  b.  1808,  July  28,  d.  1810,  July  20;  Ephraim  A.7, 
b.  1810,  April  16,  d.  1814,  Sept.  15;  RiifuJ,  b.  1812,  Jan.  3;  Elijah 
P.7,  b.  1814,  Jan.  11;  Sarah  Ann7,  b.  1816,  May  11,  m.  Nathaniel 
Flint  (see  Flint);  Nancy  C.7,  b.  1818,  May  5,  m.  Joseph  H.  Flint 
(see  Flint);  Sarah  (Proctor)  Parkhurst  m.,  2d,  1822,  Jan.  21,  Sol- 
omon Woods,  who  d.  1835,  Nov.  1,  aged  53.  She  d.  Bedford,  1877, 
Dec.  6,  aged  98  years,  a  son,  Ephraim  A.  Woods8,  was  b.  1810, 
April  16,  d.  1814,  Sept.  15. 
VII.  Rufus,  son  of  Ephraim6,  b.  1812,  Jan.  3;  m.  1839,  April  23,  Louisa, 
b.  1815,  Feb.  28,  dau.  of  George  W.  and  Betsey  (Howard)  Prince 
of  Amherst.  She  still  res.  on  the  homestead  (1903).  Their  ch., 
all  b.  in  Bedford,  were:  Charles  N.8,  b.  1840,  May  27;  Ephraim 
Adams8,  b.  1842,  April  23;  Sarah  A8,  b.  1844,  June  22;  Lucy  L.8, 
b.  1846,  Sept.  30,  m.  Henry  L.  Peaslee  (see  Peaslee);  Joseph  S.8,  b. 
1849,  Jan.  5;  Mary  L.8,  b.  1851,  April  8,  m.  Newton  I.  Peaslee  (see 
Peaslee);  Addie  M.8,  b.  1853,  Aug.  13;  Emma  E.8,  b.  1856,  Oct. 
20,  m.  John  McDole  (see  McDole). 

VIII.  Charles  N.,  son  of  Rufus7,  b.  1840,  May  27;  m.  1862,  Aug.  14,  Hen- 
rietta Parker  of  Amherst.  He  served  in  the  Tenth  Regt.,  N.  H. 
Vols.,  and  d.  at  Falmouth,  Va.,  1862,  Dec.  17. 

VIII.  Ephraim  A.,  a  son  of  Rufus7,  b.  1842,  April  23;  m.,  1st,  1868,  Nov.  13, 
Nancy  H.  Ashby,  who  d.  1877,  Aug.  1.  He  m.,  2d,  1878,  May  29, 
Mrs.  Annie  Clark  of  Amherst,  where  he  now  res.  He  served  in 
the  Tenth  Regt.,  N.  H.  Vols.  His  ch.  are:  Alice  M.9,  b.  1869, 
Sept.  9;  Dora  L.9,  b.  1871,  Aug.  28;  Annie  L.9,  b.  1873,  Sept,  9. 

VIII.  Sarah  A.,  dau.  of  Rufus7,  b.  1844,  June  22;  m.  1862,  March  13,  John 
N.  Mace  of  Amherst.  She  d.  1870,  Sept.  7,  leaving  one  ch.,  Etta 
M.9,  b.  1863,  May  3.  The  latter  m.  J.  E.  Upton  of  Amherst, 
where  all  but  the  youngest  (b.  in  California)  of  their  five  ch. 
were  b.     They  moved  to  California  in  Sept.,  1902. 

VIII.  Joseph  S.,  son  of  Rufus7,  b.  1849,  Jan.  5;  m.,  1st,  1870,  Oct.  2,  Anna 
Mary  Austin,  b.  in  Hopkinton,  N.  Y.,  1850,  April.     She  d.  1899, 


1036  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

July  1.  He  m.,  2d,  1901,  Nov.  4,  Annie  Atkinson,  b.  New  Bruns- 
wick, 1860.  Had  ch.:  Bertha  E.9,  b.  1871,  Dec.  24,  m.  Ervin  R. 
French  (see  French);  Charles  R.9,  b.  1873,  Nov.  30,  m.  1903, 
Sept.,  Maggie  O'Neil. 
VII.  Dea.  Elijah  P.,  son  of  Ephraim6,  b.  1814,  Jan.  11;  was  deacon  in 
Bedford  Presbyterian  church  for  many  years.  He  m.,  1st,  1839, 
April  18,  Sally  J.,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Sally  (Underwood)  Gage. 
She  d.  1858,  Dec.  25.  He  m.,  2d,  1859,  Nov.  8,  Harriet  N.  Otis  of 
New  Boston,  who  d.  1893,  Oct.  14.  The  greater  part  of  his  life 
was  spent  in  Merrimack,  but  during  the  last  few  years  he  res.  in 
Manchester,  where  he  d.  1892,  June  28.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.:  George 
S.3,  b.  1840,  July  4;  Sally  J.,  b.  1842,  Dec.  27,  d.  1843,  Feb.  7; 
Lucretia  D.8,  b.  1844,  May  29,  m.  Horace  Holbrook  (see  Holbrook); 
Surviah  H.8,  b.  1847,  April  1,  m.  D.  Webster  Atwood  (see 
Atwood).  Ch.  by  2d  mar.:  Harriet  J.8,  b.  1860,  Oct.  13,  a  trained 
nurse;  Carrie  E.,  b.  1865,  May  18,  has  been  a  teacher  in  Talle- 
dega  college,  Alabama. 
VIII.  Dea.  George  S,  son  of  Elijah  P.7,  b.  1840,  July  4;  m.  1889,  Sept.  4, 
Hannah  D.  A.  Drew  of  Merrimack,  where  they  res.  He  is 
deacon  of  the  Congregational  church  in  that  town. 

PATTEN. 

I.  John  Patten,  b.  in  Ireland  in  1672,  came  to  this  country  with  his 
family  in  1728,  and  to  this  town  in  1738.  He  d.  1746,  April  14. 
Mary,  his  wife,  d.  1764,  Oct.  21.  They  had  two  sons:  Samuel2 
and  Matthew2. 
II.  Capt.  Samuel,  son  of  John1,  was  b.  in  Ireland  in  1713;  m.  1746,  Dec. 
5,  Mary  Bell  of  Londonderry,  N.  H.  He  d.  1792,  April  25;  his 
widow  d.  1816,  May.  They  had  ten  ch.:  Mary3,  b.  1747,  Dec.  1, 
m.  Thomas  Townsend,  b.  1794,  d.  1826,  May  28;  Sarah8,  b.  1749, 
March  17,  m.  Zecheriah  Chandler  (see  Chandler) ;  Elizabeth3,  b. 
1750,  Nov.  12;  Samuel3,  b.  1752,  Aug.  10;  Margaret3,  b.  1754,  Aug. 
18,  d.  1799,  May;  John3,  b.  1756,  June  23;  Joseph3,  b.  1758,  Jan.  3; 
Jean3,  b.  1760,  Feb.  11;  Matthew3,  b.  1762,  July  19,  d.  1763,  June 
16;  Ann3,  b.  1764,  June  12. 
III.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Samuel2,  b.  1750,  Nov.  12;  m.  John  O'Neil  and 
settled  in  Maine.  Their  ch.  were:  John4,  Samuel4,  Edmund4, 
James4,  Ann4,  and  Edward4. 

III.  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel2,  b.  1752,  Aug.  10;  m.  Deborah  Moore.    They 

first  settled  in  Antrim,  from  thence  went  to  Norridgewock,  Me., 
1800,  where  Mr.  Patten  d.  in  1809,  and  his  widow  in  1858.  Their 
ch.  were:  John*,  Jennie*,  Joseph*,  Peggy*,  Deborah*,  Sarah*,  Mary*, 
Olive*,  Alice*,  and  Samuel*. 

IV.  John,  son  of  Samuel3,  b.  1778,  Feb.  6;  m.  Betsey  Hilton  of  Emden, 

Me.;  d.  in  1850. 

IV.  Jennie,  dau.  of  Samuel8,  b.  1779,  Nov.  26;  d.  aged  16  years. 

IV.  Joseph,  son  of  Samuel3,  b.  1781,  Nov.  8;  m.  Joanna,  dau.  of  Rev. 
John  Harlow  of  Norridgewock,  Me.;  he  was  a  merchant,  a  con- 
spicuous and  devoted  citizen;  he  d.  1858,  Jan.  10,  in  Skowhegan, 
Me.  They  had  four  ch.,  Milton  Harlow6,  b.  1816,  Dec.  28;  Caro- 
line Wood5,  b.  1818,  Dec.  25:  Sumner  Augustus5,  b.  1820,  Dec.  6; 
Joseph  Lee5,  b.  1828,  July  29. 

IV.  Margaret  (Peggy),  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1783,  Nov.  9;d.  aged  16  years. 

IV.  Deborah,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1785,  Nov.  19;  m.  Rev.  John  Dinsmore 
of  Norridgewock  in  1802;  d.  in  1816. 

IV.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1788,  May  6;  m.  Rev.  Moses  French  of 
Solon,  Me.;  d.  in  1852. 

IV.  Mary,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1790,  April  28;  m.  David  Raymond,  M.  D., 
of  Skowhegan,  Me.;  d.  1842. 


GENEALOGIES. — PATTEN.  1037 

IV.  Olive,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1792,  April  16;  m.  Daniel  Stewart,  mer- 
chant, of  Anson,  Me. ;  d.  in  1868. 

IV.  Alice,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1795,  July  30;  m.  her  cousin,  Goffe  Moore; 
d.  in  Anson,  1842. 

IV.  Samuel,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  b.  1797,  Dec.  12;  m.  Betsey  Savage  of  An- 
son and  settled  in  the  West. 

III.  Lieut.  John,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel2,  b.  1756,  June  23;  served  in  the 

Revolutionary  war;  m.  Hannah,  dau.  of  John  Wallace;  he  d. 
1796,  July  7;  Hannah,  his  wife,  d.  1839,  July  17.  They  had  five 
ch.:  John*,  b.  1788,  April  14;  Nancy4,  b.  1790,  Jan.  25,  m.  Capt. 
Joseph  Moore  (see  Moore);  Hannah4,  b.  1792,  March  25,  m.  Will- 
iam Patten;  Samuel4,  b.  1794,  Feb.  22,  d.  1823,  Oct.  14;  Zacheus*^. 
1796,  Sept.  28. 

IV.  Capt.  John,  son  of  Lieut.  John3,  b.  1788,  April  14;  Capt.  of  Bedford 

Grenadiers.  He  m.  Achsah,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Dickey) 
Patten.  Capt.  John  was  killed  by  the  fall  of  a  tree,  1851,  Jan.  31 
(see  page  641);  Achsah,  his  wife,  d.  1874,  July  6.  There  were  ten 
ch.:  Asenath5,  b.  1818,  Nov.  24;  William  Bruce5,  b.  1821,  Nov.  7; 
Margaret5,  b.  1823,  Dec.  7,  d.  1899,  Dec.  15;  Alfred  Foster5,  b.  1827, 
Feb.  13;  Lavina  Jane5,  b.  1829,  Nov.  24;  Clarissa  J.5,  b.  1831,  Sept. 
3,  d.  1832,  June  14:  Samuel  John5,  b.  1833,  April  21,  d.  1864,  June 
18;  Mary  Josephine5,  b.  1837,  Jan.  17;  Sarah  E.5,  b.  1840,  Jan.  20, 
m.  1872,  May  14,  Henry  C.  Crane  of  Salisbury,  who  d.  1899,  Dec. 
1;  Charles  Henry5,  b.  1844,  Oct.  1. 

V.  Asenath,  dau.  of  Capt.  John4,  b.  1818,  Nov.  24;  m.  1844,  Dec.  24, 
Daniel  W.  Fling  of  Litchfield,  who  d.  1893,  Jan.  11.  She  d.  1882, 
July  13.  There  were  two  ch.:  John  P.6,  b.  1848,  March  22,  m. 
1884,  May  5,  Nellie  Moore  of  Manchester;  Ida  Gertrude6,  b.  1855, 
July  18. 

V.  William  B.,  son  of  Capt.  John4,  b.  1821,  Nov.  7;  m.  1850,  Oct.  1, 
Harriet  D.  Moore  of  Dempster.  He  d.  1892,  Feb.  25;  Harriet,  his 
wife,  d.  1888,  Feb.  20.    No  children. 

V.  Alfred  Foster,  son  of  Capt.  John4,  b.  1827,  Feb.  13;  m.  1854,  Oct.  4, 
Nancy  Whittle  of  Weare,  who  d.  1898,  June  25.  He  d.  1893,  Feb. 
22.     They  had  one  ch.,  Annie  Whittle6,  b.  1860,  June  18. 

V.  Lavina  J.,  dau.  of  Capt,  John4,  b.  1829,  Nov.  24;  m.  1865,  Oct.  5, 
John  Plnmmer  of  Manchester,  who  d.  1871,  March  26.  They  had 
one  ch.,  Florence  A.6,  b.  1867,  Aug.  25. 

V.  Mary  J.,  dau.  of  Capt.  John4,  b.  1837,  Jan.  17;  m.  1860,  Sept.  25, 
Daniel  Bailey  of  Dunbarton,  who  d.  1890,  Nov.  13.  She  d.  1895, 
Nov.  14. 

V.  Charles  Henry,  son  of  Capt.  John4,  b.  1844,  Oct.  1;  m.,  1st,  1866, 
June  25,  Nellie  Folsom  of  Manchester;  m.,  2d,  1893,  Feb.  16, 
Mary  Bean  of  Brentwood.  He  d.  1903,  Feb.  20. 
IV.  Zacheus,  son  of  John3,  b.  1796,  Sept.  28;  m.,  1st,  1831,  Achsah,  b. 
1802,  Sept.  20,  dau.  of  John  McAllaster  of  Bedford,  and  res.  in 
Meredith  village,  where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business. 

Three  ch.  were  b.  in  Merdith,  viz.:  George5,  b. ,  d.  1847,  Sept. 

27,  aged  16;  Henrietta5,  d.  in  childhood;  Lewis  H.5,  now  res.  in 
Cambridge,  111.  Achsah,  his  wife,  d.  1841,  Feb.  14.  He  m.,  2d, 
1846,  Mary  J.  Anderson  of  Candia.  In  1877  they  rem.  to  Cam- 
bridge, 111.,  where  Mrs.  Patten  d.,  1887,  Sept.  10.  Zacheus  d. 
1890,  Dec.  31. 
III.  Joseph,  son  of  Samuel2,  b.  1758,  Jan.  3;  m.  1789,  Feb.  26,  Marv 
Dickey,  b.  in  Londonderry,  1766,  Sept.  15.  He  d.  1839,  March  8. 
Mary,  his  wife,  d.  1851,  March  11.  Their  ch.  were:  William*,  b. 
1791,  April  11;  Deborah4,  b.  1792,  Aug.  19,  d.  1793,  April  29;  Jane4, 
b.  1794,  Feb.  14,  m.  Isaac  Gage  (see  Gage);  Achsah4,  b.  1796,  Jan. 
3;  Irena4,  b.  1797,  May  17,  d.  1830,  July  12;  Margaret4,  b.  1799, 
March  5,  m.  Joseph  H.Stevens  (see  Stevens);   Lairna4,  b.    1800, 


1038  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

Dec.  14;  Samuel*,  b.  1803,  March  30;  Adam  NA,  b.  1805,  June  19; 
Ann  Miller4,  b.  1808,  Sept.  7,  m.  Jonathan  Knights  of  Amherst, 
who  d.  1884,  Aug.,  she  d.  1843,  Dec.  31. 

IV.  Lieut. -Col.  William,  son  of  Joseph8,  b.  1791,  April  11;  was  Lieut.- 
Col.  of  Amoskeag  Veterans  when  organized,  also  Capt.  of  Bedford 
Grenadiers.  He  m.  Hannah,  b.  1792,  March  25,  dau.  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Wallace)  Patten.  Hannah  d.  1858,  Feb.  11.  William  d. 
1858,  Dec.  23.  They  brought  up  as  adopted  dau.,  Mary,  dau.  of 
John  W.  Moore.  She  was  b.  1814,  Nov.  14,  and  d.  1851,  Jan.  9. 
IV.  Lavina,  dau.  of  Joseph3,  b.  1800,  Dec.  14;  m.  1850,  April  23,  John 
Adams  of  Limerick,  Me.  He  d.  1867,  Sept.  10.  Lavina  d.  1897, 
July  13.  Mrs.  Adams  was  possessed  of  strong  mental  qualities 
and  kept  them  bright  and  vigorous  through  the  long  years  of  her 
useful  life.  She  delighted  to  revive  the  past,  and  with  her  won- 
derful memory  was  able  to  recall  many  interesting  facts  of  the 
olden  time;  at  the  age  of  ninety-seven  years  she  could  relate  many 
anecdotes  of  her  childhood;  a  great  reader,  she  kept  well  posted 
on  current  events.  She  was  very  skilful  with  her  needle,  and 
many  a  home  came  into  possession  of  pieces  of  her  handiwork. 
For  the  last  ten  years  of  her  life  the  infirmities  of  age  kept  her 
confined  to  her  room,  but  her  pleasant,  genial  manner  won  for  her 
the  love  and  esteem  of  all  who  came  in  contact  with  her  (see 
Adams) . 
IV.  Samuel,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  1803,  March  30;  m.  1839,  Jan.  30,  Keziah 
Parker,  b.  Bedford,  1811,  Jan.  29.  Samuel  d.  1874,  June  30;  Ke- 
ziah, his  wife,  d.  1887,  March  27.  They  had  four  sons:  Edward 
//.5,  b.  1841,  March  15;  John  A  A,  b.  1843,  Sept.  20;  Samuel  H.5,  b. 
1849,  March  14;  Frank  W.5,  b.  1858,  Mav  9. 

V.  Edward  H.,  son  of  Samuel4,  b.  1841,  March  15;  m.  1872,  Oct.  30, 
Harriet  E.  Waldron  of  Newbury,  Vt.  He  d.  in  Woburn,  Mass., 
1883,  July  11.  They  had  two  ch.:  Laura  A.6,  b.  1874,  July,  d. 
1878,  Aug.  8;  Lucia  K.6,  b.  1876,  March  17. 

V.  John  A.,  son  of  Samuel4,  b.  1843,  Sept.  20;  m.  1875,  Sept.  2,  Eliza 
Renfrew  of  Newbury,  Vt.  Had  two  ch. :  Jessie  E.6,  b.  1877,  Oct. 
26;  Florence  H.6,  b.  1881,  June  9. 

V.  Samuel  H.,  son  of  Samuel4,  b.  1849,  March  14;  m.  1869,  Oct.  7, 
Helen  E.  Waldron  of  Newbury,  Vt.  He  d.  in  Woburn,  Mass., 
1901,  April  28.  They  had  ch. :  Bessie6,  b.  1870,  July  18,  d.  1871, 
Sept.;  Lewis  W.6,  b.  1872,  June  15;  Mabel  E.6,  b.  1874,  Sept.  8; 
Joseph  F.6,  b.  1878,  Sept.  4;  Charlotte  E.6,  b.  1880,  March  30,  d. 
1880,  Sept. 
VI.  Lewis  W.,  son  of  Samuel5,  b.  1872,  June  15;  m.  1899,  June  15,  Flor- 
ence Hart  well  of  Woburn,  Mass.  Have  two  ch.:  Winthrop  H.7, 
and  Willis  W.7 

V.  Frank  W.  (M.  D.),  son  of  Samuel4,  b.  1858,  May  9;  m.  Harriet  E. 
Bailey  of  Manchester.  He  d.  in  Boston,  Mass.,  1900,  Nov.  16. 
(See  Physicians.)  Hadch.:  Willie6,  b.  1877,  Aug.  16;  Arthur6,  b. 
1880,  March  17,  d.  1880,  Nov.  11;  Clarence6,  b.  1881,  March  8; 
Bertha  Alice6,  b.  1884,  July  21. 
IV.  Adam  N.,  son  of  Joseph3,  b.  1805,  June  19;  m.  Clarissa  Hodgman, 
b.  in  Bedford,  1806,  Aug.  4,  and  d.  1868,  Jan.  29.  Adam  N.  d. 
1887,  April  15.  Had  four  ch.:  Joseph5,  b.  1833,  Jan.  6,  d.  1834, 
Feb.;  Samuel  Joseph5,  b.  1836,  April  7,  d.  1858,  June  25;  William. 
Milton1*,  b.  1840,  Oct.  22;  Abbie  A.5,  b.  1846,  Nov.  23,  m.  James  E. 
Gault  (see  Gault). 

V.  William  M.,  son  of  Adam  N.4,  b.  1840,  Oct.  22;  m.    1863,  Nov.  26, " 
Ellen  M.  Whitford  of  Bedford,   b.  1842,  April   7.     They  hadch.: 
George  Whitford6,  b.  1865,  March  5,d.  1887,  May  30;  Carrie  Ellen6, 
b.  1868,  Sept.  13,  d.  1883,  July  23;  Annie  Milton6,  b.  1873,  Aug.  18, 
d.  1890,  June  28;  Emma  Lucy6,  b.  1882;  March  29,  d.  1889,  Jan.  28. 


GENEALOGIES. — PATTEX.  1039 

III.  Jean,  dau.  of  Samuel2,  b.  1760,   Feb.   11;  in.   Daniel  Gould;  she  d. 

1794,  Jan.  25;  leaving  one  child,  Margaret4,  who  d.  in  June  of  the 
same  year. 

III.  Ann,  dau.  of  Samuel2,  b.  1764,  June  12;  m.  James  Miller;  she  d. 
1844,  Nov.  12;  had  one  dau.,  Achsah  P. 
II.  Hon.  Matthew  Patten,  son  of  John1,  was  b.  in  Ireland,  1719,  May 
19.  He  was  second  judge  of  probate  in  this  county,  and  first  after 
the  Revolution;  he  was  appointed  to  that  office  in  1776;  he  repre- 
sented the  towns  of  Bedford  and  Merrimack  in  1776  and  1777;  was 
counselor  in  1778.  He  was  appointed  justice  of  peace  about  1751, 
and  continued  in  that  office  until  his  death.  Indeed,  for  the  first 
fifty  years  his  history  is  a  part  of  the  history  of  the  town.     He  d. 

1795,  Aug.  27,  in  a  field  in  the  south  part  of  the  town.  The  men 
were  mowing,  and  he  went  to  carry  them  their  dinner.  He  sat 
down  under  a  tree  where  he  was  found  dead  soon  after.  He  m. 
1750,  July  14,  Elizabeth  McMurphy,  who  was  b.  in  Londonderry 
in  1729,  and  d.  1817,  March  27.  Their  ch.  were:  Susanna3,  b.  1751, 
Feb.  10,  m.  Thomas  Taggart  of  Colraine;  John3,  b.  1752,  May  31, 
d.  of  smallpox  in  Canada,  1776,  June  20,  he  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Revolutionary  war;  Matthew3,  b.  1754,  Jan.  29,  d.  1755,  March  20; 
James3,  b.  1755,  Oct.  16;  Robert3,  b.  1757,  Aug.  13;  Elizabeth3,  b. 
1759,  May  27,  m.  Hugh  Tolford  of  Chester  (see  Tolford);  David3, 
b.  1761,  Feb.  18  (see  biographical  sketch);  *Mary3,  b.  1763,  Feb.  8; 
Alexander3,  b.  1765,  Jan.  9;  Jean3,  b.  1767,  Dec.  19,  d.  unm.  about 
1847;  *Sarah3,  b.  1770,  Sept.  25,  d.  unm.  1852,  Sept.  20. 

III.  James,  son  of  Hon.  Matthew2,  b.  1755,  Oct.  16;  went  to  Ohio;  was 
under  St.  Clair  in  the  Indian  war  and  prisoner  among  the  Indians 
four  years. 

III.  Robert,  son  of  Matthew2,  b.  1857,  Aug.  13;  m.  Jane  Shirley  of  Goffs- 

town,  who  was  b.  1757  and  d.  1838,  Nov.  21.  Robert  d.  1817,  Dec. 
10.  Had  ch.:  John4,  b.  1788,  Oct.  13,  d.  1800,  Oct.  18;  Jennie4,  b. 
1790,  April  6;  Polly*,  b.  1792,  Oct.  4;  Sally4,  b.  1797,  Nov.  5,  m. 
William  Tolford  (see  Tolford) ;  Margaret4,  b.  1799,  Nov.  22,  d. 
1800,  Oct.  13;  Robert4,  b.  1801,  Dec.  19,  d.  1863,  Dec.  13;  Elizabeth4, 
b.  1804,  Nov.  8,  d.  1867,  Dec.  24. 

IV.  Polly,  dau.  of  Robert3,  b.  1792,  Oct.  4;  m.,  1st,  William  Bryant;  2d, 

Allen  Peabody,  and  d.  1878,  June  1,  leaving  one  dau.,  Mary  Jane 
Peabody5,  b.  1824,  she  m.  Jonathan  Warren  (see  Warren). 
III.  Mary  (or  Aunt  Polly  as  she  was  more  generally  known) ,  dau.  of 
Hon.  Matthew2,  b.  1763,  Feb.  8,  was  a  woman  of  uncommon  mem- 
ory of  facts  and  dates;  she  never  m.  but  lived  on  the  homestead 
until  her  death  1850,  Sept.  8. 

III.  Alexander,  son  of  Matthew2,  b.  1765,  Jan.  9;  m.  Lydia  Atwood,  b.  in 

Bedford,  1776,  Nov.  12.  Had  ch.:  Hannah*;  Elizabeth*;  Susannah*; 
John*;  Margaret*;  Greenleaf4,  b.  1811,  Oct.  27,  d.  1832,  unm.; 
James4,  b.  1819,  Dec.  21,  d.  1843,  unm.;  David*  and  Isaac4  (twins), 
b.  1825,  Oct.  9,  Isaac  d.  1882,  unm. 

IV.  Hannah,   dau.   of  Alexander3,  b.    1801,   Jan.  28;  m.,   1st,   A.   Cool- 

edge  of  Boston,. Mass.,  who  d.  in  1830.     One  son,  Roswell5,  lives 
in  Somerville,  Mass.     Hannah  m.,  2d,  John  Deavall;  she  d.  1887. 
IV.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Alexander3,  b.  1802,  March   14;  m.  James  Moore 
and  d.   in   1832.    Had  two  ch.:  Elizabeth  Ann5,  d.  1900,  March; 
Charles8. 

*We  read  in  the  first  history  of  Bedford,  1850.  Jan. 20,  that  Dr.  P.  P.Woodbury  called 
on  the  two  daughters  of  Matthew  Patten  Polly  and  Sarah,  and  asked  them  if  they  could 
remember  anything-  that  took  place  when  they  first  heard  of  the  battle  of  Lexington, 
1775.  "  Oh.  yes.  remember  very  well,  never  shall  forget.  Brother  John  came  home 
that  night,  and  we  sat  up  all  night,  bHking  bread  and  making  small  clothes  for 
brother  John  jind  John  Dobbin,  whojvent  away  early  in  the  morning.  The  soldiers 
kept  coming  along,  and  we  kept  givingthe  bread  and  meat,  and  when  night  came  we 
had  not  a  morsel  left.  At  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  we  could  hear  the  guns  very  dis- 
inctly." 


1040  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

IV.  Susannah,  dau.  of  Alexander3,  b.  1803,  Sept.  27;  m.  Phineas  Blunt 
of  Boston,  Mass.;  she  d.  1882.  Had  five  ch.:  James  H.5  and 
Susan5,  d. ;  William  G.5  and  John  P.5,  now  living  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 
IV.  John,  son  of  Alexander3,  b.  1805,  May  3;  m.  Sally  Hutchinson.  Ch.: 
James5,  d.;  Sarah5,  m.  Willis  Howard,  had  three  sons,  Willis6, 
Samuel6,  and  Fred6,  all  now  living. 
IV.  Margaret,  dau.  of  Alexander3,  b.  1807,  Aug.  9;  m.  Robert  Baker  of 
Manchester,  N.  H;  she  d.  1887.  They  had  twelve  ch.:  Sophronia5, 
b.  1822,  d.  1847,  unm.;  Willard,*,  b.  1824;  BeWitt  Clinton*,  b.  1826; 
Susan  S.5,  b.  1828,  m.,  1st,  Thomas  Adams,  he  d.  and  shem.,  2d, 
Phineas  Blunt,  no  ch.,  is  now  a  widow,  res.  in  California;  James  B. 
Thornton*,  b.  1832;  George  W*,  b.  1835;  11.  Bradford*,  b.  1837; 
Margaret*,  b.  1839;  M.  Josephine5,  b.  1842,  m.  Joseph  W.  Dodge,  is 
now  a  widow,  res.  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  has  one  dau.,  Inez  M.6; 
Frances  E*,  b.  1845;  Elbridge*,  b.  1847;  Solon5,  b.  1850,  d.  1880, 
unm. 

V.  Willard,  son  of  Margaret4,  b.  1824;  m.  Jane  Appleton  of  Hooksett; 
he  d.  1898.  They  had  seven  ch.:  Harriet6,  Ida6,  Addie6,  and  Lilla6 
(now  living),  Willard6,  Sophronia6,  and  Clinton6  (dead). 

V.  DeWitt  Clinton,  son  of  Margaret4,  b.  1826;  m.  Catherine  Appleton. 
Had  two  ch. :  Emma6  and  Clinton6.  Father  and  son  were  killed  by 
a  cyclone  in  Kansas  in  1860. 

V.  James  B.  Thornton,  son  of  Margaret4,  b.   1832;  in.  Cochran. 

They  had  seven  ch.;  Violetta6,  Thornton6,  L.  Belle6,  Waldo6,  Her- 
bert6, and  Maud6  (now  living),  and  Nellie6  (dead). 

V.  George  W.,  son  of  Margaret4,  b.  1835;  m.  Sarah  M.  Martin;  is  now 
living  in  Manchester.  Had  ch.:  Eudora  C.6,  Ethel  E.6,  and  Elmer 
G.6  (dead),  J.  Edward6  and  Idella  J.6,  now  living  in  Manchester; 
the  latter  m.  John  C.  Ferguson  of  Bedford  (see  Ferguson). 

V.  R.  Bradford,  son  of  Margaret4,  b.  1837;  m.  Miranda  Johnson;  res.  in 
Pepperell,  Mass.  Has  five  ch.:  Everett6,  Ernest6,  Clinton6,  Mary6, 
and  Edith6. 

V.  Margaret,  dau.  of  Margaret4,  b.  1839;  m.  Ashel  Quimby;  she  d. 
1874.  Their  ch.:  Charles6  and  Willie6  are  now  living  in  Salem, 
Mass.,  and  Mertie6  is  dead. 

V.  Frances  E.,  dau.  of  Margaret4,  b.  1845;  m.  Charles  E.  Johnson,  and 
is  now  living  in  Allenstown.  Have  six  ch. :  Elizabeth6,  J.  Edwin6, 
Alice  G.6,  Myra  J.6,  Ethel6,  and  Charles6. 

V.  Elbridge,  son  of  Margaret,  b.  1847;  m.,  1st,  Cornelia  Burnham;  they 
had  one  dau.,  Blanche.  His  wife  d.  and  he  m.,  2d,  Eliza  Holden. 
They  res.  in  National  City,  Cal. 
IV.  David,  son  of  Alexander3,  b.  1825,  Oct.  9,  is  the  only  surviving  mem- 
ber of  the  family,  and  is  now  res.  in  Gloucester,  Mass.  He.  m. 
Abbie  Brown;  they  had  three  ch.:  Alexander5  and  James5  (dead), 
Lydia  Ann5,  res.  in  Boston,  Mass. 

DAVID  PATTEN,  ESQ. 

David  Patten,  son  of  the  Hon.  Matthew  Patten,  was  born  in  1761,  Feb. 
18,  and  died  in  1836,  Aug.  26.  He  was  very  useful  for  many  years  as  a 
land  surveyor,  and  was  always  ready  to  give  accurate  information  respect- 
ing boundary  lines;  such  was  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  that  his 
opinion  settled  the  question.  He  was,  also,  in  some  part  of  his  life  a  suc- 
cessful schoolmaster,  both  in  and  out  of  town,  and  always  took  an  interest 
in  common  schools.  He  was  town  clerk  for  several  years,  and  the  well- 
preserved  records  show  to-day  a  penmanship  of  superior  merit.  He  was 
never  married,  but  lived  on  the  homestefd  with  his  maiden  sisters  until 
his  death,  leaving  a  good  name  as  a  useful  and  worthy  citizen. 


GENEALOGIES. — PEABODY. — PEASLEE. — PLUMMER.     1041 

PEABODY. 

Allen1,  b.  Peabody,  Mass.,  1781,  Nov.  22;  m.  Polly,  b.  1792,  Oct.  4, 

dau.  of ,  and  res.  in  Bedford.    They  had:  Mary  Jane2,  b. 

1854,   July  25  (see  Warren);   William  S.2,  b.  1828,  Feb.   25,  d. 
Georgetown,  Eldorado  county,  Cal. ,  1853,  Oct.  20. 

PEASLEE. 

I.  Henry  Lewis  Peaslee  was  b.  in  Wells,  Me.,  1849,  Sept.  27,  the  son 
of  Moses  C.  and  Susan  E.  (Low)  Peaslee,  being  the  fourth  in  a 
family  of  eight  ch.  In  the  spring  of  1869  he  moved,  with  his 
father,  to  Sutton,  N.  H.,  to  take  charge  of  his  grandfather's  farm. 
He  m.  1870,  Oct.  4,  Lucy  Lovejoy,  b.  in  Bedford,  1846,  Sept.  30, 
dau.  of  Rufus  and  Louisa  (Prince)  Parkhurst.  They  res.  in  Sut- 
ton until  1878,  April,  when  they  moved  to  Bedford  to  care  for  his 
wife's  mother,  and  have  since  res.  oh  the  homestead.  Mr.  Peas- 
lee was  treasurer  of  the  Bedford  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  company 
from  1886-'97,  and  president  of  the  company  from  1891-'97,  when 
the  company  dissolved  on  account  of  heavy  losses  in  1896.  He 
was  selectman,  1885-'87,  and  1892,  being  chairman  in  1887  and 
1892.  The  spring  of  1888  will  long  be  remembered  for  the  big 
snowstorm,  which  blocked  the  highways  the  day  before  March 
town-meeting.  Mr.  Peaslee  had  the  town  warrant,  and  not  wish- 
ing to  lose  the  meeting,  traveled  on  foot  about  four  miles,  on  the 
walls  and  over  the  drifts,  any  way  he  could  to  reach  the  hall, 
where  the  meeting  was  opened  and  adjourned  for  one  week.  Thus 
Bedford  did  not  lose  her  March  meeting,  as  many  other  towns  did 
that  spring.  The  ch.  are:  Grace  Mabel2,  b.  in  Sutton,  1872,  Sept. 
6;  Flora  Armina2,  b.  1874,  May  25,  d.  in  Sutton,  1874,  Oct.  18; 
Lilla  Maud2,  b.  1875,  Oct.  13,  d.  1875,  Nov.  7;  Bertie  Lewis2,  b.  in 
Bedford,  1879,  Oct.  29;  Harry  William2,  b.  1886,  Oct.  30. 

II.  Grace  M.,  dau.  of  Henry  L.1,  b.  1872,  Sept,  6;  m.,  1st,  1890,  Nov.  4, 
Fred  G.  Fifield  and  res.  in  Bedford;  they  were  divorced  1897,  Jan. 
She  m.,  2d,  1901,  Aug.  26,  John  F.  Bickford,  and  res.  Manchester. 

II.  Bertie  L.,  son  of  Henry  L1,  b.  1879,  Oct.  29;  m.  1901,  April  24, 
Mary  Lizzie,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1880,  Feb.  16,  dau.  of  Joseph  H. 
and  Charlotte  E.  (Comstock)  Foster.  They  have:  Edith  May3,  b. 
1902,  April  22,  and  Fred  William3,  b.  1903,  April  18. 
I.  Newton  I.  Peaslee,  a  brother  of  Henrv  Lewis,  was  b.  in  Wells,  Me., 
1856,  Dec.  24.  He  m.  1874,  March  30,  Mary  L.,  b.  in  Bedford, 
1851,  April  8,  dau.  of  Rufus  and  Louisa  (Prince)  Parkhurst.  He 
settled  in  Bedford  in  1874,  March;  was  selectman  1894-'96,  and 
tax  collector  1898-1901. 

PLUMMER. 

Capt.  Franklin  Pierce  Plummer,  a  direct  descendant  of  John  Quincy 
Adams,  located  in  the  town  of  Bedford  in  1880,  purchasing  the  Boyington 
farm,  situated  between  the  Bedford  road  and  the  River  road.  In  1884  he 
took  command  of  a  merchant  vessel  plying  between  American  and  for- 
eign ports,  his  wife  accompanying  him  on  all  but  two  voyages.  In  1896 
he  returned  to  Bedford,  and  erected  a  residence  on  what  is  known  as 
Plummer  hill,  where  he  and  Mrs.  Plummer  now  reside.  She  was  a  teacher 
in  town  for  about  two  years. 

Franklin  Pierce,  son  of  George  Washington  and  Rhoda  Elizabeth 
(Adams)  Plummer,  was  b.  Hubbardston,  Mass.,  1853,  Feb.  8.  *  He 
is  overseer  in  the  Belt  and  Roll  shop,  Manchester.  He  m.  1882, 
July  2,  Sara  Louisa,  b.  Harrington,  Me.,  1857,  Sept.  24,  dau.  of 
Nathaniel  Crafts  and  Louisa  W.  (Colson)  Cook. 
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1042  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 


PRICHARD. 

This  is  among  the  early  names  of  New  England.  There  was  a  Hugh 
Prichard  of  Roxbury,  1642. 

I.  Benjamin  Prichard,  b.  in  Boxford,  Mass.,  1769;  moved  to  New  Ips- 
wich, N.  H.;  was  m.  1791,  Oct.  4,  and  had  ch.:  Alanson2;  Bernice*; 
Martha2;  Benjamin2;  and  Silva.2 
II.  Bernice,  son  of  Benjamin,  b.  in  New  Ipswich;  moved  to  Bedford, 
and  had  ch.:  Martha  A.3;  Asenath3;  Eunice8;  and  Clara.8 

QUAID. 

I.  John  A.,  son  of  William  and  Eliza  (Slater)  Quaid,  was  b.  in  Berillie, 
N.  B.,  1871,  Feb.  22.  He  m.  in  Bedford,  1899,  May  12,  Grace  A, 
b.  in  Bennington,.  N.  H.,  1881,  Aug.  31,  dau.  of  Edgar  H.  and 
Sarah  A.  (Spooner)  Ward.  They  remained  in  town,  having  lived 
here  several  years  previous  to  their  marriage.  Ch. :  Olive  Wat- 
son2, b.  1900,  Oct.  22;  Howard  William2,  b.  1903,  March  21,  d. 
1903,  Oct.  29. 

RAND. 

This  name  is  of  French  origin.  It  was  formerly  spelled  Rande",  and 
was  pronounced  Ronda.  Of  the  ancestry  of  this  family  little  is  known 
farther  back  than  Rev.  John  Rand,  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  where  all 
of  the  name,  so  far  as  known,  originated.  His  brother,  Nehemiah,  owned 
Bunker  Hill  at  the  time  of  the  Revolution,  and  when  Charlestown  was 
burned  was  obliged  to  flee  for  safety  with  his  wife  and  two  daughters 
(see  History  of  Francestown). 

I.  Rev.  John  Rand,  b.  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  1727,  Jan.  24;  took 
degree  at  Harvard  college  in  1747.  He  settled  in  Lyndeborough, 
N.  H,  as  the  first  Congregational  minister  of  that  town,  and 
soon  after  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Col.  John  Goffe  of  Derryfield,  now 
Manchester.  He  rem.  to  Derryfield  in  1765,  and  never  preached 
statedly  afterwards,  but  received  a  commission  of  justice  of  the 
peace,  under  George  III,  and  rem.  to  Bedfofd  in  1778,  where  he 
d.  in  1805,  Oct.,  aged  77.  His  wife  survived  him  about  three 
years.  They  were  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  in  the  east  part  of 
the  town.  They  had  seven  ch.,  three  b.  in  Lyndeborough  and 
four  in  Derryfield:  John2  and  Jonathan2  (twins),  b.  1762,  June  24, 
John  d.  1780,  Oct.;  Mille2,  b.  1764,  Feb.  5,  m.  Nathaniel  Gordon 
(see  Gordon);  Robert2,  b.  1767,  May  13;  Sarah2,  b.  1774,  Jan.  20, 
m.  Samuel,  son  of  Dea.  Eohraim  Abbott  (see  Abbott);  Nehemiah2 
and  Thomns2  (twins),  b.  1776,  May  22. 

II.  Dea.  Jonathan  (twin),  son  of  Rev.  John1,  b.  Lyndeborough,  1762, 
June  24;  m.  Sarah,  b.  1787,  dau.  of  Dea.  Ephraim  Abbott.  They 
res.  principally  in  Bedford,  where  he  d.  1848,  June,  aged  86. 
Sarah,  his  wife,  d.  1848.  Had  eight  ch.:  Mille3,  b.  1795,  April 
29,  m.  Robert  Parker  (see  Parker);  Esther  P.8,  b.  1796,  Dec.  30; 
Jonathan8,  b.  1799,  Jan.  11,  drowned  in  the  Merrimack  river 
1810,  June  6;  John3,  b.  1801,  Jan.  27,  distinguished  as  an  artist 
(see  biograohy) ;  Ephraim3,  b.  1803,  Dec.  17,  m.  Catherine  Gray, 
Ausrusta,  Me.;  Sarah3,  b.  1806,  Feb.  3,  d.  1832,  Feb.  8;  Dorothy8, 
b.  1809,  May  15,  d.  1811,  May  16;  Philinder  P.3,  b.  1811,  July  9.  d. 
1832,  April  6. 

II.  Robert,  son  of  Rev.  John1,  b.  1767,  May  13;  m.  Anna,  dau.  of  John 
and  Mary  (Campbell)  Gordon  of  Townsend,  Mass.  (see  Gordon). 
They  settled  in  Bedford,  then  rem.  to  Washington,  N.  H,  and 


GENEALOGIES. — KAND.  1043 

thence  to  Orange,  Vt.  He  d.  at  Swanton,  Vt.,  in  1814,  aged  47, 
while  connected  with  the  army  during  the  War  of  1812.  They 
had  ten  ch.  His  widow  m.,  2d,  Joseph  Bailey  of  Hillsborough, 
by  whom  she  had  two  ch.:  Josiah  G3;  Ann  Rebecca8. 

II.  Nehemiah  (twin),  son  of  Rev.  John1,  m. of  New  Boston;  set- 
tled first  in  Bedford,  then  rem.  to  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  returning 
again  to  New  Boston,  after  the  death  of  his  wife,  to  res.  with 
his  ch. 

II.  Thomas  (twin),  son  of  Rev.  John1,  m. of  New  Boston;  settled 

in  West  Springfield,  Mass.,  1803,  where  he  and  his  wife  res.  1850, 
having  been  in  the  gospel  ministry  fifty-one  years. 

JOHN  RAND,  ESQ. 

This  gentleman,  for  many  years  an  inhabitant  of  this  town,  was  the 
first  minister  of  Lyndeborough.  He  came  to  this  town  immediately  from 
Derryfield  in  1778.  His  ministry  in  Lyndeborough  was  short  (see  geneal- 
ogy). What  year  he  was  settled  there  we  are  not  certain.  He  must  have 
been  there  as  early  as  1756,  as  appears  by  the  following  letter  of  dismis- 
sion found  among  his  papers: 

To  the  Church  of  Christ  at  Lyndeborough,  under  the  pastoral  charge  of  the  Eev. 
Mr.  John  Rand,  the  Church  in  Mid<1leton  semi,  Gieeting: 

Rev.  and  Beloved:— Pursuant  to  the  Request  ol  <>ur  Brolher  and  Sister,  Mr. 
Nathaniel  and  Mrs.  Abigail  Putnam,  we  hen  by  certify  that  they,  our  sai.i  Brother 
and  Sister,  have  been  Regularly  admitted  to  the  holy  communi'  n  with  us.  And 
that,  whilst  with  us,  have  led  a  conversation  becoming  iheir  Profession.  And  being, 
by  the  disposal  of  God's  Providence,  who  sets  bounds  to  all  men's  habitations,  Re- 
moved from  us  into  your  neighborhood,  we  do  h  reby  Rt  commend  them  to  your 
holy  Fellowship  and  communinn.  Praying  that  grace,  mercy  and  peace  may  be 
multiply'd  unto  you  and  them,  through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

Samuel  Nichols,  Mod. 

There  is  no  date  to  this,  but  on  the  back  is  endorsed:  "Rec'd  Sept.  7, 
1756." 

Some  trouble  seems  to  have  arisen  before  Mr.  Rand  had  been  long  at 
Lyndeborough.  We  have  a  letter  dated  1761,  from  Hon.  Benjamin 
Lynde  of  Salem,  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  township,  and  from  whom 
it  was  named  (it  having  been  previously  called  New  Canada).  The  letter 
is  written  to  Mr.  Rand,  and  thus  closes: 

Let  me  therefore  beg  you  to  come  into  some  measure  for  an  accommodation;  and 
if  the  •  ouncil,  which  ihey  are  to  have  shortly,  doth  not  please  you.  join  with  them  in 
a  mutual  council,  or  in  some  five  discreet  persons,  who  shall  settle  an  I  adjust  all 
matters  between  you,  that  so  peace  may  be  again  restored  to  your  unhappy,  divi- 
ded place. 

Hoping  that  God,  who  is  the  God  of  peace,  will  incline  your  and  your  people's 
hearts  to  such  measures  as  may  put  an  end  to  these  unhappy  quarrels,*I  remain 

Your  friend  and  humble  servant, 

Benj.  Lynde. 

After  Mr.  Rand  removed  to  this  vicinity  he  seldom  preached.  He 
engaged  in  civil  affairs,  being  a  justice  of  the  peace,  town  clerk,  etc.  He 
was  evidently  a  man  of  considerable  reading  and  general  information, 
but  seemed  to  be  unsuccessful  in  worldly  accumulation,  verifying  the 
Scriptural  adage,  "  Nor  riches  to  men  of  understanding." 

He  was  for  a  time  much  embarrassed  in  his  worldly  circumstances. 
Among  his  papers  is  a  document  guaranteeing  to  him  entire  exemption 
from  any  molestation  on  account  of  debts;  and  the  first  signature  is  of 
that  distinguished  man,  afterwards  first  president  of  the  American  con- 
gress.    This  singular  paper  thus  closes: 

And  that  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the  said  John  Rand  to  plead  and  give  in 
evidence  this  our  present  writing  and  safe  conduct,  in  full  Bar  and  Discharge,  of 
the  Debt  or  Debts  of  such  Person  or  Persons,  by  whom  he,  the  said  Rand  shall  be 
thus  arrested,  sued  or  molested,  as  aforesaid. 

In  witness  whereof  we.  the  said  creditors  of  the  said  John  Rand,  have  hereunto 
set  our  hands  and  seals  this  twenty-first  day  of  November,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  seventy. 

John  Hancock. 


1044  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

But  how  happened  it,  the  inquiry  may  be,  that  a  man  up  here  in  the 
woods,  as  it  then  was,  should  be  associated  thus  with  an  individual  of 
such  celebrity?  The  inquiry  is  easily  answered.  Mr.  Rand  was  librarian 
at  Harvard  college  from  1753  to  1755,  the  very  years  that  John  Hancock 
and  John  Adams  were  undergraduates  at  Cambridge.  Thus  they  were 
placed  in  interesting  relations  to  each  other,  and  no  doubt  cherished  a 
mutual  regard.  Rand,  by  some  means,  became  Hancock's  debtor.  How 
strange  the  vicissitudes  of  this  world ! 

At  one  end  of  the  old  burying  yard  in  this  town,  without  a  stone  to 
mark  the  exact  spot,  there  repose  the  remains  of  a  man  who  was  conver- 
sant, in  their  youth,  with  Hancock  and  Adams,  afterwards  the  master 
spirits  of  the  American  Revolution;  and  it  is  to  the  praise  of  Hancock, 
that,  after  the  lapse  of  thirty  years,  he  came  to  the  relief  of  Rand  in 
adversity,  and  threw  the  protection  of  his  name  around  the  early  friend 
of  his  college  career. 

JOHN  RAND. 

One  of  the  most  distinguished  portrait  painters  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury was  John  Rand,  grandson  of  the  above,  and  a  native  of  Bedford. 
He  was  born  Jan.  27,  1801,  the  son  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah  (Abbott) 
Rand.  His  grandfather,  John  Rand,  had  been  the  first  Congregational 
minister  at  Lyndeborough,  N.  H,  in  1761.  His  grandmother  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Col.  John  Goffe. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  spent  his  boyhood  upon  his  father's  farm, 
receiving  only  the  common  school  education  that  was  usual  in  those  early 
days.  When  about  eighteen  years  of  age  he  became  an  apprentice  to 
Robert  Parker  to  learn  the  trade  of  cabinet  making.  He  also  did  house 
and  sign  painting.  Soon  after  reaching  his  majority  he  went  into  busi- 
ness for  himself,  carrying  along  all  of  these  lines.  He  was  always  a  poor 
man  of  business,  and  within  three  years  after  his  first  venture,  because  of 
overpowering  debts,  was  compelled  to  fail. 

He  then  turned  his  attention  to  the  subject  of  portrait  painting,  main- 
taining himself  by  doing  ornamental  and  sign  painting.  After  a  few 
years  he  opened  a  studio  on  Cornhill  in  Boston,  and  devoted  his  whole 
time  to  his  chosen  profession.  He  traveled  quite  extensively  in  the  South, 
and  then  sailed  for  Europe,  where  his  enviable  reputation  was  achieved. 
After  a  short  time  in  Paris,  he  located  in  London,  and  for  more  than 
twelve  years  his  patronage  there  was  large  and  most  lucrative. 

He  married  Lavinia  Brainerd  of  Vermont,  before  going  to  Europe. 
She  was  a  near  relative  of  the  Rev.  David  Brainerd,  the  distinguished 
missionary  to  the  Indians,  and  was  very  earnest  in  the  cause  of  foreign 
missions.  She  became  acquainted  with  the  morganatic  wife  of  the  Duke 
of  Sussex,  who  was  a  favorite  of  Queen  Victoria,  through  a  common  reli- 
gious zeal.  The  duke  was  persuaded  by  her  to  sit  for  his  portrait  to  Mr. 
Rand,  and  so  satisfactory  was  the  result,  it  is  said  that  many  members  of 
the  royal  family  engaged  him  to  paint  theirs. 

Mr.  Rand  was  about  six  feet  and  four  inches  tall,  and  possessed  a  well- 
formed  physique  in  proportion,  making  his  presence  most  imposing.  His 
wife  was  below  the  average  height  of  women.  It  is  related  that  in  being 
escorted  by  him  she  clung  to  a  handkerchief  fastened  about  his  arm,  being 
unable  to  reach  his  arm,  as  usually  held  for  such  service. 

He  invented  the  screw  fastening  to  the  tube  used  to  contain  artists' 
colors,  and  for  years  received  a  considerable  royalty  thereon. 

While  still  in  Europe  he  was  deceived  into  purchasing  an  alleged  patent, 
which  venture  absorbed  all  of  his  property  and  he  again  became  a  poor 
man. 

In  1848  he  came  back  to  this  country,  paid  his  aged  parents  in  Bedford 
a  visit,  and  then  resumed  the  work  of  his  profession  in  New  York,  but 
never  regained  a  competence,  and  scarcely  enough  to  afford  him  a  comfort- 
able living.     He  died  in  1873,  and  was  buried  in  Woodlawn  cemetery. 


GENEALOGIES. — RAND. — RIDDLE.  1045 

RAND. 

Tradition  repeats  herself  in  saying  that  three  brothers  of  this  name 
came  from  England;  they  settled  in  Rye. 

I.  Capt.  Thomas  Rand,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  above,  b.  in  Epsom; 
fonght  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  served  throughout  the 
Revolutionary  war.  As  he  marched  his  company  from  Epsom  to 
Bunker  Hill  they  came  to  the  tollgate  at  Kittery  Point,  where 
the  keeper  refused  to  allow  them  to  pass  unless  they  paid  toll. 
Captain  Rand  replied  that  "  no  toll  would  be  paid  by  men  fight- 
ing for  their  country,  and  if  the  keeper  still  refused  them  pas- 
sage, he  would  be  thrown  into  the  Piscataqua  river."  They 
passed.  Capt.  Thomas  m.  Mary  Stockbridge;  settled  in  Epsom, 
but  moved  to  Hooksett.  Had  ch.:  John  H.2,  Alexander2,  Will- 
iam2, David  H.2,  city  marshal  of  Oakland,  Cal.,  where  he  d. ; 
H.  Albee2,  res.  in  California;  Olive2,  m.  Hall,  res.  Kansas;  James 
E.2,  city  marshal,  Concord. 
II.  John  H.,  son  of  Capt.  Thomas1,  b.  1818,  Aug.  30;  was  a  brick  mason, 
and  a  thirty-second  degree  mason,  Knight  Templar;  came  to  Bed- 
ford, 1880.  He  m.,  1st,  Irene  Trumbull,  who  d.  1870,  March;  m., 
2d,  Charlotte  W.  Colby,  b.  1839,  March  24,  and  d.  1897,  May  24. 
He  d.  1902,  Sept.  17.  Ch.:  Henry  T.3,  b.  1848,  Nov.  14,  d.  Bed- 
ford, m.  Sara  Jenks  of  Springfield,  Miss.,  four  ch. :  Fillimore  C.3, 

b.  1850,  July  6;  Almira  H.3,  b.  1852,  May  6,  d. ;    Willis  M.8, 

b.  1853,  Dec.  6,  prominent  Odd  Fellow,  m.  Eva  Gamsby  of  Cole- 
brook,  had  one  son,  a  conductor,  killed  on  the  railroad;  Julia  A.3, 
b.  1856,  Feb.  9,  m.  Frank  S.  Leavitt,  res.  in  Manchester,  have  two 
ch.;  Edgar  D.3,  b.  1858,  Dec.  24,  res.  Springfield,  Miss.,  has  four 
ch.;  Thomas  J.3,  b.  1864,  July  8,  has  charge  of  brickyard  which 
made  2,500,000  brick  in  1902,  res.  Springfield,  Miss.,  five  ch.; 
Etta  M.3,  b.  1872,  July  8,  d.  1872,  Sept.  2;  Carrie  E.8,  b.  1873,  July 
16,  m.  Everett  Cochran,  res.  Milford,  three  ch.;  James  C.3,  b. 
1876,  Feb.  12,  res.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

RIDDLE. 

Compiled  by  John  A.  Riddle. 

Note.— Generations  are  marked  by  Roman  characters  and  separated  by  a  double 
dash.  Individuals  are  numbered  (prefixed )  in  generations.  Parents  number  (pre- 
vious generation)  is  shown  by  superior  number  (affixed).  Children's  numbers 
(afficed)  after  date  of  death  of  parent.  Families  (brothers  and  sisters)  occupy 
space  between  short  dash.    Other  numbers  relate  to  place  of  residence  on  the  map. 

Ridel,  Riddell,  Riddle,  the  latter  spelling  having  been  adopted  by  the 
Bedford  branch  about  1790,  is  an  old  name,  derived  from  Ryedale,  a  dale 
or  delle  of  rye,  heads  and  sheafs  of  which  appear  in  coats  of  arms  of 
families  of  the  name  in  Great  Britian.  Robert  Burns,  Scotland's  bard, 
wrote  of  them: 

"  My  goose  quil  too  rude  is  to  tell  all  your  goodness, 
Bestowed  on  your  servant  the  poet, 
Would  to  God  I  had  one  like  a  beam  of  the  sun, 
And  then  all  the  world,  sir,  should  know  it." 

Bonnie  Annie  Laurie's  mother  was  Jean  Riddell.  Upon  one  of  the 
name  was  bestowed  the  "  Star  of  India,"  the  highest  gift  of  the  British 
crown  for  meritorious  civil  service. 

Gawn,  Hugh,  Robert,  John,  and  Margery,  children  of  John  and  Janet 
Gordon  Riddell,  Balleymeath  county,  Londonderry,  Ireland,  came  to  Lon- 
donderry, N.  H.,  and  from  thence  to  Bedford  (except  Robert,  who  did  not 
come  to  Bedford)  about  1738,  and  their  names  appear  upon  the  petition  for 
the  town,  1750,  including  John  Clark  the  husband  of  Margery;  Hugh, 


1046  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

removed  to  Colraine,  Mass.,  in  1763,  with  his  children:  Hugh,  William, 
Robert,  and  Ann,  all  of  whom  were  born  in  Bedford.  John  died  July  6, 
1757,  in  Bedford,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  graveyard;  he  had  two 
daughters,  Mary  and  Elizabeth,  who  died  unmarried,  and  the  family 
became  extinct.  Margery  died  about  1778  in  Bedford,  leaving  no  issue. 
See  genealogy  of  the  Riddells  by  G.  T.  Ridlon. 


Gawn  Riddell  (see  above),  b.  May  16,  1638  (Balleymeath  record); 
d.  Dec.  22,  1779,  Bedford;  m.  Mary  Bell,  b.  1724;  d.  Jan.  7,  1813, 
dau.  of  John  Bell  (see  Bell).  He  settled  at  No.  65,  and  his  name 
appears  upon  the  town  records  as  tythingman,  constable,  select- 
man, clerk  of  market,  committee  to  build  meeting-house,  etc.   1-6. 


II.  John  Riddle1,  b.  Oct.  30,  1754,  Bedford;  d.  Nov.  18,  1812;  m.,  1st, 
Mary  McAffee  (McDuffee),  Bedford.  1-9.  He  m.,  2d,  Sarah 
Hartshorn.  10-11.  He  subscribed  to  the  "Association  Test  "  of 
1776;  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution.  He  built  and  lived  at  No. 
41.  He  was  a  millwright  by  trade,  an  industrious,  hard-working 
man,  building  most  of  the  mills  that  were  in  operation  in  this  sec- 
tion of  the  county  at  that  time.  His  name  appears  on  the  town 
records  as  holder  of  many  offices. 

2.  David  Riddle1,  b.  March  16,  1757,  Bedford;  d.  Dec.  18,  1839,  Bed- 
ford; m.  1798,  Mary  Dunlap,  dau.  Maj.  Dunlap,  Bedford.  12-16. 
He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  a  pensioner.  He  and  his 
brother  Hugh  bought  No.  34,  and  he  afterwards  built  and  resided 
at  No.  35.  He  held  offices  of  trust  in  the  town,  pound-keeper, 
selectman,  etc.  He  was  noted  for  his  originality,  and  differed  in 
his  views  on  political  matters  from  his  brothers. 

3.  Susannah  Riddle1,  b.  1759,  Bedford;  d.  Nov.  5,  1841,  Bedford;  m. 
Solomon  Hutchinson,  Merrimack;  removed  to  Maine.     17-26 

4.  Hugh  Riddle1,  b.  1761,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  17,  1833,  Bedford;  m. 
Ann  Maria,  dau.  of  Rev.  John  Houston,  Bedford.  27-33.  He 
was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  entering  the  army  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen; was  with  Stark  at  Bennington.  He  built  and  lived  in 
the  brick  house,  No.  89. 


5.  Isaac  Riddle1,  b.  June  10,  1762,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  26,  1830,  Quincy, 
Mass. ;  was  buried  with  Masonic  honors  in  the  family  tomb  at  Bed- 
ford Center,  which  had  been  completed  but  a  few  weeks,  he  being 
the  first  laid  therein.  He  m.,  1st,  June  5,  1788,  Ann,  dau.  of  Capt. 
James  Aiken*  (see  Aiken,  No.  2),  b.  Nov.  12,  1794,  d.  April  6.  1804, 

*  The  following  sketch  of  the  Revolutionary  services  of  Capt.  James  Aiken  was  re- 
ceived from  a  descendant.  Mr.  Harry  W.  Gilchrist,  Franklin,  too  late  to  go  into  the 
Aik  n  No.  2  genealogy,  and  is  inserted  here  in  connection  with  his  daughter,  Ann 
(Aiken)  Riddle: 

Capt.  James  Aiken  of  Bedford,  N.  H.,  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Capt.  Joshua  Abbott's 
company.  Colonel  Stark's  regiment,  on  June  13, 1775,  and  served  in  the  same  com- 
pany as  late  as  November  5, 1776.  He  was  with  his  company  in  the  battle  "f  Bunker 
Hill.  In  this  battle  Stark's  regiment  was  opposed  to  the  British  Twenty-Third  regi- 
ment, well  known  a*  the  "  Royal  Welsh  Fusiliers."  Prince  Albert,  in  1849,  presented 
to  this  regiment  a  new  stand  <>f  colors  and  said:  "  In  the  American  war  the  Fusiliers 
were  engaged  in  the  fir-t  unhappy  collision  which  took  place  at  Lexington.  It  also 
fought  at  Bunker  Hill  and  Brandywine.  At  Bunker  Hill  its  loss  was  so  great  that  it 
was  said  onlv  one  officer  remained  to  tell  the  story." 

The  late  Capt.  i»avid  Flanders,  who  was  a  private  in  Captain  Abbott's  company, 
stated  that  his  "  company  was  located  down  on  the  Mystic  Beach,  wholly  unpro- 
tected by  any  defence  in  our  front.  The  column  of  the  Fusiliers  did  not  deploy  until 
they  parsed 'our  company,  therefore  they  were  outflanked  by  us,  hence  we  had  a 
good  chance  to  pick  off  their  otticers.  This  chance  we  improved,  as  we  could  distin- 
guish the  officers  by  observing  the  swords  in  their  hands,  and  that  they  had  occasion 
to  use  them  in  urging  their  men  into  the  fight." 

When  Captain  Aiken  enlisted  in  June  Ids  crops  were  in  the  ground  and  he  left  the 
farm  to  the  care  of  his  wife  and  children,  the  oldest  of  whom  was  eleven  years  and 


GENEALOGIES. — E1DDLE.  1047 

by  a  dislocated  neck,  caused  by  a  fall  from,  her  horse,  at  her  own 
door,  when  about  to  visit  her  brother-in-law,  William  Riddle,  who 
had  broken  his  leg  in  a  sawmill.  34-38.  He  m.,  2d,  March  6, 
1806,  Margaret,  dau.  of  Jacob  McGaw,  Merrimack,  b  May  25, 
1776,  d.  Dec.  19,  1816,  member  of  the  church,  Bedford.  39-41.  He 
m.,  3d,  May,  1819,  Mrs.  Mary  Yinal,  Quincy,  Mass.,  b.  Jan  27, 
1760,  d.  April  5,  1837,  sister  of  Capt.  Amos  Lincoln,  of  the  tea 
party  in  Boston  harbor  in  1773.  She  kept  among  her  relic-treas- 
ures the  axe  with  which  her  brother  opened  the  memorable  chests 
of  tea;  he  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  About  1782  he  bought 
the  land,  built  and  lived  at  No.  27,  until  about  1820,  when  he 
removed  to  Quincy,  Mass.  After  the  Revolutionary  war,  he  hav- 
ing saved  a  small  amount  of  money,  mostly  earned  in  the  military 
service,  he  went  to  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  purchased  a  stock  of 
goods,  which  was  brought  to  Bedford  by  team,  and  placed  in  the 
front  room  of  his  mother's  house,  No.  65,  which  was  used  as  a 
store.  Business  increased,  and  he  commenced  the  manufacture 
of  potash  from  the  heavy  growth  upon  the  land  he  had  bought. 
The  ashery  was  located  in  the  field  immediately  across  the  road 
from  his  house,  and  is  still  known  as  the  "  potash  field,"  No.  19. 
The  potash  was  taken  to  Boston  by  ox  teams,  and  bartered  as  an 
article  for  export  for  imported  goods.  He  was  extensively  engaged 
in  the  lumber  business,  and  was  one  of  the  first  proprietors  of 
navigation  on  Merrimack  river.  He  superintended  the  building 
of  the  locks  and  canals  of  the  Union  Lock  and  Canal  company, 
the  funds  for  which  were  procured  by  lottery  authorized  by  the 
6tate  of  New  Hampshire.  In  company  with  MaJ-  Caleb  Stark,  he 
built  and  owned  the  first  canal-boat  that  ever  floated  on  the  waters 
of  the  Merrimack.  It  was  named  the  Experiment,  was  built  at 
Bedford  Center,  and  drawn  three  miles  on  wheels  by  forty  yoke  of 
oxen,  to  "  Basswood  Landing,'  so  called,  where  it  was  launched, 
in  presence  of  the  townspeople,  who  bad  gathered  to  witness  the 
novelty  of  the  day.  It  was  loaded,  and  sailed  to  Boston,  and  the 
following  notice  is  taken  from  the  Boston  Centinel  of  1813:  "Arrived 
from  Bedford,  N.  H.,  canal-boat  Experiment,  Isaac  Riddle,  Captain, 
via  Merrimack  River  and  Middlesex  Canal. "  Upon  her  arrival  at 
Boston  she  was  received  amid  cheers  and  the  firing  of  cannon. 
From  this  commenced  a  large  and  extensive  inland  navigation  on 
the  Merrimack,  which  rendered  Manchester  and  other  manufac- 
turing places  possible.  Mr.  Riddle  was  the  instigator  and  large 
owner  in  the  Souhegan  Nail,  Cotton,  and  Woolen  Manufactory 
corporation,  which  carried  on  its  operations  at  Riddle's  Village, 
on  the  Souhegan  river,  until  the  destruction  by  fire  of  its  works  in 
1829.  Its  products  were  sold  to  county  traders,  the  balance  being 
shipped  to  Boston,  by  boats  via  river  and  canal.  Mr.  Riddle  also 
instituted  stores,  with  his  sons,  William  P.,  James,  Isaac,  and 
David,  at  Piscataquog  village,  Bedford,  Souhegan,  and  Boston. 
He  filled  many  offices,  having  been  civil  magistrate,  representa- 
tive to  the  legislature,  etc.  In  1814,  during  the  war  with  Great 
Britain,  a  public  call  by  the  governor  of  the  state  was  made  for 
volunteers,  from  citizens  exempt  from  military  duty,  to  form 
themselves  into  companies  for  home  defence,  in  case  of  sudden 
invasion;  about  sixty  responded,  under  the  command  of  Capt. 
Isaac  Riddle.     About  1817,  Mr.  Riddle  was  returning  from  Pem- 

the  youngest  eight  months  old,  and  they  did  all  the  work,  including  the  harvesting 
of  the  crops  in  the  tall 

In  August.  1778,  Captain  Aiken  went  to  Rhode  Island  as  captain  of  a  company  in  Col. 
Moses  Kelle.v's  legiment,  under  General  Sullivan.  In  June,  1780,  Captain  Aiken 
went  to  West  Point,  N  Y.,  in  command  of  a  company  in  C«il.  Thomas  Bartlett's  regi- 
ment.  and  was  there  when  the  fort  was  betrayed  bv  Arnold.  He  enlisted  June  29 
and  was  discharged  October  24, 1780. 


1048  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

broke  muster  when  a  ferry-boat  crowded  with  people  was  about  to 
pluuge  over  Hooksett  Falls,  Mr.  Riddle  sprang  from  his  chaise, 
plunged  into  the  stream,  caught  the  rope  attached  w  the  boat,  and 
thus  saved  about  thirty  lives. 
6.  William  Riddle1,  b.  July  5,  1765,  Bedford;  d.  July  14,  1838,  Bed- 
ford; m.  Sept.  29,  1791,  Janet  Gilchrist,  Goffstown,  b.  July  12, 
1768,  d.  Nov.  9,  1839,  and  lived  at  No.  81.  42-49.  He  held  many 
offices  of  trust:  selectman,  treasurer,  civil  magistrate,  representa- 
tive to  the  general  court,  etc.,  and  died,  leaving  behind  him  a 
character  distinguished  for  public  and  private  virtues. 


III.  1.  Gawn  Riddle1,  b.  June  28,  1776,  Bedford;  d.  July,  1837,  Bedford; 
m.  Dolly  French,  Bedford.  1-3.  He  lived  at  No.  41,  and  carried 
on  a  grist-mill  below  the  Riddle  mill.  He  was  selectman,  town 
treasurer,  and  a  man  of  marked  executive  ability. 

2.  Molly  Riddle1,   b.   Dec.    11,  1778,  Bedford;  m.    1804, Black, 

Prospect,  Me. 

3.  Agnes  Riddle1,  b.  Jan.  5,  1781,  Bedford;  d.  June  20,  1852;  m.  Feb. 
9,  1807,  William  French,  Prospect,  Me.     (See  French.) 

4.  Susannah  Riddle1,  b.  1784,  Bedford;  m.  Sept.  24,  1807,  Daniel 
Moor,  Bedford.     (See  Moor.) 

5.  James  Riddle1,  b.  Jan.  9,  1786,  Bedford;  d.  March,  1827,  Bedford; 
m.  Dec.  6,  1815,  Anna,  dau.  of  Col.  Stephen  Dole,  Bedford,  b. 
Oct.  16,  1790,  d.  Oct.  11,  1849.  4-5.  He  lived  at  No.  31.  He  was 
an  enterprising,  energetic  man,  but  unfortunately  lost  the  use  of 
his  limbs  by  rheumatism,  while  in  the  prime  of  life. 

6.  Anna  Riddle1,  b.  May,  1789,  Bedford;  m.  1841,  James  Staples, 
Prospect,  Me. 

7.  John  Riddle1,  b.  about  1791;  d.  at  the  age  of  21. 

8.  Matthew  Riddle1,  b.  Bedford,  1793;  d.  Sept.  1,  1828;  m.  1819, 
Sarah,  dau.  of  Col.  Stephen  Dole,  Bedford,  d.  July  9,  1844.  He 
went  West  in  1820,  and  settled  in  Terra  Haute,  Ind.;  cabinet 
maker.    6-8. 

9.  William  Riddle1,  b.  1791,  Bedford;  d.  1845,  Bedford. 

10.  Gilman  Riddle1,  b.  July,  1811,  Bedford;  d.  May  15,  1893,  Manches- 
ter, N.  H.  He  m.,  1st,  1836,  Mary  J.  Eveleth.  9.  He  m.,  2d, 
1841,  Etneline  Henry.  10-11.  He  was  a  man  of  quiet  and  unos- 
tentatious habits,  was  long  identified  with  cotton  manufacturing, 
having  first  been  engaged  in  the  mill  on  the  island  at  Amoskeag 
falls. 

11.  Eliza  S.  Riddle1,  b.  1813,  Bedford:  d.  Sept.  18,  1859,  Belfast,  Me.; 
m.  May  1,  1834,  William  W.  West,  Belfast,  Me.     12-19. 


12.  John  Dunlap  Riddle2,  b.  March  20,  1802,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  5, 1876, 
Manchester;  m.,  1st,  May  12, 1831,  Sally  C.  Gilmore,  Bedford,d.  July 
13,  1852.  20-25.  He  m.,  2d,  1854,  Mary  Ann  Gilmore,  d.  Sept.  9, 
1885,  Manchester.  He  lived  at  No.  35  until  1868,  when  he  rem.  to 
Manchester.  He  was  a  civil  magistrate,  held  offices  of  trust  in 
the  town,  and  was  a  man  highly  respected  by  a  large  circle  of 
acquaintances. 

13.  Hugh  Riddle2,  b.  April  8,  1803,  Bedford;  d.  1849.  In  1837  he  built 
the  Baltimore  custom  house,  and  was  largely  connected  with  the 
building  of  the  first  railroads  terminating  at  that  city.  In  1849  he 
started  for  California  by  the  overland  route,  having  shipped  saw- 
mill machinery  via  Cape  Horn.  A  simple  head-board  bearing  his 
name  and  former  place  of  residence,  Bedford,  was  found  by  a 
fellow  townsman  on  the  plains  of  the  Pacific. 


GENEALOGIES. — KIDDLE.  1049 

14.  Martha  Riddle2,  b.  Dec.  16,  1806,  Bedford;  d.  April  4,  1878,  Bed- 
ford; m.  Jan.  29,  1829,  Daniel  Barnard  (see  Barnard). 

15.  Gilman2,  twin,  d.  yonng;  16.  Mary  Riddle2,  twin,  d.  young. 


17.  Samuel;  18.  David;  19.  Solomon;  20.  Eliza;  21.  Sally;  22.  Susannah; 
23.  Roxanna;  24.  Nancy,  m.  Leonard  C.  French,  Bedford  (see 
French);  25.  Hannah;  26.  Mary  Hutchinson.3 


27.  Gawn  Riddle4,  b.  May,  1791,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  20,  1867,  Bedford; 
m.,  1st,  May  4,  1819,  Betsey,  dau.  Lieut.  James  Moore,  Bedford. 
Two  ch.  d.  in  infancy.  He  m.,  2d,  Rebecca,  dau.  Robert  Walker, 
Bedford.     36-39.     He  was  a  farmer  and  lived  at  No.  55. 

28.  Robert  Riddle4,  b.  1793,  Bedford;  d.  1828,  Bedford;  grad.  Yale 
college  1818;  studied  medicine,  practised  Hooksett  and  Bedford. 
He  was  considered  a  skilful  physician,  and  was  fast  rising  in  no- 
tice when  he  d.  in  the  prime  of  life. 

29.  Anna  Riddle4,  b.  March  3,  1794,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  7,  1876,  Bedford; 
m.  March  16,  1820,  Willard  Parker  (see  Parker) . 

30.  Polly  Riddle4,  b.  Feb.  12,  1796,  Bedford;  d.  Nelson;  m.  Oct.  10, 
1820,  Daniel  L.  French  (see  French). 

31.  Sally  Riddle4,  b.  Nov.  7,  1799,  Bedford;  d.  June  19,  1887;  m.  1842, 
Col.  Daniel  C.  Gould,  formerly  postmaster,  Manchester. 

32.  Susannah  Riddle4,  b.  Oct.  10,  1801,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  21,  1849;  m. 
1834,  Dea.  Robert  Boyd,  Londonderry,  N.  H.    40-44. 

33.  Jane  Riddle4,  b.  Sept.  11,  1804,  Bedford;  d.  March  24,  1833,  Bed- 
ford; m.  April  18,  1826,  Eleazer.  son  of  Dea.  Richard  Dole,  Bed- 
ford.   45-47. 


34.  William  Pickels  Riddle5,  b.  April  6,  1789,  Bedford;  d.  May  18,  1875, 
Manchester;  m.  Aug.  4,  1824,  Sarah,  dau.  Capt.  John  Ferguson, 
Dunbarton,  d.  June  12,  1837.  48-54.  He  was  educated  at  the  district 
school  and  at  Atkinson  academy.  He  taught  school  in  his  native 
town.  In  1811  he  located  in  Piscataquog  village,  in  Bedford,  now 
a  part  of  the  city  of  Manchester.  He  was  of  the  firm  of  Isaac 
Riddle  &  Sons  (see  sketch  of  Isaac  Riddle),  and  after  its  dissolu- 
tion he  carried  on  extensive  lumber  operations;  also  dealt  largely 
in  hops,  selling  them  in  Boston,  New  York,  Philadelphia,  and.  in 
some  instances  shipping  them  abroad.  In  1815  he  aided  in  organ- 
izing a  military  company  called  the  "  Bedford  Grenadiers,"  and 
was  its  first  captain;  he  rapidly  rose  in  military  rank  from  fourth 
corporal  to  a  major-general.  In  civil  life  Mr.  Riddle  held  offices 
of  trust,  representing  the  town  in  the  general  court.  In  1820  he 
was  chairman  of  the  committee  to  build  Piscataquog  meeting- 
house, and  twenty  years  later  he  was  chiefly  instrumental  in  re- 
modeling it  into  an  academy,  now  South  Main  street  church.  He 
was  an  active  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  joining  it  in  1823, 
and  in  the  following  year  assisted  as  a  charter  member  in  found- 
ing the  Lafayette  lodge.  To  the  support  and  maintenance  of  this 
lodge  he  contributed  liberally  in  funds  and  effort,  giving  free  use 
of  a  hall  for  twenty-five  years  for  its  meetings.  He  was  the  last 
survivor  of  its  early  projectors.  During  anti-Mason  times  this 
lodge  was  one  of  a  very  few  in  the  state  which  kept  its  "  altar 
fires  "  alive,  and  held  regular  communications  unbroken.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter  and  Trinity  Commandery  of 
Knights  Templar.  He  gave  no  small  attention  to  agriculture, 
owning  several  farms,  which  he  cultivated  with  success,  experi- 
menting with  crops  and  giving  the  results  to  the  public;  was  a 
patron  of  the  state  and  county  fairs,  gave  much  thought  to  im- 


1050  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

proved  methods  of  farming,  and  in  many  ways  strove  to  aid  in 
the  advancement  of  the  best  interests  of  agriculture.  The  grow- 
ing of  hops  was  a  specialty  with  him,  and  he  carried  it  to  highly 
successful  results,  establishing  theories  of  his  own,  and  generally 
improving  the  grade  and  quality  of  the  hops  raised  in  the  state. 
In  1848  he  erected  the  Picataquog  steam  mills  and  operated  them 
for  several  years;  about  the  same  date  he  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  general  inspector  of  hops  for  the  state  of  New  Hampshire. 
In  1854,  after  the  incorporation  of  the  city  of  Manchester,  and 
when  military  interests  were  dormant  throughout  the  state,  he 
aided  in  organizing  the  Amoskeag  Veterans,  he  being  its  first 
commander.  Several  of  its  early  officers  and  members  were  citi- 
zens of  Bedford.  Not  the  least  among  the  varied  talents  of  General 
Riddle  was  his  musical  proficiency,  both  as  a  choir  leader  and  in- 
strumental performer  at  Bedford  for  twenty  years.  In  church, 
state,  and  society  he  was  ever  ready  with  aid  and  encouragement. 
'  He  was  buried  with  Masonic  and  military  honors,  and  his  remains 
deposited  in  the  family  tomb  at  Bedford  Center. 

85.  James  Riddle5,  b.  June  26,  1791,  Bedford;  d.  Nov.  24,  1840,  Merri- 
mack, and  was  buried  in  the  family  tomb  at  Bedford  Center.  He  m. , 
1st,  1816  Charlotte  Farmer,  sister  to  John  Farmer,  the  distin- 
guished historian  and  antiquarian;  b.  July  20, 1792,  d.  1828.  55-56. 
Hem.,  2d,  1829,  Laura,  dau.  of  Solomon  Barker,  Pelham,  b.  Jan.  11, 
1802,  d.  March  4,  1831;  m.,  3d,  1833,  Eliza  Hunt,  b.  May  6,  1807, 
d.  July  24,  1884.  57.  He  was  one  of  the  firm  of  Isaac  Riddle  & 
Sons,  and  after  its  dissolution  he  remained  at  Riddle's  village, 
Merrimack,  leading  a  very  busy  life,  being  largely  interested  in 
staging  before  the  days  of  railroads;  also  carrying  on  a  tavern, 
store,  lumber,  and  grist-mill,  fulling-mill,  blacksmith  shop,  etc. 

86.  Isaac  Riddle6,  b.  July  25,  1793,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  3,  1875,  Manches- 
ter. He  was  buried  in  the  family  tomb  at  Bedford  Centre.  He  m., 
1st,  Sept.  30,  1818,  Betsey,  dau.  Dea.  Phineas  Aiken,  Bedford  (see 
Aiken  No.  1);  d.  Oct.  21,  1843.  58-62.  He  m.,  2d,  Mrs.  Ursula 
(Smith)  Aubin,  Manchester.  63.  Mr.  Riddle  acquired  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  and  the  academies  of  Bradford,  Mass., 
and  Atkinson.  He  was  one  of  the  firm  of  Isaac  Riddle  &  Sons, 
and  was  located  in  Boston,  having  his  office  at  their  boathouse,  at 
the  end  of  the  canal,  which  ran  through  Canal  street  (giving  it 
that  name)  to  Haymarket  Square,  and  down  Blackstone  street  to 
the  harbor.  He  subsequently  rem.  to  Bedford,  where,  after 
the  dissolution  of  the  partnership,  he  continued  his  business,  add- 
ing farming  and  land  surveying,  his  compass  and  chain  being  still 
in  the  family.  He  was  postmaster  for  upwards  of  twenty  years; 
trial  justice,  often  going  to  Manchester  and  adjoining  towns  to 
hold  court.  He  was  adjutant  and  major  of  the  old  Ninth  regi- 
ment state  militia,  and  was  an  expert  horseback  rider  often  mak- 
ing the  running  fire  of  the  regiment.  In  canal  times  he  received 
windows  from  the  old  church  at  Quincy,  Mass.,  through  which 
John  Adams  and  John  Quincy  Adams,  presidents  of  the  United 
States,  used  to  look  out  of.  The  windows  are  still  in  use  at  the 
old  homestead  at  Bedford. 

37.  Gilman  Riddle5,  b.  Nov.  28,  1795,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  8,  1799. 

38.  David  Riddle5,  b.  Aug.  28,  1797,  Bedford;  d.  July  23,  1832,  Merri- 
mack; buried  in  the  family  tomb  at  Bedford  Center.  64-67.  He 
m.,  1826,  Mary  Lincoln,  b.  Sept.  28,  1798,  d.  Aug.  11,  1876,  dau.  of 
Jedediah  and  Mary  (Revere)  Lincoln.  Her  uncle,  Capt.  Amos 
Lincoln,  helped  throw  the  tea  overboard  into  Boston  harbor.  Mr. 
Riddle  entered  Dartmouth  college  in  1814,  but  retired  therefrom 
on  account  of  ill  health,  and  made  a  voyage  to  Russia  in  1815.  He 
succeeded  his  brother  Isaac  as  manager  of  the  Boston  house  of 


GENEALOGIES. — RIDDLE.  1051 

Isaac  Riddle  Sons.  Upon  his  marriage  to  a  grand-daughter  of 
Paul  Revere  he  was  the  first  occupant  of  the  cottage  house  now 
standing  at  the  northwest  corner  of  South  Main  and  Winter 
streets,  West  Manchester.  He  was  afterwards  engaged  in  the 
management  of  the  "  Souhegan  Nail,  Cotton,  and  Woolen  Man- 
ufacturing Corporation."  While  on  his  voyage  to  Russia  he  pro- 
cured a  fine  cane,  duly  marked  with  his  father's  name.  The  cane 
is  now  in  possession  of  his  grandson,  Charles  Lincoln  Riddle. 

39.  Jacob  McGaw  Riddle5,  b.  March  31,  1807,  Bedford;  d.  Sept.  21, 
1835.  He  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  and  at  the  Military 
academy,  Norwich,  Vt.;  was  a  mariner  by  profession,  sailed 
around  the  globe  and  was  lost  at  sea  twelve  hours  out  of  Boston, 
on  his  fifth  voyage,  being  first  mate  of  the  new  brig  Washington, 
bound  for  Cadiz.  All  on  board  perished  except  the  man  at  the 
helm,  who  reached  the  keel  and  was  rescued  after  several  days. 

40.  Margaret  Ann  Riddle5,  b.  July  7,  1809,  Bedford;  d.  April  6,  1881, 
Lancaster,  Mass. ;  m.  1830,  Gen.  Joseph  C.  Stevens,  Bangor,  68-72. 

41.  Rebecca  M.  Riddle5,  b.  Aug.  9,  1811,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  9,  1812. 


42.  Polly  Riddle6,  b.  June  22,  1792,  Bedford;  d.  May  19,  1819;  m.  Jan. 
8,  1818,  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  Bedford  (see  Woodbury). 

43.  William  Riddle6,  b.  Feb.  8,  1794,  Bedford;  d.  Dec.  26,  1849,  Bed- 
ford; m.  Dec.  2,  1828,  Mrs.  Anna  (Dole)  Riddle.     73-74. 

44.  Martha  Riddle6,  b.  April  18,  1796,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  19,  1832,  Bed- 
ford; m.  Aug.  24,  1819,  Dr.  Peter  P.  Woodbury,  Bedford  (see 
Woodbury) . 

45.  Freeman  Riddle6,  b.  March  13,  1798,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  21,  1826, 
Canada;  grad.  Yale  college,  1819;  studied  and  practiced  medicine 
in  Upper  Canada. 

46.  "Jennet"  Riddle6,  b.  Sept.  3,  1800,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  22,  1875, 
Bedford;  m.  Jan.  31,  1826,  John  Goffe,  Bedford  (see  Goffe). 

47.  Marinda  Riddle6,  b.  April  6,  1802,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  24,  1840,  St. 
Clair,  Mich. 

48.  Benjamin  Franklin  Riddle6,  b.  May  20.  1804,  Bedford;  d.  June  1, 
1857,  Beloit,  Wis.;  m.  Nov.  30,  1830,  Abigail  D.,  dau.  of  Capt. 
Joseph  Colley,  Bedford.     He  rem.  to  Beloit,  Wis.,  in  1839.     75-81. 

49.  Margaret  Tragallos  Riddle6,  b.  June  22,  1806,  Bedford;  d.  May  30, 
'  1868,  St.  Clair,  Mich.;   m.  Nov.  10,  1831,  Reuben,  son  of  Capt. 

Joseph  Moore,  Manchester.    82-88. 


IV.  1.  Asenath  Riddle1,  b.  Bedford;  d.  1845,  Bedford,  m.  1828,  Thomas 
G.  Holbrook,  Bedford  (see  Holbrook). 

2.  Albert  Riddle1,  b.  1802,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  7,  1859;  farmer  Bedford 
and  Amherst;  m.  Nov.  26,  1835,  Sarah  Wheeler,  Merrimack,  b. 
Oct.,  1814,  d.  April,  1893.     1-7. 

3.  Nancy  Riddle1,  b.  1804,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  31,  1837,  Bedford;  m 
Aug.  17,  1824,  Gregg  Campbell,  Bedford.     8-13. 


4.  Betsey  Dole  Riddle5,  b.  Dec.  9,  1819,  Bedford;  m.  William  Goffe, 
Bedford  (see  Goffe). 

5.  Sally  Dole  Riddle5,  b.  March  20,  1821,  Bedford;  d.  Feb.  7,  1894, 
Goffstown;  m.  1841,  William  R.  French  (see  French). 


6.  James  McAffee  Riddle8,  b.  Oct.  31,  1820,  Ohio;  d.  Matoon,  111.;  m. 
Harriet  Ogden,  5  ch.     No  particulars. 

7.  John  B.  Riddle8,  b.  Jan.   19,  1826,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.;  d.  July  4, 
1880,   Hutchinson,   Kan.;    m.   May    5,    1849,   Mary    M.  Boothe, 


1052  HISTOKY    OF  BEDFORD. 

Clifton,  Ind.     He  was  a  blacksmith,  and  lived  in  various  places 
in  the  West.     14-17. 
8.  Matthew  Riddles,  b.  Oct.  11,  1828,  Terre  Haute,  Ind. 


9.  Gilman  Eveleth  Riddle10,  b.  1839,  Manchester;  d.  May  13,  1877; 
m.  Sept.  14,  1870,  J.  Lizzie  Clement,  d.  Sept.  19,  1885.     18. 

10.  John  Henry  Riddle10,  b.  1842;  d.  1845. 

11.  Josephine  Henry  Riddle10,  b.  1845,  Manchester;  d.  Feb.  24,  1872; 
m.  July  13,  1878,  S.  C.  Smith. 


12.  Sarah  Abbie  West11,  b.  May  16,  1835,  Belfast,  Me.;  d.  Jan.  12, 
1874,  Morrill,  Me.;  m.  Feb.  19,  1862,  Isaiah  W.  Cross,  Morrill,  Me. 

13.  William  F.  West11,  b.  Nov.  13,  1837,  Belfast,  Me.;  res.  Dorchester, 
Mass.;  m.  Oct.  20,  1868,  Augusta  H.  Dodge,  Edgecomb,  Me. 

14.  Oilman  Riddle  West11,  b.  Jan.  9,  1840;  d.  May  3,  1840. 

15.  Daniel  Riddle  West11,  b.  April  28,  1841,  Belfast,  Me.;  d.  May  17, 
1863;  res.  Brashear  City,  La. 

16.  Clara  A.  C.  West11,  b.  May  3,  1843,  Belfast,  Me.;  m.  June  19, 

1870,  Henry  C.  Willey,  Waterville,  Vt. ;  res.  Dorchester,  Mass. 

17.  Andrew  C.  West11,  b.  Aug.  27,  1845,  Belfast,  Me.;  res.  Dorchester, 
Mass.;  m.  Feb.  20,  1871,  Frances  M.  Parker,  Windsor,  Vt. 

18.  Charles  Gilman  West11,  b.  Sept,  4,  1849,  Belfast,  Me.;  m.  Dec.  24, 

1871,  Abbie  M.  Wentworth,  Belfast,  Me.;  res.  Melrose,  Mass. 

19.  Herbert  Flowers  West11,  b.  Jan.  4,  1854;  d.  May  6,  1862. 


20.  Martha  Ann  Riddle12,  b.  Aug.  20,  1832,  Bedford;  d.  March  6, 
1897,  Manchester. 

21.  Margaret  Elizabeth  Riddle12,  b.  March  2,  1834;  d.  Oct.  16,  1840. 

22.  Mary  Louise  Riddle12,  b.  March  6,  1837,  Bedford;  res.  Manchester. 

23.  David  Brainard  Riddle12,  b.  Feb.  8,  1840,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  3,  1840. 

24.  Sarah  Jane  Riddle12,  b.  Jan.  7,  1842,  Bedford. 

25.  Charles  Carroll  Riddle12,  b.  March  6,  1844,  Bedford;  farmer;  res. 
Deerfield;  m.  1st.,  1864,  Sarah  Frances  Eaton,  d.  June  27,  1889; 
m. ,  2d,  Lydia  Pettingill. 


36.  Hugh  Riddle27,  b.  Aug.  11,  1822,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  11,  1892, 
Chicago,  111.;  m.,  1st,  May  5,  1852,  Mary  S.,  dau.  Nathan  Walker 
(see  Walker) .  20-23.  He  m. ,  2d,  Sept.  4,  1872,  Althea  E.  Wetmore; 
res.  Chicago.  24-27.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high 
schools  of  Bedford  and  at  Kimball  Union  academy,  Meriden,  N.  H., 
having  earned  his  expenses  working  upon  his  father's  farm,  and 
teaming  brick,  with  a  pair  of  oxen  and  horse,  from  the  brick-yards 
in  the  south  part  of  Bedford  to  Reed's  Ferry.  He  taught  school  in 
Bedford,  also  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the  engineering  corps 
as  chainman  on  the  location,  and  continued  on  the  construction 
and  operation  of  the  Erie  railroad  of  New  York,  filling  with  abil- 
ity the  many  grades  of  office  to  general  superintendent.  He  was 
averse  to  receiving  presents  from  his  employees.  It  is  related  that 
one  of  them ,  who  desired  a  favor,  offered  him  a  package  contain- 
ing some  money  as  a  present  for  his  little  boy.  He  was  told  with 
a  frown  and  indignation  of  tone,  that  "when  the  boy  needed 
money  he  could  furnish  it."  At  another  time,  when  out  of  the 
employment  of  the  company,  awaiting  an  appointment  as  chief 
superintendent,  his  former  employees  raised  the  sum  of  fourteen 
hundred  dollars,  and  bought  a  magnificent  gold  watch  and  chain 
duly  marked  with  his  initials,  and  a  beautiful  silver  tea-service 
engraved  with  his  wife's  initials.  Upon  offering  them  to  him, 
they  were  surprised  with  a  firm  refusal  to  receive  them.    Mr. 


GENEALOGIES. — EIDDLE.  1053 

Riddle  announced,  "  I  know  I  am  not  an  officer  of  this  road  now, 
but  I  am  a  candidate  for  chief  superintendent,  and  if  I  am  elected 
how  can  I  exact  proper  discipline  from  those  who  have  so  gen- 
erously contributed  to  purchase  these  presents  if  I  should  accept 
them?  I  thank  the  men  for  their  kind  intentions,  but  I  cannot 
receive  their  gifts."  The  watch  and  chain  were  disposed  of  by 
raffle,  and  the  tea-service  re-melted.  He  served  acceptably  as 
general  superintendent  of  the  road  for  several  years,  and  was 
offered  the  vice-presidency,  which  he  declined.  He  removed  to 
Chicago,  and  filled  the  important  offices  of  general  superintendent 
and  vice-president  of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  railroad. 
He  was  a  man  of  keen  wit.  It  is  related  that  at  the  time  of  his 
first  marriage,  he  asked  leave  of  absence  to  go  to  New  Hampshire, 
as  "he  had  some  business  his  father  couldn't  attend  to."  He 
returned  with  his  bride.  As  he  was  promoted  from  lower  to 
higher  offices,  his  employees  frequently  alluded  to  him  as  if  his 
given  name  ended  with  a  final  e — "  Huge  "  Riddle. 

37.  Elizabeth  Riddle27,  b.  1827,  Bedford;  d.  Bedford. 

38.  Ann  Rebecca  Riddle27,  b.  May,  1832,  Bedford;  d;  teacher;  m. 
Lyman  Eastman,  Manchester;  ch.;  no  particulars. 

39.  Henry  Charles  Riddle27,  b.  July  30,  1837,  Bedford;  d.  Dec.  3,  1901, 
Arlington,  Pa.;  m.,  Dec.  29,  1869,  Catharine  Tester,  Hawley,  Pa. 
29-30.    Mr.  Riddle  was  a  railroad  employee,  Hawley,  Pa. 


40.  Robert  Riddle  Boyd32,  b.  May  27,  1835,  Londonderry;  res.  Mem- 
phis, Tenn.;  m.,  1st,  Dec.  3,  1861,  Harriet  Black,  Memphis,  Tenn.; 
d.  Sept.  6,  1887.  31-33.  He  m.,  2d,  Jan.  28,  1891,  Sara  Jane  Hum- 
phrey, Londonderry. 

41.  Mary  Ann  Boyd32,  b.  March  1,  1837,  Londonderry;  d.  March  15, 
1901,  Sweetwater,  Tenn.;  m.  James  H.  Porter,  Ravenna,  O. 
34-40. 

42.  Susan  Jane  Boyd32,  b.  Sept.  8,  1839,  Londonderry;  m.  June  30,  1874, 
E.  Boulding,  Memphis,  Tenn. ;  res.  Nesbitt,  Miss.     41-44. 

43.  Isaac  Henry  Boyd32,  b.  April  6,  1841,  Londonderry;  res.  Little 
Rock,  Ark.;  m.  April  6,  1881,  Ida  E.  Parsons,  Wheatley,  Ark. 

44.  Alice  Frances  Boyd32,  b.  Oct.  31,  1844,  Londonderry:  res.  Charles- 
town,  Ohio.    45-49.     She  m.  Oct.  20,  1864,  Billings  H.  Hall. 


45.  Eleazer  Johnson  Dole33,  b.  March  27,  1827,  Bedford;  res.  Shopiere, 
Wis. ;  m.  March  7,  1854,  Cornelia  Dockstader.     50-53. 

46.  Robert  Riddle  Dole33,  b.  Oct.  4,  1829;  d.  Dec.  17,  1850. 

47.  Ann  Mariah  and  Elizabeth  Dole33;  both  d.  young. 


48.  Margaret  Aiken  Riddle34,  b.  Sept.  9,  1824,  Bedford;  d.  Oct.  5, 
1828,  Bedford. 

49.  George  Washington  Riddle3*,  b.  Nov.  9,  1826,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  18, 
1893,  Manchester,  N.  H.;  m.  Jan.  19,  1853,  Ellen  M.  Brown,  Bed- 
ford, d.  Dec.  10, 1900,  Manchester.  54.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic and  high  schools  of  Bedford,  and  at  the  academies  at  Hopkintou 
and  Sanborn  ton,  N.  H.  He  entered  upon  the  business  of  farming  in 
his  native  town,  and  was  honored  with  offices  of  trust, — moderator, 
selectman,  representative,  and  military  agent,  furnishing  one 
hundred  and  fifteen  men  to  fill  the  quota  of  the  town  for  the  War 
of  the  Rebellion.  He  so  judiciously  conducted  the  enlistments 
that  the  town,  being  in  part  reimbursed  by  the  state  for  advanced 
bounties,  found  itself  at  the  close  of  the  war  not  only  free  from 
debt,  but  with  thousands  of  dollars  in  the  treasury.  This  money 
was  appropriated  to  build  the  new  and  beautiful  town  hall.     In 


1054  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

1850  he  was  appointed  quartermaster  of  the  old  Ninth  Regt., 
N.  H.  M.,  and,  1860,  division  quartermaster  on  the  staff  of  Major- 
General  McCutchins,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  Colonel  Riddle 
was  chosen  the  first  captain  of  the  Bedford  Light  infantry,  a  com- 
pany composed  of  the  active  young  men  of  the  town,  many  of 
whom  subsequently  served  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  He  was 
the  treasurer  of  the  New  Hampshire  Agricultural  society,  and 
also  treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the  New  England  Agricul- 
tural society  for  fourteen  years.  Colonel  Riddle  removed  to  Man- 
chester in  1869,  where  he  held  many  offices  of  honor, — county 
commissioner,  state  centennial  commissioner  to  Philadelphia, 
commissioner  to  New  Orleans  Exposition,  member  of  common 
council,  representative,  etc.  In  1877,  with  others,  he  organized 
the  Horse  Railroad  company,  acting  as  building  agent,  and  in 
September  of  that  year  the  first  narrow  gauge  horse  street  railway 
in  New  England  was  finished,  fully  equipped,  and  put  in  success- 
ful operation.  He  was  connected  with  religious,  benevolent,  and 
financial  institutions  of  the  city, — member  and  director  of  the 
Franklin-street  Congregational  church;  Elliott  hospital,  being 
one  of  the  building  committee;  New  Hampshire  Fire  Insurance 
company;  Amoskeag  National  bank;  Amoskeag  and  People's 
Savings  banks;  Driving  park,  etc. 

50.  William  Quincy  Riddle34,  b.  June  8,  1828,  Bedford;  d.  April  5, 
1895,  New  York  city;  buried  in  the  family  tomb  at  Bedford.  (See 
Lawyers.) 

61.  Daniel  Willshire  Riddle34,  b.  May  13,  1830,  Bedford;  d.  Sept.  15, 
1831. 

52.  Sarah  Maria  Riddle34,  b.  May  24,  1832,  Bedford;  d.  1862;  m.  June 
20,  1855,  John  F.  Duncklee,  Boston.     55. 

53.  Daniel  Willshire  Riddle34,  b.  July  12,  1833,  Bedford;  res.  Saranac 
Lake,  N.  Y.;  m.  Jan.  28,  1872,  Jennie  Howe  of  Waterloo,  N.  Y. 
56-58.  He  was  engaged  in  business  at  Baltimore,  Md..  when  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion  broke  out;  volunteered  into  the  Union  ser- 
vice, and  joined  the  First  City  Troop  of  Philadelphia  (organized 
prior  to  the  Revolution  and  acted  as  body  guard  to  General  Wash- 
ington), which  was  stationed  at  Winchester,  Va.  After  his  term 
of  service  had  expired  he  received  the  appointment  of  assistant 
paymaster  in  the  navy.  He  was  in  the  blockade  service  of  the 
gulf  and  about  New  Orleans.  Admiral  Farragut  made  his  the 
flagship  at  the  naval  battle  off  Grant's  Pass,  Mobile  Bay;  he  prac- 
tically served  through  the  war.  His  health  having  failed,  he 
retired  to  the  Adirondacks,  N.  Y.,  and  became  largely  identified 
with  the  improvements  about  Upper  Saranac,  N.  Y. 

54.  Carroll  Riddle34,  b.  Aug.  2,  1834,  Bedford;  d.  Dec,  1871;  buried  at 
Bedford;  m.  Carrie  Martynn,  Manchester. 


55.  Charlotte  Margaret  Riddle35,  b.  Feb.  20,  1817,  Merrimack;  d.  Oct. 
22,  1859;  m.  1837,  Nathan  Parker,  banker,  Manchester.     59. 

56.  Mary  Ann  Lincoln  Riddle35,  b.  Aug.  9,  1823,  Merrimack,  N.  H.; 
d.  Aug.  19,  1903,  Montreal,  P.  Q.;  m.  Gilman  Cheney,  a  native  of 
Francestown,  N.  H.     60. 

57.  Eliza  Frances  Riddle35,  b.  Sept.  4,  1832,  Merrimack,  N.  H.;  m. 
Oct.  11,  1860,  John  Jackman,  Nashua,  N.  H.     61. 


58.  Ann  Elizabeth  Riddle36,  b.  Feb.  18,  1820,  Bedford;  d.  Jan.  26, 
1850,  Manchester;  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  her  native  town 
and  high  school,  Manchester. 

59.  Isaac  Newton  Riddle36,  b.  Aug.  12,  1822,  Bedford;  d.  Nov.  7, 1885, 
Bedford.     He  succeeded  his  father  in  the  store  at  Bedford,  and 


GENEALOGIES. — RIDDLE.  1055 

afterwards  was  for  many  years  a  clerk  in  the  cnstom  honse  at 
Boston.  He  returned  to  Bedford;  was  school  committee,  select- 
man, etc. 

60.  Jane  Aiken  Riddle36,  b.  July  6,  1825,  Bedford;  d.  May  10,  1862, 
Bedford;  m.  Oct.  18,  1849,  Benjamin  F.  White,  Boston.    62-63. 

61.  John  Aiken  Riddle36,  b.  Sept.  8,  1826,  Bedford;  res.  at  Bedford; 
educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  his  native  town,  and 
"  Gymnasium,"  Pembroke,  and  Phillips- And  over  academies.  He 
became  a  civil  engineer,  and  was  engaged  on  the  location  and 
construction  of  railroads  in  New  Hampshire,  Massachusetts,  New 
York,  and  Pennsylvania.  He  was  for  a  time  engaged  in  traveling 
in  the  interest  of  the  Philadelphia  board  of  trade.  In  1858  he  vis- 
ited California  for  the  purpose  of  inspecting  the  mines  and  the 
manner  of  working  them.  Upon  his  return  he  made  some  re- 
searches in  the  state  of  Vermont,  and  extracted  the  first  ounce  of 
gold  (1865)  ever  taken  from  the  rocks  of  New  England.  He  rep- 
resented Bedford  in  the  general  court,  has  acted  as  civil  magis- 
trate and  notary  public,  and  has  been  largely  engaged  in  the  man- 
agement of  real  estate  in  Manchester  and  elsewhere. 

62.  Silas  Aiken  Riddle36,  b.  July  22,  1831,  Bedford;  d.  March  17,  1900, 
Bedford.  He  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Boston,  St. 
Louis,  and  Chicago,  and  was  at  St.  Louis  at  the  breaking  out  of 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  He  joined  the  navy,  and  was  with 
Admiral  Farragut  in  the  gulf  squadron.  The  Admiral  made  his 
the  flagship  at  the  naval  battle  of  Grant's  Pass,  at  the  mouth  of 

•  Mobile  Bay,  and  he  stood  at  the  side  of  the  Admiral  in  the  thickest 
of  the  fight,  taking  notes  of  the  course  of  each  shot.  He  was  a 
very  fine  penman,  as  the  records  of  his  native  town  show,  he  hav- 
ing filled  the  office  of  town  clerk  many  years,  and  had  just  been 
re-elected  at  the  time  of  his  decease. 

63.  Minniebel36;  d.  in  infancy. 


Note.— Fannie  E.  Aubin.  dau.  of  Ursula  S.  Aubin.  2d  wife  of  Is*ac  Riddle*6,  took 
the  name  Riddell;  d.  Manchester,  leaving  a  legacy  for  the  Ursula  tomb  in  Pine 
Grove  cemetery. 


64.  Mary  E.  Riddle38,  b.  April  16,  1827,  Bedford  (Piscataquog) ;  res. 
Hingham,  Mass. 

65.  Gilman  Riddle38,  b.  Oct.  28,  1828,  Bedford;  d.  Sept.  11,  1835. 

66.  Charles  Lincoln  Riddle88,  b.  Dec.  7,  1830,  Boston;  50  years  bank 
cashier,  Boston;  m.  June  21,  1854,  Fannie  E.  Field,  Boston.  64-66. 

67.  Adaline  Riddle38,  b.  April  11,  1833,  Merrimack;  res.  Hingham, 
Mass. 


1.  Joseph  Stevens40,  b.  Sept,  7,  1832,  Bangor,  Me.;  d.  Aug.  7,  1871, 
Lancaster,  Mass.;  m.  June  25,  1868,  Endora  Tidd,  Towanda,  Pa. 
67.  Entered  U.  S.  N.,  1862,  as  assistant  surgeon  on  the  Fort 
Henry,  doing  duty  on  the  blockade;  was  transferred  to  the  Macki- 
naw, and  again  to  the  Hunchback.  During  one  of  the  great  battles 
near  Richmond,  1864,  he  offered  his  services  to  the  army  and 
received  through  official  channels  testimonials  of  commendation. 
In  the  fall  of  1864  he  resigned  from  the  navy  and  served  as  con- 
tract surgeon  on  the  hospital  transport  Ben  De  Ford.  He  then 
received  a  commission  as  surgeon  in  the  army  with  rank  of 
major,  and  was  assigned  to  Camp  Stoneham  near  Washington, 
and  was  there  when  President  Lincoln  was  assassinated,  and  was 
one  of  the  few  people  to  see  Booth's  body  "laying  on  the  deck  of 
the  Montauk  wrapped  in  a  piece  of  old  sail.  Booth  presented  a 
very  different  appearance  with  a  number  of  days'  growth  of 


1056  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

beard,  etc.,  to  the  handsome  actor  he  had  seen  on  the  stage." 
After  the  war  Dr.  Stevens  practised  his  profession  at  Lancaster, 
Mass.,  New  York  city,  and  Barclay,  Pa. 

69.  Thomas  Cushing  Stevens40,  b.  Nov.  8,  1835,  Bangor;  m.  Jan.  20, 
1868,  Rowena  E.,  dau.  of  Charles  P.  Brown,  Esq.,  Bangor,  Me. 
68-69.  Served  in  U.  S.  N.,  1863-'64,  on  Admiral  Dalghren's  dis- 
patch boat  Hornet  in  East  Gulf  squadron.  Judge  Stevens  entered 
the  profession  of  law  at  Bangor,  Me.,  and  is  judge  of  the  munici- 
pal court,  Newport,  Me. 

70.  Frederick  Augustus  Stevens40,  b.  May  10,  1838,  Bangor;  d.  Feb. 
12,  1899,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  m.  Sept.  24,  1870,  Catharine  A.,  dau. 
of  Commodore  Chauncy,  U.  S.  N.  70.  Captain  Stevens  served  in 
Company  A,  Thirteenth  Regt.,  Maine  Vols.,  mustered  out  as 
colonel. 

71.  William  H.  H.  Stevens40,  b.  Sept.  19,  1840,  Bangor;  res.  Engle- 
wood,  Fla.;  m.  Feb.  18,  1884,  Mrs.  Endora  T.  Stevens.  Served  in 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion  as  master's  mate,  U.  S.  N.,  and  as 
lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Marine  service. 

72.  Charles  Gilbert  Stevens40,  b.  Dec,  1843,  Bangor;  d.  March  1, 
1877,  New  York  city;  m.  May  30,  1876,  Mrs.  Endora  T.  Stevens. 
Served  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  as  regiment  surgeon, 
Fifteenth  Maine  Vols. 


73.  Laura  Riddle43,  b.  April  17,  1831,  Bedford;  d.  June  10,  1871,  Man- 
chester; m.  Dr.  M.  G.  J.  Tewksbury,  Manchester.     71. 

74.  James  W.  Riddle43,  b.  March  12,  1833,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  31,  1849. 


75.  Mary  Woodbury  Riddle48,  b.  June  9,  1831,  Bedford;  res.  New 
York  city. 

76.  Joseph  Colley  Riddle48,  b.  March  9,  1833,  Bedford;  res.  Jewell, 
la.;  m.  Dec.  2,  1863,  Annie  M.  Segar.     72-74. 

77.  William  Franklin  Riddle48,  b.  July  27,  1834,  Bedford;  d.  Feb.  11, 
1900,  Detroit,  Mich.  He  was  in  mercantile  business  in  Detroit  at 
the  breaking  out  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion;  enlisted  1862,  Com- 
pany F,  Twenty-fourth  Wis.  Vols.,  and  served  as  first  lieutenant 
of  the  Twenty-second  Wis.  Vols.  After  the  war  he  resumed 
business  at  Detroit. 

78.  Abbie  Jane  Riddle48,  b.  Aug.  22,  1838,  Bedford;  m.  Oct.  27,  1869, 
Hon.  Frank  Whipple,  d.  Aug.  1,  1901,  Port  Huron,  Mich.  75-78. 

79.  Freeman  Benjamin  Riddle48,  b.  Sept,  30,  1841,  Beloit,  Wis.;  d. 
June  18,  1864,  Petersburgh,  Va;  enlisted  1861,  Company  B,  Fifth 
Regt.,  Wis.  Vols.;  promoted  to  lieutenant,  Company  C,  Thirty- 
seventh  Regt.,  Wis.  Vols.;  mortally  wounded  while  gallantly 
leading  his  troops  in  batttle  at  the  siege  of  Petersburgh,  Va. 

80.  Frederick  Alfred  Riddle48,  b.  Sept.  30,  1841;  d.  March,  1843. 

81.  Kate  Riddle48,  b.  April  8,  1852;  res.  Beloit,  Wis. 


82.  Martha  R.  Moore49,  b.  1832;  d.  1836. 

83.  Harriet  Moore49,  b.  1834;  d.  1835. 

84.  Martha  J.  Moore49,  b.  1837;  d.  1840. 

85.  Joseph  W.  Moore49,  b.  1840;  d.  1883. 

86.  Charles  F.  Moore49,  b.   1842;  m.  Harriet  Rice.     79-83.     Res.  St. 
Clair,  Mich. 

87.  Franklin  Moore49,  b.  1845;  m.  June,  1873,  Emily  Parmalee.    84-87. 
Res.  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

88.  Margaret  Moore49,  b.  1847;  d.   1883;  m.  June,  1874,  S.  R.  Mac- 
Laren.    88-89. 


V.  1.  Almira  Jane  Riddle2,  b.  July  16,  1837;  m.  May,  1856,  Frederick 
F.  French,  Bedford  (see  French). 


GENEALOGIES. — RIDDLE.  1057 

2.  Charles  Albert  Riddle2,  b.  Jan.  8,  1839;  mM  1st,  Dolly  Bryant 
Gardner,  Bedford.  1-5.  (See  Gardner.)  He  m.  2d,  Nov.  9,  1898, 
Mrs.  Susan  I.  Elliott;  res.  Milford;  enlisted  in  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion. 

3.  James  French  Riddle2,  b.  Feb.  2,  1841;  d.  1895,  Fall  River,  Mass.; 
enlisted  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.     6. 

4.  Sarah  Amanda  Riddle2,  b.  May  26,  1843;  m.  George  W.  Osgood  of 
Amherst. 

5.  Asenath  Holbrook  Riddle2,  b.  Oct.  7,  1845;  m.  Sherburne  Shaw 
Dow;  res.  Gardner,  Mass. 

6.  Laura  Anna  Riddle2,  b.  May  5,  1851;  m.  George  Heywood;  res. 
Gardner,  Mass.     7-8. 

7.  Mary  Frances  Riddle2,  b.  Sept.  8,  1855;  m.  Charles  E.  Clement; 
res.  Nashua.    9-10. 


8.  Cyrus  W.  Campbell3,  b.  Bedford;  res.  Anoka,  Minn. 

9.  Dolly  A.  Campbell3,  b.  Aug.  4,  1828,  Bedford;  d.  Aug.  26,  1870;  m. 
Nov.  26,  1846,  Orrison  Hardy,  Manchester.     11-13. 

10.  Matthew  Riddle  Campbell3,  b.  July  15,  1830,  Bedford;  d.  Dec.  11, 
1900,  Acworth;  m.,  1st,  Harriet  Wilchos,  Milford;  in.,  2d,  Emily  C. 
Hilton,  Lowell,  Mass.  He  enlisted  in  Company  L,  Mass.  Heavv 
Art. 

11.  Nancy  A.  Campbell3,  b.  Bedford;  m.  Frank  Barnes,  Milford. 

12.  William  M.  Campbell3,  b.  Bedford;  d.  young,  Bedford. 

13.  Asenath  H.  Campbell3,  b.  June  27,  1836,  Bedford;  m.  March  31, 
1873,  Daniel  Warner;  res.  Acworth. 

14.  Sarah  Ellen  Riddle7,  b.  July,  1852;  m.  1871,  William  Richard- 
son, Prairie  City,  111. 

15.  Mary  Elizabeth  Riddle7,  b.  July  19,1856,  Prairie  City,  111.;  m. 
1880,  Jesse  Rowe,  Monmouth,  Kan. 

16.  Alva  Eva  Riddle7,  b.  June,  1858;  m.  1881,  Edmund  Richardson, 
Prairie  City,  111. 

17.  Harriet  Esther  Riddle7,  b.  Feb.  3,  1860,  Prairie  City,  111.;  m. 
V.  C.  Chamberlain,  Seelyville,  Ind. 


18.  Josephine  L.  Riddle9,  b.  Oct.  3,  1871,  Manchester;  teacher  in  the 
public  schools. 


19.  Freeman  Gilmore  Riddle25,  b.  July  25,  1866;   printer;   res.  Man- 
chester, N.  H;  m.  Sept.  9, 1891,  Ellen  Jane  Maycock.     14-16. 


20.  Eddie  Riddle3**,  b.  Dec.  23,  1853;  d.  Sept,  7,  1854. 

21.  Charles  F.  Riddle36,  b.  May  13,  1855,  Binghampton,  N.  Y.;  m. 
April  23,  1879,  Emily  F.  Riley.  He  was  early  identified  with  the 
Erie  railroad;  res.  Elmira. 

22.  Frederick  Riddle36,  b.  Jan.  29,  1858;  d.  Sept.  30,  1862. 

23.  Mary  Riddle36,  b.  Jan.  5,  1865;  d.  May  12,  1867. 

24.  Mary  Althea  Riddle36,  b.  June  21,  1873;  grad.  Bryn  Mawr  college. 

25.  Lc-wis  Wetmore  Riddle36,  b.  Feb.  3,  1877;  grad.  Institute  Tech- 
nology, Boston;  architect;  Chicago. 

26.  Barton  Fellows  Riddle36,  b.  Jan.  6,  1879;  d.  March  18,  1882. 

27.  Herbert  Hugh  Riddle86,  b.  June  5,  1875;  grad.  Institute  Tech- 
nology, Boston;  civil  engineer;  Chicago. 

28. Eastman  Riddle88;  no  particulars. 

68 


1058  HISTORY    OF  BEDFORD. 

29.  Charles  N.  Riddle39,  b.  1874;  30.  Anna  B.  Riddle89,  b.  1882;   res. 
Hawley,  Penn. 


31.  Robert  Black  Boyd40,  b.  Sept.  11,  1862;  d.  April  10,  1890. 

32.  George  R.  Grant  Boyd40,  b.  July  30,  1866;   d.  April  28,  1894. 

83.  Harry  Findley  Boyd40,  b.  Oct,  20,  1869;   res.  at  Dallas,  Tex.;   m. 
April  19,  1898,  Ida  Alethia  Smith,  Dallas,  Tex. 


34.  Mary  Cordelia  Porter41,  b.  June  29,  1859;  d.  April  10,  1860. 

35.  Eva  Bennett  Porter41,  b.  Sept.  15,  1862;  in.  June  22,  1874,  William 
Henry  Harrison,  M.  D.,  Loudon,  Tenn.     17-20. 

86.  Adell  Bridgeman  Porter41,  b.  June  18,  1865. 

37.  Martha  Lillian  Porter41,  b.  April  20,  1867. 

38.  Abbie  Boyd  Porter41,  b.  Sept.  8,  1869. 

39.  Myrtie  Neal  Porter41,  b.  Aug.  22,  1872. 

40.  Roy  Erwyn  Porter41,  b.  July  1,  1874. 


41.  Grace  Bouldin42,  b.  June  30,  1875;  42.  E.  Russel  Bouldin*2,  b.  Feb. 
6,  1877. 

43.  Fanny  Kate  Bouldin42,  b.  Jan.  3,  1879;  44.  Henry  Malcomb  Boul- 
din42, b.  March  21,  1881. 


45.  Minnie  Martha  Hall44,  b.  Jan.  31,  1866. 

46.  Allison  Erastus  Hall44,  b.  Dec.  22,  1867;   m.  Oct.   11,  1893,  Ada 
Johnson;  res.  Freedom,  Ohio.     21-24. 

47.  Fanny  Mary  Hall44,  b.  Nov.  25,  1875;   m.  June  16,  1898,  J.  B. 
Potter;  res.  Freedom,  Ohio.     25. 

48.  Lina  Corneila  Hall44,  b.  July  7,  1879. 

49.  Joel  Dana  Hall44,  b.  June  20,  1886. 


50.  Frank  J.  Dole45,  b.  Feb.  23,  1863;   51.  James  G.  Dole45,  b.  1864;  d. 

1881. 
52.  Robert  W.  and  Charles  Dole45,  b.  and  d.  Oct.  24,  1867;  53.  Louise 

C.  Dole45,  b.  1876;  d.  1881. 


54.  Emma  Riddle49,  b.  Feb.  19,  1856,  Bedford;  m.  April  24,  1884,  Wal- 
ter C.  Lewis,  shoe  manufacturer;  res.  Haverhill,  Mass. 


55.  William  Riddle  Duncklee52,  b.  April  4,  1858;   d.  Feb.  10,   1889, 
Cleveland,  Ohio. 


*  56.  Pearley  Howe  Riddle,  b.  Aug.  14,  1866,  Waterloo,  N.  Y.  (adopted 
the  name).  He  m.  Jennie  J.  Cheney,  June  22,  1892,  and.  res.  in 
Manchester,  N.  H.   26. 

57.  Blanche  Havward  Riddle53,  b.  April  9,  1874;  res.  at  Saranac,  N.  Y. 

58.  George  William  Riddle53,  student  at  New  York  School  of  Mines; 
res.  at  Saranac,  N.  Y. 


59.  Walter  M.  Parker55,  b.  July  18,  1850:  res.  Manchester,  N.  H.;  m. 
July  29,  1896,  Christena  Holmes.  27.  Grad.  Dartmouth;  entered 
upon  a  business  career,  succeeding  his  father  as  manager  (president) 
of  the  Manchester  National  and  Savings  banks,  and  is  intimately 
connected  with  other  large  business  enterprises,  and  a  constant 
attendant  at  Franklin-street  Congregational  church. 


60.  William  Gilman  Cheney56,  b.  Oct.  12,  1858;  res.  Montreal. 


GENEALOGIES. — RIDDLE.  1059 

61.  James  H.  R.  Jackman57,  b.  Aug.  31,  1861;   m.  Jan.  3,  1882,  Lilla 
F.  Mason,  Nashua,  N.  H.     28-31. 


62.  Jennie  Elizabeth  White60,  b.  March  7,   1854;   m.  June  5,  1888, 
William  R.  Burleigh,  Great  Falls.     32-33.     Res.  La  Grange,  111. 

63.  Frank  Riddle  White60,  b.  Aug.  26,  1856;  d.  Jan.  4,  1858. 


64.  Charles  W.  Riddle66,  b.  July  15,  1855;  m.  Mary  B.  Ware;  res.  Bos- 
ton.   34-35. 

65.  Edith  Riddle66,  b.  Dec.  2,  1865;  d.  Aug.  16,  1867. 

66.  Caroline  Field  Riddle66,  b.  Feb.  1,  1870;  d.  Nov.  28,  1870. 


67.  Margaret  McGaw  Stevens68,  b.  July  20,  1869,  res.  Towanda,  Pa. 


68.  Grace  Butman  Stevens69,  b.  July  7,  1871;   grad.  New  England 
Conservatory  School  of  Oratory,  Boston.     Res.  Bangor,  Me. 

69.  Charles  C.  Stevens69,  b.  Oct.,  1876;  d.  1888,  Bangor,  Me. 


70.  Mae  Chauncy  Stevens70,  b.  Oct.  24,  1874,  Louisville,  Ky.;  m.  Stan- 
ton W.  Todd.    36.     Res.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 


71.  Laura  Tewksbury73,  m. Green;  res.  New  York  city. 


72.  Freeman  Benjamin  Riddle76,  b.  April  25,  1865;  d.  April  28,  1865. 

73.  George  Sattler  Riddle76,  b.  July  21,  1866;  d.  1867,  Jewell,  la. 

74.  Julia  Andrews  Riddle76,  b.  Oct.  21,  1870;  m.  Aug.  16,  1894,  Gilgee 
Eugene  MacKinnon.     37-38.     Res.  Des  Moines,  la. 


75.  Benjamin  Riddle  Whipple78,  b.  Sept.  10,  1870. 

76.  Frank  Bates  Whipple78,  b.  July  5,   1872;    77.  Gail  Whipple78,  b. 
Feb.  5,  1875. 

78.  Mary  Helen  Whipple78,  b.  March  10,  1878,  Port  Huron,  Mich. 


79.  Reuben  Rice  Moore86,  b  May  30,  1868;  m.  March  31,  1898,  Olive 
Parmalee;  res.  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

80.  Ruth   Moore86,  b.  Jan.  1871;  d.   Oct.  1871;   81.  Mary  Moore86,  b. 
Feb.  14,  1873. 

82.  Frederick  W.  Moore86,  b.  April  17,  1876;  in.  June,  1902,  Ida  Moore; 
res.  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

83.  Harriet  Moore86,  b.  June  17,  1882. 


84.  Laura  Moore87,  b.  Jan.  1875;  85.  Frank  Moore87,  b.  Sept.,  1877;  res. 

St.  Clair,  Mich. 
86.  Margaret  E.  Moore87,  b.  Nov.,  1879;   87.  Emily  Comfort  Moore87, 

b.  Jan.  1885. 

88.  Elizabeth  Weston  McLaren88,  b.  July,  1875;  res.  Toledo,  O. 

89.  Helen  McLaren88,  b.  Oct.,  1882;  res.  Toledo,  O. 


VI.  1.  Nellie  Elizabeth  Riddle2;  b.  Feb.  16,  1868,  Amherst;  m.  Feb.  1, 
1889,  George  H.  Day;  res.  Milford.     1-2. 

2.  Alice  Gertrude  Riddle2,   b.  Dec.  3,   1869,  Amherst;   d.  Nov.  26, 
1898;  m.  Dec.  14,  1897,  Walter  B.  Merrill;  res.  Milford.     3. 

3.  Sidney  Albert  Riddle2,  b.  April  2,  1873,  Amherst;  res.  Milford;  m. 
Jan.  1,  1894,  Mary  L.  Grafton.    4-5. 


1060  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

4.  Geva  Riddle2,  b.  Sept.  5,  1876;  m.  Nov.  28,  1899,  William  J.  Mer- 
rill,  Milford. 

5.  George  Washington  Riddle2,  b.  Aug.  21, 1881;  res.  Brockton,  Mass. 


6.  Eva  Riddle. 


7.  Alice.  Wright  Heywood6,  b.  Nov.  2,  1885. 

8.  Henry  Eaton  Heywood6,  b.  April  19,  1887. 


9.  Harrison  E.  Clement7;  10.  Henry  Clement.7 


11.  Charles  A.  Hardy9,  b.  Feb.  12,  1848;  d. 

12.  Ellen  Frank  Hardy9,  b.  Jan.  1,  1853;  d. 

13.  Frank  H.  Hardy9,  b.  Sept.  16,  1859;  d.  Feb.  24,  1903,  Manchester; 
m.  Grace  Twombly,  Manchester.     6-7. 


14.  John  Richard  Riddle19,  b.  Nov.  1,  1892. 

15.  Jennie  Frances  Riddle19,  b.  March  20,  1896. 

16.  Mary  Louise  Riddle19,  b.  May  3,  1899,  Manchester. 


17.  Hugh  Vaughn  Harrison86,  b.  May  23,  1888. 

18.  Eva  Lillian  Harrison85,  b.  1890;  d.  1892. 

19.  Arthur  Porter  Harrison85,  b.  Jan.  20,  1893. 

20.  William  Roy  Boyd  Harrison35,  b.  Nov.  24,  1895. 


21.  Clara  Louise  Hall46,  b.  Dec.  29,  1894. 

22.  Ada  Lillian  Hall46,  b.  Aug.  23,  1896. 

23.  Luman  Billings  Hall46,  b.  Nov.  18, 1898. 

24.  Arthur  Johnson  Hall46,  b.  March  16,  1900. 


25.  William  Boyd  Potter47,  b.  Sept.  17,  1899,  Freedom,  Ohio. 


26.  Donald  Cheney  Riddle56,  b.  Aug.  30,  1893,  Manchester. 


27.  Charlotte  Isabelle  Parker59,  b.  June  6,  1897,  Manchester. 


28.  Hattie  E.  Jackman61,  b.  July  11,  1883;  m.  Sept.  3,  1900,  Benjamin 
A.  Gould,  Nashua.     8. 

29.  Helen  R.  Jackman61,  b.  Aug.  25,  1888. 

30.  Lewis  Jackman61,  b.  Feb.  11,  1893. 

31.  Thomas  R.  Jackman61,  b.  Aug.  6,  1895;  d.  Feb.  11,  1898,  Nashua. 


32.  Richard  Russell  Burleigh62,  b.  Aug.  8,  1889;  d.  June  3,  1896,  La 
Grange,  111. 

33.  John  Riddle  Burleigh62,  b.  Feb.  25,  1892  (8:45  a.  m.,  Chicago  time), 
La  Grange,  111. 


34.  Lincoln  Ware  Riddle68,  b.  Oct.  17,  1880;  grad.  Harvard,  1902;  res. 

Boston. 
85.  Priscilla  Riddle68,  b.  Dec.  20,  1887. 


86.  Katharine  Marguerite  Todd70,  b.  July  1,  1892;  d.  Oct.  26,  1892. 


GENEALOGIES. — ROBY. — EOGERS. — ROLLINS.  1061 

37.  Donald  Joseph  MacKinnon74,  b.  Jan.  15,  1899;  d.  Jan.  25,  1899. 

38.  Ranald  McNichol  McKinnon74,  b.  Aug.  14,  1902. 


VII.  1.  Gertrude  E.  Day1,  b.  July  21,  1895;  2.  Doris  E.  Day1,  b.  March  7, 
1898,  Milford. 


3.  Sherman  B.  Merrill2,  b.  Oct.  15,  1898,  Milford. 


4.  George  W.  Riddle3,  b.   April  27,  1899;  5.  Russell  C.  Riddle8,  b. 
April  10,  1902,  Milford. 


6.  Bessie  A.  Hardy13,  b.  July  6,  1886;    7.  Nellie  L.  Hardy13,  b.  June 
26,  1887,  Manchester. 


8.  James  A.  Gould28,  b.  Sept.  21,  1901. 

ROBY. 

I.  Joseph  Roby,  m.  Rebecca  Townsend,  and  res.  in  Bedford.  They 
had  ch.:  Alfred2  and  Sand  ford2  (twins);  Woodbury2,  who  was 
drowned  in  Baboosic  brook;  John-;  and  a  dau.,  Martha  Ann.'2. 

II.  Sandford,  son  of  Joseph1;  m.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Newton,  Mass.,  1816, 
Feb.,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Esther  (Jackson)  Townsend.  She  d. 
1896,  Dec.  11.  They  had  ch.:  William8;  diaries*;  Mary  Francis8, 
who  m.  William  Cheever  Adams  (see  Adams). 
III.  Charles,  son  of  Sandford2,  b.  1857;  m.  Kate  F.  White,  b.  1867,  of 
Brewer,  Me.     They  had  Nelznra  F.4,  b.  1888,  Feb.  23. 

II.  John,  son  of  Joseph1,  b.  1832,  June  9;  m.  1866,  Feb.  28,  Mandana 
Gilmore,  b.  Manchester,  1839,  June  29,  dau.  of  Adam  and  Lucinda 
(Silver)  Gilmore.  John  served  in  the  Civil  war,  in  Company  H, 
Tenth  regiment  of  N.  H.  Volunteers. 

ROGERS. 

I.  William  M.  was  b.  1813,  Aug.  30,  the  son  of  William  and  Sally 
(Wells)  Rogers  of  Bath,  N.  H.  He  m.  1839,  Feb.  5,  Sarah,  b. 
1821,  Aug.  31,  dau.  of  Jesse  and  Hannah  (Boyce)  Gibbs  of  Bridge- 
water,  Vt.,  and  celebrated  their  golden  wedding,  1889,  Feb.  5. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rogers  were  devoted,  life-long  members  of  the 
M.  E.  church.  They  came  from  Canaan,  N.  H.,  to  this  town  in 
Oct.,  1866 v  Hewas  a  farmer,  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  strong 
temperance  advocate,  and  much-esteemed  citizen.  Ch.:  Wesley 
W.2,  b.  Woodstock,  Vt.,  1845,  Aug.  26;  Ellen  M.2,  b.  Manchester, 
1847,  Nov.  26,  m.  1868,  April  11,  Orrin  D.  Sawyer,  res.  in  Man- 
chester; Justin  C.2,  b.  Hanover,  1850,  Feb.  12,  m.  1876,  Oct.  13, 
Flora  Loon,  res.  in  Hallowell,  Me. ;  Charles  M.2,  b.  1866,  April  24, 
in  Canaan,  d.  1883,  July  11,  in  West  Prairie,  Ark. 

ROLLINS. 

I.  Charles  Rollins  of  Haverhill,  Mass.;  m.  1822,  July  15,  Hannah 
McLaughlin,  b.  1802,  July  31,  dau.  of  Patrick  and  Deborah 
(Martin)  McLaughlin  of  this  town.  They  res.  in  Goffstown  for 
a  time,  but  soon  made  Bedford  their  home.  Hannah  d.  1877, 
Feb.  14.  They  had  two  ch.:  Rodney  McLaughlin2,  b.  in  Goffstown, 
1823,  Dec.  27;  James  Morrison2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1826,  Aug.  20. 
Descendants  of  this  family  and  George  C.  McLaughlin  are  the 
only  descendants  of  the  McLaughlin  family  now  (1901),  residing 
in  Bedford. 


1062  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

II.  Rodney  McLaughlin,  son  of  Charles1,  b.  1823,  Dec.  27:  was  a  prom- 
inent farmer  and  took  an  active  interest  in  all  that  pertained  to 
the  welfare  of  the  town.  He  m.  1848,  Oct.  31,  Abby  R.,  b.  Eden, 
Vt.,  1825,  June  28,  dau.  of  Malachi  and  Jane  (Hufcchins)  Dodge. 
(Mr.  Dodge  was  b.  in  New  Boston.)  Rodney  M.  d.  in  Bedford, 
1899,  April  14.  His  wife  d.  1903,  Dec.  19.  Had  ch.:  Abby  Jane3, 
b.  Springfield,  Mass.,  1850,  Sept.  19,  d.  Bedford,  1853,  Aug.  24; 
Edgar  Kendrick3,  b.  Springfield,  Mass.,  1853,  May  7,  d.  Nashua, 
1854,  April  19;  Emma  Josephine?,  b.  in  Bedford,  1855,  July  15;  Rod- 
ney Foster*,  b.  in  Bedford,  1857,  Dec.  19;  Eliza  Dodge3,  b.  in  Bed- 
ford, 1863,  June  12. 

III.  Emma  Josephine,  dau.  of  Rodney  M.2,  b.  1855,  July  15;  m.  1877, 
May  22,  George  F.  Berry,  b.  1830,  March  25,  son  of  William  and 
Mary  (French)  Berry;  they  res.  in  Pittsfield,  where  Mr.  Berry  d. 
1897,  Oct.  7.  They  had  seven  ch.,  b.  in  Pittsfield:  Mabel  Rollins4, 
b.  1878,  Nov.  10;  Arthur  Dodge4,  b.  1881,  Jan.  30;  George  Rodney4, 
b.  1883,  July  17;  Mary  Abby4,  b.  1885,  Sept.  5;  Henry  Foster4, 
b.  1888,  May  26;  Laura4,  b.  1890,  March  21;  Harriet4,  b.  1893, 
Jan.  13. 

III.  Rodney  Foster,  son  of  Rodney  M.2,  b.  1857,  Dec.  19;  farmer; 
m.  1897,  Sept.  9,  Ella  Maud,  b.  New  Boston,  1877,  Dec.  20,  dau. 
of  Martin  Van  Buren  and  Sophia  (Curry)  Worden  of  New  Boston, 
formerly  of  Ellenburgh,  Clinton  Co.,  New  York. 

III.  Eliza  Dodge,  dau.  of  Rodney  M.2,  b.  1863,  June  12;  m.  1887,  Nov.  23, 
Edward  Alfred  Porter  of  this  town;  he  was  b.  in  Manchester, 
1864,  Feb.  27,  son  of  Alfred  and  Eliza  (Cutler)  Porter  of  Bedford. 
They  have  six  ch.,  all  b.  in  Bedford  but  one:  Gordon  Alfred4, 
b.  1888,  March  27;  Charles  Edward4,  b.  in  Londonderry,  1890, 
Dec.  30;  Marion4,  b.  1894,  July  3;  Helen  Elizabeth4,  b.  1897, 
Sept.  28;  John  Henry4,  b.  1900,  March  6;  Jane  Dodge4,  b.  1902, 
May  25. 
II.  James  Morrison,  son  of  Charles1,  b.  1826,  Aug.  20;  m.  1852,  May  4, 
Marv  Frances,  b.  1833,  Feb.  10,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Mary  (Cutler) 
Goff'e;  she  d.  1857,  March  24.  James  M.  d.  1854,  April  25.  They 
had  one  ch.:  James  Trask  Goffe3,  b.  1853,  Oct.  4,  and  d.  1854, 
Jan.  20. 

RUNDLETT. 

The  name  Rundlett  is  of  English  origin.  Through  the  lapse  of  time  its 
orthography  has  become  changed  into  Runlet,  Runlett,  Ranlet,  Ranlett, 
Rundlett,  Rundlet,  Randlett,  Randlet,  and  Ruudlette.  It  is  probable  that 
the  first  spelling  was  the  original  one,  but  this  cannot  be  verified. 
Branches  of  the  original  family  are  to  be  found  in  different  parts  of  this 
country,  more  especially  in  New  Hampshire  and  Maine.  The  Rundletts  of 
Bedford  were  of  the  Maine  branch. 

I.  Nathaniel  Rundlett  was  b.  in  Maine  and  m.  Lydia  A.  Lambert  of 
Wiscasset,  Me.  Five  ch.  were  b.  to  them,  three  sons  and  two 
daughters.  The  youngest  son  was  Thomas  Rundlett2,  b.  1785, 
March  7. 
II.  Thomas,  son  of  Nathaniel1,  was  b.  1785,  March  7,  and  d.  1864,  Sept. 
10  (see  biographical  sketch).  Hem.,  1812,  Nov.  20,  Fanny  Ay  er 
of  Hampstead,  N.  H.;  she  was  b.  1793,  Oct,  22,  and  d.  1859,  May  8. 
They  had  twelve  ch.,  as  follows:  Leonard8,  b.  1813,  Oct.  13;  Will- 
iam Ayer*,  b.  1815,  July  20;  Jesse  Ayer3,  b.  1817,  Aug.  9;  Thomas3, 

b.   1819,  Sept .  7,  d.   1848,  Sept.  9,  unm. ;  James3,  b. ,  d.  1844, 

May  26,  unm.;  Charles  E.3,  b.   1822,  Oct.   12,  d.  1855,  Dec,  unm.; 
Thankful  W.3,  b.  1825,  Feb.  25,  d.  unm.;  Sarah  F.3,  b.  1826,  Aug. 

15,  d.   1845,  Sept.  22,  unm.;  Andrew  J.3,  b. ,  d.  in  infancy; 

Svsan8  and  John3,  b.  1829,  April  19,  John  d.  in  infancy;  Lucy3,  b. 
1833,  Sept.  12,  d.  1881,  June  4,  unm. 


GENEALOGI ES. — ROLLINS. — RUNDLETT.  1063 

III.  Leonard,  son  of  Thomas2,  b.   1813,  Oct.  13;  m.  1839,  Nov.  12,  Caro- 

line Barr,  b.  1819,  June  28,  d.  1895,  Feb.  5.  He  d.  1853,  May  3. 
They  had  two  ch.:  Frank  Leoline*,  b.  1845,  June  16;  Clara  Bell*,  b. 
1850,  July  16,  m.  Luke  W.  Balch  in  Manchester,  1870,  July  7. 
She  d.  1871,  Nov.  30. 

IV.  Frank  Leoline,   son  of  Leonard3,  b.  1845,  June  16;  m.1868,  June  5, 

in  Bedford,  Mary  Emnia  Maskey.  They  have  Mabel  Viola6, 
Carrie  Bell6,  Blanche  Louise6,  and  Ethel  May6,  all  now  living. 

III.  "William  Ayer,  son  of  Thomas2,  b.   1815,  July  20;  m.  Louisa  Hayes 

McPherson,  b.  1814,  Aug.;  d.  1880,  Feb.  5.  He  d.  1880,  March  15 
(see  sketch).  They  had  seven  ch.:  Louise  Caroline*,  b.  1842,  May 
8;  Helen  Mary4,  b.  1842,  Feb.,  d.  1854;  Thankful  Frances*,  b.  1845, 
Jan.  8,  now  alive,  m.  D.  B.  Hagar,  of  West  Gardiner,  Mass.,  no 
issue;  Albyron  Pierce*,  b.  1847,  Dec.  3,  drowned  1856,  July  5  (see 
page  641);  Estella  Jane*,  b.  1849,  Jan.  24,  now  living  unm.;  Will- 
iam Ayer,  Jr.*,  b.  1851,  Sept.  6,  now  living  unm.  (see  sketch); 
Louis  John*,  b.  1858,  March  14  (see  sketch). 

IV.  Louise  Caroline,  dan.  of  William  Ayer3,  b.  1842,  May  8;  m.  Charles 

R.  McCollom  of  Goffstown.  Ch.:  Sarah6,  Louise6,  Marion5,  and 
Marv  Etta5,  all  living. 

IV.  Louis  John,  son  of  William  Ayer3,  b.  1858,  March  14;  m.  1892,  Sept. 
6,  Carrie  Belle  Copley  of  New  Britain,  Conn.,  and  has  two  ch., 
Copley  McPherson6  and  Lois8. 

III.  Jesse  Ayer,  son  of  Thomas2,  b.  1817,  Aug.  9;  m.  1842,  Sept.  7,  Mar- 
tha St.  John,  b.  1825,  June  5,  d.  1897,  Sept.  17;  he  is  still  living, 
aged  86  years,  and  was  always  a  power  in  the  community  in  which 
he  resided.  They  had  four  ch. :  James  Redway*,  b.  1844,  Aug.  7, 
m.  Florence  M.  Early,  no  issue;  Claries  M.*,  b.  1847,  Aug.  1,  unm.; 
Adiu  Cady*,  b.  1852,  Oct,  17,  d.  1873,  Feb.  19;  Isabel  Watson4,  b. 
1855,  Jan.  21,  m.  Marcellus  N.  Bliss,  have  one  ch.,  Ida  Merrill5, 
who  m.  Laertes  N.  Bert. 

III.  Susan,  dau.  of  Thomas2,  b.  1829,  April  19;  m.  Col.  H.  O.  Dudley;  she 
d.  1860,  March  7;  leaving  one  child,  Clara*,  now  alive  and  m. 

THOMAS  RUNDLETT. 

Thomas  Rundlett2  was  for  many  years  a  hat  manufacturer  in  Piscata- 
quog,  N.  H.,  then  a  part  of  Bedford.  He  was  a  man  of  firmness  and  ster- 
ling worth.  He  was  a  valued  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  thor- 
oughly devoted  to  its  interests.  He  was  senior  warden  of  Bible  lodge  at 
Goffstown  in  1823.  The  first  general  meeting  of  Lafayette  lodge  was  held 
at  his  house  in  Bedford  on  the  4th  of  March,  1824.  A  petition  asking  for 
a  lodge  in  Bedford,  to  be  hailed  as  Lafayette  lodge,  was  presented  at  this 
meeting,  being  signed  by  Robert  Dunlap,  master,  Thomas  Rundlett,  sen- 
ior warden,  and  John  Moor,  junior  warden.  He  was  master  of  this  lodge 
for  the  years  1832  and  1851.  He  was  honorary  member  of  Mt.  Horeb 
Chapter  and  a  member  of  Trinity  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar. 

He  was  also  an  active  member  of  the  Amoskeag  Veterans,  justice  of  the 
peace  in  Bedford  from  1834  to  1838,  quorum  from  1838  to  1850,  and  consta- 
ble in  1828. 

William  Ayer  Rundlett,  the  second  son  of  Thomas  Rundlett,  lived  for  a 
time  in  Piscataquog  in  business  with  his  father.  Failing  health  compelled 
him  to  adopt  farming,  and  he  located  opposite  the  John  A.  McGaw  estate 
on  the  river  road  in  Bedford,  N.  H.  He  was  a  natural  musician  and  for 
many  years  was  widely  known  as  a  successful  instructor  in  dancing.  He 
never  sought  or  attained  political  prominence. 

Louis  John  Rundlett,  the  third  son  of  "William  Ayer  Rundlett,  was  born 
in  Bedford,  attended  the  district  schools  of  that  town,  and  afterward 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  of  Manchester,  N.  H.  He  graduated 
from  Dartmouth  college  in   1881,  taught  five  years  in  Penacook,  N.  H., 


1064 


HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


and  since  that  time  has  been  superintendent  of  schools  in  Concord,  N.  H. 
His  son  Copley  is  the  last  male  descendant  of  this  branch  of  the  Rundlett 
family  now  alive. 

In  general  this  branch  has  attained  no  great  prominence  in  any  of  the 
professional  or  political  field*.  The  lives  of  its  members  have  been  useful 
but  uneventful,  and  the  stock  appears  to  be  dying  out  in  common  with 
that  of  other  early  settlers. 


SARGENT. 

I.  Thomas  Daniel,  son  of  Enoch  P.  and  Jane  (Jameson)  Sargent,  was 
b.  in  Manchester,  1828,  Nov.  5;  farmer;  he  m.  1853,  Nov.  12, 
Elizabeth  Betsey,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1837,  March  31,  dau.  of  James 
M.  and  Emily  (Ordway)  Tenney.  They  have  res.  at  Syracuse, 
N.  Y.,  Goffstown,  Manchester,  and  Mont  Vernon,  whence  they 
came  to  Bedford  in  1892.  Had  eh.:  Sarah  Jane2,  b.  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
1858,  Nov.  16;  George  Wilbur2,  b.  Goffstown,  1863,  Nov.  19,  d. 
1865,  Feb.  20;  Cora  Frances2,  b.  Manchester,  1866,  July  5,  m. 
1877,  Oct.  17,  Henry  S.  Bagley,  res.  in  Manchester;  James  Willis*, 
b.  Goffstown,  1870,  April  9;  John  Marshall?,  b.  1874,  Jan.  19. 

II.  Sarah  Jane,  dau.  of  Thomas  D.1,  b.  1858,  Nov.  16:  m.  1880,  Feb.  21, 
William  H.  Swartz,  master  mason  in  erecting  the  new  building 
for  the  Manchester  print  works,  said  to  be  the  largest  building  of 
its  kind  in  the  world;  res.  in  Bedford.  They  have  ch.:  Mabel8; 
Lizzie8;  Charles8;  Estella3. 

II.  James  Willis,  son  of  Thomas  D.1,  b.  1870,  April  9;  m.  1892,  Sept. 
11,  Emma  A.,  b.  1867,  April  1,  dau.  of  Edward  G.  and  Johanna 
F.  (Hirsch)  Anderson  of  Memel,  Germany.  They  res.  here,  and 
have:  Elizabeth  M.8,  b.  1893,  Dec.  3;  Thomas  Edward3,  b.  1896, 
Jan.  21;  Mabel  E.3,  b.  1898,  March  10;  Walter  J.3,  b.  1899,  March 
26;  Alice  L.3,  b.  1900,  Nov.  15;  George  W.8,  b.  1902,  July  24. 

II.  John  Marshall,  son  of  Thomas  D.1,  b.  1874,  Jan.  19;  farmer;  m. 
1898,  Aug.  21,  Hannah  Abbie,  b.  in  Deering,  1877,  Feb.  24,  dau. 
of  Dennis  R.  and  Mary  Abbie  (Wilson)  Chase;  res.  here.  They 
have  Dennis  Chase3,  b.  1899,  Nov.  21;  Arthur  Marshall3,  b.  1901, 
Feb.  28. 


SAVAGE. 

FAMILY  CHART  OF  REV.  THOMAS  SAVAGE   OF  BEDFORD. 


Thomas 


Sarah 


♦Thomas  Savage  (Maj.) 
Issue 

I      


Habijahf      Hannah 


I 
Thomas}: 


I  I 

Ephraim§     Mary 


I  -      I 

Dyonisia      Perez 


Habijah|| 


Elizabeth      Arthur 


Faith 


Habijah        Hannah         ThomasIT      Arthur 


Samuel 


Thomas        John 


Ezekiel** 
I 


I  I  I 

Margaret     Thomasft     Mary  H 


L 


John  H 


Lydia 


Habijah        Alexander    Hannah       Sarah 


*Maj.  Thomas  Savage  came  over  in  1635.  and  married  Faith  Hutchinson.  Rev.  John 
Cotton  savs  of  the  mother  of  Faith,  "  She  was  well  beloved,  and  all  the  faithful  em- 
braced her  conference,  and  bless  God  in  her  fa  th'ul  discourses."  But  he  adds, 
"  She  had  two  great  errors  that  the  Holy  Ghost  dwells  personally  in  a  justified  per- 
son, and  that  nothing  of  sanctincation  can  help  to  evidence  to  believers  their 
justification." 


GENEALOGIES. — SAVAGE.  1065 

tGraduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1659.    Married  Hannah,  dau.  of  G.  Tyng,  Esq. 
tBorn,  1640. 

§Graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1682. 
||  Born  in  1674.    Graduated  at  Harvard  college,  1695. 
TTBorn,  1710. 

**Born,  1760.    Graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1778.    Married  Margaret  Vose  (see 
Vose). 
tfBorn,  1793.    Graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1813. 

I.  Maj.  Thomas  Savage  came  over  to  this  country  in  1635,  and  ni. 
Faith,  dau.  of  the  celebrated  Mrs.  Ann  Hutchinson,  so  well 
known  in  the  early  history  of  New  England.  As  Bedford  was 
one  of  the  townships  granted  to  soldiers  who  served  in  the  Nar- 
ragansett  war,  it  may  be  interesting  to  notice  that  Major  Savage 
commanded  the  forces  of  Massachusetts  in  the  early  part  of  that 
war.  In  Gookin's  account  is  the  following  curious  certificate 
signed  by  him,  bearing  testimony  to  the  good  conduct  of  the 
praying  Indians  who  joined  him  as  allies: 

These  do  certify,  that  I,  Thomas  Savage,  of  Boston,  being  Commander  of 
the  English  forces  at  Mount  Hope,  in  the  beginning  of  the  war  between 
the  English  and  Indians,  aliout  July,  1675,  and  afterwards,  in  March.  1676, 
at  Menumi-ne.  and  Hadley,  in  both  which  expeditions,  some  of  the  Chris- 
tian Indians  belonging  to  Natick,  were  in  the  army;  as  at  M"unt  Hope 
were  about  40  men.  and  at  Menumene.  6.  I  do  testify  on  their  behalf,  that 
they  carried  themselves  well,  and  approved  themselves  courageous  sol- 
diers, and  faithful  to  the  English  interest.  Dated  at  Boston,  the  20th  day 
of  Dec'r,  1677. 

Thomas  Savage. 

In  the  Proprietor's  records,  previous  to  the  incorporation  of  the 
town  is  found  the  name  of  a  son  of  Major  Savage,  Perez,  who 
probably  inherited  a  right  from  his  father.  In  the  town  records, 
down  to  a  late  period,  is  seen  the  name  of  Habijah  Savage  on  the 
non-resident  tax-list,  who  was  a  grandson  of  Major  Savage,  and 
great-grandfather  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage  of  Bedford.  In 
the  possession  of  the  Hon.  James  Savage  of  Boston  there  was,  in 
1850,  a  printed  sermon  (the  only  copy  probably  extant),  preached 
by  Rev.  Samuel  Willard,  second  minister  of  the  Old  South 
church,  Boston.  The  title  runs  thus,  "The  righteous  man's 
death,  a  presage  of  evil;  a  funeral  sermon  upon  Major  Thomas 
Savage  from  Isaiah,  LVIIrl,  1681."  With  regard  to  the  paternal 
descent  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage  it  may  be  remarked  that  all 
of  his  ancestors,  from  the  one  who  came  over,  were  b.  in  Boston 
for  several  generations,  were  members  of  the  Old  South  church, 
and  were  engaged  in  military  or  mercantile  pursuits.  The  first 
ministers  in  the  line  were  the  Rev.  Thomas  Savage  of  this  town 
and  Rev.  William  T.  Savage,  Franklin,  N.  H. 
V.  Ezekiel  Savage,  Esq.,  was  b.  in  Boston,  1760,  Oct.  17;  received 
degree  at  Harvard  college,  1778.  While  he  was  a  member  of  the 
college  it  was  removed  to  Concord,  Mass.,  the  college  buildings 
being  occupied  by  our  troops.  He  said  that  while  at  college  at 
Cambridge  he  one  day  went  to  Winter  Hill  to  see  our  troops  that 
were  posted  there,  and  while  on  the  hill  a  cannon  ball  fired  from 
Boston,  then  in  possession  of  the  British,  came  so  near  as  to 
throw  up  the  dirt  upon  him.  In  early  life  he  prepared  for  the 
ministry  and  preached  for  a  short  time,  but  failing  health  obliged 
him  to  abandon  it.  He  studied  divinity  with  Rev.  Mr.  Smith  of 
Weymouth,  Mass.,  one  of  whose  daughters  married  the  first 
President  Adams,  and  was  mother  of  John  Q.  Adams.  He  m. 
Margaret,  dau.  of  Col.  Joseph  Vose*  of  Milton  (see  Vose),  and 

*Col.  Joseph  Vose  commanded  a  regiment  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  and  had  a 
horse  shot  under  him  in  one  of  the  actions  connected  with  the  caprure  of  Burgoyne. 
The  saddle-blai  ket  was  still  in  possession  of  the  family  in  1850,  with  the  perforation 
made  by  the  ball. 


1066  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

was  for  many  years  a  civil  magistrate  in  Salem,  Mass.,  well 
known  in  Essex  county.  He  d.  at  Salem,  1837,  June.  Ch.:  Sarah6; 
Margaret6;  Thomas6',  Mary  H.6;  John  H.6;  Ann6. 
"VI.  Rev.  Thomas,  son  of  Ezekiel5,  Esq.,  was  b.  in  Boston,  1793,  Sept.  2. 
Completed  bis  collegiate  course  at  Harvard  college,  1813;  pur- 
sued the  study  of  theology  for  some  time  at  Cambridge,  and 
finished  his  preparation  under  the  care  of  the  Mississippi  Presby- 
tery, 1822.  He  was  m.,  1st,  at  St.  Francisville,  La.,  1822,  May  9, 
to  Miss  Lucy  Woodruff,  b.  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  1790,  Aug.  10,  a 
descendant  from  the  Grisfold  family  in  Connecticut.  She  d. 
1847,  May  16.  A  sermon  on  the*occasion  of  her  death  was  deliv- 
ered by  Rev.  Mr.  Allen.  He  m.,  2d.  1848,  Oct.  12,  Miss  Sarah 
Webster  of  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  b.  1816.  Her  father,  Benjamin 
Webster,  son  of  William,  brother  of  Judge  Webster,  was  cousin 
to  the  Hon.  Daniel  Webster,  son  of  Judge  Webster  of  Salisbury, 
N.  H,  but  originally  from  Hampton,  N.  H.  Rev.  Thomas  d. 
1866,  May  8,  having  been  pastor  of  the  Bedford  Presbyterian 
church  for  forty  years,  1823-1865  (see  Sketches  of  Bedford  Minis- 
try). Sarah,  his  wife,  d.  1898.  Ch.  by  1st  mar.:  Julia  Ann7,  b. 
in  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  1823,  Feb.  6,  m.  L.  N.  Robb,  and  res.  in 
Rodney,  Miss.;  James  Woodruff7,  b.  Bedford,  1826,  Feb.  2  (see 
biographical  sketch);  Lucretia1,  b.  Bedford,  1828,  April  27; 
Frances1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1834,  April  7.  Ch.  by  2d  mar. :  Thomas7, 
b.  in  Bedford,  1852,  Jan.  20;  Sarah  M.1,  b.  Bedford,  1856,  June  14. 

VII.  Lucretia,  dau.  of  Rev.  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1828,  April  27;  m.  Rev. 
Thomas  Cleland,  and  res.  in  Natchez,  Miss.     They  had  one  ch. 

VII.  Frances,  dau.  of  Rev.  Thomas6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1834,  April  7;  m. 

Rev.  William  House,  who  d. .     She  res.  in  Providence,  R.  I. 

They  had  four  ch.:  James  Savage8;  Morris  William8;  Lucy  Wood- 
ruff8; Eliot  Vose8. 

VII.  Lieut.  Thomas,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas6,  b.  Bedford,  1852,  Jan.  20;  m. 
Mrs.  Lucy  (Burkhalter)  Curtiss,  and  res.  in  Maplewood,  Mass. 
He  d.  1899,  Nov.,  and  is  buried  in  the  Bedford  Centre  cemetery 
(see  sketch;  also,  see  lawyers). 

VII.  Sarah  M.,  dau.  of  Rev.  Thomas6,  b.  in  Bedford,  1856,  June  14;  m. 
Col.  Fred  A.  Palmer  of  Manchester,  where  she  still  res.  He  d. 
.     They  had  one  son,  Waldo.8 

JAMES  WOODRUFF  SAVAGE. 

James  Woodruff  Savage  was  born  in  Bedford,  N.  H,  Feb.  2,  1826.  He 
was  the  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  Savage  and  Lucy  Woodruff,  the  names  of 
both  parents  being  distinguished  through  the  annals  of  New  England  his- 
tory. His  early  life,  passed  in  the  rural  surroundings  of  a  charming  coun- 
try, was  deeply  influenced  by  the  environments  of  a  minister's  household, 
its  earnest  and  sober  faith,  culture,  and  refinements.  By  means  of  the 
meagre  facilities  afforded  by  the  public  schools  for  study,  and  instruction 
at  home,  he  was  enabled  in  September,  1841,  to  enter  Phillips  Andover 
academy  for  his  preparation  for  Harvard  college.  In  August,  two  years 
later,  he  entered  that  university,  whence  he  graduated  in  1847,  standing 
seventh  in  his  class,  and  was  the  fourteenth  of  his  family  to  graduate 
from  that  college. 

The  year  following  was  spent  in  teaching  in  the  state  of  Georgia,  at  the 
end  of  which  time  he  returned  to  the  North,  and  commenced  the  study  of 
law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Origen  S.  Seymour  of  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  that  county,  Feb.  12,  1850.  Mr.  Savage  pro- 
ceeded at  once  to  New  York,  and  entered,  as  managing  clerk,  the  office  of 
his  cousin,  Hon.  Lewis  B.  Woodruff,  who  at  that  time  held  high  rank  as 
a  practising  lawyer  in  that  city.  Here  he  worked  assiduously  in  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession  until  the  breaking  out  of  our  Civil  war,  when  he 


GENEALOGIES. — SAVAGE.  106T 

volunteered  to  the  country's  call  for  aid.  He  was  appointed  to  the  rank 
of  captain  on  General  Fremont's  staff,  rose  to  that  of  major,  and  finally 
became  lieutenant-colonel.  Desirious  of  more  active  participation  in  the 
struggle  for  the  Union,  he  obtained  permission  of  Governor  Seymour  of 
New  York  to  organize  a  regiment,  and  succeeded  in  recruiting  the  Twelfth 
New  York  cavalry.  As  colonel  of  this  body  of  men  he  served  till  the  close 
of  the  war.  His  conduct  in  the  army  was  characterized  by  fearless  adher- 
ence to  duty,  bravery  in  battles  at  the  front,  undaunted  by  physical  hard- 
ship and  danger. 

The  two  years  following  General  Lee's  surrender  were  spent  by  Mr.  Sav- 
age in  the  South,  a  student  of  the  cotton  industry  and  the  political  condi- 
tions of  that  section  of  the  country.  In  1867  he  journeyed  to  Nebraska, 
just  admitted  to  the  Union,  settled  in  Omaha,  forming  a  partnership  for 
the  general  practice  of  law,  with  the  Hon.  Charles  F.  Mauderson,  now  of 
the  United  States  senate.  After  eight  years  he  was  elected  judge  for  two 
succeeding  terms.  Ill  health,  however,  obliged  him  to  resign  this  posi- 
tion before  the  expiration  of  his  second  term.  In  April,  of  1875,  Judge 
Savage  was  married  to  Mrs.  Lucy  T.  MoTris,  daughter  of  Alanson  Tucker, 
Esq.,  of  Derry,  N.  H.  In  1883  he  resumed  his  general  law  practice,  and 
continued  to  labor  with  more  or  less  vigor  until  his  death.  About  this 
time  he  was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland  government  director  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railway  company,  which  position  he  continued  to  hold 
under  President  Harrison's  administration.  Many  other  offices  of  trust 
and  honor  came  to  him  in  his  now  fully  developed  manhood.  He  was 
director  of  the  Omaha  public  library;  a  trustee  of  Bellevue  college;  presi- 
dent of  the  Omaha  club;  president  of  state  historical  society,  and  was 
urged  to  accept  the  chancellorship  of  the  state  university,  but  declined. 
During  the  last  few  years  of  his  life,  labor  being  no  longer  a  necessity, 
Judge  Savage  spent  much  time  in  travel  and  literary  work,  particularly 
along  the  lines  of  classical  study  and  historical  research.  Fond  of  Shakes- 
peare, he  possessed  a  library  of  rich  and  rare  editions  of  the  works  of  that 
poet.  An  interested  student  of  American  history,  he  has  contributed 
many  valuable  papers  to  historical  literature,  especially  regarding  the 
early  history  of  the  West. 

It  seemed  that  he  was  destined  to  many  years  of  enjoyment  and  useful- 
ness, but  these  hopes  were  not  to  be  realized,  for  during  the  last  summer 
of  his  life,  spent  so  enjoyably  among  the  hi!ls  of  his  native  town,  disease 
was  already  upon  him.  After  many  weeks  of  intense  suffering,  death 
came  to  him  1890,  Nov.  22,  taking  from  earth  and  his  loved  ones  one  of 
Nature's  noblemen,  and  a  true  and  devoted  friend. 

Of  the  personal  characteristics  and  attributes  of  Judge  Savage  we  may 
learn  much  from  the  eulogistic  tributes  of  his  lifelong  friends  and  asso- 
ciates. "  He  was  one  of  the  men  the  world  cannot  afford  to  forget,  a  man 
of  resources,  not  found  wanting  when  the  occasion  called,  an  upright  citi- 
zen, a  kiudly  neighbor,  attaining  a  position  at  the  bar  equalled  by  few, 
an  able,  learned  and  honorable  member  of  his  profession."  Through  all 
his  life  he  met  unrelentingly  the  demands  of  duty  whenever  they  came  to 
him,  and  obeyed  them  with  such  ability  and  understanding  as  were  given 
to  him,  discharging  the  duties  of  his  many  public  offices  with  credit  to 
himself,  and  with  satisfaction  to  all.  His  friendship  was  true  and  lasting, 
and  greatly  valued  by  all  who  possessed  it.  "Judge  Savage  was  a  man 
great  not  only  in  valor  as  a  defender  of  his  country's  honor,  not  only  in 
law  and  letters,  but  above  and  beyond  all  he  was  great  in  honesty  of  pur- 
pose, and  in  simplicity  of  character."  "He  did  not  live  in  vain;  the 
genius,  love,  and  sympathy  which  cheered  on  so  many  a  weary  pilgrim 
in  the  storm-swept  path  of  life  have  won  for  him  immortality  in  the 
hearts  and  minds  of  ever-mindful  friends  and  their  descendants." 

A  fitting  epitaph  for  him  would  be,  "  He  was  a  good  man,  and  a  just. " 
In  the  garments  last  worn  by  him  was  found  after  his  death  a  bit  of  poetry 
written  by  Tennyson,  which  is  so  suggestive  of  Judge  Savage's  clear  faith 


1068  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

and  belief  during  life,  and  the  composure  with  which  he  met  death,  that 
it  seems  to  form  a  fitting  close  to  this  brief  sketch. 

"  Sunset  and  evening  star,— 
And  a  clear  call  for  me; 
And  may  there  be  no  moaning  of  the  bar, 
When  I  put  out  to  sea. 

"  For  such  a  time  as  moving  seems  asleep, 
Too  full  for  sound  or  foam, 
When  that  which  drew  from  out  the  boundless  deep 
Turns  again— home. 

"Twilight  and  evening  bell, 
And  after  that— the  dark. 
And  may  there  be  no  sadness  of  farewell, 
When  I  embark. 

"  For  though  from  out  my  bourne  of  time  and  place 
The  flood  may  bear  rrie  far, 
I  hope  to  meet  my  Pilot  face  to  face, 
When  I  have  crossed  the  bar." 

LIEUT.  THOMAS  SAVAGE. 

Lieut.  Thomas  Savage  was  one  of  the  best  known,  highly  esteemed,  and 
honored  citizens  of  Boston,  and  like  many  another  son  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, shed  lustre  on  the  state  of  his  nativity.  He  was  born  in  Bedford  in 
1832,  a  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  who  for  forty  years  was  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  that  town.  On  the  maternal  side,  also,  his  ances- 
try was  illustrious,  his  mother  being  Sarah  Webster,  whose  father  was 
own  cousin  to  the  Hon.  Daniel  Webster. 

He  was  educated  at  Pinkerton  academy  and  Dartmouth  college,  and 
taught  school  several  winter  terms  at  Hanover.  He  was  of  studious  incli- 
nations, and  ever  manifested  a  deep  interest  in  literary  matters.  On 
graduating  from  Dartmouth  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  law  with  Judge 
David  Cross  and  Hon.  Henry  E.  Burnham,  continuing  his  studies  until 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  Manchester.  (Spe  Lawyers.)  He  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  the  celebrated  law  firm  of  Allen,  Long  &  Savage,  the 
second  member  of  the  firm  being  John  D.  Long,  subsequently  governor  of 
Massachusetts,  and,  later,  a  member  of  President  McKinley's  cabinet  as 
secretary  of  the  navy. 

Lieutenant  Savage  was  a  very  successful  lawyer,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  bar  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States.  He  was  a  Mason,  and 
widely  known  as  a  prominent  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Ar- 
tillery company  of  Boston,  being  one  of  its  foremost  speakers  on  the  occa- 
sion of  its  memorable  trip  to  London.  His  family  has  been  identified 
with  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  company  from  its  origin.  Maj. 
Thomas  Savage,  a  lineal  ancestor,  was  a  charter  member,  and  five  times 
elected  commander  of  the  company,  viz.,  1651,  '59,  '68,  '75,  '80.  Ephraim 
Savage  was  ensign,  1678,  and  commander,  1683.  Thomas  Savage  was 
ensign,  1681,  and  lieutenant,  1681  or  1691.  Thomas  Savage,  Jr.,  was 
ensign,  1701,  lieutenant,  1703,  and  commander,  1705.  Habijah  Savage 
was  lieutenant,  1709,  and  commander,  1711,  1721,  1727.  Thomas  Savage 
was  ensign,  1752,  1755,  lieutenant,  1755,  and  commander,  1757.  Thomas 
Savage  of  Bedford  was  elected  second  lieutenant,  1886,  first  lieutenant, 
1896;  he  died  1899,  Nov.,  as  the  result  of  a  severe  accident,  having  fallen 
from  the  electric  cars  while  riding  in  Boston.  A  delegation  of  eight  offi- 
cers of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  company  escorted  the  remains 
to  Bedford,  where  he  was  buried  1899,  Nov.  29. 


GENEALOGIES. — SCHNEIDER. — SEAVY.  1069 

SCHNEIDER. 

I.  Ernest  Edward,  a  farmer,  was  b.  1834,  Oct.  15,  son  of  Christian  and 
Sophia  (Helm)  Schneider  of  Saxony,  Germany.  He  emigrated  to 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  where  he  m.,  1859,  Jnly  5,  Caroline,  b.  Prus- 
sia, Ger.,  1838,  Oct.  5,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Helen  (Hoffman)  Burg- 
hart.  (The  former  was  b.  in  Prussia,  1798,  Oct.  25;  the  latter, 
1799,  June  29.)  They  settled  in  Manchester,  but  rem.  to  Bedford 
previous  to  1865.  Ch. :  Edward  Everett2,  b.  Manchester,  1862, 
May  22;  Walter  William2,  b.  1865,  March  19;  Louise  Beatrice2,  b. 
1867,  April  3;  Emili/  Helen2,  b.   1869,  April  21. 

II.  Walter  William,  son  of  Ernest  Edward*,  m.  1887,  April  21,  Elizabeth 
McCoombs;  res.  in  Merrimack.  They  have  four  ch.:  Charlotte3; 
George3;  Edwin3;  Gertrude3. 

II.  Louise  Beatrice,  dau.  of  Ernest  Edward1,  b.  1867,  April  3;  m.  1884, 
Sept.  4,  Arthur  W.  Parkhurst;  res.   Pittsburg,   Pa.;  had  two  ch. 

II.  Emily  Helen,  dau.  of  Ernest  Edward1,  b.  1869,  April  21;  m.  1898, 
July  4,  Clin  ton  W.  Blood;  res.  in  Merrimack  and  has  two  ch.: 
Percy  Eugene3;  Henry  Alfred3. 

SEAVY. 

I.  Samuel  Seavy,  the  first  of  this  name  of  whom  we  have  record  in 
town,  lived  to  a  great  age.  He  res.  for  a  time  in  Candia,  where 
his  ch.,  John2  and  Dolly2,  were  b.,  and  both  of  whom  m.  and  set- 
tled in  Bedford. 
II.  John,  son  of  Samuel1,  b.  1797;  m.  Susan  Hill,  who  was  b.  in  Candia, 
1804.  Ch.:  Jonathan3,  d.  in  Bedford;  George8;  Nancy8;  Sarah?; 
Susan9;  Samuel3;  Melissa3,  who  m.,  1st,  Thomas  Adams,  and  2d, 
Ira  Campbell;  Charles3,  unm.;  Mary3,  who  m.,  1st,  Charles  Camp- 
bell, 2d,  Corwin  Parker.  They  also  had  three  sons,  Charles3; 
Alonzo3;  and  Samuel3;  d.  in  infancy. 

III.  Nancy,  dau.  of  John2,  m.  1st,  Martin  Joslyn;  2d,  Joseph  Clement. 
Ch.  of  1st  mar. :  Susan4  and  George4. 

III.  Sarah,  dau.  of  John2,  m.  Charles  Griffin  of  Manchester.  Had  ch.: 
Augusta4;  Nellie4;  and  Charles4. 

III.  Susan,  dau.  of  John2,  m. Jeffers.    They  had  a  dau.,  Etta4,  who 

m.  George  Bagley,  res.  in  Manchester,  and  had  a  dau.,  Etta5. 

III.  Samuel,  son  of  John2,  m.  Lavinia  Aldrich  and  settled  in  Bedford, 

bat  later  rem.  to  Msrrimack,  where  he  d.  1879,  May.  16.  Ch.: 
Laura4,  d.  in  Bedford;  Hattie*;  Georgiana  D*;  Wesley*;  and 
Edward.4,  who  committed  suicide  by  shooting  himself. 

IV.  Hattie,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  m.  George  Hanson  and  settled  in  Amherst. 

Had  one  son,  Frank5. 

IV.  Georgiana  D.,  dau.  of  Samuel3,  m.  1879,  July  20,  John  A.  Hanson, 
and  res.  in  Amherst,  on  the  Horace  Greeley  homestead.  They 
have  six  ch.:  Fred5;  Alvin5;  Horace  Greeley5;  Warren  R.5;  Edwin 
S.5;  and  Roland5. 

IV.  Wesley,  son  of  Samuel3,  m.  Dora,  dau.  of  John  Stevens  of  Merri- 
mack. Had  three  ch. 
II.  Dolly,  dau.  of  Samuel1,  b.  1802;  m.,  1st,  William  Paine,  and  2d, 
Robert  Campbell.  She  d.  1885,  Feb.  8.  Had  one  dau.  by  1st  mar- 
riage, Mary  Ann8,  b.  1822,  Aug.  She  m.  Isaac  Campbell  (see 
Campbell) . 


1070  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


SHEPARD. 

I.  The  origin  of  this  family,  like  that  of  many  others  among  the  first 
settlers  of  this  country,  is  somewhat  in  doubt.  The  first  repre- 
sentative of  the  family  in  this  country  was  Thomas1,  b.  perhaps  in 
England  in  1632.  He  was  commonly  called  "  Thomas  of  Maiden," 
or  "  Goodman  Thomas,"  and  he  lived  at  Medford  or  Maiden, 
Charlestown,  Brookline,  and  Milton.  He  m.  Hannah  Ensign  of 
Scituate,  Mass.,  dau.  of  Thomas,  1658,  Nov.  19.  They  had  seven 
ch.:  Thomas2;  Ralph2;  John2;  Jacob2;  Hannah2;  Isaac2;  and  Mary3. 
Some  few  years  after  the  death  of  his  wife,  Hannah,  1698,   March 

14,  he  m.  Joanna .     He  d.   at  Milton,  Mass.,   1698,   Sept.   26 

or  29,  in  his  87th  year. 
II.  Jacob,  son  of  Thomas1,  was  b.  in  Milton.  He  m.  Mercy,  dau.  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  Chickering  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  1699,  Nov. 
22.  They  had  five  ch. :  Jacob3;  Benjamin3;  John3;  Joseph3;  and 
Thomas3.  In  1704  he  purchased  a  farm  in  what  is  now  Foxboro, 
then  within  the  limits  of  Dorchester,  Mass.  This  farm  was  near 
a  pond  still  known  as  Shepard's  pond.     He  d.  about  1717,  Dec. 

III.  Thomas,  son  of  Jacob2,  was  b.  1706,  March  24.   He  m.  Content,  dau. 

of  Cornelius  and  Mehi table  White  of  Taunton,  1735,  June  5.  They 
had  thirteen  ch. :  Sarah4;  Jacob4;  Thomas4;  Jacob4;  Olive4;  Jimima4; 
Rachel4;  Thomas4;  Olive4;  Seth4;  Phoebe4;  George*;  and  Mase4.  It 
is  said  that  Content  (White)  Shepard  belonged  to  the  Amazonian 
race,  and  her  three  younger  sons  were  powerful  men — could  per- 
form the  work  of  two  ordinary  men.  Thomas  spent  nearly  the 
whole  of  his  life  in  Norton,  Mass.,  and  d.  there,  1774,  Oct.  19. 
His  wife  d.  1790,  April  7. 

IV.  Capt.  George,  son  of  Thomas3,  was  b.  in  Norton,  Mass.,  1757,  Jan.  2. 

He  m.  Eunice,  dau.  of  Peter  and  Abigail  (Morey)  Makepeace  of 
Norton,  Mass.,  1781,  Sept.  6.  In  1800  George  settled  in  Bedford, 
N.  H.  He  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  enlisting  at  the  age 
of  nineteen.  He  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  British  while  in  ser- 
vice in  Rhode  Island.  He  was  commonly  called  Captain,  but 
there  is  nothing  on  record  to  show  that  he  ever  held  that  office 
during  the  war,  and  he  was  probably  made  such  during  the  peace 
establishment.  Captain  George  d.  1819,  July  13,  and  his  wife, 
Eunice,  1846,  Aug.  20,  both  being  buried  at  Bedford,  N.  H.  They 
had  eight  ch.,  of  which  six  were  b.  in  Sharon,  Mass.,  and  two  in 
Bedford:  Thomas5,  b.  1782,  Feb.  7;  Nancy5,  b.  1784,  Jan.  8;  Sophia5, 
b.  1786,  June  14,  m.  1808,  Nov.  27,  William  Chandler,  son  of 
Elijah  (see  Chandler) ;  Georqe5,b.  1790,  Sept.  12;  Otis5,  b.  1793, 
April  12;  Charles5,  b.  1799,  May  8;  Mary5,  b.  1802,  Aug.  7;  Silas5, 
b.  1805,  March  29. 
V.  Thomas,  son  of  Capt.  George4,  b.  1782,  Feb.  7;  m.  1811,  May  16, 
Elizabeth,  b.  1788,  May  11,  dan.  of  John  Holmes  of  Derry,  N.  H., 
and  res.  in  Bedford.  She  d.  1853,  Oct.  18.  He  d.  1859,  Feb.  23. 
They  had  eight  ch.,  b.  in  Bedford:  John  Holmes6,  b.  1812,  March 
11:  Charles  Franklin6,  b.  1813,  Oct.  17;  George6,  b.  1816,  Jan.  20,  d. 
1845,  Sept.  21;  James  Stinson6,  b.  1818,  Sept.  24;  Mary  Jane6,  b. 
1820,  Nov.  9,  m.  1842,  Oct.  27,  Hugh  Riddle  French,  son  of  Rev. 
Daniel  L.  (see  French);  Nancy  Parker  Bar ues6,  b.  1823,  Aug.  15, 
m.  Alfred  McAfee  (see  McAfee);  Thomas6,  b.  1826,  Aug.  5;  William 
Moot6,  b.  1828,  Oct.  15. 
VI.  John  Holmes,  sou  of  Thomas5,  b.  1812,  March  11;  m.,  1st.,  1841,  Dec. 
12,  Lucy,  dau.  of  William  Pierson  of  Tewksbury,  Mass.  She  was 
b.  1815,  Jan.  6,  and  d.  1845,  April  9.  He  m.,  2d,  1845,  Oct.  9, 
Sarah  A.  Pierson,  sister  of  his  first  wife.  She  was  b.  1817,  Jan. 
14,  d.  1870,  July  17.  He  d.  Bedford,  1859,  Mavl3.  Ch.  of  1st 
mar.:  John  Parsons7,  b.  1844,  Nov.  21,  d.  1861,  Jan.  23.     Ch.  of  2d 


GENEALOGIES. — SHEPARD.  1071 

mar.:  William  Pierson"1,  b.  1847,  June  21;  Lucy  Ann7,  b.  1849,  May 
21,  d.  1853,  Sept.  2;  Elizabeth  A.7,  b.  1851,  May  5,  m.  1868,  Jan. 
30,  Charles  P.  Farley  (see  Farlev);  Harriet7,  b.  1853,  May  3,  d. 
1853,  June  25;  Arthur  M.\  b.  1855,  March  12,  d.  1885,  Dec.  13;  all 
b.  in  Bedford. 
VII.  William  Pierson,  son  of  John  H.e,  b.  1847,  June  21;  m.  1871,  Nov. 
21,  Sophronia  J.,  dau.  of  Senter  and  Louisa  (Flint)  Farley.  Had 
ch.:  Jane  L.,  b.  1872,  Nov.  25,  m.  1891,  March  11,  William  B. 
French  (see  French);  Florence  M.,  b.  1889,  March  11. 

VI.  Charles  Franklin,  son  of  Thomas5,  b.  1813,  Oct.  17;  m.  1838,  Feb.  20, 

Louisa  Ann,  b.  1814,  July  19,  dau.  of  Capt.  Ebenezer  Perry  of 
Amherst,  N.  H.  He  was  engaged  for  many  years  in  sawing  lum- 
ber in  the  mills  located  on  the  outlet  of  Shepard's  pond,  near 
which  he  res.,  and  was  the  first  in  town  to  introduce  the  circular 
saw  for  sawing  boards.  His  wife  d.  1875,  Sept.  20.  He  d.  1893, 
Jan.  22.  They  had  four  ch.  b.  in  Bedford:  Charlotte  Aim  Perry7, 
b.  1838,  Dec.  27,  d.  1849,  March  21;  Nancy  Jane7,  b.  1842,  June  11, 
d.  1842,  Sept.  30;  George  Franklin"1,  b.  1845,  April  20;  Charlotte 
Ann7,  b.  1852,  Aug.  13,  d.  1852,  Aug.  29. 
VII.  George  Franklin,  son  of  Charles  F.6,  b.  1845,  April  20;  m.,  1st,  1869, 
Dec.  1,  Delphina  Jane,  b.  1845,  June  28,  dau.  of  E.  S.  Smith  of 
North  Wayne,  Me.;  she  d.  1889,  April  18;  he  m.,  2d,  1897,  June 
30,  at  Chelsea,  Ma«s.,  Fannie  Louise,  b.  1860,  March  12,  dau.  of 
Lorenzo  Perry  of  Bedford.  Had  ch.  by  1st  mar.  b.  in  Bedford: 
Edith  Louise8,  b.  1874,  June  21,  d.  1899, 'March  12;  Harriet  Cum- 
ner8,  b.  1875,  Nov.  14,  m.  1896,  April  23,  Horace  E.  Webber  (see 
Webber);  Charles  Franklin8,  b.  1878,  Feb.  24;   Nellie  Tyson8,  b. 

1880,  Aug.  7,  m.  1903,  June  24,  Frank  Hardy  Barnard  (see  Bar- 
nard) . 

VI.  James  Stinson,  son  of  Thomas5,  b.  1818,  Sept.  24;  m.  1842,  July  14, 
Gracia  A.,  dau.  of  Abraham  Moore  of  Hancock,  N.  H.  He  d. 
Lawrence,  Maes.  1866,  Sept.  28;  she  d.  1877,  April  6.  They  had 
ch.:  Gracia  E.7,  b.  1845,  Jan.  11,  d.  1845,  Aug.  2;  Ann  J.7,  b.  1846, 
Dec.  21,  d.  1846,  Dec.  31;  James  Albert1,  b.  1848,  Nov.  22;  William 
M.\  b.  1851,  June  25;  Eugene  E.\  b.  1854,  June  2;  Fred  C.7,  b.  1856, 
Aug.  18;  Judson7,  b.  1859,  May  25,  d.  1875,  Dec.  12;  Harry  E.\  b. 
1862,  Jan.  15;  Lilly7,  b.  1865,  Feb.  3,  d.  1865,  Sept.  8. 

VII.  James  Albert,  son  of  James  S.6,  b.  1848,  Nov.  22;   m.  1872,  Jan.  1, 

Annie  Gove  of  Charlestown,  Mass.  Had  ch.:  Annie  L.8,  b.  1874, 
Oct.  8;  Guv  A.8,  b.  1876,  Jan.  19;  Ralph  M.8,  b.  1878,  Feb.  1. 

VII.  William  M.,  son  of  James  S.6,  b.  1851,  June  25;  m.  1885,  Nov.  4, 
Abbie  De  Forest,  who  d.  1894,  Sept.  8. 

VII.  Eugene  E.,  son  of  James  S.6.  b.  1854,  June  2;  m.  1876,  Dec.  4,  Car- 
rie Holton  of  Winchester,  Mass.     Had  ch.:  Everett  Holton8,  b. 

1881,  Nov.  1;  Lillian  S.8,  b.  1896,  Feb.  7. 

VII.  Fred  C,  son  of  James  S.6,  b.  1856,  Aug.  18;  m.  1878,  Nov.  27,  Clara 
A.  Pratt  of  Chelsea,  Mass.  Thev  had  ch.:  Frederick  S.8,  b.  1880, 
Feb.  27;  Marion8,  b.  1881,  Dec.  23;  Charles  G.8,  b.  1886,  Aug.  28; 
Helen  A.8,  b.  1889,  Jan.  2. 

VII.  Harrv  E.,  son  of  James  S.6,  b.  1862,  Jan.  15;  m.  1881,  Sept.  14, 
Nellie  G.  Trele  of  Arlington,  Mass.  Had  ch.:  Elmer8,  b.  1883, 
Jan.  5,  d.  1883,  June  14;  Marion  L.8,  b.  1886,  Oct.  16. 
VI.  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas5,  b.  1826,  Aug.  5;  m.,  1st,  1845,  Aug.  16,  Me- 
linrla  Ann,  dau.  of  Abraham  Moore  of  Hancock,  N.  H. ;  she  d.  1850, 
Oct.  4.  He  m.,  2d,  1858,  Jan.  14,  Mary  Harvey,  dau.  of  Luther 
Eames  of  Lowell,  Mass.  She  d.  1890.  He  d.  Winchester,  Mass., 
1898,  May  4.  By  1st.  mar.  had  one  ch.:  Melinda  Ann7,  b.  1850, 
April  24.  d.  in  infancy. 
VI.  William  Moor,  son  of  Thomas5,  b.  1828,  Oct.  15;  m.  1857,  June  26, 
Etta  Dame  of  Orford,  N.  H.  He  d.  Manchester,  1883,  May  3. 
They  had  one  ch.,  Fannie  B.7,  who  d.  in  infancy. 


1072  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

V.  Nancy,  dau.  of  Capt.  George4,  b.  1784,  Jan.  8;  m.  1805,  Dec.  26, 
William  Parker  of  Litchfield,  b.  1775;  d.  1849,  Sept.  28.  She  d. 
1818,  April  19,  in  Litchfield.  Had  ch.:  George6;  Mary  Ann6; 
James6;  and  Elizabeth6. 

"V.  George,  son  of  Capt.  George4,  b.  1790,  Sept.  12;  m.  Mary  McC^uigg 
of  Spencer,  N.  Y.  Their  ch.,  so  far  as  known,  were:  Otis6,  b. 
about  1819;  George6;  John6;  Olive6;  and  two  other  daughters. 

V.  Otis,  son  of  Capt.  George4,  b.  1793,  April  12;  m.  1818,  March,  Susan, 
dau.  of  Joseph  Nevins  of  Hollis.  Their  ch. :  Alfred  B.6,  b.  1819, 
April  10;  Francis  M.6,  b.  1821,  Dec.  26;  Charles  Augustus6,  b. 
1823  or  4,  July  31;  Alexander6,  b.  1826,  March  6. 

V.  Charles,  son  of  Capt.  George4,  b.  1799,  May  8;  m.  1824,  Nov.  24,  Bet- 
sey Wright  of  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  b.  1798,  d.  1850,  Jan.  21.  He  d. 
1865,  Feb.  10.  Their  ch. :  Charles  Otis*,  b.  1826,  Oct.  10,  d.  1883, 
Jan.  5;  Sylvester6,  b.  1831,  May  17;  George  W.6,  b.  1833,  Feb.  8. 
VI.  Charles  Otis,  son  of  Charles5,  b.  1826,  Oct.  10;  m.  Lydia  E.  Law- 
rence of  Mason,  N.  H.,  b.  1830,  July  26.  He  d.  1883,  Jan.  5. 
Ch.:  Nellie  A.',  b.  1857,  May  29,  m.  1883,  Jan.  4,  George  Todd  Cov- 
erly  of  Maiden,  Mass.;  Evelyn  W.7,  b.  1861,  July  26. 

V.  Mary,  dau.  of  Capt.  George4,  b.  1802,  Aug.  7;  m.  1824,  Aug.  31, 
Ammiel,  b.,  1798,  Aug.  16,  son  of  Moses  Noyes  of  Amherst,  N.  H. 
She  d.  at  Amherst,  1865,  Oct.  15,  and  he  d.  1872,  April  28.  Ch.: 
Lucy  Jane6,  b.  1825,  Jan.  5,  d.  1855,  Feb.  25;  Alfred6,  b.  1827, 
April  26;  Mary  Ann6,  b.  1829,  Aug.  17;  Adeline  Augusta6,  b. 
1832,  Dec.  20,  d.  1896,  April  15;  Sarah  Elizabeth6,  b.  1834,  April 
10,  d.  1895,  Aug.  27;  Elvira  Sophia6,  b.  1836,  Sept.  27;  Albert6, 
b.  1839,  April  7,  d.  1866,  Dec.  26;  Eunice6,  b.  1840,  April  7,  d. 
1840,  Aug.  9;  Francis  Caroline6,  b.  1841,  Aug.  6;  Nancy  Maria6, 
b.  1842,  Aug.  1;  George6,  b.  1843,  Sept  20,  d.  1843,  Oct.  7. 

V.  Silas,  son  of  Capt,  George4,  b.  1805:  March  29;  m.  1832,  Nov.  29, 
Lydia  b.  1804,  March  11,  dau.  of  Moses  Noyes  of  Amherst.  She 
d.  1864,  Dec.  17,  and  he  d.  at  Thetford,  Vt,,  1866,  Oct.  7.  Ch.: 
Sarah  Noyes6,  b.  1837,  d.  1867,  June  1;  Lucy  F.6,  m.  Frank  Sloan 
of  Thetford,  Vt. 

SHEPARD. 

I.  Col.  John  Shepard  came  to  Souhegan  West,  now  Amherst,  from 
Concord,  Mass.,  about  1741,  and  built  the  mills  on  Souhegan  river, 
long  known  as  Shepard's  mills.  He  settled  on  the  tract  of  land 
granted  him  by  the  proprietors  of  the  township,  and  was  a  prom- 
inent and  useful  citizen  of  the  town.  He  was  one  of  the  four 
citizens  of  the  town  who  refused  to  sign  the  "Association  Test 
Paper,"  in  March,  1776.  He  m.,  1st,  Miss  Hartwell;  2d,  Sarah 
French,  who  d.  1802,  Oct.  31,   aged  80.     He  d.   1785,  Nov.   29, 

aged  79.     They  had  ch.:  John2,  b.  1732;  Lydia2,  b.  ,  d,  1791, 

June  14;  Abigail2,  b.  1738,  April  6,  d.  1822,  Aug.  23;  Benjamin2, 
b.  1744,  March  18;  Samuel2,  b.  1750,  d.  1835,  Jan.  12;  Mary2, 
b.  1749,  Sept.  21;  Sarah2,  b.  1757,  Oct.  17;  Jotham2,  b.  1761, 
June  22;  Rachel2,  b.  1762,  April  5,  d.  1785,  July  23;  Daniel2, 
b.  1764,  Sept.  25. 
II.  Benjamin,  son  of  Col.  John1,  b.  1744,  March  18;  m.  Lucy  Lund, 
who  d.  1822,  Nov.  6.  He  d.  1810,  March  26.  Their  ch.  were: 
James3,  b.  1777,  June  14;  William3,  b.  1780,  July  29;  John3, 
b.  1783,  Sept.  22;  Benjamin3,  b.  1786,  March  24. 
III.  John,  son  of  Benjamin2,  b.  Amherst,  1783,  Sept.  22;  m.  1811, 
June  4,  Lucy  Blanchard  Nichols,  b.  Bedford,  1791,  April  18,  dau. 
of  Benjamin  and  Elmira  (Blanchard)  Nichols,  and  d.  here  1874, 
March  31.  He  d.  1870,  May  11.  They  moved  to  Bedford  in  1824, 
and  to  them  nine  ch.  were  born:   Rebecca4,  b.   1812,   Sept.   20, 


GENEALOGIES. — SHEPARD. — SHIRLEY.  1073 

d.  1840,  May  20,  unm. ;  Lucy  M.4,  b.  1814,  Nov.  25,  d.  1865,  Oct.  5, 
unm.;  John  W.*,b.  1816,  Aug.  27;  Andrew  N*,  b.  1818,  July  22; 
Stillman  A.*,  b.  1821,  Jan.  18;  Clarissa  D.4,  b.  1823,  July  13, 
d.  1840,  Aug.  19;  Benjamin  A.*,  b.  1827,  Aug.  19,  d.  1851,  Sept.  3; 
Mary  Ann4,  b.  1830,  Feb.  16,  d.  1902,  unm.;  Orleanna  J.4,  b.  1833, 
July  12,  d.  1857,  Sept.  25,  unm. 

IV.  John  W.,  son  of  John3,  b.  1816,  Aug.  27;  m.,  1st,  1837,  Oct.  16, 
Silvina  Field;  m.,  2d,  Mary  Carleton,  b.  1818,  and  d.  1888.  He 
d.  1903. 

IV.  Andrew  N.,  son  of  John3,  b.  1818,  July  22;  m.  1850,  Jan.  1,  Harriet 
W.  Brown.  Has  res.  in  Winchester  and  Lowell,  Mass.,  also  Am- 
herst and  Milford.    His  wife,  Harriet,  d. .    He  d.  1899,  Jan.  1. 

IV.  Stillman  Addison,  son  of  John3,  b.  1821,  Jan.  18;  m.  1853,  B.  Jane 
Nichols,  dau.  of  Capt.  Benjamin  Nichols.  They  were  both  active 
members  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  ever  ready  to  assist  in 
any  good  cause.  He  took  a  lively  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
town,  and  in  1861  served  as  one  of  the  selectmen.  He  was  prom- 
inent in  filling  the  town's  quota  when  the  second  call  for  soldiers 
was  made  during  the  Civil  war.  From  early  manhood  to  within 
a  few  years  of  his  death  he  was  quite  extensively  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business.  He  d.  1890,  June  4,  aged  69,  and  his  wife  seven 
years  later,  aged  63. 
V.  Harry  A. ,  only  child  of  Stillman  A.4,  continued  to  reside  for  a  time 
on  the  old  homestead,  and  in  Aug.,  1897,  he  m.  Mina  B.,  dau.  of 
Samuel  J.  and  Mercy  W.  (Perry)  Snowe  of  Barrington,  N.  S. 
They  now  res.  in  Milford.     They  have  a  dau.6,  b.  1903. 

SHIRLEY. 

I.  John  Shirley  was  b.  in  Goffstown,  1797,  Dec.  10,  the  son  of  James 
and  Mary  (Moor)  Shirley  (see  Moor).  He  m.,  1st,  Margaret 
Houston,  b.  in  Bedford,  1797,  Dec.  15.  They  res.  in  Bedford, 
Canada,  and  Niagara  Falls.     She  d.  1868,  Nov.  26.     He  m.,  2d, 

,  who  d.  1900,  Feb.    He  d.  1886,  Oct.  20.     Had  six  ch., 

b.  in  Bedford:  Alfred2,  b.  1813,  May  13;  James2,  b.  1819,  Dec.  22, 
d.  young;  Robert  Houston'2,  b.  1821,  Dec.  13,  d.  young;  Gilman2, 
b.  1823,  Sept.  20;  John2,  b.  1825,  April  19;  Maria  Ann2,  b.  1827, 
June  1;  Mary  Jane2,  b.  1829,  Aug.  3,  d.  1831;  Mary  Jane2,  b.  Mel- 
bourne, Canada,  1832,  Oct.  5;  William  Thomas2,  b.  1834,  May  6, 
d.  young;  Sarah  Caroline2,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1836,  June  19;  Mar- 
garet Eliza:1,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1840,  July  19. 

II.  Alfred,  son  of  John1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1813,  May  13;  m.  1846,  Dec.  22, 
Jane  Woodbury,  b.  Dunbarton,  1828,  Feb.  27.  He  served  three 
years  in  the  Civil  war,  enlisting  1862,  Aug.  2,  in  Company  E, 
Eighth  N.  Y.  heavy  artillery.  He  d.  at  Niagara  Falls,  1902,  Jan. 
16.  Ch.:  SylvaniaA.*;  Albert3,  b.  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1851,  Sept.  14, 
res.  Buena  Vista,  Cal.;  Ira  W.3,  b.  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.,  1853,  May  1, 
m.  1876,  Oct.  4,  Eva  Doe,  res.  Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  William  B.3, 
b.  1857,  March  11,  at  Niagara  Falls,  res.  there;  Charles  H.3,  b.  at 
Niagara  Falls,  1859,  June  21,  m.  1899,  May  10,  Mary  E.  Jacobs,  and 
res.  at  Niagara  Falls. 
III.  Sylvania  A.,  dau.  of  Alfred2,  b.  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1848,  May  5; 
m.  1870,  Feb.  3,  Russel  J.  Straight.  She  d.  1876,  Nov.  28.  They 
have  two  ch.:  Edith  J.4;  Herbert  R.4 

II.  Gilman,  son  of  John1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1823,  Sept.  20;  m.  1848,  Feb.  28, 
Nancy,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1823,  Dec.  20,  dau.  of  Daniel  Moor  and 
Jane  (Moor)  Shirley.  He  enlisted  1861,  in  Company  G,  112th 
regiment  N.  Y.  volunteers;  was  killed  at  battle  of  Cold  Harbor, 
Va.,  1864,  June  2.  Ch.:  Alma3,  b.  1849,  May  10,  d.  1849,  July  12; 
Frank3,  b.  1854,  March  29,  d.  1863;  Clinton*. 
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1074  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

III.  Clinton,  son  of  Gilman2,  b.  in  Haverhill.  Mass.,  1851,  Oct.  6;  m.  1870, 
Anna  R.  Stevens;  res.  in  Hooksett.  Ch.:  Arthur  E.4;  Frank  H.4; 
Ida  J.4;  George  H.4;  Orrin  O.4;  Walter  E.4;  Etta  M.4;  Clarence  E.4 

II.  John,  son  of  John*,  b.  Bedford,  1825,  April  19;  m.  1848,  Dec.  29, 
Susan  Parker  of  Hooksett,  where  he  d.  1885,  May  10.  Ch.: 
Josephine3,  b.  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1849,  Oct.  1,  d.  Hooksett,  1854, 
Aug.  23;  Charles  W.3;  John  Quincy3,  b.  Hooksett,  1858,  Dec.  7; 
Susie  P.3,  b.  in  Hooksett,  1862,  June  23,  m.  1885,  Dec.  23, 
Gilbert  A.  Goodwin,  and  res.  Boston,  Mass. 
III.  Charles  W.,  son  of  John2,  b.  in  Hooksett,  1850,  June  12;  a  brick- 
layer; m.  1875,  Nov.  3,  Annie  B.  McKay,  and  res.  in  Manchester. 
Has  one  ch.,  Josephine  B.4 

II.  Maria  Ann,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  in  Bedford,  1827,  June  1;  m.  Andrew 
Kimball,  and  res.  in  Millerstown,  Pa.  She  d.  1881,  March  11. 
He  d.  Bedford,  1886,  Sept.  21.  Ch.:  L.  H.3,  b.  1850;  Emma  J.3, 
b.  1852,  d.  1876,  July  9;  Etta  F.3,  b.  1854,  d.  1877;  Clara  M.3, 
b.  1857,  d.  1881;  George  A.3,  b.  1859;  John  S.3,  b.  1855,  d.  1861. 

II.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  in  Melbourne,  Can.,  1832,  Oct.  5;  m., 
1st,  1863,  Aug.  22,  Griggs  H.  Holbrook,  b.  Bedford,  1835,  June 
16.  He  enlisted  in  the  Civil  war  in  Company  — ,  170th  regiment 
N.  Y.  volunteers;  was  taken  prisoner,  and  d.  in  Andersonville, 
Ga.,  1864,  Aug.  11.  She  m.,  2d,  1865,  Oct.  3,  Joseph  H.  Stevens 
of  Bedford,  and  had  four  ch.  He  d.  1880,  Dec.  23,  aged  68.  She 
m.,  3d,  1884,  March  11,  Andrew  Kimball,  who  had  m.  her  sister 
Maria  for  his  1st  wife.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1886,  Sept.  21.  His 
widow  res.  in  Manchester  (see  Holbrook  and  Stevens  genealogies) . 

II.  Sarah  Caroline,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1836,  June  19; 
m.  Matthew  Dolphin,  proprietor  of  a  hotel  at  Niagara  Falls.  She 
d.  1869,  April  16.  Ch.:  George  A.3,  b.  1867,  Sept.;  Carrie  Shirley3, 
b.  1869,  April. 

II.  Margaret  Eliza,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  in  Goffstown,  1840,  July  9; 
m.  1863,  Dec.  30,  James  Cooker,  b.  1838,  Aug.  16,  at  Bowmans- 
ville,  Ont.;  telegraph  operator.  Has  res.  at  Niagara  Falls,  Bed- 
ford, and  Somerville,  Mass.  Ch.:  Thomas  S.3;  John  Maxwell3; 
Ella  Margaret3;  Robert  J.3;  Mary  Emma3. 

SIGNOR. 

I.  George  Nelson  was  b.  in  Chateaugay,  N.  Y.,  1857,  July  9,  son  of 
Benjamin  Russell  and  Minerva  E.  (Joslin)  Signor;  farmer;  m. 
1875,  Nov.  27,  Alice  Merrill,  b.  in  Belmont,  N.  Y.,  1857,  Dec.  2, 
,  dau.  of  John  Wesley  and  Lydia  A.  (Perigo)  Merrill,  who  now  res. 
in  Malone,  N.  Y.  George  N.  and  his  family  removed  from  Bel- 
mont to  Bedford  1887,  Nov.  4.  Their  ch.  b.  in  Belmont  are: 
George  Artemus2,  b.  1878,  Nov.  4;  Minerva  Anna2,  b.  1881,  Aug. 
28;  Hercules  Rollin2,  b.  1884,.  Nov.  7;  Benjamin  Wesley2,  b.  1886, 
Aug.  19.  Ch.  b.  in  Bedford:  Perley  Merrill2,  b.  1890,  Feb.  25; 
Charlotte  Alice2,  b.  1895,  Feb.  20. 

SMITH. 

I.  Deacon  Benjamin  Smith  came  to  this  country  from  the  north  of 
Ireland  in  1738,  and  settled  first  in  Londonderry,  removing  later 
to  Bedford,  where  they  resided  near  the  Dea.  John  Orr  family. 
Catharine  McCurdy,  afterwards  his  wife,  was  b.  in  the  county  of 
Antrim,  in  the  parish  of  Billy,  and  in  infancy,  with  her  parents, 
fled  from  persecution  into  the  Highlands  of  Scotland,  and  her  first 
dialect  was  the  Erse  of  the  Highlands,  in  which  she  could  always 
converse.  Having  returned  to  Ireland,  her  family  emigrated 
to  America  in  the  same  vessel  with  Benjamin  Smith,  their  first 


GENEALOGIES. — SMITH.  1075 

acquaintance  being  made  on  board  the  vessel.  Benjamin  and 
Catharine  were  m.  in  early  life  in  Londonderry.  He  was  about  21 
and  she  a  year  or  two  older.  They  soon  rem.  to  Bedford,  and 
were  among  the  first  settlers.  They  died  at  an  advanced  age 
without  a  reproach  to  their  character,  he  in  October,  1812,  aged 
about  92,  and  she  in  December,  1814,  aged  about  96.  At  the 
funeral  of  her  husband  Mrs.  Smith  bade  farewell  to  her  pretty 
"  prentice  "  boy,  for  such  he  was  when  she  first  knew  him.  They 
had  seven  ch.,  three  b.  in  Londonderry  and  four  in  Bedford: 
Robert2,  b.  1742,  Dec.  11;  James*,*.  1744,  April  6;  John2,  b.  1746,  Feb. 
15;  Elizabeth2,  b.  1748,  April  10,  m.  Joshua  Tolford  and  settled  in 
Alexandria  (see  Tolford);  Mary  S.2,  b.  1780,  Sept.  12;  Jane2,  b.  1752, 
Sept.  13,  m.  Hon.  John  Orr  (see  Orr);  Adam2,  b.  1758,  Aug.  3. 

II.  Robert,  son  of  Dea.  Benjamin,  b.  1742,  Dec.  11;  m.  a  Miss  Sarah 
Tucker  of  Pennsylvania,  and  settled  first  in  Londonderry;  rem. 
from  there  to  New  York,  and  lastly  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  d. 
leaving  a  posterity  which  we  cannot  trace. 

II.  James,  son  of  Dea.  Benjamin,  b.  1744,  April  6;  m.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Mack  of  Londonderry,  and  rem.  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  where  he  d. 
leaving  descendants  that  are  unknown  here  (Bedford  History  of 
1851).  The  town  records  refer  to  the  ch.  of  a  Lieut.  James  Smith 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth  as  follows:  Benjamin3,  b.  1770,  Oct.  1; 
Mary3,  b.  1772,  July  4;  Elizabeth3,  b.  1774,  April  1;  Catharine3,  b. 

1776, 25;  Jenny3,  b.  1777,  June  13;  Martha3,  b.  1781,  Feb.  20; 

James3,  b.  1783,  Feb.  7;  John3,  b.  1787,  April  6. 

II.  John,  son  of  Dea.  Benjamin,  b.  1746,  Feb.  15,  m.  Margaret  Dins- 
more  of  Windham  and  settled  in  New  Chester,  now  Hill.  They 
had  four  or  five  sons  and  three  daughters.  Three  sons,  Daniel3, 
John3,  and  James3,  went  West,  place  unknown.  Robert3,  the 
youngest  son,  was  living  in  Hill  in  1850.  Two  daughters  d.  at 
mature  age  unm.,  and  one  dau.  m.  a  Mr.  McMurphy,  settled  first 
in  New  Chester  and  afterwards  moved  West. 

II.  Mary  S.,  dau.  of  Dea.  Benjamin,  b.  1780,  Sept.  12;  m.  Hugh 
Campbell  and  res.  some  time  in  Bedford;  rem.  thence  to  New 
Chester  and  again  to  the  state  of  New  York.  Some  of  the  family 
were  located  near  Sandusky,  Ohio,  in  1850. 

II.  Adam,  son  of  Dea.  Benjamin,  b.  1758,  Aug.  3;  m.  Miss  Ann  Mc- 
Allister and  settled  on  the  home  farm.  They  had  nine  ch.;  two 
d.  in  infancy  and  seven  lived  to  mature  age.  Margaret  M.3,  the 
oldest,  m.  1807,  Dec.  3,  David  Houston,  they  moved  later  to  Illi- 
nois, where  he  d.  1845,  May.  Their  three  daughters  and  two  sons 
d.  of  consumption;  Adam,  Jr.3,  left  two  sons;  Catharine3,  m. 
David  P.  Foster  and  settled  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  had  three  ch. 

SMITH. 

I.  Benjamin  H.  Smith  was  b.  in  Hudson  1838,  Jan.  9,  son  of  Joseph  O. 
and  Martha  Smith.  He  was  a  basket  maker  by  trade  and  res.  in 
Bedford  about  thirty  years.  He  m.  1866,  July  18,  Mary  E.,  b. 
1848,  June  25,  dau.  of  Ephraim  C.  and  Mary  F.  (Quimby)  Hardy 
of  Bedford;  he  d.  1895,  March  31.  Had  seven  ch.  b.  in  Bedford, 
viz.:  George  W.2,b.  1867,  Jan.  8;  Cora  A.2,  b.  1869,  Feb.  15,  m. 
1891,  Oct.  14,  Charles  H.  Fellows,  res.  in  West  Manchester,  she  d. 
1894,  Oct.  13;  Harriet  A.2,  b.  1871,  Jan.  29,  m.  1892,  Oct.  12,  Will- 
iam H.  Gowitzke  and  res.  in  Manchester;  Laura  E.2,  b.  1873,  Dec. 
3,   m.    1897,   Sept.   8,   Myron  F.  Johnson,  res.  West  Manchester; 

Alice  M.2,  b.  ,  Nov.  9,  res.   Manchester;  Charles  P.2,  b.  1882, 

Sept.  4,  d.  Bedford,  1886,  Aug.  14;  Fred  P.2,  b.  1887,  Dec.  2. 
II.  George  W.,  son  of  Benjamin  H,  b.  1867,  Jan.  8,  is  a  basket  maker. 
He  m.  1897,  March  9,  Sarah  J.  Richardson,  and  remains  in  town. 


1076  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 


SPENCER. 

I.  The  Spencers  originally  came  from  England,  and  settled  in  East 
Haddam,  Conn.  Asa  Spencer1,  moved  from  East  Haddam  to 
Campton,  N  H.  In  1770  he  m.  Deborah  Patterson.  Enlisted  in 
the  Revolutionary  war  in  1776,  Feb.  10,  and  d.  1778,  March  7. 
II.  Israel,  son  of  Asa1,  was  b.  1775,  Dec.  29,  in  Campton,  N.  H.;  m. 
Molly  Tupper;  d.  1852,  June  9. 

III.  George,  son  of  Israel2,  was  b.  1812,  Dec.  31,  in  Campton,  N.  H.;  m. 

1831,  April  21,  Sarah  Bartlett  Johnson,  widow  of  William  John- 
son and  dau.  of  Thomas  Bartlett  of  Newburyport,  Mass.  Mr. 
Spencer  moved  to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  in  1841,  and  was  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  for  several  years.  He  was  very  fond  of 
music  and  taught  a  singing  school  in  Manchester  for  several  win- 
ters. He  d.  1861,  Dec.  19.  His  wife,  Sarah  Bartlett,  was  b.  in 
Campton,  N.  H.,  1792,  June  13,  d.  1876,  July  24,  in  Manchester, 
N.  H.  George  Spencer  had  two  sons:  Thomas  Bartlett*,  b.  1834, 
Oct.  2,  in  Campton,  N  H.,  and  Milton  Ward4,  b.  1832,  Jan.  19,  in 
Campton,  N.  H. 

IV.  Thomas  Bartlett,  son  of  George3,  b.  1834,  Oct.  2;  m.   1855,  Feb.   19, 

Thankful  D.  Combs  of  Manchester  (a  cousin  of  Commodore  Nutt). 
He  was  sutler  in  the  late  Rebellion,  and  for  several  years  was  en- 
gaged in  the  grocery  business  in  Manchester.  He  moved  to  Bed- 
ford, where  he  lived  four  or  five  years.  Later  returned  to  Man- 
chester, where  he  d.  1895,  Jan.  13.  He  had  two  ch.:  Ida  Jane5,  b. 
1861,  Dec.  5,  and  Etta  Maria5,  b.  1866,  June  18,  in  Manchester. 
The  latter  m.  Neil  Fullerton  (see  Fullerton) . 

V.  Ida  Jane,  dau.  of  Thomas*,  b.  1861,  Dec.  5;  m.  1883,  July  19,  Fred 
M.  Barnard  of  Goffstown.  They  have  one  ch.,  Bernice  Ida6,  b.  in 
Bedford,  1884,  Sept.  16. 
IV.  Milton  Ward,  son  of  George3,  b.  1832,  Jan.  19.  When  nine  years 
old  he  went  to  Manchester,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools 
and  later  Kendall's  academy  in  Piscataqua.  He  was  afterward 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business.  He  m.  1855,  Nov.  1,  Theresa 
Amanda  Stevens,  b.  Montville,  Me.,  1833,  dau.  of  Thaddeus  H. 
and  Eleanor  (Atkinson)  Stevens,  and  grand-daughter  of  Maj. 
Thomas  Atkinson  of  Montville,  who  served  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Mr.  Spencer  moved  to  Bedford,  1867,  April  19,  and  en- 
gaged in  lumbering  and  farming.  He  served  several  terms  as 
selectman  of  the  town,  and  d.  in  Bedford,  1889,  Feb.  3.  He  had 
four  ch.:  Oscar  M.5,  b.  in  Manchester,  1856,  Sept.  22,  d.  1858,  Aug. 
4;  Sarah  Bartlett5,  b.  in  Hooksett,  1858,  Oct.  16;  George  Oville5,  b. 
in  Hooksett,  1864,  March  24;  Gardner  Ward5,  b.  in  Manchester, 
1866,  May  1. 

V.  Sarah  Bartlett,  dau.  of  Milton  W.*,  b.  1858,  Oct.  16;  m.  1878,  Oct. 
31,  Rollin  H.  Allen  of  Boston,  Mass.  (see  French).  They  have 
two  ch.:  Herbert  Spencer6,  b.  in  Boston,  1881,  April  19,  and  Ruth6, 
b.  in  Boston,  1885. 

V.  George  Oville,  son  of  Milton  W.*,  b.  1864,  March  24.  Came  to  Bed- 
ford from  Manchester  when  three  years  of  age,  and  still  lives  in 
town,  where  he  is  engaged  in  lumbering  and  farming.  He  has 
served  several  terms  as  selectman  of  the  town,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Bedford  grange. 

V.  Gardner  Ward,  son  of  Milton  W.*,  b.  1866,  May  1;  lived  in  Bedford 
twenty  years,  later  going  to  Boston,  where  he  settled.  He  m. 
1895,  Jan.  16,  Harriet  H.  Geldert  of  Dedham,  Mass.  They  have 
three  ch.:  Helen  Ward6,  b.  in  Dedham,  1895,  Nov.  4;  Miriam 
Dunbar6,  b.  in  Boston,  1897,  July  13;  and  Elise  Hathaway6,  b.  in 
Boston,  1899,  Aug.  22. 


GENEALOGIES. — SPOFFORD.  1077 


SPOFFORD. 

I.  John  Spofford  came  from  Yorkshire,  England  (where  the  name  and 
family  have  been  traced  back  to  1265),  with  the  Rev.  Ezekiel 
Rogers,  and  settled  in  Rowley,  Mass. ,  where  he  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  that  ancient  town.  He  m.  in  this  country,  Eliza- 
beth, family  name  unknown.  Their  ch.  were:  Elizabeth2,  b. 
1646,  Dec;  John2,  b.  1648,  Oct.  24;  Thomas2,  b.  1650,  Nov.  4; 
Samuel2,  b.  1652,  Jan.  31  (ancestor  of  the  Andover  Spoffords); 
Hannah2,  b.  1654.  April  1:  Mary2,  b.  1656,  Sept,  1;  Sarah2,  b.  1658, 
Jan.  15,  d.  1660,  Feb.  16;  Sarah2,  b.  1662,  March  24;  Francis2,  b. 
1665,  Sept.  24. 
II.  John,  son  of  John1,  b.  1648,  Oct.  24;  m.  Sarah  Wheeler,  by  whom 
he  had  ch.:  John3,  b.  1678,  June  12;  Mary3,  b.  1680,  May4;  David3, 
b.  1681,  Nov.  23;  Jonathan3,  b.  1684,  May  28;  Martha3,  b.  1686, 
May  16;  Ebenezer3,  b.  1690,  June  15;  Nathaniel3,  b.  1691,  Sept.  10; 
Sarah3,  b.  1693,  Dec.  20. 

III.  John,  son  of  John2,  b.  1678,  June  12;  m.  Dorcas  Hopkinson  and  had 

ch.:  Francis4,  b.  1702,  Feb.  19,  went  to  Connecticut,  had  many 
connections;  John*,  b.  1704,  March  19,  went  to  Charlestown, 
N.  H.;  Abner*,  b.  1705,  Aug.  21;  Sarah*,  b.  1707,  Feb.  21;  Daniel*, 
b.  1721,  April,  deacon  in  Second  church,  Rowley,  Mass.,  and  col- 
onel in  militia:  Dorcas*;  Eliphalet*,  b.  1725. 

IV.  Abner,  son  of  John3,  b.  1705,  Aug.  21;   was  deacon  in  the  Second 

church,  Rowley,  Mass.  He  m.  Sarah  Coleman;  d.  1777.  Had  ch.: 
Rachel5,  b.  1735,  Sept.  23;  Eliza5,  b.  1739,  Aug.  12,  settled  in  Jaf- 
frey;  Sarah5,  b.  1741,  March  4;  John5,  b.  1742,  Feb.  20;  Huldah*, 
b.  1744,  Nov.  11;  Abraham5,  b.  1748,  Feb.  3;  Phebe,  b.  1751,  Jan. 
6;  Isaac5,  b.  1752,  April  10,  physician  in  Beverly,  Mass.;  Jacob5, 
b.  1754,  Feb.  26. 
"V.  Jacob,  son  of  Abner*,  b.  1754,  Feb.  26;  m.  Mary  Tenney  and  hadch.: 
Mary6,  b.  1778,  Feb.  18,  m.  Jeremiah  Kimball  of  Ipswich;  Han- 
nah6, b.  1779,  Oct.  27;  Sarah6,  b.  1781,  Aug.  18;  Huldah6,  b.  1783, 
July  30,  d.  1810;  Elizabeth6,  b.  1785,  June  3,  d.  1786;  Chandler*,  b. 
1788,  May  28;  Elizabeth6,  b.  1789,  Feb.  13,  d.  1832;  Austin6,  b. 
1791,  Jan.  23,  d.  1796;  Sophia6,  b.  1793,  Nov.  12,  d.  1832;  John6,  b. 
1795,  Sept.  18;  Austin6,  b.  1798,  Dec.  23,  d.  1837;  Uriah6,  b.  1800, 
Dec.  13. 
VI.  Chandler,  son  of  Jacob5,  b.  1788,  May  28;  m.  Betsey  Walker  Cobb 
of  Derry,  a  descendant  by  her  mother  from  Elder  Brewster  of  the 
Mayflower.  They  came  to  Bedford  in  1820.  Had  ch.:  Jerusha 
Cobb7,  b.  1813,  May  29,  m.  Rodney  McLaughlin  (see  McLaughlin) ; 
Susan  Cobb7,  b.  1814,  Aug.  9;  Lemuel  Chandler'',  b.  1816,  May  31; 
John  Tenney1,  b.  1821,  April  29;  William  Henry7,  b.  1828,  April  2, 
d.  1863,  Feb.  8. 
VII.  Susan  Cobb,  dau.  of  Chandler6,  b.  1814,  Aug.  9;  m.  1845,  May  4, 
Rufus  Merrill;  she  d.  1853,  Nov.  3.  Had  ch.:  Charles  Ervin8,  b. 
1847,  Oct.  18,  m.  Annie  Chapman  of  Texas,  their  location  now 
unknown;  Mary  Elizabeth8,  b.  1849,  Oct.  3,  d.  1876,  Nov.  25;  John 
Spofford*,  b.  1851,  Oct.  27. 
VIII.  John  Spofford  (Merrill),  son  of  Susan  Cobb7,  b.  1851,  Oct.  27;  m.  1872, 
Dec.  25,  Susan  W.  Eaton  of  Auburn,  and  now  res.  in  Arlington, 
Mass.  They  have  one  ch.,  Gertrude  Mabel9,  b.  1888,  July  30. 
VII.  Rev.  Lemuel  Chandler,  son  of  Chandler6,  b.  1816,  May  31;  was  grad- 
uated from  Dartmouth  college,  1843;  m.  1849,  July  9,  Esther  Par- 
sons Deane,  b.  in  Bangor,  Me.,  1827,  July  9,  and  d.  in  Brookline, 
Mass.,  1901,  Feb.  14.  He  d.  1869,  April  12.  (See  biographical 
sketch.)  They  had  ch.:  Henry  Chandler8,  b.  in  De  Pere,  Wis., 
1853,  April  20,  d.  1859,  June  10;  John  Frederic8,  b.  1856,  Oct.  6, 
m.  in  1880,  Harriet  Andrews  of  Fall  River,  Mass.,  and  res.  in 
Brookline,  Mass.,  no  children. 


1078  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

VII.  John  Tenney,  son  of  Chandler6,  b.  in  Londonderry,  1821,  April  29; 
was  employed  in  the  Manchester  post-office  32  years,  and  in  that 
time  filled  every  position,  including  that  of  postmaster.  He  served 
as  assistant  postmaster  24  years.  He  m.,  1st,  1846,  Oct.  1,  Sarah 
Godfrey  French,  dau.  of  Josiah  French,  probably  of  Candia.  She 
d.  in  Manchester,  1849,  Sept.  2.  He  m.,  2d,  1850,  Nov.  28,  Caro- 
line, dau.  of  Henry  and  Hannah  Eaton  of  Candia;  she  d.  1861, 
Nov.  28.  Hem.,  3d,  1862,  Sept.  9,  Martha,  dau,  of  Henry  and 
Hannah  Eaton  of  Candia.  He  d.  in  Manchester,  1897,  Jan.  23. 
Ch.  by  first  mar.  were:  John  Greenleaf8,  b.  Manchester,  1849, 
March  22,  d.  1849,  Sept.  20;  Herman  Chandler8,  b.  1847,  July  18, 
d.  1848,  July  11.  Ch.  by  second  mar.:  Mary8,  b.  1854,  Feb.  20, 
pianist,  organist,  and  teacher  of  music;  Arthur8,  b.  1856,  Aug.  1. 
d.  1857,  Oct.  29;  Carrie8,  b.  1857,  Oct.  24,  d.  1859,  Dec.  8. 

REV.  LEMUEL  CHANDLER  SPOFFORD. 

Rev.  Lemuel  Chandler  Spofford  was  born  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  1816,  May 
31.  He  was,  through  his  mother,  a  descendant  of  Elder  Lemuel  Brews- 
ter of  the  Mayflower.  In  his  early  boyhood  his  parents  moved  to  Bedford, 
where  he  received  his  earliest  schooling.  While  fitting  for  college,  he 
enjoyed  the  teaching  of  Miss  Ann  Orr  of  Bedford,  whose  name  is  treas- 
ured in  many  hearts,  as  she  was  for  half  a  century  a  most  enthusiastic 
instructor  of  youth. 

He  graduated  with  honors  at  Dartmouth  college  in  1839,  and  subse- 
quently pursued  and  completed  in  1846  his  theological  studies  at  the  semi- 
nary at  Bangor,  Me.  He  might  have  secured  a  rich  charge  in  the  East, 
but  fired  with  a  holy  missionary  zeal  he  sought  his  sphere  of  labor  in  the 
great,  but  at  that  time  thinly- settled  and  rude,  Northwest.  He  began  his 
active  career  at  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  then  a  frontier  port  of  three  hundred 
people,  where  he  organized  the  first  church  in  the  place,  and  here  wrought 
for  some  six  years  in  the  Master's  vineyard,  a  pure  shining  light  in  a  dark, 
wicked  place,  building  up  his  little  flock  of  seven  into  a  strong  and  flour- 
ishing congregation,  and  aiding  mightily  in  bringing  the  settlement  under 
civilizing  influences.  Leaving  this  field,  where  his  work  had  been  so  sig- 
nally blessed,  he  took  charge  of  the  church  at  De  Pere  in  the  same  state, 
where  he  served  his  brethren  most  acceptably  for  fourteen  years.  In  De 
Pere,  as  also  in  Fond  du  Lac,  he  preached  regularly  at  different  points  in 
the  region  round  his  central  charge,' and  often  spoke  to  a  congregation 
largely  composed  of  Indians  from  the  tribes  in  that  portion  of  Wisconsin, 
who  held  turn  in  high  esteem,  rarely  visiting  the  town  without  leaving 
some  fruits  of  their  hunting  or  fishing  expeditions  as  a  token  of  their 
friendship.  Feeling  the  necessity  of  a  milder  climate,  he  accepted  a  call 
to  the  church  of  Laporte,  Ind.,  in  1866,  where  his  brief,  devoted  ministry, 
his  godly,  loving  walk,  has  left  a  deep  impression  on  the  minds  and  hearts 
of  his  people. 

In  August,  1867,  while  riding,  he  was  afflicted  with  sunstroke,  fell  from 
his  carriage  and  was  seriously  injured.  From  this  time  his  life  was  one 
of  physical  decline  and  suffering,  yet  he  continued  to  perform,  as  far  as 
possible,  his  pastoral  duties  to  the  latest  week  of  his  life.  Sinking  away 
slowly,  calmly,  and  fearlessly,  he  went  to  rest  1869,  April  12.  He  is  spoken 
of  in  a  local  paper  as  "  the  joy  of  his  flock,  beloved  by  all;  his  life  was  calm 
and  beautiful;  he  fought  the  good  fight." 

A  brother  minister  writes  of  him  in  the  Presbyterian,  as  follows:  "Few 
men  have  had  more  devoted  friends,  or  have  won  them  more  heartily, 
than  this  deceased  Christian  brother,  and  the  tidings  of  his  death  will 
send  a  wave  of  sorrow  through  many  hearts.  He  was  eminently  a  fol- 
lower of  the  Master,  and  one  who  largely  imbibed,  and  practically  illus- 
trated, the  Spirit  of  Christ.  His  brethren,  his  churches,  and  the  world 
with  which  he  came  in  contact,  saw  that  he  had  sat  at  Jesus'  feet  and 
learned  of  Him.  Of  course  the  end  of  such  a  man  was  peaceful.  He  died 
as  those  trusting  in  Christ  only  can  die." 


GENEALOGIES. — SPRAGUE.  1079 

SPRAGUE  (SPRAKE.) 

Among  the  first  settlers  of  our  town  were  Benjamin  and  David 
Sprague  of  Billerica,  Mass.  These  brothers  settled  near  each 
other,  in  the  west  part  of  the  town,  Benjamin  occupying  the 
farm  which  contains  the  natural  curiosity  widely  known  as  the 
"Devil's  Pulpit."  Their  grandfather, 
I.  Nicholas  Sprake,  was  a  noted  physician,  who  came  from  Hing- 
ham,  Norfolk  county,  England,  to  Billerica,  Mass.,  in  1636.  He 
had  a  son,  Nicholas.2 
II.  Nicholas,  son  of  Nicholas1,  m.  Sarah,  the  dau.  of  Benjamin  Walker, 
and  settled  in  Billerica.  Their  ch.  were:  Benjamhfi,  b.  1752,  Dec. 
28;  Sarah3,  b.  1755,  Jan.  15,  m.  John  Shed;  John3,  b.  1759,  April 
26;  David*,  b.  1763,  May  5;  and,  probably,  Timothy.3  Nicholas 
and  his  wife  seem  to  have  joined  their  sons,  Benjamin  and  David, 
in  this  town,  as  they  occupy  a  place  in  the  family  lot  at  Joppa  Hill 
cemetery.  Nicholas  d.  1800,  Feb.  10,  in  his  78th  year,  and  Sarah, 
his  wife,  d.  1796,  Nov.  23,  in  her  70th  year. 

III.  Benjamin,  son  of  Nicholas2,  b.  Billerica,  Mass.,  1752,  Dec.  28;  m. 

Hannah  Barnes,  b.  in  Merrimack,  1758,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Su- 
sanna (Cummings)  Barnes  of  Hingham,  Mass.  (see  "Aunt 
Sprague"  sketch),  and  settled  in  Bedford,  where  their  ch.  were 
allb.,  viz.:  Benjamin4,  b.  1779,  m.  Lucy  Harradon,  and  had  ch.; 
Joseph4,  b.  1781  (a  Joseph  Sprague  m.  1805,  Sept.  5,  Polly  Mc- 
Quaid);  Rhoda4,  b.  1784,  m.  a  Dennis,  d.  1845,  Wayne  county, 
N.  Y.;  Sally4,  b.  1786;  John4,  b.  1789,  d.  1789,  June  9,  aged  12  hours, 
his  was  the  first  grave  opened  in  Joppa  cemetery;  Susanna  C.4,  b. 
1791,  m.  Isaac  Gilmore  (see  Gilmore);  Hannah*,  b.  1794;  Armanda*, 
b.  1797,  July  12;  Alden*,  b.  1800,  Feb.  6;  Lowell*,  b.  1803;  it  is  sup-- 
posed  that  another  son  was  named  John4,  who  lived  to  maturity. 

IV.  Hannah,  dau.  of  Benjamin3,  b.  1794;  m.  1816,  June  19,  James  Hills 

of  Antrim.  She  d.  in  Bedford,  1824,  April.  Had  ch.:  Ursula5, 
m.  and  had  two  daughters,  who  d.  young,  and  one  son;  Sabra5, 
unm.;  Alden5,  probably  lost  at  sea;  Charles  Gales.5 
V.  Charles  Gates  (Hills),  son  of  Hannah4,  proved  to  be  an  interesting, 
though  somewhat  eccentric,  character.  With  little  education,  he 
became  a  great  reader,  a  ready  writer,  and  somewhat  poetical. 
His  parents  died  when  he  was  a  young  boy,  and  he  lived  with  dif- 
ferent families  in  town  until  a  young  man,  when  a  roaming  spirit 
asserted  itself,  and  he  went  to  sea.  He  landed  on  the  Tahiti 
islands  in  1837,  and  m.  an  English  or  American  girl  there  in  1848. 
He  came  back  to  California  in  1849,  and  was  later  engaged  in  car- 
rying on  a  large  ranch.  Had  eight  ch.,  nearly  all  of  whom  had  d. 
before  his  own  death  occurred  in  San  Bernardino,  Cal.,  about  1898 
or  1899,  aged  nearly  80  years. 

IV.  Armanda,  son  of  Benjamin3,  b.  1797,  July  12;  m.  1829,  May  14,  Mary 
Gardner  of  Bedford.  They  rem.  to  the  West,  and  settled  in  Min- 
neapolis, Minn.,  where  he  d.  1881,  July  30.    Mary,  his  wife,  d. . 

IV.  Alden  (M.  D.),  son  of  Benjamin3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1800,  Feb.  6;  was  a 
physician  located  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  where  it  is  said  he  served 
for  a  time  as  surgeon  in  the  hospital.  He  afterward  rem.  to  Little 
Rock,  Ark. ,  where  he  became  well-known  as  a  physician  through- 
out the  state.  He  was  P.  G.  M.,  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Arkansas  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  m.  in  1827,  Sophronia  Stores  Eldridge,  b.  at 
or  near  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  1806,  Jan.  13.  He  d.  at  Little  Rock,  Ark., 
1847,  April  26.  His  wife  d.  at  Carrollton,  La.,  1853,  Dec.  5.  They 
had  four  ch.,  b.  at  Little  Rock:  Alden  Horace  Pease5,  b.  1833,  Dec. 
31,  d.  at  Carrollton,  La.,  1853,  Sept.  10,  unm.;  Alfred  Wright5,  b. 
1838,  Sept.  10;  George  Eldridge5,  b.  1840,  Jan.  5;  Charles  Leslie5, 
b.  1842,  Feb.  6,  the  two  last  named  were  both  in  the  Confederate 
service,  and  have  not  been  heard  from  since  the  Civil  war. 


1080  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

V.  Alfred  Wright,  son  of  Alden  (M.  D.)4,  b.  at  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  1838, 
Sept.  10;  is  now  attorney-at-law  and  insurance  agent,  located  at 
Owensville,  Ind. ;  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace  for  Montgomery- 
township,  Gibson  county,  Ind.,  in  April,  1862,  served  until  Oct., 
1874;  has  been  W.  M.  of  Owensville  lodge,  No.  364,  F.  and  A.  M.; 
is  now  serving  his  fourteenth  year  as  secretary  of  same  lodge;  is 
a  member  of  Stewart  lodge,  No.  179,  I.  O.  O.  F.;  served  as  N.  G. 
two  terms;  is  a  P.  G.  Rep.  to  the  G.  L.;  is  now  serving  his  twen- 
ty-fourth year  as  secretary  of  the  same  lodge;  was  appointed  real 
estate  appraiser  and  assessor  of  above  township  in  April,  1875; 
served  two  years,  was  elected  to  same  office  in  April,  1877,  and 
served  four  years;  has  been  notary  public  since  1881.  He  m.  in 
Owensville,  1861,  Feb.  8,  Parmelia  Simpson,  b.  in  Owenville,  1841, 
July  22,  dau.  of  James  and  Celia  Simpson.  Their  eight  ch.  were 
all  b.  in  Owensville,  viz.:  Sophronia  Stores6,  b.  1861,  Dec.  22,  m. 
1880,  Feb.  12,  Hiram  A.  Leister,  res.  in  Owensville;  James  Alden6, 
b.  1864,  Feb.  17,  m.  1883,  Sept.  20,  Mary  L.  Smith,  res.  in  Roslin, 
Tenn.;  Cecilia6,  b.  1865,  Dec.  12,  d.  at  Owensville,  1870,  Sept.  20; 
Charles  Lewis6,  b.  1868,  Aug.  2,  d.  at  Owensville,  1891,  Oct.  18; 
Armanda  Jackson6,  b.  1870,  Sept.  13,  d.  at  Owensville,  1870,  Sept. 
22;  John  Dexter6,  b.  1872,  Sept.  10,  res.  in  David  City,  Neb.;  Cal- 
lie  Celia6,  b.  1874,  Dec.  6,  d.  at  Owensville,  1895,  Jan.  17;  Ada 
Helen6,  b.  1877,  Aug.  14,  m.  1898,  Sept.  4,  William  D.  Clark,  res. 
in  Independence,  Ore. ;  Horace  Alfred6,  b.  1882,  July  15,  res.  in 
Owensville. 

IV.  Lowell,  son  of  Benjamin3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1803;  m.  Hepzibah,  b. 
1806,  June  1,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Abigail  (Allen)  Flint  of  Bed- 
ford. They  res.  for  a  time  in  Bedford,  then  moved  to  Arcadia, 
Wayne  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d.  1849,  April  3;  Hepzibah,  his  wife, 
d.  in  Lansing,  Minn.,  1864,  Feb.  22.  Their  ch.  were:  Benjamin 
Dexter1',  b.  Bedford,  1827,  Dec.  6;  Sophronia  Alden5,  b.  Arcadia, 
N.  Y.,  1830,  Feb.  5,  d.  1851,  July  7,  in  Arcadia;  Mary  Armanda5,  b. 
in  Remsen,  N.  Y.,  1833,  May  15;  Harriet  Eliza5,  b.  Wayne  Co., 
N.  Y.,  1835,  d.  1835;  Lowell  Henry5,  b.  Wayne  Co.,  1838,  d.  in 
Nevada,  1880;  Milton  Allen,5,  b.  in  Arcadia,  1843,  Oct.  29. 
V.  Benjamin  Dexter,  son  of  Lowell4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1827,  Dec.  6;  was  a 
man  of  strict  integrity.  He  res.  for  a  time  in  Newark,  N.  Y., 
later  in  Lansing,  Minn.,  then  Rushford,  and  finally  Minneapolis. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  inventors  and  manufacturers  of 
"Patent  flour  "  in  Minn.,  and  was  several  times  chosen  a  mem- 
ber of  the  legislature  in  the  early  days  of  that  state.  He  m.  1858, 
May  17,  Lucy  A.  McCall,  who  still  res.  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.  He 
d.  there  in  July,  1893.  Their  ch.  were:  Mary  L.6,  b.  Newark, 
N.  Y.,  1859,  Sept.  18,  d.  1862,  March  7;  Kate  S.G,  b.  1861,  March  25; 
Gertrude  S.6,  b.  in  Lansing,  Minn.,  1864,  May  17,  m.  1899,  Aug., 
Edward  A.  Hartman;  Will  M.6,  b.  Rushford,  1869,  June  4,  d.  1870, 
Sept.  23;  Loui  D.6,  b.,  Rushford,  1871,  Sept.  20,  d.  1901,  June  1; 
Milton  M.6,  b.  in  Rushford,  Sept.  25,  d.  1901,  July  6;  Elizabeth  A.6, 
b.  in  Rushford,  1877,  Feb.  22. 

VI.  Kate  S.,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Dexter5,  b.  1861,  March  25;  m. ,  March 

26,  Ambrose  B.  Everts  of  Rushford,  Minn.     They  res.  in  Minne- 
apolis, where  their  ch.  were  born:  Thomas  Dexter7,  b.  1887,  April 

17;  Carolyn  Lucile7,  b.  1888,  Dec.  23;  Gertrude  Sprague7,  b.  , 

March  20. 
V.  Mary  Armanda,  dau.  of  Lowell4,  b.  1833,  May  15;  m.  at  Arcadia, 
N.  Y.,  1854,  Jan.  22,  Peter  G.  Lamoreaux,  b.  1831,  Feb.  4.  His 
father,  Andrew  O.  Lamoreaux,  was  b.  in  New  York  city,  1810,  and 
his  grandfather,  Thomas  W.,  in  Nova  Scotia  about  1790.  They 
now  res.  in  Ogden,  Utah,  having  previously  lived  in  Arcadia, 
N.  Y.,  Lansing,  Minn.,  and  Minneapolis.     Ch. :  Sprague  Dexter,6 


GENEALOGIES. — SPRAGUE.  1081 

b.  at  Arcadia,  1856,  April  6,  d.  1861,  Feb.  15;  Ossian  Armando6, 
b.  Arcadia,  1859,  July  27;  the  others  were  b.  at  Lansing,  Minn., 

viz.:  Lowell  Andrew6,  b. ;  Milton  Sprague6,  b.   1864,  Feb.  20, 

m.  1890,  Sept.,  Antoinette  J.  Abernathv;  Mary  Irene6,}).  1870,  Nov. 
11;  Loula  Sophronia6,  b.  1872,  Nov.  29,"  m.  in  Ogden,  Utah,  1901, 
May  15,  William  M.  Rogers  of  Minneapolis;  Jessamine  Dell6,  b. 
1875,  March  31,  d.  1901,  Sept.  9;  Grace  Virginia6,  b.  1880,  April  7. 

VI.  Ossian  A.  (Lamoreaux),  son  of  Mary  Armanda5,  b.  1859,  July  27;  m., 
1st,  in  Minneapolis,  1883,  Florence  Steadman,  who  d.  1891,  May  9, 
leaving  a  dau.,  Eva  Gertrude7,  b.  1884,  Dec.  31.  He  m.,  2d,  in  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  1894,  Marie  Stewart.    They  have  Dwight  E.7,  b.  1901. 

VI.  Lowell  A.  (Lamoreaux),  son  of  Mary  Armanda5,  m.  in  Minneapolis, 
March,  1888,  Mary  Covell;  res.  in  Minneapolis.  Thev  have 
Covell  Lamoreaux7,  b.  1889,  March,  d.  1891;  Leigh  Covell7,  b.  1891, 
March;  Lowell7,  b.  1895,  Sept. 

VI.  Mary  Irene  (Lamoreaux),  dau.  of  Mary  Armanda5,  b.  1870,  Nov.  11; 
m.  in  Chicago,  George  Edwin  Burnell  of  Minneapolis.  They  have 
Genevieve  Mary7,  b.  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wis.,  1895,  Oct.  23. 
V.  Milton  A.,  son  of  Lowell4,  b.  in  Arcadia,  Wayne  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1843, 
Oct.  29;  is  engaged  in  lumber  and  banking  business  in  Washburn, 
Bayfield  Co.,  Wis.,  cutting  about  30,000,000  feet  of  lumber  annu- 
ally, and  being  president  of  the  Northern  State  bank.  He  m.  in 
1875,  Dec.  1,  Hattie  How  Graves,  in  Osage,  Mitchell  Co.,  la. 
Their  ch.  are:  Monroe  How6,  b.  in  Osage,  1876,  Nov.  7,  and  grad- 
uated from  the  law  course  at  the  Minnesota  State  university  in 
class  of  1900,  now  engaged  in  lumber  business  in  Washburn,  unm. ; 
Mary  Alice6,  b.  in  Sprague,  Wis,,  in  1886,  July  19,  is  now  attend- 
ing Pillsbury  academy  at  Owatonna,  Minn. 

III.  David,  son  of  Nicholas'2,  came  with  his  brother  Benjamin  from  Bil- 

lerica,  Mass.,  and  settled  in  Bedford.  He  m.  Martha  Patterson; 
they  had  seven  ch.  b.  in  Bedford,  viz.:  Fannie4,  b.  1794,  d.  1801; 
Sarah  Burns*,  b.  1797;  Martha  Means4,  b.  1800,  d.  1864;  Mary  Pat- 
terson4, b.  1803,  d.  1820;  David*,  b.  1805,  Oct.;  William  B.4,b.  1808, 
d.  1838;  Nancy*. 

IV.  Sarah  Burns,  dau.   of  David3,  b.  1797;  m.  Samuel  Caldwell,  b.  in 

New  Boston  in  1793.  He  was  captain  of  the  old  Artillery  compa- 
ny there  and  a  prominent  man  of  the  town,  his  father  being  one 
of  the  first  settlers.  Mr.  Caldwell  d.  when  but  36  years  old,  while 
his  wife  lived  92  years,  6  months.  She  d.  1889,  May  20.  They  had 
four  ch.:  Martha  M.5;  John  Quincy  Adams5;  Sarah  E.b;  Samuel  B.6, 
d.  in  California  1851. 

V.  Martha  M.  (Caldwell),  dau.  of  Sarah  Burns4;  m.  Daniel  Butterfield; 
she  d.  in  Bedford,  aged  68,  and  her  husband  lived  but  a  few  years 
after  her  death.  They  had  four  ch.:  George6;  Sarah6;  Harriet6; 
and  Walter6. 

V.  John  Q.  A.  (Caldwell),  son  of  Sarah  Burns4,  was  b.  New  Boston, 
1824,  Nov.  9;  res.  on  the  farm  which  has  been  in  the  family  since 
the  early  settlement  of  that  town.  He  m.  1856,  Oct.  2,  Mercie  J. 
Hall  of  Chester,  dau.  of  Moses  and  Mary  (Cochrane)  Hall.  She 
was  educated  at  Atkinson  academy  and  Meredith  Bridge.  Had 
four  ch.  b.  in  New  Boston:  George  Quincy6,  b.  1857,  June  29;  Lizzie 
Rebecca6,  b.  1859,  June  30;  Mary  Alice6,  b.  1861,  July  24;  Helen 
Marion6,  b.  1865,  June  16. 
VI.  George  Quincy  (Caldwell; ,  son  of  John  Q.  A.5,  b.  1857,  June  29;  m. 
1880,  June  9,  Mary  A.,  dau.  of  Peter  W.  and  Almira  (Doloff) 
Whittemore  of  Chester.  They  have  four  ch. :  Charles  Burns7,  b. 
New  Boston,  1881,  March  3,  graduated  from  Epping  high  school 
1898;  John  Quincy7,  b.  Bedford,  1883,  March  11,  educated  in  Man- 
chester schools  and  business  college;  Mabel  Alice7,  b.  New  Boston 
1892,  Feb.  23;  Willie  Butterfield7,  b.  New  Boston,  1894,  June  1. 


1082  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

VI.  Lizzie  Rebecca,  dau.  of  John  Q.  A.5,  b.  1859,  June  30;  m.  Fred  S. 
Pillsbury  of  Derry  and  had  three  ch.:  Hobert  B.7;  Lillian  M.7, 
who  d.  aged  5;  Helen  Evelyn7. 

VI.  Mary  Alice,  dau.  of  John  Q.  A.5,  b.  1861,  July  24;  m.  George  L. 
Hall  of  Pennsylvania.  They  res.  in  Pittsfield  and  have  three  ch: 
Quincy  Randall7;  Everett  Atwood7;  and  Ruth7. 

VI.  Helen  Marion,  dau.  of  John  Q.  A.5,  b.  1865,  June  16;  m.  Edward 
Davis  and  res.  in  Derry.  Ch:  Helen  Beatrice7. 
V.  Sarah  E.  (Caldwell),  dau.  of  Sarah  Burns4,  b.  1827,  Jan.  30;  m. 
1856,  Dec.  17,  George  W.  Butterfield  of  Lincoln,  Vt.,  b.  1832,  Oct. 
28.  He  was  driver  of  the  Amoskeag  No.  1,  fire  engine,  in  Man- 
chester, for  nineteen  years.  His  health  failing  he  purchased  a 
farm  on  Plummer  hill  in  Bedford,  where  he  res.  fifteen  years.  He 
d.  1899,  Feb.  15,  and  his  wife  d.  1899,  Jan.  30.  Their  son,  Will 
A.6,  was  b.  in  Manchester,  1858,  April  23;  m.  a  Miss  Holt  and  d. 
1883,  May  12,  leaving  no  ch. 

IV.  David,  son  of  David3,  b.  1805,  Oct.;  m.  Mary  Carly  of  Peterborough, 
who  d.  in  Bedford,  1880,  Sept.  11,  aged  73  years.  He  d.  1887, 
March  31.     No  ch. 

IV.  Nancy,  dau.  of  David3,  b.  in  Bedford;  m.  Peter  Butterfield  of  Dun- 
barton,  where  she  d.  1892.  Had  ch:  Nancy  J.5,  b.  1837,  May,  and 
d.  1845,  April  11;  David5. 

AUNT  SPRAGUE. 

There  is  a  plain,  unpretending  headstone  in  the  burying-ground  on 
Joppa  hill,  in  the  west  part  of  this  town,  which  marks  the  resting- 
place  of  Mrs.  Hannah  Sprague,  wife  of  Benjamin  Sprague.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Barnes,  and  granddaughter  of  John  Barnes  of  Hing- 
ham,  Mass.,  one  of  the  original  grantees  of  Bedford.  She  was  born  in 
Merrimack,  but  came  to  this  town  with  her  husband,  who  was  a  native 
of  Billerica,  Mass.     They  were  among  the  first  settlers  here. 

They  lived  for  a  great  many  years  upon  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Leonard  C.  French,  Esq.;  indeed,  Mr.  Sprague  first  cleared  the  woods 
from  off  this  lot.  All  his  numerous  family  were  born  here.  Their  child- 
ren have  all  removed  from  amongst  us.  Many  of  them  are,  with  their 
respected  parents,  numbered  with  the  dead.  One  son,  Dr.  Alden  Sprague, 
died  1847,  at  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  where  he  had  resided  for  a  long  time,  and 
was  highly  respected  as  an  able  and  excellent  physician,  and  an 
honest  and  honorable  man.  The  mother  was  a  superior  and  extraordin- 
ary woman.  Nobody  who  lived  in  the  "  West  Parish,"  or  near  "  Chest- 
nut hills,"  forty  years  ago,  can  have  forgotten  her. 

The  writer  of  this  notice,  whose  memory  of  events  extends  over  some- 
thing more  than  half  a  century,  and  whose  lot  it  has  been  to  have  known 
personally  as  many  men  and  women  as  perhaps  almost  any  individual  of 
his  age,  cannot  now  call  to  mind  so  rare  a  specimen  of  active  benevolence, 
of  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  others,  of  self-sacrificing  and  unremitting 
efforts  in  the  cause  of  humanity,  as  was  daily  exhibited  in  the  life  of  that 
amiable  and  excellent  woman  and  relative,  whom  everybody  delighted  to 
call  Aunt  Sprague. 

It  is  all  but  impossible  to  present  to  the  mind  of  one  of  this  generation 
the  actual  condition  of  those  who  dwelt  in  the  neighborhood  of  this 
woman  fifty  or  sixty  years  since.  The  settlers  were  then  in  the  midst  of 
a  forest.  There  were  no  roads,  no  bridges,  no  carriages.  Families  lived 
miles  apart.  And  yet  sickness  and  death  often  came  among  them.  In 
the  event  of  any  sudden  illness  or  serious  accident,  even  within  the  mem- 
ory of  him  who  pens  these  lines,  it  was  exceedingly  difficult  to  procure  the 
aid  of  a  physician.  We  could,  indeed,  get  Dr.  Goodrich  of  Merrimack  or 
Dr.  McMullen  of  New  Boston,  or  even  Dr.  Gove  of  Goffstown,  if  a  horse 
and  a  rider  who  knew  the  way  to  their  respective  residences  could  be  found 


GENEALOGIES. — SPIIAGUE. — STEVENS.  1083 

to  send  for  one  of  these  worthy  gentlemen.  Bnt  what  was  to  become  of  the 
suffering  party  while  the  messenger  was  riding  from  ten  to  a  dozen  miles, 
through  the  woods  and  hunting  first  for  the  doctor,  and  then  for  the  doc- 
tor's horse,  and  while  the  doctor  himself  was  returning  through  this  long 
and  devious  track?  With  ordinary  good  luck,  in  the  most  favorable 
times,  when  the  streams  were  not  so  much  swollen  as  to  prevent  the  ford- 
ing, when  no  trees  had  been  blown  across  the  paths  to  hinder  us,  when 
we  found  the  doctor  and  caught  his  horse  readily,  it  required  more  time 
and  more  personal  labor  and  exposure  to  get  these  services  than  it  would 
now,  by  the  aid  of  the  magnetic  telegraph  and  steam  power,  to  procure 
the  best  skill  of  the  profession  from  the  city  of  Boston,  a  distance  of  fifty 
miles  or  more. 

But  what  became  of  the  patient  during  these  dreadful  delays  ?  "Why, 
they  sent  for  Aunt  Sprague.  And  she  always  came.  No  matter  what  was 
the  weather  or  what  the  time,  wet  or  dry,  hot  or  cold,  winter  or  summer, 
in  snow  or  rain,  in  sunshine  or  storm,  early  or  late,  night  or  day,  she 
came.  Everybody  sent  for  her,  and  she  always  came.  She  has  crossed 
the  dark  forest,  between  her  residence  and  Chestnut  hills,  hundreds  of 
times  on  foot,  upon  such  errands  of  mercy.  Once  she  went  at  great 
peril,  after  a  very  heavy  fall  of  snow.  It  was  in  the  night  when  she 
heard  of  the  distress  and  suffering  of  a  neighboring  woman.  Nothing 
could  restrain  her  from  making  an  effort  to  afford  the  aid  so  much  and  so 
speedily  required.  Taking  a  lantern,  and  putting  on  her  snowshoes  she 
was  enabled,  with  the  aid  of  her  husband,  to  reach  the  bedside  of  her 
friend,  and  probably  to  be  the  means  of  saving  her  life.  Her  manner  was 
so  bland,  so  soft,  so  quiet,  that  one  felt  her  soothing  influence  the  moment 
she  entered  the  door  of  the  sick  room.  She  knew  so  well  what  to  say  and 
when  and  how  to  say  it,  that  she  at  once  gained  your  confidence,  and  you 
submitted  to  all  she  prescribed.  Nobody  could  reconcile  you  to  your  con- 
dition, as  a  patient,  half  so  well  as  she  could.  From  the  hand  of  no  other 
would  you  so  readily  receive  the  nauseating  and  sickening,  though 
urgently  necessary,  apothecary's  draught.  And  she  would  remain  with 
you  after  the  doctor  had  left  you.  She  would  raise  your  aching  head, 
cool  your  excited  and  feverish  brow,  and  watching  over  you  with  the 
vigilance  of  a  mother,  she  would  minister  to  every  want,  never  leaving 
you  until  she  could  perceive  undoubted  symptoms  of  returning  health. 
And  this  service  she  rendered,  and  these  duties  she  performed,  over  and 
over  again,  for  everybody  in  the  vicinity  where  her  lot  was  cast,  for  no 
other  earthly  compensation  or  reward,  except  the  gratification  of  relieving 
the  suffering  of  her  friends  and  of  doing  good  in  her  day  and  generation. 
She  died  at  a  very  advanced  age,  over  eighty,  very  suddenly,  having  suf- 
fered herself  very  little  from  ill  health. 

STEVENS. 

I.  Benjamin,  b.  in  England,  1721,  came  to  this  country  and  settled 
in  Hampstead,  N.  H.  He  m.  Miss  A.  Johnson,  and  had  ch.: 
Timothy'2;  Jonathan'2;  Eunice2;  Benjamin2;  Abigail2;  David2; 
Phebe2;  and  Mary2. 
II.  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin1,  was  b.  in  Goffstown,  1750,  June  30; 
m.  Miss  A.  Hadley,  and  had  ch.:  Martha8;  Joseph8;  Anna8;  Abi- 
gail8; and  Benjamin^. 

III.  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin2,  was  b.  in  Goffstown,  1787,  May  21; 

m.  Miss  A.  Dickerman,  and  had  ch.:  Benjamin4,  d.  in  infancy; 
Joseph  H.*;  Persis*;  Alfred*;  Daniel  L.*;  Benjamin  F.*;  Martha4, 
d.  at  the  age  of  15. 

IV.  Joseph  H.  son  of  Benjamin8,  was  b.  in  Goffstown,   1812,  April  6; 

farmer;  m.,  1st,  1835,  June  9,  Margaret,  b.  in  Bedford,  1799, 
March  5,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Dickey)  Patten,  and  settled 
in  Bedford.     His  wife  d.  1862,  Jan.  23,  leaving  one  ch. :  Mary  J 


1084  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Anderson5,  b.  1839,  Aug.  22,  m.   George  E.  Gault   (see  Gault). 
He  m.,  2d,  1862,  June  10,  Achsah,  dau.  of  John  and  Letitia  Hous 
ton;    she  d.  1864,  July  13;  her  ch.,  Ann  Maria6,  b.  1863,  June  13, 
d.  1864,  July  16.     He  m.,  3d,  1865,  Oct.  3,  Mary  J.  (Shirley)  Hol- 
brook   (see  Holbrook),   dau.   of  John  and  Margaret  Shirley  of 
Niagara.     He  d.  1880,  Dec.  23.     They  had  ch.:  Abbie  M.b,  b.  1866, 
July  17;  Abbie  M.5,  b.  1868,  Oct.  23,  d.  1886,  Aug.  28;  John  II.6,  b. 
1872,  June  24;  Fred  H.5,  b.  1873,  June  13. 
V.  Abbie  M.,  daughter  of  Joseph  H.4,  b.  1866,  July  17;  m.  Alfred  B. 
.  Lampher,  b.  1859,  May  8,  Troy,  Vt.;   res.  at  Manchester.     Had 
two  ch.:   Alfred  Glenn6,  b.  1887,  April  30,  d.  1888,  Feb.  2;   Alice 
Mae6,  b.  1890,  June  13. 
V.  John  H.,  son  of  Joseph  H.4,  b.  1872,  June  24;  m.,  1st,  1892,  Nellie 
Brien,  who  d.  1893,  March  6,  leaving  one  ch.:   John  H.6,  b.  1893, 
Feb.  9.     He  m.,  2d,  Caroline  A.  Bennett,  b.  Leeds  Village,  P.  Q., 
by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Judson  Frederick6. 
V.  Fred  H.,  son  of  Joseph  H.4,  b.  1873,  June  13;  m.  1892,  Oct.  20,  Har- 
riett E.  Bennetts,  b.  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  and  has  two  ch.:  Mildred 
Esther6,  b.  1893,  Dec.  25;  Madeline  Bertha6,  b.  1897,  Oct.  18. 
IV.  Persis,  dau.  of  Benjamin8,  m.  Daniel  Plumer  and  had  ch.:  Abby 
S.5;  Martha  A.6;  Maria  D.5;  Persis  D.8;  Julia  A.5;  Mary  E.5;  and 
Ira  Newton5. 

IV.  Alfred,  son  of  Benjamin8,  m.  Eleanor  Major,  and  res.  in  Goffstown. 
His  widow  still  survives  him  at  the  age  of  84.  They  had  one  son, 
who  d.  when  18  years  of  age. 

IV.  Daniel  L. ,  son  of  Benjamin8,  m.,  1st,  Sally  Hutchinson  of  Frances- 
town.  Had  ch.:  Melissa,  b.  1839;  Merrill  and  Monroe  (twins),  b. 
1841;  all  dead.  His  wife  d.  1880,  July.  Hem.,  2d,  1882,  April,  Mary 
E.  Priest  of  Boston,  Mass.,  who  survives  him.  He  lived  in  Man- 
chester, and  was  widely  known,  having  held  the  office  of  sheriff 
or  deputy  for  thirty-six  consecutive  years;  before  taking  the 
office  of  sheriff  he  had  served  the  city  as  city  marshal  for  a  num- 
ber of  years. 

IV.  Benjamin  F.,  son  of  Benjamin8,  m.,  1st.  Asenath  Stevens,  who  d. 
1848;  m.,  2d,  Ann  E.  Hunter  of  Vermont.  A  son  b.  1848,  d.  1865. 
He  d.  1885,  leaving  a  widow  and  one  dau.,  who  res.  in  Boston, 
Mass. 

STEVENS. 

I.  Abial,  b.  in  Andover,  Mass.,  came  to  Bedford  in  1780;  m.  Dorothy 
Martin,  by  whom  he  had  four  ch.:  David2;  Dolly2;  Martha2;  Polly2. 
II.  David,  son  of  Abial1,  b.  1755,  May  23;  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolu- 
tion; was  at  Bunker  Hill  and  Ticonderoga.  He  came  to  Bedford 
with  his  father,  Abial,  and  owned  the  farm  on  which  he  lived,  in 
the  southwest  part  of  the  town,  and  which  has  been  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  Stevens  family  for  four  generations.  He  m.  1778, 
Dec.  15,  Judith  Spofford  of  Andover,  Mass.,  who  was  b.  1759, 
March  5,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ruxby  (Moody)  Spofford  of  Rowley, 
Mass.  He  d.  1819,  Dec.  23,  and  his  wife  d.  1820,  Sept.  5.  They 
had  nine  ch.:  Greenleaf3,  b.  1779,  Oct.  12,  d.  1818,  Aug.  29; 
Moody  Martin*,  b.  1781,  June  4;  John3,  b.  1783,  May  8;  David3, 
b.  1785,  Aug.  13;  Solomon8,  b.  1788,  Jan.  31,  d.  1815,  April  15; 
Judith3,  b.  1790,  Nov.  23;  Dorothy8,  b.  1793,  Oct.  19,  d.  1817, 
May  26;  Polly8,  b.  1796,  May  20,  d.  1818,  April  18;  Jeremiah8, 
b.  1798,  May  15. 
III.  Moody  Martin,  son  of  David2,  b.  1781,  June  4;  m.  1809,  Feb.  21, 
Eunice,  b.  1785,  April  23,  dau.  of  Elijah  Chandler.  Moody  M. 
d.  1870,  June  16,  and  his  wife  d.  1849,  Aug.  23.  They  had  ch.: 
Sarah  Abigail4,   b.    1810,    Jan.    12,  d.    1895,   March   14;    Caroline 


GENEALOGIES. — STEVENS.  1 085 

Elizabeth*,  b.  1813,  March  18;  William  C.4,  b.  1814,  Feb.  17,  d.  1815, 
April  7;  Dolly  Jane4,  b.  1816,  April  21,  d.  1854,  April  24;  Elijah 
Chandler*,  b.  1818,  May  15;  William  Bradford*,  b.  1820,  Jan.  27; 
Eunice4,  b.  1821,  Oct.  10,  d.  1854,  Dec.  2;  David4,  b.  1823,  June  7; 
Martha  G.4,  b.  1824,  Oct.  22,  d.  1848,  Feb.  1;  Harriet  Augusta4, 
b.  1827,  Jan.  20,  d.  1849,  Dec.  24.  They  were  a  musical  family, 
and  nearly  all  teachers.  David,  William,  and  Elijah  were  mem- 
bers of  the  band  for  the  Bedford  Highlanders. 
IV.  Caroline  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Moody  Martin3,  b.  1813,  March  18; 
m.  1832,  Oct.  11,  Nathan  Parker,  Jr.,  of  Merrimack.  She  d.  1893, 
May  19.  They  had  ch.:  Nathan  Dickerman5,  b.  1833,  Nov.  13, 
d.  1835,  April  30;  Eunice  Augusta5,  b.  1835,  April  13;  Annette 
Jane5,  b.  1837,  April  4,  m.  1873,  July  2,  Lucien  Ingalls,  M.D.,  of 
Merrimack,  who  d.  Falmouth,  Me.,  1881,  May  3;  Nathan  Ambrose5, 
b.  1839,  Feb.  11;  Sarah  Abby5,  b.  1841,  Feb.  15,  m.  1871,  May  10, 
Amon  Hutchinson  of  Nashua,  who  d.  1899,  Sept.  2;  William 
Forester5,  b.  1843,  Aug.  1;  Caroline  Elizabeth5,  b.  1846,  June  30, 
d.  1864,  Sept.  2;  Martha  Gertrude5,  b.  1848,  July  14;  Frank  Edson5, 
b.  1851,  Oct.  13,  m.  1899,  June  1,  Lizzie  H.  Brown  of  Milford; 
Charles  Elbridge5,  b.  1854,  July  13,  d.  1855,  June  30. 

V.  Eunice  Augusta  (Parker),  dau.  of  Caroline  Elizabeth,  b.  1835, 
April  13;  m.  1858,  June  8,  George  F.  Spalding  of  Merrimack. 
She  d.  1903,  March  1.  Had  three  ch.:  Frank  Clarence6,  b.  1864, 
April  19,  d.  1865,  Dec.  22;  Caribel  Frances6,  b.  1867,  May  22, 
m.  1901,  Oct.  30,  Rev.  Charles  S.  Haynes,  and  res.  in  Peter- 
borough; Clarence  George6,  b.  1870,  Dec.  17. 

V.  Nathan  Ambrose  (Parker),  son  of  Caroline  E.4,  b.  1839,  Feb.  11; 
m.  1866,  Sept.  13,  Harriet  A.,  b.  1837,  Sept.  4,  dau.  of  Isaac  and 
Rebecca  (Harville)  Cutler  of  Bedford.  Ch.:  Fred  Smyth6,  b. 
Nottingham,  1870,  March  16;  George  Harry6,  b.  in  Nottingham, 
1872,  Oct.  1;  Elmer  Nathan6,  b.  Bedford,  1877,  Sept.  14. 

V.  William  F.  (Parker),  son  of  Caroline  E.4,  b.  1843,  Aug.  1;  m.,  1st, 
1866,  Sept.  13,  Agnes  J.,  b.  1846,  March  8,  dau.  of  Isaac  and 
Rebecca  (Harville)  Cutler  of  Bedford.  She  d.  1874,  March  28. 
He  m.,  2d,  1875,  Feb.  27,  Isabel  F.  Bucknam  of  Epping.  He  d.  at 
Epping,  1899,  March  30.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.:  Caroline  Elizabeth6,  b. 
Nottingham,  1868,  Aug.  20;  Albert  Cutler6,  b.  1869,  Nov.  4.  Ch. 
of  2d  mar.:  Grace  May6,  b.  Barrington,  1876,  Feb.  13. 
VI.  Caroline  Elizabeth  (Parker),  dau.  of  William  F.5,  b.  1868,  Aug.  20; 
m.  1894,  Nov.  15,  Charles  C.  Ordway  of  Epping,  and  has  one  ch., 
Mary  Agnes7,  b.  1896,  March  21. 

V.  Martha  G.  (Parker),  dau.  of  Caroline  E.4,  b.  1848,  July  14;  m.  1877, 
Oct.  23,  Charles  W.  Scribner  of  Raymond.  Ch.:  Avon  Wesley6, 
b.  1881,  May  8,  d.  1883,  Aug.  6;  Frederic  Parker6,  b.  1884,  June  29. 
IV.  Elijah  Chandler,  son  of  Moody  M.3,  b.  1818,  May  15;  m.  1850, 
April  9,  Julia  Ann,  b.  1826,  June  6,  dau.  of  John  and  Sophia 
(Richardson)  Barr.  He  d.  1894,  March  6,  and  his  wife  d.  1894, 
March  8.  Had  three  ch.:  Harriet  Augusta5,  b.  1852,  June  19, 
d.  1852,  Oct.  26;  Charles  Edward5,  b.  1856,  Jan.  27,  m.  1882, 
Emma  Morgan  of  Manchester,  is  now  in  California;  Frank 
Byron5,  b.  1857,  Dec.  8. 

V.  Frank  Byron,  son  of  Elijah  C.4,  b.  1857,  Dec.  8;  m.  1881,  Dec.  21, 
Marion  Smith  Anderson  of  Manchester,  where  they  res.  Ch.: 
Park  Edwards6,  b.  1884,  Feb.  2;  Eva  Barr6,  b.  1892,  June  26. 
IV.  William  Bradford  (M.  D.),  son  of  Moody  M.3,  b.  1820,  Jan.  27;  m. 
1851,  Jan.  23,  Eliza  A.,  b.  1824,  March  2,  dau.  of  James  and 
Hannah  (Perley)  Morrison.  He  d.  1861,  Feb.  18,  and  his  wife  d. 
at  Portsmouth,  1890,  Jan.  12.  Had  one  ch.,  Eunice5,  b.  1856, 
Nov.  5,  m.  Lyman  Kinson  (see  Kinson). 


1086  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

III.  John,  son  of  David2,  b.  1783,  May  8;  m.,  1st,  Betsey  Foster,  who 
lived  but  a  short  time,  leaving  one  ch.  He  then  m.,  2d,  Abigail 
Stevens,  and  settled  in  Goffstown;  was  deacon  in  the  Congrega- 
tional church.     He  d.  1839,  Oct.  19.     Had  four  ch.  by  2d  mar. 

III.  David,  son  of  David2,  b.  1785,  May  19;  m.  1817,  June  9,  Elizabeth 

Rider,  granddaughter  of  Elijah  Chandler;  she  was  b.  1796,  July  4, 
and  d.  1848,  Feb.  8.  He  d.  1831,  June  12.  They  had  eight  ch.: 
George  Rider4,  b.  1818,  March  10,  m.  1850,  April  4,  Sarah  Fowler; 
David*,  b.  1819,  June  6;  Mary  Jane4,  b.  1821,  March  14,  m.  1862, 
Oct.  31,  George  W.  Burns  of  Milford;  Hamet  Eliza*,  b.  1823, 
May  31;  Solomon  Greenleaf*,  b.  1826,  Sept.  13;  Moody  Adoniram*, 
b.  1828,  Feb.  7;  Cordelia  Abigail4,  b.  1830,  March  23,  d.  1850, 
May  29;  John  Newton4,  b.  1833,  April  21,  d.  1862,  Dec.  24,  at 
Scottsville,  Ky. 
IY.  David,  Jr.,  son  of  David3,  b.  1819,  June  6;  m.,  1st,  1849,  Jan.  16, 
Sarah  F.,  b.  1823,  Nov.  18,  dau.  of  Leonard  C.  and  Nancy 
(Hutchinson)  French;  settled  in  Nashua,  N.  H.  She  d.  1852, 
March  29.  He  m.,  2d,  1856,  Jan.  3,  Hannah  C.  Baldwin.  He  d. 
1901,  May  5.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.:  Edward  F.b,  b.  1850,  Jan.  7; 
Sarah  F.b,  b.  1852,  March  19.  Ch.  by  2d  mar.:  Julia  A.6,  b.  1858, 
Dec.  24,  m.  1881,  Aug.  24,  Charles  D.  Adams;  Emma  D.5,  b.  1861, 
May  8. 

V.  Edward  F.,  son  of  David,  Jr.4,  b.  1850,  Jan.  7;  m.  1875,  Dec.  2, 
Emma  L.  Wellock.  He  d.  1898,  March  3.  They  had  ch.: 
EdnaF.6,b.  1880,  Feb.  23;  Edith  L.6,  b.  1882,  Aug.  7;  Edward  F.6, 
Jr.,  b.  1886,  Sept.  5;  Marion  E.6,  b.  1890,  Sept.  23. 

Y.  Sarah  F.,  dau.  of  David,  Jr.4,  b.  1852,  March  19;  m.  1881,  Aug.  24, 
Rev.  Albert  F.  Norcross,  who  d.  1893,  Nov.  26.  Had  ch.: 
Gertrude  L.6,  b.  1883,  Oct.  15;  Mary  F.6,  b.  1884,  Dec.  16. 

IV.  Harriet  Eliza,  dau.  of  David3,  b.  1823,  May  31;    m.  1845,  June  5, 

Levi  Putnam;  she  d.  1866,  Oct.  14.  Ch.:  Ella  Elizabeths,  b.  1847, 
Aug.  17,  d.  1874,  March  26;  Levi  Ernest6,  b.  1861,  Aug.  2,  d.  1879, 
March  12. 

IV.  Solomon  Greenleaf,  son  of  David3,  b.  1826,  Sept.  13;  m.  1864, 
April  12,  Ellen  Julia  Clark,  who  d.  1897,  Sept.  23.  Had  four  ch.: 
Lizzie  May5,  b.  1865,  April  3,  d.  1885;  Harriet  Ellen5,  b.  1866, 
Oct.  15;  Arthur  Greenleaf5,  b.  1868,  Dec.  12;  Freddie  Lyman5, 
b.  1875,  Nov.  10. 

IV.  Rev.  Moody  Adoniram,  son  of  David3,  b.  Bedford,  1828,  Feb.  7;  has 
been  in  the  ministry  40  years  (see  sketch)'.  He  m.  1885,  Sept.  10, 
Susan  Angelique  Robertson  of  St.  John,  N.  B.,  who  is  not  living. 
He  now  res.  in  Milford,  N.  H.  They  had  an  adopted  dau.,  Delia 
Idelette5,  b.  1864,  April  26,  and  d.  1903,  Jan.  5. 

III.  Judith,  dau.  of  David2,  b.  1790,  Nov.  23;  m.  James  Hartshorn  of 

Milford;  she  d.  1819,  April.  They  had  two  ch.:  Susan4  and 
Hamet*. 

IV.  Harriet  (Hartshorn),  dau.  of  Judith3,  m.,  1st,  Euclid  Moore,  a  son 

of  the  first  minister  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Milford,  who 
served  that  church  for  30  years.  She  m.,  2d,  Dea.  Freeman 
Crosby  of  the  above-named  church,  and  is  still  residing  in  Mil- 
ford, aged  86. 

II.  Dolly,  dau.  of  Abial1;  m.  Joshua  Wilson  and  had  eleven  sons  and 
one  dau. 

II.  Martha,  dau.  of  Abial1;  m.  Dea.  Aaron  Gage  of  Merrimack,  and 
had  ten  ch.:  Hannah3,  who  m.  Dea.  William  Moore;  Aaron3; 
Benjamin3;  Naomi3;  Solomon3;  Isaac3;  Sarah3;  Mary3;  Martha3; 
and  Fanny3. 

II.  Polly,  dau.  of  Abial1,  m.  Daniel  Kimball  of  Andover,  Mass.,  and 
had  a  large  family. 


GENEALOGIES. — STEVENS.  1087 

REV.  MOODY  A.   STEVENS. 

Rev.  Moody  Adoniram  Stevens  was  b.  in  West  Bedford,  1828,  Feb.  7, 
and  though  seventy-five  years  have  since  rolled  away,  recently  (1903) 
visited  the  scenes  of  his  childhood  home,  and  renewed  the  memories  of 
by-gone  days.  In  pursuit  of  an  education  he  attended  the  academy  at 
Francestown,  also  Phillips  academy  at  Andover,  Mass.  He  entered 
Dartmouth  college,  also  studied  at  New  York  university,  taking  his 
theological  course  at  Union  seminary,  New  York. 

In  early  life  he  gave  much  attention  to  vocal  and  instrumental  music, 
studying  piano  and  voice  with  Profs.  Wells  Baker  and  August  Kriesman, 
in  Boston.  He  later  held  positions  as  teacher  and  organist  in  St.  John, 
N.  B.,  and  Boston. 

He  began  his  first  pastorate  at  Plympton,  Mass.,  in  1862,  also  held 
pastorates  at  Bellows  Falls,  Vt.,  Ashburnham,  Cohasset,  and  Saxonville, 
Mass.,  also  in  Avoka,  Minn.  He  was  commissioned  chaplain  of  the 
Second  New  York  regiment  of  three  months'  men  and  preached  his  first 
sermon  to  a  regiment  of  soldiers  on  the  Battery  of  New  York.  He  par- 
ticipated in  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run. 

He  m.  1885,  Sept.   10,  Susan  A.  Robertson  of  St.  John,  N.  B.,  who 

d. .     The  last  years  of  his  life  have  been  spent  in  Minneapolis,  Minn., 

as  a  retired  clergyman,  though  preaching  a  good  part  of  the  time,  having 
heen  in  the  ministry  40  years.  He  recently  came  to  reside  with  his  sister 
in  Milford,  N.  H. 

STEVENS. 

I.  Benjamin  was  b.  in  Manchester  about  1740.  He  had  a  son,  Eben- 
ezer2,  who  had  a  son,  Timothy3,  who  had  Roger4,  b.  in  Manchester, 
1794;  the  latter  was  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  1812;  m.  Sarah  Ken- 
nedy, and  had  a  son,  Timothy5. 
V.  Timothy,  son  of  Roger4,  was  b.  in  Manchester,  1824,  Dec.  IS,  and 
m.  1850,  April  28,  Eliza  Jane,  b.  in  Bedford,  1826,  Oct.  18,  dau.  of 
Aaron  and  Hannah  (Gilmore)  Page.  He  settled  on  a  farm  in 
this  town  about  1870;  he  was  an  extensive  reader,  possessed  a 
remarkable  memory,  and  delighted  in  imparting  the  results  of  his 
investigations  to  others.  He  d.  1900,  Aug.  24.  Had  ch.:  Eddy 
Willis6,  b.  Manchester,  1853,  April  21;  John  Frederic6,  b.  Hili, 
1856,  Jan.  30;  Maria  Jane6,  b.  1858,  Aug.  28;  Reuben  Page6,  b.  1860, 
March  11;  Martha  Gilmore6,  b.  1862,  Jan.  29,  d.  1870,  Oct.  24; 
Hattie  Lovinia6,  b.  1864,  Sept.  8,  m.  J.  Elmer  Esterbrook  (see 
Esterbrook) . 

VT.  Eddy  Willis,  son  of  Timothy5,  b.  1853,  April  21;  farmer  and  market 
gardener;  prominent  in  work  of  the  grange  of  both  town  and 
county;  also  trustee  of  our  public  library;  he  m.  1877,  Feb.  5, 
Nellie  Augusta,  b.  Auburn,  1856,  May  9,  dau.  of  David  H.  and 
Eveline  A.  (Brown)  Bean.  Their  ch.  are:  Evelyn  Agnes7,  b. 
Bedford,  1878,  April  22;  Minnie  Alice'1,  b.  1880,  julv  25;  Nellie 
Eliza7,  b.  1882,  Aug.  13,  d.  1891,  Aug.  13;  Willis  Albert7,  b.  1898, 
Mav  5. 
VII.  Minnie  A.,  dau.  of  Eddy  W.6,  b.  1880,  July  25;  m.  1900,  Oct.  31, 
William  Melendy,  Jr.,  of  Amherst,  and  res.  in  town;  to  them  a 
son  was  b.  in  1903. 

VI.  John  Frederic,  son  of  Timothy5,  b.  1856,  Jan.  30;  m.  1884,  March  1, 
Clara  B.  Mitchell,  and  res.  in  Worcester,  Mass.  Have  ch.:  Emily 
A.7;  Anna  E.7;  Agnes  M.7;  Edna  L.7;  Hazel7;  the  last  three  were  b. 
in  Bedford. 

VI.  Maria  Jane,  dau.  of  Timothy5,  b.  1858,  Aug.  28;  m.  1880,  Dec. 
22,  Walter  B.  Mitchill,  a  druggist;  res.  in  Manchester.  They 
have  ch.:  Annie  E.7,  b.  in  Bedford;  Gertrude  Stevens7;  and  George 
Walton7,  b.  in  Manchester. 


1088  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

VI.  Reuben  P.,  son  of  Timothy5,  b.  1860,  March  11;  dealer  in  monu- 
ments of  marble  and  stone;  res.  in  Manchester.  He  m.  1884, 
Oct.  15,  Emma  Vinton  Brown.  Their  ch.  are:  Timothy  Boyn- 
ton7,  b.  in  Bedford;  and  Ralph  Clinton7,  b.  in  Manchester. 

STOWELL. 

I.  Abner  B.,  son  of  John  and  Lavona  (Fisher)  Stowell,  was  b.  in 
Washington,  N;  H.,  1832,  April  14;  farmer.  He  m.  1855,  Oct.  11, 
Almy  Ann,  b.  in  Newbury,  1828,  Feb.  6,  dau.  of  Benjamin  R. 
and  Sally  (McQuillis)  Ayer.  They  settled  in  Bedford,  1889.  Ch.: 
John  E?,  b.  in  Washington,  1860,  April  20;  Herbert  M.2  and  Her- 
man M.2  (twins),  b.  Sutton,  1870,  March  12,  unmarried  and  both 
sailors. 
II.  John  E.,  son  of  Abner  B.1,  b.  1860,  April  20;  farmer  and  miller;  m., 
1st,  1880,  Nov.  12,  Isadore  L.  (French)  Day,  dau.  of  John  and 
Martha  (Stowell)  French  of  Merrimack.  They  had:  Maurice  E.3, 
b.  Dunstable,  Mass.,  1881,  May  26.  She  also  had  a  son,  George 
Day  by  a  previous  mar.  She  d.  here  1883,  Sept.  He  m.,  2d, 
1885,  Nov.  4,  Rebecca  Mary,  b.  1856,  Nov.  4,  dau.  of  Rufus  and 
Mary  (Wilson)  Blood  of  Merrimack.  She  d.  1886,  Nov.  15.  He 
m.,  3d,  1887,  Aug.  25,  Mary  A.,  b.  Bedford,  dau.  of  Simeon  L.  and 
Sarah  J.  Parker.  They  have:  Charles  Lewis3,  b.  Bedford,  1889, 
April  29.     The  family  has  now  rem.  to  Acworth,  N.  H. 

SWETT  (SWEAT). 

I.  The  Swetts  came  to  America  from  England.  A  John  Swett,  from 
whom  the  Bedford  Swetts  descended,  was  one  of  the  first  of  the 
name  in  America,  came  in  the  ship  James,  landing  in  June,  1635, 
was  admitted  a  freeman  of  Massachusetts  colony  on  the  18th  of 
May,  1692.  He  was  one  of  the  original  grantees  of  the  town  of 
Newbury,  Mass.  He  had  a  son,  Capt.  Benjamin2,  b.  about 
1626,  who  came  with  him,  and  in  1647,  Nov.,  m.  Esther  Weare, 
a  dau.  of  Peter  Weare  of  Newbury,  and  sister  of  Nathaniel,  who 
was  a  man  of  note,  and  the  founder  of  an  influential  family. 
He  moved  to  Hampton,  N.  H.,  about  1663,  where  he  was  chosen  a 
commissioner  of  the  county  rates  in  1665,  and  also  served  as 
selectman,  but  it  was  as  a  soldier  that  he  gained  his  greatest  dis- 
tinction. He  was  commissioned  commander  of  the  Massachu- 
setts forces  at  the  East  during  King  Philip's  war,  holding  the 
position  until  his  death,  which  occurred  1677,  June  29,  when  he 
was  killed  in  the  conflict  with  the  Indians  at  Black  Point, 
Scarboro,  Me.,  at  the  age  of  51.  Ch.  b.  in  Newbury:  Esther3,  b. 
1648,  June  7;  Sarah3,  b.  1650,  Nov.  7;  Mary3,  b.  1652,  Jan.  7; 
Mary3,  b.  1654,  May  2;  Benjamin3,  b.  1656,  Aug.  5;  Joseph3,  b. 
1659,  Jan.  20;  Moses*,  b.  1661,  Sept.  16,  ancestor  of  the  Bedford 
Swetts.  After  moving  to  Hampton  they  had  five  other  ch.: 
Esther  (Weare)  Swett,  widow  of  Capt.  Benjamin,  m.  Ensign 
Stephen  Greenleaf,  1679,  March  31,  and  d.  1718,  Jan.  16,  aged  89. 
V.  Moses,  grandson  of  Moses3,  b.  in  Newbury,  1738;  d.  from  the  effects 
of  a  paralytic  shock  in  Bedford,  1819,  Dec.  17.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  ship-building,  came  from  Newbury  to  Bedford  about 
1786,  the  first  Swett  in  Bedford,  and  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers. 
He  settled  in  West  Bedford  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Stillman 
Parkhurst,  and  reared  his  family  in  the  little  house  west  of  the 
road.  His  son,  Moses6,  succeeded  him  as  owner  of  the  place,  and 
the  Moses7  who  next  lived  there  had  a  new  house  east  of  the  road. 
Moses'7  sons,  Edmund8  and  Samuel8,  succeeded  him  as  owners.  Ed- 


GENEALOGIES. — SWETT.  1089 

mund8  left,  and  later  on  Samuel8,  and  the  place  passed  out  of  the 
Swett's  ownership.  The  easterly  part  of  the  Swett  farm  Moses5 
gave  his  son,  Ebenezer6,  who  built  thereon  a  cottage  house,  which 
was  burned  while  the  Cottons  lived  there.  Ebenezer's6  son,  Fred- 
erick7, and  daughter,  Susan7,  cared  for  hini,  but  sold  the  farm,  and 
bought  another  a  half  mile  north  of  the  village  where  Ebenezer 
died. 
V.  Moses,  grandson  of  Moses3,  m.  Hannah  Plummer,  b.  Newbury, 
1741;  d.  Bedford,  1829,  Jan.  6.  Her  granddaughter,  Susan,  says 
of  her,  "She  was  a  most  ladylike  and  beautiful  woman."  Ch.: 
Jonathan6,  b.  Newbury,  lived  mostly  in  Portland,  Me. ;  Edward6, 
b.  Newbury,  res.  Maine,  d.  Parsonsfield,  Me.,  sons,  Dr.  Moses7 
and  L.  D.  M.  Sweat7  of  Maine;  Moses6;  Lydia6,  b.  Newburyport, 
m.  Holt  Kimball  of  Amherst,  lived,  died,  and  buried  in  Amherst, 
no  ch.;  Betsey  or  Elizabeth6,  b.  1772,  d.  1836,  April,  m.  Dr. 
Nathan  Cutler  about  1790  (see  Cutler);  Ebenezer*;  Hannah6,  m. 
Stephen  French  (see  French);  Mary  or  Polly6,  b.  Newburyport, 

and  m. . 

VI.  Moses,  son  of  Moses5,  b.  Newburyport,  1765;  d.  Bedford,  1847,  Dec. 
12;  m.  Nancy  Goodwin,  b.  Portland,  1760,  d.  Bedford,  1842,  Feb. 
9.  Ch.:  Polly7,  b.  Bedford,  m.  Pharez  Gardner,  res.  Merrimack, 
had  ch. ;  Jane7,  b.  Bedford,  m.  David  Melvin  of  Amherst,  no  ch. ; 
Edmund",  b.  Bedford;  Daniel1,  b.  Bedford,  1797,  March  19; 
Nancy7,  b.  Bedford,  m.  Samuel  Melvin  of  Hooksett,  no  ch.; 
Moses1,  b.  Bedford,  1802,  Feb.  19. 
VII.  Edmund,  son  of  Moses6,  b.  in  Bedford;  m.  Betsey  Lovejoy  of  Am- 
herst; lived  and  d.  in  Middlesex,  Mass.;  no  ch.  He  was  a  master 
builder,  an  Odd  Fellow,  a  most  influential  Christian  man,  a  deacon 
and  pillar  in  his  church,  and  res.  fifty-six  years  in  one  house. 
VII.  Daniel,  son  of  Moses6,  m.  1820,  March,  Nancy  Bryant  of  Deering, 
b.  1801,  Feb.  1;  d.  Bedford,  1860,  Nov.  24.  He  m.,  2d,  1860, 
Helen  R.  Allen.  Ch.:  Daniel9,  b.  Boston,  Mass.,  1821,  Aug.  30. 
David  M.8,  b.  1823,  June  8,  m.,  and  d.  1863,  Nov.  27,  no  ch;  Ch. 
b.  Bedford:  Nancy  Jane8,  b.  1825,  June  26;  Caroline  M.8,  b.  1827, 
Aug.  18;  Hannah  F.8,  b.  1829,  June  23;  Emeline8,  b.  1831,  Nov.  15, 
m.  William  George  of  Webster,  N.  H.,  had  one  dau.,  and  d.; 
Melvina8,  b.  1835,  March  5,  d.  1843,  June  7;  Charles  Franklin8,  b. 
1840,  May  9,  d.  Bedford,  1861,  Feb.  6;  Josephine8,  b.  Manchester, 
1864,  March  30;  Eugene  William8,  b.  Manchester,  1866,  March  17. 

VIII.  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel7,  b.  1821,  Aug.  30;  m.,  res.,  and  d.  in  Lowell, 
Mass.  He  had  a  son,  Walter9,  an  insurance  agent,  who,  with  his 
family,  res.  in  Lowell. 

VIII.  Nancy  Jane,  dau.  of  Daniel7,  b.  1825,  June  26;  m.  William  Clement 
of  Hooksett,  and  with  ch.  res.  in  California. 

VIII.  Caroline  M.,  dau.  of  Daniel7,  b.  1827,  Aug.  18;  m.  Melancthon  C. 
Cady,  who  d.  in  Wis.,  where  they  then  res.  For  22  years  she 
lived  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  where  she  d.  1888,  March  15. 

VIII.  Hannah  F.,  dau.  of  Daniel7,  b.  1829,  June  23;  m.  John  D.  Marston, 
a  merchant,  who  d.  1899.  Ch.:  Nellie9,  res.  Georgeville,  R.  I.; 
Minnie9,  m.  a  collegiate,  had  two  ch.;  Charles  Marston9,  M.  D., 
res.  Providence,  R.  I;  a  dau.9,  d.  1902. 

VIII.  Josephine,  dau.  of  Daniel7,  b.  1864,  March  30;  m.  Manchester,  1883, 
Nov.  16,  Leonard  K.  Belcher  of  Goffstown.  Ch.:  Wallace9,  b. 
1884,  Nov.  6;  Helen  Louise9,  b.  1888,  May  31. 

VIII.  Eugene  William,  son  of  Daniel7,  b.  1886,  March  17;  m.  in  Manchester 
Sarah  Lizzie  Buzzell  of  Goffstown  and  had  one  dau.9,  b.  1889,  Dec. 
VII.  Moses,  son  of  Moses6,  m.  1823  Lucy  Ann  Lovejoy,  b.  Amherst,  1797, 
April  24;  d.  Bedford,  1863,  July  26.  He  d.  Bedford,  1859,  Dec.  6. 
Ch.  b.  in  Bedford:  William  Lovejoy8;  George  P.8;  Edmund8;  and 
Samuel  Moses8. 

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1090  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

VIII.  William  Lovejoy,  son  of  Moses7,  b.  1823,  July  30;  m.  1850,  July, 
Euphemia  Bryant,  b.  Bedford,  1825,  May  15,  d.  in  Manchester, 
1903,  June  7.     No  ch.     Res.  in  Lowell  and  West  Manchester. 

VIII.  George  P.,  son  of  Moses7,  b.  1825,  Feb.  13;  m.  Lois  Lethers  of  Maine, 
now  deceased.     He  was  a  merchant  in  Nashua,  where  he  d.    Ch. : 

George  P.9;  Ella  M.9,  who  m. Pepperell,  has  a  son10  and  res. 

in  Boston;  Josiah  G.   d. 

VIII.  Edmund,  son  of  Moses7,  b.  1827,  March  1;  m.  Adaline  R.  Ham  of 
Lowell,  b.  1827,  April  7,  d.  1861,  July  26.  Ch.:  Frank9,  b.  1855, 
July  16,  d.  1878,  Nov.  16. 

VIII.  Samuel  Moses,  son  of  Moses7,  b.  1835,  March  24;  m.  Emily  S.  Town- 
send,  b.  Bedford,  1841,  d.  Manchester,  1894,  Dec.  31  (see  Town- 
send)  .  His  home  has  been  in  Manchester  for  the  past  thirty  years, 
and  as  his  brothers  is  a  genial  man.  Ch. :  George  Lovejoy9,  b.  1866, 
July  4;  Carrie  E.9,  b.  1869,  April  2. 
IX.  George  Lovejoy,  son  of  Samuel  Moses8,  m.  Mary  B.  Swettof  Boston, 
where  they  res.  Ch.:  Grace10,  b.  1890,  Jan.  26;  Esther10,  b.  1891, 
April  19. 
VI.  Ebenezer,  son  of  Moses5,  b.  Newburyport,  1775,  Jan.  7;  m.  in  Port- 
land, 1798,  Susan  Gustin,  b.  Portland,  1776,  d.  Bedford,  1850,  Jan. 
7.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1867,  Aug.  1.  He  did  not  come  to  Bedford 
from  Portland  until  he  had  a  little  family  of  his  own.  He 
worked  at  his  trade,  ship  carpentering,  in  Maine,  but  on  comiDg 
to  Bedford  was  obliged  to  work  at  house  carpentering.  He  was 
a  fine  workman;  samples  of  his  ordinary  work  are  seen  in  the  Cut- 
ler, Patten,  and  other  houses  of  the  olden  time.  In  a  fall  from  a 
building  he  barely  escaped  with  his  life,  and  so  injured  his  head 
that  thereafter  life  was  only  bearable  to  him,  yet  he  never  mur- 
mured at  his  fate,  but  comforted  himself  sitting  for  hours  at  a 
time  reading  God's  word,  awaiting  the  end,  which  did  not  come 
until  he  had  seen  fourscore  years  and  ten.  The  lessons  he  gave 
his  grandchildren  on  obedience  were  not  all  forgotten.  His  wife 
was  a  modest,  intelligent  woman,  from  out  of  a  family  where 
marked  attention  was  paid  to  education.  Many  of  her  people  in 
past  and  present  time  have  been  and  are  noted  for  being  popular 
lifetime  instructors.  Two  of  her  twin  nieces  were  the  oldest 
teachers  in  America.  Mrs.  Swett  made  much  home  effort,  that 
there  should  be  a  mark  of  education  in  her  large  family.  Ch.  b. 
in  Portland:  Ebenezer,  Jr.1,  b.  1779,  March  12;  Jane7,  b.  1800,  Oct., 
d.  in  Portland,  1801,  Nov.;  John  Powell1,  b.  1801,  Aug.  30.  Ch.  b. 
in  Bedford:  Charles7,  b.  1804,  Jan.  29;  Lucy  Ann1  and  William7 
(twins),  b.  1806,  March  21,  William  d.  1806,  Aug.;  William1,  b. 
1808,  Jan.  26;  Jesse  Powell1,  b.  1810,  Feb.  11;  Susan  Gustin1,  b.  1812, 
Jan.  7;  David1  and  Frederick1  (twins),  b.  1814,  July  25;  Mary  Jane1, 
b.  1819,  Sept  6. 
VII.  Ebenezer,  Jr.,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1779,  March  12;  res.  in  Portland. 
When  aged  about  30  he  went  for  a  visit  across  a  tract  of  land 
where  Indians  dwelt,  and  as  he  was  never  heard  from  again  was 
thought  to  have  been  killed  by  them  for  his  new  clothes. 
VII.  John  Powell,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1801,  Aug.  30;  m.,  1st,  1830, 
Rebecca  Jane  (Pettingill)  Hunt  of  Nashua,  b.  Wilton,  1810,  d. 
1836,  Jan.  8;  m.,  2d,  Mary,  sister  of  his  first  wife,  b.  1805,  d.  1845, 
Aug.  1;  m.,  3d,  Fannie  M.  Knight  of  Pelham,  b.  1824,  d.  1838, 
Oct.  13.  He  came  to  Lowell,  1834;  was  a  carpenter  and  livery 
stable  keeper  in  Middlesex  and  Lowell,  where  the  Boston  &  Maine 
depot  stands.  He  had  a  robust  frame,  a  strenuous  life;  d.  in 
Lowell,  1886,  April  14  (portrait  in  Hist,  of  Lowell,  Mass).  Ch.: 
Elizabeth8;  John  Henry*;  Laura  Sophia8,  b.  in  Lowell,  1841,  Jan.  29, 
unm.,  passed  the  most  of  her  life  in  Lowell,  res.  with  John  H.8; 
Charles  Frederick8,  b.  Lowell,  1843,  Jan.  25,  d.  Lowell,  1844,  Jan. 
28;  Mary  Frances*;  Charles  Frederick*. 


GENEALOGIES. — SWETT.  1091 

Till.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John  Powell7,  b.  in  Middlesex,  1831,  March  20;  in. 
Alfred  M.  Hardy  of  Lowell;  d.  in  Manchester,  1877,  June  4.  She 
was  of  a  sweet  disposition  but  endured  great  hardship,  living  on 
the  Western  frontiers  much  of  her  life.  Ch.:  Frank9,  with  the 
father  in  the  West;  Arthur9,  in  the  electric  light  business,  'Lynn, 
Mass.;  Lizzie  Ann9,  d.;  Nellie  if.9;  Fred9,  grew  to  manhood,  d.  in 
the  West. 
IX.  Nellie  M.  (Hardy),  dau.  of  Elizabeth8;  m.  in  Manchester,  1881, 
March  28,  Charles  W.  Danforth;  she  d.  aged  25.  A  son*0  d.  1882, 
Aug.  12. 

Till.  John  Henry,  son  of  John  Powell7,  b.  in  Middlesex,  1833,  Sept.  23; 
attended  the  schools  of  Lowell  and  apprenticed  himself  to  the 
trade  of  wheelwright  and  carriage  builder.  He  early  engaged  in 
business  for  himself,  in  which  he  has  continued  in  Lowell  for 
twenty- five  years.  "  He  is  strictly  a  self-made  man.  He  has 
achieved  success  by  constant  application  to  business  and  stern  per- 
severing effort.  What  he  is  to-day  is  the  fruit  of  his  own  indus- 
try and  honest  endeavor.  He  was  a  most  indulgent  husband,  is  a 
kind  brother,  well  liked  in  business  and  society,  and  a  great 
reader"  (portrait  in  Hist,  of  Lowell).  He  m.,  1855,  June  18,  Cor- 
delia C.  Scott  of  Swanton,  Vt.,  b.  1833,  d.  Lowell,  1898,  July  16. 
Ch.:  Jennie  A.9,  d.  1859,  Aug.  31,  aged  1  yr.,  1  mo.,  1  d. 

Till.  Mary  Frances,  dau.  of  John  Powell7,  b.  in  Lowell,  1846,  Aug.  19;  m. 
1865  Joseph  Nye  of  Maine,  who  d.  in  Pennsylvania,  where  they 
res.  1896,  May.  Ch.  b.  Wilcox,  Pa.:  Flora9,  m.  1868,  has  ch.,  res.  in 
Oakdale,  Pa.;  Fred9,  m.  1870,  has  ch.,  res.  Salem,  West  Tirginia. 

Till.  Charles  Frederick,  son  of  John  Powell7,  b.  in  "Lowell,  1848,  Sept. ; 
m.,  andd.  in  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  1890,  Oct.  5.  Susan  Gustin7,  his 
aunt,  cared  for  him  in  youth  and  death.  Ch. :  A  dau9,  who  d. 
young  and  three  sons9. 
TIL  Charles,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1804,  Jan.  29;  m.  Anna  M.  Babcock,  b. 
Northboro,  Mass.,  1800,  June  21,  and  d.  in  New  York  1867,  July 
12.  He  was  an  upright,  Christian  man,  and  with  a  like-minded 
helpmate,  labored  and  gave  his  children  better  educational  ad- 
vantages than  his.  He  d.  in  North  Chelmsford,  1861,  Oct.  7.  Ch. 
b.  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.:  John  French*;  Ann  Maria8;  Sarah  Emeline9; 
Charles  Ebens;  Harriet  Newelle  Howard8,  b.  1841,  July  10,  d.  in 
North  Chelmsford,  1842,  Aug.  25. 

Till.  John  French,  son  of  Charles7,  b.  1829,  Nov.  29;  m.  1860,  July  5, 
Margaret  Robinson,  b.  Brunswick,  Me.,  1829,  May  31.  He  d.  1897, 
Dec.  He  was  a  machinist  and  served  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion 
in  the  first  regiment  that  went  to  the  front,  being  color  sergeant 
in  Company  A,  Sixth  Mass.  Reg.  Vol.  In  the  riot  as  the  regiment 
went  through  Baltimore,  1861,  April  19,  he  was  wounded  in  the 
head  by  a  paving  stone  but  recovered.  Ch.:  Annie  Mabel9,  b. 
Lowell,  1866,  Aug.  9. 
IX.  Annie  Mabel,  dau.  of  John  French8,  b.  1866,  Aug.  9;  m.  1896,  April 
21,  Jonathan  Elmer  Emerson,  b.  Danville,  Vt.,  1864, Dec.  13.  Ch.: 
Margie  Eliza10,  b.  Cambridge,  Mass.,  1897,  April  20;  Forrest 
Edwin10,  b.  Medford,  Mass.,  1901,  Feb.  22. 

Till.  Ann  Maria,  dau.  of  Charles7,  b.  1831,  Oct.  25;  m.  1853,  Jan.  20, 
Orrin  Stearns  Batchelder,  b.  Francestowu,  1828,  Dec.  11;  d.  1897, 
Nov.  3.  No  ch.  They  passed  their  married  life  in  Worcester, 
and  were  prominent  in  church  and  society. 

Till.  Sarah  Emeline,  dau.  of  Charles7,  b.  1836,  July  1;  m.  1856,  Aug.  21, 
Arthur  Harris  Sheldon,  b.  Rupert,  Vt.,  1832,  May  29.  They  are 
living  a  retired  life  at  her  parental  home,  in  North  Chelmsford. 
Ch.  b.  North  Chelmsford:  Charles  Henry9,  b.  1858,  Oct.  1;  Ada 
Maria9,  b.  1860,  July  30;  Clementine  Anna9,  b.  1866,  Nov.  27;  Sarah 
Alice9,  b.  1872,  Aug.  14. 


1092  HISTORY  OF  BEDFORD. 

IX.  Charles  Henry  (Sheldon),  son  of  Sarah  Emeline8,  b.  1858,  Oct.  1; 

m.  1866,  March,  Amanda  Charlotte  Johnson;  he  d.  1895,  Aug.  1. 

Ch.:  Hilma10,  b.  No.  Chelmsford,  1885,  March  27;  Arthur  Harris™, 
.     b.  Taunton,  Mass.,  1887,  Feb.  1. 
IX.  Ada  Maria  (Sheldon),  dau.  of  Sarah  .Emeline8,  b.  1860,  July  30;  in. 

1895,  June  27,  John  Quincy  Hayward,  b.  Boxboro,  Mass.,  1855,  a 
graduate  of  Amherst  college  in  1882.  She  d.  1902,  Nov.  25.  Ch. 
b.  W.  Medford,  Mass.:  Helen10,  b.  1896,  April  10;  Sheldon 
Conant10,  b.  1899,  July  19. 

IX.  Clementine  Anna  (Sheldon),  dau.  of  Sarah  Emeline8,  b.  1866,  Nov. 
27;  m.  1898,  Rev.  Ernest  C.  Bartlett,  b.  Woburn,  Mass.,  1864, 
April  18,  a  grad.  of  Williams  college  and  Andover  Theological 
seminary.    Ch.:  Anna  Batchelder10,  b.  Chelmsford,  1899,  Aug.  30. 

IX.  Sarah  Alice  (Sheldon),  dau.  of  Sarah  Emeline8,  b.  1872,  Aug.  14;  m. 

1896,  July  8,  Henry  Luther  Reynolds,  b.  in  Cavendish,  Vt.,  1872, 
Sept.  24.    Ch. :  Clifford  Sheldon10,  b.  West  Medford,  1897,  Sept.  19. 

VIII.  Charles  Eben,  son  of  Charles7,  b.  Chelmsford,  1839,  March  12;  m. 
1866,  Aug.  28,  Clementine  Keyes,  b.  Westford,  Mass.,  1838,  June  6. 
He  grad.  from  Apple  ton  academy,  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  from 
Dartmouth  college,  1864,  and  received  A.  M.  degree  1867.  He  be- 
came an  accomplished  teacher;  was  principal  of  Oneida  seminary, 
Oneida,  N.  Y.;  now  a  teacher  in  Winchester,   Mass.      His  wife 

was  also  a  highly  qualified  teacher.    Ch.:    Charles9,  b.   ,   d. 

Oneida,  N.  Y.,  1867,  Oct.  23;  Ralph  Keyes9,  b.  Westford,  1869, 
April  26,  m.  1900,  June  20,  Marguerite  Morris  Gemmell,  b.  Hart- 
ford, Conn.;  Edith  Josephine9,  b.  Roxbury,  Mass.,  1873,  March 
30,  grad.  from  Smith  college,  1894;  Arthur  Harold9,  b.  Roxbury, 
1875,  Aug.  17,  grad.  from  Amherst  college,  1897. 
VII.  Lucy  Ann,  dau.  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  Bedford,  1806,  March  21;  m.  1839, 
Oct.  23,  Edmund  Eastman,  b.  Boscawen,  1805,  April  8,  d.  Auburn, 
1880,  Aug.  18.  She  worked  in  the  first  cotton  mill  built  in  Man- 
chester, when  operatives  worked  fourteen  hoars  a  day,  and  when 
her  week's  work  was  done  walked  home  to  Bedford  Saturday 
nights.  Later  she  worked  in  Lowell,  when  but  one  street  was 
there,  united  with  a  church,  and  lived  there  over  fifty  years.  She 
d.  Auburn,  1880,  Aug.  18.  Ch. :  Charles8,  b.  Lebanon,  1841,  Oct. 
22,  d.  Lowell,  1847,  Dec.  26;  Augustus8,  b.  Lowell,  1844,  March  9, 
d.  Lowell,  1845,  Dec.  25;  Alphonso*,  b.  Lowell,  1846,  Feb.  23. 

VIII.  Alphonso  (Eastman),  son  of  Lucy  Ann7,  b.  1846,  Feb.  23;  m.  in 
Canaan,  1871,  Dec.  6,  Carrie  M.  George,  b.  Canaan,  1848,  Dec.  9. 
He  was  a  musician  in  the  Civil  war,  and  used  a  drum  his  father's 
uncle  used  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He  was  with  Co.  C, 
Sixth  Regt.,  Mass.  infantry;  was  injured  in  the  head,  causing 
permanent  deafness,  at  Fort  Delaware,  1864,  Sept.  Discharged, 
1864,  Oct.  24.  He  is  a  fine  band  musician  in  Manchester,  where 
he  res.    Ch.:  Sadie  Estelle9,  b.  Enfield,  1874,  Dec.  12,  res.  Man- 

VII.  William,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  Bedford,  1808,  Jan.  26;  m.  1833,  Aug. 
15,  Belinda  Wyman,  b.  Tyngsboro,  Mass.,  1814,  Dec.  9,  d.  No. 
Chelmsford,  1895,  Sept.  28.  He  had  a  twin  brother,  d.  young;  he 
was  a  millwright  by  trade,  and  followed  sawing  in  Lowell.  He 
was  noticeably  indulgent  in  his  home.  They  celebrated  their 
fiftieth  marriage  anniversary,  He  d.  at  No.  Chelmsford,  1892, 
April  27.  Ch.:  Belinda  Jane8,  b.  Billerica,  Mass.,  1838,  Nov.  22, 
d.  No.  Chelmsford,  1877,  Jan.  1;  ch.  b.  in  No.  Chelmsford:  Ade- 
laide Elvira*,  b.  1839,  April  14;  Charlotte  Frances8,  b.  1841,  March 
12,  d.  No.  Chelmsford,  1890,  Feb.  24,  unm.;  William  Henry8,  b. 
1843,  d.  1847,  March  7;  Henrietta8,  b.  1847,  Jan.  22,  d.  1858, 
March;  Martha  Ella8,  b.  1849,  Dec.  30,  m.  1891,  Oct.  29,  Alonzo 
N.  Smith,  Jr.,  b.  Lowell,  1855,  March  17;  George  William8,  b. 
1852,  Oct.  8,  m.  Ida  Trowbridge,  res.  No.  Chelmsford. 


GENEALOGIES. — SWETT.  1093 

VIII.  Adelaide  Elvira,  dau.  of  William7,  b.  1839,  April  14;  m.,  1st,  Joseph 

E.  Coolidge  of  Springfield,  Mass. ;  m. ,  2d, Chessley,  a  sculptor. 

She  d.  1880,  June  12,  when  returning  from  a  trip  to  New  York  on 
the  ill-fated  steamer  Narragansett.  She  d.  on  the  boat  which  took 
her  in,  murmuring,  "lost  baby,"  as  doubtless  she  thought  of  her 
three-year-old  girl  riding  on  her  chest.  Ch.:  Clayton  Howard9, 
b.  1867,  July  24,  res.  Ogden,  Utah;  Lillie  May9,  b.  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  1876,  Dec.  25. 
IX.  Lillie  May,  dau.  of  Adelaide  Elvira8,  b.  1876,  Dec.  25;  d.  1894,  July 
15.  She  was  reared  in  her  grandparents  home  in  No.  Chelms- 
ford, and  gained  repute  as  a  reader  and  vocalist. 
VII.  Jesse  Powell  (M.D.),  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1810,  Feb.  11;  m.  Eliza 
Wheelock  Spring,  b.  Hiram,  Me.,  1816,  April  28,  d.  Bromfield,  Me., 
1870,  Oct.  8.  She  was  a  woman  of  strong  mind  and  excellent 
heart.  He  d.  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  1885,  Aug.  20.  (See  Physicians.) 
Ch.  b.  Bromfield,  Me.:  Valeria  Goodenow*,  b.  1833,  Nov.  30;  John 
Aikin*,  b.  1856,  Oct.  23;  Jessie  May9,  b.  1860.  Oct.  29. 

VIII.  Valeria  Goodenow,  dau.  of  Jesse  Powell  (M.  D.)7,  m.  Paris  Gibson, 
LL.  D.,  U.  S.  senator,  b.  Bromfield,  1830,  July  1.  Hon.  P.  Gib- 
son was  senator  in  the  last  session  of  congress.  She  d.  in  Minne- 
sota, 1901,  Aug.  18.  Ch.  b.  in  Minneapolis:  Philip9,  b.  1859,  July 
2;  Helen9,  d.  in  infancy;  Theodore9,  b.  1863,  Aug.  2;  Paris9,  d.  in 
infancy. 
IX.  Philip  (Gibson),  son  of  Valeria  Goodenow8,  b.  1859,  July  2;  m.  1882, 
Mary  Douglass,  b.  1861,  April  19.  Ch.:  Paris  Douglas10,  b.  1883, 
May  7;  Louise10,  b.  1884,  Dec.  10;  Valeria10,  b.  1887,  Dec.  18. 
IX.  Theodore  (Gibson),  son  of  Valeria  Goodenow8,  b.  1863,  Aug.  2;  m. 
Mary  Alice  Johnson,  b.  1865,  Nov.  9.  Ch. :  Donald10,  b.  1889,  Feb. 
9;  Dorothy10,  b.  1891,  Jan.  30. 

VIII.  John  Aikin,  son  of  Jesse  Powell  (M.  D.)7,  b.  1856,  Oct.  23;  m.  Mary 
Frances  Towle  of  Fryeburg,  Me.,  b.  1866,  June  24.  He,  like  his 
father,  is  a  noted  M.  D.  in  Great  Falls,  Mon.  Ch.:  Robert9, d.  in 
infancy;  Valeria9,  d.  in  infancy;  Ruth9,  b.  1893,  June  1;  Jack9,  b. 
1895,  June  23;  Helen9,  b.  1897,  Oct.  20. 

VEIL  Jessie  May,  dau.  of  Jesse  PoweU  (M.  D.)7,  b.  1860,  Oct.  29;  m.  1882, 
Aug.  1,  Alfred  Greeley  Ladd,  M.  D.,  of  Portland,  b.  1851,  April; 
res.  in  Minneapolis.  Ch.:  Margaret9,  b.  1883,  May  21,  a  freshman 
at  Wellesley  college;  Greeley9,  b.  1885,  Aug.  26;  Valeria  Gibson9, 
b.  1893,  Nov.  5. 
VII.  Susan  Gustin,  dau.  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  Bedford,  1812,  Jan.  7;  is  unm., 
and  has  outlived  all  her  father's  family.  Hearty  and  quite  well, 
she  observed  her  ninety-first  birthday  anniversary,  in  the  home 
with  her  nephew,  A.  J.  Dennett,  M.  D.,  in  Lowell,  where  she 
res.  She  said,  "  Some  let  themselves  grow  old;  I  try  not  to  and 
calculate  to  keep  my  shape."  She  did  not  try  in  vain.  She  loves 
to  visit  and  talk  of  Bedford  and  hopes  to  live  to  see  this  history. 
VII.  David,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  1814,  July  25;  m.  1845,  Oct.  30,  Sally,  dau. 
of  Moses  Noyes.  She  was  b.  Amherst,  1815,  April  9;  d.  Bedford, 
1876,  May  4.  She  was  a  teacher  in  this  and  her  native  town;  a  hum- 
ble, refined  Cnristian  woman;  a  wise  counselor,  respected  at  home 
and  abroad;  her  portrait  is  in  History  of  Amherst.  David  was 
always  a  miller  in  Middlesex  and  North  Chelmsford,  and  owned  and 
operated  the  Aiken  mills,  on  the  southern  line  of  this  town,  from 
1848-'70.  He  first  saw  these  mills  when  as  a  little  lad  he  and  his 
.  twin  brother  carried  on  their  shoulders  a  peck  of  corn  from  their 
home  to  what  was  then  the  Daniel  Swett  (now  the  F.  Parkhurst) 
place,  and  from  there  by  only  a  foot-path  through  thick  woods,  all 
the  way  to  the  mill.  Mrs.  Aiken  so  slowly  ground  the  grain  that 
she  sat  on  the  grinding-stone,  knitting,  while  the  grain  was  being 
ground.    When  he  came  to  own  the  mill  it  went  with  a  merry 


1094  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

hum.  He  refitted  and  added  new  to,  and  improved  his  home.  He 
was  the  only  one  of  Ebenezer's  family  who  was  b.,  spent  most  of 
their  life  in,  and  d.,  in  Bedford.  He  was  active  in  business,  gener- 
ous, and  strictly  temperate.  He  d.  in  Bedford,  1901,  Nov.  19. 
Ch.:  Sarah  Jane  Noyes8,  b.  North  Chelmsford,  1846,  Aug.  21;  Lucie 
Ella8,  b.  Bedford,  1858,  July  8. 

VIII.  Sarah  Jane  Noyes,  dau.  of  David7,  b.  1846,  Aug.  21;  m.  in  Bedford, 
1870,  Oct.  29,  Eri  Kittredge  Woods,  b.  Merrimack,  1835,  Aug.  5. 
He  was  reared  in  Bedford  and  d.  Merrimack,  1889,  March  12.  He 
owned  and  ran  the  Aiken  mills  from  1870- '85.  She  graduated 
from  McGaw  Normal  institute  in  1863;  was  m.  on  her  parents 
twenty-fif th  marriage  anniversary,  when  there  were  present  and 
served,  the  reverend,  the  bridal  gown,  and  a  loaf  of  wedding  cake 
of  1845.  Mrs.  Woods  res.  in  Merrimack;  she  wrote  the  histories 
of  both  her  parents'  families,  Noyes  and  Swett.  "  She  is  a  lady 
of  literary  taste  and  ability,  and  has  contributed  considerably  to 
the  press.  I  am  indebted  to  her  for  much  of  my  information  of 
the  Noyes  family,  gathered  with  much  care  and  trouble."  (His- 
tory of  Windham.) 

VIII.  Lucie  Ella,  dau.  of  David7,  b.  Bedford,  1858,  July  8;  m.  1896,  Dec. 
30,  in  North  Brookfield,  Mass.,  Archelaus  Albert  Hill,  b.  George- 
ville,  P.  Q.,  1860,  Sept.  23;  res.  in  Merrimack. 
VII.  Frederick,  son  of  Ebenezer6,  twin  with  David,  b.  1814,  July  25;  m. 
in  Lowell,  1859,  May  12,  Ann  Randall,  b.  East  Bottom,  British 
Province,  1825.  He  d.  Manchester,  1882,  June  1.  No  ch. 
VII.  Mary  Jane,  dau.  of  Ebenezer6,  b.  Bedford,  1819,  Sept.  6;  m.  1854, 
Jacob  Alonzo  Dennett,  b.  Buxton,  Me.,  1823,  July  27.  She  d. 
Ithaca,  Wis.,  where  they  res.,  1882,  April  4.  Ch.:  Alonzo  Gus- 
tin9,  b.  Saco,  Me.,  1855,  June  7,  received  degree  of  B.  S.  from 
Wisconsin  state  university  in  1879,  and  of  M.  D.  from  Rush's 
Medical  college  of  Chicago  in  1883.  He  practised  in  Ironton, 
Wis.,  from  1883-'99,  since  then  in  Lowell,  Mass.  He  is  a  refined 
man,  respected  as  doctor,  citizen,  and  Christian.  He  m.  1884, 
Nov.  27,  Carrie  I.  Cass  of  Ithaca,  Wis.,  b.  1862,  June  18,  d.  in 
Ironton,  1890,  Feb.  19. 

The  Swetts  have  been  peaceable,  industrious,  law-abiding  citizens,  of 
interest  for  their  longevity,  the  majority  of  them  attaining  a  goodly  age. 
Of  Ebenezer  Swett's  family  of  Bedford  five  lived  over  fourscore  years,  one 
fourscore  years  and  ten,  and  ten  came  to  maturity.  The  most  spell  the 
name  Swett,  a  few  of  the  Maine  families  have  it  Sweat.  The  name  Moses 
ran  through  many  generations.  From  Munjoy's  hill  in  Portland  could  be 
seen  a  large  number  of  the  homes  of  the  Swetts,  not  only  the  homes  of  the 
living,  but  the  last  rest  of  the  deceased  in  the  "  silent  city."  In  Newbury 
graveyards  sleep  the  early  Swett  settlers.  The  oldest  Bedford  Swetts 
repose  beneath  gray  willowed  stones,  or  plain  monument,  in  the  snug  little 
burial  ground  at  Joppa  Hill.  Three  Moses  of  three  generations  lie  there, 
surrounded  by  some  descendants, — a  hallowed  spot  in  the  memory  of 
Swetts, — tenderly  inquired  for  by  the  far-distant  members  of  the  family. 
In  Lowell  cemetery  are  many  of  those  of  the  middle  and  later  generations. 
In  the  churchyard  at  Bedford  village  are  the  remains  of  many  Swetts, 
while  some  of  the  younger  ones  have  chosen  Pine  Grove  cemetery,  Man- 
chester, as  a  place  of  interment.  The  Bedford  families  all  spoke  with 
pride  of  their  people  dwelling  in  the  charming  city  of  Portland,  especially 
Ebenezer's  family,  as  his  and  his  wife's  people  were  mostly  there,  and 
many  quite  noted. 


GENEALOGIES. — TAFFE. — TARR. — TINKER.  1095 


TAFFE. 

I.  Lawrence,  only  son  of  Patrick  and  Mary  (Miles)  Taffe,  was  b.  in 
Taffestown,  County  Meath,  Ireland,  in  1780.  He  came  to  Bedford 
in  1847,  where  he  d.  1850,  Dec.  6. 
II.  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  Lawrence  and  Catherine  (Flood)  Taffe  was  b. 
in  Drumcondra,  County  Meath,  Ireland,  1813,  Aug.  15.  He  m.  Mary, 
dau.  of  Andrew  and  Rose  (Cooney)  Duffy,  b.  in  Fletcherstown, 
County  Meath,  Ireland,  1815.  They  came  to  Bedford  in  1847  and 
were  residents  of  the  town  until  the  time  of  their  death.  Thomas 
Taffe  d.  1891,  Dec.  12;  Mary,  his  wife,  d.  1897,  March  11.  Their 
ch.  were:  Catherine3,  b.  1840,  April  15,  d.  in  Bedford,  1869,  Jan.  21; 
Mary  J.3,  b.  1842,  Jan.  7;  Anne  R.3,  b.  1844,  Aug.  3;  Elizabeth  J.8, 
b.  1847,  May  31;  Thomas  W.s,b.  1849,  April  12;  Andrew  J.3,  b. 
1851,  April  22;  d.  1899,  Oct.  8;  Lawrence  A.3,  b.  1853,  Nov.  7,  now 
res.  in  New  York  city;  Henry  P.3,  b.  1856,  June  3,  now  res.  in 
New  York  city;  Charles  D.3,  b.  1859,  Jan.  24. 
III.  Thomas  W.,  son  of  Thomas2,  b.  1849,  April  12;  m.  1876,  Bridget 
Lynch.  Their  ch.  are:  Edward  H.*,  b.  1877,  April  21;  William 
T.4,  b.  1880,  July  2;  Mary  R.4,  b.  1886,  Dec.  8. 

TARR. 

I.  William  Henry,  m.  Lydia  C.  Peabody.     They  res.  in  Bedford,  and 

reared  a  family  of  several  ch.,  nearly  all  of  whom  have  rem.  from 
town.     Among  them  was  George  Peabody2. 
II.  George  Peabody,   son  of  William  H.1,  was  b.  in   Bedford,   1866, 
Dec.  12.    When  seventeen  years  of  age  he  entered  the  employ  of 

5,  C.  Forsaith  company,  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  served  them  as 
lumber  surveyor  for  eighteen  years,  though  the  business  changed 
hands  three  times  during  his  term  of  service.     He  m.  1894,  June 

6,  Ida  May  Simpkins,  b.  Manchester,  1874,  July  13,  dau.  of  Fred- 
erick H.  and  Eliza  (Buckland)  Simpkins,  botn  of  whom  were  b. 
in  England,  but  now  res.  in  Bedford.  Mr.  Simpkins  was  a  loom 
harness  dealer  in  Manchester  for  twenty-five  years  when  failing 
sight  compelled  him  to  give  up  his  business.  Mr.  Tarr  and  wife 
have  now  returned  to  Bedford.  Their  ch.  were  b.  in  Manchester, 
viz.:  a  son,3  b.  1895,  Jan.  22,  d.  1895,  Jan.  22,  Sarah  May3'  b.  1895, 
Dec.  28,  Ida  Eliza3,  b.  1899,  Mav  18,  d.  1899,  July  20,  Laura  Eliza3, 
b.  1900,  July  24,  d.  1900,  Oct.  24. 

TINKER. 

I.  Joseph  H.  Tinker  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1805,  June  9,  the  son  of  Josiah 
and  Sally  (Gage)  Tinker;  farmer;  was  m.  in  Goffstown  by  Rev. 

Stowell,   1835,   Feb.   22,   to    Mary  Anderson,  who  was  b. 

Grafton,  Vt.,  1810,  Jan.  5,  and  d.  in  Bedford,  1893,  April  3. 
Joseph  H.  d.  Bedford,  1892,  Aug.  3.  They  had  ch.,  all  b.  in  Bed- 
ford: Infant  son2,  b.  and  d.  1836,  Nov.  3;  Nancy  Anderson2,  b.  1837, 
Nov.  18;  infant  dau.2,  b.  and  d.  1840,  Jan.  16;  infant  son2,  b.  and  d. 
1841,  Feb.  18;  Mary  Sophia2,  b.  1842,  April  24;  Sarah  Elizabeth2,  b. 
1844,  Sept.  22;  James  Foster2,  b.  1847,  May  22;  Joseph  Byron2,  b. 
1850,  May  1,  d.  1856,  March  12;  George  Almus2,  b.  1852,  July  31. 

II.  Nancy  A.,  dau.  of  Joseph1,  b.  1837,  Nov.  18;  m.  1856,  Dec,  George 

B.  Russell,  a  mason.  They  res.  in  Mt.  Vernon  where  he  d.,  and 
where  their  ch.  were  b.:  Eveline3,  b.  1859,  April  1,  m.  Alfred  B. 
Campbell  (see  Campbell) ;  Byron3,  b.  1860,  Nov.  2,  m.  1885,  Dec. 

7,  Addie  Gordon,  res.  in  Concord. 


1096  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

II.  Mary  Sophia,  dau.  of  Joseph1,  b.  1842,  April  24;  m.,  1856,  Walter 

Gage  of  Bedford,  where  they  res.     She  d.  Bedford,  1896,  July  19. 

Their  eight  ch.  were:  Esther  L.3,  b.  1858,  April  26,  d.  1872,  April  1; 

Mary  L.3,  b.  1865,  May  5,  d.  1872,  April  3;  Ida  A.3,  b.  1862,  July 

3,  d.  1872,  April  1;  Frank  W.3,  b.  1871,  July  14,  d.  1872,  April  11; 

Perley  W.3,  only  ch.  now  living;  names  and  dates  of  the  other 

three  not  given. 
II.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Joseph1,  b.  1844,  Sept.  22;  m.,  1st,  1886, 

June  22,  Lyman  Stowell,  and  res.  in   Goffstown,  where  he  d. 

1891,  Dec.  30.      She  m.,  2d,  1903,  Feb.  11,  Albert  L.  Flint  of 

Bedford. 
II.  James  Foster,  son  of  Joseph1,  b.  1847,  May  22;  m.   1873,  Oct.  22, 

Addie  Lizzie,  b.  1849,  Oct.  5,  dau.  of  Elbridge  Gerry  and  Rhoda 

(French)  Barr,  who  d.  1899,  Nov.  27.    Their  ch.  are:  Charles  J.3, 

b.  Bedford,  1875,  July  10,  m.  1900,  Dec.  5,  Marguerite  Currie  (see 

Currie),  they  res.  in  Manchester;   Nettie  B.3,  b.  Bedford,  1882, 

March  13. 
II.  George  Almus,  son  of  Josiah1,  b.  1852,  July  31;  m.  1877,  Oct.  30, 

Ella  Gale  of  Danbury,  N.  H.     An  infant  dau.  was  b.  and  d.  in 

Bedford,  1894,  Feb.  14. 


TOLFORD   (TALFORD). 

I.  John  Tolford  was  b.  about  fifteen  miles  from  Londonderry,  Ire.,  in 
May,  1700.  He,  it  is  said,  came  over  in  company  with  John 
Aiken,  and  settled  at  Chester,  N.  H.,  in  May,  1724.  He  was  a 
major  in  the  militia,  and  held  many  civil  offices.  He  became  a 
large  landholder,  and  was  an  enterprising  man,  having  built  the 
first  sawmill  at  White  Hall,  in  Hooksett.  He  m.  Jean  McMur- 
phy,  1734,  Jan.  8,  who  was  b.  in  Oct.,  1710  or  1711.  The  follow- 
ing is  copied  from  the  Collections  of  New  Hampshire  Historical 
Society,  vol.  4,  page  201:  "He  was  selected  in  1754,  being  then  a 
major,  by* the  government  of  New  Hampshire,  as  one  of  the 
officers  to  command  a  party  sent  out  to  explore  the  Coos  country, 
which  party  set  out  March  10th,  and  in  seven  days  reached  the 
Connecticut  river  at  Piermont.  They  were  accompanied  by  John 
Stark,  who  had  been  the  preceding  year  a  prisoner  among  the 
Indians  and  was  acquainted  with  that  region,  as  a  guide.  After 
passing  one  night,  and  making  such  observations  as  their  time 
would  allow  them,  they  returned,  and  on  the  13th  day  from 
the  time  they  left,  reached  Concord."  John  Tolford  d.  1790, 
May  10.  Jean  d.  1792,  Dec.  29.  They  had  nine  ch.,  as  follows: 
Mary2,  b.  1734,  Nov.  10;  Susanna2,  b.  1736,  Nov.  1;  Joshua2,  b. 
1739,  Feb.  11;  Rebecca2,  b.  1741,  Feb.  26,  d.  1742,  Aug.  9;  Jane2, 
b.  1743,  May  5,  m.  William  Murray,  d.  1809,  Nov.  7;  Rebecca2,  b. 
1745,  Aug.  16;  Hugh2,  b.  1747,  Dec.  22;  John2,  b.  1750,  Jan.  2, 
moved  to  Danbury,  N.  H;  Anna2,  b.  1752,  July  17,  d.  1780, 
May  15. 

II.  Joshua,  son  of  John1,  b.  1739,  Feb.  11;  m.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Deacon 
Benjamin  Smith,  and  moved  to  Alexandria,  N.  H.,  when  about 
twenty-two  years  of  age.  Their  family  moved  to  the  northwest 
part  of  New  York. 

II.  Hugh,  son  of  John1,  b.  1747,  Dec.  22;  m.  17—,  April  23,  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  Hon.  Matthew  Patten.  She  was  b.  1759,  May  27.  A 
family  record  says  they  were  joined  in  marriage  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Pickles,  at  Esq.  Patten's  in  Bedford.  Hugh  d.  1823,  April  24. 
Had  four  ch.:  Isaac3,  b.  1786,  Aug.  28;  William3,  b.  at  Chester, 
1795,  Oct.  2;  Jane3,  b.  1797,  Aug.  21;  Elizabeth3,  b.  1801,  June  1, 
d.  1807,  June  4. 


GENEALOGIES. — TOLFORD. — TOWNSEND.  1097 

III.  Isaac,  son  of  Hugh2,  b.  17 — ,  Aug.  28;  d.  of  smallpox  in  London, 
1808,  July  16.  He  ran  away  from  home  when  about  seventeen 
years  of  age,  and  followed  the  sea  with  much  success  until  his 
death.  Several  letters  now  in  possession  of  the  Tolford  family, 
written  from  different  foreign  ports,  give  very  interesting 
accounts  of  his  travels.  One  written  at  New  York,  1806,  March 
27,  after  a  return  voyage  from  France,  states  that  he  saw  Bona- 
parte, with  all  his  retinue,  passing  through  France  as  they  were 
returning  from  Italv. 

III.  William,  son  of  Hugh2,  b.  1795,  Oct.  2;  m.  1823,  Dec.  18,  Sally,  b. 

1797,  Nov.  5,  dau.  of  Robert  Patten.  They  were  m.  by  the  Rev. 
David  McGregor;  moved  to  Bedford  soon  afterward,  and  settled 
on  the  Robert  Patten  homestead,  now  known  as  Tolford  Hill. 
William  d.  1867,  May  9;  Sally,  his  wife,  d.  1875,  Feb.  10.  They 
had  three  ch.:  Eliza4,  b.  1825,  Oct.  10,  d.  1826,  Feb.  22;  Elbridge 
Gerry*,  b.  1829,  May  9;  Dewitt  Clinton4,  b.  1834,  June  27,  m.  1882, 
Aug.  4,  Mrs.  Kate  Fales,  res.  in  Goffstown. 

IV.  Elbridge  Gerry,  son  of  William3,  b.  1829,  May  9;  d.  1899,  Feb.  17. 

He  m.,  1st,  1855,  Nov.  15,  Nancy  Jane  Stewart  of  Amherst,  who 
was  b.  1831,  Feb.  2,  and  d.  1870,  Nov.  25.  He  m.,  2d,  Sarah  Dan- 
forth  Leach  of  New  Boston,  who  survives  him,  and  now  res.  in 
Manchester.  Ch.  of  first  mar.:  Leona  O.5,  b.  1857,  Sept.  17,  d. 
1862,  Dec.  28;  George  Gerry5,  b.  I860',  July  17;  Frank  Wright5,  b. 
1861,  Sept.  19;  William  Moses5,  b.  1864,  March  30.  Ch.  of  2d  mar.: 
Jennie  May8,  b.  1871,  Dec.  15,  d.  1899,  Feb.  13;  Hattie  Grace6,  b. 
1876,  Dec.  17,  lives  at  Manchester. 

V.  George  Gerry,  son  of  Elbridge  G.4,  b.  1860,  July  17;  m.  1886,  Oct. 
27,  Emma  Flynn  of  New  Boston,  who  was  b.  1863,  Oct.  1,  at 
Jersey  City.  He  is  established  in  business  at  Wilton.  Has  had 
three  ch.:  Carl  Stewart6,  b.  1887,  Dec.  17;  Ruth  Mildred6,  b.  1890, 
Sept.  24,  d.  1893,  May  11;  Elizabeth  Campbell6,  b.  1894,  June  26. 

V.  Frank  Wright,  son  of  Elbridge  G.4,  b.  1861,  Sept.  19;  m.  1887,  March 
29,  Jennie  Lampher,  and  res.  at  Wilton.  Has  two  ch.:  Annie 
Leona6,  b.  1888,  June  6;  Doris6,  b.  1894,  May  7. 

V.  William  Moses,  son  of  Elbridge  G.4,  1864,  March  30;  m.  Sophia  C. 
Jones  of  Maiden,  Mass.  He  was  established  in  business  for  some 
years  in  Maiden,  and  d.  at  Shanghai,  China,  1901,  Jan.  12.  Had 
two  ch.:  Helen  Stewart6,  b.  1897,  March  4;  Marion  Waite6,  b. 
1899,  April  6. 

TOWNSEND. 

I.  Thomas  came  from  Massachusetts  with  a  colony  of  fifteen  and  set- 
tled in  Bedford,  on  the  Wallace  road,  so-called.  A  son  Oliver2, 
was  b.  1764,  Oct.  4. 
II.  Oliver,  son  of  Thomas1;  m.,  1st,  Miss  McConihe;  m.,  2d,  Sarah  Bell 
Platts.  He  d.  1835.  Had  ch.  by  1st  mar.,  viz.:  Samuel3;  Thomas3; 
Thadeus3;  Hugh3;  and  Rebecca3.     By  2d  mar.,  Timothy*. 

III.  Timothy,  son  of  Oliver2,  was  b.  1817,  April  3;  farmer;  m.,'lst,  Nancy, 

b.  1817,  June  23,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret  (McFerson) 
Stevens  of  Goffstown,  who  d.  1850,  June  23;  m.,  2d,  Margaret  A. 
Stevens,  b.  1823,  Oct.  28,  d.  1885,  July  13;  in.,  3d.,  Mrs.  Anne 
Swett,  b.  1825,  July  12.  He  d.  1897,  March  5.  Had  ch.  by  1st  mar., 
viz.:  Emily  S.4,  b.  1841,  Aug.  30,  m.  Samuel  Swett  (see  Swett); 
Horace*,  b.  1843,  Feb.  28;  Charles*,  b.  1844,  Sept.  22;  George  O.4,  b. 
1847,  April  23,  d.  1864,  Sept.  23,  while  serving  in  the  Union  army. 

IV.  Horace,  son  of  Timothy,  b.  1843,  Feb.  28;   milkman;  m.  1868,  Nov. 

22,  Susan  E.  Wilson.  He  served  in  the  Civil  war  and  received  a 
gun  shot  wound  in  the  right  foot,  1864,  June  5;  lost  a  hand,  1878, 
while  blasting  rocks,  and  became  blind  1890. 


1098  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

IV.  Charles,  son  of  Timothy,  b.  1844,  Sept.  22;  m.  1870,  May  2,  Mar- 
garet Campbell.  He  also  served  in  the  Civil  war,  and  was  dis- 
charged for  disability. ;  d.  1897,  Feb.  9.  Had  two  ch. :  Maud5  and 
Helen5. 

VOSE. 

"The  Voses,"  said  Rev.  Dr.  Harris  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  "came  origi- 
nally from  Germany,  the  name  then  being  spelled  Voose,  afterward  Voseius, 
from  whence  comes  the  present  name  Vose." 

I.  Robert  Vose  came  from  Lancashire,  England,  in  1638,  with  a  com- 
pany which  settled  in  Dorchester.  In  1640  he  purchased  a  farm 
in  that  part  of  Dorchester,  now  Milton.  There  was  said  to 
have  been  a  brother  of  Robert,  who  settled  in  Connecticut  and 
spelled  the  name  Vorse,  and  it  is  from  that  family  that  Albert 
Vorse  descended.  Robert  Vose  was  b.  in  1599  and  d.  in  1683, 
while  Jane,  his  wife,  d.  in  1675.  They  had  five  ch.,  but  we  find  no 
mention  of  Henry2,  the  eldest,  after  his  childhood.  The  second 
son,  Edward2,  remained  on  the  homestead,  wnich  his  father  had 
purchased,  while  his  younger  brother,  Thomas",  settled  in  another 
part  of  the  town.  The  elder  daughter,  Elizabeth2,  b.  in  1639,  m. 
Thomas  Swift  in  1657,  and  d.  in  1675.  Her  sister,  Martha2,  m. 
John  Sharp,  but  after  he  was  killed  by  the  Indians,  in  1676,  she 
became  Mrs.  Buckminister. 
II.  Edward,  son  of  Robert1,  was  b.  in  1636;  d.  in  1716,  leaving  one  son, 
Nathaniel*. 

III.  Nathaniel,  son  of  Edward2,  was  b.  1672;  m.  Mary  Belcher;  d.  1753, 

and  had  four  ch.:  Joseph'1;  Margaret*;  Merrium4,  m.  Robert  Vose; 
Elijah*. 

IV.  Joseph,  son  of  Nathaniel,  b.  1816;  was  colonel  of  the  First  Massa- 

chusetts regiment  in  the  time  of  the  Revolution;  m.  Sarah  Howe; 
had  a  son,  Josiah  Howe?. 
V.  Josiah  Howe,  son  of  Joseph4,  was  colonel  in  the  United  States 
army;  m.  Charlotte  Cushing,  and  had  a  son,  James  G.6 

VI.  Rev.  James  G.,  son  of  Josiah  Howe5,  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  writes  in 
1900:  "  I  am  descended  in  a  direct  line  from  Robert,  who  pur- 
chased a  farm  in  Milton  (1640),  eighteen  acres  of  which  still 
remain  the  property  of  myself  and  sister. ' ' 

IV.  Margaret,  dau  of  Nathaniel3;  m.  Ezekiel  Savage.  Their  son,  Rev. 
Thomas  Savage,  b.  1793,  was  pastor  in  Bedford  from  1825  to  1865 
(see  Savage) . 

IV.  Elijah,  son  of  Nathaniel3,  b.  1708;  m.  Sarah  Bent;  d.  1766;  had 
four  ch.:  Gen.  Joseph,  b.  1738,  d.  1816;  Col.  Elijah,  b.  1744,  d. 
1822;  Moses;  and  Bill.  Gen.  Joseph  and  Col.  Elijah  were  both 
prominent  in  the  Revolution.  Gen.  Joseph  served  through  the 
whole  war;  at  its  close  he  was  colonel,  but  was  afterwards  pro- 
moted. He  had  eleven  ch. 
II.  Thomas,  son  of  Robert1,  b.  1641;  d.  1708;  settled  near  the  home- 
stead of  his  father  and  seems  to  have  left  but  one  son,  Henry8, 
although  mention  is  made  of  three  other  ch.:  Elizabeth3  (Crane) 
b.  1661;  Jane3  (Lyon),  b.  1665;  and  Thomas3,  b.  1667. 

III.  Henry,  son  of  Thomas,  b.  1663;  d.  1752;  received  a  grant  of  land  in 
Bedford  for  services  in  the  Narragansett  Indian  war.  He  had 
two  wives,  Elizabeth  Babcock  and  Jemimee  Tucker.  Elizabeth 
was  the  mother  of  ten  ch.,  viz.:  Wartstill4,  b.  1691,  m.  John 
Deats;  Robert*,  b.  1693;  Elisabeth4,  b.  1695;  Mary4,  b.  1697,  m. 
Capt.  John  Billings;  Martha4,  b.  1698,  m.  Isaac  Adams;  Abigail4, 
b.  1700,  d.  young;  Joshua4,  b.  1702;  Hepsibah4,  b.  1704;  Bulah4,  b. 
1706,  m.  Isaac  Billings;  Thomas4,  b.  1708,  m.,  1st,  Experience 
Tucker,  2d,  Patience  Billings. 


GENEALOGIES. — VOSE.  1099 

IV.  Robert,  son  of  Henry3,  b.  1693;  m.  Abigail  Sumner,  and  had 
thirteen  ch.:  Othniel5  and  Wartstill5,  b.  1721,  d.  young;  Robert5, 
b.  1723,  m.  Merriura  Vose  (Edward's2  granddaughter),  d.  1777; 
Henry5,  b.  1725;  William5,  b.  1729,  d.  young;  Samuel5,  b.  1730; 
William5,  b.  1732;  James5,  b.  1734;  Elisabeth5,  b.  1736;  Abigail5, 
b.  1738,  d.  young;  Thomas5,  b.  1740,  m.  Mary  Tucker;  Joshua5,  b. 
1742;  and  Benjamin5,  b.  1744.  Of  these  ch.  three  sons  survived 
their  father,  Lieut.  Samuel,  Lieut.  James,  and  Thomas.  Thomas 
remained  in  Milton,  but  his  son,  the  Hon.  Thomas,  moved 
to  Robbinston,  Me.,  to  manage  the  business  of  Gov.  Edward  Rob- 
bins.  Samuel  and  James  came  to  Bedford  and  settled  on  the 
River  road  near  the  Merrimack  line,  probably  about  1755.  Later 
they  moved  to  Plummer  Hill. 
V.  Lieut.  Samuel,  son  of  Robert4,  b.  1730;  d.  in  Bedford,  1799;  m. 
Phebe  Vickery,  b.  1729,  d.  1801.  Their  ch.  were:  Thomas6,  b. 
1757;  Dea.  Samuel6,  moved  to  Antrim  in  1788;  Robert6,  moved  to 
Antrim  in  1790;  Francis6;  John6,  b.  1766,  grad.  at  Dartmouth  in 
1795,  then  became  a  teacher  at  Atkinson  and  Pembroke  (see  bio- 
graphical sketch) ;  Roger6;  Mercy6;  and  Phebe6. 

VI.  Roger,  son  of  Lieut.  Samuel;   m.  Anna  ;   moved  to  Spencer, 

N.  Y.,  with  his  family  of  ten  ch.:  Samuel7;  John7;  Phebe7,  b. 
1779;  Jesse7,  b.  1801;  Rachel7,  b.  1803;  Mary7,  b.  1805;  Otis7,  b. 
.  1807;  Nancy.7;  Alfred7,  b.  1812;  and  Cynthia7,  b.  1818. 
V.  Lieut.  James,  son  of  Robert4,  b.  1734;  m.  Abigail ;  d.  in  Bed- 
ford, 1808.  Had  ch.:  James6,  b.  1769,  d.  1770;  James6,  b.  1772, 
d.  1775;  Jacob6;  Joshua6;  also  four  daughters,  of  these  two  m. 
Eatons,  one  a  Vickery,  and  the  other  a  Barnes. 

VI.  Jacob,  son  of  Lieut.  James5;   moved  to  Spencer,  N.  Y.,  with  his 

family,  which  consisted  of  Betsey7  (Van  Woert) ;  Persis7  (Cros- 
sen);  Deborah7  (Stevens);  Sally7  (Doane);  Rebecca1;  Othniel  Sum- 
ner1, and  by  a  second  mar.:  Rachel";  George7;  John7;  Ephraim7; 
Thomas7;  Joshua7;  and  David7. 

VIII.  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Jacob6,  b.  1798,  Dec.  1;  remained  in  Bedford;  m. 
Henry  J.  Plummer,  who  was  b.  1800,  Sept.  6;  she  d.  1885.  Their 
ch.  were:  Rodney,  b.  1824;  Fred  and  Frank  (twins),  b.  1827; 
Abbie  Persis,  b.  1831,  now  living  in  Bedford  (see  Worthley); 
Henry  Sumner,  b.  1835,  now  living  in  Manchester;  Joseph  and 
Benjamin  (twins),  b.  1837. 

VII.  Othniel  Sumner,  son  of  Jacob6;  had  ch.:  Nancy  Elizabeth  (King)  of 
New  York;  Albert  Sumner,  now  living  in  Yorklin,  Del;  Lemuel 
Dickerman,  now  living  in  Chicago;  Jacob  Othniel,  now  living  in 
Oswego,  N.  Y.;  Dr.  Franklin  Joseph,  b.  1851,  m.  Alice  Lowman, 
now  a  physigian  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  Enoch  Lorenzo,  m.  Sarah 
Van  Woert. 
VI.  Joshua,  son  of  Lieut.  James,  b.  1781;  d.  1862;  m.,  1st,  Nancy  Shir- 
ley; m.,  2d,  Mary  Houston.  Ch.  of  1st  mar.  were:  Daniel1,  b.  1808; 
James1,  b.  1809;  Nancy7,  b.  1812,  d.  1817;  Joshua1,  b.  1815.  Ch.  of 
2d  mar.  were:  Nancy  A.7,  b.  1829,  m.  1857,  John  O.  Parker,  now 
living  in  Manchester;  John  Oilman1,  b.  1832;  Justin  E.7,  b.  1835, 
d.  1894. 

VII.  Daniel,  son  of  Joshua6,  b.  1808;  d.  1879;  m.  1833,  Fannie  Chase  and 
had  ch.:  Thomas8,  who  had  ch.,  Shirley9  and  Laura9;  Roger 
Horace*,  b.  1837;  Francis8;  James8;  Helen8;  and  Sumner8. 
VIII.  Roger  Horace,  son  of  Daniel7,  b.  1837;  m.  1st,  1857,  Mary  Jane 
Muzzey,  who  d.  1888,  March;  m.,  2d,  1889,  Sept.,  Martha  E. 
Cutler.  He  d.  1902,  Jan.  Had  ch.:  Carrie  Alice9,  b.  1861,  d. 
1863;  Mary  Illione9,  b.  1866,  d.  1867;  Mabel  Francis9,  b.  1878, 
Nov.,  m.  1902,  June,  Emerson  E.  Densmore. 

VII.  James,  son  of  Joshua6,  b.  1809;  d.  1841;  had  one  dau.  Mary  Helen8, 

now  living  in  Vicksburg,  Miss. 


1100  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

VII.  Joshua,  son  of  Joshua6,  b.  1815;  m.  Maria  Alexander,  who  was  b. 
1815.  He  d.  1899.  They  had  one  dau.,  Mary  C.8,  b.  1842,  and  d. 
1861. 

VII.  John  Oilman,  son  of  Joshua6,  b.  1832;  m.  1860,  Mary  E.  Keniston. 
They  had  ch.:  Joshua,  b.  1863,  June;  d.  1863,  Oct.;  Mamie  Fran- 
cis8, b.  1865,  Feb.,  now  Mrs.  John  G.  McAllaster  of  Manchester 
(see  McAllaster) ;  Annie  Morrill8,  b.  1875,  Oct. 

HON.  JOHN  VOSE. 

The  following  sketch  is  from  the  Rev.  Wm.  Cogswell,  D.  D.: 

"  Hon.  John  Vose,  son  of  Lieut.  Samuel  Vose,  was  born  in  Bedford, 
N.  H.,  July  10,  1766.  He  took  degree  at  Dartmouth  college,  1795, — one  of 
the  best  scholars  of  his  class,  though  it  contained  such  men  as  Heman 
Allen,  Abijah  Bigelow,  Luther  Jewett,  members  of  Congress;  Judah 
Dana,  U.  S.  senator,  Judge  Nichols  Emery,  and  Drs.  Samuel  Worcester 
and  Thomas  Snell.  His  Commencement  exercise  was  a  '  Philosophical 
Oration  on  Thunder  Storms. '  He  excelled  in  mathematics  and  philosophy. 
After  leaving  college,  he  immediately  became  preceptor  of  the  academy  at 
Atkinson,  N.  H.  For  twenty-one  years  he  had  charge  of  that  institution, 
which  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  has  been  one  of  the  most  respectable  in  the 
state.  In  1820  he  removed  to  Pembroke,  and  became  principal  of  the 
academy  in  that  place,  where  he  continued  eleven  "years.  In  1831  he 
returned  to  Atkinson,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days. 

"In  1801  Mr.  Vose  was  appointed  justice  of  peace,  of  the  Quorum  of 
1815,  and  was  continued  in  office  till  his  death.  He  was  senator  in  the 
general  court,  from  the  third  senatorial  district,  in  1816.  He  was  for 
many  years  deacon  of  the  church  in  Atkinson,  and  at  his  death  was 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  academy  in  that  place.  He  was 
president  of  the  Merrimack  County  Temperance  society,  from  its  forma- 
tion until  he  left  the  county,  in  1831;  and,  for  many  years,  was  one  of  the 
vice-presidents  of  the  'American  Sunday-school  Union.'  All  these  trusts, 
he  fulfilled  with  great  propriety,  faithfulness,  and  acceptance. 

"Mr.  Vose  published  an  oration,  delivered  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
society  of  Dartmouth  college,  in  1805,  and  an  oration  on  the  4th  of  July, 
delivered  at  Bedford,  N.  H.,  in  1809;  also,  an  oration  before  the  Rocking- 
ham Agricultural  society,  at  Derry,  in  1813.  He  published,  in  1827, 
a  '  System  of  Astronomy,'  containing  252  pages  of  octavo  size;  and  also, 
in  1832,  a  'Compendium  of  Astronomy,'  for  common  schools,  of  12mo 
form.  These  are  not  merely  compilations,  but  original  and  valuable 
works. 

"Mr.  Vose  was  devout,  modest,  and  exemplary,  consistent  in  all  his 
deportment  as  a  man  and  a  Christian.  His  last  illness  was  a  gradual 
decline,  and  he  died,  much  lamented,  April  3,  1840,  at  the  age  of  74,  in 
the  peace  and  hope  of  the  gospel.  He  has  left  a  wife  and  five  children. 
At  his  funeral,  a  very  appropriate  discourse  was  delivered  by  Rev.  John 
Kelley  of  Hampstead,  from  Acts  8:2, — 'And  devout  men  carried  Stephen 
to  his  burial,  and  made  great  lamentation  over  him.'  " 

WALCH   (WELCH). 

I.  John  Welch  married  Mary  Wheatstone  and  settled  in  Barnstead, 
N.  H.  Had  ch.:  Jonathan2;  Ephrairn2;  Mary2;  Betsy2;  Edward2; 
Andrew2;  Moses2;  Samuel2.  John1  died  while  his  children  were 
young,  and  Ephraim,  who  was  one  of  the  older  children,  was 
taken  from  home  and  bound  out,  as  the  custom  then  was.  Being 
separated  from  his  family  he  came  to  spell  the  name  Walch, 
while  his  brothers  and  their  descendants  spell  the  name  Welch  as 
it  had  been. 


GENEALOGIES. — WALCH. — WALKER.  1101 

II.  Ephraim  was  b.  in  Barnstead,  N.  H.,  in  1791.  He  enlisted  from 
Barnstead  in  War  of  1812;  m.  Mary  Keniston  of  Littleton,  N.  H., 
who  was  b.  in  1796,  and  was  of  Scotch  parentage.  Had  ch.: 
Eben3;  Mary  Anne3;  Stephen3;  Sarah  Jane3;  Sylvester3;  James 
Edward3;  Frank3;  Benjamin3;  Melissa3;  Caroline3. 

III.  James  Edward,  b.  1830,  Jnne  20,  in  Barnstead,  N.  H.;   m.    1849, 

Ang.  12,  Snsan  Maria,  dau.  of  Alfred  and  Eliza  (Wood)  Beaman, 
who  was  b.  in  Princeton,  Mass.,  1831,  April  8.  Ch.:  Lnella  M.4; 
Clarence  E.4;  Emily  B.4;  Florrie  E.4;  Frank  A.4;  George  Lincoln*; 
Walter  M.4;  James  R4;  Susie  M.4;  Annie  F.4 

IV.  George  Lincoln,  son  of  James  Edward3,  was  b.  in  Litchfield,  N.  H., 

1860,  July  3.  He  m.  1884,  Dec.  23,  Ella  D.,  b.  Bedford,  1866, 
Dec.  11,  dau.  of  William  and  Orline  (Flint)  McAfee  (see  McAfee). 
They  have  one  son,  Wayland  Flint5,  b.  1888,  Nov.  25. 

WALKER. 

"Rev.  George  Walker,  rector  of  the  parish  of  Donoughmore,  was 
one  of  the  leaders  of  the  besieged  inhabitants  of  Londonderry,  Ireland, 
in  1689.  Although  an  aged  man,  he  was  active  in  the  defence  of  the 
city,  and  did  much  to  assist  the  starving  inhabitants  in  their  efforts  to 
obtain  food.  He  was  a  man  of  great  force  of  character,  a  natural  leader. 
It  is  natural  that  from  this  forceful  man,  should  spring  a  family,  noted 
for  its  energy  and  strong  character." 

I.  In  1714  a  descendant  of  the  Rev.  George  Walker,  Andrew  by 
name,  came  over  from  Londonderry,  and  settled  in  Billerica, 
Mass.,  afterwards  removing  to  Tewksbury,  where  he  d.  He  was 
accompanied  by  his  wife  and  two  sons,  Robert2  and  James2,  who 
were  afterwards  reinforced  by  seven  other  ch.:  Alexander2,  m.  a 
Caldwell;  Margaret2,  m.  Nathaniel  Davidson;  Mary2,  m.  Robert 
Davidson;  Sarah2,  d.  single;  Nancy2,  m.  James  Carr  of  Goffs- 
town;  Hannah2,  m.  Francis  Barnet  of  Bedford;  Jane2,  m.  William 
Barnet  of  Bedford.  At  what  time  Andrew,  the  common  ances- 
tor, d.  is  uncertain.  There  is  (1903)  in  the  possession  of 
Charles  K.  Walker,  Esq.,  of  West  Manchester,  a  power  of  attor- 
ney dated  1739,  given  by  Capt.  James  Walker  to  his  father, 
Andrew,  then  residing  in  Tewksbury,  Mass. 
In  1734  Robert  and  James  went  to  live  with  their  uncle,  Archibald 
Stark,  father  of  Gen.  John  Stark,  then  living  in  Londonderry, 
N.  H.  Here  for  three  years  they  made  turpentine  from  the  pitch- 
pine  trees  growing  abundantly  in  the  forest.  In  the  fall  of  1737 
they  crossed  the  Merrimack  river  and  bnilt  a  log  cabin  for  shelter 
during  the  winter,  thus  becoming  the  first  settlers  of  the  town  of 
Bedford.  During  the  winter  they  felled  the  trees,  and  in  the 
spring  finished  clearing  the  first  piece  of  land  in  town.  Here,  too, 
they  were  joined  in  the  spring  by  Matthew  and  Samuel  Patten 
(brothers)  from  Dunstable,  Mass.,  who  assisted  in  clearing  the 
land  and  lived  with  them  until  their  own  house  was  completed. 
Robert  was  a  noted  hunter,  while  James  excelled  in  fine  horses. 
In  one  instance,  a  man,  who,  like  too  many  nowadays,  had  very 
confused  ideas  of  mine  and  thine,  stole  from  him  a  fine  mare. 
He  pursued  the  thief  by  a  peculiar  mark  (figure  of  a  pipe)  on  one 
of  the  shoes,  made  purposely  by  the  blacksmith,  and  overtook  him 
beyond  Boston  where  he  recovered  his  mare. 


Another  record  states  that  Andrew  Walker1,  was  b.  in  Londonderry,  Ire- 
land, in  1720,  came  to  this  country  in  1734,  and  m.  Peggy  Boyce  in  1748. 
They  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters:  Andrew2,  James2,  Robert2,  Peg- 
gy2, Patty2,  and  Jenny2.     He  rem.  to  New  Boston  in  1753,  and  erected  the 


1102  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

first  saw  and  grist-mills  in  that  town,  on  the  middle  branch  of  the  Piscat- 
aqnog  river.  He  d.  in  May,  1783,  and  is  buried  at  New  Boston  (see  New 
Boston  History) .  Tradition  in  this  family  also  mentions  a  James  and  a 
Robert,  who  res.  for  a  time  in  Londonderry  with  their  uncle  and  crossed 
the  river  to  Bedford. 

II.  Andrew,  son  of  Andrew1,  was  b.   1750,  Jan.  5,  and  went  to  New 

Boston  with  his  parents  when  3  years  of  age.  He  m.  1779, 
June  24,  Ruth  Woodbury  of  Beverly,  Mass.,  and  res.  in  New 
Boston  until  1822,  May,  when  he  moved  to  Unity,  to  live  with  his 
son  Andrew8,  who  had  settled  in  that  town  1820,  May  9.  He  d. 
1835,  aged  86. 

III.  Andrew,  son  of  Andrew2,  was  b.  1789,  May  16;  m.  1811,  Nov.  7, 

Sally  Miller,  and  d.  1857,  Nov.  Had  ten  ch.,  nine  boys  and  one 
girl;  of  these,  one  son  only,  Sylvenus  Walker,  solicitor  of  Amer- 
ican and  foreign  patents,  is  now  living  (1903).  He  res.  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  aged  nearly  74.  He  had  a  brother  Andrew,  also  a  nephew 
Andrew — making  five  successive  generations  bearing  that  name. 
(Only  for  the  discrepancy  in  dates  we  would  surmise  that  the 
Andrew1  of  this  record  was  a  son  of  the  original  Andrew  .and  born 
in  this  country  instead  of  Ireland.)  Dr.  Silas  Walker  and  his  son, 
Dr.  John  D.  Walker,  formerly  of  this  town,  may  have  belonged 
to  this  branch  of  the  Walker  family. 


II.  Robert,  son  of  Andrew1  (descendant  of  Rev.  George  Walker),  b. 
1708;  m.  Rebecca  Barnes  of  Londonderry.  He  d.  1777.  They  had 
seven  ch.:  Sarah3,  d.  in  Bedford,  aged  17  years;  Hannah3,  d.  in 
childhood,  on  a  visit  to  Londonderry;  John3,  d.  1775,  aged  23 
years,  unm.;  Andrew3;  Susannah3,  m.  William  Waugh,  was  living 
1850,  aged  92;  Jane3,  m.  Josiah  Gordon  (see  Gordon);  Robert3. 

III.  Andrew,  son  of  Robert2;  m.  Elizabeth  Gault.     He  d.  1830,  aged  75. 

They  had  nine  ch.:  a  dau.,  Sarah4,  b.  1778,  May  10;  John4,  b. 
1779,  Dec.  8;  Robert;  Andrew4;  Benjamin4;  Cornelius4;  also  three 
more  daughters.  Of  these  four  sons  and  two  daughters  were 
married. 

IV.  Robert,  son  of  Andrew3;  m.  1805,  Mary,  dau.  of  Dea.  James  Wal- 

lace;  he  d.   1818.     They  had  ch.:  Greenleap,  b.  1805;  Elvira5,  b. 

1807,    d.    1892,   Dec.   25;    Andrew5,    b.    1809;    Mary  A.5,    b.    1811; 

Josiah   G.6,  b.   1813,  d.    1818;   Robert5,  b.   1815;    Sally5,  b.   1817, 

d.  1818. 
V.  Greenleaf,  son  of  Robert4,  b.  1805;  m.  1856,  Jan.  1,  Nancy  Jane, 

b.   1824,  dau.    of  Daniel  and  Fanny    (Gault)    McLaughlin,  and 

d.    1869,   June  20.      He  d.    1865,    April  8.      They  had  one  ch.: 

Charles  Andrew,  b.  in  Bedford,  1858,  Jan.  5,  d.  in  Manchester, 

N.  H,  1902,  Feb.  13. 
V.  Andrew,  son  of  Robert4,  b.  1809;  m.  Mary  E.  Eastman,  by  whom  he 

had  ch.:  Helen  F.6,  b.  1840;  Charles  A.6,  b.  1844. 
Y.  Mary  A.,  dau.  of  Robert4,  b.  1811;  m.  1834,  William  Manning  of 

Nashua.     She  d.  1836.     They  had  two  ch.:  Daniel  W.6,  b.  1834, 

and  Mary  A.6,  b.  1836,  d.  1893,  Sept.  17. 
V.  Robert,  son  of  Robert4,  b.  1815;  m.  Sophia  R.  Lund,  by  whom  he 

had  ch.:  Abby  Sophia6,  b.  1843;  Ada  Lucretia6,  b.  1849;  m.  

Gage. 
III.  Robert,  son  of  Robert2;  m.,  1st,  Submit  Chubbuck  (great-aunt  to 

Emily  Chubbuck,  known  as  Fanny  Forrester,  who  became  Mrs. 

Judson,  missionary  to  Burmah,  and  whose  parents  came  to  this 

town  from  Abington,  Mass.,  and  rem.  to  state  of  New  York  some 

years  later).-   He  m.  again,  but  had  no  ch.  by  his  second  wife. 

He  lived  to  an  advanced  age,  and  was  the  father  of  twelve  ch.,  b. 

in  Bedford,  by  his  1st  mar.,  viz.:  John*,  b.  1785,  Sept.  10;  Robert4, 


GENEALOGIES. — WALKER.  1103 

b.  1787,  March  3,  m.  Nancy  Gordon,  had  four  ch.  (?)  d.  in  Illinois 
whither  he  had  repaired  with  his  family;  Nathan4,  b.  1788,  Dec.  1, 
was  living  in  Vt.,  1850;  Jesse4,  b.  1790,  Oct.  5,  d.  in  Bedford,  1849; 
James4,  b.  1792,  Oct.  29;  Rebecca4,  b.  1794,  Oct.  29;  Sally4,  b.  1796, 
Aug.  16,  d.  1886,  Oct.  27;  Hannah  Atwood4,  b.  1798,  Oct.  21,  m. 

Crosby,  res.  Warner;  Submit4,  b.  1801,  Jan.  16,  m.  Thomas  G. 

Holbrook  (see  Holbrook);  Betsey4,  b.  1803  (?),  June  8;  Olive  Aiken4, 

b.  1805,  Oct.  23,  m. Sawyer,  res.  in  Maine;  Sidney4,  b.  1807, 

Aug.  8. 
IV.  Rev.  John,  son  of  Robert3,  b.  1785,  Sept.  10;  m.  Arethusa,  dau.  of 
Dr.  Royal  Humphrey  of  Athol,  Mass.  She  d.  in  Trenton,  Mo., 
aged  87.  He  d.  Waverly,  N.  Y.,  1868,  June.  They  had  nine  ch.: 
Eusebia5,  b.  Greenfield,  1814,  d.  unm.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  1847; 
Lucy  Mfi,  b.  1816;  Arethusa  H.5,  b.  1818;  John  Sidney5,  b.  1820; 
Henry  Martyn5,  b.  1822;  Charles  Frederick6,  b.  1824,  Jan.  1;  Esther 
Humphrey5,  b.  1828,  d.  unm.  in  Vermont;  Otis5,  b.  Moscow,  N.  Y., 
1830;  George  Fairfield5,  b.  1832. 

V.  Lucy  M.,  dau.  of  Rev.  John4,  b.  1816;  m.,  1st,  Jesse  Dearborn,  M.  D., 
a  graduate  of  Boston  Medical  college.  They  settled  in  Palmyra, 
Mich.,  where  he  d.  Had  four  ch.,  one  only  living  now,  a  dau., 
Ellen6,  wife  of  Lieut.  Wheeler,  res.  in  Dennison,  Texas,  who  has  a 
dau..  Libbie7.  Lucy  M.  m.,  2d,  Nathaniel  C.  Alvord,  Esq.,  and  res. 
in  Trenton,  Mich.,  where  they  d. 

V.  Arethusa  H.,  dau.  of  Rev.  John4,  b.  1818;  m.  Joel  Walker  (another 
branch)  and  settled  in  Jackson,  Mich.,  where  both  d.,  leaving  a 
son,  who  m.  and  had  two  ch.  when  last  heard  from.  He  res.  in 
Jackson,  Mich.,  and  was  a  farmer  of  one  square  mile  of  land. 

V.  John  Sidney,  son  of  Rev.  John4,  b.  1820,  June  19;  m.,  1845,  May  18, 
Harriet  Harris  Upham,  and  res  in  Claremont,  N.  H.,  where  he  d. 
1901,  Sept.  22.  They  had  a  son,  John  Sidney6,  b.  1852,  June  26. 
VI.  John  Sidney,  son  of  John  Sidney5,  b.  1852,  June  26;  in.  1875,  Nov. 
7,  Lilla  Abigail  Tutherly,  b.  Claremont,  1856,  Feb.  9,  dau.  of  Da- 
vid F.  and  Susan  (Sperry)  Tutherly.  They  have  a  son,  Robert 
Tutherly7,  b.  Irving,  Kan.,  1878,  June  26. 

V.  Henry  Martyn,  son  of  Rev.  John4,  b.  1822,  April  25;  m.,  1st,  Elisa- 
beth Howland,  b.  1824,  Aug.  14,  dau.  of  Benjamin  D.  and  Silvia 
(Howland)  Almy  of  Newport,  R.  I.  She  d.  1854,  Jan.  9.  He  m., 
2d,  1859,  Nov.  7,  Sarah  Horton  Almy  (a  sister  of  Elisabeth  H.),  b. 
1822,  d.  1892,  April  30.  He  was  a  dentist  by  profession,  but  for 
the  past  seven  years  has  been  librarian  of  South  Dartmouth,  Mass. , 
library.  Had  one  dau.,  b.  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  1853,  July  4  (noon), 
d.  South  Dartmouth,  1880,  Sept.  2. 

V.  Charles  F.,  son  of  Rev.  John4,  b.  1824,  Jan.  1;  m.  Alice  Patience 
Packard,  b.  Taunton,  Mass.,  1830,  Jan.  13,  d.  N.  Y.  city,  1881, 
April  8.  He  is  superintendent  of  Asbury  Park,  N.  J.  Had  ch.: 
Helen6,  b.  Claremont,  1850,  Aug.  16;  Josephine  Helen6,  b.  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  1858,  Dec.  30;  Mary  Alice6,  b.  1863,  July  5,  m.  1895, 
April  17,  William  S.  Hueston. 
VI.  Helen,  dau.  of  Charles  F.5,  b.  1850,  Aug.  16;  m.  Henry  Jackson,  an 
English  missionary.  They  went  immediately  to  India  where  they 
labored  twenty-four  years,  coming  to  this  country  for  two  short 
periods  in  the  meantime,  and  returning  finally  in  1902.  They  had 
three  ch.,  all  b.  in  India:  William  F.7,  m.  Genevieve  Taylor  of 
Trenton,  N.  J.,  has  a  son8,  aged  1  yr.;  Mattie",  m.  George  Rossi- 
ter,  an  indigo  planter,  has  three  ch.;  also  a  Mrs.  Abbott7,  who 
has  two  sons,  one  in  India. 
VI.  Josephine  H.,  dau.  of  Charles  F.5,  b.  1858,  Dec.  30;  m.  William  Hewitt, 
son  of  Senator  Charles  Hewitt;  has  three  ch.:  Charles  Conrad7,  b. 
1881,  April  17,  a  senior  in  Princeton  college;  Waldbury7,  b.  1884, 
July  19;  Helen  Bradley7,  b.  1892,  April  27. 


1104  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

V.  Otis,  son  of  Rev.  John4,  b.  1830;  m.  and  res.  in  Trenton,  Mich., 
where  he  d.    Has  a  dau. ,  Belle6,  living,  now  a  widow  with  one  son. 7 

V.  George  F.,  son  of  Rev.  John4,  b.  1832;  is  a  banker  in  Vliets,  Kan. 
He  m.,  1st,  Katie  M.  Almy  (sister  of  Mrs.  Henry  M.Walker),  who 
d.  leaving  a  son,  Robert  Irving*,  b.  Waverly,  N.  Y.,  1869,  Oct.  13. 
He  m.,  2d,  Lizzie  Randall  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  They  have  two 
sons,  Fairfield6,  aged  9,  and  Charles  Frederick6,  aged  5  yrs. 
IV.  Dr.  Robert  Irving,  son  of  George  F.5,  b.  1869,  Oct.  13;  m.  Dr.  Mary 
Wheeler,  b.  Blue  Rapids,  Kan. ,  1876,  Aug.  13.  Both  are  grad- 
uates of  American  School  of  Osteopathy  and  now  located  in  New 
Bedford,  Mass.,  where  they  have  a  large  practice.     No  ch. 

II.  Capt.  James,  son  of  Andrew1,  was  three  or  four  years  old  when  he 
arrived  in  this  country.  He  with  his  brother  Robert  settled  in 
town  1737.  He  cleared  up  his  farm,  set  out  an  orchard,  enter- 
tained travelers,  and  built  one  of  the  first  framed  houses  in  town, 
still  occupied,  1902,  by  his  descendants.  Having  resided  on  his 
farm  until  1 783  he  moved  to  a  small  fifty-acre  lot  in  Goff  stown,  where 
he  lived  with  his  wife,  daughter  Charlotte,  and  black  servant  Cato 
until  his  death,  1786.*  He  m.  Esther,  dau.  of  Col.  John  Goffe,  by 
whom  he  had  seven  ch.:  Silas3;  James3;  Sally3,  m.  Joseph  Moor, 
killed  at  the  raising  of  Piscataquog  bridge;  Esther3;  Jennet3;  Mary3; 
and  Charlotte3,  m.  Dea.  James  Nesmith  of  Antrim,  no  ch. 
III.  Silas,  son  of  Capt.  James2,  m.  Hannah  Griffin  of  Derryfield  (now 
Manchester.)  They  had  ten  ch.:  William4;  Sally4;  Agnes4;  James4; 
John4  and  Silas4  (twins);  Hannah4;  Susan4;  Samuel4;  Cotton4, 
and  Esther4. 

III.  James,  son  of  Capt.  James2;  m.  Mary  Wallace  of  Bedford.     They 

had  eight  ch.:  Josiah*;  Sally4;  Reuben4;  Polly4;  James*;  Rebecca*; 
Stephen4;  and  Leonard4. 

IV.  Josiah,   son  of  James3,  was  b.  1781,  July  13,  on  his  grandfather's 

farm,  in  one  of  the  first  framed  houses  in  Bedford.  In  1806,  Feb. 
13,  he  purchased  said  farm  of  Josiah  Wallace,  who  bought  out  the 
heirs  of  Capt.  James  Walker.  He  resided  here  until  his  deaah  in 
1858,  Jan.  In  1806,  Nov.  4,  he  m.  Nancy,  b.  Bedford,  1784,  March 
29,  dau.  of  James  Platts  of  Londonderry;  she  d.  1873,  March.  Had 
eleven  ch.:  Ellinda5,  d.  young;  Charlotte5,  b.  1809,  Feb.  18;  Josiah5, 
b.  1810,  Sept.  12;  William5,  b.  1812,  Nov.  5;  Mary5,  b.  1815,  Feb. 
17,  m.  George  Merriman,  had  a  son  George6,  all  have  d. ;  James  P.5, 
b.  1817,  Oct.  20;  Caroline5,  b.  1819,  Aug.  19,  d.  young;  Susan5,  b. 
1821,  Dec.  20,  d.  young;  Edwin  R.5,  b.  1824,  May  2;  Harriet  F.5,  b. 
1828,  July  11;  Andrew  J.,  b.  1830,  May  4,  d.  at  sea. 

V.  Charlotte,  dau.  of  Josiah4,  b.  1809,  Feb.  18;  m.  1837,  April  6,  Eleazer 
Dole.  They  had  two  sons,  James  P.  C.6,  b.  1839,  Feb.  21;  Stephen6, 
b.  1843,  Jan.  21.     None  of  the  family  living  now. 

V.  Josiah,  son  of  Josiah4,  b.  1810,  Sept.  12;  m.  Susan  French  of  Ver- 
mont; he  d.  1886,  Sept.  They  had  ch.:  Annie6,  m.  Charles 
Wyatt,  is  a  widow,  res.  in  Manchester,  has  no  ch. ;  Nettie6,  m. 
George  Bond,  res.  in  Manchester,  no  ch. ;  Eva6. 
VI.  Eva,  dau.  of  Josiah5;  m.  John  Parker;  one  ch.  survives  them, 
Charles  F.7,  who  m  Lena  Knight;  they  have  one  son,  George 
Knight8,  and  res  in  Manchester. 

*It  is  related  of  Capt.  James2  that  one  Sunday  morning  he  mounted  a  fine  black 
horse  and  crossed  the  river  on  his  way  to  meeting  at  Londonderry.  At  the  house  of 
Col.  John  Goffe  he  found  the  latter  and  his  wife  on  a  horse  just  starting  for  the  same 
place,  while  their  little  daughter  Esther  stood  crying  because  she  could  not  go  too. 
James  proposed  that  she  ride  behind  him.  and  as  her  father  handed  her  up  he  re- 
marked: "  She  is  a  little  girl  now,  but  she  may  be  your  wife  yet."  After  waiting  a 
few  years  he  proposed  again  and  she  became  Mrs.  Walker. 

He  was  sutler  in  the  regiment  of  his  father-in-law,  Colonel  Goffe.  during  the 
French  and  Indian  war,  and  at  its  close  was  commissioned  captain  of  a  troop  of 
horse  bv  Governor  Wentworth.  He  was  in  the  patriot  army  during  the  Revolution, 
and  was  among  the  Bedford  men  who  fought  with  General  Stark  at  Bennington. 


GENEALOGIES. WALKER.  1105 

V.  William,  son  of  Josiah4,  b.  1812,  Nov.  5;  m.  Sarah  Richardsou  of 
Litchfield,  who  d.  1900,  Nov.  He  d.  1897,  Dec.  Their  ch.  were: 
Laura  F.6;  Henry  H.6;  Monroe6,  d.  young;  Sarah  E.6,  m.  John 
Woodman,  both  dead,  no  ch.;  Helen  M.6,  d.  nnm.;  Addie  L.6  and 
Clara  A.6;  both  of  the  latter  are  nnm.  and  res.  in  East  Manches- 
ter. 

VI.  Laura  F.,  dan.  of  William5;  m.  Joseph  Ward;  she  d.  1900,  March, 
leaving  a  son,  William  H7,  who  res.  with  his  father  in  East  Man- 
chester. 

VI.  Henry  H.,  son  of  William5;  m.  Mary  A.  Emmons  and  have  three 
sons:  Fred";  Harry  E.7;  and  Frank7;  all  living  at  Lanesville,  Mass. 
V.  James  P.,  son  of  Josiah*,  b.  1817,  Oct.  20;  m.  Olivia  Elliott  of  Bath, 
N.  H.,  and  had  ch.:  Caroline  X.6;  Mary  Ella6,  m.  William  Minot 
(see  Minot);  Emma  Frances6;  and  Abbie  O.6,  nnm.,  res.  in  Lowell, 
Mass. 

VI.  Caroline  L.,  dau.  of  James  P.5;  m.  Mark  Fogg;  she  d.  1889,  Feb., 
and  left  four  daughters:  Minnie  E.6,  m.  1900,  Nov.,  Curtis  Plum- 
mer;  Stella  Frances6;  Olivia  B.6;  and  Carrie6;  all  of  whom  now 
res.  in  Manchester. 

VI.  Emma  F.,  dau.  of  James  P.5;  m.  Jacob  Towne  of  Maine,  where  she 
now  res.,  a  widow.  They  had  a  son,  Porter,  who  d.  young. 
V.  Edwin  R.,  son  of  Josiah4,  b.  1824,  May  2;  m.  Harriet  J.  Allen  of  Wil- 
liamsport,  Pa.,  who  d.  1897,  April.  He  d.  1899,  Aug.  They  are 
survived  by  two  daughters:  Mary  Allen6,  nnm.,  and  lives  (1902) 
on  the  original*  Walker  farm;  Rowena  L.6,  m.  1901,  June  19, 
Alfred  T.  Dodge,  has  one  son,  James  Walker7;  res.  in  Manches- 

V.  Harriet  F.,  dau.  of  Josiah4,  b.  1828,  July  11;  m.  Ivers  Phillips  of 
Fitchburg,  Mass.;  she  d.  1901,  March.  They  had  one  son,  Edwin 
W.6,  who  m.  Annie  Vennor,  and  had  two  ch.,  Harold7,  d.  young, 
Ethel  T.7,  res.  at  Arlington,  Mass. 
IV.  James,  son  of  James3,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1789,  Dec.  2;  was  a  farmer, 
merchant,  and  surveyor;  he  m.  1827,  Jan.  30,  Betsey,  b.  Bedford, 
1791,  Sept.  23,  widow  of  James  Parker  and  dau.  of  William  and 
Nabby  (Parker)  Parker;  she  d.  Manchester,  1865,  Nov.  8.  He  d. 
Manchester,  1875,  Feb.  9.  They  had  two  sons:  James  P.5,  b.  Bed- 
ford, 1828,  Feb.  7;  Charles  KJ,  b.  1830,  July  18. 

V.  James  P.  (M.  D.),  son  of  James4,  b.  1828,  Feb.  7.  (See  Physicians.) 
He  m.  1863,  Dec.  31,  Rowena  L.  Hamblett,  and  res.  in  Manchester. 
He  d.  1897,  May  6.     No  ch. 

V.  Charles  K.,  son  of  James4,  b.  1830,  July  18;  m.  1852,  Oct.  4,  Ann 
Maria  Stevens  of  Wentworth,  N.  H.  The  old  history  of  Bedford, 
(published  1851)  left  Charles  K.  Walker,  at  the  age  of  20,  on  the 
Montreal  R.  R.,  in  the  corps  of  civil  engineers,  in  which  he  served 
three  years.  From  the  Montreal  survey  he  went  to  the  Wilton  road. 
After  his  marriage  (1852)  he  moved  to  the  state  of  New  York, 
where  he  followed  his  profession  on  the  New  York  &  Erie  R.  R. 
After  completing  his  work  in  New  York,  he  went  to  Ohio,  on  the 
Marietta  &  Cincinnati  R.  R.  After  a  year's  work  in  the  West, 
railroading  came  nearly  to  a  standstill,  and  Charles  returned  to 
his  home  in  Manchester.  When  he  again  took  up  engineering  it 
was  to  go  to  the  Suncook  Valley  R.  R.,  under  the  Hon.  James  A. 
.    Weston.     He  was  also  in  the  engineering  corps  on  the  East  Jaf- 

*  On  Aug.  10, 1901,  a  Walker  reunion  was  held  in  Bedford  on  the  Walker  farm, 
originally  settled  by  James  and  Robert  Walker,  and  which  is  now  owned  (1902)  by 
Mary  A.  and  Rowena  L.,  daughters  of  the  late  Edwin  R.  Walker.  About  sixty-five 
were  present,  and  a  stone  was  erected  near  the  Merrimack  river,  to  mark  the  first 
cleared  ground  in  town.  It  can  be  seen  from  the  main  highway,  and  bears  this  in- 
scription, viz.:  "This  monument,  erected  by  the  descendants  of  James  Walker, 
marks  the  spot  where  the  first  settlement  was  made  in  Bedford,  by  Robert  and 
James  Walker,  in  1737." 

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1106  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

frey  road,  ou  the  Lowell  &  Framingham,  Hopkinton,  and  the 
Montpelier  &  Wells  River  roads.  In  1875  he  was  chosen  super- 
intendent of  the  Manchester  water- works,  which  position  he  yet 
holds,  in  1902.  He  has  two  daughters:  Ellen  Parker,6  b.  Manches- 
ter, 1855,  July  20,  m.  1897,  Sept.  20,  Charles  Howe,  res.  in  Man- 
chester; Henrietta  Clinton6,  b.  1862,  Jan.  6. 

IV.  Rebecca,  dau.  of  James3,  b.  in  Bedford;  m.  Reuben  Johnson,  who 
was  b.  at  Goffe's  Falls.  Their  ch.  were:  Leonard  W.b,  b.  at  Goffe's 
Falls,  1818;  Edward  P.5,  d.  in  Manchester,  1892;  Mary5,  who  d. 
young;  Reuben6,  who  is  still  living. 
V.  Leonard  W.  (Johnson),  son  of  Rebecca,  b.  at  Goffe's  Falls,  1818;  m. 
in  1855,  Frances  M.  Harrington,  b.  Middlebury,  Vt.  He  d.  in 
New  York,  1890.  Ch.,  all  b.  in  New  York:  Luman  Walker6,  b. 
1855,  Dec.  11;  Fannie  Elizabeth6,  b.  1859,  July  4;  Jessie  Alice6,  b. 
1873,  Oct.  29,  res.  in  New  York  city. 

VI.  Luman  Walker  (Johnson),  son  of  Leonard  W.5,  b.  New  York,  1855, 
Dec.  11;  m.  Eva  Lisle  Owens  of  New  York.  They  have  Leroy 
Wallace7,  b.  New  York,  1882. 

VI.  Fannie  Elizabeth  (Johnson),  dau.  of  Leonard  W.5,  b.  New  York, 
1859,  July  4;  m.  Edward  Spencer  Smith  of  Waterbury,  Conn. 
She  d.  in  New  York  city,  1891.  They  had  Janet  Birdsall7,  b.  New 
York,  1885,  April  30. 

WALLACE. 

I.  John  Wallace  came  over  from  Ireland  in  1719,  and  was  one  of  the 
grantees  of  Londonderry  or  Nutfield.  In  1721  he  m.  Annis  Bar- 
net,  the  first  couple  married  in  Londonderry.  His  family  res.  in 
Colraine,  north  of  Ireland,  as  appears  from  a  certificate  of  char- 
acter given  to  his  brother  Thomas,  who  came  over  in  1726  and  set- 
tled in  the  south  part  of  Bedford.  John  appears  to  have  been 
among  the  most  active  settlers  of  Londonderry.  In  1729  he  was 
selectman,  and  continued  to  serve  till  1732,  and  was  re-elected  in 
1737.  This  year  he  was  also  chosen  town  clerk,  and  continued  in 
this  office  till  1742.  In  1745  he  was  elected  to  represent  the  town 
in  the  general  assembly  at  Portsmouth.  (See  sketch.)  He  had 
ch.:  James2,  b.  1722,  July  17;  Rebecca2,  b.  1724,  Feb.  16,  unm.; 
William*,  b.  1726,  Feb.  5;  John2,  b.  1827,  April  17;  Thomas2,  b. 
1730,  Aug.  10,  d.  in  infancy;  Janet2,  b.  1733,  Jan.  28;  Ann2,  b.  1736, 
June  16;  Samuel2,  b.  1738,  Jan.  23;  Sarah2,  b.  1741,  Nov.  8,m.  Will- 
iam Vance,  no  ch. 

II.  James,  son  of  John1,  b.  1722,  July  17;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Thomas 
Wallace.  He  perished  in  the  snow  on  a  cold  winter's  night,  a 
short  distance  from  his  own  door.  He  had  been  out  through  the 
day  with  his  team.  He  did  not  arrive  that  night.  The  next 
morning  they  found  him  dead.  Had  two  ch. :  Ann8,  b.  1750,  Oct. 
19;  Jenny3,  b.  1753,  Oct.  18. 

II.  William,  son  of  John1,  b.  1726,  Feb.  5;  m.  Hannah,  sister  of  Mat- 
thew Thornton,  and  had  ch.:  John3,  b.  1737,  June  13;  William3, 
b.  1758,  Dec.  26;  Catharine3,  b.  1760,  Dec.  6;  James3,  b.  1763, 
March  31;  Hannah3,  b.  1765,  Jan.  26;  Matthew3,  b.   1770,  Nov.   1. 

II.  John,  son  of  John1,  b.  1727,  April  17;  m.  Sarah  Woodburn  and  rem. 
to  Bedford,  1756,  Feb.  They  had  ch.:  Annis3,  b.  1757,  Jan.  5,  m. 
John  Moore  (see  Moore);  Mary3,  b.  1758,  Oct.  8,  m.  James 
Walker  (see  Walker);  James*,  b.  1760,  Aug.  8;  Hannah3,  b.  1762, 
May  20,  m.  John  Patten  (see  Patten);  John3,  b.  1764,  May  12; 
Thomas3,  b.  1768,  June  5;  Josiah3,  b.  1769;  Sarah3,  b.  1771,  June  13, 
d.  in  Bedford,  1850,  Feb.  16,  unm.;  Rebecca3,  b.  1773,  Dec.  14,  the 
only  child  living  in  1850. 


GENEALOGIES. — WALLACE.  1107 

III.  James,  son  of  John2,  b,  1760,  Aug.  8;    m.  Jennet  "Walker,   dau.   of 

James  and  Esther  (Goffe)  Walker.  (James  Walker  being  one  of 
the  two  first  settlers  of  the  town.)  James  Wallace  moved  to  An- 
trim when  it  was  a  wilderness;  attacked  by  a  bear,  saved  himself 
by  climbing  a  tree;  was  active  as  a  town  officer,  and  d.  lamented 
in  1848,  aged  89.  When  17  he  was  enrolled  as  a  soldier,  and  was 
under  Stark  at  Bennington.  Ch.:  Betsey  IF.4;  John4;  James4;  Sarah 
W.4,  m.  James  A.  Gregg,  had  one  dau.5,  who,  with  the  mother,  d. 
of  spotted  fever,  1812;  Ira*;  Benjamin  F.*;  Achsah4,  d.  1829,  unm. 

IV.  Betsey  W.,  dau.  of  James3;  m.  Francis  Reed;  d.  in  Haverhill,  Mass. 

Ch.:  Samantha  R.5;  Caroline  G.5,  d.  in  Haverhill,  Laura  F.5,  m. 
Samuel  E.  Huse,  lives  in  Oakland,  Cal.,  no  ch.;  Betsey  W.5,  d.  in 
Manchester;  Louisa  L.5,  m.  Eustice  P.  Bowman,  moved  to  Oak- 
land, Cal.,  where  she  d.,  no  ch.;  George  W.5,  m.  Maria  Brigham, 
moved  to  Montreal,  Can.,  where  he  d.,  no  ch. 

V.  Samantha  R.  (Reed),  dau.  of  Betsey  W.;  m.,  1st,  George  H.  Minot; 
went  to  New  Orleans,  where  he  soon  d.,  leaving  one  ch.,  Bessie6, 
who  d.  in  Haverhill,  Mass.  Samantha  R.  m.,  2d,  Ezra  Kelly,  and 
res.  in  Haverhill.  They  have  one  ch.,  George  A.6,  who  res.  in 
Boston,  Mass. 
IV.  John,  son  of  James3;  m.  Sally  Page;  d.  in  Antrim.  Ch.:  Ira  P.5, 
lives  in  Chicago,  111.;  John  J/.5;  Miles  N.5,  d.  in  Antrim;  Sarah 
E.5,  res  in  Auburndale,  Mass. 

V.  John  M.,  son  of  John4;  m.  Frances  Holmes;  moved  West,  where  he 
d.  Ch.:  Frances6;  Charles.6 
IV.  James,  Jr.,  son  of  James3;  m.  Naomi  Cochrane;  lived  in  Manches- 
ter, and  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Amoskeag  Veter- 
ans; held  several  city  offices,  and  d.  in  Manchester.  Ch.:  Sarah 
J.5,  m.  Frederic  W.  Mitchell,  d.  in  Manchester,  no  ch.;  Andrew  C.5; 
James  M.h;  Charlotte  W.5,  res.  in  Manchester;  Betsey  A.5;  Harriet 
M.5,  res.  in  Manchester;  Luther  E.b 

V.  Andrew  C,  son  of  James4;  m.  Olive  Sturtevant,  and  lived  in  Man- 
chester; represented  Manchester  in  the  state  legislature  in  1856, 
1872,  1873,  and  1897.  He  d.  in  Manchester.  Had  two  ch.:  Clara 
A.6;  Andrew  C,  Jr.6 

VI.  Clara  A.,  dau.  of  Andrew  C.5;  m.  Frederic  W.  Dearborn;  d.  in  Man- 

chester.    Ch.:  Fred  WJ;  Helen  Maud1;  Winnie  E." 

VII.  Fred  W.  (Dearborn),  son  of  Clara  A.6;  m.  Minnie  McCarthy,  and 

res.  in  Burke,  N.  Y.     Ch.:  Mildred  M.8;  Hazel  G.8;  Clara  M.8 
VII.  Helen  Maud  (Dearborn),  dau.  of  Clara  A.6;  m.  George  McPherson, 

and  res.  in  Claremont. 
VII.  Winnie  E.  (Dearborn),  dau.  of  Clara  A.6;  m.  Harold  W.  Hickman, 
and  res.  in  Manchester.     Ch.:  Marion  M.8;  Harold  W.,  Jr.8;  and 
Beatrice  W.8 
VI.  Andrew  C,  Jr.,  son  of  Andrew  C.5;  m.  Menona  McPherson,  and  d. 
in  Manchester.   Ch.:  William  E.7;  Olive  F.7;  Maud  W.7;  Mabel  C.7 
V.  James  M.,  son  of  James,  Jr4.,  enlisted  in  the  heavy  artillery  in  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion.     He  m.,  1st,  Nancy  J.  Tebbetts.    They  had 
two  ch.:  Helen  M.6;  Jennie  N.6    He  m.,  2d,  Laura  Dunham.     They 
had  one  ch.,  Capitola6,  who  res  in.  Chicago,  111.     He  m.,  3d,  Susan 
Drew;  no  ch.     He  d.  in  Manchester. 
VI.  Helen  M.,  dau.  of  James  M.5;  m.  George  Shaw;  d.  in  Windham; 

no  ch. 
VI.  Jennie  N.,  dau.  of  James  M.5;  m.  John  Wilson,  and  lives  in  George- 
town, Mass.    They  have  two  ch.:  Daisy7  and  Helen.7 
V.  Betsey  A.,  dau.  of  James,  Jr.4;  m.  Charles  H.  White,  and  d.  in  Con- 
cord.    Two  ch. :  Harry  W.6,  res.  in  Chicago,  111. ;  Charles  H.6,  d. 
Warner,  N.  H. 
V.  Luther  E.,  son  of  James,  Jr.4;  m.  Frances  O.  Tufts,  and  lived  in 
Manchester.     He  enlisted  in  the  First  N.  H.  light  battery,  and 


1108  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

served  through  the  War  of  the  Rebellion;  d.  in  Manchester.     One 
ch.,  Ned  Tufts6,  was  b.  1867,  Jan.  12. 
VI.  Ned  Tufts,  son  of  Luther  E.5;  m.  Jessie  M.  Palmer,  and  res.  in 
Manchester.  They  have  one  ch.,  Clinton  Palmer7,  b.  1896,  March  7. 

IV.  Ira,  son  of  James3,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  was  a  volunteer  in  the  War 

of  1812,  and  d.  while  stationed  at  Kittery,  Me. 

IV.  Benjamin  Franklin,  son  of  James3,  was  b.  in  Antrim,  1802,  his  father 
having  moved  to  that  town  from  Bedford.  He  m.,  1st,  in  1829, 
Ann  Jane  Shattuck  of  Amherst,  by  whom  he  had  seven  ch.  She 
d.  in  1847,  Aug.  He  m.,  2d,  in  1848,  Nov.,  Mary  S.  Butler,  who 
d.  in  1902,  Aug. ;  no  ch.  Mr.  Wallace  moved  to  Piscataquog,  then 
a  part  of  Bedford,  in  1844.  While  a  resident  of  the  town  he 
proved  himself  an  able  and  public- spirited  citizen.  He  united 
with  Dr.  Savage's  church  (Bedford  Presbyterian)  in  1853,  and 
was  active  in  organizing  the  Congregational  church  in  Piscata- 
quog. He  was  principal  of  the  academy  at  Piscataquog  for  several 
years,  and  served  as  superintendent  of  schools  three  years  or  more. 
When  the  first  history  of  the  town,  published  in  1851,  was  planned, 
he  was  chosen  to  make  a  survey  of  the  town,  from  which  the  map 
for  that  work  was  prepared.  He  was  editor  of  the  American  Mes- 
senger, a  paper  published  in  Manchester,  and  later  went  to  Laconia, 
where,  in  company  with  a  Mr.  Bartholomew,  he  published  the 
Winnepesaukee  Gazette.  In  1861  he  moved  to  Hillsborough  Bridge, 
where  he  again  engaged  in  teaching,  from  thence  moved  to  An- 
trim, where  he  d.  in  1864,  May.  Ch.:  Sumner5,  b.  1832,  June  30, 
d.  1854,  Aug.,  num.;  George5,  b.  1833,  d.  1836;  Marion  Crawford5,  b. 
.  1835,  May  28;  Henry5,  d.  young;  Elizabeth  &*  b.  1838,  Nov.  8; 
Achsah5,  b.  1842,  Dec,  d.  1868,  April  21,  unm.;  Edwin*,  b.  1844, 
Aug.  8. 
V.  Marion  C,  dau.  of  Benjamin  F.4,  b.  1835,  May  28;  m.  1860,  March 
22,  Charles  Edwin  Conant,  who  was  b.  1832,  June  30;  res.  in  Win- 
chester, Mass.,  thirty-five  years,  thence  rem.  to  Boston.  In  1900 
went  to  Lawrence,  where  she  now  res.  with  her  dau.  Ch. :  ChaHes 
Artluu*,  b.  1861,  July  2;  Grace  Wallace6,  b.  1864,  Sept.  8. 

VI.  Charles  Arthur  (Conant),  b.  in  Winchester,  Mass.,  1861,  July  2,  son 
of  Charles  E.  Conant  and  Marion  Crawford  Wallace.  Charles  A. 
Conant  has  been  a  newspaper  reporter  on  the  Boston  Advertiser, 
and  Washington  correspondent  of  the  Boston  Post,  Springfield 
Republican,  and  New  York  Journal  of  Commerce.  He  has  made 
a  study  of  currency  and  banking,  and  has  published  the  fol- 
lowing books:  "  History  of  Modern  Banks  of  Issue"  (Putnam's 
Sons,  1896);  "The  United  States  in  the  Orient"  (Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1900);  "Alexander  Hamilton"  (Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co.,  1901).  He  was  appointed  special  commissioner  on  the  cur- 
rency of  the  Philippine  Islands  in  1901,  and  presented  a  plan  to 
congress  for  the  adoption  of  the  gold  standard  there.  He  was 
elected,  Feb.,  1902,  treasurer  of  the  Morton  Trust  company  of 
New  York.  "  He  is  an  accomplished  master  of  finance.  His 
recent  report  upon  currency  and  banking  in  the  Philippines,  pre- 
pared for  the  war  department  and  for  congress,  was  a  wonder- 
fully luminous  and  convincing  work.  Mr.  Conant  carries  to  his 
new  position  a  wide  range  of  information,  and  a  fine  accurate 
judgment  of  men  and  affairs."     (Boston  Journal,  Feb.  5,  1902.) 

VI.  Grace  Wallace  (Conant),  dau.  of  Marion  C.5,  b.  in  Winchester,  1864, 
Sept.  8;  m.  1885,  June  11,  Rev.  Harlan  Frederick  Page  of  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  who  is  now  pastor  of  Trinity  church  in  Lawrence, 
Mass.     No  ch. 

V.  Elizabeth  Sophia,  dau.  of  Benjamin  F.4,  b.  1838,  Nov.  8;  m.  in  Sept., 

1867,  Henry  P.  Coburn,  and  settled  in  Hamilton,  Ont.,  where  she 
d.  1874,  April  17;  had  no  ch. 


GENEALOGIES. — WALLACE.  1109 

V.  Edwin,  son  of  Benjamin  F.4,  b.  1844,  Aug.  8;  m.  1869,  Feb.  4,  Mar- 
tha W.  Morse  of  Chelsea,  Mass.  They  now  res.  in  Salem,  Mass. ; 
have  no  ch.  Edwin  enlisted  in  Company  C,  Forty-fourth  Mass. 
Vols.,  for  nine  months;  having  served  his  time  as  private,  he  was 
discharged  in  Boston,  Mass.,  1863,  Nov.  27;  he  re-enlisted  in  the 
Fifty-sixth  Mass.  Vols,  as  sergeant,  was  promoted,  1864,  Oct.  22, 
to  first  lieutenant,  and  served  to  the  close  of  the  war.  He  took 
part  in  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  and  North 
Anna,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner.  He  was  taken  to  Libby 
prison,  Richmond,  Va.,  then  to  Andersonville,  where  he  was  con- 
fined for  six  months,  being  among  the  first  10,000  to  be  exchanged. 
He  was  then  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Annapolis  until  able  to  be 
taken  North.  After  his  recovery  he  returned  to  his  regiment, 
and  had  command  of  Companies  B  and  C  as  first  lieutenant  in  the 
battles  of  Petersburg,  and  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
III.  John,  son  of  John2,  b.  1764,  May  12;  m.  Tryphena  Abbott,  and  lived 
in  Antrim;  moved  thence  to  Westmoreland,  thence  to  Putney, 
Vt.,  where  they  d.  They  had  ch. :  John  W.4,  who  d.  young;  Polly4, 
m.  David  Carpenter;  Hannah4,  m.  a  Wilbur;  Cyrus4,  d.  young; 
Mosely4  and  Freeman4,  d.  young;  Margaret4,  unm. 

III.  Thomas,  son  of  John2;  m.  Mercy  Frye,  and  had  ch. :   Wiseman4; 

Sophia4;  Cyrus  Washington*;  Hannah4;  Frederick*;  and  Alfred4. 

IV.  Rev.  Cyrus  W,  son  of  Thomas3,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1805,  March  8; 

was  familiarly  known  as  "Father"  Wallace  (see  biographical 
sketch).  He  m.,  1st,  1840,  May  19,  Susan  A.  Webster,  a  sister  of 
Mrs.  Rev.  Thomas  Savage,  their  father  being  cousin  to  Hon. 
Daniel  Webster.  Mrs.  Wallace  d.  1873,  May  15.  He  m.,  2d,  1874, 
Sept.  30,  Elizabeth  H.  Allison,  who  still  res.  in  Manchester.  He 
d.  1889,  Oct.  21,  aged  84;  no  ch. 
IV.  Frederick,  son  of  Thomas3,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1806;  m.  in  Bedford, 
1832,  Jan.  30,  Margaret  Ann,  dau.  of  Leonard  C.  and  Nancy 
(Hutchinson)  French;  was  town  clerk,  1836-'37;  d.  in  Manches- 
ter, 1849,  April  27,  aged  43.  His  wife  d.  1891,  July  28,  aged  82. 
They  had  ch.:  Nancy  F.5,  d.  1837,  Feb.  23,  aged  4  years;  Freder- 
ick C.5,  d.  1834,  Feb.  20,  aged  10  days;  Margaret  A.5,  d.  in 
infancy;  Frederick  Leonard5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1839,  Jan.  23;  SeJwyn 
Boivman5,  b.  in  Manchester,  1845,  Feb.  22;  Nancy  Ann5,  b.  1847, 
Nov.  28,  res.  in  Manchester. 
V.  "Frederick  L.  Wallace,  son  of  Frederick4  and  Margaret  Ann  (French) 
Wallace,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  N.  H.,  1839,  Jan.  23.  When  six 
years  of  age  he  moved  to  Manchester  with  his  parents,  attended 
the  city  schools,  and  later  entered  the  employ  of  David  McColley, 
who  conducted  a  well-known  bookstore  at  that  time.  Was  assist- 
ant postmaster  under  Hon.  David  J.  Clark,  and  during  his  term 
of  office,  1861-'65,  the  system  of  free  delivery  was  established  in 
Manchester.  In  1869  he  entered  the  services  of  Mr.  Charles  S. 
Fisher,  the  city  undertaker,  who  at  that  time  was  the  only  one  in 
that  business  within  a  circuit  of  twenty  miles.  In  1872  Mr. 
Moses  O.  Pearson  entered  into  partnership,  and  the  firm  began  its 
successful  career  under  the  name  of  Pearson  &  Wallace.  Upon 
the  death  of  Mr.  Pearson  the  Hon.  A.  G.  Fairbanks  became  a 
partner,  the  firm  being  known  then  as  F.  L.  Wallace  &  Co. 
Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Fairbanks  the  business  has  been  conducted 
by  Mr.  Wallace,  and  his  name  as  well  as  the  location  of  his  under- 
taking parlors  are  well  known  throughout  the  state.  Mr.  Wallace 
has  always  been  a  progressive  man,  seeking  to  develop  the  possi- 
bilities of  his  calling.  Fitted  by  nature  for  its  delicate  and  diffi- 
cult duties  that  require  for  their  proper  fulfilment  not  only  kind- 
ness but  tact,  he  has  been  a  friend  and  comforter  in  many  a 
bereaved  home"  (see  Willey's  History  of  Manchester).     He  is  a 


1110  HISTORY   OF  BEDFORD. 

member  of  the  First  Congregational  church,  Agawam  Tribe  of 
Red  Men,  and  the  Society  of  Good  Fellows.  Has  been  ever  loyal 
to  the  town  of  Bedford,  taking  a  keen  interest  in  whatever  per- 
tains to  the  welfare  of  the  home  of  his  ancestors.  He  m.,  1st, 
in  1861,  Josephine,  dau.  of  Joel  and  Joan  (Morgan)  Fife  of  Pem- 
broke. Four  ch.  blessed  this  union.  Mrs.  Wallace  d.  1871,  April 
13.  He  m.,  2d,  in  1875,  Sarah  E.,  dau.  of  Captain  William  White 
of  Portsmouth.  Ch.:  Fred  Alfred*,  b.  in  Manchester,  1864,  July 
14;  Lidu  Bradley6,  b.  in  Manchester,  1866,  Dec.  13;  George  Pollard6, 
b.  in  Bedford,  1868,  Nov.  17;  Cyrus  Washington6,  b.  in  Manches- 
ter, 1871,  Jan.  23,  d.  1875,  March  3. 
VI.  Fred  A.,  son  of  Frederick  L.5,  b.  1864,  July  14;  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Manchester,  then  entered  the  employ  of  Lewis  K. 
Mead,  who  conducted  the  drug  store  at  the  corner  of  Hanover  and 
Elm  streets,  remaining  there  for  fifteen  years.  In  June,  1897,  he 
entered  th.e  employ  of  his  father,  and  is  associated  with  him  in 
the  undertaking  business.  Is  a  member  of  different  orders  in 
Masonry,  Odd  Fellows,  Red  Men,  and  Knights  of  Pythias,  also 
the  Calumet  club.  Fred  A.  m.,  in  1893,  Aug.  16,  Carrie  L.  Ire- 
land. They  have  two  ch.:  Margaret  J.7,  b.  1894,  Oct.  11;  Grace 
I.7,  b.  1896,  Nov.  9. 
VI.  Lulu  B.,  dau.  of  Frederick  L.5,  b.  1866,  Dec.  13;  m.  1897,  July  19, 
George  H.  Hammond.  They  have  three  ch.:  Frederick  W.7,  b.  in 
Manchester,  1899,  March  22;  Josephine  F.7,  b.  in  Manchester, 
1900,  Oct.  19;  Doris  L.7,  b.  in  Manchester,  1902,  Jan.  4. 
VI.  George  P.,  son  of  Frederick  L.5,  b.  in  Bedford,  1868,  Nov.  17; 
attended  the  Lincoln  Street  Grammar  school  in  Manchester,  then 
took  the  commercial  business  course  at  the  Bryant  and  Stratton 
business  college.  He  entered  the  counting  room  of  the  Manches- 
ter mills,  1886,  Jan.  4,  remaining  there  ever  since.  Is  a  member 
of  several  secret  orders  and  the  Calumet  club.  Represented  Ward 
4  in  the  house  of  representatives  in  1901-'02. 

V.  Selwyn  Bowman,  son  of  Frederick1,  b.  1845,  Feb.  22;  m.,  1st,  Mary 
Seavey;  2d,  Annie  E.  Wheelock;  res.  in  Manchester. 
III.  Josiah,  son  of  John2,  b.  1769;  m.  Polly,  dau.  of  Major  John  and 
Jemima  (Holden)  Goffe.  They  settled  in  Bedford,  afterwards  in 
Antrim,  where  his  wife  lived  to  be  over  eighty  years  of  age.  They 
had  ch.:  Roxanna4,  b.  1791,  Sept.  25,  m.  Moses  Davis,  and  res.  in 
Concord;  Theodore  G.4,  b.  1795,  Jan.  31,  was  in  the  War  of  1812, 
res.  in  Antrim;  Bartlett4,  b.  1797,  Aug.  6,  m.  Lucy  Little,  and  res. 
in  Antrim;  Samuel  G.4,  b.  1799,  Sept.  1,  m.  and  lived  in  Michi- 
gan; Elvira4,  b.  1802,  Sept.  31,  m.  Judge  Richardson,  Ohio; 
Nancy4,  b.  1806,  May  1,  m.  John  Scoby,  and  settled  in  Ohio; 
John  W.4,  b.  18—,  July  15,  m.  Ann  Brackett;  Mary  Esther4,  b. 
1809,  Nov.  14,  m.  Judge  Woodbury,  and  res.  in  Antrim;  Joseph4, 
b.  1813,  Feb.  11,  d.  1815,  March. 

II.  Janet,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  1733,  Jan.  28;  m.  Matthew  Dickey  of  Lon- 
donderry.    Had  ch.,  John3,  Ebenezer3,  James3,  and  Samuel.3 

II.  Ann,  dau.  of  John1,  b.  1736,  June  16;  m.  William  Clark;  moved  to 
New  Boston.     Had  ch.,  Robert3,  John3,  Ninian3,  and  Rebecca3. 

II.  Samuel,  son  of  John1,  b.  1738,  Jan.  23,  m.  Letitia  Clark.     Had  ch., 

Annis3,  Letitia3,  Rebecca3,  and  Sally3. 
I.  Thomas  Wallace,  brother  of  John,  who  came  over,  moved  to  Bed- 
ford in  1753,  as  appears  from  the  tax-list.     He  sustained  impor- 
tant offices  as  the  town  records  show.    He  had  lived  in  London- 
derry, and  there  m.  Jean .     They  had  ch. :  Jeannet2,  b.  1733; 

Dec.  11;  James2,  b.  1735,  Nov.  11;  Joseph2,  b.  1737,  Oct.  11;  Will- 
iam2, b.  1739,  Nov.  26;  Margaret2,  b.  1741,  Dec.  2,  m.  George  Orr 
(see  Orr);  Ann2,  b.  1744,  Nov.  24,  d.  1825;  John2,  b.  1746,  Dec.  15. 
Thomas,  the  father,  d.  1776,  aged  74.  The  following  is  a  certifi- 
cate of  character: 


GENEALOGIES. — WALLACE.  1111 

The  bearer  hereof,  Thomas  Wallace,  has  lived  in  this  congregation,  from 
his  infancy  to  the  date  hereof,  and  has  always  behaved  soberly  and  hon- 
estly, and  is  now  free  from  all  public  scandal  known  to  this  session,  is 
certified  by 

Robert  Higginbotham. 

Coleraine,  May  9, 1726. 

II.  James,  son  of  Thomas1,  b.  1735,  Nov.  11;  m.  Molly  Linn,  and  had 
ch.:  Anna3,  b.  1772,  Jan.  9;  Betsey3,  b.  1774,  Sept.  14;  Mary3,  b. 
1777,  Jan.  15;  Thomas3,  b.  1779,  April  25;  James3,  b.  1785,  July 
15;  Sarah  Orr3,  b.  1788,  July  25. 

II.  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas1,  b.  1737,  Oct.  11;  m.  1769,  Dec.  26,  Mary 
Scoby,  and  had  ch.:  Thomas3,  b.  1770,  Oct.  2;  Jane3,  b.  1772,  June 
2,  d.  1780,  Sept.  19;  Mary  Ann3,  b.  1774,  May  17;  John3,  b.  1776, 
April  20;  Joseph3,  b.  1778,  April  19;  Susanna3,  b.  1780,  April  2; 
Martha3,  b.  1783,  Sept.  11. 

II.  John,  son  of  Thomas1,  b.  1746,  Dec.  15;  m.  Isabella  Witherspoon 
and  had  ch.:  Robert3,  b.  1779,  July  25;  Samuel3,  b.  1781,  March  22 
Andy3,  b.  1782,  Nov.  21;  Janet3,  b.  1784,  Oct.  1;  Isaac3,  b.  1786 
Aug.  17;  Polly3;  Thomas3;  George  O.3,  b.  1797,  July. 

III.  Robert,  son  of  John2,  b.  1779,  July  5;  m.  Sally  Gage;  he  d.  1864 

aged  84.  They  had  seven  ch..  Cynthia4,  b.  1807,  Feb.  17,  d.  1812 
June  3;  Franklin4,  b.  1809,  Feb.  6,  m.  Mary  Patten  of  Henniker 
d.  in  Ohio,  had  two  sons;  Samuel*,  b.  1811,  May  29;  Isabella4,  b 
1813,  Sept.  13,  m.  William  French  (see  French);  Lydia  R.4,  b 
1815,  April  7,  m.  Byron  Woods,  and  d.  leaving  one  ch.,  Marion5 
who  m.  Stephen  Gardner;  Robert4,  b.  1818,  March  7,  m.  Rose 
Ann  Richardson,  d.  in  Nashua,  no  ch.;  James  F.*,  b.  1827,  Jan.  23 

IV.  Samuel,  son  of  Robert3,  b.  1811,  May  29;  m.  Fanny  Woods  of  Hollis 

He  d.  in  Texas.     Had  two  ch.:  James  H.5,  unm.;  Ella5,  m.  Mr 
Stanger,  and  res.  in  Calvert,  Texas. 
IV.  James  F.,  son  of  Robert3,  b.   1827,  Jan.  23;   m.  Julia  Green,  by 
whom  he  had  four  ch.:  Lizzie7  and (twins)7,  Mary7  and  Julia7. 

III.  George  O.,  son  of  John2,  b.  in  Bedford,  1797,  July;  m.  Olive  Wil- 

kins,  who  was  b.  1803,  and  d.  1861,  June  20.  He  d.  1841,  June  8. 
They  had  four  ch.:  Miles*;  Milton4;  Cynthia4,  m.  James  Darrah 
(see  Darrah) ;  Fanny*. 

IV.  Miles,  son  of  George  O.3,  was  b.  in  Bedford,  1824,  April  3;  m.,  1st, 

Lydia  E.  Buffum  of  Grafton,  by  whom  he  had  two  ch. :  Clarence 
E.5;  George  O.5  He  m.,  2d,  Sarah  J.  Burns  of  Whitefield,  by 
whom  he  had  three  ch.:  Milton  B.5,  b.  1858,  Dec.  31,  d.  1868,  Sept. 
20;  Emma  Francis5,  b.  1861,  March  23,  m.  Samuel  J.  Smith  of 
Grafton,  and  res.  Methuen,  Mass.,  no  ch.;  Hemy  Clinton5,  b.  1860, 
•Feb.  21. 
V.  Henry  Clinton,  son  of  Miles4,  was  b.  in  Manchester,  1860,  Feb.  21; 
is  a  photographer;  settled  in  Bedford  about  1897.  He  m.  1887, 
Oct.  15,  Nellie  Bell,  b.  1859,  Oct.  15,  dau.  of  Benjamin  B.  and 
Nancy  R.  (Lucy)  Batchelder  of  Deerfield,  N.  H.  Ch.:  Henry 
Clinton,  Jr.6,  b.  Deerfield,  1889,  July  31,  d.  Manchester,  1891, 
April  11;  Harold  Batchelder6,  b.  Manchester,  1891,  March  15; 
Ray  Milton6,  b.  in  Manchester,  1893,  Aug.  1;  Ethel  Mildred6,  b. 
Deerfield,  1895,  Aug.  2;  Helen  Burns6,  b.  Bedford,  1897,  Sept.  23; 
Miles6,  b.  Bedford,  1900,  Dec.  30. 

IV.  Milton,  son  of  George  O.3;  m.  Margaret  Mears,  by  whom  he  had 
fivech.:  Effie5;  Carrie5;  Sherman5;  Miles5;  Myrtle5. 

IV.  Fanny,  dau.  of  George  O.3;  m.  Rev.  Charles  Danforth,  and  moved 
to  Whitefield,  and  later  to  Concord,  N.  H,  where  she  d.  1896, 
no  ch. 

Note.— William  Parker  and  George  Burns,  twin  sons  of  Dr.  William  Wallace,  and 
Judith,  his  wife,  were  b.  1817,  Aug.  15  (town  records). 


1112  HISTOIIY   OF   BEDFORD. 

JOHN"  WALLACE,  ESQ. 

John  Wallace,  Esq.,  removed  to  Bedford  from  Londonderry  in  1756, 
having  previously  obtained  a  lot  of  land  in  this  town,  and  commenced 
a  settlement  on  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Thomas  Bursiel.  He  was  a 
man  of  firmness  and  decision,  having  been  called  to  sustain  many  impor- 
tant offices  in  town.  Previous  to  the  Revolution,  he  held  a  commission 
under  the  crown.  The  instrument  is  still  in  possession  of  the  family,  and 
a  copy  of  it  is  here  given  for  the  curiosity  of  the  reader.  It  is  in  good 
penmanship  and  bears  the  great  seal  of  state. 

"  Province  of  New  Hampshire. 
"George  the  Third,  By  the  Grace  of  God,  of  Great  Britain,  France,  and  Ireland, 

King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c. 
"  (L.  S.)    To  John  Wallace  of  Bedford,  within  our  Province 
aforesaid,  Yeoman,  Greeting: 
"Know  you  that  We,  reposing  special  Trust  and   Confidence   in  your  Loyalty, 
Skill  and  Integrity,  Have,  by  and  with  the  Advice  of  oar  Trusty  and  well-beloved 
John  Wentworth,  Esq.,  our  Captain-General,  Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief  in 
and  over  our  said  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  thought  fit  to  constitute  and  appoint, 
and  by  these  presents  Do  constitute  and  appoint  you,  the  said  John  Wallace,  a 
Coroner  within  the  said  Province.    To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  office  of  Coroner, 
together  with  all  Privileges,  Fees,  Perquisites  and  Advantages,  to  the  same  belong- 
ing, or  in  any  wise  appertaining,  during  our  Pleasure.    In  Testimony  whereof,  We 
have  caused  the  public  Seal  of  our  said  Province  to  be  hereunto  affixed.    Witness 
our  aforesaid  Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief  the  29th  day  of  March,  in  the  ninth 
year  of  our  Reign,  Annoque  Domini,  1769. 

"  J.  WENTWORTH. 
"  By  his  Excellency's  Command, 

"T.  ATKINSON,  JR.,  SEC." 

"  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  12th  Dec.  1770. 
"Then  the  above-named  John  Wallace  personally  appeared  and  took  oath  and 
subscribed  the  respective  Oaths  appointed  by  Act  of  Parliament,  instead  of  the 
Oaths  of  Allegiance  and  Supremacy;  also,  the  Oaths  of  Office. 

"Before  us, 

"  THEODORE  ATKINSON,  )  „._„.,.,  „ 
"  JONATHAN  WARNER,  \  <-omm  rs- 

But  although  Mr.  Wallace  held  an  important  office  under  the  king,  he 
was  among  the  foremost  in  sustaining  the  rights  and  liberties  of  the 
people  during  the  Revolutionary  struggle.  Such  was  the  excitement  in 
the  public  mind  at  that  trying  period  that  in  some  instances  the  people 
taking  the  matter  into  their  own  hands,  administered  what  is  now  called 
"Lynch-Law,"  to  those  whom  they  suspected  of  being  inimical  to  the 
cause  of  the  colonies  and  favorable  to  the  king. 

It  is  related  of  Mr.  Wallace  (the  anecdote  shows  his  influence  at  the 
time)  that  one  of  these  lawless  assemblages  being  collected  at  a  house  on 
Amherst  plain,  a  house  then  occupied  by  the  Hon.  J.  K.  Smith,*  for  the 
purpose  of  examining  suspicious  persons,  a  gentleman  of  the  legal  profes- 
sion was  placed  upon  the  hogshead  for  interrogation,  and  proving  some- 
what obstinate,  was  about  to  suffer  violence,  when  John  Wallace,  though 
a  strong  Whig,  kindly  interposed,  and,  by  his  influence,  saved  the 
person's  life. 

REV.   CYRUS  WASHINGTON  WALLACE. 

Rev.  Cyrus  W.  Wallace  was  born  in  Bedford,  1805,  March  8,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Mercy  (Frye)  Wallace,  and  was  one  of  a  family  of  five 
brothers  and  two  sisters.  His  youth  was  passed  in  agricultural  and 
mechanical  pursuits,  his  education  being  obtained  in  the  district  schools 
of  his  native  town  and  at  Oberlin  seminary,  Oberlin,  Ohio.  He  early 
manifested  an  inclination  for  the  ministry,  and  was  fitted  for  this  calling 
under  the  instruction  of  Rev.  Herman  Rood  and  Rev.  Aaron  Warner  at 
the  Theological  seminary  at  Gilmanton.  Having  been  licensed  to  preach 
by  the  Londonderry  Presbytery  in  April,  1838,  he  came  to  Manchester  in 


GENEALOGIES. — WALLACE. — WARKEN. — WATSON.      1113 

May  of  the  following  year  to  supply  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Congregational 
church,  then  situated  at  Amoskeag  village.  On  its  removal  to  the  east 
bank  of  the  river  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  its  pastor  1840>  Jan. 
8.  For  thirty-three  years  he  continued  in  this  charge,  resigning  1872, 
Feb.  11,  but  continued  to  conduct  the  preaching  service  in  his  old  pul- 
pit until  the  December  following,  when  he  accepted*  the  supply  of  the 
pulpit  of  the  First  Congregational  church  at  Rockland,  Mass.,  though 
retaining  his  residence  in  Manchester.  His  dismissal  by  council  from 
the  First  Congregational  church  of  Manchester  was  1873,  Dec.  16.  In 
addition  to  preaching  at  Rockland,  he  supplied  the  pulpits  at  West 
Stewartstown,  Drury,  and  Francestown,  N.  H.,  for  several  weeks  at  a 
time,  but  was  never  installed  over  any  church  save  the  one  in  Manchester, 
of  which  mention  is  made. 

He  was  a  vigorous  preacher,  and  his  discourses  were  oftentimes 
eloquent.  Two  sermons  delivered  after  his  retirement  from  the  Hanover 
Street  Congregational  church  are  especially  worthy  of  mention.  The  first 
•was  the  last  sermon  ever  delivered  in  the  old  church,  which  occupied  the 
site  of  the  present  Opera  House  block,  and  was  preached  1880,  March  28; 
the  second  was  delivered  1885,  March  8,  at  the  celebration  of  his  eightieth 
anniversary.  Both  efforts  attracted  wide  attention  at  the  time  as  remark- 
able for  a  man  of  his  advanced  years.  His  vigor  and  clearness  of  mind, 
as  demonstrated  by  these  notable  sermons,  may  be  compared  with  the 
like  traits  of  Hon.  W.  E.  Gladstone  of  England.  Mr.  Wallace  was  the 
first  minister  to  hold  regular  preaching  services  on  the  east  bank  of  the 
river  at  what  was  called  the  new  village  in  the  early  days  of  Manchester, 
and  his  pastorate  was  longer  than  that  of  any  other  Manchester  clergy- 
man. He  was  an  ardent  Republican,  and  in  1867-'68  was  sent  as  a 
representative  to  the  legislature  from  Ward  4.  It  was  also  during  the 
latter  year  that  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Dart- 
mouth college.  He  was  strongly  identified  with  the  early  history  of  the 
city  and  prominent  in  all  measures  for  reform.  During  the  Civil  war  he 
was  for  a  long  time  a  prominent  member  of  the  Christian  commission. 
His  industry  was  incessant,  the  only  vacation  he  ever  took  during  his 
long  ministry  being  a  three  months'  trip  to  Europe  in  1854.  1840,  May 
19,  he  married  Miss  Susan  A.  Webster,  who  died  1873,  May  15.  He 
married  for  the  second  time,  1874,  Sept.  30,  Miss  Elizabeth  H.  Allison. 
Mr.  Wallace  died  1889,  Oct.  21,  aged  eighty -four  years. — Willey's  History 
of  Manchester. 

WARREN. 

I.  Josiah  Warren  of  New  Boston,  m.  Hannah  Harradon.  Had  a  son, 
Jonathan  C.2 
II.  Jonathan  C,  son  of  Josiah1,  was  b.  in  New  Boston,  1819,  Dec.  13; 
he  m.  1844,  Aug.  1,  Mary  Jane,  b.  in  Bedford,  1824,  July  25,  dau. 
of  Allen  and  Polly  (Patten)  Peabody.  He  was  a  tailor  and  res.  in 
Manchester  for  a  time,  but  rem.  to  Bedford,  where  she  d.  1886, 
Oct,  19.     No  ch. 

WATSON. 

Rev.  Albert  Priestley  Watson  was  b.  in  Barrington,  1875,  Nov.  12. 
He  is  the  son  of  Rev.  Albert  and  Mary  M.  (Priestley)  Watson,  both  of 
whom  were  born  in  England.  He  was  graduated  from  Kimball  Union 
academy,  Meriden,  N.  H.,  1893;  from  Dartmouth  college,  1897;  and 
Andover  Theological  seminary  in  1900.  Entered  upon  his  pastorate  in 
Bedford  in  June,  1900,  and  was  ordained  1900,  Sept.  25. 


1114  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

WEBBER. 

I.  George  W.,  son  of  George  and  Hulda  Webber,  was  b.  in  Hooksett, 
1833.  He  m.  1859,  Oct.  26,  Louisa  A.,  b.  in  Epsom,  1837,  Feb.  3, 
dau.  of  Dudley  and  Betsey  Clifford.  They  settled  in  Bedford  and 
had  ch.:  Nellie  J.2,  b.  1861,  March  14,  m.  George  H.  Gault  (see 
Gault;  George  W.*,  b.  1863,  May  1;  Lizzie  M.2,  b.  1865,  Aug.  30; 
Josephine2,  b.  1868,  Sept.  12,  d.  1886,  March  13;  Horace  Eugene2,  b. 
1870,  Dec.  29. 

II.  George  W.,  son  of  George  W.1,  b.  1863,  May  1;  m.  May  Levallie  of 
Milford  and  has  ch.:  George  E.3,  b.  1886,  Sept.  7;  Rose  Etta3,  b. 
1892,  Sept.  25;  Ralph  M.3,  b.  1895,  Nov.  24. 

II.  Lizzie  M.,  dau.  of  George  W.1,  b.  1865,  Aug.  30;  m.  Philip  H.  Os- 
good of  Milford,  where  they  now  res.  and  have  ch. :  Mattie  L.3,  b. 
1884,  Aug.  7;  Helen  E.3,  b.  1889,  Aug.  20. 

II.  Horace  Eugene,  son  of  George  W.1,  b.  1870,  Dec.  29;  m.  1896,  April 
23,  Harriett  C,  b.  1875,  Nov.  14,  dau.  of  George  F.  and  Delphina  J. 
(Smith)  Shepard.     Res.  in  Bedford. 

WELCH. 

I.  David,  m.  Jane,  b.  1826,  Sept.  16,  dau.  of  Robert2  and  Naomi  Camp- 
bell.    Ch.:  George2,  b.  1851;  John2,  b.  1853,  May  1. 
II.  George,  son  of  David1;  m.   Lura,  dau.  of  Jackson  Butterfleld.     Ch.: 
Sarah  J.3,  b.  1885,  Feb.  4;  Andrew3,  b.  1887,  March;  Louis3,  b.  1891, 
Aug. 

II.  John,  son  of  David1,  m.  Amy  Ella,  b.  1860,  July  22,  dau.  of  Jackson 

Butterfleld.  Ch.:  Frank3,  b.  1881,  Aug.  20;  Fred3,  b.  1884,  June 
2;  Oscar3,  b.  1886,  March  12;  Henry3,  b.  1888,  June  17;  Jennie3,  b. 
1892,  July  4;  Clara3,  b.  1895,  March  23;  Lillie3,  b.  1896,  April  24; 
Flossie  Maud3,  b.  1898,  Aug.  17;  Amy  Ella3,  b.  1901,  July  13. 

WHITFORD. 

I.  William  Whitford  was  b.  in  Salem,  Mass.,  1773,  Aug.  19;  he  m. 
1798,  Oct.  28,  Lucy  Dale,  b.  Beverly,  Mass.,  1778,  March  30,  dau. 
of  Achiles  Dale;  she  d.  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  1855,  May  17;  he  d. 
Hillsborough,  N.  H.,  1838,  Jan.  30.  They  had  eleven  ch.:  Will- 
iam2; Lucy2;  George  Dale2;  Mary2;  Jeremiah2;  Elliott;2  Seth2;  Hiram2, 
d.  in  infancy;  Sarah2:  Hiram2;  and  Elizabeth.2 
II.  George  Dale,  son  of  William1,  was  b.  in  Middleton,  Mass.,  1803, 
May  14;  hem.,  1st,  1832,  March  20,  Sylvia  Stearns  of  Billerica, 
Mass.  She  was  the  dau.  of  Josiah  Stearns,  who  m.  his  cousin 
Susanna  Stearns,  both  of  whom  are  supposed  to  have  descended 
from  Isaac  Stearns,  who  came  over  with  Governor  Winthrop  in 
1630.  Sylvia  was  b.  in  New  Boston,  1808,  Dec.  14,  and  d.  in  Bed- 
ford 1853,  Sept.  8.  By  this  marriage  there  were  five  ch. :  Lucy 
Ann3,  b.  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  1833,  Dec.  31,  m.  David  H.  Barr  (see 
Barr);  George5,  b.  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  1835,  June  26;  Edwin*,  b.  in 
Billerica,  Mass.,  1837,  Jan.  7;  Abel3,  b.  in  Nashua,  1839,  Sept.  30, 
d.  in  Nashua,  1840,  April  12;  Ellen  Maria3,  b.  in  Nashua,  1842, 
April  7,  m.  William  M.  Patten  (see  Patten).  George  D.  m.,  2d, 
1854,  Eliza  R.  Marshall  of  Bedford;  he  d.  in  Bedford,  1878,  July  8; 
Eliza,  his  wife,  d.  in  Manchester  1897,  Feb.  6.  They  had  one  ch., 
Sarah  Eliza3,  b.  in  Bedford,  1855,  June  29,  d.  1855,  Sept.  4. 

III.  George,  son  of  George2,  b.  1835,  June  26;  m.  1859,  July  4,  Sarah  A., 

b.  Bedford,  1837,  Jane  1,  dau.  of  Rodney  and  Abigail  (Hodgman) 
McLaughlin;  he  d.  in  Manchester,  1895,  Jan.  4.  They  had  two 
ch.:  Clara  E.*,  b.  in  Bedford,  1864,  Sept.  18,  and  George  W.4,b.  in 
Manchester,  1874,  Dec.  1. 


GENEALOGIES. — WIGGIN.  1115 

III.  Edwin,  son  of  George  D.2,  b.  1837,  Jan.  7;  enlisted  as  corporal  1861, 
Aug.  27,  Co.  E.,  Fourth  N.  H.  Vols.;  ree'nlisted  and  was  appointed 
captain  of  Co.  G,  1865,  March  1;  was  discharged  at  close  of  war, 
1865,  Aug.  23.  He  m.  1866,  April  19,  Mary  A.  Noyes  of  Andover, 
Mass.,  and  d.  in  Bedford,  1902,  Nov.  22  (see  page  644).  They  had 
three  ch:  Minnie  E.4,  b.  in  Bedford,  1867,  Feb.  28;  Grace  B.4,  b. 
in  Woburn,  Mass.,  1871,  June  18;  and  Edith  M.4,  b.  in  Melrose, 
Mass.,  1876,  Oct.  15,  m.  1900,  Oct.  5,  MelvinW.  Smith  of  Melrose, 
Mass. 

WIGGIN. 

Thomas  J.,  son  of  Lot  and  Polly  (Putney)  Wiggin,  was  born  in  Warner, 
1836,  June  26.  He  entered  the  high  school  in  Manchester  1854,  and  re- 
mained in  that  city  until  he  came  to  Bedford  in  1861,  November.  His 
father  accompanied  him  here  and  died  1874,  October  12.  Thomas  J.  en- 
gaged in  farming;  he  enlisted  1862,  August  7,  and  served  in  the  Fourteenth 
N.  H.  volunteers  and  the  Signal  corps  of  U.  S.  army  .until  1865,  June  26.  He 
is  a  member  of  Louis  Bell  post,  G.  A.  R.,  which  he  has  served  as  vice  jun- 
ior, vice  senior,  commander,  and  chaplain;  also  has  been  treasurer  of  Nar- 
ragansett  grange  for  seven  years.  Has  served  the  town  four  years  as 
member  of  the  board  of  supervisors,  two  years  chairman  board  of  select- 
men, and  three  years  as  member  of  the  school  board.  He  married,  1861, 
Jan.  5,  Arvilla,  born  in  West  Chazy,  N.  Y.,  1834,  May  26,  daughter  of 
William  and  Sabra  (Baker)  Douglas.  They  had  an  adopted  daughter, 
Katie  I.,  b.  in  West  Chazy,  N.  Y.,  1865,  March  14.  She  died  in  Bedford, 
1890,  Jan.  13. 

WIGGIN. 

I.  George  Hatch  Wiggin  was  b.  in  North  Chelsea  (now  Revere),  Mass., 
1830,  May  22,  the  son  of  John  Thomas  and  Mary  Ann  (Hatch) 
Wiggin.  He  m.  1855,  Sept.  28,  Mary  Ann,  b.  in  England,  1828, 
June  30,  dau.  of  William  and  Emily  (Harper)  Taylor.  William 
Taylor,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Wiggin,  was  connected  with  the  Eng- 
lish army  twenty  years  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Waterloo, 
under  Wellington.  George  H.  Wiggin  having  bought  in  partner- 
ship with  his  brother-in-law,  Henry  Taylor,  the  farm  known  as 
the  old  Bedford  poor  farm,  moved  his  family  from  East  Boston, 
where  he  had  resided  after  his  marriage,  to  Bedford,  1866,  April  2. 
His  family  at  that  time  consisted  of  his  wife,  four  ch.,  Sarah  E.  . 
George  H.2,  Charles  H.2,  and  Walter  C.2,  also  his  wife's  mother, 
who  d.  1868,  June  2.  At  the  time  he  purchased  his  farm  in  Bed- 
ford he  had  charge  of  the  warehouses  on  the  Grand  Junction 
R.  R.,  in  East  Boston.  He  began  railroading  as  section  hand, 
then  served  as  fireman  and  engineer,  and  later  was  roadmaster 
on  the  Grand  Junction  R.  R.  He  was  always  much  interested  in 
musical  matters,  being  a  flute  player  of  considerable  ability,  and 
singing  in  the  Bedford  church  choir  for  many  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  several  Masonic  bodies;  was  a  charter  member  and 
past  master  of  Hammett  lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  also  a  charter  mem- 
ber and  past  master  of  Narragansett  grange,  P.  of  H.  He  was 
elected  and  served  as  delegate  to  the  state  convention  in  1888,  and 
d.  1891,  Oct.  28.  His  ch.  b.  in.  East  Boston  were:  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth2, b.  1856,  Aug.  12;  George  Henry2,  b.  1858,  June  23;  Charles 
Hatch2,  b.  1860,  Aug.  12;  William  Lawrence2,  b.  1862,  Aug.  14,  d. 
1863,  Sept.  20;  Walter  Cleveland2,  b.  1865,  June  2,  d.  in  Bedford, 
1874,  Aug.  21.  Ch.  b.  in  Bedford  were:  Charlotte  Taylor2,  b.  1868, 
April  6,  d.  1869,  Aug.  15;  Albert  Barrett2,  b.  1872,  July  4,  d.  1873, 
Jan.  23. 


1116  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

II.  George  Henry,  son  of  George  H.1,  b.  1858,  June  23;  m.  1887,  April 
30,  Mary  Florence,  b.  in  Manchester,  1867,  Sept.  1,  dan.  of  Will- 
iam Henry  and  Mary  Ella  (Walker)  Minot.  He  resides  on  the 
homestead.  Their  ch.  are:  Alice  Elizabeth3,  b.  1888,  Dec.  14; 
Ralph  Minot3,  b.  1890,  July  16;  Charlotte  May3,  b.  1892,  Nov.  26; 
George  Taylor3,  b.  1895,  July  26;  Charles  Arthur3,  b.  1897,  Oct. 
16;  Ruth  Louise3,  b.  1899,  Oct.  21;  James  Walker,  b.  1901,  Aug. 
23. 

II.  Charles  Hatch,  son  of  George  H.1,  b.  1860,  Aug.  12;  m.  1892,  April  7, 
Annie  Mabel,  b.  1871,  Aug.  12,  dau.  of  Charles  Parker  and  Eliza- 
beth Ann  (Shepard)  Farley.  He  bought  in  the  spring  of  1894,  in 
company  with  his  brother  George,  the  farm  known  as  the  Willard 
Parker  homestead,  which  adjoins  the  home  farm,  the  two  broth- 
ers carrying  on  the  two  farms  as  one.  Annie  M.,  his  wife,  d. 
1901,  April  2.  They  had  one  ch.,  Ruth  Taylor3,  b.  1894,  Jan.  26, 
d.  1895,  Feb.  22. 

WITHERSPOON. 

I.  Samuel  was  b.  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  1787,  May  22.  He  m.  1808,  Dec. 
14,  Susan,  b.  1789,  Nov.  12,  dau.  of  Josiah  and  Sally  (Gage)  Tinker 
of  Merrimack,  and  settled  in  Bedford  soon  after,  where  he  d.,  1863, 
June  15.  She  d.  1863,  April  18.  Their  ch.  were:  Samuel2,  b. 
1809,  Feb.  21,  d.  1815,  Jan.  26;  Jane  F.2,  b.  1812;  Aug.  21  (see 
McDole);  Sarah  F.2,  b.  1815,  Feb.  6,  d.  1881,  Nov.  10;  Mary2,  b. 
1817,  June  28,  d.  1819,  March  22;  David2,  b.  1819,  Nov.  20,  m.,  1st, 
Delia  Teague,  2d,  Lucy  A.  Holbrook,  res.  in  Goffstown,  where  he 
d.,  1892,  Aug.  4;  John2,  b.  1822,  Jan.  25,  d.  1822,  Oct.  22;  Jesse*, 
b.  1823,  Aug.  6;  Joseph  M.2,  b.  1826,  Sept.  9,  m.  Alzina  Simpson, 
d.  Lawler,  la.,  1895,  Nov.  11,  three  ch.,  Millard  J.3.  Lizzie  May3, 
Ada3;  Sophia2,  b.  1829,  Nov.  22,  m.  Senter  Farley  (see  Farley). 
II.  Jesse,  son  of  Samuel1,  b.  1823,  Aug.  6,  in  Chester;  was  an  elder  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  here  for  nearly  25  years;  a  farmer.  He 
m.  1851,  Jan.  3,  Ann  D.,  b.  1833,  March  29,  dau.  of  Charles  and 
Harriet  (Brown)  Trumbull  of  Wilmot,  and  d.  1895,  Feb.  25.  Their 
ch.  were:  George  Henry*,  b.  Wilmot,  1852,  April  5;  Emma  Jane3,  b. 
1854,  July  29;  Edward  Bruce3,  b.  1857,  Feb.  28,  m.  1886,  Dec.  30, 
Lizzie  S.  Twist,  res.  Manchester,  no  ch.;  Susan  Etta3,  b.  1870, 
Oct.  10,  m.  Martin  Campbell. 

III.  George  H.,  son  of  Jesse2,  b.  1852,  April  5;  m.,  1st,  1874,  Feb.,  Mary 
Agnes  Bryant  of  this  town;  m.,  2d,  1896,  Jan.  1,  Sarah  Lena 
Stimpson  of  Lowell,  Mass.  Ch.  by  first  mar.  were:  Jessie  B.4; 
Lizzie  Mae*. 

III.  Emma  J.,  dau.  of  Jesse2,  b.  1854,  July  29;  m.  1875,  Nov.  9,  Joseph 
P.  Gage  of  this  town.  Their  ch.  are:  Lura  B.4;  J.  Eugene4;  Gil- 
man  F.4;  Jesse  W.4 

THE  WOODBURY  FAMILY. 

I.John  Woodbury,  known  as  the  "Old  Planter,"  was  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  Beverly,  Mass.  He  came  from  Devonshire, 
England,  and  arrived  at  Cape  Ann  in  1624,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Dorchester  company.  He  came  to  Naumkeag,  or  Salem,  in 
1626,  and  was  an  original  member  of  the  first  church  there.  He 
went  to  England  in  1627  and  returned  in  1628,  bringing  his  son 
Humphrey  with  him,  born,  probably  in  1608.  The  record  shows 
he  had  ch.,  as  follows:  Humphrey2;  Hannah2;  Amos2;  Agnes2; 
Abigail2;  Ann2;  and  Peter2.  He  was  made  a  freeman  in  1635,  and 
the  same  year  was  chosen  deputy  to  the  general  court.  He  also 
received  a  grant  of  200  acres  of  land  on  Bass  river.  He  d.  in  1640. 
The  grant  runs  as  follows: 


GENEALOGIES. — WOODBURY.  1117 

4th  of  the  llth  month,  (Jan.)  1635.  That  Capt.  (William)  Trask,  Jno.  Wood- 
bury, Mr.  Conant,  Peter  Palfry  and  John  Balch,  are  to  have  five  farms, 
each  200  acres  a  peise,  to  forme  in  all  a  thousand  acres  of  land  together, 
lyeing  and  being  at  the  head  of  Bass  river,  124  poles  in  breadth,  and  soe 
runin  northerly  to  the  river  by  the  great  pond  side  and  soe  in  breadth, 
making  up  the'f  ull  quantity  of  a  thousand  acres,  these  being  laid  out  and 
surveyed  by  us. 

JOHN  WOODBURY, 
JOHN   BALCH. 

The  record  shows  that  three  of  his  ch.  were  baptized  in  Salem:  Han- 
nah, 25th  of  10th  month,  1626;  Abigail,  12th  of  9th  month,  1637; 
Peter,  19th  of  7th  month,  1640.  He  had  two  wives.  The  name 
of  the  first  is  unknown;  his  secend  wife  bore  the  name  of  Ann, 
Agnes,  or  Annis,  as  it  was  indifferently  written. 
II.  Humphrey,  son  of  John  Woodbury1  by  his  first  wife;  m.  1637,  Eliza- 
beth   ,  and  was  living  as  late  as  1681.     He  became  a  member 

of  the  church  in  1648  and  deacon  in  1668.     He  had  five  ch.: 

Peter8,  b.  the  28th  of  the  1st  month,  1652;  killed  at  Bloody  brook, 
1675. 

Richard3,  b.  the  28th  of  the  12th  month,  1654. 

Elizabeth3,  b.  the  28th  of  the  2d  month,  1657. 

Christian3,  b.  the  26th  of  the  6th  month,  1661;  m. Trask. 

William3,  b. . 

II.  Peter*,  son  of  John  Woodbury1,  the  "Old  Planter,"  and  Ann,  b.  in 
1640;  m.  1665,  Abigail  Batchelder,  who  had  been  baptized  1642, 
Feb.  12.  She  had  one  ch.,  Peter*,  b.  1666,  Dec.  12,  and  d.  very 
shortly.  In  1667,  July,  he  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Richard  Dodge.  In 
1668  he  was  made  a  freeman;  in  1679,  a  selectman;  in  1689,  a 
deacon,  and  a  deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1689  and  1692.  He 
d.  1704,  July  4.  His  wife  d.  in  1726,  aged  about  84  years.  They 
had  eight  ch.: 

Josiah3,  b.  1682,  June  15;  Sarah3,  b. ,  m.  George  Raymond;  Abi- 
gail3, b. ,  m. Lamson;  Martha3,  b. ,  in. Brown;t 

Jerusha3,    b.   ,  m.  Raymond;    Ann3,   b.   ,   m.   

Herrick;  Priscilla3,  b. ,  num.;  Rebekah3,  b. ,  unm. 

III.  Peter,  son  of  Peter'2  and  Abigail  Batchelder  Woodbury;  m.   Mary 

Dodge,  who  was  b.  in  1673  and  d.  in  1763.  He  d.  1706,  Jan.  8. 
They  had  seven  children:  Joseph4;  Abigail4;  Benjamin4;  Mary4; 
Mercy4;  Pete)A;  and  Rebecca4. 

IV.  Peter,  son  of  Peter3  and  Mary  (Dodge)  Woodbury,  b.  1705,  June  20, 

and  d.  1775,  May  14;  m.  Hannah  Batchelder.  Served  in  the 
French  war  in  Colonel  Plaisted's  regiment,  and  in  1775  was  a 
minute  man,  being  a  sergeant  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Caleb  Rea, 
his  cousin,  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Lexington,  although  more 
than  69  years  of  age.  Governor  Woodbury  of  Vermont  is  a 
descendant  of  one  of  his  sons.  They  had  four  sons:  James5,  b. 
1738,  June  4;  John5;  Joseph5;  Peter5. 

V.  James,  son  of  Peter4  and  Hannah  (Batchelder)  Woodbury;  m.  Han- 
nah Trask,  who  was  b.  1741,  Sept.  2,  and  d.  1819,  Oct.  5.  He  d.  at 
Francestown,  1823,  March  5.  They  had  eight  children:  Hetty6; 
Abigail6;  Hannah6;  Mary6,  b.  1769,  Aug.  5;  Sarah6;  Anna6;  Betsy6; 
and  Lucy6. 

VI.  Mary,  dau.  of  James  and  Hannah  (Trask)  Woodbury;  m.  Peter 
Woodbury6 .     (See  below. ) 

III.  Josiah,  son  of  Peter2  and  Sarah  (Dodge)  Woodbury;  m.  1708,  April 
29,  Lydia  Herrick  of  Beverly,  Mass. ,  dau.  of  Capt.  Joseph  Herrick, 
who  commanded  a  company  of  mounted  rangers    during    the 

*  The  History  of  1850  makes  this  man  the  son  of  Humphrey  Woodbury,  and  con- 
fuses him  with  Peter  Woodbury,  the  son  of  Humphrey,  born  in  1652. 

t  This'Martha  Brown  was  the  ancestress  of  the  late  Peter  C.  Brooks  of  Boston,  whose 
daughters  married  Edward  Everett,  Charles  Francis  Adams,  and  Paul  Frothing- 
ham.  From  her  also  descended,  through  Rev.  John  Brown  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  the 
late  Rev.  Phillips  Brooks. 


1118  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

French  wax.  She  was  b.  1691,  May  29.  In  1715,  Oct.  21,  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Second  or  Upper  Parish  church  of  Beverly, 
and  d.  about  1746.     They  had  five  ch.: 

Josiah*,  b.  1709,  Feb.  15;  Lydia*,  b.  1713,  Sept.  24;  Mary*,  b.  1716, 
March  3;  Martha*,  b.  1721,  May  5;  Sarah*,  b.  1730,  March  15. 
IV.  Josiah,  son  of  Josiah3  and  Lydia  (Herrick)  Woodbury;  m.  1731,  Han- 
nah Perkins  of  Ipswich.  She  d.  1761,  Jan.  12,  aged  46  years.  He 
d.  1773,  Dec.  12.  They  had  thirteen  ch.,  five  of  whom  d.  young. 
Some  of  them  were: 

Sarah5,  b.  1736,  Feb.  13,  d.  1737;  Peter5,  b.  1738,  March  28,  at  Bev- 
erly; Lydia5,  b.  1740,  May  1;  Hannah5,  b.  1743,  May  4;  Josiah5, 
b.  1748,  May  2;  Martha5,  b.  1750,  Aug.  20;  Thankful5,  b.  1755, 
Oct.  20. 

V.  Peter,  son  of  Josiah*  and  Hannah  (Perkins)  Woodbury;  m.   about 

1760,  Elizabeth  Dodge  of  Beverly,  aged  17  years.  She  was  at  the 
time  the  widow  of  Oapt.  James  Rea,  by  whom  she  had  one  son, 
James  Rea,  b.  1758,  May  1.  She  d.  at  Antrim,  1812,  April  19, 
aged  69  years.  The  history  of  Antrim  says:  "  She  was  a  woman 
of  shrewdness  and  energy."  They  moved  to  Mont  Vernon,  then 
a  part  of  Amherst,  in  1773.  He  passed  the  last  twenty  years  of 
his  life  at  Antrim  with  his  youngest  son,  Mark,  and  d.  1818,  Oct. 
11,  aged  81  years.  His  house  in  Mont  Vernon,  at  the  top  of  the 
long  hill,  is  still  standing.  There  is  some  doubt  when  he  removed 
from  Beverly  to  New  Hampshire.  He  saw  service  in  the  French 
war,  but  the  details  are  not  obtainable.  He  was  a  private  in  Cap- 
tain Taylor's  company,  and  marched  from  Amherst,  1775,  Dec.  8, 
to  join  the  Continental  army  at  Winter  Hill.  He  signed  the 
Association  Test  in  1776;  was  a  delegate  to  the  convention  in  New 
Hampshire  that  declared  for  independence  and  framed  the  first 
constitution  of  New  Hampshire,  and  was  one  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  for  Amherst.  His  son  Peter  enlisted  when  12  or  13  years 
old,  but  was  compelled  by  his  father  to  return  to  school.  He  and 
his  wife  are  buried  oti  Meeting-house  hill  in  Antrim.  Their  ch. 
were: 

Levi6,  b.  1761,  Jan.  20;  enlisted  in  Colonel  Meserve's  regiment  and 
was  paid  off  and  discharged  1780,  Jan.  20.  He  then  entered  the 
privateering  service,  and  was  captured  by  the  sloop  Essex  of  20 
guns,  Captain  Cathcart;  was  thrown  into  prison,  at  Dartmoor, 
Eng.,  where  he  d.  as  a  prisoner  of  war.  A  log  book  of  his  is  still 
in  existence. 

Jesse6,  b.  1762,  Oct.  22;  enlisted  in  the  Revolutionary  army  at  the 
same  time  as  Levi;  was  paid  off  in  1779,  Dec.  He  m.  Abigail 
Bout  well  of  Lvndeborough,  and  d.  in  1806. 

Peter*,  b.  1767,  Jan.  17. 

Mark6,  b.  1775,  Jan.  1;  m.  Alice,  dau.  of  Deacon  John  Boyd;  d.  1828, 
March  17. 

Betsy6,  b.  1770,  Feb.  9;  m.  Peter  Jones  of  Amherst. 

Hannah6,  b.  1772,  Feb.  14;  d.  1772,  March  17. 

Elizabeth6,  b. ;  m.  1783,  Samuel  Batchelder,  afterwards  of  New 

Ipswich,  from  whom  descended  a  distinguished  cotton  manufac- 
turer, Samuel  Batchelder.  He  d.  in  Cambridge  in  1795,  aged  95 
years. 

VI.  Peter,  son  of   Peter5  and   Elizabeth  (Dodge)    Woodbury,  rem.   to 

New  Hampshire  with  his  father  and  settled  at  Francestown, 
where  he  engaged  in  mercantile  and  agricultural  pursuits.  He 
was  about  fifteen  years  representative  and  two  years  senator  in 
the  state  legislature,  and  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  of  the 
quorum  about  forty  years.  He  m.  1786,  April  19,  Mary,  dau.  of 
James  and  Hannah  (Trask)  Woodbury,  b.  1770,  Aug.  15,  and  d. 
1834.     He  d.  1834,  Sept.  13.     Her  father  was  the  son  of  Peter  and 


GENEALOGIES. — WOODBURY.  1119 

Mary  (Dodge)  Woodbury,  and  was  b.  in  1738,  in  the  old  house  at 
North  Beverly,  then  owned  by  his  father,  Peter.  This  is  the 
house  that  the  first  Peter  left  to  his  son  Peter  and  now  occupied 
by  Levi  Woodbury.  It  and  a  part  of  the  farm  has  been  occupied 
for  over  two  centuries  by  the  Woodbury  family.  In  March,  1758, 
'he  enlisted  in  Capt.  Andrew  Fuller's  company  for  the  "  reduction 
of  Canada."  He  was  a  minor,  and  opposite  his  name  on  the  roll 
is  that  of  his  father,  consenting  to  his  enlistment.  Captain  Ful- 
ler was  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Jonathan  Bagley  of 
Amesbury.  He  was  mustered  out  1758,  Nov.  20,  and  in  1759 
enlisted  in  Captain  Newhall's  company  of  the  same  regiment. 
They  went  to  Halifax  to  join  Wolfe's  command.  The  Massachu- 
setts muster  rolls  give  the  names  of  ten  brothers  and  cousins  of  his 
name,  out  those  two  years.  The  regiment  assembled  in  Boston 
harbor  and  sailed  for  Louisburg,  May  15,  1759,  and  they  arrived 
the  24th.  Family  tradition  states  that  he  was  wounded  on  the 
Plains  of  Abraham  and  lay  under  the  same  tree  as  Wolfe.  His 
gun  and  sword  are  still  in  existence.  After  the  war  he  returned 
to  Beverly,  and  made  several  successful  sea  voyages.  He  then 
moved  to  Mont  Vernon,  then  Amherst,  where  he  cultivated  a 
farm  until  the  close  of  his  life.  Peter6  and  Mary  Woodbury  had 
eleven  ch.: 

Mary7,  b.  1787,  Oct.  28;  m.,  1st,  Dr.  Adonijah  Howe  of  Jaffrey, 
N.  H.;  m.,  2d, Howe  of  Jaffrey;  d.  1875,  Jan.  18. 

Levi7,  b.  1789,  Dec.  22;  m.  Elizabeth  Clapp  of  Portland,  Me.;  d. 
1851,  Sept.  4;  governor  of  New  Hampshire,  1823;  United  States 
senator,  justice  of  state  and  United  States  supreme  courts,  secre- 
tary of  the  navy  and  the  treasury. 

Peter  P.\  b.  1791,  Aug.  8;  d.  1860,  Dec.  5, 

Anstriss7,  b.  1793,  May  29;  m.  Hon  Nehemiah  Eastman  of  Farming- 
ton;  d.  1847,  Sept.  10. 

Martha7,  b.  1799,  Aug.  14;  m.  Thomas  Grimes;  merchant,  Windsor, 
Vt.,  and  d.  1855,  Dec.  25.  ~. 

Hannah  Trask7,  b.  1800,  March  17;  m.  Isaac  O.  Barnes,  Esq.,  for 
many  years  clerk  of  the  United  States  district  court  of  Massachu- 
setts.    She  d.  1855,  Feb.  27. 

James  Trask7,  b.  1803,  May  9;  m.  1827,  May  30,  Augusta  Porter; 
grad.  at  Harvard  college  in  1823;  practised  law;  studied  for  the 
ministry,  and  for  many  years  was  settled  at  Acton,  Mass.;  d.  1861, 
Jan.  16. 

Harriet7,  b.  1805,  May  1;  m.  Perley  Dodge,  Esq.,  clerk  of  the 
superior  court  and  attorney  at  Amherst.     She  d.  1887,  Feb.  11. 

Jesse7,  b.  1807,  May  17;  m.  Hannah  Duncklee;  lived  on  the  home- 
stead at  Francestown,  and  d.  1889,  July  4. 

Adeline7,  b.  1809,  April  22;  m.  Edwin  F.  Bunnell  of  Boston,  after- 
wards of  San  Francisco.     She  d. 

George  W.7,  b.  1810,  June;  m.  Mary  J.  Spiars  of  Satartia,  Miss.; 
studied  medicine  and  moved  to  Yazoo  county,  Miss.,  where  he  d. 
1875,  Oct.  26. 
VJJL  Peter  Perkins,  son  of  Peter6  and  Mary  Woodbury;  m.,  1st,  1818, 
Jan.  8,  Marv  Riddle,  dau.  of  William  Riddle,  Esq.  She  d.  1819, 
April  20;  m.,  2d,  1819,  Aug.  24,  Martha,  sister  of  Mary.  She  d. 
in  1832,  Aug.  17;  m.,  3d,  1832,  Oct.  25,  Eliza  Bailey,  dau.  of 
Josiah  Gordon,  Esq.  She  was  b.  1797,  March  11,  and  d.  1885,  June 
14,  (see  sketch).  He  studied  medicine  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Adonijah  Howe  at  Jaffrey,  and  Jonathan  Gove  at  Goffstown,  at 
Dartmouth  and  Yale  colleges.  He  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
at  Goffstown,  1815,  Jan.  9,  and  in  July  of  the  same  year  moved 
to  Bedford  (see  biography).  He  had  no  ch.  by  his  1st  wife.  By 
his  2d  wife  there  were: 


1120  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Peter  Trask8,  b.  1820,  May  6;  grad.  at  Dartmouth  college  in  1839; 
studied  law  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  aud  afterwards  practised  in  New 
York  city;  m.  1852,  Sarah  Hollanbach  Cist,  by  whom  he  had  one 
ch.,  Emily,  who  m.  Charles  Dana  of  Philadelphia.  He  d.  1862, 
March  26. 

William  Riddle8,  b.  1821,  Dec.  30;  d.  1860,  May  27. 

Adonijah  Howe8,  b.  1824,  June  7;  d.  1828,  Feb.  7. 

Mary  Jane8,  b.  1826,  May  11;  d.  1841,  May  29. 

Levi  Jackson8,  b.  1829,  Jan.  12;  studied  medicine  at  Dartmouth  and 
admitted  to  practice.     He  d.  1890,  June  20;  unmarried. 

Freeman  Perkins6,  b.  1831,  Dec.  1;  d.  1886,  April  18. 

By  his  third  wife  there  were: 

Josiah  Gordon8,  b.  1833,  July  27;  went  to  Brown  university 
and  Harvard  Law  school;  practised  law  at  Indianapolis; 
appointed  paymaster  in  the  navy  in  1863,  July,  and  was  killed 
1863,  Aug.  17,  on  the  monitor  Catskill  in  Charleston  harbor  (see 
sketch) . 

Martha  Riddle8,  b.  1835,  Dec.  6;  unmarried,  and  living  on  the 
paternal  homestead. 

George  Edwin*,  b.  1838,  Feb.  9. 

Charles  Howe,  b.  1840,  March  10:  studied  law  at  Harvard  Law 
school,  and  in  the  office  of  Herman  Foster  of  Manchester;  moved 
to  New  York  in  1861;  m.  1864,  April  14,  Frances  Eliza,  dau.  of 
John  A.  McGaw  and  Nancy  Goffe  (see  biography);  d.  1893, 
Sept.  12. 
VIII.  William  Riddle,  son  of  Peter  P.7  and  Martha  (Riddle)  Woodbury; 
grad.  at  Dartmouth  college  in  1843;  practised  law  at  Sheboygan, 
Wis.,  where  he  m.  Elizabeth  Louisa  Jackson.  He  returned  to 
Bedford  in  1853,  where  he  d.  1860,  May  27,  and  is  buried.  His 
wife  d.  1859,  April  27.     They  had  five  ch. : 

Anna9,  b.  1848,  March  18;  m.  Charles  Arthur  Whittemore  of  Antrim, 
1868,  Jan.  28. 

Charles  Perkins9,  b.  Feb.  2,  1850. 

Jennie9,  b.  1850,  May  17;  d.  1860,  AiTg.  12. 

Martha  Eliza9,  b.  1856,  May  25;  unmarried,  and  living  with  Frances 
E.  Woodbury, 

George9,  b.  1859,  April  14;  m.  1884,  Dec,  Emma  S.  Foster;  living 
Massachusetts.  They  have:  Myrtie,  b.  1885,  Aug.  22;  lone,  b. 
1887,  Feb.  10;  Fannie,  b.  1890,  Oct.  28. 
VIII.  Freeman  Perkins,  son  of  Peter  P.7  and  Martha  (Riddle)  Woodbury, 
engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  New  York  city;  m.  1856,  Nov. 
11,  Harriet  Ann  McGaw,  dau.  of  John  A.  and  Nancy  (Goffe) 
McGaw  (see  Goffe) .     He  d.  1886,  April  18.     They  had  four  ch. : 

John  McGaw9,  b.  1858,  Jan.  26;  grad.  from  Princeton  college  in 
1879;  studied  medicine  in  New  York,  Paris,  Vienna,  and  Lon- 
don; practised  in  New  York  city,  where  he  now  lives.  He  m. 
1886,  Oct.  13,  Sarah  Emily,  widow  of  Samuel  Irvin.     No  ch. 

Helen9,  b.  1859,  Oct.  12. 

Gordon9,  b.  1863,  Sept.  17. 

Thornton9,  b.  1867,  July  30;  grad.  from  Phillips  Exeter  in  1885; 
Harvard  university  in  1889;  attended  Harvard  Law  school; 
removed  to  Denver,  Col.,  and  admitted  to  practice  there.  He 
returned  to  Bedford  in  1896,  and  was  engaged  with  his  brother, 
Gordon,  in  the  direction  of  the  Manchester  Union  newspaper,  until 
October,  1900;  when  he  removed  to  New  York,  where  he  has  a 
position  with  the  New  York  Sun.  He  m.  Mary  Hoysington,  1895, 
Feb.  27. 
VIII.  George  Edwin,  son  of  Peter  P.7  and  Eliza  B.  (Gordon)  Woodbury; 
m.  Harriet  Reed,  dau.  of  Enos  Reed,  Esq.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 
They  have  had  seven  ch.: 


GENEALOGIES. — WOODBURY.  1121 

Peter  Perkins9,  b.  1877,  July  30;  d.  1877,  Nov.  23. 

Charlotte  Eliza9,  b.  1873,  March  28;  m.  1894,  April  18,  Gordon 
Woodbury,  Esq. 

George9,  b.  1777,  June  6;  d.  1877,  June  7. 

Adelaide9,  b.  1776,  June  6;  d.  1877,  June  7.  . 

Caroline9,  b.  1877,  June  6;  d.  1877;  June  7. 

Isabella9,  b.  1877,  June  6;  d.  1877,  June  24. 

David  Dana9,  b.  1879,  Oct.  14;  unm. 
IX.  Charles  P.,  son  of  William8  and  Elizabeth  (Jackson)  Woodbury;  m. 
Laura    Riddle,   dan.  of    James    Gardner    of    Bedford,   b.   1853, 
March  6.    They  have  had  four  ch.: 

Jenny  Howe10,  b.  1876,  Oct.  15;  m.  C.  E.  Eaton,  1902,  July  7. 

McLean10,  b.  1879;  June  1;  m.  1899,  Aug.  14,  Lulu  Kimball;  moved 
to  Newport,  Vt.,  where  he  now  res.  They  have  one  ch.: 
McLean,  Jr.",  b.  1900,  Nov.  9. 

Richard  Bryant10,  b.  1884,  Nov.  10;  d.  1901,  Sept.  19. 

Morris10,  b.  1887,  Dec.  6;  d.  1887,  Dec.  30. 
IX.  Anna,  dau.   of  William8,  and  Elizabeth   (Jackson)   Woodbury,  b. 
1848,  March  18;  m.  1868,  Jan.  28,  Charles  Arthur  Whittemore  of 
Antrim,  N.  H.,  where  they  still  res.    They  had  six  ch.: 

Ned  Paige10,  b.  1868,  Dec.  22;  d.  1869,  March  13. 

Arthur  Perkins10,  1870,  Oct.  27;  d.  1886,  Feb.  9. 

Edwin  Jackson10,  b.  1874,  June  22. 

William  Reed10,  b.  1877,  April  19;  d.  1899,  Nov.  17. 

Martha  Elizabeth10,  b.  1886,  Aug.  12. 

Philip  Woodbury10,  b.  1889,  Sept.  11. 
IX.  Helen  Perkins,  dau.  of  Freeman  P.8  and  Harriet  Ann  (McGaw) 
Woodbury;   m.  1883,  Nov.  27,  William  Shepard  Seamans,  M.  D., 
of  New  York  city,  where  she  now  res.     They  have  two  ch.: 

Woodbury10,  b.  1886,  Dec.  14;  attends  St.  Paul's  school,  Concord. 

William  Shepard,  Jr.10,  b.  1889,  Feb.  18;  now  under  the  paternal 
roof. 
IX.  Gordon,  son  of  Freeman  P.8  and  Harriet  Ann  (McGaw)  Woodbury; 
grad.  at  Phillips  Exeter  in  1882,  Harvard  university  in  1886, 
Columbia  Law  school  in  1888;  admitted  to  practice  in  New  York, 
but  rem.  to  Bedford  on  account  of  ill  health  in  1889,  where  he 
has  since  made  his  home.  He  m.  1894,  April  18,  Charlotte  Eliza, 
dau.  of  George  Edwin  Woodbury.  They  have  had  four  ch.: 
Martha  Riddle10,  b.  1895,  July  6,  d.  1896,  Jan.  27;  Eliza  Gordon10, 
b.  1897,  Aug  9;  Peter10,"  b.  1899,  Oct.  24;  George10,  b.  1902,  May  28. 

PETER  PERKINS  WOODBURY,  M.  D. 

Peter  Perkins  Woodbury,  M.  D.,  came  to  Bedford,  1815,  July  3.  I  have 
often  drawn  the  picture  of  my  father  in  my  mind,  as  he  descended  the 
foot-hills  of  Uncanoonuc  mountains  on  that  July  morning,  towards  his 
future  home,  riding  horseback,  with  saddle-bags  equipped  for  any  emer- 
gency, and  I  query,  Would  he  have  continued  the  journey  had  he  foreseen 
the  trials  and  hardships  awaiting  him?  But  when  I  recall  the  spirit  of  his 
ancestor,  John  Woodbury,  that  induced  him  to  come  to  Cape  Ann  in  1624 
for  "Plantation  Work,"  and  then  of  his  grandfather,  James  Woodbury, 
who,  with  his  company,  at  the  siege  of  Quebec,  toiled  up  that  huge  cliff 
to  the  top,  faced  the  enemy  on  the  Plains  of  Abraham;  engaged  in  a  hand- 
to-hand  conflict;  was  near  to  Wolfe  when  he  was  mortally  wounded,  and 
helped  to  carry  him  to  a  place  of  safety — I  query  no  longer,  but  understand 
how  he  dared  to  push  onward.  Nevertheless,  here  he  came  and  chose  to 
abide,  taking  upon  himself  the  responsibilities  of  a  "doctor  of  the  old 
school,"  riding  over  the  hills  in  the  dark  and  in  the  light,  in  the  sunshine 
of  summer  and  in  the  bleak  storms  of  winter  for  forty-five  years,  with 
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1122  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

scarcely  a  week's  interruption,  to  relieve  suffering  humanity.  Few  men 
of  to-day  could  endure  such  a  constant  strain  of  nerve  and  body. 

He  was  a  man  of  temperate  habits,  and  possessed  an  iron  constitution, 
proving  his  strength  by  what  he  met  and  accomplished.  His  industry 
and  perseverance,  close  observation  and  agreeable  manners,  added  to  a 
large  experience  in  clinical  practice  and  surgery,  made  for  him  an  estima- 
ble reputation. 

My  father  was  a  devoted  worshiper  in  the  Presbyterian  church  in  this 
.town,  and  by  his  means,  his  prayers,  and  his  example,  generously  assisted 
in  sustaining  all  of  its  ordinances.  By  his  counsel  he  was  identified  with 
all  the  interests  of  the  town,  and  lent  himself  to  every  good  word  and 
work.  Any  one  who  can  recall  the  painstaking  labor  in  collecting  material 
for  the  History  of  Bedford  issued  in  1850  can  realize  his  intense  interest  in 
historical  incidents  and  genealogical  statistics  of  Bedford. 

He  eagerly  anticipated  the  centennial  celebration,  and,  largely  through 
his  persistent  efforts,  the  thoughtfully  planned  details  of  the  day  were 
successfully  carried  out. 

He  believed  and  acted  upon  the  principle  that  man  was  created  for  God's 
purpose,  and  his  duty  was  to  make  the  world  better  for  having  lived. 
For  this  he  sacrificed  ease,  pleasure,  health,  and  at  last  life  itself  in  the 
very  martyrdom  of  overtaxed  powers,  strained  until  the  strings  of  life 
were  broken,  in  the  service  of  his  fellow-men. 

He  entered  into  rest  1860,  Dec.  5.  "  Blessed  are  the  dead  which  die  in 
the  Lord,  that  they  may  rest  from  their  labors;  and  their  works  do  follow 
them." 

ELIZA  B.  (GORDON)  WOODBURY. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  the  memorial  of  Eliza  B.  (Gordon) 
Woodbury,  who  died  1885,  June  14,  by  Rev.  Ira  C.  Tyson. 

"Mrs.  Woodbury  belonged  to  the  Scotch-Irish  stock  of  early  Bedford 
settlers,  the  earliest  American  ancestor  of  the  family,  Nathaniel  Gordon, 
having  come  from  the  county  of  Tyrone,  in  Ireland,  about  the  year  1742, 
and  settled  in  Beverly,  Mass.  She  was  married  to  her  late  husband,  Dr. 
Peter  P.  Woodbury,  1832,  Oct.  22.  At  an  early  age  Mrs.  Woodbury  united 
with  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Bedford,  and  until  her  death  was  an 
active,  consistent,  and  devoted  member  of  the  church  of  her  early  choice. 

' '  Being  possessed  of  a  strong  intellect  and  retentive  memory  in  matters 
of  local  history,  and  especially  of  family  genealogies,  she  was  an  excellent 
authority,  and  was  frequently  consulted  by  those  in  quest  of  such  facts  for 
historical  uses.  In  her  personal  attachments  she  was  a  warm  and  con- 
stant friend,  and  her  friendship  was  not  affected  either  by  long- continued 
separation  or  by  adverse  criticism. 

"  In  her  social  relations  she  was  usually  grave  and  dignified;  she  was 
still  possessed  of  a  vein  of  that  humor  so  peculiar  to  the  Scotch-Irish  char- 
acter, and  was  always  entertaining,  as  well  as  instructive  in  conversation, 
commanding  the  respect  while  gaining  the  interest  and  confidence  of  those 
with  whom  she  was  intimate.  In  her  domestic  relations  she  was  all  that 
a  devoted,  self-sacrificing  mother  could  be,  cheerfully  giving  herself  for 
the  welfare  of  her  children,  and  always  faithful  in  their  religious  training. 

"  It  was  in  her  religious  faith  and  experience  that  the  character  of  Mrs. 
Woodbury  shone  forth  conspicuously.  Naturally  she  was  a  woman  of 
clear  mind  and  of  strong  convictions.  She  made  the  Bible  a  life  study, 
and  was  conversant  with  its  great  doctrines. 

"To  take  one's  stand  upon  the  'Rock  of  Ages  '  and  there  abide,  un- 
moved, while  skepticism,  like  the  sea,  is  lashing  the  very  foundations  of 
our  holy  religion,  and  dashing  fearfully,  yet  harmlessly,  against  the  Rock 
itself,  this  is  faith.  Neither  things  present  nor  things  that  are  to  come, 
nor  life,  nor  death,  can  affect  a  faith  like  this — and  such  was  hers.  Mrs. 
Woodbury  loved  the  Presbyterian  church;  although  the  most  of  her  life 


GENEALOGIES. — WOODBURY.  1123 

was  spent  in  New  England  where  Presbyterianism  was  never  strong,  yet 
she  always  continued  in  full  harmony  with  that  form  of  church  polity 
established  in  New  England  by  the  old  Londonderry  settlers^f  1719,  and 
carried  over  to  Bedford  by  the  colonists  of  1739." 

JOSIAH   GORDON  WOODBURYf 

Josiah  Gordon  Woodbury  was  born  in  Bedford,  N.  H.,  1833,  July  27. 
He  was  the  son  of  Peter  P.  and  Eliza  (Gordon)  Woodbury.  In  1849  he 
went  to  Derry,  N.  H.,  to  prepare  for  college,  and  was  there  until  1853, 
when  he  entered  Brown  university.  The  following  extracts  in  relation 
to  his  character  while  in  college  are  from  a  letter  written  by  an  intimate 
friend: 

"Woodbury  was  an  affectionate,  true-hearted,  honorable,  and  pure 
young  man.  I  weigh  well  each  one  of  these  epithets,  and  am  sure 
he  merited  them.  He  had  an  absorbing  taste  for  politics,  and  spent  the 
largest  part  of  his  time  in  gaining  information  that  might  be  useful  to 
him  in  public  life.  I  think  no  young  man  at  his  age  was  ever  before  so 
well  versed  in  the  history  of  his  country,  especially  in  the  intricacies  of 
diplomacy,  of  the  minutiae  of  congressional  debates,  etc.  His  taste  for 
reading  was  absorbing,  and  wholly  directed  towards  history,  with  some 
digression  towards  Shakespeare  and  more  modern  dramatists. 

"He  was  fond  of  debate.  In  this  exercise  he  manifested  towards  his 
opponent  a  courtesy  beyond  that  of  the  most  polighed  society — he  always 
heard  his  antagonist  quietly,  and  without  intern&fcBQn. 

"  Much  of  his  time  he  spent  in  his  room  in  q^re^fess,  but  his  mind  was 
ever  active;  he  was  always  reading,  or  meditating  on  his  reading. 

"  His  veracity  was  undoubted,  and  his  religious  sentiments  were  deep. 
Best  of  all  was  his  purity.  Although  strong  and  healthy,  he  was  well 
disciplined  in  all  his  instincts,  and  never  did  I  hear  from  him  an  indel- 
icate allusion,  or  know  of  his  enduring  indecent  conversation  from  others. 
He  was  remarkable  for  his  humor.  It  was  broad  without  being  coarse, 
and  it  penetrated  his  whole  nature.  His  laughter  was  hearty,  but  not 
boisterous,  and  his  fun  was  never  malicious." 

After  the  completion  of  two  years  of  study  he  left  college,  at  his  own 
request,  and  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Messrs.  Foster 
&  Ayer  of  Manchester,  N.  H.;  attended  the  law  school  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Amherst,  N.  H,  in  September,  1857. 
He  went  to  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  and  practised  law  until  December,  1860, 
when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  C.  L.  Dunham,  Esq.,  of  New  Albany, 
Ind.  Very  soon  after  making  this  change  the  Civil  war  broke  out,  and 
as  he  was  very  near  the  border  states  where  courts  were  suspended,  he 
returned  to  his  home  in  New  Hampshire. 

In  December,  1862,  he  received  the  appointment  of  acting  assistant 
paymaster  in  the  United  States  navy,  and  was  ordered  to  the  ironclad 
Catskill,  in  February,  1863.  and  sailed  for  the  South  Atlantic  squadron. 
After  a  stormy  passage  arrived  about  March  1,  1863. 

"It  was  on  the  Catskill  that  the  writer  of  this  sketch,  S.  W.  Abbott, 
first  became  acquainted  with  Woodbury.  We  occupied  adjoining  state- 
rooms, and  sat  at  the  same  mess  table  during  the  last  few  months  of  his 
life.  Woodbury  had  a  fine  manly  form,  a  dark  flashing  eye,  a  cheerful 
face,  and  was  always  ready  with  some  story,  with  which  he  enlivened 
many  a  weary  hour  of  our  monotonous  stay  in  Edisto  harbor.  He 
despised  meanness,  and  his  love  for  the  truth,  his  manliness  of  character, 
and  his  genial  disposition  made  him  a  general  favorite  of  the  ship's 
company.  He  had  a  rare  literary  culture,  and  had  pursued  a  well-selected 
course  of  reading.  Much  of  his  time  was  spent  in  the  state-room  in  the 
company  of  his  books.  Carlyle's  "French  Revolution"  was  a  favorite 
with  him,  and  he  frequently  read  aloud,  or  related  from  memory,  for  the 
entertainment  of  his  brother  officers,  many  of  its  stirring  passages.    He 


1124  HISTORY    OF   BEDFORD. 

was  exceedingly  fond  of  debate,  and  was  at  home  on  all  subjects  pertain- 
ing to  national  affairs.  No  event  of  importance  during  the  war  had 
escaped  his  observation. 

"  Kind-hearted  and  obliging  to  all,  he  was  ever  ready  to  lend  a  helping 
hand  when  assistance  was  needed.  I  remember  to  have  seen  him  during 
the  hot  days  of  1863,  while  the  Catskill  was  in  action  with  the  Morris 
Island  batteries,  cheering  on  the  men  who  were  stationed  below  and 
assisting  with  his  own  hands  to  hoist  from  the  hold  the  huge  shot  and 
shell  for  the  fifteen-inch  gun.  This  was  by  no  means  an  easy  task,  with 
the  hatches  all  shut  down,  the  air  below  foul  with  powder-smoke,  and  the 
temperature  varying  but  little  from  one  hundred  degrees  Fahrenheit. 
He  was  present  at  the  first  attack  on  Charleston,  in  April,  1863 — an 
engagement  which,  though  lasting  only  an  hour  or  two  at  the  most,  was 
one  of  the  most  terrific  of  the  war.  Nine  ironclads  participated,  none  of 
which  carried  guns  of  less  than  eleven-inch  calibre.  On  the  other  side 
were  the  rebel  batteries,  mounting  more  than  three  hundred  heavy  guns. 
In  addition,  there  were  to  be  encountered  obstructions  almost  numberless, 
while  submarine  torpedoes  awaited  us  in  every  channel.  It  was  deemed 
advisable  to  withdraw  from  so  formidable  a  defence,  and  the  attack  was 
not  renewed  till  mid-summer.  During  the  intervening  three  months  the 
fleet  remained  in  North  Edisto  harbor,  a  few  miles  south  of  Charleston. 
The  time  passed  away  tediously,  until  the  first  week  in  July,  when  a 
change  of  officers  in  the  departments  of  the  South,  both  military  and 
naval,  brought  with  it  a  period  of  unusual  activity  in  both  branches  of 
the  service.  The  drifting  sand-hills  of  Morris  Island,  which  had  given 
shelter  to  the  troops  of  Beauregard,  became  peopled  with  the  soldiers  of 
the  Union. 

"Early in  the  morning  of  Aug.  17,  1863,  the  fleet  of  ironclads  steamed 
up  the  main  ship  channel  to  make  a  combined  attack,  in  connection  with 
General  Gilmore's  shore  batteries,  upon  Forts  Wagner  and  Sumter, 
which,  up  to  that  time,  had  not  been  silenced.  It  was  a  hot,  sultry  day, 
and  scarcely  a  ripple  broke  the  surface  of  the  harbor." 

The  following  account  of  that  day's  operations  is  copied  from  Admiral 
Dahlgren's  official  report  to  the  navy  department: 

"It  was  noon.  The  men  had  been  hard  at  work  since  daybreak,  and 
needed  rest;  so  I  withdrew  the  vessels,  to  give  them  dinner.  .  .  .  The 
officers  and  men  of  the  vessels  have  done  their  duty  well,  and  will  con- 
tinue to  do  so.  All  went  well  with  us  save  one  sad  exception:  Captain 
Rodgers  was  killed,  as  well  as  Paymaster  Woodbury,  who  was  standing 
beside  him. 

"The  Weehawken  (flag  ship)  was  then  lying  about  one  thousand  yards 
from  Fort  Wagner,  and  the  Catskill  with  my  gallant  friend,  just  inside  of 
me,  the  fire  of  the  fort  coming  in  steadily.  Observing  the  tide  to  have 
risen  a  little,  I  directed  the  Weehawken  to  be  carried  in  closer,  and  had 
hardly  weighed  anchor  when  I  noticed  the  Catskill  was  under  way.  It 
occurred  to  me  that  Captain  Rodgers  had  detected  my  movements,  and 
was  determined  to  be  closer  to  the  enemy  if  possible.  It  was  soon 
reported  that  the  Catskill  was  going  out  of  action,  with  the  flag  at  half 
mast.  It  is  but  natural  I  should  feel  deeply  the  loss  sustained.  The 
country  cannot  afford  to  lose  such  men. 

"Mr.  Woodbury,  the  duties  of  whose  office  did  not  require  him  to 
remain  below,  had  volunteered  to  assist  Captain  Rodgers  in  this  action, 
by  standing  at  his  side  in  the  pilot-house,  and  recording  the  times  of  firing, 
sizes  of  shot  and  shell,  and  other  usual  statistics  of  an  engagement. 

"While  standing  in  this  position,  a  rifled  projectile  from  Wagner 
struck  the  top  of  the  pilot-house,  in  a  place  where  the  plating  was  only 
two  inches  in  thickness.  Portions  of  this  plating  were  torn  off  by  the 
force  of  the  shot,  causing  the  instant  death  of  both  the  commander  and 
the  paymaster,  and  also  knocking  down  the  pilot  and  the  man  at  the 
wheel.     Mr.  Woodbury  was  wounded  in  the  head  and  neck. 


GENEALOGIES. — WOODBURY.  1125 

"Had  he  remained  below  where  alone  duty  called  him  his  life  would 
have  been  spared;  but  he  chose  a  far  more  perilous  position,  and,  as 
we  have  seen,  fell  while  cheerfully  volunteering  his  assistance  to  his 
commander.  ...  It  was  a  sad  duty  for  us  to  bear  their  lifeless  bodies 
below,  and  tenderly  to  care  for  the  remains  of  those  who  had  so  suddenly, 
in  the  prime  of  manhood,  been  called  from  earth.  The  name  of  Mr. 
Woodbury  will  always  be  cherished  by  the  officers  of  the  Catskill  and  by 
her  crew,  as  one  who  served  his  country  faithfully  and  heroically.  We 
cannot  but  admire  the  self-sacrifice  of  him  who,  doing  even  more  than  his 
duty,  fell  almost  at  the  cannon's  mouth,  in  the  very  face  of  the  foe." 

He  was  buried  under  Masonic  orders,  in  charge  of  Lafayette  lodge  of 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  of  which  he  was  a  member. 

i 

CHARLES  HOWE  WOODBURY. 

One  of  the  native-born  sons  of  Bedford  who  achieved  distinction,  and 
that,  too,  in  the  wide  and  difficult  field  of  the  New  York  bar,  was  Charles 
H.  Woodbury.  Mr.  Woodbury  was  the  youngest  son  of  Peter  P.  and 
Eliza  Gordon  Woodbury,  and  was  born  in  the  old  homestead  at  Bedford, 
1840,  March  10.  After  the  usual  instruction  in  the  district  school  he 
attended  during  two  or  three  winters  the  academy  at  New  London,  N.  H. 
As  was  customary  in  those  days  with  academy  graduates,  he  spent  the 
succeeding  winters  in  teaching  school,  first  at  Bedford,  then  at  Goffstown, 
and  later  at  Amoskeag.  He  then  entered  on  the  study  of  the  law  in  the 
office  of  Hon.  Herman  Foster  at  Manchester,  and  graduated  at  the  Har- 
vard Law  school  in  1861.  He  was  shortly  afterward  admitted  to  the  New 
Hampshire  bar.  The  following  year,  1862,  he  went  to  New  York  city  and 
formed  the  partnership  of  Churchill,  Welch  &  Woodbury,  from  which  he 
withdrew  a  few  years  later,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  he  con- 
tinued in  practice  alone  in  the  same  office  for  thirty-one  years.  His  pro- 
fessional work  was  characterized,  in  small  affairs  as  well  as  in  those  of 
greater  moment,  by  unremitting  industry  and  an  unselfish  devotion  to 
the  interests  of  his  clients.  His  conception  of  honor  and  of  duty  were  so 
exalted  and  were  so  conspicuous  in  all  his  dealings  that  every  one  instinc- 
tively trusted  him.  He  acquired  a  large  and  lucrative  law  business  in 
litigated  cases  before  the  courts,  but  he  gradually  withdrew  from  this  hue 
of  practice  and  assumed  the  management  of  the  large  estates  which  were 
entrusted  to  him.  His  advice  in  real  estate  transactions  was  also  widely 
sought. 

From  the  practice  of  law  to  the  political  arena  is  regarded  as  a  natural 
progression.  Mr.  Woodbury,  however,  never  sought  political  honors,  but 
declined  them  when  persistently  offered.  He  preferred  the  dignified  life 
and  duties  of  his  chosen  profession  to  the  active  participation  in  politics, 
although  keenly  alive  to  his  civic  duties  and  the  obligations  of  American 
citizenship.  An  openness  to  all  truth,  whether  political,  scientific,  or 
religious,  was  a  predominant  characteristic.  In  politics  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat. He  was  ever  ready  to  accord  sincerity  of  conviction  to  his  opponent 
and  attentive  consideration  to  his  views,  but  the  extent  and  accuracy  of 
his  information  and  the  facts  at  his  command  were  immediately  brought 
into  powerful  execution  upon  his  opponent's  argument. 

It  is  a  feature  of  our  country,  more  characteristic,  perhaps,  than  of  any 
other,  that  the  great  leaders  of  thought,  of  politics,  of  action,  have  lived 
near  to  nature,  to  have  moulded  into  their  character  the  generous  prompt- 
ings of  nature's  impersonal  impulses  and  the  acceptance  of  results  on  their 
merits  without  prejudice,  and  without  inquiry  into  motives.  In  later  life 
they  instinctively  turn  to  the  simplicity  and  naturalness  of  country  life. 
The  environments  and  associations  of  early  life  come  with  a  steadily  ris- 
ing tide  of  charm  and  attractiveness  that  cannot  be  resisted;  the  haunts  of 
boyhood  and  early  life  are  again  sought,  and  a  restfulness  is  there  secured 
which  no  other  place  affords.     This  feeling  was  particularly  strong  with 


1126  HISTORY   OF   BEDFORD. 

Mr.  Woodbury.  It  may  truly  be  said  that  he  loved  old  Bedford.  Early 
in  his  career  he  began  to  look  forward  to  the  day  when  Bedford  should 
yearly  claim  a  portion  of  his  time.  It  was  enough  for  him  to  meet  famil- 
iarly the  people  of  the  town,  to  see  the  trees  grow,  to  look  upon  the  familiar 
hills,  to  breathe  the  clear  air,  to  drive  along  the  oft-frequented  roads,  to 
rest  beneath  the  homestead  roof.  He  began  regularly  spending  his  sum- 
mers at  Bedford  upon  the  death  of  his  mother,  1885,  when  he  remodeled 
the  old  homestead  to  better  adapt  it  to  the  comforts  of  modern  require- 
ments. Later,  he  improved  the  Gordon  farm,  the  home  of  his  maternal 
ancestors,  by  the  clearing  up  of  lands,  in  which  he  took  the  keenest  inter- 
est and  enjoyment,  like  his  ancestral  pioneers  in  the  discovery  of  laud 
beneath  the  obscuring  rocks. 

Mr.  Woodbury  was  a  religious  man,  but  with  a  predilection  for  right 
conduct  rather  than  too  firm  insistence  on  theological  tenets.  Upon  his 
removal  to  New  York  he  became  a  member  of  the  Madison  Square  Presby- 
terian church,  and  at  his  death  was  an  elder  in  that  organization.  Al- 
though his  convictions  upon  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  Christian 
religion  were  unalterably  established,  he  maintained  a  most  liberal  atti- 
tude towards  what  he  considered  non-essential  doctrines.  He  was  an 
active  participant  in  the  controversy  between  the  liberal  and  conservative 
factions  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  in  the  strife  known  as  the  Briggs 
controversy  acted  as  advisory  counsel  in  defense  of  liberal  ideas. 

Mr.  Woodbury  was  not  a  college  graduate,  but  in  1879  he  received  from 
Dartmouth  college  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

In  April,  1864,  he  married  Frances  E.  McGaw,  youngest  daughter*  of 
John  A.  and  Nancy  McGaw.     He  died  suddenly  at  Bedford  1893,  Sept.  12. 

WORCESTER. 

I.  Jesse  Worcester  and  Sarah,  his  wife,  res.  in  the  northwest  part  of 
the  town,  where  Benjamin  W.  Nichols  now  lives.  The  old  house 
was  long  since  taken  down,  but  portions  of  it  were  rebuilt  into 
and  can  still  be  seen  in  the  house  now  on  the  farm  (1903).  Seven 
ch.  were  b.  here:  Leonard2,  1794,  March  29;  Jesse2,  1782,  Nov.  30; 
Joseph  Emerson2*,  1784,  Aug.  24  (LL.  D.,  geographer  and  lexico- 
grapher); Sarah2,  1786,  March  12;  Lydia2,  1789,  Feb.  22;  Nabby2, 
1790,  Dec.  15;  Hannah2,  1792,  June  22. 

WORTHLEY. 

Thomas  Gilman  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Thomas  Worthley,  who  was 
born  in  Bedfordshire,  England,  1691,  and  came  to  America  about  1705. 
He  landed  at  Salem,  Mass.,  but  afterward  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass., 
where  he  married  at  an  early  age.  He  went  to  Weare  in  1751,  Oct.,  and 
was  the  third  settler  in  town.  He  resided  there  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
and  died  at  the  great  age  of  one  hundred  and  eight  years.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  received  a  practical  education,  and  lived  in  his  native  town 
until  twenty-one  years  of  age,  when  he  came  to  Bedford,  and  for  a  few 
years  was  interested  in  the  boating  and  lumbering  business.  In  1843  he 
purchased  the  farm  formerly  owned  by  his  father-in-law,  and  engaged  in 

*There  Worcester,  that  noble  name, 
From  whom  a  bright  descendant  came, 
He  lived  just  over  "  Joppa  Hill," 
And  as  you  cross  a  rippling  rill, 
You  rise  a  summit;  there's  the  spot 
(Where  Nichols  now  has  cast  his  lot), 
Where  Joseph  E.,  in  boyhood's  days, 
Indulged  in  many  prattling  plays; 
Not  dreaming,  ere  his  locks  were  gray, 
Our  Anglo-Saxon  he  should  sway. 

[Extract  from  manuscript  poem  alluded  to  in  History  of  1850.] 


GENEALOGIES. — WORTHLEY. — YOUNG.  1127 

market  gardening  for  thirty-five  years.  He  was  appointed  lieutenant  in 
the  Ninth  Regt.  of  N.  H.  militia,  1845,  Oct.  13,  promoted  captain,  1847, 
April  20,  and  honorably  discharged  1848,  April  6,  at  his  own  request.  He 
was  a  strong,  true  man,  and  ever  maintained  a  most  respectable  position 
in  life. 

I.  Thomas  Gilman,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Weston)  Worthley,  was 
b.  in  Weare,  1810,  Jan.  8.  He  m.  1841,  Dec.  9,  Rebekah,  b.  1808, 
April  21,  dau.  of  William  H.  and  Rebekah  (Goffe)  Moor  of  this 
town.  His  wife  d.  Reed's  Ferry,  1883,  May  1.  He  d.  here  1880, 
May  20.  Their  dau.,  Ellen  Elvira2,  b.  1851,  Dec.  11,  m.  Charles 
Nesmith,  1875,  June  27,  and  res.  in  Reed's  Ferry,  N.  H. 

WORTHLEY. 

I.  Brooks  settled  in  town  in  1829,  and  served  in  the  Civil  war.  He  and 
wife,  Maria,  were  blessed  with  four  ch.,  the  youngest,  David  J.2, 
settled  on  the  old  homestead  and  carried  on  farming  extensively 
until  his  death;  his  wife,  Persis,  with  her  six  ch.,  continued  his 
work  until  1895,  when  her  sons,  Fred  B.  and  Sumner  P.,  pur- 
chased the  farm.  In  May,  1896,  fire  destroyed  every  vestige  of 
the  old  buildings,  many  of  which  were  nearly  one  hundred  years 
old.  Fred  and  Sumner  at  once  rebuilt  better  and  more  con- 
venient buildings,  where  they  now  res.  Their  mother,  Persis, 
who  lives  with  them,  is  still  active  and  interested  in  all  that  per- 
tains to  farming. 
II.  David  Jackson,  son  of  Brooks  and  Maria  (Tufts)  Worthley,  was  b. 
1829,  April  19.  He  m.  1851,  Oct.  9,  Abbie  Persis,  b.  1831,  Sept. 
29,  dau.  of  Henry  J.  and  Rebecca  (Vose)  Plummer.  He  d.  1872, 
June  17.  Ch.:  Ella  Maria3,  b.  1853,  Dec.  3,  d.  1854,  April  17; 
Fred  Brooks3,  b.  1856,  June  5;  Henry  Parker3,  b.  1859,  Jan.  2,  m., 
1st,  Ida  E.  Clifford,  who  d.  1895,  June  21,  2d,  Helen  S.  Clifford, 
1896,  April  2,  res.  Arlington,  Mass.;  Sumner  Plummer3,  b.  1861, 
May  26,  m.  1887,  June  15,  Rose  Hattie  Sackett;  Sarah  Ann3,  b. 
1863,  Aug.  19,  m.  1902,  June  4,  Fred  Warren  Rowell,  res.  Arling- 
ton, Mass.;  Mary  Rebecca3,  b.  1867,  Nov.  15,  m.  1894,  Nov.  14, 
Levi  M.  Dolloff,  res.  Arlington,  Mass.;  Fannie  Tufts3,  b.  1871, 
Jan.  10,  d.  1893,  Sept.  19. 

YOUNG. 

I.  John  R.  Young,  an  engraver,  was  b.  in  Manchester,  England,  1818, 
Dec.  1.  He  m.  1839,  Sarah  Sager,  b.  in  Manchester,  England, 
1818.  They  have  since  res.  in  Manchester,  Eng.,  Providence, 
R.  I.,  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  settled  in  Bedford  previous  to  1854. 
He  d.  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  1899,  Nov.  23.  Ch.,  b.  Manchester, 
Eng.:  Lilias  Ann2,  b.  1840,  Oct.,  m.  Henry  Chelwood,  res.  in 
Providence,  R.  I.;  John  R.2,  b.  1842,  July  5,  d.  Bedford,  1892, 
Dec.  5;  George2,  b.  1844,  Sept.  21,  m.  Helen  Howe,  res.  in  New- 
port, N.  H.  Ch.,  b.  Providence,  R.  I.:  Janette  J.2,  b.  1847,  Nov. 
3,  m.  Andrew  J.  Crosby,  res.  in  Manchester;  Thomas  W.2,  b. 
1851,  July  1,  m.  Cora  Batten,  d.  Manchester,  1888,  Dec.  24.  Ch., 
b.  Bedford:  Sarah  Alice2,  b.  1854,  June  17,  d.  Lowell,  Mass.,  1872; 
Emma  F.2,  b.  1858,  March  20,  m.  1887,  Dec.  23,  Edgar  E.  Brown, 
res.  in  Bedford;  Lonoia2,  b.  1860,  June  29,  d.  Lowell,  Mass.,  1868; 
Jessie2,  b.  1862,  Aug.  26,  m.  1880,  Charles  J.  Stone,  res.  in  Man- 
chester. 


* 


Errata  and  Addenda. 


Page  83 — Nipunk,  sometimes  spelled  Nipmunck. 

Page  82^Baird,  sometimes  written  Beard. 

Page  361 — For  Mary  X.  Tucker  read  Mary  F.  Cutler. 

Page  537 — For  Daniel  Moore  read  James  Moore. 

Page  606 — Abner  C.  Darrah  also  lived  in  the  company  house  at 
Goffe's  Falls,  No.  124  1-2. 

Page  610 — James  Darrah  also  lived  at  167,  known  as  the  Hawes 
house. 

Page  801 — The  cost  of  the  celebration  was  $279.31,  which  was 
'  fully  met  by  subscription. 

Page  630 — In  the  ninth  line,  for  Walsh  read  Walch. 

Page  821 — In  tbe  third  paragraph,  second  line,  for  157  read  159. 

Page  553 — In  the  seventh  line,  for  was  read  were. 

Page  818 — In  the  third  line,  for  was  read  were. 

Page  1041 — Peaslee  (gen.),  third  paragraph,  third  line,  for  Corn- 
stock  read  Converse. 


The   History  of  1903. 


The  authority  for  preparing  and  publishing  the  foregoing  volume 
is  found  in  the  action  of  the  town  at  its  several  meetings,  as  follows  l 
March,  1898. 

Whereas,  It  has  been  enjoined  upon  the  fathers  to  transmit  to 
their  children  the  leadings  of  the  Lord  and  His  dealings  with  the 
children  of  men,  and, 

Whereas,  It  seems  proper  at  this  time,  so  near  the  one  hundred 
and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  this  town,  that  suita- 
ble measures  should  be  taken  to  preserve  the  memory  of  the  com- 
mendable actions  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Bedford,  especially 
during  the  past  fifty  eventful  years  of  its  history ;  therefore, 

liesolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  or  more  persons  be  appointed 
to  take  all  necessary  methods  whereby  the  history  of  the  people  of 
this  town  during  the  past  fifty  years  may  be  collected,  edited,  and 
published,  at  a  cost  to  the  town  of  such  sum  or  sums  as  may  be 
hereafter  determined ; 

liesolved,  That  a  considerable  time  must  necessarily  be  required 
for  the  undertaking,  that  this  committee  shall  be  appointed  at  this 
time,  reporting  their  actions  at  its  annual  meetings,  and  be  subject 
in  all  expenditures  to  the  vote  of  said  town  ; 

Hesolved,  That  the  sum  of  seventy-five  dollars  be  hereby  appro- 
priated for  the  purpose  of  defraying  expenses  in  the  initial  move- 
ment in  this  enterprise ; 

Hesolved,  That  the  committee  hereafter  named  be  instructed  to 
conclude  their  labors,  if  possible,  at  or  near  the  date  of  the  one  hun- 
dred and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  Bedford. 

Upon  motion  of  James  E.  French,  voted  that  these  resolutions  be 
accepted  and  adopted ;  and  upon  motion  of  Quincy  Barnard,  voted 
to  raise  the  sum  of  seventy-five  dollars.  Voted  that  the  committee 
be  appointed  by  the  selectmen  and  moderator. 

March,  1899. 

Hesolved,  That  the  necessary  disbursements  of  the  committee  in 
collecting  and  compiling  matter  for  the  History  of  Bedford  be  paid 
out  of  the  town  treasury,  it  being  understood  that  such  disburse- 
ments are  not  to  include  any  compensation  to  the    committee   for 


THE   HISTORY.  1131 

their  services,  and  that  the  books  when  published  shall  be  the  prop- 
erty of  the  town. 

March,  1900. 

Article  IX.  To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  raise  and  appropriate 
money  for  the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary. 

Art.  X.  To  see  what  action  the  town  will  take  in  regard  to  town 
history. 

Art.  XI.  To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  raise  and  appropriate 
money  for  the  publishing  of  town  history. 


Upon  Article  IX,  voted,  upon  motion  of  Gordon  Woodbury,  to 
raise  and  appropriate  five  hundred  dollars  for  the  one  hundred  and 
fiftieth  anniversary.  Voted,  upon  motion  of  James  E.  French,  to 
authorize  history  committee  to  make  arrangements  for  the  celebra- 
tion. 

Upon  Article  X,  voted,  upon  motion  of  Gordon  Woodbury,  to 
dismiss  the  article. 

Upon  Article  XI,  voted,  upon  motion  of  Gordon  Woodbury,  to 
dismiss  the  article. 

March,  1901. 

Article  V.  To  see  if  the  town  will  vote  to  raise  and  appropriate 
money  for  publishing  the  town  history. 


Upon  Article  V,  voted,  to  take  up  article  five  in  regard  to  pub- 
lishing town  history.  Remarks  were  made  by  Gordon  Woodbury, 
Solomon  Manning,  John  H.  Bartlett,  Arthur  W.  Holbrook,  George 
H.  Wiggin,  Albert  L.  Flint,  William  W.  Darrah,  Quincy  Barnard, 
William  M.  Patten,  and  James  E.  French.  A  motion  made  by  Sol- 
omon Manning,  that  the  committee  employ  a  compiler,  was  lost.  A 
motion  by  Gordon  Woodbury,  that  an  appropriation  be  made  of 
fifteen  hundred  dollars  ($1,500)  towards  the  expense  of  producing 
five  hundred  copies  of  the  town  history,  prevailed.  The  vote  was : 
Yes,  50 ;  No,  3,  and  the  motion  prevailed. 

March,  1902. 

Report  from  Town  History  Committee,  by  Arthur  W.  Holbrook. 

March,  1903. 

Article  VI.  To  hear  report  of  town  history  committee  and  to  take 
any  action  thereon,  and  raise  and  appropriate  money  if  needed. 


Upon  Article  VI,  reports  were  given  by  Gordon  Woodbury,  Will- 
iam M.  Patten,  and  John  A.  Riddle.     Voted,  upon  motion  of  Gor- 


1132  HISTORY  OF   BEDFORD. 

don  Woodbury,  to  appropriate  one  thousand  dollars  ($1,000),  and 
amended  by  Rodney  F.  Rollins,  to  instruct  the  selectmen  to  borrow 
the  same  in  addition  to  what  has  been  appropriated  heretofore,  for 
publishing  one  thousand  copies  of  the  Bedford  History.  Also  voted 
to  instruct  the  history  committee  to  publish  "Matthew  Patten's 
Diary,"  at  an  expense  not  to  exceed  five  hundred  dollars  ($500), 
as  an  accompaniment  to  the  history.  The  price  of  the  history  to  be 
left  with  the  committee,  and  the  price  of  the  diary  to  be  the  cost  of 
publishing. 

Although  this  volume  and  the  Patten  Diary  have  each  filled  more 
printed  pages  than  was  anticipated  by  the  committee,  it  has  been 
possible  to  furnish  the  volumes  at  a  cost  within  the  appropriation  by 
the  town.  The  general  items  of  expense  have  been :  for  the  History, 
Rumford  Printing  Co.,  composition,  $1,458.09 ;  illustrations,  $218.35 ; 
maps,  $119.81;  binding,  $300;  for  services,  Miss  Mary  E.  Man- 
ning, $97 ;  Miss  Evelyn  A.  Stevens,  $30 ;  George  C.  Gilmore,  $50 ; 
for  photographs,  J.  G.  Ellingwood,  $65;  miscellaneous,  printing, 
etc.,  $6.75 ;  total,  $2,345 ;  for  the  Patten  Diary,  composition,  $709.80 ; 
illustration,  $5.70;  binding,  $100;  total,  $815.50.  Total  for  both 
volumes,  $3,160.50. 

The  amount  appropriated,  as  shown  by  the  copy  of  the  votes 
above,  was  $3,075.  The  Rumford  Printing  Co.  generously  dis- 
counted $87.50  from  the  bill  which  was  properly  its  due  by  the 
terms  of  the  contract,  so  that  the  money  paid  for  all  bills  contracted 
has  been  $3,073. 


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